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Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp, the

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Speaker 1: House Whisperer on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: my friend, and welcome home. I am Dean Sharp, the

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Speaker 1: House Whisperer. You knew that custom home builder, custom home designer,

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Speaker 1: and every week your guide to better understanding that place

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Speaker 1: where you live, whether you're home for you is a

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Speaker 1: castle or a cottage, it matters not, you know why,

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Speaker 1: because luxury does not a great homemake. It is design

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Speaker 1: that matters most. And I invite you to think of

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Speaker 1: it this way. New parts, you know, repairing things. That's

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Speaker 1: home repair, new paint, that's home maintenance. New design. That that,

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Speaker 1: my friend, is home improvement. Indeed, good design makes all

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Speaker 1: the difference. Every house deserves it, every house should enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: Because once good design is at work in your home,

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Speaker 1: that is when you're home, has a path forward toward

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Speaker 1: becoming a great home. Absolutely true, and that's why we're

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Speaker 1: here with you every weekend to help you find those

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Speaker 1: paths forward and also make repairs and do maintenance the

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Speaker 1: right way and all of the above, and of course

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Speaker 1: all Saturdays, every Saturday morning is an all call Saturday

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Speaker 1: morning where you get to set the agenda. You tell me,

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Speaker 1: You tell me what the show is about today. Whatever

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Speaker 1: has you scratching your head about your home design of course, construction,

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Speaker 1: diy inside stuff, outside stuff, decor whatever it is I

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Speaker 1: got you. We'll put our heads together. We will get

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Speaker 1: it figured out. I promise. The number two reach me,

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Speaker 1: and the phone lines are open right now. We will

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Speaker 1: go to them as soon as the calls start rolling in.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully I get to talk to you this morning about

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Speaker 1: your home. The number to reach me eight three three two.

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Speaker 1: Ask Dean A three three the numeral two ask Dean

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Speaker 1: eight three three to ask Dean. It's just that simple,

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Speaker 1: and uh, Nicky has got the phone lines open, so

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Speaker 1: we will just wait. We'll just wait. I'll just sit here.

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Speaker 1: No I won't, No, I won't. I'm not gonna sit here.

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Speaker 1: I am going to tell you. Oh nope, she's not

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Speaker 1: here yet, coming soon to across the table near me.

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Speaker 1: My design and partner will talk to her in a second. Instead,

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Speaker 1: let's jump ahead and say good morning to Sam. Good morning, Sam.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Dean. How's it going today. It's going well,

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Speaker 2: it's going well.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be one of those Uh, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: one of those weekends that I so look forward to

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Speaker 1: the weekend after a storm where you know, the air

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Speaker 1: is extra crisp, the you know, everything is clean. Ah,

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Speaker 1: it's just you know, we've had we've had over a

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Speaker 1: week of rain now and this weekend just should should

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Speaker 1: be glorious.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we officially hit sweater we weather. I feel fantastic

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Speaker 2: wearing my hoodie right now. This is a nice and

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Speaker 2: cozy bundled up in the studio. This is I really

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Speaker 2: do love this time of year. And we're leading right

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Speaker 2: into Thanksgiving, so this is great.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. We were at the for our town, the Westlake

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Speaker 1: tree lighting last night at the promenade over on Westlake

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Speaker 1: Boulevard and to which is a whole thing. It's an

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Speaker 1: interesting it's always it's an interesting thing. We have a

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Speaker 1: tradition of getting together with friends and getting over there

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Speaker 1: the restaurants at Marmalade Cafe Marmalade. We have dinner, we

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Speaker 1: the performance area is. And it's always a little it's

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Speaker 1: always a little interesting it's fun. The performers are you know,

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Speaker 1: they're pretty good. There was a great a cappella group

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Speaker 1: last night roaming around that was fantastic. And the stage performers,

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Speaker 1: you know, they start a little on the is this

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Speaker 1: oh hey, that was surprisingly good. Somebody got up. I

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Speaker 1: let it go from Frozen, And I'm thinking, uh, oh, oh, no,

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Speaker 1: here's here's somebody. Here's somebody overshooting. They're punching above their weight. No,

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Speaker 1: you know what she did fantastic. She got everybody up

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Speaker 1: guess who's sitting across the table from me. Now, guess

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Speaker 1: who slid into the studio. No, it's not a giant element,

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Speaker 1: it's my tiny wife, my design partner, my better half,

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Speaker 3: Welcome home. How you do good?

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Speaker 1: You got up a little early, earlier than usual this morning.

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Speaker 3: I just felt ready to go.

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Speaker 1: I'm impressed.

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Speaker 3: Thanks. I got a lot done too, did you? I did?

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Speaker 1: What'd you get done?

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Speaker 3: Laundry?

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Speaker 1: I mean oh you got the laundry folded, folded and

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Speaker 1: hung the stuff that was on the table, yes, and

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Speaker 3: In the dryer? Wow?

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Speaker 1: Wow, look at you. I'm read at you, Susie Homemaker.

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Speaker 3: I just got so excited after the Santa and the

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Speaker 3: Christmas tree fireworks, those fireworks.

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Speaker 2: You know, that show has evolved. I remember when that

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Speaker 2: promenade opened. I grew up in that area and they

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Speaker 2: didn't have fireworks when when they first.

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Speaker 1: It is totally evolved, evolved. Okay. You know what was

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Speaker 1: freaky scary is that last night the thirtieth anniversary of

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Speaker 1: like what because I think we still think of it

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Speaker 1: as like the new one in town. Yeah, it's the

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Speaker 1: new one, new ish. I mean when don't call it

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Speaker 1: the new one, but you know, yeah, thirty years it

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Speaker 2: I remember I went to school just up the block

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Speaker 2: from there, so that that California Pizza Kitchen was where

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Speaker 2: everybody went for lunch.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it was.

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Speaker 2: Uh, it's good to hear how much that entire area

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I gotta say, I gotta say, I got

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Speaker 1: to poke some fun. It's always good to poke fun

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Speaker 1: at millionaires or billionaires or something. But you know, it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a it's a Rick Caruso property, right, Rick

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Speaker 1: Cruso who owns like every mall in southern California. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's a Rick Crusoe property. And always they've got all

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Speaker 1: always gated and enclosed. And we've asked the question multiple years.

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Speaker 1: My friend Nina said, you know what. Last year she said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna find out if if we

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Speaker 1: And so she he's been searching it out and she realized, Nope,

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Speaker 1: you can't. You can't buy advanced seating. You can't. There's

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Speaker 1: no way, there's no way to get into that exclusive

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Speaker 1: and friends and family members. I mean, it is a

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Speaker 3: The bank in the back. But we do get snowed on.

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Speaker 1: We do get snowed on. I'm not sure that's a thing.

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Speaker 3: I think what it is is it's their Christmas party

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Speaker 3: and we're all crashing. I think so that's what it

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Speaker 3: feels like, because it really is that they have a

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Speaker 3: dinner beforehand, you.

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Speaker 1: Know what, You're right, you could think of it that way.

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Speaker 1: But it's out in public and we've been invited to add.

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Speaker 1: So we're like atmosphere for the Caruso Christmas Party.

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Speaker 3: See peasants come, come, peasants, come come and watch us.

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Speaker 1: We will give you nog. All right, All right, enough

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Speaker 1: of that, let's get on with the show. Shall We've

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Speaker 1: got some calls up on the board. We need some

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Speaker 1: more need you, I need you to call a three

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Speaker 1: three two ask dean eight three three the numeral to

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Speaker 1: ask dean. We will go to the phones right after this.

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Speaker 1: There's more stuff on the way your home with Dean Sharp,

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Speaker 1: the house whisper. Dean Sharp, the house whisper here to

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Speaker 1: help you take your home to the next level. Hey,

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Speaker 1: good Saturday morning to you. The weather has been blustery,

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be crisp and clean, a little breezy today.

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Speaker 1: M We're getting a good start, getting a good start

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Speaker 1: on the holidays. By the way, Tomorrow is our big

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Speaker 1: live audience holiday show right here at iHeart Studios LA

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Speaker 1: up on the fifth floor. We're gonna be lounging about

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Speaker 1: in the leather bound, helpful Honda Lounge with several of

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Speaker 1: our friends, hopefully you and you know who you are,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a great show. Aldacone is sponsoring

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Speaker 1: that show. They're going to be decorating one of their

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Speaker 1: gorgeous trees right in front of us. During the show,

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Speaker 1: we'll be talking to them about that, talking about home

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Speaker 1: to coort around the holidays. A little special guest on

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Speaker 1: good old time. That'll be tomorrow's show. Don't miss it.

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Speaker 1: If you can't come, If you're not on the list,

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Speaker 1: didn't win a seat to the show, you hang tight

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Speaker 1: with me because it's going to be a good show,

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Speaker 1: just talking about decorating for the holidays. And afterwards we're

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Speaker 1: going down to Aldacombe going to be there from one

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Speaker 1: there as well. All right, it is an All Calls

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Speaker 1: let's talk to Kathy. Hey, Kathy, welcome home.

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Speaker 5: Oh thank you Dean, I thank you for your program. Okay,

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Speaker 5: we have an electrical panel that's about forty eight years old.

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Speaker 5: It's not the original, but I just just wondering is

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Speaker 5: it time to reap place this? And also we are

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Speaker 5: thinking of putting the e MP add on, you know,

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Speaker 5: so when something happens like the e MP, that all

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Speaker 5: your electrical stuff doesn't fry and things. That's my question.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, when it comes to an electrical panel, here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. There's there's maybe two or three reasons why

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Speaker 1: you want to replace an electrical panel, and most of

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Speaker 1: the time we don't actually just replace them. We will

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Speaker 1: add a new one next to it, unless you know,

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Speaker 1: let's a full a full on swap out. But the

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Speaker 1: reasons are as follows. One it's been damaged, it's rusting out,

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Speaker 1: or it's been damaged, of course, and that's a good

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Speaker 1: reason to replace an electrical panel. They're not that expensive.

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Speaker 1: By the way, the labor of replacing them is far

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Speaker 1: more expensive than the panel, just because of all the

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Speaker 1: wires that have to be transferred. But so if it's damaged,

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Speaker 1: that's one thing. If for some reason, the electrical panel,

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Speaker 1: and at forty plus years this probably isn't true, but

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Speaker 1: if for some reason it has aged out and you

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Speaker 1: can't find replacement breakers anymore for it, and that does

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Speaker 1: happen at some point for most panels that you're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I keep going to the supply store, the

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Speaker 1: hardware store, and they just don't make breakers for my

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Speaker 1: panel anymore. Well, that's a good reason to change it out,

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Speaker 1: because when breakers go bad, you got to be able

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Speaker 1: to replace them. Now, breakers don't go bad very often,

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Speaker 1: but they do, and so that's a reason. The third

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Speaker 1: and most common reason for replacing an electrical panel is

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Speaker 1: not because it needs to be replaced, but because you

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Speaker 1: want to upgrade your service from you know, forty years ago,

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Speaker 1: the typical home had a one hundred amp panel. Today

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Speaker 1: Just it's it's super, super uncommon here in southern California.

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Speaker 1: You're so welcome. Kathy, thanks for the call, Great call,

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Speaker 1: talk to Jody. Hey, Jody, welcome home.

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Speaker 4: Hi, how are you doing? I? I have a workshop

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Speaker 1: No, oh, Jody, I feel for you. Yeah that's uh

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Speaker 1: Okay, Jody, here's the thing. I'm sorry. I didn't mean

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Speaker 1: But of course she's got a remediation company telling her

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Speaker 4: Meters. It gives you the temperature of the room and

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Speaker 4: does that mean there's mold.

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Speaker 1: It does not necessarily mean there's mold just because there's moisture. However,

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Speaker 1: seventy is pretty high for internal humidity. Okay, okay, seventy percent,

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Speaker 1: you know, seventy in terms of relative humidity for a space,

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Speaker 1: inviting mold to grow. This is that's an issue that

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Speaker 1: they have in the Deep South, you know, where life

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Speaker 1: it's high, and so but again that doesn't point to

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Speaker 1: the fact that, oh it's mold. Mold makes the room

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Speaker 1: that way. No moisture does. So the question is where

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Speaker 1: is the moisture coming from. Just to give you some perspective,

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Speaker 1: here in southern California, we have kind of, you know,

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Speaker 1: part of the reason people like to live in southern California.

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Speaker 1: We have, you know, optimal humidity levels here. Fifty percent

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Speaker 1: relative humidity is outdoor average humidity here in southern California

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Speaker 1: fifty percent. Okay, during during the cold winter months, when

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Speaker 1: we've got heaters and stuff running inside, interior, relative humidity

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Speaker 1: can drop down to thirty percent, twenty percent, I mean

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Speaker 1: gets dry. You know people, you know, they get they

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Speaker 1: so dry inside. So that's that's way below fifty. So

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Speaker 1: at this time of year, for there to be seventy

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Speaker 1: probably means that there's still moisture that needs to be

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Speaker 4: I would okay, all right, thank you so much. I

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Speaker 4: appreciate your advice.

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Speaker 1: You are so welcome. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that it

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Speaker 1: got handled a little not quite the right way at first.

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Speaker 1: But if there's a way we can avoid just taking

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Speaker 1: everything down again, yeah, there are ways to deal with that.

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Speaker 1: I would address first, always, always, always the moisture issue,

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Speaker 1: because mold follows moisture. No moisture, no mold, okay. And

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Speaker 1: if there is any mold in the walls, it's got

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Speaker 1: to be treated, got to be treated, because dry air

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Speaker 1: does not kill mold. Dry air just sends it into

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Speaker 1: dormant state and it'll sit there like a dehydrated food

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Speaker 1: waiting to be rehydrated and pop back to life again.

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Speaker 1: So the only thing that's going to kill off and

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Speaker 1: take care of a mold infestation is you know, bleach,

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Speaker 1: water and bleach just got to kill it, and then

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Speaker 1: we make sure the room is dry so it doesn't

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Speaker 1: come back. Jody, thank you so much for your question.

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Speaker 1: You know what, we're right at the top of the hour.

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Speaker 1: So instead of taking another call right at this moment

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Speaker 1: having to put you on hold, why don't we scoot

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Speaker 1: off to our break and then we come back more

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Speaker 1: of your calls. The number to reach me eight three

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Speaker 1: three two, Ask Dean A three three. The numeral two

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Speaker 1: ask Dean A three three to ask Dean. It's just

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Speaker 1: that simple. And it's an all calls Saturday morning. There's

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Speaker 1: room on the board for you. Give me a call.

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Speaker 1: Let's find out what's going on with your home. We'll

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Speaker 1: put our heads together, we will figure it out. You

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