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Speaker 1: KF I am six forty. You're listening to Dean Sharp

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Speaker 1: the house Whisper on demand on the iHeart Radio app.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Thank you, Livy. She has brought

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Speaker 1: me another banana. Oh, bananas are the best.

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Speaker 2: I love.

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Speaker 1: Do you like your bananas on the on the very

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Speaker 1: the green side? I like bananas on the green side,

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Speaker 1: like if yesterday it was hard to peel it and

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Speaker 1: today you can just like it snaps and oh that's

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Speaker 1: that's the banana for me.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, these are perfect.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Hi, good to see you and talk to you again.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the program. Whether home for

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Speaker 1: you is a castle or a cottage, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: just here to tell you that 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 that, my friend. It's not the materials, it's not

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Speaker 1: the size of the budget, it's the size of the design.

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Speaker 1: That is, when your pat your house has a path

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Speaker 1: forward towards becoming something truly special. And we're talking to

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Speaker 1: talk about some facets of that today. Based upon where

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Speaker 1: I have been for the last couple of weeks, which

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Speaker 1: is not here. If you've been listening to the show

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Speaker 1: and you thought that sounded he took a lot of

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Speaker 1: calls in the last couple of weeks. That's because we

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Speaker 1: were pre recorded, because Tina and I were off having

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Speaker 1: an adventure in Europe, something that we had been planning

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Speaker 1: for a long time, and we got to do it.

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Speaker 1: And we're just back. We just got back on Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: late Thursday night, and I'm still kind of catching up

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Speaker 1: because time flows weirdly. I always do better going east,

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Speaker 1: like jumping over time zones, than I do coming back.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why, it just because it seems surreal

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Speaker 1: I mean that like on our flight home, we left

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Speaker 1: we it was kind of a combo adventure. We took

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Speaker 1: It was just a little too much, too regulated for us.

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Speaker 1: And but Basil is Zurich is not on the Rhine River.

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Speaker 1: And that's our European adventure. And so what is this?

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Speaker 1: Why am I telling you these things? Well, because you know,

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Speaker 1: we're friends, and I like telling you, keeping you abreast

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Speaker 2: To your home.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your home. I'm calling today lessons from Europe, and

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to tell you more about our travels,

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Speaker 1: Would like to think, it's not. Is it a night Maretina,

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Speaker 1: So the point being, don't go anywhere. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be fun. We're back in action lessons from Europe right

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Home with Dean Sharp on demand from

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Speaker 3: KFI AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: I am glad that you are here because I am

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Speaker 1: talking about and I'm not going to make this boring,

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Speaker 1: something we saved up for for a long time and

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to be made to feel guilty about it.

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Speaker 1: Bad either, because I'm here to tell you about it,

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Speaker 1: not in the boring slide show way. Bo I'm dating myself.

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Speaker 1: You remember those days when you know, like you divide

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Speaker 1: today on the program it's lessons for your Home from Europe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we're all about.

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Speaker 1: Also, middle of the show, like we always do, I'm

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Speaker 1: the number here. It is the number to reach me

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Speaker 1: eight three three two. Ask Dean. Eight three three two.

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Speaker 1: Ask Dean. It's just that easy. It's eight three three

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Speaker 1: the numeral two, and then you just spell out ask Dean.

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Speaker 1: Our call screener is standing by. The phone lines are open.

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Speaker 2: Paris.

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Speaker 1: Paris is the last city that we visited before we

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Speaker 1: Largely because of what we would now call in the

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Speaker 1: Near the end of the nineteenth century, the eighteen hundreds, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Paris being the way it was, having these immense, decadent,

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Speaker 1: Now, most Paris streets are narrow by today's American standards,

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Speaker 1: but they were far worse in the mid eighteen hundreds

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Speaker 1: and wealthy areas versus everywhere else, extreme population density differences. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So I'll give you an example. Near the palace. Those

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Speaker 1: beyond and above that, I want to inspire you to

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Speaker 1: expression of the very best parts of your life possible,

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Speaker 1: your best aspirations, your best you, whatever that may be.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes that's just about cleaning it up as well.

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Speaker 1: Now that's another thing too that I absolutely wanted to see,

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Speaker 1: unlike any other visits in Paris, this time this time

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Speaker 1: because something happened recently in Paris that was at first

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Speaker 1: an outright complete tragedy. But again the French rose above it,

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Speaker 1: and rose above it quite victoriously. And what I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about is Notre Dame. Notre Dame Cathedral is over eight

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Speaker 1: hundred years old. Construction began in the year eleven sixty

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Speaker 1: three and it was completed ninety seven years later in

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Speaker 1: twelve sixty. That's not unusual, by the way, for a

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Speaker 1: cathedral to take one hundred years to complete. Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: sits on an island in the middle of the River Senne,

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Speaker 1: the Ille de la Citier, the island of the city,

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Speaker 1: which is the birthplace of Paris, by the way, it

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Speaker 1: was first inhabited by a Celtic tribe known as the

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Speaker 1: Paris Paris Parisi in the two hundreds, and then, as

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Speaker 1: with all things in Europe, it became a Roman outpost

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Speaker 1: and eventually the capital of France and the heart of Paris.

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Speaker 1: So this little island in the middle of the Seine

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Speaker 1: in which Notre Dame sits well. Notre Dame Cathedral in

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Speaker 1: Paris caught fire seven years ago on the evening of

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Speaker 1: April fifth, fifteenth, twenty nineteen, and it was a devastating fire.

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Speaker 1: It started around six thirty pm local time. It burnt

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Speaker 1: for fifteen hours. It destroyed the iconic spire, most of

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Speaker 1: the wooden roof over the main cathedral before they got

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Speaker 1: it under control. And because of that fire, something happened

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Speaker 1: that made the whole site a hazmat site, you know,

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Speaker 1: a hazardous material situation because of the lead lined roof

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Speaker 1: that burnt and melt and melted, and that lead particulation

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Speaker 1: was carried in the smoke to every surface in the cathedral,

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Speaker 1: outside and in. Because of that devastating, devastating, devastating situation,

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Speaker 1: something happened to Notre Dame in the French response that

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Speaker 1: has made it totally unique.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about it right on the other side your home.

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