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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: Good Morning, Welcome home. I am Dean Sharp, the house Whisper,

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Speaker 1: Custom home Builder, custom home Designer, and every week your

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Speaker 1: guide to better understanding that place where you live. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you. Oh are yup? Are you awake? I

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Speaker 1: hope so I am. I'm here for you. So you

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Speaker 1: got to get out of bed. Here, have a little

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Speaker 1: of this.

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Speaker 2: Hmm.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna help quite a bit. No, I'm not peeing

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Speaker 1: into a cup. That is the official sound of coffee

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Speaker 1: in the morning. Coffee, coffee, coffee, or whatever your warm

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Speaker 1: beverage of choice is. Hey, whether home for you is

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Speaker 1: a castle or a cottage. I love saying this every

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Speaker 1: week because it's so true. It doesn't matter, because luxury

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Speaker 1: is not what makes a great home. It is design

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Speaker 1: that matters most. Good design makes all the difference. Every

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Speaker 1: house deserves it, every house should enjoy it. Once good

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Speaker 1: design is working for you in your home. That, my friend,

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Speaker 1: is when your house has a path forward toward becoming

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Speaker 1: something truly great, a great, great home, whatever the scale

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Speaker 1: may be. And I'm here to help you find the

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Speaker 1: path as it were, And of course, take care of

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Speaker 1: everything else that's going on with your home, whether it's

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Speaker 1: maintenance or repair, or construction questions or landscape or what

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Speaker 1: have you. Anything that's got you scratching your head about

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Speaker 1: your home. I'm here for you. And of course Saturday

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Speaker 1: morning it's an all calls morning day before Easter. And

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Speaker 1: so here's the number eight three three two. Ask Dean

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Speaker 1: eight three three, the numeral two. Ask Dean A three

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Speaker 1: three two and then you just spell out, ask Dean,

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Speaker 1: whatever's got you scratch in your head? Design, construction, DIY, inside, outside,

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Speaker 1: landscape to cor I got you. We'll put our heads together,

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Speaker 1: we'll get it figured out. Let's say, good morning too, Sam.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, Bud? Good morning Dean.

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Speaker 3: I want to give my own personal phone number, like

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Speaker 3: one eight hundred call for Sam.

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Speaker 1: Uh sure, okay.

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Speaker 3: I just love that you have your own phone number.

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Speaker 1: You know how hard it is to get I meant,

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Speaker 1: we secured that number like almost ten years ago. And

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Speaker 1: it wasn't our first choice. You know, we had all

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Speaker 1: sorts of other choices, but that was the one that

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Speaker 1: we They're like, oh yeah, this one will work. And

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Speaker 1: and as you know there's an extra letter in there.

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Speaker 1: It's actually one beep too long. Yeah, but it still works.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to press the end if you don't

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Speaker 1: want to, you don't have to put the N in.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't, and if I say it that way,

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Speaker 1: then of course, uh, you know, then we have a

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Speaker 1: drug show then Yeah, to ask d or to ask

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Speaker 1: de a, Yeah, to ask de e A, which is

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not qualified to give any of that

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Speaker 1: kind of advice at all, whatsoever. So just press the

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Speaker 1: end out of a spirit of cooperation. Yeah, it's tricky,

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Speaker 1: It's tricky. Uh So anyway, you're up, obviously awake. Everything

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Speaker 1: good in the control booth today.

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Speaker 3: I'm sleepwalking through this one. My eyes are closed at

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Speaker 3: the moment. I am using the force to run the board.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, you know it's convenient that you have force powers.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, pop, See I didn't even click that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You didn't it you willed it to be yes? All right,

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Speaker 1: all right, guys, Uh, let's get rolling here.

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Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for the calls to come in. By

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Speaker 1: the way, so if you have tried, i'd calling in

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Speaker 1: before Saturday mornings. First thing out of the shoot is always,

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Speaker 1: just waiting for calls to arrive. If yours is the

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Speaker 1: first one, guess what you're getting on the air, my friend.

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Speaker 1: So there you go. It's been weird. I know the

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Speaker 1: weather's weird. I don't know. It's like any day, any

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Speaker 1: day at all right now. Could be any kind of weather,

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Speaker 1: it would appear. We can have ninety degree weather in April.

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Speaker 1: We can have Santa Ana wins in April, which is

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Speaker 1: not I shouldn't say it. Well, I'm not superstitious. At

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Speaker 1: least we're not having hurricanes and tornadoes here we have

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Speaker 1: you know, you ever get a report every once in

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Speaker 1: But at least we're not having that. But but yeah,

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Speaker 1: be tomorrow. It's just so so bizarre and random the

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 3: It would also be nice to know how to prepare

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Speaker 3: as far as how I dress for the day. I'm

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Speaker 1: Just try I feel like you got to take a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, I don't mind. It's just that

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Speaker 3: But the weather is being very It's really up in

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Speaker 1: It is a lot of hay fever happening all of

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Speaker 1: it all stirred up so that everybody's just breathing. I

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Speaker 1: I'm like, are you kidding me? Man? It's a lot.

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Speaker 1: There's just a lot going on right now. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I have three people right now with allergy problems at

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Speaker 3: my place, and you can hear the coughing, wheezing and sneezing,

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Speaker 3: and it's yeah, it's that season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. In more positive news, do we have you know what?

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Speaker 1: We we got to get an update on the Artemis mission.

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Speaker 1: I think they're just cruising on their way to the

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Speaker 1: moon now and doing all sorts of stuff. But I

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Speaker 1: the other crazy stuff in the news, there's just I

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Speaker 1: anybody's talking about it. But we are on our way

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Speaker 1: back to the moon now. This particular mission is just

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Speaker 1: going to wrap around, do a lap, and come home,

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Speaker 1: because this one is primarily to test out the functionality

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Speaker 1: of the spacecraft, of the new ships and everything, all

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Speaker 1: systems go the next one. If I'm not mistaken, we're

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Speaker 1: landing on the Moon again, and not just to say

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Speaker 1: we did, But the whole plan of the Artemis program

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Speaker 1: is to establish a permanently inhabited long term base, just

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Speaker 1: that ends up relating to our ability to get to Mars.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, I don't care about Elon Musk saying,

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Speaker 1: on mar That's fine by me, actually, But I just

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Speaker 1: love the idea that through it all, NASA is still

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Speaker 1: doing their best to take us off this planet and

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Speaker 1: to explore the universe, because that's just that's just something

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Speaker 1: that we should be doing. That's something that human beings

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Speaker 1: should be doing for our own sake in a lot

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Speaker 1: of different ways. So I'm going to get you an

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Speaker 1: and then we'll talk about it. And I'll also talk about, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, your home and also would like some calls

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Speaker 1: on the board. And I'd like to talk to you

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Speaker 1: because it's really your responsibility this morning. You need to

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Speaker 1: give me a call. Get out of bed and let's

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Speaker 1: talk about what's going on with your home. One, let's

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Speaker 1: see where am I at here? Where am I at?

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Speaker 1: I usually don't say the one eight three three two,

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Speaker 1: Ask Dean. That's the number to reach me, eight three

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Speaker 1: three the numeral two. Ask Dean. It's an all calls

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Speaker 1: Saturday morning, your home with Dean Sharp, the house Whisper,

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Speaker 1: and we are back Dean Sharp, the house Whisper here

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

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Speaker 1: Good Saturday morning to you. It's an all call Saturday

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Speaker 1: for us, as is every Saturday morning. The number to

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Speaker 1: reach me eight three three two. Ask Dean eight three three,

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

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

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Speaker 1: We've got room on the callboard for you. We've got

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Speaker 1: a couple of calls loaded up here, so I'm going

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Speaker 1: to get to them in just a second. But I

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Speaker 1: promised that I was going to give an Artemis two

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Speaker 1: update Artemis, our current Moon mission that's going on, and

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Speaker 1: science nerd that I am. Here is the current update

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Speaker 1: as I understand it. The Orion spacecraft is about halfway

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Speaker 1: a little over halfway to the Moon on its journey

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Speaker 1: to the Moon. It'll be arriving on Monday. The lunar

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Speaker 1: an amazing thing getting up close images of the Moon.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be about four thousand miles away from it,

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Speaker 1: not like right over the surface. And then there's going

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Speaker 1: to be about a forty minute communications blackout when they're

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Speaker 1: whipped around and our will be on their way back home.

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Speaker 1: So far, everything is proceeding great as far as trajectories.

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Speaker 1: In fact, they canceled one of their scheduled correctional burns

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Speaker 1: in the right trajectory because they already were so as

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Speaker 1: far as like being on point, that's great. There have

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Speaker 1: been some minor issues. The toilet malfunction shortly after getting

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Speaker 1: the water dispenser, but they've been working on it. That's

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Speaker 1: what this flight is all about, is testing out the

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Speaker 1: spacecraft itself and all the systems. And NASA says it's

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Speaker 1: nothing mission threatening, and the crew is in great spirits

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Speaker 1: and the mission is going very, very smoothly. And there

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Speaker 1: you go. There's your artemis update from the house, whisper

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Speaker 1: science nerd. Okay, let's go to the phone, shall we?

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Speaker 1: Sounds good? I want to talk to Is it Ernest? Ernest?

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Speaker 4: Ernest?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ernst, Hi, welcome home. How are you, sir?

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Speaker 2: I'm great. How about yourself?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. How can I help?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I would like to know how would someone decide

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Speaker 2: whom to call in terms of what type of contractor

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Speaker 2: for a home that's fifty five plus years old, fifty

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Speaker 2: five to sixty years residents, residential home split level. When

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Speaker 2: you start noticing little hairline cracks in different places, but

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Speaker 2: most notably, say in a main area the dining room

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Speaker 2: above the ceiling right there, and it's a little crack,

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Speaker 2: and then you whatever, paste it and paint over it.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the good news, very very very low likelihood

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Speaker 1: I want you to open them up. Tape those joints.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, buddy, appreciate it. Uh Oh, we've

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Speaker 1: to Donna. Hey, Donna, welcome home, Good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 5: Our house was thirty one years old, and we've had

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Speaker 4: My question is it.

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Speaker 5: A good idea to replumb the house?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay, next call. No, I'm not letting you go that fast.

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? When does that ever happen?

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Speaker 1: No, it's it's where do you live?

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Speaker 5: Thousand Oaks?

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Speaker 1: Oh, you live in Thousand Oaks? Okay, yeah, so a

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Speaker 1: every other house probably is having a slab leaks. These days,

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Speaker 1: there's something in the soil out here. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: has not meshed well with copper piping in the slabs.

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Speaker 1: We don't, by the way, any longer anywhere. Nobody is

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Speaker 1: people are not completely repiping their entire house. Some people

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Speaker 1: We've done historical restorations on homes that are over one

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Speaker 1: the industry, the plumbing industry, has now officially said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the repipe would be pex pex PEX Type A with

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Speaker 1: literally a pipe that an expander tool can be put inside,

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Speaker 1: the fittings. Best plumbing fitting on planet Earth. And so

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Speaker 1: you guys would repipe that, Donna, and you'd be done.

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Speaker 1: You'd never think about repiping the house ever.

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Speaker 5: Again, well, I appreciate that very much, because you know,

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Speaker 5: and I'm like, well, you know, looking for a job.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate your I appreciate your wisdom.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Donna. I appreciate your call, my friend.

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Speaker 1: Keep listening and good luck with that. Always get when

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Speaker 1: Window shopping is free. That's what I like to say

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Speaker 1: People always are asking me, I've got a twelve hundred

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Speaker 1: want to talk to uh Richard. Hey, Richard, welcome home.

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Speaker 6: Hi Richard, thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, go ahead, go ahead? Hello, yep.

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Speaker 6: My question is I'm doing a paper project in the backyard.

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Speaker 1: get a stone or a concrete blade on a nice tool.

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Speaker 1: If it were me. If it were me, I would

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Speaker 1: probably be well, I have one, so I have to say,

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Speaker 1: if it were me, I would be using my large

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Speaker 1: heavy duty tile saw to cut the stone with a

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Speaker 1: concrete blade attached to it. That way you minimize the dust.

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Speaker 1: A tile saw with a nice big blade has got

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Speaker 1: it's got water hooked up to it. It's dripping on

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Speaker 1: the blade. It lubricates the blade. It minimizes the dust

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Speaker 1: that gets thrown out. Because if he cuts paver concrete

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Speaker 1: pavers dry, you're just gonna fill the yard and your

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Speaker 1: lungs and your eyes and your face with dust. And also,

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Speaker 1: a large format tilesaw has a sliding table that you

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Speaker 1: would set the paver on. The blade doesn't move, but

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Speaker 1: the table does, and you slide it and you get

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Speaker 1: these nice, square, beautifully contoured cuts. Some people like to

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Speaker 1: use an angle grinder with a big blade on it.

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Speaker 1: You just don't have as much control. Some paver pros

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Speaker 1: will do that and then they'll hit the end and

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Speaker 1: chip it back. But I don't recommend that for a

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Speaker 1: homeowner because you know you'll bust and ruin more paverts

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Speaker 1: then you will succeed at in my opinion, and I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't do that myself. And you know I've been around

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Speaker 1: the block a few times when it comes to that stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to recommend the same thing for you

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Speaker 1: that I would do for me, which is a fixed position,

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Speaker 1: large format tile saw. Now, yeah, it's a five or

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Speaker 1: six hundred dollars piece of equipment. Fortunately, though, you can

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Speaker 1: run down to your local tool rental place and rent

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Speaker 1: one for just a few bucks for the day home

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Speaker 1: depots got them. Your local tool rental place will have them,

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Speaker 1: and that's the way to go. And as far as like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I've never used one of those things before, how crazy

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Speaker 1: unsafe are they? Okay, I'm not gonna tell anybody to

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Speaker 1: actually do this because I'll be in a world of

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Speaker 1: liability and hurt. But I will tell you this. Tile

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Speaker 1: saws have no teeth, and so they are not anywhere

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Speaker 1: near as dangerous as a regular saw for cutting wood

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Speaker 1: because they grind away at stone and ceramic tile and clay,

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Speaker 1: but they don't grind away and rip up human flesh

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Speaker 1: at once. One time, one time in my career, did

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Speaker 1: I bring the tile saw down and slip it so

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Speaker 1: that my thumb actually made slight contact with the blade,

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Speaker 1: and absolutely other than getting a little Indian burn on

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Speaker 1: the end of my thumb, temporarily absolutely nothing happens. So

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Speaker 1: they are of all power saws that you can use

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Speaker 1: as a homeowner conscientiously, they are amongst the safest of

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Speaker 1: all because cutting stone takes a whole different thing than

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Speaker 1: cutting wood or cutting flesh, and so I would highly

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Speaker 1: recommend a fixed position, large format tile saw with a

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Speaker 1: concrete cutting diamond blade on it.

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Speaker 6: All right, thank you very much for your time. I

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Speaker 6: appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome, Richard. Good luck on that project. Just

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Speaker 1: take your time, take your time. You know there are

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Speaker 1: projects around the house. Just talking to Tim Conway about

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Speaker 1: this on Thursday night, by the way, if you want to,

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Speaker 1: if you can't get it enough of me, I don't

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Speaker 1: know why that would be, but if you can't, you know,

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Speaker 1: every Thursday night at about six twenty I hang out

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Speaker 1: with Tim Conway for two segments on his show every

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Speaker 1: Thursday night, And you never know what we're gonna end

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Speaker 1: up talking about, or if we even talk about home stuff.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we don't. But the point is we talk with Tim,

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Speaker 1: and I was just talking to him on Thursday about

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Speaker 1: the idea of simple projects versus complex projects, and I

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Speaker 1: want to draw a line here for you. Simple a

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Speaker 1: simple task is sometimes the hardest task to do well

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Speaker 1: as a non professional. Okay, simple meaning, and I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about the technical you know, I want to get very

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Speaker 1: very technical about these words. Simple means that there aren't

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Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts. Simple is that you know

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Speaker 1: there's one or two steps. Okay, that's simple. Complex means

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Speaker 1: lots of moving parts. Complex means lots of steps. So technically,

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Speaker 1: to give you an example, assembling ikea furniture is a

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Speaker 1: complex task because you know, there may be an instruction

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Speaker 1: book with like, you know, forty eight steps on it, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Whereas and something like that would be like putting your

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Speaker 1: own papers down in your backyard. There are a lot

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Speaker 1: of steps that have to happen and so they have

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Speaker 1: to be followed. Now here's the difference, though, So you

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Speaker 1: would think you would think on the surface that a

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Speaker 1: complex task like that should really be handled by the

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Speaker 1: pros and simple tasks, well, that's the kind of thing

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Speaker 1: you could do. I've been building homes for decades and

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Speaker 1: have you know, could could build a home. I'm not

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Speaker 1: patting myself on the back of just telling you giving

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Speaker 1: you my skill level, I could build a home by

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Speaker 1: myself from the ground up. Okay. However, there are about

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Speaker 1: building homes that I just hate and I don't do

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Speaker 1: well at. Like the simple task of putting drywall mud

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Speaker 1: on drywall in a way that looks good. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: don't mind hanging the drywall, I don't mind getting all

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Speaker 1: of it prepped. But mudding drywall, mudding the joints and

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Speaker 1: mudding over and skim coating a drywall. That is a

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Speaker 1: very simple task. It only involves two steps. Put the

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Speaker 1: drywall mud on the trowel and scrape the trowel onto

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Speaker 1: the wall. But to do that proficiently so that it

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Speaker 1: turns out beautiful, that is the kind of thing that

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Speaker 1: takes ten thousand plus hours of mastery. Drywallers who have

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Speaker 1: been working for decades at their craft, they just unconsciously

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Speaker 1: reach into the bucket, slap that mud on the wall,

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Speaker 1: and make one or two swipes and O MG, that

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Speaker 1: is beautiful. Dean would take half an hour to do

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Speaker 1: that exact same seam and not get it half as

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Speaker 1: good looking. Okay, that's a simple task, but it requires

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Speaker 1: a tremendous amount. I mean technically, you know, putting paint

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Speaker 1: on a canvas is simple. But you know how many

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Speaker 1: of us are going to paint the Mona Lisa tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Hardly any of us, so you get what I'm saying. However,

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Speaker 1: a complex task may may not actually involve any skilled

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Speaker 1: steps along the way. Okay, So like laying pavers in

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Speaker 1: a yard, if you prep the ground properly, tamp it

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Speaker 1: down properly, make sure it's leveled, then you lay out

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Speaker 1: your sand base and you make sure it gets leveled

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Speaker 1: proper None of this takes skill in the sense of like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you haven't done this ten thousand times,

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Speaker 1: you're not going to do it right. No, as a homeowner,

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Speaker 1: you can tackle that project. You just need to take

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Speaker 1: your tongue and follow the steps and not skip steps.

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Speaker 1: Tim was asking me, you know, people shouldn't tile put

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Speaker 1: tile up in their own house, and I'm like, no,

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Speaker 1: one percent, absolutely wrong. People could totally tile out their

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Speaker 1: entire bathroom if they follow the steps and take the time.

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Speaker 1: Because tiling is there's a yes, there's an art to it,

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Speaker 1: but there's a most of the steps. The tools take

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Speaker 1: care of the process. You just need to follow the steps.

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Speaker 1: So that's my way of telling you. Don't be afraid

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Speaker 1: of complex DIY projects around your house. Be afraid of

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Speaker 1: the projects that take nuance and skillful hand motion that

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Speaker 1: has to be trained in over a long period of time.

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Speaker 1: Those are the things you are less least likely to

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Speaker 1: do well. But the complex multi step taxts, all you

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Speaker 1: have to do is be patient and not skip steps,

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Speaker 1: and you could end up with something as professional as

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Speaker 1: the most professional that comes into your house could do.

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Speaker 1: There you go. That's my encouragement to you. Don't shy

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Speaker 1: away from the complex. Be aware of the craft and

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Speaker 1: skill elements. That's the stuff you got to be concerned about.

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Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, more of your calls

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Speaker 1: your home Dean Sharp the House Whisper. This has been

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Speaker 1: home with Dean Sharp the House Whisper. Tune into the

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Speaker 1: live broadcast on KFI AM six forty every Saturday morning

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