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Speaker 1: just did some looking on scratched glass in a dishwasher,

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Speaker 1: a couple of people that have some tips too. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I learned a lot. I did not realize some of

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Speaker 1: first and help you out with that. Uh, David, welcome, Hey, David,

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Speaker 1: David's not there right here? All right? All right, far away? Welcome.

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Speaker 1: I guess you're not there, all right, Well, you have

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Speaker 1: a hung up on himself. Hey, Bob, welcome, I'm Bob. Yes, yes, sir, Hi.

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Speaker 2: Gary, I enjoy your show greatly. I have a comment

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Speaker 2: about the ladies having problems with etge glass.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, he said, scratches. I guess that's the same thing,

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Speaker 2: I believe so. Okay, at some point in my life

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Speaker 2: any rate, they said, if you rinch your dishes too well,

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Speaker 2: rench your rent your dishes and glasses.

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Speaker 1: Real. Well, that's funny. My wife and I we we

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Speaker 1: always have that discussion. I'm I'm a non rinser. Of course,

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Speaker 2: It's gotta clean something, even any dirt to clean. It's

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Speaker 2: like I said, I don't know where I got that tip,

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Speaker 1: I was doing just some a little bit on etching.

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Speaker 1: Etching is a cloudy look that does not come off

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Speaker 1: scratch glass? No polishing kits. I'm not going to polish

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Speaker 3: Oh hi, I got after do it. Gary, I must

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Speaker 1: To thank you.

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Speaker 2: I have you were just talking a float, yes, sir, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yes, I have a water boss A sorry, a water

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Speaker 3: BOSSU water softener. Right, and then it seems like the

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Speaker 2: Need to be water softener? And I install this water

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty, So now you know a water boss. You

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Speaker 3: I do not hear the thing doing that?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Do you happen to still have the manual? Oh? Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: you can manually regenerate that. Okay. It sounds to me

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Speaker 2: So the key issue here probably to start off with,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, see if you can you know, I

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Speaker 3: Well, I just opened it up and it's like you

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Speaker 1: Happy to take your call, and let's go to Kevin. Kevin, welcome, Hi,

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Speaker 1: how you doing doing fine, sir? Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I got some questions about basement insulation.

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Speaker 1: could put up foam panels. You could use this I

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Speaker 1: The foam's just going to be a little more fragile

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Speaker 1: So you why are you doing the floor joists above

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Speaker 1: joys and you could not have to worry about tucking

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Speaker 1: all that in those joist pockets. You could kind of

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Speaker 1: make a ceiling out of it, if you will. More

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Speaker 1: expensive than fiberglass, but an option for you. What was

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Speaker 1: the name of it. I think it's rox al, it's

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Speaker 1: r o x maybe u a l roxel, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: r o x UL. Danny said r o x Okay.

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Speaker 1: He knows my limitations. Okay, we all have them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but that would be a good one. They come in panels.

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Speaker 1: It'd be easy to hand a little more expensive, but

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Speaker 1: very very effective for sure.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, thank you, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: You're quite welcome. Thank you, Kevin. You know another thing

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Speaker 1: about that particular company, They make a sound dead deading

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Speaker 1: rock so ol panel also our o x u eld

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Speaker 1: and thank you. It's it's kind of an insulator and

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Speaker 1: a sound deadening for a basement if you're just going

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Speaker 1: to put it on the you know, the ceiling and

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Speaker 1: it's black, and you know, people were kind of getting

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Speaker 1: that look in some finish, not real super pretty finish,

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Speaker 1: but uh, you know, kind of hides the mechanicals, if

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Speaker 1: you will, might be an option for you just passing

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Speaker 1: that along, all right, you can join us. It's eight

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Speaker 1: hundred A two three A two five five. Well, wrap

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Speaker 1: things up. I'm positive about it. And you're at home

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Speaker 1: with Gary Sealvan right here, I'm fifty five care see

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Speaker 1: the talk station, all right, twelve minutes before one o'clock

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Speaker 1: and you're at home with Garry Salvan. Don't forget that.

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Speaker 1: Donovan's mister, Donovan's gonna help you with your car. That's

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Speaker 1: another thing, boy, that's really gotten out of the range

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Speaker 1: of DIY And in a lot of cases. I don't

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Speaker 1: mess with cars at all. I don't even try. All right,

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Speaker 1: you don't you change your own oil anymore? I don't

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Speaker 1: do that that. I don't know. Well, can you see

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Speaker 1: me getting underneath the car? Do I have to answer that? No?

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Speaker 1: You don't, thank you, and you better not I'm thinking it,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not answering it. There you go, Danny, here's

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Speaker 1: a question for you. Do you know anybody or maybe

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Speaker 1: you've heard of this, but you don't know anybody. It's

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Speaker 1: like a seasonal disorder, and it's in a winter time

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Speaker 1: when your house is really dark and you don't get

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Speaker 1: enough sunshine and you just kind of don't have much energy.

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Speaker 1: It's fatigued. You know anybody like that? No, I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of like that. But yeah, I was gonna ask you

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Speaker 1: if lack of sunshine bugs you. Boy, it bugs a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. Oh yeah, And there's blue lights I

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Speaker 1: think that help you with that seasonal disorder. Vitamin D

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Speaker 1: that helps you with a seasonal disorder. But here's a

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Speaker 1: little tip for you. All right, I'm waiting. It's interesting

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Speaker 1: if you didn't know it. I remember when I first

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Speaker 1: stumbled upon this, and I've talked about this before on

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Speaker 1: the show. But the window screens in your house, if

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Speaker 1: you have, whether they're inside or on the outside, that

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Speaker 1: blocks twenty percent of the daylight coming into your home,

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Speaker 1: which in the summertime that's kind of nice, kind of

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Speaker 1: like a little bit of shade in a winter time

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Speaker 1: when it's dark and gloomy at three in the afternoon

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Speaker 1: and you're blocking twenty percent of the daylight coming in.

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Speaker 1: Not so nice. So you know, if you are prone

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Speaker 1: to that, I encourage you. And it's not too late.

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Speaker 1: It's never really too late if it's just and I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying like it's gonna be a spa inside your home,

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Speaker 1: just telling you you're gonna allow a little more daylight.

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Speaker 1: And if you take out the screens, now it's another job.

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Speaker 1: But really, when you think about it, when was the

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Speaker 1: last time you washed screens? Say so, Now I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get you busy doing some stuff too or not. If

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Speaker 1: you just want more light, go around, take out the screens.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to number them. Some of them are

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Speaker 1: a little different sizes. I always number them on the

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Speaker 1: frame of the screen up in the right hand corner,

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Speaker 1: starting with one maybe over whatever, the window, over the sink,

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Speaker 1: and then go clockwise. All right, so number them storm.

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Speaker 1: If you want to take them out, number them and

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Speaker 1: clean them and then store them. Take you another step further.

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Speaker 1: If you want to take them out, clean them, number them,

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Speaker 1: and then replace the screening. Fiberglass screening has a lifespan.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't think screen would wear out, but the fiberglass does.

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Speaker 1: It starts getting whiteish if you will, and lifespan twelve

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Speaker 1: thirteen years, and it'll start getting threadbare, especially in a

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Speaker 1: western facing. But that little bit add some additional daylight

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Speaker 1: to your home. Now here's another one. If you're tired

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Speaker 1: of the gloom. I don't know if you've seen the floodlights.

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Speaker 1: If you got floodlights in your home, in the ceilings,

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Speaker 1: in the kitchen, in the bathroom, and the office and

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Speaker 1: the family room. Maybe you got them all over, maybe

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Speaker 1: you don't have, but couple down in the basement. But

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Speaker 1: the ones where you can change out an old flood light,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a cfl or an LED where you take

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Speaker 1: the ball out and you literally put in you don't

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Speaker 1: put in a new can, but you put in a

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Speaker 1: bull that has the ring around, so it's a finished

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Speaker 1: cam light setting. Some of these now have little tiny,

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Speaker 1: tiny switches. In fact, they have them on light bulbs too.

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Speaker 1: You may not even have noticed. There's different brands. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of a step up. In other words, if you

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Speaker 1: go to buy a light bulb, you can get a

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Speaker 1: light bulb that's soft white daylight or outdoor light, I

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Speaker 1: think is the other one. There's like three different kelvin

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Speaker 1: units that you can choose from, and a kelvin unit

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Speaker 1: is the whiteness. You know what an led full like

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Speaker 1: six thousand kelvin unit looks, looks like a surgery light.

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Speaker 1: It's practically blue, you know what I'm talking about. There's

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Speaker 1: bulbs like that. If you accidentally buy one, you'll be like,

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Speaker 1: what in the world is that all about. But they

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Speaker 1: have can lights where you can change the kelvin units

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Speaker 1: on the bulb itself. Now, remember we're just talking about

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Speaker 1: gloomy dark days and I change. I have several can

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Speaker 1: lights in the kitchen, and in the summer I have

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Speaker 1: them soft white, just like all the light bulbs just

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Speaker 1: about used to be. And so there's warm white, daylight,

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Speaker 1: and soft white. That's the three, I guess. So the

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Speaker 1: in the winter time in the kitchen, I turn them

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Speaker 1: to like daylight and I take them off the soft white.

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Speaker 1: And it's probably about I don't know exactly off the

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Speaker 1: top of my head, but thirty seven hundred to four

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Speaker 1: thousand kelvin units versus twenty five hundred. My point being this,

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Speaker 1: if you have those bulbs, play around with them a

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Speaker 1: little bit. If the gloominess has kind of got you

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Speaker 1: down where you can actually change. It's not increased candle power,

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Speaker 1: but it's really making white brighter and more intense. And

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Speaker 1: you don't have to buy a new bulb. If you

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Speaker 1: have bulbs where it has those little switches on them,

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Speaker 1: you can change them, and they've got them in bulbs.

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00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: Now for lamps, it's not a three way. But let's

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Speaker 1: say it's comparable the lumens. That's the brightness of the ball.

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Speaker 1: And you probably know all this now it's not new anymore.

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Speaker 1: But if the lumens are comparable for say a sixty

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Speaker 1: watt bulb, they finally got smart and started putting this

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Speaker 1: is comparable for a sixty watt ball, because eight hundred

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Speaker 1: lumens meant nothing to nobody. But let's say you wanted

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Speaker 1: to get a sixty sixty, like a sixty watt light

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Speaker 1: bulb in your lamp next to where you read. Then

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Speaker 1: the question is do you want daylight, worm white or software?

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Speaker 1: You know? I don't know. Well, look where the Calvin

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Speaker 1: units are higher, the number of the bigger they start

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Speaker 1: probably around two thousand. You can do a little study

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Speaker 1: on that, but now they have bulbs right next to

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Speaker 1: the you know little turn the hop to turn the

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Speaker 1: ball on. They have these little, tiny, little tiny switch

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Speaker 1: and you can change the kelvin units on it so

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Speaker 1: that you know, comparable sixty watt light bulb can look

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Speaker 1: really bright or it can have more of a amber

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Speaker 1: white look to it. Again, I'm no doctor. I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying in the wintertime in this area, we all kind

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Speaker 1: of get a little grumpy when it's kind of cloudy

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Speaker 1: and kind of wintry. A little, yeah, just a little.

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Speaker 1: I'm not that it doesn't affect me. I don't think.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it does. But getting the screens out of your

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Speaker 1: windows and allowing more daylight in, and if you have

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Speaker 1: the ability to change the kelvin units on light bulbs,

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Speaker 1: do so. And if you don't have that ability, might

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Speaker 1: look into maybe even replacing a couple bulbs here and there.

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Speaker 1: I think the look is really different. You know how

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Speaker 1: I talk about how paint looks with different light coming in.

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Speaker 1: It's true, you know in the summertime, that paint in

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Speaker 1: the hallway that's facing that big window, it looks a

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Speaker 1: little bit different than it looks right now. And if

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Speaker 1: you can actually change the Kelvin units. It's a crisper light.

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Speaker 1: You might feel a little better. In fact, when mister

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Speaker 1: Donovan gets on, you can ask him about LED headlights

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Speaker 1: and how that's changed, and he'll tell you them where

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Speaker 1: they look like blue. You see him bright. But I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what, that's the greatest thing for an old

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Speaker 1: guy like me to have on his cars. Led headlights.

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00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: It's just crisper. So you can add that same quality

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00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: and that same type of lighting to your home. So

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Speaker 1: just an idea, maybe something you want to try. So

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Speaker 1: mister Donovan will be next to help you with all

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Speaker 1: your questions about your car. Dane'll be in right after

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Speaker 1: we wrap things up, which we are about to do.

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Speaker 1: But before we wrap it up, we have to think,

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Speaker 1: mister Danny. Mister Danny, thank you again for a great day.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate all your efforts. And don't forget pick up

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Speaker 1: that podcast. You can learn all about a slip resistant

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00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: seiler for your floors. It's a good listen. You can

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Speaker 1: get it at your iHeart appet at Home with Gary Salvan.

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Speaker 1: All right, good Lord Willing, We'll be back tomorrow for

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Speaker 1: more at Home with Me, Gary Salvin