November 20, 2025 • 44 mins
Eric G and John Dudley are diving deep into the festive chaos of holiday decorating, and let me tell you, it’s a wild ride. They kick things off with some golden nuggets of wisdom about electrical safety – because nothing says "Merry Christmas" like blowing a fuse while trying to light up your house like a runway. Seriously, they’ve seen it all, from GFCI outlets hiding in bizarre places to the age-old struggle of untangling Christmas lights that seem to have a vendetta against you.
As they dish out tips on how to avoid turning your home into a fire hazard (because no one wants to roast marshmallows on their living room floor), they also chat about the aesthetics of holiday decor, from tasteful to downright ridiculous. And trust me, they’ve got opinions on inflatable Santas and how not to terrorize the neighbors with your overzealous decorations. So, grab a cup of cocoa, sit back, and get ready for some laughs and a few eye-rolls as we navigate the absurdity of holiday decorating together!
As the holiday season rolls in like a freight train, Eric G and John Dudley dive headfirst into the chaos of holiday decorating, sharing their hard-won wisdom and a few hilarious misadventures. Kicking off the second hour, Eric reveals his secret strategy for when to turn on the Christmas lights—right after Thanksgiving dinner, because why not keep the turkey vibes going just a tad longer? But the real fun begins as they dissect the absurdity of holiday decorations, from the neighbor who goes all Clark Griswold with their light displays to the subtle art of avoiding an electrical disaster while hanging those twinkling bulbs. Eric's expertise shines when he breaks down the essential safety tips that every homeowner should know, like the importance of GFCI outlets and not pinching power cords under the garage door—because nobody wants to set their house on fire while trying to spread holiday cheer. These guys are not just about safety; they’re also all about the aesthetics. Tune in as they discuss finding that perfect balance between classy and crazy in your holiday decor, making sure your house looks like a festive wonderland rather than a haphazard yard sale. As they sprinkle in some laughs—like Eric's cheeky idea of putting a giant inflatable snowman in the front yard (much to his girlfriend's dismay)—you'll find yourself chuckling along while taking notes on how to up your holiday decorating game this season.
Takeaways:
- Getting your Christmas lights up right after Thanksgiving dinner is the way to go; it keeps the holiday spirit rolling without jumping the gun on Christmas.
- Be cautious with those outdoor outlets; GFCI outlets wear out over time, and you don't want to be left in the dark as you try to impress the neighbors.
- Never run extension cords under your garage door, unless you want to win the award for 'Most Likely to Burn Down Your House' during the holidays.
- Consider a theme for your decorations; a cohesive color scheme can elevate your holiday decor from 'meh' to 'whoa, look at that!'.
- Invest in a solid ladder or even a rental lift for holiday decorating; because safety first, and you want to avoid becoming a viral fail video on social media.
- If you're going to use space heaters, for the love of all that is holy, do not plug them into extension cords; your home isn’t a science experiment waiting to happen.
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- Parkrose Hardware
- Milwaukee
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John Dudley.
Welcome to the around theHouse show, your trusted source for
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home improvement information.
Thanks for joining us today.
Johnny Dudley and I aresitting here and I'm Eric G. We're
sitting here talking Christmasholidays today, kids.
Johnny, my thing is onThanksgiving, my goal, if I timed
everything right, is afterdinner is when I turn the lights
on.
That's the earliest.
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Yeah.
As a crazy guy that I'll do,I'm like, ah, Thanksgiving, its own
holiday.
Once dinner's done and we'recleaned up, then I can go flick on
the Christmas lights and say,okay, we're good.
No, I like that.
Standard procedure.
That's how it should be.
Yep.
How it should be.
And there's all thesedecorating tips.
And quite frankly, I.
This is probably the biggesttime of year that I get electrical
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questions is from Christmasback to Thanksgiving.
That's the thing.
Because people are plugginginto things and outlets that maybe
they haven't used in a yearand wondering what went wrong.
Plugging seven things into one outlet.
Yeah.
First off, I want to give yousome quick nuggets out there.
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If you have a house builtprobably after the 70s or even 80s,
depending on where you'relocated, those outside outlets have
a gfci, which is a groundfault circuit interrupter.
There's a little outlet.
So you see where they have thetest and the reset on them.
Keep in mind.
Yeah.
And the red.
Those have a lifespan of about10 years before they start to wear
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out and trip early.
That's one issue.
But two.
I'll get two dozen questionsand always go like this.
Hey, Eric.
I ended up plugging on myChristmas lights and after having
them up for a week or 10 daysnow, there's no power to the outlet.
What happened?
Man, it is always that GFCIcould be the fuse in the first string
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of lights, but when theoutlet's just non existent, that
means you clicked that.
And so many people don'tunderstand where that is.
And it could be in funky places.
Many times in newer homesBrother, it's right behind Murphy's
losses, behind therefrigerator in the garage, which
to be honest, that outlet'snot really even designed to plug
a refrigerator into it.
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But that's usually that onethat's high that people plug into
because there's a handful ofoutlets in the garage.
Now, my last house was goofy.
The backyard GFCI outlet wasin the front powder room.
Wow.
Okay.
So when I first moved into thehouse, I was running a table saw,
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I think, and a chop saw orsomething out there off of and clicked
it.
It was old and tired.
I spent like a half hour goingaround looking for it.
I'm like, oh, it can't be inthat other side of the house.
Wow.
It was up there.
It was the last one I checked.
I better check that front bathroom.
Just sure enough, there it was.
Thanks a lot, Mr. Larkin.
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Yeah, it was just like, areyou kidding me?
And so that's the thing you're into.
And it's funny, but where isthat GFCI outlet?
And it's.
And if it's a decade older,might be smart just to throw another
one in it.
And the other issue with newerhomes is you've got the arc fault
stuff.
And the arc fault stuff reallysets off.
Those are those new breakers,Johnny, since you've left here that
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have been common.
And man, electric motors,especially the early ones of those,
you turn on a table saw, youturn on something there.
Those things love to just goboom and click off.
So that's the first place on that.
And the second tip I want togive you, we have more in the show
to give you.
But the second one I just wantto give out there is never ever run
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that power cord underneath thegarage door where you're pinching
it.
Then everybody does it.
And I remember when I was inmy 20s, one of my dad's good friends
ended up having his three cargarage with his hot rods in it.
He burnt the thing downbecause he ran the Christmas lights
underneath it.
And it just kept karatechopping it broke down the cord,
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whatever the extension cordwas underneath it.
It just couldn't take thepressure of that hitting it every
time on the concrete.
Sure enough, shorted it, Boom.
Burnt the garage down in the house.
Lost three cars that weren'tinsured because they were in for
the holidays.
So just be really careful withthat stuff.
And the same goes for usingthat little screw in to plug into
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a light fixture outside to it.
Have the electrician come over.
And my biggest tip on this iswhen you have the electrician coming
over for the next remodel,you're adding a generator or whatever.
Just have them throw another20amp circuit up in the soffit or
eaves.
So you could plug it in andthen you could run a timer off of
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that whatever and you're goodto go.
Makes it so simple.
Yeah, it's just a smart idea.
You'll use it every time.
Every time.
Heck, you could be on the roofdoing some work up there and you
got a plug in right underneath.
That's what I'm saying.
You'll use it.
You'll use it for things inthe yard, you'll use it on the roof,
you use it for the lights.
It's just 20amp never hurts.
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A great thing to have and it'sjust handy.
And nowadays too you can getthose plugs that work really well
that they just plug in andthey're oh like a 12 inch cord but
they have the Lutron superwaterproof basically remote outlet
in it.
So it plugs in, you hook it upinto your Lutron system on the phone
and basically it's a smart switch.
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So you can literally jump onyour Lutron app and click on there
and go boom.
Okay, I want this to turn on45 minutes before sunset and I want
it to turn off at 2 in the morning.
Or if you want to get up whenyou're going to work in the dark
and have your Christmas lightson, have it come on 15 minutes up
after sunrise and you haverunning all light.
So it's a cool way to go andit saves you electricity and you
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don't have some sketchy timerin a plastic bag that shouldn't be
outside anyway trying to makeit work.
Who would do that?
You and me.
I guarantee you and I haveboth done that.
I've done it more than twice.
More than twice.
Absolutely, absolutely.
So those are some of the bigones just right off the bat that
just on the safety side we'regoing to talk a lot about decorating
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stuff, which I know Johnnyisn't your cup of tea, but I want
to hear your comments on someof this stuff because it's always
colorful.
You're not the decorator.
I like lights, but thedecorations, eh, not so much.
I was joking.
We were at.
Oh, we were at.
My friend, my friend.
I have a great relationshiphere in Portland with my friends
over at Park Rose Hardware.
Those guys, we get along great.
I love their tool rental butthey had that 20 foot blow up snowman
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in there for sale for a fewhundred bucks and I was in there
with my girlfriend.
I looked over at her, I went,you know what we could do?
You think we'd make the HOAmad if we put that in the front yard?
She just, we got to get out of here.
She did not want me messingwith the HOA on that one, but I thought
that would be fun.
Here's my experiences with thedecoration portion.
I'm the guy that either stealsor stabs that snowman.
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Okay.
You're not 17 anymore or 27.
I'm the guy that went runningout of the shopping mall with the
giant wicker reindeer andshoved in my buddy Mark's car when
I was 15.
Yeah, I like decorations.
Yeah, I get that.
I get that derelict.
I love it.
Yeah, Somebody had to.
They were just sitting thereall alone.
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Poor kids.
Poor kids.
Exactly.
Here's the thing what I say,and we see this, especially when
it comes to outside.
I love the people that go justabsolutely bat crazy on outside decorations.
My buddy, Scotty Hammond, Ithink you've met him once or twice
before.
He lives down in California.
His neighbor across the streetis the guy that you'll see probably
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on this season's, like onChristmas Eve, they run the on like
abc.
It's like the best Christmaslight display in the country.
And whoever wins $50,000, Ithink you'll be on this year's.
But you can't see the house.
There's probably 30,000decorations in the front.
Wow, there's those people.
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And thank God to LED lightsbecause a lot of those guys were
putting in three phaseelectric just to run their Christmas
light display.
And having 600amp panelsbefore, now they've got it where,
you know, they can at leastdial it back a bit with LEDs.
But I appreciate those peoplethat in September start putting their
Christmas display up becauseit takes them three months to do
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it.
And they're fun.
A lot of those folks too, right?
It's like.
It's like an amusement park.
Like, they want people to comeright around the yard, check it all
out.
Like, I used to love that whenI was a kid, man.
Absolutely.
Hey, we're gonna have to goout to break, brother.
When we do, let's go back andcontinue this discussion with this
and how to plan for that.
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What's up?
This is Sticks it in ya and.
Satchel from Steel Panther.
And you are listening toaround the House with Eric G. Yeah,
we love Eric G. And you should too.
Welcome back to the around theHouse show, your trusted source for
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home improvement information.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm Eric G. I've been sittinghere talking to Johnny about this
reindeer theft that weuncovered here of retail stuff that
HS brought and I had to lookit up, brother.
In Santa Clara, California,where this happened.
Good news, looking at AImisdemeanor retail theft.
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Now, this isn't a livereindeer, so let's go into this.
Statute of limitations is one year.
So you're good.
Okay.
Now if that was felony theft,I don't think you had a thousand
dollars worth of wickerreindeers under your arm.
Let's be honest, no.
Only two.
So for Dancer and Prancer,that's only three years.
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But if reindeer I think wereinvolved, it probably would have
five or six of Rudolph, for instance.
But I think with those two,you're good.
So, yeah, it's been 30 years.
40 years.
So I think you're low level reindeer.
Low level reindeer theft, Exactly.
Oh, I feel much better.
I'll sleep better, I'm sure.
See, there we go.
For 40 years.
All right, so back to decorating.
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I like you.
I loved my parents jumping inthe station wagon, driving around
and taking a look at thosehomes or where the people just went
absolutely crazy.
And it's fun.
It's very much NationalLampoon's Christmas vacation.
Totally.
And a little trip, trip trickand tip.
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Let me say that correctly for this.
If you're up on the laddertrying to recreate the Christmas
vacation, get that lock up,lockjaw ladder grip so you can tie
it to the ladder.
Doesn't go backwards.
And that way you don't sendthings through the neighbor's window
and all that other stuff,you're good to go.
Although there's someexcitement to be had.
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Yeah, absolutely.
It's funny too.
Now there's people that canget those low end, like FM signal,
like you see for realtors,where you drive by and you could
actually listen to the description.
I see people now.
You drive by, Please tune to88.2 or whatever and you can listen
to whatever they had set at.
You can listen to Christmasmusic when you drive by their house.
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Wow, that's good for 100ft.
Work a little bit.
Yeah, it gets pretty crazy.
I like it, though.
It's one of those things.
But no, it's spirited, man.
It makes it a happy holiday.
It's fun.
See, I am the old school decorator.
I'm the one that outside, Idon't like the icicle lights as much,
but I do the old, like, C7, C9bulbs that look like they're incandescents.
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So do I, because that's whatmy grandma and grandpa had.
So that was always Christmasto me.
Yeah.
And if you steal a few ofthem, they make a really loud pop
in the street when you throwthem high up in the air.
Yeah.
And the other thing with that is.
Yeah, so you've heard.
Allegedly.
So when those wereincandescent bulbs.
Nowadays they've got them inthe plastic.
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So they're LEDs, and so you're not.
I mean, they made a good snowmelt on the ice.
They did.
They did knock out the ice inthe gutters pretty quickly because
they put on enough heat.
Oh, yeah, dude.
Yeah.
You had to wear gloves oryou'd burn the crap out of your hand.
Getting absolutely up thereputting up oven gloves.
And one of my tricks too, onthat, by the way, guys, is LEDs.
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You can put a lot together.
But my secret here is I likebuying the big rolls.
You can buy those rolls of250ft at the store now instead of
having to plug them in.
But here's the problem.
I have had some serious issueswith those things lasting more than
just a couple years.
These days you buy them and,man, if I get more than two years
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out of them.
And now the crazy thing is,though, I see people out there that
are putting these up andleaving them up all year round.
Yeah.
And that is lamp cord that isnot designed to be out there more
than a couple cold months.
Even in California, if it'ssummertime still and it feels like
it is still 70, 80 degrees,it's meant for 30, 45 days out there.
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Yeah.
There's no way that even thesun is damaging.
Yeah, the sun's doing damageto those things.
They are fragile.
They're built cheap.
They are.
I don't care if you're buyinga GE brand or you're buying the off
brand.
And even just the way you wrapthem up and roll them up and you
beat them, you're breaking onewire loose and then the next wire
loose, and it's all interior.
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You don't see it.
You think they should be Fine.
But for some reason the lights stop.
Mid cord.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Broke something.
It broke something.
And then that connection couldstart coming back together.
Maybe there's a strand or two there.
And all of a sudden you got aheat source.
And now you can have a problem.
Wiggle it.
Yeah, you wiggle it.
Then you cut it open.
Then you electrical tape it.
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Then you wrap it in a plasticbag and leave it out in the snow.
Leave it out in the side.
Yeah.
And then one wire is shorterthan the other ones.
So it's all a little wonky,you know, it just never works.
Never works.
Those are throwaways, guys.
And I've only seen that stuffon movies.
I don't know.
Yeah, but that's how it goes.
It's.
And so anyway, I've gotten tothe point now that I don't buy the
expensive ones, at least in my experience.
I just buy the reasonablypriced ones at the home centers.
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Yeah.
And to me, the worst ones arelike on Amazon because they'll sit
there and say they got a ULstamp on it.
But I just about guaranteethat a lot of those don't.
Aren't UL listed.
Just the Chinese manufacturersputting a UL stamp on it going, yep,
they're good to go.
And they're probably not.
So be careful with where youget those sourced.
And don't leave them up allyear round.
Cause then they're just throwaways.
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They're not designed to be upthere a year, period.
Yeah.
And pack them away carefully.
That's my issue.
Right.
I'm like, I'm done with theseand I shove them all in one bag and
then I drag them out the nextyear and they're all caught.
Tangled with each other.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
For some reason they don't work.
And plug them in before youget up on the 30 foot extension ladder.
Plug them in, test them, makesure they work, move them around,
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make sure you don't have anyof those loose connections.
That's a big one there.
And the other thing I do is.
This is what I do is Iactually duct tape on the inside,
put them in totes, Right.
You buy them, you got all theextra pieces and parts.
I rip those off and I know thetote it's going into and I duct tape
a plastic bag on the inside,like a Ziploc, and I throw them all
in there and zip them up.
Because otherwise they'rekicking around the garage, the shop.
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During the toolbox, whatChristmas light set did this little
tiny fuse that's the size of Agrain of rice.
Go to.
Yeah, that's some Smartthinking there, Mr. Goranson.
I know.
I think it's.
I've thrown enough away going,I know where this fuse is.
I don't know what it is.
And trying to come up with abetter way to do it.
Yeah.
And it works.
Makes sense.
And it works.
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So the next thing here, too,guys, is when you're decorating and
you're just trying to dosomething classy and cool.
Spend the time and come upwith a theme.
Try to come up with somethingthat's going to tie in inside, outside.
If you like white and blue, towhite and blue.
If you like colors, do that.
But make those play together.
It's going to give you abetter overall look.
If you want the classic look.
And you're going to throw theleg lamp from Christmas Story up
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on the table in the livingroom, make it look like it's a 1940s
Christmas decoration or 50s,have some fun with it.
But sometimes the eclectic.
You can tell how people's last10 years of purchases have gone by
the age of the stuff that'sout in the lawn because you get the
stupid plastic cleanup thingthat's 10 years old, that's maybe
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on its last leg to the newvideo thing that's on the front garage
door.
It can look a little haphazardat times.
I think that slowly happens asthe children age.
Right.
Like, yeah, they're three andyou buy all this new stuff, and then
they're five and it's still cool.
And then they're seven.
They're like, we don't really care.
Yeah.
So absolutely.
Then the parents.
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A little shaggy and Santa'slosing some hair.
Yep.
And I'm sorry, I love theChristmas nativity in the front yard,
but the chance of somebodysnagging that and doing something
bad with it is probably highthese days in most areas.
Yeah.
It's a shame.
We could joke about messingwith reindeer, but let's leave that
one alone.
Let's leave the religion.
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Yeah, yeah.
There's bad.
We all gotta have ourboundaries there.
Let's not do that.
Let's not steal a couplereindeer, bust a couple of lights
in the street.
That's one thing.
But don't mess with the manger.
Yeah.
Just leave it alone.
Leave it alone.
They had enough hard time.
They couldn't even get the endthat night.
So actually, I'm going to tellthe story when I come back because
it was the funniest thing Isaw on YouTube here last week, actually.
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It was on Instagram.
And it was a kid making asnowman and he was mad about a truck
going up and driving acrosshis lawn and taking his snowman out
every day.
So he got the ultimate laugh.
We'll talk about that just a second.
Soon as around the House returns.
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Welcome back to the around theHouse show.
Your trusted source for homeimprovement information, I'm Eric
G. And we got John Dudleysitting here.
We were just talking aboutChristmas decorating since, you know,
after Thanksgiving is full.
Full on season for me.
But I was just telling a storywhen I went out to break about this
kid that had the ultimatelaugh for a guy that was driving
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his truck up in the snow andrunning over his snowman in the front
yard.
The kid just moved it a littlebit towards the street.
He went over where the firehydrant was and built the snowman
around it.
And this dude comes throughthere and it was on camera with his
Suburban and hits it at about20 miles an hour.
It hits the fire hydrant.
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Now, kids, this was gorgeous.
Now here's the thing.
I don't want the firedepartment have to be poking around
everybody's snowman lookingfor the fire hydrant when your house
is burning down because daddidn't do the Christmas lights.
Right.
But I like your point of thiskind of funny.
I'll give you.
I'll give you a solid 10 forform on that.
For sure.
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Yeah, No, I said, I said put abig rock in the base.
But fire hydrant is definitely.
He one upped me there.
You got me.
That was solid.
I was like, oh.
And it, you know, and it justbroke it over.
Lifted the front of the truckup and it was low, freezing, and
the water was sprayingeverywhere, all up underneath, which
means that's going to be onebig ice bomb.
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And now it looked like it wasstuck up on it.
So now you got to call theauthorities and the water department
and the fire department andeverybody else.
And you're looking like the.
The animal sitting thererunning over kids.
Snowman.
It hit the fire hydrant, soway to go, jackass.
In a truck, I'd have put a canof red paint in the head as well.
Been good, right?
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I like that big old can of red paint.
Saran Wrap over the top of itso you make sure it doesn't hit the
can wrong.
Repaint his.
Repaint his hood for him andwash his undercarriage.
Oh, you're marked.
You're marked.
I like it.
I like it.
That's a good one.
So here's the thing, guys, toobe really careful around this time
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of year with candles.
You know, candles are interesting.
I love them in the windows,but, man, there are some good LED
options out there for that.
So you don't burn the house down.
It's always a concern of mine.
You know, my amazinggirlfriend loves candles.
Just candles every night.
But I tell you what, there isalso an indoor air quality issue
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with them because you can seewhat they call ghosting on the studs
if you have too many candlesgoing, Especially with a nice, tight
house, you'll see every studin the wall because that temperature
difference will grab that andthe soot stays there.
So you'll be doing a lot morecleaning and things like that this
time of year if you've got anice tight house.
So it's a big deal.
Be careful.
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And then the other thing Ijust want to mention too, because
we see this a lot with space heaters.
People trying to plug thespace heaters into electrical cords.
In the wintertime, way toomany office buildings and houses
burned down, especially inattic areas where they've got, you
know, bedroom up there, notenough insulation.
Somebody plugs in two lampcords into the space heater and they
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burn the place down.
So not to be negative here,let's just be a little common knowledge
on this stuff.
And don't use extension cordswith space heaters and plug them
into the outlet and not intosomething else.
We've all done it, but let'snot play.
Yeah, that's why I'm beingquiet over here.
Yep, guilty as charged.
Now here's the thing, too.
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I'm.
I'm excited for this Christmasfor me because I get to go out and
do a natural tree.
My previous administrationwill say was not a natural tree person
because one of her kids wasallergic and we couldn't do that.
I get it.
I respect that.
But I'm gonna go out and do the.
The natural cutting tree,which is fun.
Now I'm gonna cheat a littlebit because I'm gonna take my Milwaukee
(26:26):
Sawzall with the battery andthe tree cutting blade on it.
Oh, man.
So I'm not laying down in themud cutting.
I can just reach down.
The fun out of it.
You're supposed to come homemuddy and wet and freezing.
You know, a couple of cuts onyour hand from using the handsaw.
Dude, I got a torn rotatorcuff on my left shoulder.
Ah, yeah.
Okay.
I gotta play it a little safethis year, but you know what I mean?
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I mean, that's.
That, to me, is fun.
I'd much rather do that thango down to my home center and grab
something off.
The trees have been cut twomonths ago that are sitting in their.
In their outdoor service area there.
No, it's way cooler.
Making a day out of it andgoing out there.
Yeah.
Getting in the nature andactually hacking the thing.
Yeah.
I mean, you go up in the woodsand do it and get your.
Your forestry permit to do itthat way around my neighborhood here
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I can go within 10 minutes andthere's probably three Christmas
tree farms, which is kind of cool.
So I can go out there, earnedit, you know.
Right.
Like catching a fish.
Yeah, it's way cool.
And you know how fresh it isbecause you're the one that cut it.
Some of that other stuff wascut, you know, weeks ago.
I'm already seeing Christmasstands get set up here and it's not
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Thanksgiving yet.
And it's like, okay.
By the time those things showup there and it's supposed to last
through, you know, you gottrees that are supposed to last two
months.
You can't throw enough waterat those to make that last in most
areas.
Fire hazards.
Okay.
Johnny, how many times you lita Christmas tree on fire after it's
out of the house and when it'sout back?
Been sitting outside yourhouse for four months.
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Oh, lots.
Yeah.
It really shows you how thosethings look.
Right when they get going.
Yeah.
They go up quick.
Yeah.
I mean, you throw that in your.
If you make the mistake andmarch and throw it out in your fire
pit out back where you roastmarshmallows with the kids.
Throw it out there for a minute.
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Who.
You could have 25 or 30 foothigh flames coming off that torch.
Yeah.
It's bonfire city, man.
Yeah, it's awesome.
I used to start bonfires.
Yeah, they're great.
Yeah.
I'll tell you what, I do haveone quick story I'll tell.
I had to.
I was in high school, so thiswas all good, but the church group
that I was helping out withthat my parents had me going to to
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become a better person, endedup wanting a bonfire.
How big can I make it?
Well, make it worthwhile.
Make it big.
So I knew some guys that had awarehouse and they had a, like a
semi truck full of extrapallets that they were trying to
get rid of.
So I had to come over there.
So we had a pallet fire.
We had that thing stacked up.
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They come out there and go,wow, that's big.
Like.
Yeah.
I had probably a semi truckand a half of pallets out there.
I mean, it was 16ft high.
So what did I do?
I.
As a kid, not really thinking.
I had gasoline poured aroundthe outside of that and inside of
it.
And had an old Christmas treethat I got in for my buddy's backyard
from his house out there, litthat thing on fire.
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And the fire department in thenext town across the river reported
the fire up on the hill.
Oh, man.
Nice.
So kind of got in a little trouble.
I think they gave the church ahall pass on that one, but I don't
think there was a fine.
But they never let me dobonfires again because I built it
correctly.
Luckily, you were with thechurch, not ten dudes drinking Budweiser.
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Yeah, Heidelberg would havebeen a different story for sure.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But anyway, not to digresshere, these are things we ought to
be a little careful with.
But to circle back aroundinside, sometimes adding those natural
touches like that tree or pinecones or some of that stuff, you
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know, be a little careful withthe garland on the stairs because
if Grandma and your aunt wantto go upstairs over the holidays
and check out upstairs, thosecan kind of hinder their movement.
When you've got it wrappedaround the banister, maybe keep it
along the bottom of it.
So it's not as much of asafety issue.
You're not taking Grandma orGrandpa out coming up and down the
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stairs.
But be a little thoughtfulwith that.
And to me, depending on yourclimate, be very careful with the
wreath on the front door.
Because if you're in a warmerclimate, I've had wasp nests getting
those things.
And you open the door, they'recoming into your house.
So be a tad bit careful with that.
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So over here in my neck of thewoods, it's always so wet.
That's not a chance.
And it's cold, so it's notreally an issue.
But other parts of thecountry, I've heard that can be an
issue.
So be a little careful with that.
Never met a wasp wreath.
Yeah, same.
But I've had.
I've had it come at Eastern Washington.
I did have that happen onetime to me, where they were living
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in it and it was just warmenough, got out and I was like, oof,
not good.
So now, one way to keep thefamily away.
You know, you got an option there.
You got an option there.
That actually isn't a bad wayto go.
Except then they're cominginto my house.
So then I gotta go chase themaround inside the house and they're.
And it's warm.
So now they're kind of got alittle extra skip in Their step.
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Welcome back to the around theHouse show.
Your trusted source from HomeImprovement Information, I'm Eric
G. And we got Johnny D. And Ihave been sitting here talking about
Christmas decorating, holiday decorating.
I'm sorry, I'm very much thewalk through the, the grocery store
line and say, merry Christmas,happy Hanukkah, whatever it is to
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people versus the happy Holidays.
I think I'm just scarred fromthe happy holidays thing.
Johnny, you know you can't say this.
No, man, whatever your jam is,I respect it.
But I don't play the, yeah, Idon't play the holidays game much
on that.
I just don't like it.
I legit never understood like,how somebody could be offended or
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bothered by me saying Merry Christmas.
Like, how is what?
Like, yeah, are you that sensitive?
How do you put your shoes onin the morning?
Yeah, yeah, man.
I agree, I agree.
It's like, hey, if Hanukkah isyour jam, awesome.
A lot of my Jewish friends,they have Christmas trees too because
they're trying to get the bestof all worlds there, you know?
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Yeah.
I mean, honestly, I, I can'timagine anybody saying, you know,
happy Hanukkah to me and mebeing like, how dare.
Like, it's like cluster, Comeon, you know, so silly.
Humans, humans, people wishingyou well.
Take it, enjoy it.
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Be happy.
They did.
All right, rant over.
Let's get back to theChristmas stuff here and the holiday
stuff.
But you know, the thing is, iswhen you're decorating, there's so
many cool things out there.
You know, I was just showingbetween the segments here on the
commercial break, I was justshowing John Johnny here the, the
new kind of snap overpolyester covers you can put over
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your garage door now.
And it's so cool.
You used to have to do thatprojector, but the projector didn't
work exactly.
It kind of looked, wasn'tPowerful enough, kind of faded and,
and from my age, it remindedme of the bulb that was burning out
on the projector in highschool when they were trying to put
the thing on in class beforethey had TVs in school, but just
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didn't go well.
But they've got some reallycool stuff out there.
The, the blow up toys outthere where you got the big Santas
and the big reindeers and stuff.
Those are cool.
They get obnoxious when it'swindy, so you kind of need to think
about your climate with thosebecause if you got the wind, they
start jumping around andbouncing off the neighbor's cars
and all that other stuff.
And that's not good.
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But to me, interior design,exterior design, even with the holidays,
is always about kind ofbalance and scale and creating focal
points no matter what you'redoing out there.
You know, if you're going tohave the biggest manger set out there,
awesome, that's your focal point.
But you can have too much junkoutside and it looks just kind of
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haphazard versus somethingthat people go by and go, wow, tastefully
done.
Yeah.
And I'm a, I'm a crossoverdepending on the year.
Right.
Like some years I like justthe potpourri of just, you know,
more traditional.
Yeah.
Standard, like my grandparentsdid it.
And then other years I getall, you know, modern minimalist
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with it.
Like all white lights and, youknow, red accent or blue accent or
something, you know?
Absolutely.
Now I get that.
And I like them both.
I love that.
Like Nordstrom's.
Very neat, very pristine appeal.
Yep, absolutely.
But I also like the white trash.
You know, wrap the mobile homein a bunch of crazy whatever and
call it Christmas.
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Like, I could go both ways on those.
Yeah, the, the.
I'm gonna.
Since we're on the radio, I'mgonna say it this way.
Like Christmas vacation.
The bathroom's full as he'sdraining the septic out of the, out
of the motorhome into thestorm drain in the street.
Right.
A little more of that Griswoldversus the Clark Griswold.
But you know, it's.
It's all good.
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You know, it's all good.
But really, guys, laddersafety on this stuff.
Be careful.
And again, lighting is cool,but strategically placed lighting
is awesome, too.
I mean, the other thing is ifyou do this right, you can almost
count it as an extra layer ofsecurity lights out there because
you're lighting up thosedarker spaces in the lawn.
If you don't have outside lighting.
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Makes it harder to steal the Bulbs.
It does when they're leds, man.
I tell you what, now you gotto throw the special tool and unsnap
it.
Or.
Or maybe they're even just notreplaceable ones.
But have some fun.
And safety is the key here.
One of the best things ifyou're looking for a present for
your spouse that does theChristmas slates out there is get
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a just really nice solid ladder.
And I'm also Johnny, the guythat goes down to my hardware store
that has tool rental and I'vedone this a couple times.
Park Rose Hardware is my guysdown here that I use.
But I go down to their toolrental and they got a really cool
skylift.
For a couple hundred bucks, Ican rent that and not have to get
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on the ladder.
I can back it up in thetrailer, put the forearms down, lift
it up, you know, and it's gotthe alien look and you can jump on
the basket and it makes it soeasy when those things have a 40
pound reach, I mean a 40 footreach, to get out there and do the
whole front of the house andnot have to move it and then take
it back.
And you look like a rock starin your neighborhood as well.
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I was just gonna say you'regoing full luxury now.
Now you're talking about like,dude, I'd.
Much rather do business life.
Yeah, okay.
It's a little bougie, but Itell you what, it's a little.
A little bougie.
A little.
Yeah, yeah.
And now on the edge of the.
Roof and lean over.
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Done that too.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't like playing Supermanup there.
When you got a 912 pitchthough, and you're leaning head first
down, that's not a comfortablefeeling to me.
Whatever it takes to justifyyour sky lift, I think you're over
the top with that one.
All right, Heckle fish.
I get it.
Bringing in GLGs.
Absolutely.
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But you know, it does work though.
It does work.
And it's one of those thingsthat I really enjoy because it's
fun to get up there.
Your neighbor's drive by andgo, what the heck is he doing there?
And then the Christmas lightsare up in like 20 minutes.
Takes you longer to set it upthan it does to get up there and
do it.
But.
But then here's my reckless part.
I'm the guy too that makessure I tape the things together.
So when I want to pull themdown, I just grab and yank them down
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off the.
And let the gutter clips flywith it and they come down way Easier
than they go up.
Yeah.
Great.
There are some clips outthere, guys, and I've tried these
and they don't work.
They don't.
There are these clips that youcan put on like an end of a pole,
like a, like a painter's pole,for instance.
You can get pretty tall, oneof those, and then they clip into
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the clip and you can actuallyput them on there.
It doesn't work.
Sounds like it doesn't work.
Yeah, I mean, you're 16ft up,you're trying to set stuff up and
trying to click clips onto a gutter.
It just doesn't work.
So either a ladder or it'severything else or a lift.
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Go back to the high lift.
But just make sure you shareit with like four other neighbors.
How about that?
There you go.
That's not a bad way to go.
Good.
Yeah.
If you spend four other neighbors.
Yeah, Y' all pick a Sunday andthen, you know.
Yeah.
Now the last thing that I loveto do, and this is something I did
with my kids years ago, andthis might be a good one if you live
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anywhere close to themountains within an hour or two.
I got up with my daughterprobably a decade ago with my neighbor,
jumped in our trucks and droveall the way up to Mount Hood from
us, which is like an hour anda half.
Went up there into a skiresort parking lot that was closed
and shoveled in all the snowwe can end up getting.
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The back of our trucks camedown and piled it in our front yard.
Now, we didn't have any snow.
You know, it's 45 degrees likeit is in Portland in the wintertime.
We didn't have any snow.
But when you have a four foothigh pile of snow in your yard and
you get a neighborhoodChristmas Day snowball fight.
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Nice.
It was the popular thing in town.
Now the funny thing is, yearslater, I go back on Google Maps to
find my house and there's atwo foot pile of snow on Google where
the car had driven by.
And I'm like, there's the snow pile.
That's awesome.
Oh, that's awesome.
Super cool.
And man, you're having anotherparty out there.
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I love it, dude.
Bunch of fireworks.
My dogs are going crazy.
Luckily, our time is justabout up.
I apologize.
It's live radio and it's real here.
It is, it is, it is.
And we don't take that stuffout because it's just reality of
life.
So I love it.
Sterile.
No, it's all good.
It's all good.
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That's why we do it this way.
We do it this way becausewe're having fun.
And, and guys, you know, now Ijust want to say this as we go out
here for the last segment ofthe show.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
Be kind to your neighbor.
Pray for patience with your family.
They're going to push yourbuttons, you're going to push theirs.
The bigger the family, themore the.
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The more the potpourri of, ofthings they want to talk about.
You know, jabs being taken.
Absolutely.
And like I said in the firstsegment, invite those friends over
for Thanksgiving.
Enjoy the holiday season.
This is what it's all about.
And I think with all that'sgoing on in the world out there,
if we could just be a littlemore loving to our neighbor, no matter
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what they believe in, nomatter their political stance, let's
put that side away over theholidays and just be good humans
to each other.
And I think we're going to beall in a better spot.
Sure.
Be nice.
Let's do that.
Let's do it.
All right, Johnny, good totalk today, buddy.
I mean, this is awesome havingyou on for the holiday show like
this and talking Thanksgiving.
Talking a little turkey and alittle Christmas decorating.
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Love it, brother.
Always a great time, man.
Good to see you.
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Thanks for joining us today.
Johnny Dudley and I aresitting here and I'm Eric G. We're
sitting here talking Christmasholidays today, kids.
Johnny, my thing is onThanksgiving, my goal, if I timed
everything right, is afterdinner is when I turn the lights
on.
That's the earliest.
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Yeah.
As a crazy guy that I'll do,I'm like, ah, Thanksgiving, its own
holiday.
Once dinner's done and we'recleaned up, then I can go flick on
the Christmas lights and say,okay, we're good.
No, I like that.
Standard procedure.
That's how it should be.
Yep.
How it should be.
And there's all thesedecorating tips.
And quite frankly, I.
This is probably the biggesttime of year that I get electrical
(02:30):
questions is from Christmasback to Thanksgiving.
That's the thing.
Because people are plugginginto things and outlets that maybe
they haven't used in a yearand wondering what went wrong.
Plugging seven things into one outlet.
Yeah.
First off, I want to give yousome quick nuggets out there.
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If you have a house builtprobably after the 70s or even 80s,
depending on where you'relocated, those outside outlets have
a gfci, which is a groundfault circuit interrupter.
There's a little outlet.
So you see where they have thetest and the reset on them.
Keep in mind.
Yeah.
And the red.
Those have a lifespan of about10 years before they start to wear
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out and trip early.
That's one issue.
But two.
I'll get two dozen questionsand always go like this.
Hey, Eric.
I ended up plugging on myChristmas lights and after having
them up for a week or 10 daysnow, there's no power to the outlet.
What happened?
Man, it is always that GFCIcould be the fuse in the first string
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of lights, but when theoutlet's just non existent, that
means you clicked that.
And so many people don'tunderstand where that is.
And it could be in funky places.
Many times in newer homesBrother, it's right behind Murphy's
losses, behind therefrigerator in the garage, which
to be honest, that outlet'snot really even designed to plug
a refrigerator into it.
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But that's usually that onethat's high that people plug into
because there's a handful ofoutlets in the garage.
Now, my last house was goofy.
The backyard GFCI outlet wasin the front powder room.
Wow.
Okay.
So when I first moved into thehouse, I was running a table saw,
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I think, and a chop saw orsomething out there off of and clicked
it.
It was old and tired.
I spent like a half hour goingaround looking for it.
I'm like, oh, it can't be inthat other side of the house.
Wow.
It was up there.
It was the last one I checked.
I better check that front bathroom.
Just sure enough, there it was.
Thanks a lot, Mr. Larkin.
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Yeah, it was just like, areyou kidding me?
And so that's the thing you're into.
And it's funny, but where isthat GFCI outlet?
And it's.
And if it's a decade older,might be smart just to throw another
one in it.
And the other issue with newerhomes is you've got the arc fault
stuff.
And the arc fault stuff reallysets off.
Those are those new breakers,Johnny, since you've left here that
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have been common.
And man, electric motors,especially the early ones of those,
you turn on a table saw, youturn on something there.
Those things love to just goboom and click off.
So that's the first place on that.
And the second tip I want togive you, we have more in the show
to give you.
But the second one I just wantto give out there is never ever run
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that power cord underneath thegarage door where you're pinching
it.
Then everybody does it.
And I remember when I was inmy 20s, one of my dad's good friends
ended up having his three cargarage with his hot rods in it.
He burnt the thing downbecause he ran the Christmas lights
underneath it.
And it just kept karatechopping it broke down the cord,
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whatever the extension cordwas underneath it.
It just couldn't take thepressure of that hitting it every
time on the concrete.
Sure enough, shorted it, Boom.
Burnt the garage down in the house.
Lost three cars that weren'tinsured because they were in for
the holidays.
So just be really careful withthat stuff.
And the same goes for usingthat little screw in to plug into
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a light fixture outside to it.
Have the electrician come over.
And my biggest tip on this iswhen you have the electrician coming
over for the next remodel,you're adding a generator or whatever.
Just have them throw another20amp circuit up in the soffit or
eaves.
So you could plug it in andthen you could run a timer off of
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that whatever and you're goodto go.
Makes it so simple.
Yeah, it's just a smart idea.
You'll use it every time.
Every time.
Heck, you could be on the roofdoing some work up there and you
got a plug in right underneath.
That's what I'm saying.
You'll use it.
You'll use it for things inthe yard, you'll use it on the roof,
you use it for the lights.
It's just 20amp never hurts.
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A great thing to have and it'sjust handy.
And nowadays too you can getthose plugs that work really well
that they just plug in andthey're oh like a 12 inch cord but
they have the Lutron superwaterproof basically remote outlet
in it.
So it plugs in, you hook it upinto your Lutron system on the phone
and basically it's a smart switch.
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So you can literally jump onyour Lutron app and click on there
and go boom.
Okay, I want this to turn on45 minutes before sunset and I want
it to turn off at 2 in the morning.
Or if you want to get up whenyou're going to work in the dark
and have your Christmas lightson, have it come on 15 minutes up
after sunrise and you haverunning all light.
So it's a cool way to go andit saves you electricity and you
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don't have some sketchy timerin a plastic bag that shouldn't be
outside anyway trying to makeit work.
Who would do that?
You and me.
I guarantee you and I haveboth done that.
I've done it more than twice.
More than twice.
Absolutely, absolutely.
So those are some of the bigones just right off the bat that
just on the safety side we'regoing to talk a lot about decorating
(07:53):
stuff, which I know Johnnyisn't your cup of tea, but I want
to hear your comments on someof this stuff because it's always
colorful.
You're not the decorator.
I like lights, but thedecorations, eh, not so much.
I was joking.
We were at.
Oh, we were at.
My friend, my friend.
I have a great relationshiphere in Portland with my friends
over at Park Rose Hardware.
Those guys, we get along great.
I love their tool rental butthey had that 20 foot blow up snowman
(08:17):
in there for sale for a fewhundred bucks and I was in there
with my girlfriend.
I looked over at her, I went,you know what we could do?
You think we'd make the HOAmad if we put that in the front yard?
She just, we got to get out of here.
She did not want me messingwith the HOA on that one, but I thought
that would be fun.
Here's my experiences with thedecoration portion.
I'm the guy that either stealsor stabs that snowman.
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Okay.
You're not 17 anymore or 27.
I'm the guy that went runningout of the shopping mall with the
giant wicker reindeer andshoved in my buddy Mark's car when
I was 15.
Yeah, I like decorations.
Yeah, I get that.
I get that derelict.
I love it.
Yeah, Somebody had to.
They were just sitting thereall alone.
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Poor kids.
Poor kids.
Exactly.
Here's the thing what I say,and we see this, especially when
it comes to outside.
I love the people that go justabsolutely bat crazy on outside decorations.
My buddy, Scotty Hammond, Ithink you've met him once or twice
before.
He lives down in California.
His neighbor across the streetis the guy that you'll see probably
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on this season's, like onChristmas Eve, they run the on like
abc.
It's like the best Christmaslight display in the country.
And whoever wins $50,000, Ithink you'll be on this year's.
But you can't see the house.
There's probably 30,000decorations in the front.
Wow, there's those people.
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And thank God to LED lightsbecause a lot of those guys were
putting in three phaseelectric just to run their Christmas
light display.
And having 600amp panelsbefore, now they've got it where,
you know, they can at leastdial it back a bit with LEDs.
But I appreciate those peoplethat in September start putting their
Christmas display up becauseit takes them three months to do
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it.
And they're fun.
A lot of those folks too, right?
It's like.
It's like an amusement park.
Like, they want people to comeright around the yard, check it all
out.
Like, I used to love that whenI was a kid, man.
Absolutely.
Hey, we're gonna have to goout to break, brother.
When we do, let's go back andcontinue this discussion with this
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Satchel from Steel Panther.
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home improvement information.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm Eric G. I've been sittinghere talking to Johnny about this
reindeer theft that weuncovered here of retail stuff that
HS brought and I had to lookit up, brother.
In Santa Clara, California,where this happened.
Good news, looking at AImisdemeanor retail theft.
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Now, this isn't a livereindeer, so let's go into this.
Statute of limitations is one year.
So you're good.
Okay.
Now if that was felony theft,I don't think you had a thousand
dollars worth of wickerreindeers under your arm.
Let's be honest, no.
Only two.
So for Dancer and Prancer,that's only three years.
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But if reindeer I think wereinvolved, it probably would have
five or six of Rudolph, for instance.
But I think with those two,you're good.
So, yeah, it's been 30 years.
40 years.
So I think you're low level reindeer.
Low level reindeer theft, Exactly.
Oh, I feel much better.
I'll sleep better, I'm sure.
See, there we go.
For 40 years.
All right, so back to decorating.
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I like you.
I loved my parents jumping inthe station wagon, driving around
and taking a look at thosehomes or where the people just went
absolutely crazy.
And it's fun.
It's very much NationalLampoon's Christmas vacation.
Totally.
And a little trip, trip trickand tip.
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Let me say that correctly for this.
If you're up on the laddertrying to recreate the Christmas
vacation, get that lock up,lockjaw ladder grip so you can tie
it to the ladder.
Doesn't go backwards.
And that way you don't sendthings through the neighbor's window
and all that other stuff,you're good to go.
Although there's someexcitement to be had.
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Yeah, absolutely.
It's funny too.
Now there's people that canget those low end, like FM signal,
like you see for realtors,where you drive by and you could
actually listen to the description.
I see people now.
You drive by, Please tune to88.2 or whatever and you can listen
to whatever they had set at.
You can listen to Christmasmusic when you drive by their house.
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Wow, that's good for 100ft.
Work a little bit.
Yeah, it gets pretty crazy.
I like it, though.
It's one of those things.
But no, it's spirited, man.
It makes it a happy holiday.
It's fun.
See, I am the old school decorator.
I'm the one that outside, Idon't like the icicle lights as much,
but I do the old, like, C7, C9bulbs that look like they're incandescents.
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So do I, because that's whatmy grandma and grandpa had.
So that was always Christmasto me.
Yeah.
And if you steal a few ofthem, they make a really loud pop
in the street when you throwthem high up in the air.
Yeah.
And the other thing with that is.
Yeah, so you've heard.
Allegedly.
So when those wereincandescent bulbs.
Nowadays they've got them inthe plastic.
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So they're LEDs, and so you're not.
I mean, they made a good snowmelt on the ice.
They did.
They did knock out the ice inthe gutters pretty quickly because
they put on enough heat.
Oh, yeah, dude.
Yeah.
You had to wear gloves oryou'd burn the crap out of your hand.
Getting absolutely up thereputting up oven gloves.
And one of my tricks too, onthat, by the way, guys, is LEDs.
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You can put a lot together.
But my secret here is I likebuying the big rolls.
You can buy those rolls of250ft at the store now instead of
having to plug them in.
But here's the problem.
I have had some serious issueswith those things lasting more than
just a couple years.
These days you buy them and,man, if I get more than two years
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out of them.
And now the crazy thing is,though, I see people out there that
are putting these up andleaving them up all year round.
Yeah.
And that is lamp cord that isnot designed to be out there more
than a couple cold months.
Even in California, if it'ssummertime still and it feels like
it is still 70, 80 degrees,it's meant for 30, 45 days out there.
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Yeah.
There's no way that even thesun is damaging.
Yeah, the sun's doing damageto those things.
They are fragile.
They're built cheap.
They are.
I don't care if you're buyinga GE brand or you're buying the off
brand.
And even just the way you wrapthem up and roll them up and you
beat them, you're breaking onewire loose and then the next wire
loose, and it's all interior.
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You don't see it.
You think they should be Fine.
But for some reason the lights stop.
Mid cord.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Broke something.
It broke something.
And then that connection couldstart coming back together.
Maybe there's a strand or two there.
And all of a sudden you got aheat source.
And now you can have a problem.
Wiggle it.
Yeah, you wiggle it.
Then you cut it open.
Then you electrical tape it.
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Then you wrap it in a plasticbag and leave it out in the snow.
Leave it out in the side.
Yeah.
And then one wire is shorterthan the other ones.
So it's all a little wonky,you know, it just never works.
Never works.
Those are throwaways, guys.
And I've only seen that stuffon movies.
I don't know.
Yeah, but that's how it goes.
It's.
And so anyway, I've gotten tothe point now that I don't buy the
expensive ones, at least in my experience.
I just buy the reasonablypriced ones at the home centers.
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Yeah.
And to me, the worst ones arelike on Amazon because they'll sit
there and say they got a ULstamp on it.
But I just about guaranteethat a lot of those don't.
Aren't UL listed.
Just the Chinese manufacturersputting a UL stamp on it going, yep,
they're good to go.
And they're probably not.
So be careful with where youget those sourced.
And don't leave them up allyear round.
Cause then they're just throwaways.
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They're not designed to be upthere a year, period.
Yeah.
And pack them away carefully.
That's my issue.
Right.
I'm like, I'm done with theseand I shove them all in one bag and
then I drag them out the nextyear and they're all caught.
Tangled with each other.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
For some reason they don't work.
And plug them in before youget up on the 30 foot extension ladder.
Plug them in, test them, makesure they work, move them around,
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make sure you don't have anyof those loose connections.
That's a big one there.
And the other thing I do is.
This is what I do is Iactually duct tape on the inside,
put them in totes, Right.
You buy them, you got all theextra pieces and parts.
I rip those off and I know thetote it's going into and I duct tape
a plastic bag on the inside,like a Ziploc, and I throw them all
in there and zip them up.
Because otherwise they'rekicking around the garage, the shop.
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During the toolbox, whatChristmas light set did this little
tiny fuse that's the size of Agrain of rice.
Go to.
Yeah, that's some Smartthinking there, Mr. Goranson.
I know.
I think it's.
I've thrown enough away going,I know where this fuse is.
I don't know what it is.
And trying to come up with abetter way to do it.
Yeah.
And it works.
Makes sense.
And it works.
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So the next thing here, too,guys, is when you're decorating and
you're just trying to dosomething classy and cool.
Spend the time and come upwith a theme.
Try to come up with somethingthat's going to tie in inside, outside.
If you like white and blue, towhite and blue.
If you like colors, do that.
But make those play together.
It's going to give you abetter overall look.
If you want the classic look.
And you're going to throw theleg lamp from Christmas Story up
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on the table in the livingroom, make it look like it's a 1940s
Christmas decoration or 50s,have some fun with it.
But sometimes the eclectic.
You can tell how people's last10 years of purchases have gone by
the age of the stuff that'sout in the lawn because you get the
stupid plastic cleanup thingthat's 10 years old, that's maybe
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on its last leg to the newvideo thing that's on the front garage
door.
It can look a little haphazardat times.
I think that slowly happens asthe children age.
Right.
Like, yeah, they're three andyou buy all this new stuff, and then
they're five and it's still cool.
And then they're seven.
They're like, we don't really care.
Yeah.
So absolutely.
Then the parents.
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A little shaggy and Santa'slosing some hair.
Yep.
And I'm sorry, I love theChristmas nativity in the front yard,
but the chance of somebodysnagging that and doing something
bad with it is probably highthese days in most areas.
Yeah.
It's a shame.
We could joke about messingwith reindeer, but let's leave that
one alone.
Let's leave the religion.
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Yeah, yeah.
There's bad.
We all gotta have ourboundaries there.
Let's not do that.
Let's not steal a couplereindeer, bust a couple of lights
in the street.
That's one thing.
But don't mess with the manger.
Yeah.
Just leave it alone.
Leave it alone.
They had enough hard time.
They couldn't even get the endthat night.
So actually, I'm going to tellthe story when I come back because
it was the funniest thing Isaw on YouTube here last week, actually.
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It was on Instagram.
And it was a kid making asnowman and he was mad about a truck
going up and driving acrosshis lawn and taking his snowman out
every day.
So he got the ultimate laugh.
We'll talk about that just a second.
Soon as around the House returns.
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Welcome back to the around theHouse show.
Your trusted source for homeimprovement information, I'm Eric
G. And we got John Dudleysitting here.
We were just talking aboutChristmas decorating since, you know,
after Thanksgiving is full.
Full on season for me.
But I was just telling a storywhen I went out to break about this
kid that had the ultimatelaugh for a guy that was driving
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his truck up in the snow andrunning over his snowman in the front
yard.
The kid just moved it a littlebit towards the street.
He went over where the firehydrant was and built the snowman
around it.
And this dude comes throughthere and it was on camera with his
Suburban and hits it at about20 miles an hour.
It hits the fire hydrant.
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Now, kids, this was gorgeous.
Now here's the thing.
I don't want the firedepartment have to be poking around
everybody's snowman lookingfor the fire hydrant when your house
is burning down because daddidn't do the Christmas lights.
Right.
But I like your point of thiskind of funny.
I'll give you.
I'll give you a solid 10 forform on that.
For sure.
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Yeah, No, I said, I said put abig rock in the base.
But fire hydrant is definitely.
He one upped me there.
You got me.
That was solid.
I was like, oh.
And it, you know, and it justbroke it over.
Lifted the front of the truckup and it was low, freezing, and
the water was sprayingeverywhere, all up underneath, which
means that's going to be onebig ice bomb.
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And now it looked like it wasstuck up on it.
So now you got to call theauthorities and the water department
and the fire department andeverybody else.
And you're looking like the.
The animal sitting thererunning over kids.
Snowman.
It hit the fire hydrant, soway to go, jackass.
In a truck, I'd have put a canof red paint in the head as well.
Been good, right?
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I like that big old can of red paint.
Saran Wrap over the top of itso you make sure it doesn't hit the
can wrong.
Repaint his.
Repaint his hood for him andwash his undercarriage.
Oh, you're marked.
You're marked.
I like it.
I like it.
That's a good one.
So here's the thing, guys, toobe really careful around this time
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of year with candles.
You know, candles are interesting.
I love them in the windows,but, man, there are some good LED
options out there for that.
So you don't burn the house down.
It's always a concern of mine.
You know, my amazinggirlfriend loves candles.
Just candles every night.
But I tell you what, there isalso an indoor air quality issue
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with them because you can seewhat they call ghosting on the studs
if you have too many candlesgoing, Especially with a nice, tight
house, you'll see every studin the wall because that temperature
difference will grab that andthe soot stays there.
So you'll be doing a lot morecleaning and things like that this
time of year if you've got anice tight house.
So it's a big deal.
Be careful.
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And then the other thing Ijust want to mention too, because
we see this a lot with space heaters.
People trying to plug thespace heaters into electrical cords.
In the wintertime, way toomany office buildings and houses
burned down, especially inattic areas where they've got, you
know, bedroom up there, notenough insulation.
Somebody plugs in two lampcords into the space heater and they
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burn the place down.
So not to be negative here,let's just be a little common knowledge
on this stuff.
And don't use extension cordswith space heaters and plug them
into the outlet and not intosomething else.
We've all done it, but let'snot play.
Yeah, that's why I'm beingquiet over here.
Yep, guilty as charged.
Now here's the thing, too.
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I'm.
I'm excited for this Christmasfor me because I get to go out and
do a natural tree.
My previous administrationwill say was not a natural tree person
because one of her kids wasallergic and we couldn't do that.
I get it.
I respect that.
But I'm gonna go out and do the.
The natural cutting tree,which is fun.
Now I'm gonna cheat a littlebit because I'm gonna take my Milwaukee
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Sawzall with the battery andthe tree cutting blade on it.
Oh, man.
So I'm not laying down in themud cutting.
I can just reach down.
The fun out of it.
You're supposed to come homemuddy and wet and freezing.
You know, a couple of cuts onyour hand from using the handsaw.
Dude, I got a torn rotatorcuff on my left shoulder.
Ah, yeah.
Okay.
I gotta play it a little safethis year, but you know what I mean?
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I mean, that's.
That, to me, is fun.
I'd much rather do that thango down to my home center and grab
something off.
The trees have been cut twomonths ago that are sitting in their.
In their outdoor service area there.
No, it's way cooler.
Making a day out of it andgoing out there.
Yeah.
Getting in the nature andactually hacking the thing.
Yeah.
I mean, you go up in the woodsand do it and get your.
Your forestry permit to do itthat way around my neighborhood here
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I can go within 10 minutes andthere's probably three Christmas
tree farms, which is kind of cool.
So I can go out there, earnedit, you know.
Right.
Like catching a fish.
Yeah, it's way cool.
And you know how fresh it isbecause you're the one that cut it.
Some of that other stuff wascut, you know, weeks ago.
I'm already seeing Christmasstands get set up here and it's not
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Thanksgiving yet.
And it's like, okay.
By the time those things showup there and it's supposed to last
through, you know, you gottrees that are supposed to last two
months.
You can't throw enough waterat those to make that last in most
areas.
Fire hazards.
Okay.
Johnny, how many times you lita Christmas tree on fire after it's
out of the house and when it'sout back?
Been sitting outside yourhouse for four months.
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Oh, lots.
Yeah.
It really shows you how thosethings look.
Right when they get going.
Yeah.
They go up quick.
Yeah.
I mean, you throw that in your.
If you make the mistake andmarch and throw it out in your fire
pit out back where you roastmarshmallows with the kids.
Throw it out there for a minute.
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Who.
You could have 25 or 30 foothigh flames coming off that torch.
Yeah.
It's bonfire city, man.
Yeah, it's awesome.
I used to start bonfires.
Yeah, they're great.
Yeah.
I'll tell you what, I do haveone quick story I'll tell.
I had to.
I was in high school, so thiswas all good, but the church group
that I was helping out withthat my parents had me going to to
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become a better person, endedup wanting a bonfire.
How big can I make it?
Well, make it worthwhile.
Make it big.
So I knew some guys that had awarehouse and they had a, like a
semi truck full of extrapallets that they were trying to
get rid of.
So I had to come over there.
So we had a pallet fire.
We had that thing stacked up.
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They come out there and go,wow, that's big.
Like.
Yeah.
I had probably a semi truckand a half of pallets out there.
I mean, it was 16ft high.
So what did I do?
I.
As a kid, not really thinking.
I had gasoline poured aroundthe outside of that and inside of
it.
And had an old Christmas treethat I got in for my buddy's backyard
from his house out there, litthat thing on fire.
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And the fire department in thenext town across the river reported
the fire up on the hill.
Oh, man.
Nice.
So kind of got in a little trouble.
I think they gave the church ahall pass on that one, but I don't
think there was a fine.
But they never let me dobonfires again because I built it
correctly.
Luckily, you were with thechurch, not ten dudes drinking Budweiser.
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Yeah, Heidelberg would havebeen a different story for sure.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But anyway, not to digresshere, these are things we ought to
be a little careful with.
But to circle back aroundinside, sometimes adding those natural
touches like that tree or pinecones or some of that stuff, you
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know, be a little careful withthe garland on the stairs because
if Grandma and your aunt wantto go upstairs over the holidays
and check out upstairs, thosecan kind of hinder their movement.
When you've got it wrappedaround the banister, maybe keep it
along the bottom of it.
So it's not as much of asafety issue.
You're not taking Grandma orGrandpa out coming up and down the
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stairs.
But be a little thoughtfulwith that.
And to me, depending on yourclimate, be very careful with the
wreath on the front door.
Because if you're in a warmerclimate, I've had wasp nests getting
those things.
And you open the door, they'recoming into your house.
So be a tad bit careful with that.
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So over here in my neck of thewoods, it's always so wet.
That's not a chance.
And it's cold, so it's notreally an issue.
But other parts of thecountry, I've heard that can be an
issue.
So be a little careful with that.
Never met a wasp wreath.
Yeah, same.
But I've had.
I've had it come at Eastern Washington.
I did have that happen onetime to me, where they were living
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in it and it was just warmenough, got out and I was like, oof,
not good.
So now, one way to keep thefamily away.
You know, you got an option there.
You got an option there.
That actually isn't a bad wayto go.
Except then they're cominginto my house.
So then I gotta go chase themaround inside the house and they're.
And it's warm.
So now they're kind of got alittle extra skip in Their step.
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Welcome back to the around theHouse show.
Your trusted source from HomeImprovement Information, I'm Eric
G. And we got Johnny D. And Ihave been sitting here talking about
Christmas decorating, holiday decorating.
I'm sorry, I'm very much thewalk through the, the grocery store
line and say, merry Christmas,happy Hanukkah, whatever it is to
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people versus the happy Holidays.
I think I'm just scarred fromthe happy holidays thing.
Johnny, you know you can't say this.
No, man, whatever your jam is,I respect it.
But I don't play the, yeah, Idon't play the holidays game much
on that.
I just don't like it.
I legit never understood like,how somebody could be offended or
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bothered by me saying Merry Christmas.
Like, how is what?
Like, yeah, are you that sensitive?
How do you put your shoes onin the morning?
Yeah, yeah, man.
I agree, I agree.
It's like, hey, if Hanukkah isyour jam, awesome.
A lot of my Jewish friends,they have Christmas trees too because
they're trying to get the bestof all worlds there, you know?
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Yeah.
I mean, honestly, I, I can'timagine anybody saying, you know,
happy Hanukkah to me and mebeing like, how dare.
Like, it's like cluster, Comeon, you know, so silly.
Humans, humans, people wishingyou well.
Take it, enjoy it.
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Be happy.
They did.
All right, rant over.
Let's get back to theChristmas stuff here and the holiday
stuff.
But you know, the thing is, iswhen you're decorating, there's so
many cool things out there.
You know, I was just showingbetween the segments here on the
commercial break, I was justshowing John Johnny here the, the
new kind of snap overpolyester covers you can put over
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your garage door now.
And it's so cool.
You used to have to do thatprojector, but the projector didn't
work exactly.
It kind of looked, wasn'tPowerful enough, kind of faded and,
and from my age, it remindedme of the bulb that was burning out
on the projector in highschool when they were trying to put
the thing on in class beforethey had TVs in school, but just
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didn't go well.
But they've got some reallycool stuff out there.
The, the blow up toys outthere where you got the big Santas
and the big reindeers and stuff.
Those are cool.
They get obnoxious when it'swindy, so you kind of need to think
about your climate with thosebecause if you got the wind, they
start jumping around andbouncing off the neighbor's cars
and all that other stuff.
And that's not good.
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But to me, interior design,exterior design, even with the holidays,
is always about kind ofbalance and scale and creating focal
points no matter what you'redoing out there.
You know, if you're going tohave the biggest manger set out there,
awesome, that's your focal point.
But you can have too much junkoutside and it looks just kind of
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haphazard versus somethingthat people go by and go, wow, tastefully
done.
Yeah.
And I'm a, I'm a crossoverdepending on the year.
Right.
Like some years I like justthe potpourri of just, you know,
more traditional.
Yeah.
Standard, like my grandparentsdid it.
And then other years I getall, you know, modern minimalist
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with it.
Like all white lights and, youknow, red accent or blue accent or
something, you know?
Absolutely.
Now I get that.
And I like them both.
I love that.
Like Nordstrom's.
Very neat, very pristine appeal.
Yep, absolutely.
But I also like the white trash.
You know, wrap the mobile homein a bunch of crazy whatever and
call it Christmas.
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Like, I could go both ways on those.
Yeah, the, the.
I'm gonna.
Since we're on the radio, I'mgonna say it this way.
Like Christmas vacation.
The bathroom's full as he'sdraining the septic out of the, out
of the motorhome into thestorm drain in the street.
Right.
A little more of that Griswoldversus the Clark Griswold.
But you know, it's.
It's all good.
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You know, it's all good.
But really, guys, laddersafety on this stuff.
Be careful.
And again, lighting is cool,but strategically placed lighting
is awesome, too.
I mean, the other thing is ifyou do this right, you can almost
count it as an extra layer ofsecurity lights out there because
you're lighting up thosedarker spaces in the lawn.
If you don't have outside lighting.
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Makes it harder to steal the Bulbs.
It does when they're leds, man.
I tell you what, now you gotto throw the special tool and unsnap
it.
Or.
Or maybe they're even just notreplaceable ones.
But have some fun.
And safety is the key here.
One of the best things ifyou're looking for a present for
your spouse that does theChristmas slates out there is get
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a just really nice solid ladder.
And I'm also Johnny, the guythat goes down to my hardware store
that has tool rental and I'vedone this a couple times.
Park Rose Hardware is my guysdown here that I use.
But I go down to their toolrental and they got a really cool
skylift.
For a couple hundred bucks, Ican rent that and not have to get
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on the ladder.
I can back it up in thetrailer, put the forearms down, lift
it up, you know, and it's gotthe alien look and you can jump on
the basket and it makes it soeasy when those things have a 40
pound reach, I mean a 40 footreach, to get out there and do the
whole front of the house andnot have to move it and then take
it back.
And you look like a rock starin your neighborhood as well.
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I was just gonna say you'regoing full luxury now.
Now you're talking about like,dude, I'd.
Much rather do business life.
Yeah, okay.
It's a little bougie, but Itell you what, it's a little.
A little bougie.
A little.
Yeah, yeah.
And now on the edge of the.
Roof and lean over.
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Done that too.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't like playing Supermanup there.
When you got a 912 pitchthough, and you're leaning head first
down, that's not a comfortablefeeling to me.
Whatever it takes to justifyyour sky lift, I think you're over
the top with that one.
All right, Heckle fish.
I get it.
Bringing in GLGs.
Absolutely.
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But you know, it does work though.
It does work.
And it's one of those thingsthat I really enjoy because it's
fun to get up there.
Your neighbor's drive by andgo, what the heck is he doing there?
And then the Christmas lightsare up in like 20 minutes.
Takes you longer to set it upthan it does to get up there and
do it.
But.
But then here's my reckless part.
I'm the guy too that makessure I tape the things together.
So when I want to pull themdown, I just grab and yank them down
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off the.
And let the gutter clips flywith it and they come down way Easier
than they go up.
Yeah.
Great.
There are some clips outthere, guys, and I've tried these
and they don't work.
They don't.
There are these clips that youcan put on like an end of a pole,
like a, like a painter's pole,for instance.
You can get pretty tall, oneof those, and then they clip into
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the clip and you can actuallyput them on there.
It doesn't work.
Sounds like it doesn't work.
Yeah, I mean, you're 16ft up,you're trying to set stuff up and
trying to click clips onto a gutter.
It just doesn't work.
So either a ladder or it'severything else or a lift.
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Go back to the high lift.
But just make sure you shareit with like four other neighbors.
How about that?
There you go.
That's not a bad way to go.
Good.
Yeah.
If you spend four other neighbors.
Yeah, Y' all pick a Sunday andthen, you know.
Yeah.
Now the last thing that I loveto do, and this is something I did
with my kids years ago, andthis might be a good one if you live
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anywhere close to themountains within an hour or two.
I got up with my daughterprobably a decade ago with my neighbor,
jumped in our trucks and droveall the way up to Mount Hood from
us, which is like an hour anda half.
Went up there into a skiresort parking lot that was closed
and shoveled in all the snowwe can end up getting.
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The back of our trucks camedown and piled it in our front yard.
Now, we didn't have any snow.
You know, it's 45 degrees likeit is in Portland in the wintertime.
We didn't have any snow.
But when you have a four foothigh pile of snow in your yard and
you get a neighborhoodChristmas Day snowball fight.
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Nice.
It was the popular thing in town.
Now the funny thing is, yearslater, I go back on Google Maps to
find my house and there's atwo foot pile of snow on Google where
the car had driven by.
And I'm like, there's the snow pile.
That's awesome.
Oh, that's awesome.
Super cool.
And man, you're having anotherparty out there.
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I love it, dude.
Bunch of fireworks.
My dogs are going crazy.
Luckily, our time is justabout up.
I apologize.
It's live radio and it's real here.
It is, it is, it is.
And we don't take that stuffout because it's just reality of
life.
So I love it.
Sterile.
No, it's all good.
It's all good.
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That's why we do it this way.
We do it this way becausewe're having fun.
And, and guys, you know, now Ijust want to say this as we go out
here for the last segment ofthe show.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
Be kind to your neighbor.
Pray for patience with your family.
They're going to push yourbuttons, you're going to push theirs.
The bigger the family, themore the.
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The more the potpourri of, ofthings they want to talk about.
You know, jabs being taken.
Absolutely.
And like I said in the firstsegment, invite those friends over
for Thanksgiving.
Enjoy the holiday season.
This is what it's all about.
And I think with all that'sgoing on in the world out there,
if we could just be a littlemore loving to our neighbor, no matter
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what they believe in, nomatter their political stance, let's
put that side away over theholidays and just be good humans
to each other.
And I think we're going to beall in a better spot.
Sure.
Be nice.
Let's do that.
Let's do it.
All right, Johnny, good totalk today, buddy.
I mean, this is awesome havingyou on for the holiday show like
this and talking Thanksgiving.
Talking a little turkey and alittle Christmas decorating.
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Love it, brother.
Always a great time, man.
Good to see you.
I'm Eric G for Johnny Dudley here.
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