Fathers Day Special! Our top 10 gift ideas for DAD!

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[00:00:07] Caroline Blazovsky: cool. So he makes it challenging because his ideas are always so good, but I'm going to shoot it over to new age products.

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[00:00:24] Caroline Blazovsky: No was just for the women. This is a women and the men's gift because we always want to motivate our men to keep that garage.

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[00:00:47] Eric Goranson: And like when it comes to remodeling and renovating your home, there is a lot to know we've got you covered.

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[00:01:11] Caroline Blazovsky: everybody happy almost father's day.

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[00:01:24] Eric Goranson: So I was the top 15 dads and

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[00:01:35] Eric Goranson: So silly

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[00:01:37] Eric Goranson: You.

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[00:01:49] Eric Goranson: Cheers. I'm going to have to sit back and cheers. Exactly. It's one of those things that it's like, I was cool and I beat out Joe Rogan, so I'm okay with that.[00:02:00]

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[00:02:07] Caroline Blazovsky: it's still Rogan. Even Joe Hogan, even a dad. Do we know?

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[00:02:19] Eric Goranson: that's a whole other show. That's a whole other show. Well, we're going to split this up cause you can't. It's our top 10, I came up with five. And you came up with five. So I think this'll be fun. So we're going to start out with my five and what's funny is, is my a five and year five have zero overlap.

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[00:02:42] Caroline Blazovsky: Let me be a good or a bad thing. I don't know for me, but probably like, Eric's more, but we'd like to hear from you. So

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[00:02:58] Eric Goranson: So here's the thing, my [00:03:00] first one on here. This is not like a best one to the worst one. This is just my five that I thought were cool. And this comes from growler work. Okay, so growler and w E R K s.com. They're located not too far from my house, but, uh, these are growlers. And what I like about these is like this one here is copper and it's a 64 ounce copper, basically growler, but you can carbonate with it.

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[00:04:02] Eric Goranson: Low vacuum insulated stainless steel

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[00:04:11] Eric Goranson: Yeah, you can mix anything up inside of this. So you could put some beer in there. You could put some, you know, you could put cocktails, I've even seen people go in and, and, uh, and use wine and stuff in these before for, uh, for this.

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[00:04:30] Caroline Blazovsky: growler and it's a sharp looking product, you know, it's, uh, it looks high end. It's got copper, it's a copper field. The whole thing is copper with copper cups and it's nice.

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[00:04:47] Eric Goranson: And they have a bunch of other stuff out there. So if 180 bucks, 88 bucks is a little bit too rich for you. They have other ones that are super cool as well that you don't have to spend. As much for plus a lot of different [00:05:00] assessors. So that's, what's cool about that. So you can go into their products and they've got a whole bunch of different things out there, but, uh, it looks like they've got a bunch of different stuff.

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[00:05:25] Caroline Blazovsky: spell works.

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[00:05:35] Eric Goranson: You got it. And, uh, none of this, by the way, is the sponsored stuff. These guys don't even know we're talking about them. So, uh, this is just stuff that we've seen, we found and we go, okay, here's something cool.

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[00:05:48] Caroline Blazovsky: father's day gifts. No, one's going to have these we're a little on the cutting edge.

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[00:06:15] Eric Goranson: Cause we don't wanna see anybody get hurt, but uh, you know, use common sense with any, uh, adult beverage as needed. So that's the first one on there. Now here is the one that I have at home that is, I love this thing. And I actually got this from a Jeff Tracy, the cowboy cook over a barbecue nation. He added one of these and I went, this thing is awesome.

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[00:07:08] Caroline Blazovsky: sorry for anybody who likes that thing, it's very cumbersome and it's just annoying.

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[00:07:14] Eric Goranson: So this thing is a stainless steel looks almost like a stainless steel, big nail. And you push it in the side of the stick and what's cool is it has a internal temperature thing. And on the end that you push in has an external temperature. So you can tell what the temperature of what you're cooking is.

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[00:07:56] Eric Goranson: And now it'll tell you what the temperature of the media is, what the temperature [00:08:00] inside the cooking appliances is, whether it's a grill. Whether it's a, you know, oven or whatever, and then it'll give you the estimated time to temperature. So you can now figure out, oh man, I only got 15 minutes. I got to get my side's going and then it'll send you a warning if it gets too hot.

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[00:08:39] Eric Goranson: It'll tell you to pull it off early because it knows that that's going to cook a little bit longer when you pull it off, just have to follow

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[00:08:50] Eric Goranson: It does it sets are, you know, no wires, no nothing. And then it has its own little charging base. You set it on that uses a battery to charge it.

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[00:08:58] Caroline Blazovsky: kitchen [00:09:00] right down on the counter somewhere. Nice.

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[00:09:20] Eric Goranson: So when we come back, let's head out to break here real quick. Since it's that time, we've already blasted through two of mine. We come back. We're going to talk about my next. Which is a little one right there. My next tool we'll do that just as soon as around the house returns.

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[00:09:59] Eric Goranson: Hey, [00:10:00] I'm Rudy Wade. And you're listening to around the house with Eric G and Caroline be listen to my music to improve your home.

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[00:10:29] Caroline Blazovsky: are hard to buy for you guys have everything.

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[00:10:37] Eric Goranson: have. Well, we were just talking last segment about that meter, a meat thermometer, you know, for putting inside the barbecue and stuff. And that's cool, but you're right. She, I, you know, you asked me Carolina, you're like, what's a cost. I'm like, oh, when we were break I'm like, I didn't talk about that.

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[00:11:11] Eric Goranson: So it's almost a self-serving gift. If you come over for steak night.

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[00:11:20] Eric Goranson: number three, number three here. I want to blast through these because we're going to run out of time on my list. So I don't want to blast through this too much, but there is a company for guys that have dad bods versus dad, pods pod. I'm a dead pod. It's called true classic T.

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[00:12:01] Eric Goranson: So it's not just a t-shirt. They actually are. To accentuate the arms and shoulders to make sure you stand out looking good, but they're also soft. And then they, they make them a little bit longer. So they're not like, you know, cutting down on crack. Right? Yeah. You know, you're not having to tie it up, like you're in prison.

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[00:12:49] Eric Goranson: So pretty cool. Not a bad way to go. Can't

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[00:13:08] Caroline Blazovsky: It just doesn't look good on your man. It looks a little from B. So this is like more of a fitted kind of shirt, but still for the guy who isn't got the perfect body, he's got a dead bug.

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[00:13:39] Eric Goranson: So this is the Crescent made by Crescent tools, the bolt biter impact bolt extractor. That's a lot of words,

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[00:13:51] Eric Goranson: is good, you know, and you're ranching on something and the bolt's tight and your round, the head off on it. And now when you put the wrench on it or the [00:14:00] socket it's slips and it's stripped out and you can't get it back on there, they have solved that problem.

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[00:14:18] Caroline Blazovsky: amazing. 'cause that's when you hear the curse words and the bad words come out of people's mouths. When they're trying to get this bolt out, get somebody to come

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[00:14:29] Eric Goranson: That's when the tools start flying, people are throwing things it's never good. So make dad happy by picking up one of these Crescent tools and that's their Crescent bolt, biter. Really cool. It's an awesome tool. You can put it in your impact. Drive. And it is awesome. I mean, it is meant to be used. And if you strip something out, guess what grateful working on DIY projects had come in a little five bits set.[00:15:00]

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[00:15:02] Caroline Blazovsky: sizes sizes.

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[00:15:30] Eric Goranson: And you'll see me wearing these 99% of the time, unless I'm trying to be dressed up because I'm wearing these things. I'm wearing them now. But they look

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[00:15:41] Eric Goranson: keen utility keen, keen. Yeah. Friends with keen men's Cincinnati, six inch high waterproof boot.

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[00:15:52] Caroline Blazovsky: You got some serious cushion going on on the bottom of the.

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[00:16:07] Caroline Blazovsky: It looks good.

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[00:16:16] Eric Goranson: And, uh, we, we kind of, it's a nature park so that it's not like it's some finished park, but there's trails through it. So we're cutting through there and there's a. There's a spring that runs down through there that drops into the lake. And you know, there's four inches of water in it. And Julie's like, the dogs wanted to go in there cause it was nice and warm out.

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[00:16:49] Eric Goranson: And it's like not a big. And on the Pacific Northwest where it's rain and all the time, it's super important. So the most [00:17:00] comfortable moot you're going to find out there. And of course, Keen's got a whole bunch of different stuff, but you know, these are great for that. Dad that's working around. You know, the, the house, you know, and doing that thing.

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[00:17:21] Caroline Blazovsky: Yes. We like that. They make a woman's boot.

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[00:17:34] Caroline Blazovsky: go keen. Thank you Keene for making us women. I got a bit of a, a priority.

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[00:17:41] Eric Goranson: that. They have them, you know, they make them so, and that's, what's cool is that they have boots for the trades. And these are not like many boot companies that make them as well, that are just taking men's boots. They actually designed this around a woman's foot and yes, that is different. [00:18:00] And they've designed it for that.

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[00:18:09] Caroline Blazovsky: Nice. So dads get the Cincinnati, a comfortable boot that you can wear in the water and wear all day long.

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[00:18:30] Eric Goranson: We come back. It's Caroline's turn for top five for a total of 10, and we'll do that. As soon as around the house returns,

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[00:19:11] Eric Goranson: welcome. Back to the round, the house show we've been talking about our father's day gift guide. Now the cool part of this is I just went through my five. Now Caroline is going to do her five and if you've missed it on the radio, don't worry. The podcast we'll have all this, and we'll even include some of the links to the products in the podcast show notes.

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[00:19:40] Caroline Blazovsky: want to recap your five just in case somebody didn't get to.

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[00:19:55] Eric Goranson: Like it's a regular and it stores things much longer cause it's carbonated. So [00:20:00] it's much more friendly for grabbing your favorite adult beverage. And then I had the meter MEA T E R a. That was my meat thermometer. That is a wireless Bluetooth. There is the Crescent tool, bolt biter to take off all those nuts and bolts that are stripped out.

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[00:20:38] Caroline Blazovsky: Very cool. So he makes it challenging because his ideas are always so good, but I'm going to shoot it over to new age products.

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[00:20:47] Eric Goranson: well, this sounds like some wild, like new age products. Are we like putting crystals in the bedroom and then the garage or whatever, you know, sorry,

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[00:21:05] Caroline Blazovsky: I do. So I think this is a great way to use modular designs and to make a really cool custom storage solution. So they have all kinds of amazing storage for tools and bolts and things that are just sort of thrown around in my house. You know, I'll walk over and there's a bolt here and some kind of concoction here.

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[00:21:35] Eric Goranson: I mean, this is, um, new age products. Pretty cool. I like this. There's a lot of good ideas here at any time that you can do something to help organize and store things safe.

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[00:21:51] Caroline Blazovsky: And what's nice. Is it gives you like a flush Mount. If you look at their storage for a garage, right? You'll see just this very clean cut lines and drawers and closet [00:22:00] space, but it's all organized underneath. So when you walk in, you don't see you a drill here, you know, uh, a saw or whatever, just laying out.

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[00:22:12] Eric Goranson: What I like too is they have flooring, they have storage, they have lots of different stuff that you can put down. That'll, uh, keep the place clean, keep it looking good and dress it up a little bit too.

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[00:22:32] Caroline Blazovsky: right. But yeah, it's kind of like women. We have our California closets. We have like to design our closet. This is for the man to get. Pad, you know, the garage has sort of, the man gave sometimes, so get it all organized.

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[00:23:01] Caroline Blazovsky: So if you've got a lot of these things going around, you might need a good shoe rack. So there's a couple options that

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[00:23:18] Caroline Blazovsky: So then you need, th this is best it's the container store has it. It's the Chrome rolling shoe rack. It's about $60 misses a big rack. So this can put all of your shoes. If you have boots or higher sized things. Cause sometimes these racks, you try to put a shoe in and they don't fit. This is designed for you, Eric.

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[00:23:50] Caroline Blazovsky: Um, it's an over the door shoe rack. So, you know, you can tell them that's not going to work in your garage because you've

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[00:24:16] Eric Goranson: Yeah, absolutely. Hey, one thing too, I wanted to go back on your new age, by the way you guys out there looking at barbecue stuff, they have a whole barbecue outdoor section, too.

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[00:24:43] Eric Goranson: Right, right. Where you take them.

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[00:24:57] Eric Goranson: Perfect. That's a good one.[00:25:00]

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[00:25:01] Caroline Blazovsky: do number three or should we

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[00:25:14] Caroline Blazovsky: talking three of my five because Eric did five previously.

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[00:25:37] Eric Goranson: Um, first off. I'm a little part.

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[00:25:54] Caroline Blazovsky: You do get us cool

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[00:26:03] Eric Goranson: When you think about all the different, we have coast products here, we have Leatherman, there's a ton of different brands that are based out of a Kershaw. All of our good knife companies. A lot of them come up, Portland, Oregon, which is hilarious.

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[00:26:20] Eric Goranson: that's a classic multipurpose.

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[00:26:33] Caroline Blazovsky: well he seems to have won some money. No, no, no.

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[00:26:54] Caroline Blazovsky: Yeah, it's not cheap, you know? Yeah.

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[00:27:01] Eric Goranson: You want that, that stuff that's looking really good like that you want that to be just dialed in and built.

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[00:27:20] Eric Goranson: Oh, I've got a whole go-bag in my truck.

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[00:27:53] Eric Goranson: I've got a little pan in there. So if I got stranded someplace, I've got a couple days where the food in there, it's a nice, I even [00:28:00] got a machete for clear and stuff out of the way.

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[00:28:10] Eric Goranson: That's a bad way to go. You know, I've got some tow ropes in there. It's just a whole little, a duffel bag that just rides in the back of the truck works out really. Very nice. Alright. When we come back, Caroline, we got your other two and then we'll bring it up. A couple of other ideas there too, as well for old dad, we'll do that just as soon as around the house returns.[00:29:00]

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[00:29:41] Eric Goranson: So my five that I had were the meter thermometer, which is a MEA T E R. Digital thermometer. That just goes in there's no cords, no nothing. It's a super smart thermometer and app for cooking steaks. I had growler works for a [00:30:00] storing that adult beverage and distributing it out. Huh?

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[00:30:04] Eric Goranson: you dads.

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[00:30:31] Eric Goranson: And that I had true classic teas, which are shirts that are meant to fit that dad bought out there.

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[00:30:50] Caroline Blazovsky: I went with the new age products. So that is a way to organize the garage in a really or kitchen or outdoor kitchen. Really cool cabinetry, sleek, organized [00:31:00] design. So sort of like if you're. Doing a California closet. It's sort of that concept, but for our garage for that man, so he can get everything organized and you will be happy with the way it looks.

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[00:31:33] Caroline Blazovsky: So look at a utility room or a closet. That's a 6 36 pair. Um, she racked $53. So I think those are really easy to do. Not. Break the bank. Um, or you can go with the Leatherman, the P four multi-tool. So it's got 21 tools all on one gizmo that allows you to do wire cutter scissors, knives.

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[00:31:59] Eric Goranson: Yeah, it's [00:32:00] got everything on there basically for just fixing little stuff around the house. So I love that. Yeah.

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[00:32:22] Caroline Blazovsky: So if you want to open the door for someone delivering a package, let somebody in, this is the way to do it. This is going to turn your garage into that smart garage. And, you know, he's the technology. I just like this technology because I think it was. Easier for people to deliver packages and that kind of thing.

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[00:32:42] Eric Goranson: Well, this is a great way, because if you've got a newer garage door opener, that's working fine. You don't have to go out and buy a smart garage door opener to make it happen. So if you've got on my garage door openers, five years old, I got another 10 years left of life in it.

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[00:33:20] Eric Goranson: But for this, it's a great way to create that smart garage door. And in the one thing with two with garage door openers, especially with the, with the system, is that like, is. They can allow Amazon to deliver packages in your garage via a third party app. So Amazon has access to this app that allows access to the garage door opener.

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[00:33:56] Caroline Blazovsky: times do you see I come home and I'm worried that they threw a package [00:34:00] outside. There's no protection and it's going to rain or we're going to get a storm.

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[00:34:10] Eric Goranson: absolutely. And that's, that's the cool part of that. Yeah. Cause I mean, my front porch is only about eight inches deep, so before the water hits it, so there's a very small area for a package there.

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[00:34:26] Caroline Blazovsky: And that's nice. So chamber lane, am I saying it right? Chamberlain.

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[00:34:30] Caroline Blazovsky: stuff. Kimberlin you have really good stuff. And then of course my number five and this, this may sound redundant to a lot of people. If you're a homeowner, you know, a home improves.

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[00:34:57] Caroline Blazovsky: They want to use that for cleanup for any [00:35:00] kind of construction project. I'm like, no, don't do that. It's bad. So everyone should have, look, I just like this one. It's the VacMaster that's the wet, dry shot vacuum at 12. And it switches from wet to dry, like super quick. And this can help you with any project that you're doing and making sure that you're doing cleanup properly and you're not utilizing your vacuum, your home vac to do any kind of stuff around the house.

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[00:35:26] Eric Goranson: Yeah.

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[00:35:42] Eric Goranson: If you want to re ruin a high quality vacuum, start vacuuming up silica dust or drywall dust, you will ju you just, you can just take it and throw it away. Now it just ruins them for that.

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[00:36:10] Eric Goranson: filters.

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[00:36:29] Eric Goranson: And that, uh, like right now around my house, I'm doing some drywall work and I have a hose and hook it up into my, my sander. So I have a drywall sander. It's an orbital sander that you put on the wall on a pole and you can sand drywall with it. It's meant for that. So there's a vacuum system. So it goes back into that.

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[00:36:57] Caroline Blazovsky: No, that's it. We use this so much in mold [00:37:00] remediation. Like, so when my clients want to do a DIY and you know, if you have five. Square foot or 10 square foot of mold.

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[00:37:15] Eric Goranson: It is great. It is silica dust. So you know what the bad part of all this, now that we've looked this stuff up and got all our facts together on it, you and I on our Facebook and search stuff, we're going to see products from each one of these guys now for the next.

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[00:37:30] Caroline Blazovsky: it's okay. It's worth it. Our listeners are worth it. Absolutely. Let's recap guys. So mind the new age. Garage help dad. Get the garage organized, get them a nice shoe rack. You can hang out. Go look at the container store. Get one of those Chrome rolling shoe racks. They're great. The Leatherman P for the multi-tool it's just a device.

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[00:38:12] Caroline Blazovsky: And then of course get a good shop back or what I call the VacMaster wet dry shop back for dad.

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[00:38:31] Eric Goranson: Take a look if it's, if it's Milwaukee or, or rigid or de waltz or, or any one of those brands out there from, you know, Makita, whatever it is, try to buy something within that platform for him. So he doesn't have to have anything there, but if you're out buying hand tools, you're better to buy him something quality that a bunch of cheap stuff.

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[00:39:02] Eric Goranson: something good. That will make life easier. And you're good to go. And that's going to save you, save you some money too. Cause then that way you're not filling up the landfill with cheap tools.

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