Making my 1980's Garage Door Smart!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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2,929 words · ~14 min read
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here's the deal my house was built in
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1985 or something along those lines and these are the original garage door
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openers so i was like you know what i want to get
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for myself i'm going to get myself a nice fancy
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smart garage door opener and i bought this unit from chamberlain on amazon for
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i don't know it was like a few hundred bucks or something it had good reviews or whatever and everything seemed hunky
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dory i got it out i started opening it up and i'm reading the manual and i make
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it all the way to this page in the manual that refers me to a website that
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then i scroll like way down i click a thing and finally i find out that the if
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this then that integration
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for chamberlain's garage door openers is a subscription service Jake
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can you be my can you be my you know expert consultant here for a minute is
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there any reason that if this then that integration would require a subscription
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like a paid subscription a paid subscription no i don't think so no no
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there really isn't so i could afford it it was only a dollar a
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month but the reality of it is that
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chamberlain we're gonna do it ourselves we're gonna
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take these ancient garage door openers we're gonna make them smart with the
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help of what like 30 bucks worth of gear off ali express amazon you got that oh
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amazon i got one more for you here this guy you got this guy
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what's this cost i've these are like 30 bucks each all right you probably would
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have better off just paying the fee this is gonna pay itself back in like
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five years it's the principle of the thing
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or even tomorrow but don't put it off like 40 that's crazy
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so just to give you some idea how overdue home replacement is that's huge
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that is because that's my garage door what the hell
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well yeah it works of course it works oh yeah why would you
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wow it doesn't work that well you can't you can't stop it yeah you can
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oh so let's start with the highly advanced system um for my garage door
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openers here we've got these two doorbell ringers oh they're not even
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better 10 out of 10 um do you even push the
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button no the the buttons are loose so
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if you kind of jiggle them around they kind of go every once in a while they
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just open on their own and they're definitely very very
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attached to the wall wow you can replace those you know
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they're just regular switches dude look at your neck
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yes so Jake shot me with a nerf dart before
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we started then over here we've basically got the safety sensitivity
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like there's no there's no beam or anything that's just like how hard it's
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gonna push on you before it stops
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and then this is open and this is closed but like i don't know why are they on
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lubey i don't really know what that is like it's like it's dripping grease yeah
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i don't know do you get that on your car meanwhile i'm storing this in here with
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this like epic garage by the time this video comes out this will not be in here
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by the way guys so don't break into his house yeah please
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so walk us through what we've got here the basic premise is this is a wi-fi
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switch it's like those buttons over there but instead it's got some relays
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here we're going to wire this up to your garage door each one of them and then
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you should be able to just click a button on your phone and it should actuate this and that's all you got to
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do now does it replace the hardware button
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uh it can do both we can just run it in series or not in series but like
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together with it and then because this isn't going to tell us whether the
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garage door is open or not we're going to have a second thing this is from a
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company called roost they sent this to us thanks for that um and they actually
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normally make these for insurance purposes like your insurance your house insurance might require you so it logs
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like whether it was open or not at the time that a theft occurred or whatever
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yeah so we're just going to stick this on the garage door and we should be able
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to on the app see if his garage door is open or not then we've got this guy this
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is a little bit cheaper does that other one do up to four yeah who has a four
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car garage rich people but you don't have to use them for
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garages it can be like to turn anything on really okay sure fine so this one's
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just for a single use and then you just take your micro usb plop it in there put
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that there on that there there if i could get it there you go and you can also just power it with any five volt
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power supply so you can use a battery or a battery pack and this will probably
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last for like months cool but we're gonna plug it in step one just do it
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step one step two make magic happen keep doing it
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so hold on a second do i need to like are we even we're not even getting into
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any high voltage wiring here are we no this is literally no it's 12 volt we
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need a flat head getting a little excited over there oh
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my god that's the og screwdriver yeah i keep it here now because i don't want to
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like get it confiscated at the airport or something that almost happened except
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this one time this was amazing so what i did is i took the bit out of it put it
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in here they literally take it out of my bag and go oh yeah it's a good thing
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this is really blunt or i'd have to take it
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are you saved by the best are you even for real right now because meanwhile
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i've got all this other stuff in here that's pointy
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ac slash dc 7 to 34 to 32 volt 10 amps
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at 250 ac or 30 dc
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sure casual right so just like all the things
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yeah okay what's the app it's called e link is there a is there is there a paid
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subscription for that ifttt integration are you sure it's almost like it's a
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free API dear user it's a dollar a month
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for ifttt integra just kidding it's not is there somewhere we can plug this in
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that isn't up there uh yeah yeah for sure i'll do it over here over here
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boop ah lights we may put it in the plastic
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oh so it's just here while we test it yeah i just wanted to not be standing on top of a ladder while
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we try to set this up okay power up the model then press and hold pairing button
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for five seconds until the led indicator blinks twice and on
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repeatedly what does blinks twice and on repeatedly mean
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hey oh yeah blink twitter it is okay
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make sure your phone and the model are closer enough to wi-fi router
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found second generation device hey heck yeah so if you click one of those
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it should you should hear the relay click hold on wait for it
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this is sick yeah how much is this like 30 bucks if you only need one it's only
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i think i checked it was like 19 canadian that's awesome so now all we
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need to do is rip this ghetto stuff i think you should just leave those and
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then we can have it also so if somebody needs to come in here that doesn't have
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the app like couldn't we just put this here and then just splice in some wire
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we need to figure out which ones because otherwise if we put this up by the garage door opener then we have to run a
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little bit all right i'll grab the wires okay do you get wire strippers uh yeah i got
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wire strippers oh yeah yeah baby you got lots of strippers
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oh even a little multimeter do you know they make like 1500
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multimeters i'm sure they do for people who are far
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more qualified to use multimeters than i am
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i am so excited to be able to open my garage door
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yeah like honestly i'm excited for you don't touch
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david do you want one they're for when i'm working oh my god
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he scared me i didn't even see him there well he's been doing his martial arts
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training oh man mini ninja i don't want to get my butt kicked
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didn't leave much slack in those wires hey
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we should be replacing these at the same time
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do you have any buttons uh wow
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oh so well that explains like why it's broken it just fell apart so this just
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pushes that onto there like that's it's a very actually no we could probably
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like fix it pretty easily this might have just been put back together wrong
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oh there we go yeah this is definitely screwed in this was assembled wrong this
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was flipped around i think okay nice so
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this button is actually it's fixed it's like fine now it's not loose anymore
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yay i can just put some hot glue in and it'll be like fine i think where's that
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screwdriver uh in my back pocket
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oh why do you always make me do this oh man it's really tight
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every time i work with you i end up reaching into your pocket frankly i've
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had enough you've had enough when i tell you you've had enough oh okay all right
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maybe just tighten it a little more yeah there you go
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that was a nice technique i don't have
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a ton of talents but i'm pretty good at screwing things
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up every time you see that wire that you don't want to pick up just because
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you're so mad it does seem like there's not a lot that can go wrong honestly
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yeah i think it'll probably work fine
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knock on wood but you have to do the knocking it's your house
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that's how excited i am about having a garage door demonetized
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are you not allowed to direction on youtube i think yeah probably you don't
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have to roll on this david this is this is awful
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well you can just check yeah yeah okay you just go like this
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and then a light goes on and you go okay it's one oh no i meant like which of
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these three oh well it's labeled how is it yeah
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so you've got your ground and then you've got your
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c yeah get ready no so you've got no
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you've got nc which usually stands for no connection i'm going to look up this
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video of this other guy using it let's just let's just go for it i mean it can't be that complicated
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okay give me a second i'm coming in the shower it wasn't me
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i was saying a little louder it wasn't me
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we definitely left way too much wire on that one yeah and it might actually
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bridge but i guess it doesn't really matter it should be okay okay so plug it in
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that's it hey hey
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smart garage door we click it again before it closes
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oh and it pauses and then click it again
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hey doesn't have to go down after that
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no no it just continues so now we just have to wire the other
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one up yeah should we let's cut these wires it looks awful i can do that later
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don't worry about it you're never going to do it i'll i'll do it i'll do it i'll do it okay i'll do it all right i'm
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going to do it horrible noise
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hey then do the first one at the same time
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dang download pending why is this down okay
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i'm gonna go stand closer to my access point here what's going on
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quickly yeah go for it let's do it okay no wait
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put your hand up what are you you're just taking one oh that's a lot that's too many
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oh you got us in there
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it was it was david's idea nope
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you have no devices click to add a new device wait to hear a beep then click
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next i'm assuming there was a beep at some point um
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there's the beep oh what are you doing oh no it's connected so there it is the
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bolt wi-fi battery good okay so now we have to
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stick this okay so
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is it what is it like an accelerometer then or like yeah it has yeah no oh okay
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that's cool we should probably clean this off oh there's spider webs there too that's your cleaning tip i mean i
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have cloths well it's oh now i got cobwebs on me oh anyways what did you
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put it on there already i already wiped it off with my hands what are you doing
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i just like oh okay well thanks let me clean let me clean my hands no no okay
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what would make this perfect is if it just fell
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please don't fall off it's gonna make me look really stupid if
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it does come on buddy
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yeah thank you so that's it now i can
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control my ancient garage doors
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and i can see
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if they're open heck yeah heck yeah
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ow oh my hands are so cold yes very
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uncomfortable all right are we chest bumping are we high-fiving
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we're high-fiving okay no why not all right what no no you weigh a lot more
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than that light is just on there okay come on we got it okay one two three
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i don't have a ton of talent but i'm pretty good at
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make it seem like i came up with that right on the spot when he said that's a
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pretty good technique there with the screwdriver i think you were you were screwed you were screwing
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you were screwing horizontally it would make me so happy if we could
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edit that to make it seem like i'm a lot cleverer than i am clever my
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anticipation is the editor will include the editor's note
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