Dialed In Podcast: End of Year Wrap-Up
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Porsche 718 GT4 RS
The Porsche 718 GT4 RS is a fast sports car designed for driving on tracks and roads. It has a strong engine and is built to be lightweight, making it very agile and fun to drive.
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Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS
The Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS is a super-fast sports car that is built for people who love driving on racetracks. It's special because it has a really strong engine and is designed to handle really well.
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BMW M3
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Porsche 911 GT3
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Toyota Sequoia
The Toyota Sequoia TRD is a large SUV made for families but also good for off-road driving. The TRD version is designed to be tougher and perform better on rough roads.
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Ford Raptor
The Ford Raptor is a tough truck made for driving on rough terrains. It has a powerful engine and is built to handle off-road conditions.
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Lotus Amira
The Lotus Amira is a lightweight sports car made for fast driving. It focuses on being fun to drive and has a stylish design.
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Tesla
Tesla is a company that makes electric cars. Their cars are known for being very fast and having a long battery life.
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Lotus Amiras
The Lotus Emira is a new sports car that is designed to be fun to drive and easy to use every day. It's important because it shows how Lotus is evolving while still making exciting cars.
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Porsche 911 GT3 RS
The Porsche 911 GT3 RS is a super-fast version of the 911 sports car, built for racing and designed to be very lightweight and powerful.
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wash and talk
A 'wash and talk' is when someone talks about cars while they are washing their car. It's a fun way to share tips and stories while doing a chore.
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BMW E92
The BMW E92 is a two-door version of the BMW 3 Series, known for its stylish look and performance. It's a great choice for those who want a sporty car that still has everyday usability.
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outdoor wash bay
An outdoor wash bay is a special area outside where you can wash your car. It helps keep things clean and organized while washing.
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Nissan Skyline GT-R R34
The Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 is a famous sports car that many car fans love. It has a strong engine and special features that make it exciting to drive. People really want to own one because of its reputation.
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Evo
The Evo is a fast car made by Mitsubishi that is popular for racing and has a lot of power. It's known for being very fun to drive, especially on winding roads.
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BMW G87M2
The BMW M2 is a powerful sports car that's part of the BMW lineup. The G87 is the newest version, which has some upgrades compared to older models.
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6MT
6MT means a car has a manual transmission with six gears. This lets drivers change gears themselves, which many people enjoy for a more engaging driving experience.
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OE modified
OE modified means that some changes have been made to a car by the original maker to improve it, but these changes are still considered part of the original design.
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suspension
Suspension is the part of a car that helps it ride smoothly over bumps and turns. Better suspension can make a car handle better and feel more comfortable to drive.
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Chrysler Touring 300
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Okay, all right, so a good couple of days, not a good couple of days from a eating perspective
and I went off a deep end a little bit the last two days.
It was going to be one day and then you know how it goes turned into two days, but I paid
the price for it.
I went for a run this morning and I was frickin' hurt.
We did the 12 days of Christmas on Christmas Eve at CrossFit and I was frickin' just
too much weight.
I was doing heavier weight than I probably should have and yeah, I felt it big time when I was
running this morning.
I went for a run at a rock, just short and then I ran out of time, so I'll do a sonic
hole punch tonight, theoretically, but not a great, I didn't do a great job on the eating
front the last couple of days.
But anyway, we had a good Christmas, I surprised Ryan and Kate with some stuff.
I normally don't buy anything, Michelle takes care of it and so I snuck attack them some
fun stuff and then I did a sneak attack on Michelle and got her something for birthday,
Christmas, and our 20 year anniversaries next year in March, so that arrived today
a little bit late so we had the fiasco of trying to track that thing down.
But we had a good time, I took some, actually didn't do a whole heck of a lot of work.
We did some organization, probably the only family on a planet that does a closet clean
out and organization on Christmas, so my parents come over and then I put a bunch of stuff
on the curb, Michelle's purses and old Kurt, Kate's Bade purses and we put some
Gabby, which is, I think Gabby is the interior for what's that fancy furniture
about at the last house, but anyway, some expensive mirrors and they're just sitting
there, gonna get them out of the darn, get them out of the house, but that was good
so we cleaned out the house and so now we're working on just kind of putting everything
away and getting things cleaned up, so we worked on that all day yesterday so now the
house is looking pretty dialed, but it's a ghost town here at HQ as most people will
take a vacation date today, which makes sense, my small team in here shipping out
orders, we kind of wrapped up the, we ran a gift card sale so we wrapped that up and so
we, I know that we had gotten raised glazed brushes and orange towels that we were out
of, so we're the orange FTWs and so now we're pretty well caught up, I know Nathan
and Tim have been sending out messages to keep people up to date with what's out
of stock and what's being shipped, but we're looking pretty good so this
was the most efficient year we've had in catching up to people's orders and so
now we're gonna start the year, then the year off great, my intentions this
year, trying to think back to what I had planned to do and the more I
think about it, the less planning I did for this year, it was more survive so
I did, yeah and thanks for questions guys, keep the questions coming in here, help
me out here after I kind of get through my initial thoughts, but I had, you know,
my goal this year was to drive in the mountains, instead I sold the mountain
house, so that was a big development this year, I sold the lot next to the old
HQ, so that was take some weight off of me, so this coming tax year in
2026 is going to look better for me and that I don't have to pay property tax
on, you know, what, three extra properties, you know, and that now I own this
building and I own my personal residence in Middleton and that's it, let's see
with cars, what do we do with cars this year? I got the GT4 RS earlier this year, I
had the M3, I had the GT3, did I get the Bronco this year or last year? I got the
Tesla this year, we got the the TRD Sequoia this year, so we got rid of the
Raptor, oh we did the two Amiras in the, you know, early this year, that's
right, the Amiras and the and the GT4 RS all showed up at the same time, so we
were able to do the Amira project and move on from those, yeah, it was a pretty
pretty benign year for cars, even though technically I got, you know, five new cars
this year, it feels benign, I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with cars next
year, we're gonna start the GT3 RS project and you know, sort of finish
that car up and then decide what I'm gonna do with that thing if I'm gonna keep
it or sell it, the GT4 RS I think is the car that suits me the best, the GT3
looks the best, but the GT4 I think probably drives the best, I'm hopefully
gonna make some some progress on, you know, my driving this coming year, I've
kind of had a reverted a bit, a little bit of a relapse, if you will, of panic, so
I'm hoping to, I hired a new psychiatrist to work with, alright, I guess
psychologist, psychiatrist to work with, who is an expert in this sort of panic
disorder business, so and I just, I just read a book from, crap I can't
remember the lady's name, what was her name, but anyway I just read a book here
recently that, you know, sort of is hopefully gonna help me and then, you
know, hired a, I talked about it on the last podcast, so 2025 included us, you
know, making me making, you know, quite a bit of headway on, you know, what I'm
doing internationally, which is less of it, what I'm doing locally with the
villages and if I'm going to do it and how I'm going to do it, we made a ton of
progress, obviously, looking at the background here on OGHQ, you know, we
finished the front area, we finished deep demoing the bullpen, so that
area is getting, you know, getting dialed and cleaned up, that's gonna be, you know,
awesome, it's gonna be a really awesome setup for all the guys to go and, you know,
do their, do what they do, yeah, it's been a, it was sort of a building year
for next year, which I think is gonna be a very focused year, the
warehouse team had a really great year, the design team had a great year,
and then the website, you know, I think we got a new theme this year as well, so in
general, we made quite a big strides, we also made some big strides on how we're
serving you customer service wise, we don't tech support, and so I'm getting
closer to being, you know, set up to be able to sort of go to that next
level, which I think 2026 will be the year where we get set up to have a
West Coast, you know, distribution facility, so villages West Coast will be,
you know, 2026's goal is to get those two things done, you know,
assuming the, you know, economically, you know, the world is doing all right and
assuming we're, you know, selling stuff, so I've done quite a bit of discovery and
cleanup in 2025, you know, to figure out what it is I want to do, you know,
we separated the channels, you know, made the Obsessed Garage channel and the
Matt Mormon channel, so the separation of that, and yeah, I think that we, I think
that we're set up to have a really great 26. Let me go through some of your
questions here. Yeah, here's for a tech issue free live, and hopefully, I
didn't put on do not disturb, so hopefully nobody calls me. I am using
my iPhone now that the quality is so much better than running through cam link and
OBS and then having to have somebody manage it with a roadcaster, and so it's
actually, I'm using the front camera on my iPhone, the next step is I'll use the
rear camera, but I can even see it on my screen here, the quality is so much
better, the most you can do is 1080p, but as long as I keep it stationary,
right now I have a battery and a battery kind of holding it on top of my
speaker, but I actually bought a couple of phone mounts, so it'll look, you
know, good and clean, or set up cleanly where I can angle it up or down with a
little less risk of the thing falling on its face, but yeah, just iPhone and
right, I think I'll probably just get a second iPhone for this, and then I
have, I ordered the road, I have the same setup at home, but it ordered the
MagSafe road adapter, and then I actually buy one of their DS1 arms, take
the section off, and then mount that, those two arms together, and put the
MagSafe adapter, so I throw a bunch of pieces away, so I waste a bunch of
money on those parts, but I find that that works the best, so that's probably
what I'll do, and I'll probably shift back and forth instead of building a
podcast studio, I'm gonna shift back and forth between this office or this
garage, the Middleton garage, my office, or my office at home, and just kind of
shift between those four locations, depending on where I'm at, that way I
can stay on the podcast, and then, you know, the overwhelming feedback was
just do it yourself, and so I'm assuming I, and I'll work on, you know,
getting this dialed to where I have a, you know, clean setup that I can
just turn on and do really quickly, really easily, and then I'll probably
hire somebody this year to help with the post-production of it for, you know,
doing a better job putting it up on Spotify and all of that, so, and I,
you know, this to me has always been kind of just like a news update,
you know, updated dump, brain dump on, you know, what's going on, and then
you guys always help with questions, and most people, there's like 100
people watching live, we usually get up to 200, 300 people, most people are
going to watch it, you know, later, later on, so, I think, I think doing it and
setting it up this way, you know, works, works best. When is the new wash and
talk with your E92? Yeah, I need to do another one. All three cars are dusty,
dirty, so lots of wash and talks coming over the next couple of, next
month, and I just been kind of staging and moving things back and
forth and getting set up. I like to do it where I'm set up, where I have all of
my stuff, and so it's a good, anytime from now, like say, one PM on is a good
time to wash out here, and it's, you know, really nice outside, so I'll be
able to, you know, just wash outside without any covering or anything until
we build the outdoor wash bay, but I can just wash right out there, and
I've got the dual AR630 setup, and then, you know, my house is a great
setup as well there, so I was kind of waiting to get everything set up so
that I can get back to work doing what I do best, sitting, chatting, washing
cars. It's Ryan says, do you think R34 will join the garage in 2026? I think
so. I think that, I mean, that logically would be my next car. What
I want to do is finish the Tesla, the Evo, and the, you know, the four
cars that I have to finish, five cars, and I've got a bunch of different
things to do, and so, you know, Mike and I will be working on a lot of those
projects here over the course of the next, you know, next three or four
months before I do or add another car, but I think my next car will be
an R34. It would be a fun project. Gene says, Merry Christmas, washing the truck
with GSF, GS, GS, or GXF today. Shoot, my monitor from going to sleep here,
and ordered four more bottles. I think we still have some, so if you like
some, you know, let me know, or don't let me know, go to the site and buy it,
but yeah, GFX is awesome. Jesse says, if I need, or if you need custom
length hose made for garden hose or pressure washer hose, is the option on
the site somewhere, or you got to email someone. Yeah, I don't think we have it
on the site, so just email support at obsessedgarage.com, and the guys can
talk to my dad and get you a price on it, like in and done. It's a little
more expensive, but we can get you whatever size you need. Is there a
plan for additional recessed lighting retrofit kits, or is SLG DMF the
best option? We're searching, and we have our lighting manufacturer or
lighting supplier out, you know, trying to find some stuff for us. The SATGOS
aren't very good, the retrofits. I mean, the DMF is amazing, but it's cost
prohibitive for most people. I don't have anything at the moment. I mean,
the SLGs are decent, but certainly not a viable solution. So it is on my
list. It is something that I'm working with Primelights to see if we can, you
know, have them manufacture something for us. It's really not that difficult to
make. It's just getting all the specs right and making them decent, and then
making it a nice experience for swapping out your can, or swapping
out what's in your can. But I don't have anything on the docket at the
moment. Spencer says, even Matt, this was just random thinking at
church, but when you say you've never taken a sip of alcohol, what's
that mean for communion when you go, and if you go, very random thought? You
know, if you go to a Southern Baptist church, I think it's just like grape
juice that they give you. And rarely do you do communion at a modern
church. So when they pass, or I just won't drink it if I know that it's
wine, which I don't think it ever really is. Let's see. I have a pair of dual
SB, this is three woods. Joe says, I have a pair of dual SB 16
Ultras. I think I want to switch to dual PB 5000s, the area for my
living room, home theater, any recommendations. The PBs are those tall
cylinder looking ones. I think you're going to, I don't think those are as
good. Let me just confirm that. Let me see. PB, let me open up this here.
SVS, PB 5000. I think those are the cylinder ones. 15 inch, high scourge
in 2001. Oh, is that a new sub? PB 5000R, reported. Oh yeah, so you have the SB
16, which is the old, the new one is the SB 17. Okay, the PB 5000R is the
new version of their 15 inch woofer and he's talking about going to ported
versus sealed. I just don't think you're going to see a remarkable difference.
So if you can get a good amount of money for your SB 16s, I just think
if I was going to make that transition from one SVS to the next, I just don't,
I haven't tested the new PB 5000, but I would be inclined to push it towards,
well, let's do a, the next level subwoofer, which would be a JTR. An RS1 or a single RS2,
again, I'd rather have two RS1s than a single RS2, but an RS1 versus say a PB or SB 16 or
PB 5000 is a pretty remarkable upgrade. Not as pretty fit and finishes and as nice,
but it gets the job done from a fit and finish perspective, but that would be a massive upgrade.
Let's see. How was the channel separation worked out? What was the main purpose for doing it? Huge
fan of the garage hangout videos, happy holidays and a happy new year. This is from Jeff Jr.
Yeah, I mean, it's worked out pretty well. I mean, the sort of rebuilding of the OG
engagement. We haven't had a video hit like say the Renew video or the recent Scissor
Lift video or the Quick Jacks video where we got 100 plus thousand views in years.
And so me doing all of my stuff that I do on this channel, the live streams,
the dial-in podcast tends to nuke the engagement or nuke the algorithm because
YouTube didn't know what to do with it. And so it's given me that sort of creative outlet in order to
kind of do what I like to do and ingratiate all the sort of the core 25 or 50,000 people who
have watched since the beginning. You guys that are probably on here listening now or watching now
and then give us the ability to maybe reach a broader audience and be a bit more entertaining
on the OG channel and then stick to the garage for the modern algorithm that needs to know what the heck
you do. And so it's going to take some time to continue to build that base on that channel.
It also takes some pressure off of me in having to make so many videos for the Obsessed Garage
channel. We can do a video or two a week and stay and actually get more engagement,
get more viewership long-term than trying to make six or seven videos a week.
And so then the Matt Mormon channel that I don't necessarily have to care as much about whether
it performs or not. You just do what I want and do what feels right. Combine that with inside the
hex and I think I have a pretty good format for setup. The last channel to make is the How-To
channel which will house the product specific videos for the website. So that'll be the
next channel to kind of work out. Spencer says, what locations are you thinking for west coast
distributing? It seems like something more central would be better like Denver or KC.
What we're going to do is if we stay in Florida, which long term would be to move
Florida distribution to something like Kansas City and so we would remove this say in 2028
or something like that. But the goal would be to blanket the entire country within say three
business days. So if we do Florida and Las Vegas and my wager is that 60% of our business
would ship out of the west coast location. And so Las Vegas would be the shortest distance to
the major metropolitan areas of California and it's very friendly to distribution. So
we'll probably do a Vegas distribution facility, stay in Florida. Once that's built and if that
works out we can move to a free shipping model hopefully that's the goal. That's going to require
us to have more volume and a better negotiated rate margin rate with and a lot of making a
lot of our own stuff or we have better margins. That's what that's going to require over the
next few years in order to be able to ship for free. And then once we do that our volumes
will increase but then be able to get products to people much much faster. And then that would
afford me the ability to sort of abandon the necessity to be on Amazon and stay niche,
stay focused on the garage. So that's my plan. And then depending on how big into big Sonic
gets we may become the west coast distribution for Sonic to cut costs down on the Sonic distribution
of the west coast and west side, east of the Mississippi. And then again we would rinse and
repeat and do that in Kansas City or something like that. I haven't done a study on that but
I'm assuming or maybe somewhere in Tennessee somewhere, Nashville or something or Chattanooga
or something like that. And then you know this would be our sort of global headquarters here
and then we would distribute but the shipping part would happen out of the most convenient
facilities but we would do all of you know I would stay here and do my thing here. That would
be my my thought. Let's see I have the SB 5000 and love them. Yeah the SB 5000s are nice
or the SB subwoofers I should say are nice. They're great subwoofers.
Tiger says any sweet deals on AR630 buy back and swap for a 635. I just got 630 a month ago
and the 635 came out. No, no that would be a good thing. I've talked about that for years to
have you know if there's anybody I would want to buy back stuff from it would be the OG crew
or the OG audience or OG type and you know it would be kind of cool if we could create some
sort of you know eBay for that someday. We have the OG marketplace that'd be the best place to put it.
You know I'd be I'd be wager you know if you catch it right you know the 630s are still
kind of hard to get every time we get them we sell out of them so if you catch it right
when nobody has it in stock and maybe you sell it for 75 bucks less or you just ship it for free
or something so you lose you know 100 bucks then maybe 150 bucks maybe you could you know get
out from underneath it. The 630s will always be able to sell. Hey Matt congrats on the past year
and happy new year. When do you realistically think the jack point thingy for the Swiss
tracks will be ready? Yeah first quarter I think I know it's on the on the docket with Joe and Tommy
so I think we should have it pretty pretty quickly we should have it you know in the next couple of
months. We're meeting next week to go over our 2026 plans with all the products we have coming out
for Obsessed Engineering and Obsessed Garage and so that's that's on the shortlist it's a
really easy thing for us to make so we should have that soon. Let's see three words also do you think the
new G87M what do you think about the new G87M2 CS? I initially thought the M2 was pretty ugly but
this version looks legit makes me consider going from a G80 M3 6MT to an M2. Yeah I don't mind
the new M2 I think it needs to be modified I mean the CS is kind of an OE modified version I think
you still need to wheels and suspension and some you know some other you know some other body
panels to make it look good. I just I just don't love the soullessness I mean the new M3s the
new M2s kind of decimate all they're crazy fast and tons of power and handle reasonably well
but they're just so big and heavy that it's and it's just doesn't doesn't appeal to me
but I think you know depending on that the place in life where you need that kind of do-it-all car
I mean the M2 is big enough now that you're going to have people in the backseat so
I don't know that I would make that move but I do like the the G87 more than the you know
G80 I think it looks better. I heard you're helping Max with this garage
will you be on the Don't Be Sour podcast I don't know I think I try to invite myself on it I love
that's my favorite podcast but yeah we're we're working on Max's garage at least on the design
of it I mean assuming we do a good job he'll he'll have us do it but yeah Max and we're also
I kind of refer him to Matthew Pose to do work on his home theater as well but his house is going
to be really sweet so he's talking about Max tuning MAX tuning on on YouTube big fan of those guys
so yeah maybe maybe I told him I told Joe if you ever need to fill in if somebody's out I'll
I'll get on a plane and come to Houston the two podcasts I listened to three depending on who
is on Joe Rogan Joe Rogan first all-in podcast and Don't Be Sour and I always listen to
podcasts and watch I like to watch them on YouTube and I'm usually listening to them but I like
that look and see it at times I actually got rid of Spotify and my cleanup of all the subscriptions
I have for Helen I was like well I'm not using Spotify at all my family wasn't very happy and I
have Apple one I use title for music and I was listening to all my podcasts since Rogan Joe Rogan
went back to YouTube I had no need for Spotify and so all the people who were piggybacking on
my Spotify subscription I said well tough luck I'm not paying for it anymore so and my family like
learned to use Apple music you know the quality is just as good and you know Apple lossless as well
so you know start to build playlists on that I'm already paying for that with Apple one and so I
say 20 bucks a year or 20 bucks a month or something like that let's see are you planning
on building a we're a bicycle toolkit no I mean I have all the park tool stuff and I'm not a bike
repair expert I just kind of like to have in the tools and I don't know that I'll really get that
into it because most of the time I just it's kind of like cars where I do what's necessary and
then I just get a new bike let's see how we said Las Vegas for the west coast
um let's see BFraz OO says do you foresee selling the OGDI system from the OG cabinet as a separate
unit I'd like to upgrade to the 635 at some point but I have the CR don't want a whole new
wall mount setup yeah I think so um we're gonna have to solve that issue um you know unless
CR comes out with something I mean um there's no there's no solution for that pressure washer so
you know we we we we don't have plans for that um and hadn't um but with these new high flow pressure
washers I think we're gonna have to solve that unless you want some ugly like DI rinse pro tank
we're gonna have to come up with some sort of solution but we we're just now working on the
you know the product the finished prototyping in the production of the you know the full solution
you know the full high pressure washing solution high high full pressure washing solution you know
the one that's in the back here so once we get that figured out then we can figure out what our
pathway looks like for the rest of the stuff anything new coming from Mr. Lion Toast says
Lintos Lion Toast Mr. Lion Toast anything new coming for air compressors planning on
stalling one of my home garage being in the beginning of the year I have a three roll airs
that we're going to test out that are interesting to me and then I have the sort of the mid-tier
werther and then we're doing you know the compact X here shortly in the garage at 8 HQ
let's see Mikey 684 says did you try out the tile from SEMA or a different or a different
brand for garages uh yeah so the tile we've got it set up we got it figured out how it's
going to go on the site and we're going to sell it it'll be drop shipped there will be an option
for you to you know pay for an installed version if you wanted to you know a professional
installer to come out and get on a plane and come install it won't be cheap but it's called
argolith uh a r a g e l e t h i think and we're going to put it we're going to do installation
video in in january around my two lifts and we're going to do a Schluter joint around the you know
the the swiss tracks we can kind of put the two tiles together so i'm going to show you that
in a video series coming up here shortly
let's see spencer says i have an iphone 16 pro if you want to trade it for dine on your lyds
i don't think i have any in stock anyway not what are your thoughts so philip
says what are your thoughts on credit cards do you use credit card points
or don't pay much attention to those things yeah i mean i've shared this a few times in
the past i have uh i essentially have four credit cards i guess five so i have two main
personal credit cards i have an amx and a visa and i have the apple credit card as well um
i just like that how how digitally functional the the apple card is and i sort of got it
when it first came out and i thought it was cool so but i don't use that one very often
so personally i primarily use my uh my amx platinum delta reserve and that's how i get to
sort of platinum status on delta which is my preferred preferred airline
and so i buy 95 percent of what we do personally anything that accepts amx we do on that card
and then that gets me to you know i buy enough spending enough money on that card to get you
know to to get the the platinum status on on um which is the first time i've ever had it so like
now i need to figure out how to navigate the whole book in a coach ticket and getting it upgraded
to first class sort of thing so um that's how i utilize those sort of air miles or whatever
you want to call it and then i have a merrill inch uh merrill inch card for my merrill inch days
that's my visa i've had for should 20 20 years something like that so i just have that card we
maybe maybe use maybe charge 500 bucks a month on that card so it's not substantial where it's
tens of thousands i'm sure on the on the the delta reserve and then maybe 200 bucks a
month on the on the apple card so um i run everything i can through the credit card and
i just pay it off and i have it set on autopay so it automatically pays and then i get the the result
i would highly recommend you not use a debit card for anything i can't tell you the last time i
used my debit card other than maybe to get cash at the atm every once every six months
i do get some cash through og and so that usually satisfies the cash that i need which is
not much anymore um maybe some things for kids events and stuff like that but the the you shouldn't
be using a debit card one you don't get any reward or any points back and then two you don't um you
don't have quite as much protection someone could draft out of your account directly so then on the
business side i've got two cards i've got an amix corporate platinum corporate and then i've got a
which is a little different than the amix business um it's the the corporate card is backed no longer
by personal guarantee it's backed by the business uh and then i have a chase ink something reserve
or something like chase ink um which is whatever their you know their amix version of of chase
ink on visa those get millions and millions probably 10 million points a year or more um
because i buy you know a good percent percentage of inventory so that's all my airline travel i
book usually through either amix travel or chase travel uh and that you know funds you know whatever
a little bit of traveling i do but it also um it uh and then i usually just do statement
credits for the additional points to come back so um yeah i think that um i think the
credit cards are a good tool i think you need to be careful not to get yourself in trouble but the uh
yeah something something i think you need to you need to to utilize and be smart with but
i don't spend any time thinking about points and what what i what i need or don't need uh
let's see it's it it's the video mirrored so we're saying what does that look like oh yeah
do i have to do something with that yeah if i do this it flips the other camera
oh did that fix it
yeah i don't think it'll let me flip yeah yeah it does nope
maybe that's something i need to flip the camera around
uh any good advice nick anderson says any good advice on a good camera and lens to start
vlogging that won't break the bank um i mean an iphone or a google pixel is a great start
i'm actually all of my vlogs now for uh for the ins and the hacks the quality the
stabilization is better and the quality is better than carrying around my big giant um canon r5 so
i mean using my iphone is freaking awesome so um i i would you would start with that
and then you go into those um like the little point like this i don't know the current models
but like the sony zv one was the last little point and shoot camera has a decent monba on board
microphone um but you know you would go to that and then you go up to you know like
sony a7 whatever a7 4s or you go up to the you know r5c or something like that you go up to our
canon r6 you go up to those um cameras uh i use basically exclusively now i'm using my iphone
was what i'm shooting on right now um and then i use uh the canon c70 so um the c70 is a cinema
camera and then i have a monitor on the front of it so i can see it but yeah i would start with your
iphone uh and then um just offload the footage you know so that way you're not clogging up your
i cloud or the memory on your on your phone and just offload it to your computer and then
when you're done with it you know put it on a google drive or something like that
let's see do you help come up with elf on the shelf hiding spots other than the the trash
no gosh we had that stupid thing so dumb um i hated it didn't want anything to do it and
i refuse to do anything with it call me scrooge finny abraham says has the amazon
distribution of drying aid and tire dressing been helping not really i mean it um it certainly
gets the product in more people's hands makes it easier for you to get um and i think we've sold
you know maybe 50 grand last year and all of it uh but the you know the the margins aren't
particularly great uh how difficult would it be to get sonic caverns to canada i don't think
too too bad um you can hit up uh design at obsessed garage dot com and they can help you think through
it i don't think it's too difficult to get there uh let's see what are your thoughts on jl fathom
subwoofers i know they are pricey but curious what's your thoughts pricing aside so the fathoms
are nice but you can do so much better for so much less which i hate to say because i think the
jl subs look great like that gotham is pretty sick i've had several fathoms um but again a jtr
prolison a prolison if you want that same fit and finish is far superior measures much better is
actually less money i think uh you know pound for pound um so i would do a prolison um or i
would do you know if you if you want just pure brute um the jtr stuff is far superior over
over jl stuff what is your favorite house you've had uh how does middleton compare that's a good question
it's sad to say but i don't think that any of the house that we were most proud of was the
brown house so the very first house when i started youtube in 2014 i got that house in 2000
let's see we moved over in 2010 i thought i i think i got it in like
mid to late 2011 and i lived there until 2016 but we were most proud of that house you know that's
where i became you know the resident director made it through the yeah it already made it
through the training program and we bought that house for 400 grand it had the nice oversized
two-car garage it had the basement and there was just so much possibility that's where laurel helped
us sort of design the upstairs and did some you know window treatments and made it really great
chose great you know great colors you know interior and um it had like dcs appliances and
a sub zero refrigerator and it was just i don't know it had a kitchen age refrigerator
it was just really really nice and we had all this potential all this possibility like we we could
you know finish out the basement someday i could add on to the garage could i add on the
garage and make it bigger do a second garage um and so we had that that that that potential
or that possibility and that that was the first garage that i did um so we were most proud
of that house and then of course when i you know when i i left maryl Lynch went to
Raymond james in 2016 i had a bunch of money and so i was able to buy the you know the the acreage
the property you know and the woodgate house um the woodgate property was amazing but it was
so much work to deal with so much carrying cost uh and then the house was not well the house
wasn't particularly it was well built structurally but it had a lot of air leaks and a lot of
problems with you know rodents and stuff like that just a lot of upkeep and maintenance and and a
lot of difficulty managing and maintaining that house trying to get it to function well um
and you know if i had put a garage on that property you know sometimes i think man i wish
that i'd kept that house um but the you know the middleton house at right now in our place
in life it just feels right it feels good there's no pressure on that house i own that house so i don't
have a mortgage on it property tax with the bond is like 10 000 bucks a year it's the only you know
major expense so i mean my carrying cost of that house is you know less than 20 000 a year
with property tax insurance and all utilities all costs you know all in because you figure
i have you know 70 bucks a month for gas for grass probably 300 bucks for utilities let's see so 600
and then yeah i mean maybe 20 000 bucks a year to you know to carry that carry that house
you know total cost 20 25 000 so say two grand a month total um which just feels good it's
comfortable it's nice the going got tough i own my house um it's a it's a good place to be
and uh and it's it's great for us family wise where we're at with the kids being there in school
they like it it's a good um it's a good sort of um grounding for my kids so they don't get too
snobby um so it makes it easier on us as parents to keep them grounded you know and and keep them
you know surrounded by you know normal people real people um instead of being in some rich you
know fancy neighborhood and the school they're going to is is a charter school but it's it's
it's not private and so it's the house doesn't compare at all but i have everything i want
i mean i've got my office theater although not ideal i've got a nice garage although not ideal
we've got a nice family room and decent kitchen although not you know not what i would have dreamt
up the outdoor areas kind of nice everything's in a smaller scale than what i would you know
technically want to have but it's it's good it's it's a good it's a good good place
you know the darlington house is a pretty cheap cheaply built house that we made nice
the harbour hills house was so short lived that was terrible
but yeah i think we are most proud of the the brown house uh and then we you know we probably
like the woodgate just the whole package of the woodgate house the most
let's see
any time frame on the og colors for swiss tracks when they will be available i'm not sure yet
you know we we we get a lot done and then we kind of have to shelf a lot of ideas until january
when you know the rest of the world kind of comes back to work you know and so we'll we'll hit
the first quarter hard with a lot of different ideas but we'll we'll we'll look into that we're
probably going to do it in drops and batches and so we're looking at in a first quarter
how are you liking this new garage display of all the different arrays and such damien said
so i love it man the front entrance with the mss looks so good it just looks appropriate there
now having mss functional mss back in my life again um actually i guess technically remember i had mss
at the darlington house but only for a very short period of time uh and so i've never really had
mss i had it in hellen but it you know that never really felt like mine it felt like ours
you know it felt like me and you you know the og you know patrons if you will uh and so this is
the first time of me having like mss where i'm living with it every day which i'm excited uh and i've had
mss at my desk and i've had it you know around me but i haven't had it like you know with me and
as much as i i'm gonna have it here for the next foreseeable future so i'm really psyched about
like this setup here and then you know the big big array back there the big giant lev rack is
awesome and so i'm excited to come to hq i have a really cool office and i've got this cool setup back
here uh and we're gonna have a really cool area with everybody else to work here shortly uh mike
sexually out and they're working on it right now um so i'm pretty pumped about you know how
how it's all come together and then having and getting to sort of touch and feel it all
we have rousseau we have mss we have mss plus we have it all you know on display readily available
i've got rousseau at my house it's just it's freaking sweet so i'm i'm really pumped about it
and i don't think i could have done this in the beginning because you know i it takes a while
to figure out what you really love uh spencer says speaking of credit cards is your goal to get
an mx black card or does it not matter no i i don't know if i um if they offered you on
i i think it's $10,000 a year and you know me i'm not on concierge like i'm not going to
concerts and doing travel and you know um so i don't even know if i would accept it if i if i'd
gotten one um i think i think it's pretty clear that you know mx corporate
i don't know i don't know if i'd get offered one i have quite a bit of money in my mx high
yield money market account i've got um you know the two cards that i use quite a bit so i don't
know maybe i'm a candidate at some some point um the the old adage with mx black was that you
know it's invite only and you'd have to spend you don't have to spend $250,000 a month on the card
you had to spend $250,000 a month to qualify but i don't know that that was ever really a thing
i spend way more than that you know because we buy our inventory so um that but but i don't think
i don't think that's a requirement for the card i think that was a something to get qualified
uh have you tried ads tire plus really like the tire dressing it's okay og tire dressing is better
i know back in the day uh you used to have an amazon page for recommendation
og items use any plans to have that page upgraded yeah i don't think so
any updated thoughts on ceramic coating on the sequoia uh no updates it's doing great
it's really dirty i gotta wash it this weekend so wash and talk coming i'll give you an update on it
um i know you mentioned uh you prefer delta airlines any reason for not wanting to use other
airlines the other airline i use the most outside of that would be united um i like delta
i mean it's um it you know pretty much every single plane i get on delta is nice and new
and fresh and clean whereas united it's like 60 40 old versus new when you get a new united plane
it's a great experience i feel like united staff is like a level up um but delta in general the plane
the staff the branding the packaging the app um is is a better overall experience especially
since almost every single delta plane i get on is really nice and united again it's 60 of the planes
the seats jacked up it's got you know 1980s tech um shoot the one plane i got on here recently was
like 40 years old or something like that uh so it was a really one of the really big planes
where was i going i was going to tzema um but the you know they you know they i think
been around a lot longer so i don't remember what the the mergers were wasn't um united was
like continental and transworlded lining i i don't want a blaspheme here but yeah those would be the
two airlines that i choose almost exclusively i try to refuse to fly american um american discounts
too much so all their terminals are jam packed with just cattle and then i try not to fly
southwest if i can help it uh let's see
if i have the invite do you think it would be beneficial to to to to attend t-r-c-ma as an
owner of a small detailing company yeah i think so um i think you'd have a lot of fun you
meet a lot of people um i think it'd be good
let's see
mike's 1970s services matt just purchased a specialized divergent any chance of starting
on the cycling channel now i like um i like riding bikes i haven't ridden much at all
i'm ridden at all i've been so you know running so much um i should you know get back into it
um took a little time off the winters and usually not fun to to ride so i like to ride
when it's really hot i like to suffer um yeah no cycling channel for me
if if not any suggestions for a new cyclist uh i want to show me who's talking about
channels um i don't really watch much cycling on i kind of come and go on that so i'm not a good
good suggestor any update on the five inch america no nothing no
you have may have mentioned in a prior and a prior stream but are you happy with black
friday revenue yeah yeah we did really great um we did um i want to say we did
40 percent more than last year i haven't seen where all the margins and everything
settle out yet but yeah we did great it was really nice how we'd set it up on the uh the
spreading out so the team talked me into spreading out the time frame uh so that really helped us
with managing inventory um the warehouse team did a great job getting the product out the
tech support team did a great job of of you know answer people's questions staying up to date
we had less questions because we had better inventory so the purchasing team did a good
job of making sure we had stuff in stock and then you know the design team you know worked on you
know selling the product and the products team really helped me support the stream and selling
the stuff so you know the whole organization the organization as a whole um having mark and
matt rutledge here you know really helped to sort of drive what we had in stock um drive home
you know let people know hey the pressure washers are coming they came like the week later
and so you know it was very smooth and we did a great job so i want to say we'll be up
you were down in profitability and that's what i'm trying to solve trying to fix
but we're up you know save we'll probably end up this year up 20 percent over last year total
you know in total sales um but we're probably down net negative uh year over year in profitability
so i have to find out where the hole in the boat is and fix that so i've hired a controller
he's in there right now you know digging into getting you know like finances in order to make
sure that i have the you know the the capital to you know take care of the staff to you know hire
when we need and to take on this next endeavor in the villages um let's see do you have pro
slide on display too uh no but i did a lot of work um at my last house um so we don't have any pro
slide here on display uh but we have the whole you know video series of wabba's garage and and
my garage um so we've we've gotten plenty of support of that there uh season's greetings
same to you um when is the next video in the garage obsession channel coming i'm not sure
um let's see now that you've had time with the gt4 rs and the gt3 uh touring any interest in the 992.2 gt3
none i had the touring 300 000 for a great base gt3 and i like the i like that i think peak for me is
991 speak my next gt car will very likely be a 991.2 gt3 touring do you have any subwoofer fire deals
right now we do have open box i think it's called the sofa table jtr um
i mean it's not fire deal it'd be like five percent off and free shipping because the shipping on that
sucker is probably a thousand bucks um let's see i think that's all i got i think rusty has two
dine audio sub sixes that he'd sell i saw those sitting back there
we do have open box
the monitors the 212 rms and i have an open box of the 215 rm jtrs
um we have a pair of the perlissen fancy perlissen speakers so but nothing uh not what you're looking
for i think uh let's see what's the dotted paper you like to use oh shoot um crap i don't have
any up here it's all the way up in the uh what is the name of it dang it
i don't remember uh do you ever get nervous on planes nope nope just like i don't get nervous on
a darn uh darn car when i'm a passenger somebody else is in charge
yeah duan thanks nathan god dang it duan paper is awesome i need to order another another batch
i'm kind of i'm almost out yeah yep so i'm trying to think let's think about products next year
so next year the launch of the high-flow pressure washing system um probably sonic jacks
um i want to tackle the rolling cart so the russo cart i've been promising
we'll have floating shelves garage tracks garage skins we'll have very likely some sort of a solution
for organization
let's see probably some training stuff on leader max trying to think of what else
oh lots of stuff on tools
it's going to be a good year it's going to be a garage focused year
uh hopefully the new entry-level um linear lights from prime lights
probably not a retractable hose reel um but a better hose reel and um new viper chairs yeah
i gotta get that viper video done their cart is terrible so no they got that cart and gave it
away immediately um yeah it's gonna be a good year i think that's all i got for you today i'm
kind of uh i'm distracted because i'm about to go fill up all my cabinets with all kinds of cool
stuff and uh and getting all of my my garage here set up and getting my tv installed so
i don't even get that done anyway thanks for all your support this year thanks for buying
stuff thanks for watching um sorry we floundered around on the podcast a little bit but i think
i'm going to keep this format and i'll come with topics i'll come with ideas um and i'm going to
continue to work on we'll make it produced better i'll have a better camera set up and uh
we're going to make it look uh look good sound good and hey we had no hitches today so
60 minutes it's a little short for me but i'll get it up on um on the podcast platforms
make sure that i go check all of the uh make sure the monetization is on goofy youtube adds
like 57 ads in it so i have to go fix that and uh yeah we'll see you uh see you next week hope you
have a good uh good rest of your time off if you have some um if you're like me hope you have
fun with what you're doing and uh 2026 is going to be a wild ride we're going to keep rolling
thanks for thanks for watching see you soon
About this episode
Reflecting on the past year, the hosts share personal anecdotes about holiday celebrations, including unexpected gift-giving and family organization projects. They discuss the evolution of their automotive collection, highlighting new acquisitions like the GT4 RS and Tesla, while contemplating future projects. The episode also touches on business developments, including improvements in customer service and plans for a West Coast distribution facility. Listeners can expect insights into personal growth, automotive passions, and the ongoing journey of building a successful brand.
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