Dialed In Podcast: February 13th, 2026

alright welcome everybody it is Friday again life seems to be moving fast for

me these days so anyway I got the I got the background figured out I got it

solved so that's good it looks good you know it functions well and it actually

matches up so I'm pretty pumped about that to finally have that thing have

that thing all set up so actually if I turn it this way maybe it looks a little

better so you can see my background a little bit better I really dig it so

this one is from shoot what's the company acoustic

acoustic mat I think it was about 1200 bucks or something like that and you

know the gap looks a little big there but on camera but in person like you can

see how it kind of it kind of curves into the in between the two panels so it

looks freaking cool it and it you know it helps the room as well it makes the

room feel more comfortable and in sort of dialed so I'm pretty pumped about it

and and it's off the it's off the floor so now I gotta figure out we're gonna

put my Jasper my Jasper air scrubber I think it can still fit there's power

right here I think it can still fit right there and not be in the way what

else did I do for my office I ordered some window treatments and then I put the

I put the GT3 RS painting out on the wall outside there you see that so that

was kind of good and and then well I might shoot I might grab the grab the

roller and just roll out those that wall right there just what looks good from

outside my office but I got the same window treatment that I got here so this

this same window treatment I got a couple of those it'll be here in a couple

weeks or a week or so and I'll get those installed so I I also I'm kind of

dropping off a little cliff here every time I so I have this vitrozy glass

let's see if you can see this here so it so it's a tempered glass whatever you

call it carpet protector you know desk pad or office chair pad and so I ordered

another extension piece to kind of go under the desk because if I kind of roll

forward I fall off the cliff there and it's kind of annoying and then I ordered

another piece or on that side for where you know my other side of the desk but

my office is feeling good looking good feeling good it's it's really nice the

only thing I've considered because I'm here a lot more than I was when I was

sort of building the Middleton house getting that set up I might want to

prefer a couch so I can kind of lay down and I'm here late all the time and doing

stuff and on I got my display my TV set up here so who knows but let's just

let's get some other rooms done before I get into that so anyway last week yeah

I people are speculating I saw that you know what's going on well I had

done you know several weeks in a row I had it all set up I put the picture up

put the live stream up and then I got on a roll in the back there I was

organizing my top middle drawer on the 1540 cabinet and I was getting my tape

measures and levels and all that stuff dialed and then Jason came in about 15

minutes after supposed to start on my gas screw it I'm I don't feel like doing

it today I'm on a roll here so anyway sorry about that last week so Brian's

car stuff asks how's the GT3 coming along have you come to terms the paint

damage and decided what your future plans are for it so I only have like a

third of the PPF pulled I'm just gonna take my time my plan was to not rush

through but to work through it quickly and we were gonna use that car for

detailing season you know to kind of launch all these videos and and talk

about all the different products and make it like an RS series that I've been

promising for a long time and and then when I pulled the paint so we were gonna

shoot it and then launch it you know later in the later in the month and when

I pulled the paint I'm like well this is gonna be a much much longer project

I'm gonna have to do some painting and then you know the part I was worried

about was that the rear hip there the rear passengers quarter on the top of

the you know the fender there there's two three clear rock chips sure enough I

pulled the PPF off actually the rock chip touch up stayed but they had sanded it

pretty aggressively and so there's clear code failure right at the edge of the

you know right at the rounded part of the hip so I'm gonna have to paint that

anyway so the rocker the rock guard has to be painted no the car was not repainted

it's pretty normal for that you know from you're talking to some PPF folks

that's pretty normal for that rock chip area to peel and that's kind of how it

works so I'm gonna have to have some paint done and then if you watch this

channel you saw me smack the fender there's like a it's like maybe like an

inch long little circular gouge I had the brand new Mirka didn't even think to

smack the backing plate I should have lesson learned fresh out of the box

actually it wasn't even in the box I've had it in the in the cabinet for a while

now and you know buttered the pad primed it started to go made you know maybe

ten turns and then the thing shot the pad shot out to the left and then it was

metal under there and so I just did a thing just like a little like a little

bounce and so then I have a gouge in the very top of the you know right above

the headlight there so that sucks so I mean I would be you could be okay with

it but I mean if I'm gonna paint anyway I might as well fix that too and then I

may peel tonight or this weekend I may peel some of it on the on the front

bumper so I'm gonna peel the front bumper and peel the the front lid of the

hood and see what the rock chip situation is there who knows I'm gonna

just paint that as well so we'll see and then I have to decide do I want to

send it to down to Jose and have him do it or do I want to send it to like a

ultra high-end shop down there at Samuels or something like that so and then

from there figure out since it's been painted I think I'm probably just gonna

skip the whole PPF thing or maybe just do some of the high-impact areas I'm not

sure so I'm doing fine with it you know I I you always know when you're buying a

3000 mile car even though it's low mileage you know I'm fairly certain it's

not gonna be up to my standard shoot my $120,000 800 mile E92 M3 required

months and months of work to kind of get it to where I wanted it wanted it to be

so there was old like PPF remember there was the if you guys have been around a

long time the PPF they sort of stopped it in the middle of the hood so I was

dealing with that area and then they for some reason the guy had added clear to

the rear license plate area so to deal with that a little bit and and so dealing

with some of the you know the interior needed some some some clean up some

touch up because he was using armor all or something in there so I knew that

even though I was buying this this was like my unicorn color I had to pay

extra I bought it from Ryan Friedman which they you know they get top dollar

for their cars I knew that their standard is different than mine now I

traded my my touring which I traded probably 40,000 bucks less than what

it's worth now but you know whatever is the way it goes and so I traded it for

280 to them and and then bought mine my RS for 260 and and so now like the

joke was I was questioning how much value did I lose not how much is going to

cost the paint but how much value did I lose so it sucks I but I kind of figured

you know if I kind of figured I was gonna have to paint something and if

you're gonna pull paint in one spot I mean that would that be the way the way

to do it and then you know it creates all kinds of engagement with people say

I'll never do PPF and other people are saying you don't know how to remove PPF

and you should be using a heat gun not a steamer you should be pulling towards

you not away from you I don't understand what that's supposed to do but yeah it's

it's funny the engagement's been great so I'll make another update the polishing

is gonna suck too because that you know it's typical paint to sample paint

doesn't correct out as easily as the other stuff so anyway it's it's a it's

good situation to to to work through it'll be a fun living experience I'll

decide and I've always thought this I'll decide after I get the car to my spec

to my standard whatever that is I'll decide do you know is it a giveaway car

or do I sell it do I keep it you know what do I do with it and and so we'll

see you know I've learned my lesson that no car is a forever car that

everything is for sale so V-Ray says any deals on extra Viper chairs no they

they gave those to us so I wouldn't sell those those will go to we're gonna

have some little employee contest or something give them to them yes I'm

here for Friday the 13th I did show up Neil let's see Brian 50 37 are 70% and

80% isopropyl alcohol or isopropanol and ethanol hand sanitizer okay for the new

press all bottles I think so the squeeze bottles you're talking about the

alcohol like isopropyl alcohol is a little problematic for the for the like

the heavy heavy alcohol stuff like panel panel wipe and traceless we have a

solution on the site up now which is the actually the old original sprayer put a

put a metal metal head on it and metal tip and they actually work well so no I

don't I don't think there's any issue but I haven't tested it you know so you

have to try your own risk there let's see Matt did I hear you correctly that

you are no longer going to be selling the Heather Lake blue obsessed garage logo

t-shirt this is my favorite color um Heather Lake I think that's the light

blue I'm not sure you know and we'll bring stuff back if it's popular but we'll

have too many shirts too many options too much inventory to manage so then we're

always out of the ones we want and always in stock of the ones we don't and so I'm

on this escapade to to to simplify our packages to simplify our process to

simplify our inventory and then you know there's a lot of products that I promote

that have kind of gotten lost and I want to be able to have a you know a road map

a product roadmap where we can really support it so yeah I'm working on that

getting the team in place making some structural changes as usual here to get

set up to be able to make sure that we're getting you all the things that you

want can't be everything to everybody I mean that's kind of the antithesis of

what the business has been but yeah it's um it's it's you know part of the

entrepreneurial rock entrepreneurial ride Michael 2000 live says hey Matt

poured Griot's interior in a new press all and it seemed to have yellowed is

that normal yep yeah we've seen yellowing put it out in the sun it'll

probably turn back it's something to do with fluorination but we want

fluorination Spencer says even Matt dropped a little window tint knowledge

there's no difference between Lumar IRX and Formula One it's a marketing tool in

high population areas to differentiate shops I figured yeah the high-end Lumar

is the same as Formula One they just sort of rebranded the Lumar as Formula One

is another option let's get a rant going I'm sure we can come up with something

here give me some give me some rant topics what speakers are those those are

Dynaudio contour legacy they're like a special edition old throwback speaker

with like modern components and crossovers they're freaking awesome and I

love them it was those speakers like the whole vision I had for this office so

it's the main reason why I built the office so I had a place to put those

speakers let's see you need a press all bottle to squirt water in your mouth

that's a good idea I should do that yeah Vicharraza is the is the glass flooring

you know online company and let's see what what is the company for for car

soundproofing again well Dynaudio is one what's the one that Matt Shafer uses

I mean there's like 10 15 20 different brands now so good enough garage one how

are the DI units doing that were sent out to initial testers any expected changes

from the feedback you've gotten I think they're all doing great feedback has

been good I think that we're probably set up to launch we're going to do drops

so we're going to sort of build the order and like and sort of pre-sell and sell

into so in other words we'll buy like 20 to all the components to build 20 and

then I'll put quantity 20 up on the site and we'll work on selling through those

as we get near the end we'll order another 20 and we'll kind of work through it

that way and because they have to be you know they have to be freighted to you

there's some it's a bunch of assembly required and we're probably going to

have it assembled and shipped from our contract manufacturer in in Wisconsin

so that would be cheaper to get everywhere and faster to get everywhere in the country

so that's what we're working on the process now how are we going to get them the order

and then how are we going to you know make sure that they're building it to our standard

uh David says thinking of trying touchless I know you rave about it what is your favorite

parts of touchless it just works I'm in telling you doesn't degrade my coding

cleans the car pretty well I know it's vetted and tested like stringently so I can kind of

take it to the bank that it's not going to be degrading my uh my stuff uh yeah terrible luck

this month yeah you know it's par for the course I I expect it it sucks when you go through it

10 years ago I would have been crying in the corner you know so I feel I feel I'm pretty proud of

myself I feel pretty good about the fact that I've kind of let it go and let's see

trade for sciences what do you think about car youtubers struggling with views and keeping up

with expenses well I mean that's business right um when you're marketing sometimes you're marketing

wanes sometimes your marketing is a boon um youtube is really marketing this is a large

percentage of the reason why certainly when I got you know one of my wealth management practice

was taken from me I'm like well I don't want to build my house only on somebody else's land

and so and I don't have broad appeal and so I don't want to chase google ad revenue

and sponsorship I want to build a you know a traditional company that if youtube went away

it certainly would take a major hit I have to transition how I'm marketing how I'm reaching

people um but you know it's I wanted to have a business and something I could fall back on

so that's always a risk is that you as as attention uh as there's more content more

people more information more more stuff available to you you're it's harder to gain

gunner attention so for you to get giant views is you know unlikely and much rarer than it was at

one point uh and so you have to adapt and adjust and then realize that you know shoot if you have

a thousand loyal customers you have yourself a business so you can create a decent business

so um yeah I mean it's part of the game uh what are your opinions on or what are your yeah I think

some mean opinions on trust score uh any ar635 foaming updates um I didn't like trust score

because when they ship it there's no protection uh and so the panels get all scratched up I had

gotten samples of it way back when I went to kbiz I found it there and then saw matt reisinger

talking about he was there promoting it like this is an interesting product um I would I would rather

do a slot while like pro slot product instead of doing trust score because at least it looks very

similar um and at least I I have something I can use to hang stuff on so and the pro slot stuff

ships better than the trust score does it doesn't get all kind of marred and scratched up

so video will be up tomorrow I did the foam cannon tests uh further tests none of them work

and they're not like modifiable at least me and my canon conclusion there's not something you can

just do but the ar foam cannon works so we've reached out to tom at ar to get you know get

those foam cannons in stock uh it's uh it's it's actually pretty nice all stainless uh black bottle

it's it's you're just going to have to buy a new foam cannon and anybody spent 15

hundred bucks on a new pressure washer I think can spend 100 bucks to get the foam cannon

so I gotta get pricing on it um and it works perfectly out of the box it's a completely

different design there's more aeration it looks like it looks like the venturi hole is the same

but it's aerating more um and so it's pulling in more air through the top uh and then it has a

conical uh so it has a a step down type uh um orifice uh and so the orifice starts out at about

2.2 millimeters and then next down or v's down to 1.7 I think that helps with the flow the lack

of pressure and the flow that we're getting um from the uh from the the the bigger machine

and then um or the machine at the limit so I'll have the video if you want to care to watch it

where I go into all different scenarios of taking that orifice and put it in another

foam cannons drilling out the moshmatic trying to get it all to work the key target is to keep

the machine happy uh we don't want it running so aggressively I don't want it running at 2122 amps

you can run the MJJC you can run the griots we can get foam out of it but we have to run it at

well over 21 or over 20 amps which I just don't think would be smart in the long run the AR has

you know just performs beautifully the the foam cannon and it we're getting great I get great

foam like right out of the box with no adjustments so I think it's the way to go oh we'll have it up

soon Matt what are your what about clear spray or peelable paint film any thoughts

the problem with that is that you have to wet sand it um unless something else has come out

that I'm unaware of it's like the same process it requires like a painter like a quality painter

requires essentially a paint booth and then requires you to sand the thing flat otherwise

it looks peely now maybe there's some self leveling stuff that just works amazingly well now but I

think it's still need a paint booth um so I mean if you're gonna go that that link just freaking

repaint the car if you guys will remember when I did the esoteric series when I got my dot one

white rs back in probably 2018 2019 something like that and I went up to Ohio I did a 20 something

part series the whole point of it was to decide I didn't even like coatings let alone let alone the

ppf was a wax and sealant guy sealant wax guy you know power lock plus it was power lock before

power lock plus and colonite 845 so I didn't want to jerk around with that well I don't want to do

that it doesn't look as good now ppf has got much better I mean look how great my gt4 rs looks

with the ultra fit on it looks incredible so you know I think that it's viable I think it still makes

sense for a lot of people um does it make sense once the car's been painted and you know obviously a

lot of people are questioning does it make sense that the car hasn't been painted because what I'm

saying is if you pull it you pull paint and then people say well just go to the professionals well

have you met professionals in this world you know yeah you might have somebody's great but

there aren't many of them so you can't just go take it to the run of the middle detail they're

gonna jack up your car I don't know what they're doing anyway so um yeah I don't think it's really

viable maybe you guys can educate me if there's something like ultra new but two years ago you'd

have to paint the car and wet sand it to get the product to work and then how the heck do you get

that off when you need to uh you're gonna have to repaint the car kind of feeds the purpose

hey matt house question do you prefer gas appliances or fully electric um talking dryer

stove a water heater etc so um I think gas is kind of the way to go on a water heater I mean

there's like navy on you need massive electric service and the cost of natural gas or propane

I think it's much more efficient to do gas um now from what I understand the tankless electric

water heaters can be decent or if you have a room like utility room a heat pump style is actually

really nice and really efficient so if you have the room to do a regular big old tank and do a

heat pump I mean that's a solid solution but you don't have infinite water right and so you

need a really big tank and you need to be you know mindful of that but that's probably the

cheapest the most efficient option is to do a heat pump tank style traditional electric water

heater you know in essence the heat pump pulls the heat in from the surrounding area which turns

it into a little baby air conditioner for whatever that closet is you don't need to condition that

space if it's like an outdoor closet or something like that the woodgate house I'd put a heat pump

in uh and it kept that that closet which wasn't conditioned nice and cool um but I would tend to

prefer gas because you know if I have infinite gas and um I have infinite amount of water I don't

have to worry about the tank running running lean so I prefer gas on a tankless I prefer gas on my

range even though induction is now more efficient and you can heat faster and there's some advantages

to it I just like the look of a gas range I want electric for my dryer because I have gas now and

it's it's not as efficient it doesn't work as well it doesn't dry as well so those are my choices

uh Wolfman1273 says hey Matt I'm suffering in my current stale job I am I think he cements ADHD

and I can't play the same games other people play I really resonate with your obsession

and your car cleaning turn business help yeah I mean I this is tricky

who's the problem and you know are you the problem and you just don't know it are you

blind to it because I've yet to meet an employee who sat me down and said you know um I'm the

problem you know I'm just struggling it's always you're the problem Matt you know or you're the

problem IBM you're the problem you know whatever it is um see I never really had that mentality

now I got in trouble all the time when I worked for companies uh because I didn't like the rules

that they that were limiting I thought it was kind of I was kind of rules for me and then rules for

thee you know just let me run let me go let me do my thing let me improve let me chase

even as a young man I feel like I had you know pretty good taste um but you know so I was running

up against not not complacency not um I never had an issue with um with that it was always you know

doing too much uh stepping outside of my purview um getting involved too much so the last thing I

think you want to do in life um so I think that's better that's of the two choices of being apathetic

and you know blaming it on the company and just sort of quiet quitting being unhappy I think that

I would rather you go and break things and get fired you know go and chase I think that's a

better choice because at least your day goes quicker you're not just sitting there miserable

and horrible you know even even my horrible cart-pushing job you know I stayed busy and I

I got in trouble and I quit because the lady yelled at me for taking too many carts when

for the 17th time my you know my cart-pushing partner didn't show up you know and I got stuck

there alone for the 17th time in a row and so I was just trying to get the job done I

wouldn't get paid anymore it didn't matter but that's not that's not how I operated and and so

you need to figure out how your natural tendency how do you naturally operate it and Rick talks

about this a lot my coach um he says you're one of four categories you're either a being right

person you're right as if you have the right to be right as you might imagine I'm a being right

then there's people that have their reasons um so their reasons are what they use to justify

their existence so I use my reasons it's the people who have to tell you a story by the way

none of these are bad or good um all have bad connotations all have good connotations um

a reasons person will tell you the whole backstory to sort of justify their existence

and then you have positional people these are people that will take a position

and they'll die on the hill uh and they protect that position usually out of uncertainty or fear

or or you know the the sort of potentially unsafe conditions or something like that and

they'll take a position and um and you know the only way to deal with a positional person is to

sort of just take care of them positional people tend to be very vulnerable and then you have a

person who has to know all the answers before they can do anything so you have the being rights the

having to know all the answers you have the um the my reasons people and you have the positional

people and you can kind of fit pretty much everybody in one of those four categories it's a

little secret between you and me i spend most of my time um the last decade attempting to uh and

i've gotten pretty good at it to to figure out which way of being you are and then i know how

to take care of you for example if you guys want to take care of me all you have to do is say you

know what matt you're right and then that'll defuse me immediately and i won't go on any

rants ever again or you know like tommy who um is uh is um you know running operations now he um

he's having all the answers classic case um where with tommy um you just have to tell me you've

got enough answers just do it just launch you know a positional person you just like i said you

take care of them and a reasons person you have to kind of gently stop say i trust you i believe

you do it you know you have to sort of get them to stop otherwise they'll sit there all day giving

you a thousand and one reasons why to do things the reason why i'm telling you this if you can

kind of figure out your personality analyze your personality i'm not i'm not sure this is the right

way to do it um but i i sit around sort of analyzing my personality what do i like to do

and i'm doing this even as a business as we kind of meander through the entrepreneurial journey

you know i've kind of ratcheted back to doing more specific just the garage stuff and recognizing

that you know i don't want to be mediocre at the house stuff or the home theater stuff i want to be

great in the garage and and i don't want to be mediocre and three things i'd rather be you know

try to be the best in the world and um and so the the um the thing to do to figure out you know

what you should do next is first of all figure out is it the job is it the manager is it the

relationships are you the fault are you the problem there um is your adhd causing you your

issues if so do you need to figure out a way to leverage that and and and i don't suggest you do

that right overnight but i do suggest that you do not quiet quit you know if you are going to go

look for another position kill it in your current position and i'm telling you that will translate

over into the language the body language the energy you have in the next position that you're

searching for in fact you know you you may want to be pretty um you may want to be pretty

honest you know you need to be able to be careful but you don't think you quit your job i think you

go to um you you just be honest with people where you're at and what you're chasing and what you're

interested in um and that may be inside of your same company um but yeah i think i think it starts

with you you can sit there you can feel miserable i would never accept where i walk in i sit at a

desk and i'm just the time the day takes 12 hours when it's only an eight hour day you know with a

seven hour day with an hour worth of breaks where you're taking breaks and you're dodging work

figure out a way to get out of that as quickly as possible whether it's get out of your own way

get out of your head and get your crap together it's go try to break some things and go push

or it's you know figure out what your next position is and figure out how to leverage

who you are so figure out who you are and what your tendencies are hope that helps

um matt why is it that exclusive paints are different to standard paints so i don't know this

for a fact but you know i have on good authority that a paint the sample car from Porsche especially

as popular as paint the sample was paint the sample cars are painted in a on a different line so the

the car leaves i don't know if it leaves the factory or leaves the paint line but it goes and

gets a sort of a custom paint job and it gets the paint job somewhere else and then they have to load

the new guns and clean it up and so i'm not sure how they do and if it's Porsche i'm sure it's

relatively precise but from my experience and from the knowledge that i know from people that would

know who told me you i mean it's impossible to get the same precision that they can get with the

standard colors that they have set up on the you know the the the precision assembly line

and so from my experience every paint the sample car i've ever played eyes or hands on there's

there's paint runs there's imperfections there's a tendency for the paint to just not not correct

as nicely there's more touching more sand marks more marring from more hands touching the thing

it's it's very likely more a more manual process it's more Ferrari like than Porsche like or Audi

like your Lamborghini like you know so you you get the bespoke color you pay extra for it and you

get in a paint job that's inferior and so you know maybe you have issues where it doesn't bond as

well to the you know the rock chip area or the rocker area a rock guard area that mine peeled

but i'll never do it again i can tell you that right now the paint on my on my gt4 rs was incredible

you know it was marred up from the you know some sanding marks and stuff but

it corrected beautifully easily perfectly and and so that's been my experience that's why

tanner says is obsessed garage home theater divested in 2026 or change of warehouse locations

so um michael's still you know working on um we're sort of he's sort of figuring out the model

but um i think that you know through april this year we're shipping out of hq and then he's kind of

working toward um doing more drop shipping stuff so um that's what we're working on let me see

the matt's saying um okay i'll answer that when we get there for these some upcoming questions

kind of like using my ipad here it's working all right

let's see what is it does it look a little darker there or something like this help us out

turn that light on see if it maybe gets rid of some of the shadow maybe the shadows look better

uh let's see here

yeah it looks the same um let's see matt i'm getting an og m2 2018 with under 20 000 miles

and a manual so excited that's great man i'm thinking about m2 rs3 for ryan what do you

guys think like a 2019 rs3 or you know a 2018 m2 if that'd be stupid it probably would be we'll see

congrats hey uh bryant bolden 5763 says saw the test the charger got moved in the middleton house

why so close to the ceiling i moved it because i put a boom pole in it's really sick mosmatic

has a articulating 180 degree boom uh you'll see we'll have a video up probably next week or week

and a half to show you the installation that's really sick uh jeff junior are you all set for

the big holiday um yeah i don't do that holiday so i bought michelle a sweet tennis necklace for

anniversary slash christmas slash birthday slash valentine's day so and mother's day so i'm covered

for the year it's pretty dialed as you might imagine so so she's good

let's see charlie says uh boiling water to remove ppf larry at ammo does it that way

and i don't see the point and that's what a steamer is is boiling water so why wouldn't you just use

the steamer um i mean you run the risk if you heat it up too much that you you lift pain anyway

because you're you're heating the paint up too much so you know to put 212 degrees on the paint would

maybe make the adhesive pull off easier but does it affect the paint does it swell the paint causing

the paint to lift and pull so i think you're darned if you do darn if you don't don't use the heat gun

if you're really good with the heat gun maybe you can have more even heat um but maybe not um and so

what is you know heat gun is one way i find that the easiest way to control the heat uh and to get

it to the temperature i need to help keep the glue from pulling off now i might use heat gun or i

you know if the adhesive was a real problem but you know this is the way to remove it had i

done that on the rockers it almost certainly would still have peeled the paint now i think

kevin from next armor's methodology is probably the best uh in that but you got to have a unique

skill where you take your knife and you score so you cut sections and then you use your steam

um and you know you try to put as little pressure on the paint as possible um whether you want to

try to lift it up like some people are complaining or pull it towards you or pull it'll push it away

from you or whatever bull crap you're making up um you know that probably is the best way to do it

because you're you're relief cutting you know the ppf but you know then you and you're certainly

i think going to end up unless you're a real wizard uh you're going to end up with a couple

of cut marks in the clear coat so do you want that which would you rather have this is the

conundrum with ppf and what i've always been sort of questioning and never finished my esoteric

story of us doing ppf but i did this whole series to sort of decide is this something that i want

to have on my cars and i concluded that i i think so on some of them but like my previous m3 i didn't

put ppf on my gt uh four i didn't put ppf on my tesla didn't put ppf on it and put ppf on the

um let's see we didn't put it on the gt 350 i didn't put it on the corvette well you know

for obvious reasons sorry corvette bros i didn't put it on the m3 the f80 m3 you know

most cars i haven't put it on really i could probably should name the ones i have

the e92 m3 i put it on the g80 m3 which i had for two three months you know

i basically just detailed it and sold it um you know i put it on um you know a half a dozen cars

and then i've not put it on more because i prefer it without so having but i've never pulled paint

and i pulled ppf off of probably a dozen cars maybe more no issue

let's see my wife got me the dowel then air freshener and she got sugar blossom really

impressed with them how did how did you describe the e92 scent it's it's going to be renamed

a citrus so i think it's like clean citrus or something like that let's see yeah liquid

sanitizers and spray bottles i think i'll try that out let's see have the sales of the new

mss next cabinet met initial forecast and expectations so matt sent me some of the numbers here

um mss sales from december to now is 250 000 our forecast the sonic was 150 000

uh and baseline and 150 000 high so i'd say we're on the high side of the forecast so

so our baseline was 150 and then i think he's meaning like we you know 300 was our was our

high example or 250k was our was our peak example so i'm super pumped super pleased

they're pumped it's they're amazing cabinets we may be secret i don't think i'm supposed to tell

this but we're working on all black version so but don't hold me to that don't get me in

trouble for that one um and that would be like a drop very likely and then hopefully we can convince

them to make black forever the problem is they're you know making that color in europe

let's see uh i just got in trouble matt's yelling at me with the it's not set in stone but we're

hoping that maybe we could do all black someday but don't stop buying the uh the gray ones

um how did you first first start building i'll just say og uh oh before that sorry i

missed some questions here um how can i get press all labels in the uk and you can just

order them and we'll ship them to you it won't be cheap but we can ship them

we don't have them stocked there i mean we gotta make them like rows of 2500 for each one so

it's not practical at least not yet uh riz con says hey matt uh huge fan from

manchester uk looking to open a shop in the next couple of weeks but i really want to know when

the og stuff will easily be accessible and available this side of the pond i don't have a

timeline for your brother um we're uh i'm i'm working to try to make uh i'm not trying i'm making

og america og north america uh excellent and it's not yet it's good but we want it to be

excellent so i've got to get that fixed before i get in the head out anywhere else uh hey matt

you mentioned eating sardines a few weeks ago uh like or not like i hate them but if you are

going to eat sardines if you're going to go on this path there isn't og speck

these i should be a darn spokesperson for every product on a planet that i'm interested in these

are og speck sardines la brajula i'm sure it's not brahula uh bruh bruhula uh la bru

gula uh these are the number 31 sardines these are uh about eight bucks uh a 10 if you buy them

in bulk which i found a place i found uh um it's like gourmet shoot gourmetfood.com i believe

and because i was buying them for 15 bucks a pop on uh on amazon um but the concept here

and i'm going to make a video about this on the matt mormon channel when i hit my goal

of 195 which i'm going to hit i'm two 206.1 this morning so i'm going to hit the 195 i've broken

through that sort of 215 barrier blew through the 210 and now i'm i'm headed to 195 i want to see

what that feels like um but i i discovered i'll give you the cliff notes here i discovered

dr bosworth on the diary of a ceo podcast um um when really struggling with agoraphobia and panic

and and you know not wanting to go anywhere do anything and because i keep having panic attacks

in the middle of just walking around so um i signed up for the january 21 day challenge

and i started testing my blood for ketones i'd assume that just since i was carnivore

that i could just eat meat and eat you know eat no low carb content and i would be in ketosis

which is not the case and so dr bos in this 21 day course talks a lot about sardine and if you look

at the the caloric and the breakdown of this so this is three ounces of four ounces the net

serving size is three ounces of sardines it's a four ounce container but three ounces of sardines

and that's the drained weight um and so total fat 11 grams total protein is one of that there's a

protein total fat protein 17 grams so actually these are a little less fatty so these probably

aren't really good but it's a super solid roughly 50 50 weight distribution of protein to fat is

normally what they are i think these are leaner because they're like younger or something but

these taste way better sardines caught in the spanish coastal waters at dawn steam to enhance

their texture and preserve the quality of their meat and these are like hand picked that's why

you're paying eight bucks for a 10 for these are nine bucks a 10 um so sardines are this magical

you know little fish that has all the right macronutrient profile macro and micronutrient

profile to help spark the production of ketones the idea of of of getting into a ketosis state

is that the mitochondria inside your cell your cells if you get into a high state of therapeutic

ketosis that you'll end up in autophagy which is a sort of an accelerated breakdown or recycling

of bad mitochondria for good and it takes solid three or four months of that of that

sort of high level of ketosis if and i'm gonna you know make a video on this and sort of share

with you what i've learned and so i've had to switch my eating window i would normally eat

twice a day sometimes once so kind of flip flip flop and i would eat it like seven o'clock at night

and and so i took this course in implementing some sardines some sardine fasting where you

eat sardines for three days forced me to get into ketosis because i really wasn't i don't know if

i've ever actually been solidly in it and then and then i changed my eating window so i'm i'm

trying to eat most days depending on how hard i'm training i'm eating at nine a.m. and that's it

so today i ate at nine a.m. and 11 a.m. so i had sardines at 11 and i had i had a tri-tip

and six eggs so six eggs and probably a quarter pound of tri-tip steak this morning for breakfast

and i felt like that wasn't enough my stomach's been kind of bothering me because i just came

off a 72-hour water fast so um yeah the the but i'm solidly in a therapeutic level of ketosis

that's how i've now down you know so i was like 215 now i'm 206 i'm down nine pounds and 21 days

10 pounds and 21 days and i'm you know feeling great starting to do better on it and and i'm

convinced that long-term therapeutic case will afford me the ability to maybe drive a car again

someday at least be a contributing factor to it uh what are your thoughts on geon mose

i think mose is okay it's a good coating can't go wrong long-lasting decently slick looks good

but it's not like super exciting to me so it's not my choice i put geon mose on the white

emira it's okay and i've done it before but it's been a while and so i just just retest it just to

be sure uh progression decibel says hey matt not sure if you're going to revisit comments for me

some videos but in the bill timber video you showed corosal can that be used on tires wheels

instead of brake buster it can but it's not there's no cleaning agent to it the corosal is just a

iron remover so you would still want a wheel cleaner auto wheel which you can get at detail image

auto wheel would be a better solution because auto wheel has corosal in it it has so do you

want to go out the clock late in it and i just don't love those because they don't they don't

they're not as slick and foam as well as something like brake buster but i do need to give auto wheel

another try so you can get bill timber auto wheel which it does get rave reviews by most people

um oh good point coming to the car show in the 28th will you be doing any tours of your garage at

your house or at hq um my house will be open no one will be at hq we're just going to require

people to walk you know which will be like i don't know it's like a little over half a mile

maybe a little less than that right at half a mile to walk from you know from the

partillos where you know i'll be sort of centrally located next to where we're going to build our

our facility and um in my house and so people will be able to walk over and tour it so

anyway get your um i think we have like 50 something cars so we have a lot of capacity

so just submit whatever you got and they'll probably approve it um the the but i know lots

of people are going to show up it's going to be really cool but it's february 28th from 1 to 8 p.m

and uh j leno is likely going to be there it's going to be a fun event and so come on out

let's see ren's f32 says hey matt check out the reigning champ standard middle weight heavyweight

hoodie it's 150 canadian but it fits inward in more slimmer around your waist and midsection

comparison the white hoodie i've seen you wear well that one white i did buy a 2x because

i wanted to be bigger um or no that was an xl and all my others are largest but i'll check that out

i love the house of color but the one in the uh in the viper video i purposely bought it oversized

because i wanted to fit a little looser just for just to be a little bit different than the ones i

normally wear uh mickey 684 says what if you poke a hole in the existing foam cannon tube

closer to the top uh for it to work uh that's what i did with my merrillx sprayer to convert to a

fomer problem is is that holes about 0.8 and it needs to be like a 1.0 um and uh i don't have a

drill that can hold that small of a bit um let's see uh good afternoon from minnesota dan

that's up dan status detailed that a ppf removal video adhesive promoter can cause paint peeling

yeah the more adhesive promoter that you use the more chance you're going to have to peel

and so it looks or appears in my cars they use a lot of used

gas for all but the dryer can start gas water heater and furnace to prolong power outages

if use is savvy enough yep uh reef rondo let's see i hate you matt that's okay i get that since

finding your content you've cost me thousands of pounds dollars you know lots of money and i've just

laid my second swiss tracks garage keep up the good work my man i'm loving the journey and obsession

love from scottland nice to meet you thanks for you um what is your pivot cox reel when it when

is the pivot cox reel mount coming out um we were kind of holding up because we needed them for the

wash stations um any we're hoping to have it for spring so let's say in the next few weeks

wolf man following up on talking about job i want to go to work to do my job well and be

included in training so i can move up in the business and life i don't want to be friends with them

yeah you know i mean friends you know we're in business here be business business is an

excuse to be in relationship so you're in a relationship so you might as well make that a

good relationship and i would never sort of hold back and say you know you need to ask for what

you need what you want and know that sometimes uh rick calls this a gracious invitation you're

going to make a request so you would make a request for some training or a request for

upward mobility doesn't mean you're going to get it so get after it man keep going

when are you guys restocking the vacuum i was hoping to receive it soon matt had told me

we just got a batch a batch of vacuums in yesterday so should be going out contact support

support at obsessed garage dot com if you don't get a confirmation today so where seems to be

always out of stock because that vacuum is freaking amazing and you guys are always by them

let's see

yeah paint assembly cars are more done by hand which could have been partly why appealed

um matt are you using ai at og also how how how are you implementing it

i was reading a long article titled something big is happening and it was eye opening to say the

least um we use ai a lot for matt relidge uses it a lot um i use it quite a bit um but we use

it we're using it a lot more on the Shopify side of things using Shopify ai to analyze our data

we're using it to create pivot tables and to analyze um we're in this current project

maybe i'll talk about it more on inside the hex uh i need to i owe you guys a video this week i was

running around like crazy finishing the dr boss course i started the my business course

i joined something called founders club and i'm in another club called founders only club

which is a wellness thing so i got a little sidetracked here this week in my own personal

development um but the the implementation i think uh on our side and our business is going to do

and have a lot to do with code you know and and website you know getting the website to

look and feel the way we want it's going to have to do with i think that my gut tells me within 18

months we'll be able to manage all of our warehouse stuff off of get rid of all the sass

you know the service the software is a surface providers and use anthropic cloud or clod or

something like that to you know do our inventory management and our processes and analyze how

many steps we're taking and all that uh but none of that stuff is really you know really functional

yet right now it's kind of virtual assistance is what you get we're also using it a lot to help

us decide when to post videos um when to uh you know when to make social media posts so so that's

that's kind of how we're how we're using it to analyze what what works and what doesn't

yeah and rs3 would be pretty sick rs3 out of quattro safer than we will drive

if he gets caught in a rainy situation is unfamiliar the quattro is generally better

i think so too um and i'm thinking like 2018 or you know 20 i think 2018 2019 rs3 not the new one

they're like 30 grand nothing gonna be kind of sick

what's going on with obsessed wealth management company that was

seven years ago that's what i did prior to obsessed garage so that doesn't exist anymore

ryan doesn't like the gti so i don't think i'm gonna talk him into it

and let's see

matt i'm a little new to watching these but do you prefer to use ads glass coating or

wolf's glass sealant also do you put compound on the glass and polish it before applying the

coating yes you want to polish i would recommend getting built hamper review

but you can use whatever you know griot's fast correcting cream or you know whatever

whatever compound you're using the microfiber cutting pad but i put microfiber cutting pad

with built hamper review to prep it then i would wipe it down aggressively with

touchless and then my choice is still wolf's glass sealant

and let's see

2018 to 2020 rs3 have a really nice aura blue crystal paint fits the og color yeah we'll look for that

uh so heat gun you can get the ppf and adhesive hotter while keeping the paint cooler

but also no full ppf yeah i think your main ppf use case uh you don't really i don't think you're

a ppf use case you don't really drive enough or in the conditions to warrant it so the reason

why i went to ppf uh was because on my sapphire gt3 and i took it to the mountains and we're riding

bumper to bumper and rocks are flying up hitting you in the eyeballs so um you know i have full

intention to be able to drive a freaking car again so um if i'm taking my gt3 to the mountains i want

ppf on it even if i don't plan on keeping it a long time because it's going to get nuked so that's

what i want i wonder if your relief cut the ppf then soak it in rapid remover would you

would get in the cuts and help release the glue maybe again the glue is not really the problem

here um you the glue can become a problem but uh it's ryan have you seen the new adro front

bumper for the g80 completely changes to grill i don't think it's new it's it's still hideous even

with the adro um that came out like six months after the car came out unless they created something

else um the angel wax exodus seems to be doing great but again i haven't really driven it all so

yeah wish you kept the civic i want to like the civic but driving that thing was terrible

accurate to hypers would be a good option too for ryan yep yep i was thinking about that

it's just this front wheel drive kind of sucks uh let's see

matt i pride almost every brand of sardines they're mostly all the same i eat sardines at

least three times a week i'm telling you this is the one

progression decibel matt great work on your health weight if you don't mind sharing at the weight of

205 what shirt sizes and waist size do you wear uh trying to get down to 200 205 as well

so that puts me like i'm in a large so that puts me in a slightly medium-ish medium-ish

tightness large uh and then my waist is probably like a 33 um but i'll buy all 34s and just suck

them in a little bit you know if i get to 195 i'll probably be a 32 uh is what i would expect

uh i love it by your kid too nice of a car as his first uh but your wife gets a necklace for the

entire year so i don't think you understand what this necklace is i bought so so um yeah now in

fairness my brother-in-law is a you know is a um he owns a gold refinery uh company or a company

that buys gold and buys you know precious stones and so he has all the connection so i bought it

below wholesale um but it i came correct you know let's just say that um let's just hope

you're gonna get her head lopped off of that sucker so actually yeah yeah i'll leave it at

that i'm only getting more trouble than i'm already gonna get it um shodry my husband is

is obsessed with you okay that's cool um i don't have a driving update um i'm working diligently

on the on the on the angst um through ketosis through and hopefully one of these days i'm

gonna get on here and tell you guys i'm drove my gt4 rs uh damian f o one says i would be curious

to see your thoughts on a brand of car care products i've been trying i like them so far

but a smaller company that is newer uh can email me if you want to know see how they compare

the likelihood of it being better than what i've already got is pretty slim so

and i probably have heard of it unless it's like a local yokel thing but you can show me an email

if you'd like um anything you can suggest that covers up my slat wall i like the organization

but hate the look of all my stuff on the wall when i pull in

yeah i don't know man unless you made some sort of false wall or something i'm not sure

like what i did is i built an arm mud room and built another wall so i could keep everything

behind the cabinet array thanks matt i'm just done with my stupid draft vacuum what a mistake

yeah it's not good let's see what product supervised you with a higher sales volume

oh what sorry i might have to i can read what product surprised you with a higher sales volume

than you expected hmm that's a great question it's probably something to do with one of the

chachkies the guys would create for for the giveaways um i mean i thought i would sell lots of

high torque tools even though i knew i'd get a lot of pushback um i was a little surprised with

how much jtr we were able to sell uh the jr speakers and home theater

the but yeah it would probably be like skate decks or photos or you know of cars or something like

that uh what do you plan on starting the evo upgrades uh next month uh i think we have it

scheduled to go up and get tuned and then i'll come back here hey matt what bookkeeping software

do you use for og quickbooks or other yeah we're using this is a point of contention here

that we're working on we're using quickbooks online uh we may be transitioning so we have

quickbooks online Shopify so everything is built on the back of Shopify and then and then the data

through via api comes into quickbooks and then we also have a warehouse management software called

the posco um so it's a bespoke software that was built you know specifically for the products

and services that we provide it sucks like net suite like all of them suck um i've spent hundreds

of thousands of dollars on it um it's certainly automated some of what we do um again i'm convinced

that with ai coming that we're going to be able to ditch that um you know i just got a you know

paying like a hundred thousand dollars a year for it and we're going to it's going to go up to

hundred and forty thousand dollars a year um you know tommy's on it so we're going to figure it out

more to come and i'll share with all you guys probably inside the hex of exactly what that

looks like and a lot of the operational changes that i've made and what i think the future looks

like for us um as i head toward a profitability model and then a profit sharing type model bonus

structure for the for the whole organization um to you know to have upward mobility for the people

that are here you know i think we can go i think we can double where we're at with the same staff

that we have minus just like a few additions uh let's see what do you think about the f-150

tremor i'm finding that my lowered f m3 40 is not for me uh you uh you live and learn i guess

um and if i'm going f-150 tremor i would much rather have a raptor just get a used gen two

raptor which i think would probably be something similar in price next time you do a home maintenance

day cleaning the trash can tidying bits bobs can you upload it inside the hex keeps helps keep me

going yeah i should do that that'd be a good uh inside the hex video do you have any plans on

carrying power tools since you don't have milwaukee anymore i don't think so i mean i still like

milwaukee the most so yeah probably not let's someday i find some great bespoke brand like

bosh was interesting but i don't like the bosh as nearly as much uh bosh video coming out i think

monday the bosh uh polish or testing and i think we're going to carry them they they they're still

there's still quite a bit of vibration but it's nowhere near as bad as it was at sima

so i think they have a place in the mid end uh let's see

i have the og vacuum solution the small round brush attachment is nearly useless i think what

we have to do because none of those brushes really work um they're either too stiff and damage your

stuff um i think what i need to do is kind of trim it out a little bit more um so it's not like

sucked into the hole there's so much suction that it pulls it in i know exactly what you're talking

about matt have you seen the new ego commercial blower i have um i just don't think we need anymore

but i don't know uh robe wear says former beta tester of the original bottles however i made the

i finally made the jump the new bottles really happy thus far but visit your area on business

all the time maybe we can meet one day sure come on over i'm three garages deep nice that's awesome

yeah the new ones are an improvement they fix most of the problems the yellowing was a bit

concerning but seems to be okay so i think we're all right um have you ever seen anyone use swiss

tracks for an outside area i wonder if you could use swiss tracks around my pole area in the summer

and take them up and store them in the winter the problem is is the swelling in the sunlight

you have to really account for that it can work um it's not super comfortable on your bare feet though

are you using an ai for internal software development i mean we're not doing a lot of

developing but i'm certain that you know brice and tommy use it to help you know fix some patches

and stuff on the uh back end of of og it you know it's going to afford us the ability to you know

getting to go at it alone and not have to hire a software developer in the future

it looks like some videos on youtube members only aren't always on inside the hex on the og site

no they are it's all it's identical um had the single krenzla set up for the last two years

just ordered a second krenzla and everything to go dual nice can't wait to do the install

i tell you you're screwed though um you're never going to be able to go back

you're you're now a convert forever uh let's see

uh ceo detailing says also will you be buying any of the mystery boxes from bradley though

you guys to buy mystery boxes have lost your mind it's such a waste of time and money

i don't play the lottery either though have you ever considered an esop well it's a privately

held you know 100 owned by me um it's a single member uh llc so a employee stock option plan

is more for a public company um what i'm talking about is cash you know i'm not particularly

interested in diluting um you know maybe someday that would change but i mean this is kind of my

personal brand uh so to dilute ownership really doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless i was

going to bring in some some private you know some equity from outside um and i would do that in a

you know diversified fashion and that would be a pool of people because i you know you don't want

to have me with a boss you want me to do me so yeah no it would be a you know what what we're

going to set up is a structure for if we hit our profit goals then we have a pool that pays out

and then gets distributed out in a discretionary basis based on performance i don't want this like

nickelyn dime um quarterly performance updates and this is freaking stupid it's a waste of time um

i don't want to get in this tenured thing where you know like you're a tenured teacher you're the

worst teacher but because you've been there the longest that you make the most that doesn't make

any sense to me um i want an incentive based structure i haven't been able to do that because

we grew so fat and we're trying to manage inventory and hire people uh and just manage the day to

day you know just trying to survive and so all of the steps i'm taking now is to shore up the

back end shore up the profitability focus in making sure that all of our products are doing well

inside of my niche which is to you know curate and not retail and i think that um i think that

we're headed you know solidly in that direction let's see really love on the og site that it shows

you x amount left and x in stock on the products can you make all products show the accounts

not all in stock show that um some products i'm not sure why wait you know we some products we

because we drop ship we can't have um we can't have the number there

hey matt i'm having a new garage built uh having a new garage built a new home built

and what is the number one thing that you would recommend i'd want to do as an og solution for

the garage the builder is doing two dedicated 20 amp circuits they are also doing dual hose bibs

in there for a recommended hose bib yes you want to do all that you also want to make sure that

you're setting your wiring up properly for lighting and lighting control you're going to want to do

linear lights you're going to do he williams you're going to want to do um leutron uh raw

to select control so you're going to want to make sure you're set up and wired for that

so you want to reach out to the design team they'll give you the the the stuff that you need

um yeah so the the dual you know dedicated 20 amps would be for your for your pressure

wash you're going to want one for the vacuum system um you'll probably want an electric charger

port you're going to want if you're going to do an air compressor to figure out where to

wire that at 220 so that's what you're going to need not sure if it was asked if i missed it but

update on the 635 the 635 foam cannon it's going to have to be at least in the interim it's going

to have to be the ar foam cannon so that's what you're going to have to do i mean make sure

matt didn't have anything else that i'm supposed to talk about here yet we talked about the vacuum

talked about mss sales um you know there's ryan was absent from school today he's sick

kate was sick the other day hopefully i don't get sick um because i'm firing on all cylinders

baby i'm getting to i'm getting to 195 i'm gonna see 199.9 soon and i'm uh i'm gonna get there

i'm gonna get there with a smile on my face and then hopefully at some point i'm gonna fix this

phobia bullcrap and i'm gonna be rolling so anyway thanks everybody for um for being here

thanks for listening i'll have um i'm gonna have Wyatt and Alexis get this up as soon as it renders

so hopefully they'll get it up here this afternoon and um we'll make sure that the

monetization is correct so it doesn't put 5000 ads in it and uh as always you know stay tuned

for more crazy i'm gonna keep chasing the dream here and uh uh lots of stuff coming on matt mormon

channel bosh testing more polishing and ppf and probably more problems on the gt3 if anything if

there's any you know consolation or if there's any consolation that's not the right word if i'm

there's almost guarantee of more problems the way it's been going um i got a yeti arc that i'm

building so i'm gonna build the bike which i don't know how to do but i'm gonna figure it out

and it's not too deep i knew how to do some of it but i'm gonna figure that out

it's a sick build um ruttler's and i're gonna get back on the mountain bike trail tomorrow so

that's cool uh and then um i'll be organizing my rolling toolbox with all the fancy coke and stuff

here uh so i'll make a video on that uh we have uh the test of the lower end

air compressors um og channel make sure to go watch the viper chair video i think is pretty good

we're getting there what else do we have lots of stuff we're doing three videos a week on matt

mormon we're doing three videos a week on the og channel we'll be doing two videos we'll be

activating the og shorts channel here soon as well so the sky's the limit anyway thanks for being

here see you soon

Dialed In Podcast: February 13th, 2026

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