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All right, let me just double-check this, there we go, we're going live, and let's see, come

up a little bit, so we shouldn't be mirrored anymore, and we shouldn't be mirrored anymore.

Okay, we're good.

Yeah, so I flipped the camera around, instead of using the front-facing camera, I'm using

the better rear-facing cameras, and I'll just monitor the video on this here, and so we

should be good.

So let's go here, let's go live-chat, let me pop this out, and we're here, we're live.

Okay, so man, it's been a crazy week, I got a lot done in the last few days in the garage.

I've got the first coat of Armor Pro coating done, and then I've got to finish, I'm hoping

to finish today the second coat, which would be Fobik, and so I'm going to do Fobik today

and tomorrow, or whatever, to get the GT4 exterior done.

I do have to do, let's see, I've got to do the wheels, and I've got to finish the interior

with LeaderMax, because I only did the one seat and the one door, so I've got to do

the rest of the leather and the interior.

But the GT4 is almost street-ready, not that I can drive it, but it's about street-ready,

and it feels good to kind of check that off the list.

Then I've got to get the Evo dialed, and the Evo get it tuned, and then get the Evo 9 from

Bumper put on it, the new wheels put on it, maybe put the stereo in it, and then decide

what I'm going to do with that thing.

And then after that, then I'm going to mess with the Tesla.

So somewhere between here, I'll be doing the GT4 reconstruction, or the new sort of GT4

setup.

Well, I should have been using the rear-facing camera the whole time, this looks so much

better.

The GT3, I kind of want to do for spring launch of detailing, you know, the detailing

plans we have this year for all the different detailing products, so I'm not sure what

we're going to do for the spring time, but we're going to actually focus on it this year.

So I've got a couple of announcements on products, Matt sent this over to me.

We do have female scent bags coming.

If you're not familiar with the scent bags, they're fricking sweet.

And so the scent bags are, we're also sort of changing the naming of them so it makes

more sense.

But they're awesome.

It's a little bag that you put behind your seat and makes your car smell great and lasts

a really long time.

But we have Flower Shop Sugar Blossom coming.

There will be free shipping for scents for her if ordered by the 5th of February.

And we're expecting them to get to you before Valentine's Day if they show up.

And so now that I have like a fully functioning team here or we're building a fully functioning

team, we can actually respond and run promotions and do stuff like this.

We should have them up in the store early next week, but there's some more, you know,

and I actually had, I had all the Kate's buddies in the neighborhood come and give

me their top.

We had like, I think 10 cents, give me their top three, Michelle top three.

So we asked a bunch of females what their top three were and then I asked a bunch

of guys what their top three were.

And so Flower Shop Sugar Blossom are, you know, top two.

And then we came up with a name for them.

So they actually smell really good.

Even if you're not a female, they do smell good and it's going to be something cool.

So those will be here in the store early next week.

We have a little sort of extra stock, some AR630s.

This is the version one with the purple plastic, so not the redesign.

There's 15 of those.

They're on the store now.

Let me just make sure, make sure that they're up.

So AR, AR630, I don't see it here.

So guys, if you're listening, you're going to have to figure that out.

So it's AR630 version one, AR630 v1.

So we have 15 of them, and they're $7.99, so there's just some new old stock, if you will.

But doesn't do us any good if they're not up on the site.

So stay tuned for that.

Maybe someone can come in here and comment.

So those should be in, I think we have them now, they're in stock.

So they're $7.99, so it's a little cheaper if you wanted one of the old machines.

If you're trying to put a dual setup, this will probably be the last run of those, but they

must have some old stock laying around that we bought, and we're able to sell those.

They're a few hundred bucks less than the new ones.

Armor Foam Cannon is here.

That's replacing the v1, the original MTM Foam Cannon for us.

It's a nice entry-level Foam Cannon, does OK.

So that will become our sort of solution for all our basic packages.

That'll be replacing the base MTM.

And then the built-hambur clay is here.

So we have the three different clays, a soft, medium, and I forget what they call them,

the third one.

I don't think they call it hard, maybe.

I generally use the soft one, but the built-hambur clay is really awesome, and it's

been out of stock for a really long time.

He finally had enough available to bring it here.

So it is available.

Let me check that.

What did we do?

Built-hambur clay.

There it is, auto clay.

So it's up in the store.

Regular, medium, and soft.

So again, I like the soft one the most, but if you want to just shoot the gap

and do the medium, pricing on it's, I think, pretty decent.

I mean, Pete is pretty adamant about setting pricing to where it's

reasonable.

We have tons of them in stock, so if you want one of those, we got those as well.

I don't use clay as much, but I like having, and I have all three of them,

just so I can kind of grab what I want when I want it.

And the size of the clay that it gives you is giant.

I don't know if we have a specification on it, but it's a long time.

And built-hambur clay has always gotten great reviews, and there's a great review

by me, so I highly recommend it.

So that's available in stock rated to ship.

So let's dig into some of your questions here.

Oh yeah, I should have been doing this since day one.

So now it's, my brain is torn.

It's not flipped, so my shirt reads correctly.

Yeah, so that's garage.

It's not backwards, so that's good.

All righty, where did my questions go?

You guys are depressing me already at the start here.

Hey, Matt, are you going to have to move the inside of the Hexvideos off Vimeo?

They announced they're shutting down consumer video services and

fired the whole company yesterday.

Yikes, crap.

I don't know if I'm on consumer video services.

I might be on the professional video services, so hopefully.

But man, that would be bad news.

I don't know what the heck I'd do because I was actually just talking to

Matt and Wyatt about what my plans are for inside the Hex this year.

My goal would be around April to be able to sort of institute this.

But what I want to transition to, what I'd like to create, is a 50-week series.

So once a week for the entire year and just have two extra fluff weeks just in

case or something crazy going on like Black Friday or something like that.

But I want to do it a bit more cinematic, a bit more, well, a lot better done where

we have music and transitions and make it a somewhat entertaining vlog of day in

the life with all the behind the scenes stuff that I normally do.

But when I'm here, somebody's following me around, capturing footage.

And so we have, we sort of have a theme to each episode where, or all the episodes

will have a similar format where it's like get up, life, business, get to HQ,

business, fitness, nutrition, element.

So we'll have like maybe six elements to the video, to the videos that sort of

carry through each episode.

Say 30 minutes to an hour, depending on an hour and a half, depending on what

it needs to be.

But we do some, not some like a bunch of B-rolled cinematic stuff, but just

nicer transitions, greater audio transitions, more storytelling, and

just do a better job of putting the video together.

And so what I'd envision is really going hard on promoting it and showing

people what it could be.

It'll be behind the pay wall.

That way I can still be very candid.

And it would be something like, I don't know, 150 bucks for the year or 15

bucks a month and with a goal to get, you know, 4,000 or 5,000 people to

subscribe to it.

That way I could have like a dedicated editor for it, a dedicated, you know,

person to kind of follow around, not just me, but also, you know, all of

HQ and kind of put together an obsessed garage story and do that for the

next couple of years, commit to like a two-year commitment to that and then,

you know, kind of see where it goes, but really dig deep into inside the

hex, also, you know, deliver on what we talked about where we've been

in the past or we had like special shirts and different, you know,

different products that were specific to it and really, really build that

out.

And it's funny that I just talked about that.

And then you guys are telling me that Vimeo might be a toast.

So that would be really bad.

So I have to kind of figure that out.

But, you know, what I'm looking to create, what I'm looking to do, and I

talked about this in a hex cast here recently, I want to, and I've

talked about this on the podcast, you know, my vision for content, you

know, the media structure and the media output would be that we have,

you know, OG, Matt Mormon, how to, so we have the three public channels

and then really go hard on inside the hex and then, you know, be producing,

you know, basically have a video a day available, you know, for people

where you're at.

So if you prefer the long form, you know, day in the life, anything goes,

you know, Matt Mormon style, you can go there.

If you want the more produced, get to the point, garage focused,

you go to Obsessed Garage.

If you want to know about the products, and also this will be our place

to embed videos for the website, you go to the how-to, and then if you

wanted, like, the business behind the scenes, like the real life stuff,

the wins, the losses, the struggle, and do an even better job than

what I've done, and then that would be, you know, inside the hex.

And I think if I did that, I would probably just bag the idea of

hex cast and just do that 50 video series, which I think would be

a big stream value, would be probably some on the order of, you know,

40 hours of footage a year.

And then what I could do is sell that as a series at the end of the

year, say, hey, you know, if you wanted to watch the whole series,

it's, you know, 100 bucks to buy the whole thing and download it

or do whatever you want to do with it.

I think it'd be really cool.

And then, you know, on the social side, we are going to, Alexa

starts Monday.

So why it started this week, you saw the first video, we put up a

second video will be up, I believe tomorrow, but I think the

OG channel, I think we're going to do, let's see, I think we're

going to do Wednesday, Friday, Sunday is going to be our

release schedule, we're going to actually get on a schedule here.

And then so we're going to target three videos a week.

So we would do Friday, Sunday for sure.

And then the Wednesday would be the optional.

If we didn't have anything to say, we wouldn't publish it.

And then we're going to publish on the Matt Mormon channel.

Saturday, what would that be?

Saturday, Monday, Thursday or something like that.

You know, maybe Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday.

And then, you know, maybe we put the inside the Hex video up

on, on, I don't know, the Mondays or something like

that, so that we know what to expect.

But then we're going to support this all with, you know,

Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, and, and support all of that.

And then really engage back with the, with the Facebook groups,

the inside the Hex Facebook group and the, and the, you

know, the Obsessed Garage Facebook group and be sort of

just making sure everybody knows, knows and is aware what's

going on.

And then, you know, we'll be making a lot of short form

content as well.

So anyway, why it's here.

It got started.

We, you know, we kind of threw together our first video

and it's, you know, it looks great.

Actually, yeah, first video is up.

Second video we did together is on the Matt Mormon channel.

So the video on, on this channel you're on, from Eric,

from, from, we've been working with the last six months

or so to develop an, an OG spec mid-priced pressure

washer.

And so we were talking about tuning and calibration and

some of the things that I, I wished are what we'd like it

to have.

So that video is up.

He put it up today and trying to think of what else, what

other, you know, things I've, I've been thinking about

from a, from a video perspective.

Anyway, that's sorry to hear that Vimeo comment content,

you know, comment got me thinking here.

Ben says I'm here to explain what happened to Cree.

If you still want to know, let me get the groceries in.

Okay.

So if you want to type that up, Ben, Ben says he knows what

happened to Cree.

I don't really care.

They haven't been able to produce the darn lights forever.

So I wish I would have known that they couldn't produce

the lights, the linear lights forever.

And so, you know, I wish I don't know that I would

have bagged them a long time ago.

I wouldn't have done so much promoting.

You know, it's really not the Cree light.

It's the linear light.

The linear light is the discovery for the garage.

And we just need a great linear light.

We had a great call with prime lights as we, we're

looking to develop our own.

But, you know, right now, H.E. Williams will be doing

some swap outs and we have some garages.

We're going to capture some footage here soon.

The H.E. Williams install to show you that that's

the, that's the ticket currently.

Now let's see.

Brian, 5037 says, Hey Matt, I hit some birds on a road

trip and there is debris on my radiator fans behind

the grill.

Any idea for cleaning this?

So, I mean, you got to be really careful with the

fins.

If you don't want to jack them up, I would probably

use like an interior brush or like the O.G.

tire brush to try to get in there.

So I would spray something heavy duty like Coach

Kemi Greenstar, Built-Hambra Surf X HD.

So I would spray that on there, maybe even try

touchless on there.

I'd spray touchless, you know, let it sit for five

minutes or so.

And if I needed to agitate it, I would use that

interior brush and just kind of swizzle it around

to try to get it to, to, to dislodge.

Do that a few times.

And again, hitting it with, with, with an

all-purpose cleaner of some sort.

Something high alkalinity to kind of break it down.

Let's see, Neil White says, hey Matt, my area

Atlanta is getting a major ice storm leaving

for Tampa tomorrow and I might have to stop

by O.G.

Will you guys be open Monday, Tuesday?

Yep.

Yep, we'll be here 8 to 4.30.

I mean, I'm usually here later, but 8 to 4.30

is our normal schedule if you want to be

sure or someone will always be here.

Let's see, detailing 10-14.

Hey Matt, my name is Cameron.

I'm from Maryland, 26-year-old, years old,

I have owned my own detailing shop.

I started from the ground up six years ago.

Just wanted to say I admire what you've

achieved and strive to be like you.

Oh, thanks man.

Some things you may want to be, you may want

my bank account, but I actually may not

want my bank account right now, but

this is always the lean time of the year.

But you don't want to be, you don't

want the chaos that's going on in my brain.

I've, I'm making some, I think I'm

making some good progress with my new

psychiatrist that I've hired.

He's making me think of things differently

and I just added him to my team,

if you will, that's this large team

that's kind of sort of keeping me sane,

but he has me working on exercise.

You know, my biggest problem is

this fear of passing out.

And so this week my, my, what I'm

supposed to be doing is anytime I feel

a little funny is to look up to the

heavens and say, hey God, please

I'm praying that, that I'll pass out

right now. And I shoot, I'm doing it

right now with you. The other thing

I have to do is about 20 times a day

I have to pretend to pass out, like

lay on the floor. It's ridiculous.

I'm doing it when no one's looking,

but I think you're trying to retrain

my brain that, you know, so what?

What if you did? And so I'm

working on some things that I would

be afraid, it seems ridiculous, afraid

to do that in the past. I talked about

why it's first week. So I have

them this week and then next week he's

moving. And so he came this week.

We shot the video, the tour.

We shot the video with MaxFlo.

We shot the video

of the GT4RS and the Armor Pro

and Phobic Coding video. So that

should be up this weekend.

And so that'll be up on the OG channel.

We shot that.

And we're going to shoot this afternoon after

the podcast, as I'm done with this.

An entry level

discovery video

of air compressors.

So we're going to work on that

here this afternoon. So that should

be up next week.

But Alice says good afternoon

from Kissimmee. It's not going to snow

in Kissimmee.

Let's see. Jason Summers says,

hey Matt, I'm thinking about getting a

M1.2 GTS

looking to do an OEM

plus upgrades, the suspension

wheels, etc.

How do you do an OEM

plus OG build?

How would you do an OG OEM

plus build on that car looking for input?

You know, I'm not a huge

fan of the .2 GTS because

it's a turbo.

But since it is a

turbo, you definitely want to

get something. You don't want to get a tune

because you'll unlock

200 horsepower, something insane.

I want to say

those will do something like

550 horsepower

with a simple tune,

with a flash tune of some sort.

I'm not sure who's doing that.

The authority on that is Brian Kiefer

Keys KIES Motorsport.

So I would check out what he suggests.

I don't know if it's a JV4 piggyback

or if there's actual flash

tune that you can do.

But I would certainly say

screw the warranty, I'm tuning this sucker.

You'd want to do an exhaust.

I'm not sure who makes the best exhaust

but I would look at

Sol, I would look at AWE.

I would look at

I wouldn't do things like

Acra or anything, waste my money on that

for basically an OEM

exhaust, it's titanium.

So I would start with

Sol and then go to AWE

and try to figure out who makes the best

exhaust for the turbo build.

I wouldn't mess with the suspension.

I feel like those

cars sit pretty decently.

If you put some spacers on the stock wheels

or if you get some aftermarket wheels

I'd be inclined to look at

signature wheels.

So hit up Jimmy at signature.

If I was going to do some wheels on it

I would probably do those because he can

build it and he has one of those cars

so he knows exactly what

offsets and I would go aggressive on the offsets.

If not I would just do spacers

and I want to say that car needs

something like 10-10 or 10-12

or something 10 millimeters in the front

12 in the rear or something like that.

But usually the

stock wheels and the GTSs look pretty

sweet especially if it was the GTS with the center locks

I'd be inclined

to leave the wheels alone.

Now if it has center locks you can't put a spacer

on it so then I'd be inclined to maybe

get some aftermarket.

I'd put cup twos on it.

Unless you're going to be driving in the winter

I'd put cup twos on that sucker.

So I would do exhaust

wheels,

tune.

There's not really much to do on intake on those

that's going to benefit you much.

I would do

radio detector hardwired

so I would probably do the

escort which one of the red line

whatever the new version is.

The other thing I would consider

looking into retrofitting the

Bermister

if you can kind of piece together

from the junkyard

I'm not sure

but if you can kind of piece together getting a

Bermister amp and the Bermister speakers

and subwoofer and kind of retrofit that

that would be really cool.

I would also buy the aluminum pedals

I'd get new floor mats

certainly would

polish it, I would coat it

maybe add some ppf or not

on a gts car

and especially if you got it at a decent price

you probably had to pay

120, 130 for it

so between 100 and 150k

depending on how many miles it had on it

on whether I'd do ppf and what the condition of it was

if it had ppf on I'd probably pull it off

and redo it polish it

and kind of do it myself.

So yeah

I would do leader max

on the interior, get the interior dial

check

get the windows tinted if you needed to

so hope that helps

that's

the tool grid question

from mopar478

I'm in the process of tool grids in my drawers

and I was curious how I would

tool grid plastic and metal

trim tools

I don't have the Gucci Sonic

foam inlay ones

what I did is

I got the little trays

there's like the little trays

I had the Sonic red set

and it was in like one of those like little

nylon foldable thingies

and I took them out of the fold

the fold thingy and I just

I had two little

gray bins and I put them in there

the tool tip holders

don't really hold them particularly well

and it takes up so much space if you lay it out

in the drawer

I actually just

did get the bougie foam inlay blue version

so I just gave Chris Gorebury

my red ones

and I had them just in one of the little

little trays

let's see John Barr

8293 says

is the OG drying aid only for

coated vehicles

I was going to use it on the old power lock plus

colonite but I heard you mentioned the drying aid

doesn't work well with wax

yeah I haven't tested that

with a combo

but I do know that

back in the day

let's see what was the major

keen attack I was using

what was the drying aid I was using

before

oh bead maker

bead maker did not play well with

power lock it would clog it up

so I would pick like one panel

like one fender and try it out

it might work

but I don't know if it gets

attracting what I found is that

a lot of silicon dioxide sealants

on 845

ended up not playing well

together but there are polymers

in 845 and so the OG drying aid might

work well

if anybody's done it you know hit me up here

let me know if it works I should probably test it out

Kevin Moore

says hey Matt

just wanted to reach out and say thanks for

your team's first class work in getting my

order shipped out to the UK in amazing time

awesome good job guys

why can't we see

inside the hex videos in full

screen you should be able to

let me just click

the bottom right let me just double check that

if I go inside the hex

and

I click on a video

maybe you can't let's see here

click on this

and

click on the video

uh oh

yeah that's not right

I do something wrong here

hmm

settings

let me go back a bit I might not be

publishing this right let me go back

okay

let's see here

oh shoot

I gotta go fix that thanks for the heads up

because

let's see

275 it's only been the ones I've been publishing

here so

let's say 276

that one's good

let's see

277

that one's good

you can go full screen

I think the first one I published was

278

and that's the first one you can't do

full screen so let me let me go to Vimeo

here and let me just check something

I'll have to go and figure out

content, categories, copyright

must be how I'm embedding it

so I go embed

ooh size

responsive

fixed so I think I have to click on that

okay so I'll go and fix that

and I have to re-embed everything

thanks for the heads up yeah you definitely should be able to see it in full

full screen

so yeah I started

publishing them myself

on 278

so 278

this is on the website so

82 are all

you have to watch it in what's called responses

I just need to check that box to make sure that you can

you can watch it in full screen

sorry about that I'll fix that

I might have to do a major fix if

yeah as

you know as Wabba was on its way out

I had to take over some tasks

and so

I screwed it up that's on me

yep

so that was that

DHGadventures

8492 says hey Matt

in the Sequoia Wash and Talk video

front two side windows had

different reactions to soap and water compared to the rest

did you ever find out

what you did differently

I don't know

I think maybe they did the glass coating

on the front three

and then they did the regular coating

because we only had so much glass coating maybe

I gotta ask them

I gotta figure that out

any plans for Europe in the future

I don't have anything right now

but at some point

let's see

I tried

but for some reason they couldn't

be shipped tried squeeze bottles

I'm not sure

I should be able to just reach out to support

I'm sure we could send you some

it won't be cheap but I'm sure we could send you some

how did you

let's see

how did you not get headaches when fasting

and do you have low energy or other side effects

from T-R-A-R-A-C-P

well

you're having a headache fasting

if you're not already

largely in a ketogenic state

so you're

detoxing off of carbohydrates

and if so

if you go into fasting while you're already

ketogenic

so if you're already making ketones

or close to it

so I can go

into a fast with almost no effect

you know

if you're trying to work out like crazy

like if I wasn't working out as hard

as I am then energy

is fine

but the problem is running, rucking, crossfit

doing high intensity type movements

functional fitness type things

if you try to fast for prolonged periods of time

you know 48, 72

you'll get kind of lightheaded and tired

and beat up

you'll be very clear, have lots of mental focus

but the reason you're getting a headache

is because you're

detoxing off of glucose if you will

and

so I don't get that

because I'm not

coming off a bunch of carbs

but if I went right into a fast from being

you know just eating a normal diet

it would be quite a bit more difficult

let's see

I have the ADS drift foam can and a couple of extra bottles

wish there were lids for the bottles

I think it's on the list

I'll talk to Jeff about that

he says the AR630s

are on the site

I'm talking about the 630 v1

AR630

the v2s are there

oh there it is

okay I see it

I thought Matt said it was

$7.99

you might want to check that

I'm going to try to scoop up one right now

it says $578

I don't think that's the right price

that's probably our cost

so yeah

$7.99

I think it's supposed to be the price

so you might be able to sneak in there right now

and get an even sweeter deal

false advertising

let's see

so yeah

they must have put it up

okay

or am I

getting my pop out chat back up here

that's another thing I'd love to do

is to really produce this

and make the podcast awesome as well

but I think live stream this is kind of our

news update

so I like this idea

I would love to get a sponsor for this

and just make it really awesome

but it's doing great here

with the camera turned around

stable

finally got to figure it out after 10 episodes

and so

I think we're doing alright

checking in from Atlanta as well

Grinch says enjoy the content

thanks man

the OG Mega Garage is looking killer

Mike F and team have been working hard

give them a bonus

yeah I'll work on that

Alex R

says I apologize can you remind me

what my preferred bath towels are

yeah it's a

Matuk

Matauk

Matuk

and it was the

Matuk

not cheap

and if you go to bath

and you go to towels

it started with an A

it is

not the kind row

not the new port

I'm on

AMAN

towels

and then I did the cloud color

which is like a gray

be really careful you don't want to have any kind of bleach

because they will make

when Michelle uses like tide with bleach

it kind of gets jacked up

okay

get this out of here

alright

so hope that helps

let's say hey Matt I was wondering

what your thoughts on the new GRGT

yeah I haven't

spent any time on watch one little

video clip or something on it

but

I mean it seems kind of cool

maybe it becomes the next LFA

but it's a little long

and the very

AMGT looking kind of

to me but

I'm not particularly interested in it

but you know it's cool we're making

interesting things

let's see

B Will 6336

says hey Matt any recommendations

for ROG solutions for a basic tool kit

for simple fixes around the home

apartment

we've been talking about this for frickin years

I want to make that

and we will at some point

yeah at some point I think

I hope we can

Mr.

705 says

I'm hoping for something Canada gets figured out

I want to order the fragrance pouch

but it's a $123 ship

shoot

I think we'll probably have it

a carzilla here shortly

why no full screen on the hex vlogs

I mentioned that earlier I'll fix that

as soon as I get off here I'll go fix that

let's see

so Ben Fanner says the owners of Cree

were originally interested in power electronics

DC to DC conversion

power grid stuff

they developed the first

silicon carbine wafer

Cree eventually went through

a US bankruptcy and restructuring

which the EU does not understand

so they've changed

their name to wolf speed to try to help

with perception and possibly

spin off or spin down

the LED business now it's a commodity

and less lucrative that's what I

have no about Cree

from the three people that I know

okay cool

let's see are you using

the cap to cover the scar

I don't think it's a scar

I think it's

I think it's almost healed

it's only been a week and a half

yeah

even if it is I don't freaking care

no I'm just wearing a hat today because I feel like

I get this weird transition from

from cutting my hair off to it

looking a little weird

so I just wore a hat today

let's see

hey Matt what was your

email again to request the list

or list you've said you send out

is it one or multiple lists

well you gotta tell me what you want

it's Matt at ObsessedGarage.com

let's see

is your

seats

if your seats are coated with leader max

can you use something like griots or Polestar

to give them a wipe down as part

of normal maintenance wash

yep I use

griots interior cleaner and just

I like to spread on the towel not on the seat

but yeah you would just do normal cleaning

I'm sure it degrades the

protector

but that's what the protectors

there for

so if you're doing I feel like if I'm doing a lot of

interior cleanings with griots interior cleaner

or Polestar or something like that

I would just probably retreat

with the number

is it number two

the number two

other protection I would probably do it once

a quarter maybe a little more often

hey Matt

will there be a coach kemi labels

for press all pro bottles

no no

no they may be co-branded stuff

but

you know the future

doesn't look bright for me and coach kemi

considering they can't freaking get their act

together with getting stuff in stock so

I don't know

they sort of forced me to start

looking for other things

yeah I mean when we do

co-branded bottled stuff then maybe

but

dedicated no no

I wouldn't want that anyway because that defeats

the whole purpose

unless you're using all coach kemi which I think

would be stupid

because there's they have a few good

products but not every one of them

I wouldn't want to use every one of them

it kind of defeats the purpose

the point of having a matching bottle

so that you can do sort of a generic

looking label that then everything

matches so it kind of

goes against the whole point

that I've kind of set up

hey Matt the sonic cell

blank foam it would be nice to have the option

to put sonic foam and tools

and different branded cabinets

and fill in any open space

with matching blank foam

no what I do is

pull grid around it

so they do have foam inserts

that fit

like if you did a large in an XD drawer

you they have a foam that sort of fills

that extra space

but they

they don't have like foam that you

you could buy those and I guess cut it

but it was

it did I don't think it would work

very well

cool so DHE

adventure says I use drying aid in a couple

cars at a powerlock colonite

and haven't noticed anything funky

well good

let's see

Boofwa says

best of both worlds going on here listening to Matt

while watching the IMSA Michelin

Pilot Challenge live

y'all stay warm

that are in the path of fern

are they calling these storms

they give them a name now

it'd be awesome I think it'd be so fun

if you're going to get all kinds of snow

that's fun

now ice sucks but snow it's great

what are your thoughts on the Sequoia

so far being a raptor owner

I can't imagine life without one wonder

how the transition has been

it's great man

I mean the raptor is awesome

but the

Sequoia especially since

Michelle's raptor was lifted so it wasn't quite as nimble

as a base raptor

a non lifted raptor

that was a big mistake on my part

I wouldn't recommend it

but she's loving it's great

I mean having the third row

is nice

it's more comfortable

the

electric assisted

v6 is actually pretty potent

I love it man I think it's great

I have to be a passenger

and I haven't really driven it anywhere

but it's been

it's been cool

but also what wireless

fence do you have to use with chase

I think it's called

yeah it's invisible fence

it's like couple grand

it's worth every penny might not even be that much

maybe

1500 bucks or something to put in

it's the godsend it's amazing

now he's got his doggy door he's using his doggy door now

so we have it taped just one side

taped up and now

hopefully this week we'll be able to get rid of that

and now he's using that thing all the time

let's see

hey Matt with the AR635

can I run that pressure washer

on a single ogdi cabinet

what about

dual Crensla

yes the 635

would run on a single you know the single

setup that'll be coming in the spring

dual Crensla would need

two tanks

for

can there be samples of the scents

like a sticker or paper so you can try it

no I mean it's 35 bucks

man just buy them

I'll buy all of them and throw the other ones away

no I don't

I don't have any plans to do that

let's see

I'd really like to

let my gold noodle hang out when I'm washing

vehicles in the driveway yeah

gotta get the invisible vents it's awesome

let's see

gold blooded 219 says

I might love your work do you sell larger bottles

of CSL XOV5

no we only sell

the 30s I mean they do have

the 50s I mean you can get them direct from them

or somewhere else but

maybe we should consider that

let's see do you think

the cabinet used oh by the way

I did the

I just finished the

GT4 RS

is first coat with

armor pro and

because of all the trim

and everything on my GT4 so most cars

I would recommend you buy the 50ml

bottle I used the whole

30 when I'm doing CSL

I would probably only do

maybe three quarters of a

bottle or less half a bottle

on that car

but on the armor pro it's

thicker I felt like I was using quite

a bit more so I would recommend on pretty much

any car you're going to want the 50ml

bottle

let's see

do you think the cabinet

let's see do you think the cabinet used for the

OG pressure washer system will be available

itself without the DI in it

can we can see

many uses for the cabinet in that form factor

yes yeah we'll definitely

be selling it you know stand alone

at some point where if you just wanted

it and just put some shelves in

it and without the DI

because the DI part costs a lot with the valves

and the

all the piping and the

digital gauge and all that stuff

let's see

would you be worried about

an on-wall solution in an unheated garage

with these freezing temperatures

coming should I just drain

the pump and hose yeah certainly

drain it out

if you're really

really concerned you could run some

antifreeze through it

you would have to

let's see you'd have to siphon it would be

able to pull from the tank you just have to

you stick the hose in a bucket of antifreeze

and run it through it

but certainly make sure there's no water

sitting in the system because you don't want to crack

the head of the pump and blow up your hose

J60th says hello Matt

any ETA on leather and pine

re-diffusers

those are I think

gone

I don't think they're coming back

the our supplier

decided to

stop doing

candles

and I think they stopped doing re-diffusers

but I'll have to confirm

but I don't think

those are coming back

let's see

if I will have enough for a forerunner

I think I would probably

I think with CSLX though I think you'll be fine

with a single bottle 30ml bottle

no foam cannon updates

I have to

it's on my list I gotta get it done

I finally got all the drill bits

so I'm gonna work on that you know

either this weekend or next week

yeah

you mentioned in a previous video you'd buy husky cabinets

over new age cabinets sound like you prefer anything

new age can you elaborate

well first I wouldn't want to be

associated with having new age cabinets in my life

I'm sorry to offend

like 50% of the people watching

just cause that's a certain look

that like

it's you know

if you know you know

but to me the all black huskies

just look way better than the

you know two tone new age stuff

or in the way that the handles look

I just

if I was gonna head down that path

I would want the huskies

I mean

the new age stuff is

how in the world are they able to sell

like a

15 foot array

for 1500 bucks at Costco

it's gotta be just

just yank all

potential goodness out of it

just for pure cost

Renz F32

says hey Matt are you on a

wireless and an authorized Rolex dealer

I'm not so how long you've been waiting

I've been on one for around

two years and no lock yeah it's nonsense

you're not getting squat

I'm not even on one

okay Nathan Miller said

Nathan said that read diffusers

will come back just

different packaging okay okay cool

I wasn't sure cause they are stopping

candles so the candles aren't coming

back but the read diffusers will

come back

and let's

see there's something else I was thinking about

give me some

give me some more questions here guys

this is your chance to

trip me up here

give me some hard ones

there's something else I was just thinking about

that I wanted to share with you guys

I'm very likely

making my transition

to CrossFit

and into some other form

of training

I'll give you

more of the story at some point

but I'm going

to a regular gym tonight

so I'm 15 years into

functional fitness into

training CrossFit and then

doing some other endeavors on the side

like whether it's rucking or

mountain biking

some other thing

running 5Ks

or longer

in order to supplement

I've done adventure racing and all kinds of

different stuff over that

15 year period

I've been fit I've been fat

I feel like I'm in between

right now not quite fit

not quite fat but getting close

to where I'd like to be

I think

I'm going to figure out

at my house

I just called the company that did the glass

the glassed in two of the little areas

and

the

there's

four little sections

and so I did two of the four

I'm going to do the third large section

the one that sort of faces

right out the door

of the house

and so that way

I'm going to get the new rogue

skier

roe erg and the rogue

air bike to put back there

so I already have the functional trainer

I've got dumbbells

I probably need a little bit heavier dumbbells I only have up to 80

so I'll probably grab a 90 and 100

and maybe a 110

like when I'm flat benching

the 80s are a little light for me

so I'll probably get

maybe just get the 100 so I'll probably get the 90s

and the 100s

and then

I may put a pull up bar out there

so that way I have some stuff at home

and then

there's a gym that's two miles from here that I think

in short order I'll be able to drive to

through like the little back areas

it's called Genesis

and they're opening a Genesis health club

in Middleton

but that won't be for like a year out

that'll be a year out

at least

so there's one in brownwood

which is like 10 miles from my house

so I could cycle there

hopefully at some point

have the Tesla take me there

hopefully this new psychiatrist works

and I get my crap together

I'm going to drive my GT3RS there

how sick would that be

and then

and so

I have the Genesis club here

the Genesis club there

and so I'll be doing strength training

and some hybrid training at the Genesis clubs

and then

working out stuff, some stuff at my house

doing running, rucking, sauna, cold pond

all that kind of stuff

but I really this

I've got to get this done

I really want to get to this summer

that $199 or maybe $195

get to that weight

and if I stop cross-fitting

I'll have a better chance

of getting there because

I probably won't be doing quite as high intensity

I'm

kind of in a weird spot right now

trying to figure out what that's going to look like

but

I start the doctor boss training

or the doctor boss 21 day

challenge

which will be

to stay in ketosis probably eating lots of sardines

and checking my glucose

and my

and my ketone level

using my keto mojo thingy

hoping I can get into solid ketosis for 21 days

keep working with

Dr. Julian to get my frickin brain fixed

I just

I'm having a hard time

he also told me to start visualizing this

I'm having a hard time

accepting like

I know this sounds so weird

but

I've got three cars here

amazing, my E92 M3 is awesome

the internet lost their mind

when I said my 200,000 rm3

what M3 is 200,000 rs

of all mine is

you want me to tell you how I get

and come up with that

I have my GT4 RS which has 15 miles

on it and my GT3

I just can't even fathom at this point

it's so far gone for me that

like I could just get in my GT4 RS

and just drive wherever I want

drive to Chipotle, drive home, drive to the gym

the beauty

of this is when

not if, when I overcome

this, like just the

insane amount of gratitude that I'm gonna

have

and the sheer amount of tickets that I'm gonna end up

getting

interesting, it really

motivates me and man

I can't even imagine it

okay, he has lots of questions for me

here

thinking of high rocks

so high rocks isn't really a training methodology

right, high rocks is just like

crossfit light

and with a lot of running

aspect to it, so you have to do some other

training I think

I think that

I like the

high rocks method, I like the high rocks

thing, you know, if you're not familiar

it's run 1k

do a movement

like a sled push

or a row

or a farmer's carry

or something like that, burpee broad jump

and then run 1k

and so you're running 7 kilometers

and I think it's doing 7 different movements

and you're doing it for time

it takes somewhere between an hour and hour and a half

something like that

at 50 minutes to an hour and a half

and it's like just the same

we just do the same workout over and over

and so they have events that

it's kind of a 20 something

30 something, it's like the millennial thing

to do, the older

Gen Z year and younger millennial

thing to do

if I went and did one I'd probably

my guess is I'd be in the 105

to 110 time

105 to 115 depending

on how

what level of meat I was eating at that point

but I think I could probably

train my way into a

a sub 105

certainly not a sub

one hour as a single individual

but if I had a good partner we could probably

break one hour

in high rocks

I'd have to train

a little bit more and get back

to where I was when I ran the 20 minute 5k

I'd probably have to get

that 5k under sub 20

but

those movements are all very good for me

I can row really well

I can skier really well

I can farmers carry really well

the hardest thing for me would be the burpee broad jump

but I can work through that

the wall balls

I'm sort of mediocre and good enough at

the 100 wall balls at the end

so the running

would be sort of the limiting factor for me and I have to speed up running

and running is

half of the workout

but high rocks is interesting to me

I generally don't like to go to competitions

because it's like such a bunch of pomp and circumstance

and take so much time

but I want to make sure

the thing I'm worried about is

if I'm not doing

CrossFit in a CrossFit gym

I still want to be able to

walk out the door and like

like I told you this like I walked out the door

and did a 12 mile

ruck with a 30 pound pack

and did it in two and a half hours

I want to be able to do that kind of thing

I want to be able to walk out the door and run a half marathon

if I needed to

I want to be able to walk out the door

and carry something heavy

a long way if I needed to

I like that

that

you don't get that when you just go to the gym

and you may look similar

this is where people have always

given me a hard time even when I was fat

I mean if you just go to the regular gym

and do back and bias, chest and tris

and a little bit of cardio and the treadmill

if we

did something functional

I'm going to destroy you

because you don't go to that place

it's kind of hard to go to that dark place

on the treadmill in which you're running

some crazy intervals

doing

things that

are somewhat hard from a

was it

hypertrophy

is different than

doing functional training for life

so I like the functional training for life

and I'm a little

worried about

just running and then doing

weight training. I think I can look

aesthetically fine. The other question is

does it really matter

if I can go out and throw a

50 pound log on my shoulder

and get it a mile down the road

I don't know if that really matters

yeah I mean

thanks PJS for looking sleek and muscular

I'm certainly lighter than where I was

and have been

you've seen over the years but I'd like to

reach my goal and get like

super fit

get super lean and then maybe get super fit

I think this weight is natural

for me it's like

215

210 to 220

so that 215 number is natural for me

and where I would like to be and stay

but it's

I would like to see

what that lighter weight feels like

let's see

pilot 71 says do you still prefer LA

apparel or are you moving on

no I prefer it

Los Angeles apparel

they're blanks or I think best in the business

Gavin Hammons says

hey Matt any new products coming to the store soon

or any products that you may

remove phase out from the store

in the future

yeah we have a bunch of stuff I mean

there's a bunch of stuff and to follow up

and you know they have obsessed engineering

questions

the

I'm kind of at a spot now

where

I get to make it I get to make a choice

for example

the Mozmatic gun is a classic example

you know I made a choice

I had an idea for what I wanted the gun to be

and

I could go to China

or go to some sort of manufacturer

and try to reinvent the wheel

same thing with the press I bought

it's kind of gone and tried to reinvent the wheel

and design it myself

and you know

when I gone bankrupt and I tried to do that

but there's going to be

opportunities for me to go

and to partner with companies

to say hey look

like with the Moz, with the OG

Mozmatic gun it's my gun

there's exclusivity on that product

no one else can get it

and so it's got to come through me

and so that's a

private labeled but a sort of

a co-developed product of the manufacturer

I don't think I could beat

Mozmatic and Sutner at their own game

you know

it's kind of hard to beat them at their own game

on the high end

so that's one way of doing it

the other way of doing it through obsessed engineering

my vision for that is

like for example

I want a tote storage solution

for

say the villages showroom

so I want to have ultra high end garage

I want to have high end garage

I want to have mid end garage

and then I want to have like regular people

storage garage

where it's about ax stairs

and storage

and so I want a storage solution

where we have our own totes

we have our own system

like for example

some things I've been thinking about with a tote

I would love to have the tote with like a desiccant

section

like a slide in desiccant

that you could put on the side

so if you've got humidity

you'd have something kind of

kind of absorb the humidity

or put develop some sort of

different version of a moth ball

but it doesn't go in the tote it goes slide

sort of on the pocket on the side

and the tote has nice

sealing features where it seals up nicely

and then we can kind of pull the tote out

where it's kind of counter balanced

on a roller system

so that way you don't have to like

muscle your stuff

and then I would want that tote system

to work in attics or on

garage floors

and so stuff like that is what I want

what I want to develop from scratch

there are solutions that are real basic

that people like on

Etsy

and you see DIY

bull crap

everything is always about the cheapest

and I'm not about that I want it to be

the most functionally excellent

and so having something like

that I think we're going to develop

garage track systems

we have tons of idea

we're talking about a new bucket dolly

new rolling cart

the OG

high flow solution

so lots and lots of stuff

so right now the way I have it structured

is it's a separate LLC

so it's a vendor

the vendor that I own 50% of

so my partner Joe Pechette and I own 50-50

of obsessed engineering

and then Tommy works for OG

on the engineering

side of products

so we've kind of carved out and created a new

department

it's a one man show right now

and so Tommy has left the OG

products team

will be Nathan

Bryce and Manny

so they take over the products

the products team works

under well right now Matt Rutledge

but it'll be Ryan

Ryan Mellinger who I just hired

who started this week as well

so the Matt Rutledge

is going to sort of move toward

just special projects and working on

fixing things behind the scenes

Tommy has kind of

gone off on his own and he's

bootstrapping and eventually

he'll likely have a team of people

on the OG side

so Tommy's job is to get

the margin he needs

for obsessed garage

products

engineering products

and then Joe Pechette's job is to sell

products to Tommy

but they're kind of working together in a partnership

and so

we're at many times

sell products to other companies

wholesale like

when we eventually sell

the high flow pressure washing solution

to say Carzilla

when we say we sell

five of them those will be sold

from obsessed engineering to Carzilla

and then they're sold

from obsessed engineering

to obsessed garage

and so

in a business like that a partnership

like that we have agreements set up to where

it's easy for me to unwind

it's more of a strategic relationship than a partnership

I don't think you want partnerships

partnerships are messy

partnerships are muddy

partnerships almost never work

they say the only

I forget what the old saying is

if you know the old saying about partnerships

something about the only

I don't know the only

the only sinking ship

as a partnership or something like that

there's some saying

but yeah so so long term

I would want to go out

and make products if I don't have a great

partner that I can get an exclusive

relationship with I feel like

we've I've reached the end of the

marketplace

in this search in the beginning

was so awesome because I'm just I'm just searching

for try to find the best

commercial grade stuff the most function

excellent stuff that

you know that is underserved

that I want for my application

but then

you know comes a point where we reach

the end of what's available and I want to

improve some things and so do I tell them

what I think I want

what I think the marketplace wants

I don't think I tell them unless

we have some sort of agreement

where I can be the source

of that product so I think that's

what the future looks like

let's

say Steven

Cattrell says hey Matt

driving problems aside do you still

have any thoughts about

chopping cars in

let's see about

chopping cars in I think you mentioned

a while about roof

do you still have any

thoughts about chopping cars in

I don't know what he's

talking about there maybe you can refine

that

maybe talking about just buying a new car

right now I'm going to stick with what I got

I think

Bill Usnine says

a book I found interesting was entitled

dare the new way to

end anxiety and stop panic attacks

by Barry McDonough

I'll check it out

let's see

Reaper says

Max flow is a no for me I can't get past

the sound it makes the no

instant on off is an automatic

pass well you have to watch the video

that's what I'm working on fixing

I did CrossFit during my

three years of active duty that would

be smart you know because then you're ready to go

ready to do whatever

have you chosen a partner in Canada

get all your products up here yeah it'd be

carzilla

hey Matt Swiss tracks

question for you

I have a water heater in my garage directly on

the concrete would you cut

around it or lift it up

to tile under it

I would lift it up if I could

so if you can kind of

sneak tiles under there

I would

certainly do that if I could

cutting around it also

you know Swiss tracks doesn't cut

too too well when you go in a circle

I mean you can but sometimes you like

nip off one of the depending

on where you're the ribs are

doesn't do as great so if you can

I would want to put it under there

yeah

driving talks are my favorite too

the other thing I've been considering is

just buying a house and Lady Lake here again

and having it on the back roads there

so at least can drive around on the back roads

for gosh sakes

right now I have no

there's all these curbs around I'm kind of trapped

anyway that's the update I have for you this week

thanks for all the questions everyone I'm going to

cut it off a little shorter here than normal

because I want to go we're going to go do this

this air compressor video

the discovery of

a you know entry level compressor

so I have compressors from

a couple hundred bucks up to

3000

and so I think I have

four or five of them to kind of play with this isn't

going to be a definitive video

but it's going to be something that

I'm going to be

it'll be data that I'm putting together

to figure out what to do

so anyway thanks for

being here I'll get this up this weekend

on the all the different

podcast platforms

coming very soon I'm going to have a fully functioning

media team and we'll

improve this and I'll make sure to get the

podcast up there with some you know proper

proper intro

outro make sure we cut out any fluff

looks like we got through this one without any hiccups

no audio snafus no

freeze ups no somebody trying

to call me I think I got everything

good so I've got a good system here

so maybe I'll just stick to it

and it's better that I don't have the

reversed

the everything looks

correct here by just flipping the camera around

so thanks for being here thanks for watching everyone

those of you who are listening not live

appreciate you being here

and lots of fun stuff coming

I'm going to go fix the inside the hex

thing right now thanks for watching

see you soon

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Dialed In Podcast: January 23rd, 2026

Porsche 718 Cayman GT4

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX

Porsche GT4

Porsche GT3

Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS

M1.2 GTS

suspension

Porsche 911.2 GTS

horsepower

flash tune

piggyback

exhaust

AWE

spacers

Signature Wheels

center locks

Cup 2 tires

radio detector hardwired

Ford Escort

Burmester

PPF

Toyota GR GT

Lexus LFA

Griot's

Polestar

normal maintenance wash

BMW F32

Audi 100S

BMW E92

BMW M3

Porsche 718 GT4 RS

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