Dialed In Podcast: January 30th, 2026

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in, oh yeah, audio's good, check, check, check, test, test, test, oh yeah, audio's good, check,

man, looks sharp, okay, computer's not in the way, let me mute this, alright, welcome everyone,

it is Friday again, my life is like flashing before my eyes, the speed at which this is

moving is not good, and I need to slow it down, just too much, too much speed happening here,

alright, let me do pop out chat, and let's go live, and I got you here, and I'll leave me in the

background to make sure everything's still working, and we're good, okay, it's been a wild week,

a wild couple of weeks, Wyatt, our new cinematographer started, and then this week Alexis, our new,

social media person started, and Wyatt was here for the first couple of days of the week,

but he's moving, and so we knew he'd come for a week, and then leave for a week, and so we're

getting Alexis up the speed on how to capture and the content on how I want to couch this,

how I want to create the information, get the information out to you, and so you're going to

see us fall in the loop for a little bit, and people are yelling at us on the YouTube channel

about, you know, we've been working on color, and then frame rate, and then just camera,

getting the camera set up, audio, and so we just have a little bit of time here where we,

I always prefer to just ship it, ship the work, we can improve it, ship and improve it, and just

deal with the ramifications of doing it that way, but if we make a video, I'd rather share the video

and make sure that you have access to it, you know, and access to it and choose to watch it or not,

which does kind of hurt the algorithm, but I don't live life based on an algorithm,

I live real life, so they're both started, and we're going to see, you know, continued

improvement as we, you know, as we chase the, my future, which I've shared with you a bunch on,

you know, what I want to create, and how I want to create it, and how I want to do inside the

hex and all that stuff, so I am, let's see, today I was working on the GT3, or GT4 RS wheels,

I'm finishing the GT4 RS, Matt Rutledge and I were just scheduled the plan for the GT3 RS,

we're going to do a whole build series around, you know, spring detailing, so we're going to get

that, get that all dialed and get the, get that car set up and figure out, you know, what I'm going

to do with it, but I'm convinced, I got some updates on you for you, I'm convinced I'm going to drive

someday again, I got a new pharmacologist, psychiatrist pharmacologist and a new psychiatrist,

you know, who specializes in panic disorder, so we can talk about that a little bit today, but

I'm going to test out a new, a couple of new supplements and a new antidepressant protocol,

and the, the, my new doctor talked about stacking, I don't want to get on goofy,

you know, medication for the rest of my life, but at this point, shoot, if it's a choice of taking a

low dose of something and driving a car and not, I'm in, so I'll snort it if I have to,

so I've been working on that, I finished coding the GT4 RS yesterday, so I finished that up last

night, so I did armor pro topped with armor phobic, so I finished the phobic and did every

square inch of it, all the trim, all the, all the, the jams, you know, the underside of the door,

jams, everything, so the car's looking, looking beautiful, and so I'm going to officially put

the license plate on it, it hasn't had a license plate on it yet, so I got to drill out those holes,

then I got to finish the interior on it, and it's, it's that car's good, and then as I,

after I get through the rest of these car projects, we're taking the, the, the EVO up to get tuned next

week, and then the EVO comes down here and will work on that, and so I'm going to be working on the

GT3 RS, so I'll probably put the EVO on the two post, put the GT3 RS on the, yeah GT3 RS will go

on the scissor lift, and then the, the, let's see the M3, yeah how would I do that, because right

now I got three cars in there, so I'd be, I'd have four cars, so the GT4 would have to go

next to my desk, and then, what am I missing here, yeah, that one of the cars would have to pull in

and out, while I'm, while I'm kind of in this transition phase, we thought about, which might

be a good idea, turning and getting one of the outdoor car capsules, which I need to kind of

reinvigorate the car capsule line, so I may for the time being get one of the outdoor car capsules

to put my extra, I'll get a two deep one, and I can kind of move cars a little bit, and I'll kind

of set that thing up, and de-mouse it, and make sure nothing gets in there, kind of a neat little

thing, to store some cars in there, and they can stay really sort of dust-free and clean,

in that, that environment, I think may not be a terrible idea, so I may do something like that,

so anyway, let's see, what are you guys talking about here today, hey Matt, two questions from

Brian's car stuff, what, what's your thoughts on Tesla cancelling the Model S, does that affect

your plans, or will you buy used, I didn't know they were doing that, and then second thoughts

on Active 3.0, let me look that, I didn't hear about Tesla, let's go to tesla.com, see if it says

anything, I mean, I would guess they would probably only cancel it,

if they probably had plans for something else, or maybe they're just not going to do the high

end anymore, let me see here, models, Model S, oh shoot, low interest rate right now, don't,

don't tempt me here people, I'm convinced, soon, I wouldn't be surprised if in like a few months

that I'll be able to just close my eyes, and the car will take me where I need to take me,

and it'll become my driver, and then maybe that, that could also help me as well to have

in the driver seat positive experiences, let me just news Tesla, oops, Tesla cancelling Model S,

Elon Musk says to Tesla's ending Model S and Model X production,

Tesla will stop building the Model S and Model X this year to focus on Optimus, interesting shoot,

well maybe I'll have to get a Model S then, what about the Roadster, it's kind of hoping

for the Roadster at some point, anyway, let me get back on track here, I'm getting, you get me

sidetracked there Brian, active 3.0, I haven't watched any videos on it, but it you know I think

it's probably just the 2.0 with more flow, and it's not promising because the 2, or the 2.3 I

should say, I didn't like the 2.3 at all, so I don't know, we'll get one, I know Rutledge has

it on his list to get me one, but I don't, I don't know, it looks cool, I mean the golden black is

kind of neat, but are they just putting lipstick on a pig, or do they make some significant improvements

to it, I'm not sure, and let's see, CEO detailing says hello, KSWETR, KS Wetter, glad to see you

Matt, besides the great OG drying aid, do you still recommend CarPro ECH20 as a drying aid,

yeah I haven't really thought about other drying aids, I mean ADS Amplify I guess could be one,

ECH20 is a good choice, yeah I mean I know I haven't used that in a long time, shoot I'd

forgotten about that product, but yeah it's probably a product that's been forgotten about,

and something maybe you want to consider, I've brought some water this time so I won't choke

myself to death, but I got Perfect Aminos, I'm fasted right now, we can talk about my escapades

with the Dr. Boss training group a little bit too, Perfect Aminos and Baja Gold Salt, about a teaspoon

in there, and then I've got Ketones and Creatine in this one, I'm trying to dial in my gym process,

I'll talk about the gym a little bit too, I'm willing to answer your questions here,

ETA on floating shells, well they have the same weight capacity of 100 pounds,

evenly distributed like the current OG shelving, I guess it would probably have a little less

carrying weight capacity, but I think it's probably pretty close, and they're due I think

in weeks, so I know that they're ordered, we're just waiting on the manufacturer to make them for us,

the contract manufacturers, Celgen makes our stuff, hey Matt have you ever dealt with paint

that could scuff scratch with your fingernail, picked up a genesis and the paint seemed to scuff

if you look at it wrong, yeah I mean the Black S2000, the Brewster GT3, it gets real problematic

that you know you polish it and you wipe it with a towel and the towel scratches it, I mean that

frickin sucks, I mean you're kind of just have to try to figure out a process, like the S2000 I'd

use that crazy kamikaze sponge, the real floppy soft one from Esoteric, I think Esoteric has a

different version of that that they kind of took on themselves, so you want like a super duper soft

sponge and then I mean I would employ trying to you know get deionized water and try to do a lot of

as little touching as possible, so maybe maybe do touchless DI washes every three out of four

washes and then do a contact wash one one out of it and try to try not to dry it, try to just blow

dry it and try to you know really, maybe also that could be a case for doing waterless or

rinseless I should say rather than soap and water contact wash because that technically can be safer

you know making sure to use tons of towels and tons of sponges, so you just you try to take

those extra precautions on really, really soft paint but you know it really stinks not much you

can do, looks great, that I'll ask about the thumbnails, yeah I mean we're testing and working

on thumbnails, I had taken a bunch of pictures of myself so we could just pull in so why it's

pulling from the Rolodex where for whatever reason the algorithm likes thumbnails that have

a AI-generated background with somebody's face, so Freddie my friend Freddie Tavaresh

who has a giant channel has kind of been advising us on how to do that a little bit,

hey Matt I rewatched, let me go, hey Matt I rewatched Fred's Garage Build and notice you guys

did one of the DI cabinets for his duels, you know if that's working right does he need another

DI tank, nope works great, it's working fine, so yeah not, well we're gonna work on that at some

point, car enthusiast, I appreciate the Rolodex real man as open to talk about mental health,

yeah thanks man, I've got my, I think this might be, this, no this isn't my favorite,

I think my favorite is my Cookie Monster, second favorite is probably my Hulk

and then this I think is my third favorite which is the Vintage, I think this is a 1996 GMT,

the Coke, this thing is pretty freaking sweet, I like how it's a little smaller,

it's pretty lightweight, I just think it's great man, I think it looks great, now I actually,

so this is the Coke dial, I have the Pepsi dial and I have the regular Black Bruce Wayne dial

as well for this that I could always swap up if I wanted to and I have to add a link to it,

it's a little tight, right now it's fine because I'm fasted but if I'm you know working out or

something or whenever salty, my wrist tends to grow quite a bit and then it gets a little tight,

so I gotta update that and I did today, bought, I found a really nice one same level of quality

of this at the 2004 Flat 4 Kermit, so even though it's kind of the same thing as the older version

of the Starbucks I already have but I got a Flat 4 Kermit so I've gotta send him the money today

so he can ship it to me, let's see, it's always 24 frames at 60 shutter speed or 30 at 60 unless

you slow-mo then it's, so I must be answering someone else's question, I don't know how I missed

that, yeah we tested out 24 frames, I don't like it, looks too milky to me and so they went to 60

frames and we figured out that the export as why it gets this software you know suite set up,

the, we were exporting in the wrong codec and so we were getting kind of motion jutter and

so again the tarot tickets four or five videos to nail it but I want to shoot 4K 60

and export and upload 4K 60, it looks more live to me,

have you seen those magnetic plate holders could work or allow you to not drill anything,

I'm not sure what you're talking about, can you elaborate on that Ryan, I'm not sure

magnetic plate holders, I'm not sure what you're talking about, any updates on the progress of

Mozmatic or others, I, I'm probably gonna have to come here tomorrow because I always get distracted

when I'm here with business stuff, the, I got the AR phone Canon, I hopefully will have, I haven't

gotten the orifices for the Mozmatic yet but I'm waiting on the orifice, this orifice is the show

well, good thing I brought water this time, so I'm gonna get that done, CEO detailing says

what is your opinion on why influencers selling their brand of chemicals are not wealthy,

if they sell out as often as they claim, why are they not multi-millionaires by now,

I've been paying it's pretty rich, you know, he's, he's done it right, we're probably similarly

rich, if you will, he's taken a different path which is, and I envy at times, like he's like,

he doesn't have any employees, he makes videos, he focused on, on providing people the resource

that they actually want rather than I provide you what I want, and so his channels grow substantially

more, much, much quicker, he, you know, made the decision to, you know, to, to, to sort of

dig into his specific audience and provide them a solution or resource, and you know,

when you're buying inventory, especially, you know, inventory like that, you're at the mercy of the

contract manufacturer, you're at the mercy of how much capital you want to put up, and I'm on

a stock all the time because you just don't have enough money to freaking buy the stuff, so when

you, you know, when you're build, you know, in inventory related business is kind of difficult

to forecast, especially, I mean, all these guys are new at it, right, they haven't been doing this

their whole lives, and so they're new at it trying to figure out how to make it happen,

and then they probably have to get in line because they're not making the stuff themselves,

and so you have a myriad of things you have to line up, and, and you, you know, you, you probably,

you know, you have to make concessions as well because you can't just buy, you know,

20 million dollars worth of stuff and have it sit there, I mean, there's a shelf off on some products,

and so, I mean, I don't think there, I mean, I don't think that there's,

I mean, you don't want to have things out of stock, but there isn't really anything wrong with it,

you just, you do deal with less sales and people lose interest, but, you know, I would encourage

you to not have a judgment or an assessment of that, I mean, it's a, those guys have also chosen

not to be super transparent, they kind of are putting a certain image out there, and if you're

used to watching me, you know, and again, I'm not saying my way is the right way, but if you're used

to watching me, you know the whole story, you know, those guys are trying to put out a polished

product, a polished thing that they're providing, and so you, you're making assumptions that you,

you know, wouldn't naturally come to the conclusion of, but you don't always know

everything that's going on behind the scenes, unlike, you know, in my case where I'm telling you

when I'm, you know, and I can't drive a car, so, and it'd probably better for it to have some

a little bit of separation from church and state, and I think that's my value prop, you know, those

brands have different value props, and I don't think any value prop is right or wrong, it's my

value prop is, is to differentiate me and how I'm, what I'm providing to the world, and then,

you know, and like my friend Pan is going to provide his value prop to the world

differently, which makes sense, but that, that process for me, so, you know, I may end up at

the end of the game with, because I've built a hopefully scalable business versus, you know,

Pan's more of like a personal brand, and then he's kind of bolted on products onto that,

which is a new thing, but, you know, Pan doesn't have to maintain a giant warehouse with 35 employees

or 40 employees, and so there's disadvantages to my way, disadvantages to, you know, being a

personal brand, and you kind of balance that and figure out what works best for you, and, and so

there's a lot that goes on in the, you know, behind scenes of inventory, and, you know,

Pan's distributing, all those guys are distributing through the same resource, and so there may be

limited resources on distribution, limited resources on capital to buy product, it,

there may be limited resources on the ability to produce, there may be back orders on raw materials,

so there's a hundred things and things that I don't even thinking of that could cause a product

to sell out, and, or not be available, and, you know, they're, they're all certainly probably

selling less than, than what they're saying, but I do the same thing, you know, kind of pump it

up a little bit, try to create some mystique, and, and, and that's, you know, that's normal for,

you know, for product lines and normal for, for marketing,

but I found, and I used to do what you do too, I'm a judge in and assessing everything around me,

it's better to just, you know, take the world for what it is and try not to make up a story if

you can help it. How GC1 says Matt, or when he's starting the laundry room, I think it's probably,

you know, three weeks or so out, I'm waiting on the, on the, on the stuff, you know, waiting on the,

on the cabinet, so the cabinets will be in production at some point, I paid the deposit,

so now I'm just waiting. Let's see, did you figure out exactly what is happening with Vimeo?

Will it affect you in any way? Oh, shit, I totally forgot to even look. I don't know.

I'm pretty sure that it's Vimeo, because I pay Vimeo like 5,500 bucks a year based on my usage,

so I'm pretty sure that Vimeo

is still going to operate in that space, but I probably need to make some calls and find out

what the deal is. I've been so frickin' busy. I hate being busy.

And let's see, the active, after 3.0 will have new architecture and different motor and pump.

Well, I mean, it would have to have a different internal, but the external architectures, it

looks identical to me. And, you know, they're publishing 75 dB, which means it's probably

more like 78 or 79 dB, which is too loud and obnoxious. So, but we're gonna get one. We'll see.

Do you follow or watch Stephen Bartlett? I've never heard that name before. Who is Stephen Bartlett?

Let me, let me chat GBT that. Who is Stephen Bartlett?

Oh, Diary of the CEO. If there's somebody on there that I'm interested in,

I'll listen to it. I mean, that's where I found Dr. Bos. You know, if there's somebody that's,

that's of interest, I'll, I'll, you know, watch the show. But yeah, he seems, he seems pretty

interesting. Seems like a nice guy, but I don't follow him personally. What bottle, water bottle

this is a glass bottle. It has a plastic top, but it has like, you know, like a neoprene

exterior to keep the glass, you know, protected from global healing. It's pretty sweet. I like it a lot.

I like to drink on glass if I can, because a lot of times my water will sit there for a long time.

Let's see. And, and this is something I want to figure out here this year is

like, I should reach out to these guys and, and, and get, you know, and have a, you know,

have product placement. And I think I can figure out now that how to do, you know, sponsors ships

and become spokesperson for products without having to sell it. So yeah, I think that's

something I'm interested in. Hey, Matt, do you have making the, who do you have making the labels

for your spray bottles? I've experienced in this space and could probably work out a solution

for one off custom labels on demand for people's requesting. I think we're making a change. I'm

not sure PAMCO labels makes our labels, but we have to buy it, you know, 2500 of them at a time.

Let's see. Tech 582 is super popular in detailing forums. I'm not sure what he's talking about.

And let's see.

Lately seasoned.

I used to talk answering this question. Kurt Barone. Last time you spoke about

Obsessed Home Theater, and I wanted to see if that is no longer you or is still part of the

company is Rusty working with Michael. Hope all is well. So Obsessed Home Theater, we

we're going to shut it down. Michael is going to continue doing what Michael does and probably

carry most of the lines. And I think he's going to transition to community home theater. I think

he's going to is the branding. And Rusty is probably going to be an engineer somewhere or,

you know, work on some sort of executive position. The time that the lesson we learn is that the

time it takes to become profitable, especially when there's three hands in the cookie jar,

I have an infinite time horizon, but those two don't. And so they don't have an infinite time

horizon. And so, you know, we kind of came to the conclusion that the Obsessed Garage model

will certainly work, but it's not going to create distributions for several years.

And so because you have to acquire and build the inventory. And so you have all the cost,

the startup costs, I mean, I'm eight years in and I still am not taking, I mean, I get a salary,

you know, sort of reasonable salary, but I don't, and I get to buy all kinds of cool stuff,

but that's kind of assets that I'm acquiring from my balance sheet. But the, you know, Obsessed

Garage is, I don't think hopefully this year our plan starts to pan out. And so 2027, 2028,

I love to start distributing some of the profitability of the company. And so we kind of

came to the conclusion that it's, it was pretty easy to unwind before we got too deep with too

many suppliers. And so we're going to, you know, slowly, slowly, you know, sort of,

Michael's going to move into community home theater. He'll probably still carry all the

brands, but more of it in a drop ship type relationship. And then I may take a crack

at home, obsess home theater again, some other day. So let's see, vintage Coke is cool. Yeah,

I love it. Sorry for the long email. No more out of me. No, that's fine. The good news is it was

easy response for me. So I like, I like emails from you guys. It's fine with me. I saw you guys

were featured on my favorite YouTuber, M39Restaurations, that engine building room is looking clean.

Yeah, yeah, we've, they've retained us to do some of the design work and

I know Wabos, Wabos, a big fan, Mike F., Matt Rutledge, they all are huge fans

of the channel. I check in every, every so often. But yeah, yeah, it's a great, great, great

collaboration, I think, two similarly minded channels. Hopefully we can collaborate in person someday.

No, so Rossiano, we won't, we kind of completed the whole, you know,

the diary or whatever we were saying, the figuring out mentorship, we kind of ran out of topics.

So we, we, we moved on to, you know, I moved on to doing some other stuff.

Let's see, it's Ryan says, do you think driving on a simulator possible slow-paced game like

American Truck Simulator would trigger a panic? No, it doesn't. I actually tried that. We tried

to set up, what is that, what is the game that the simulator AC, a set of Corsa, and it didn't

work for me, didn't help me at all. Let's see, here in the UK, there's a product which attacks,

attaches inside the bumper, which fixes a magnet. Then you can attach small magnets on the physical

plate. Oh, you were talking about the, the GT, the GT4S I was talking about putting the plate on.

Yeah. So we have that with, I have that, there's a guy in Canada that makes that, shoot, what that

is his name, carb, carbonated car, shoot, it'll come to me. But I have it for my M3, which is

awesome. And I would love to have that for the GT cars, because then you just screw a, you put

a screw into the plastic bumper, which I hate. Let's see, Clive City says, been shopping for an

electronics repair online, repair kit online, and they all seem like junk. Would love to see an OG

spec electronic repair kit. Yeah, that would be cool. Canipix, the little micro screwdriver from

Weir, Canipix has all kinds of little electronic discharge capable ones as well. They have all

kinds of cool stuff. Let's see when our changes come into Viper products on the OG site. I think

we have the Viper Discovery video scheduled for early next week. I think it might be Monday, Monday

or Tuesday. So stay tuned for that. And then from there, I'll work with the team at Viper to make,

make, you know, updates to what I'm looking for.

Let's see. JackGJG says, Hey, Matt, hope you're well. What's your views on AI? Do you use a lot?

And as a business, are you going to try to increase adoption with it? Also,

will mentoring personal finance vids be added to inside the Hex site?

Yeah, I'll do, I'm going to do more of the, that kind of stuff on inside the Hex.

Tell you what, send me some topics you want me to do and I'll do it. I need some ideas.

What would you like to hear me talk about? And I'll sit down on the weekends and record some

Hexcast for you. Yeah, I mean, AI is coming. I'm super interested in it. I've invested in it

quite a bit here this year in, you know, in equities and in various AI plays.

I just hate to get hung up on the, everything I buy, I'm buying for 20 years. So,

you know, unless I have to make an adjustment to it. But I, I have on my phone, I've got Claude

on my phones here. I got Claude, ChatGBT, which I pay for. I have GROC, which I pay for,

Super GROC. And I have Gemini, which I think is only a free service. And I use them all the

time. Should I just use it on the podcast here? I'm most interested in the medical, legal,

and tax part of it. You know, I love my advisors. I think you're always going to need a human to

utilize it. But I'm most excited for like the management, like the warehouse management side

of things where I can integrate. It's going to be able to solve a lot of problems, generate reports.

It's going to be able to analyze our workflow on how we, you know, how many steps we take. It's

going to help sort of eliminate some of the SaaS, the softwares of service providers

that you're, we're so beholden to. So it's going to, it's going to improve, improve efficiency

and save money, I think. So I'm excited for that. And so we're using it a lot for, you know,

for analyzing when to post a YouTube video, what the title should be. Rutledge is pretty keen into,

into that, digging into, utilizing it for that, analyzing our, you know, product line,

just speeding up and making this more efficient. I don't think we're in for a massive catastrophic

meltdown of jobs. I mean, I think a lot of different jobs that used to exist are no longer

going to exist. And I think that's going to happen again, but then new pathways will be,

will exist. And I don't think we have the capacity to predict that. And so, I mean,

the risk, of course, is that, you know, Terminator 2, you know, it's, you know, James

Okay, I forgot to put on, dude, I'm disturbed. That was the one major thing. I keep getting

calls from this one freaking number. I need to block that number. It's annoying as crap.

Next question, TCLX11. What is the TCLX11? I'm using chatGBD right now. What is TCLX11?

Searching. Come on, let's go.

Flagship TV. It's a super quantum dot mini LED.

Yeah, it's probably going to suck because it's still an LCD. It just has smaller LEDs.

Extremely bright, you know, massive local dimming zones, 20,000 different zones,

100% BT 2020, it's 4K 144 hertz capable. Yeah, I mean, it's a TCL. I mean, maybe it'll get better,

but it's probably going to suck because it's still LCD based.

What brand is the hoodie sweater that you're wearing? It's freaking awesome. I have, I just

have like six colors and I got rid of all even all my OG stuff. These are from House of Blanks.

I think it is House of Blanks. I think it's a Roomba is the base brand House of Blanks. I think

is the yep. And it's the Terry version. I think this is a Terry. Yeah, so the inside is a Terry,

which is pretty sick. House of Blanks, I think they're like 100 bucks each. So

shop, we looked into getting them wholesale, but it was kind of cost prohibitive. Yeah,

they're 110 bucks each. I have one of basically every color and I freaking love them. It's all

I wear. My favorite one is the white one. It's like a Anthros. It's got like a little splotchy-ness

to the white. I forget what it's called. Let's see. Yeah, that's cool. Chris Gorber just sent me.

There's new gun storage solutions for the R2V and drawers for Rousseau.

Let's see. Progression decibel says, Hey Matt, broken record question. What part numbers are

your road mic there? Is this a combo? Is that a combo of two different pieces?

Or am I thinking of your iPhone mount you showed us before? So this is a single DS.

It's a DS2, DS2 stand. And then this is the road pod mic, which is a USB-C mic.

And then on the phone mount, this is where it's two pieces. So on this guy, I bought another DS2.

And so if you look at this, so the DS2 comes with two arms. And so I took this arm off and

this mount off. And I used just this section. So you're going to throw away half of a really

expensive stand. And so it's pretty solid. And so you can see there's the single arm. And then I bought

the road MagSafe iPhone mount thingy. And so then I just take and use the I have this sort of sitting

on the desk right here pointed at me. And so that's two pieces as well. I want to say these are 200

bucks. And this is like 100 bucks. But it's really, really high quality. It's like anodized aluminum,

super heavy weight. And so that's what I'm using for my setup here. You can see the mic. And then

I just have a USB-C cable running right to the right to my phone. And then you install the road

app on your phone so that when you can adjust the volume and stuff on the

on the unit or on the microphones gain.

Mopar 478C, I should be a sponsor for that as well, right? So I should be getting paid for

all this stuff. Then maybe I will get a paycheck. Let's see. Hey, Matt, I have a 2019 M4 CS. I'm

trying to get dialed in. Front bumper, side skirts and door need paint work. Would you

re-clear the entire car or just the panels that need work? I mean, if you're at that far, I mean,

it'd be kind of nice to just have them sanded down and re-clear the whole thing and just put a

bunch of clear on it. That way you could probably, you know, then you could sand it flat, you know,

and just have it get rid of all the orange peel will be pretty sick. If you're going to go that far,

it may not be a bad idea. Any update on kitchen renovation? No. I don't really have any plans.

We have so many projects, so many videos. Mike's working like a wild man to get the bullpen. I

gave him a three-week deadline to get the bullpen set up. So we're working like crazy because I'm

going to have a mutiny on my hands. Once it starts to get hot again and all my people are in there

working in a sweatshop in the tiny crappy offices with Lighthouse and bird wallpaper and holes in

the wall. So we're going to get the bullpen dial and get everybody their place to work.

And so we're working on that. I've got, I said the laundry room. I've got all this detail and

stuff to do, all these car projects. So kitchen renovation is going to stay shelved for now and

we'll get to that if I get to it. All right. So Brian says now that you're selling ADS coatings,

what's your recommendation for non-garage kept daily drivers? Yeah, I would do ADS Pro. That's

really what I want it for, for the durability of it, theoretically durability of it. Hey Matt,

love the new OGHQ Studio. Just curious, are you not planning to put your tire machines in that

space? Nope. They take up so much space. I use them every once in a while. What I'll probably do

is do a little better lighting in the air conditioner room and I'm going to leave them in there. I love

them in there. They fit perfectly. So we're going to leave that alone. Let's see. Matt looks to me

like you're building OGHQ and to support it. You've also effectively built a logistics company.

Do you ever think about how to scale those independently or is that not of interest?

I thought it was of interest and it's really not what we specialize in, not what I want to do. I

thought I was going to have distribution facilities all over the country, all over the world and really

it's kind of a means to an end for me. So I can bolt on a few more things to that.

Like the home theater thing was pretty easy to bolt on. So it'll be stuff like that that's sister

brands but I don't really want to be in the warehousing business if I can help it.

How's that Swiss tracks plate coming along? I'm not sure. Tommy and Joe had it in the garage

yesterday. So we got our samples yesterday and I know they're making some tweaks to it

but I'll get an update from them at our next meeting on Monday and I'll let you know where

we're at. How GC1 says, Matt, what are your thoughts on the new Steelers head coach? I think

it's good. I mean, Mike McCarthy is a Pittsburgh guy. He has a Pittsburgh accent. In the Green Bay

situation he did famously well, won a Super Bowl. Obviously Dallas is a crap show of disaster and

it's a terrible place to be. So I know that the Steelers fans were pretty bent out of shape about

it but I didn't for one second. I thought it was a great hire. I didn't for one second. I know the

Roonies too and they're sharp people and they have a culture that's different and that culture

is key and so I think Mike McCarthy fits that culture and then we'll see what he can do from a

coaching perspective. I'm pretty pumped about it. Are you going to do a video about your Milwaukee

tools? Yeah, I probably need to do an update on the tools that I've chosen for my house and here.

That's a great video idea. We'll do that and we'll show you all the stuff that I ended up with.

Are we getting a video on how to rebuild the 630 in the Crenslet? Yes, that's scheduled for Thursday

next week, I believe. We have to finish that rebuild and transformation video.

Let's see. CEO Detail said to keep my wholesale status. I recently made a purchase of press all

bottles on Detail Image. I am a let's say hex member and noticed Detail Image was cheaper

even with my hex discount Y and hopefully OG still benefited. Well, I sold them the bottles

and well, if you have a wholesale account with them, that's probably why it would be cheaper.

Audio dropped out for a second there. I missed that.

Hey Matt, any recommendations on a floating shelf for inside the house? That's a good question.

I've always done custom.

So, I don't think anybody really makes that.

Let's see. Do you have a recommendation for an entry level TV? I want to get a TV,

but with 13 month old that is starting to walk and throw things, I don't want to get anything

high end. I would just get a series LG OLED. They're crazy cheap. You know,

thousand bucks or less depending on what size you get. So yeah, I would do a series LG OLED.

It's pretty good. I had an A at Helen in the basement. It was pretty sick. It was fine.

Hey Matt, I bought a, I brought 911 to Helen with the RAG company. At what point does it make

sense for me to reach out to the design team? We were looking at a renovation to our home

and adding a garage. What's up Chris? How's it going? I mean, as soon as you're ready, I mean,

to do a full design, we charge 2,500 bucks for the design. And so, you don't want to waste the

money if you end up not doing it. But 2,500 bucks to me would be just worth the experience.

You want to be planning ahead. So, you make sure that you would want to, I would want to

meet with design before I meet with Madonna Architect if I could. Or at least in the process

of designing the house and addition or whatever you're doing. So, I think the sooner, the better,

as long as you kind of know what the footprint is going to look like. What you can do is have us

design the garage and then you can hand it to the architect and say, this is what I want.

And then they can kind of integrate it in. Let's hope that helps. So, Jesse

says, I see you have new Rupez Nano in stock. Have you happened to use it at all to see if

you like it? Yeah, it's great. It's got more torque. So, it's got the capability to use the

the 2-inch pad. It's good. So, I'm going to use it a bunch on the GT3, but it's certainly an

upgrade from the previous generation. So, that's why we put it in the store. Can we get an EVO

wash and talk soon? Yes, EVO in the coming month will be back. Oh yeah, CarbonX. That's the company.

CarbonX mounting plates. I think he's in Canada, but he only makes them for BMWs.

Let's see. Any OG employees participating in painting an ice protest today?

Yeah, I don't think so. I would hope not.

So, I wanted to tell you guys a story. So, I've been working diligently

on two things. Well, it's going to be three things. I'm taking the My Business course again.

And so, my business is for business owners. I've taken it probably eight times. I signed up for

it again. And so, it starts next week. She may have a spot or two if you own a business

and you want to take it. I'm taking it. It's a Zoom thing. I think it's three grand or 2,500

bucks for eight weeks. And we meet from 6.30 to 9.30 on I think Wednesdays. And it's the course

that's changed my life. It's called My Business. And the tagline is business is an excuse to be

in relationship. So, I'm taking that again. I feel like I'm at an inflection point of learning

to become and learning how to lead, how to become a leader, the next level of leadership.

And building my team around me to help so that I can stay in the clouds and do what I do best

and stay in my most profitable space. And the other thing I'm doing is, thanks to a friend

of mine, a customer follower who referred me to his world-renowned psychiatrist. And so,

he specializes in panic and phobic disorders. And so, I've become kind of agoraphobic where

I'm having a hard time going anywhere but work and home. Can't go to church. Can't go to the

frickin' Ryan's games. I'm just freaking out everywhere. So, I'm working on that. And then,

I met, like I said, I met a new, he referred me to another doctor who is a world-renowned expert.

I think he's like, I think he went to Columbia and they've developed some of the modern techniques

that we have now. And so, I'm working on a new protocol for pharmacological protocol.

I forget, what does he have me doing in case you're wondering? I probably shouldn't share this

stuff, but whatever. I don't care. So, I'm going to take five milligrams of elosadome

and do that for 10 days. And then, I'm going to increase to 10 milligrams. And then, he talked

about boosting serotonin with a stacker. And so, then I'm going to take a Lamotidine, which I think

methylene blue, but that's an OAI inhibitor, which could cause serotonin syndrome with taking.

So, I came off of my LuVox. And so, I'm going to try this. And hopefully, I don't have some crazy,

you know, muting side effects. And then, I'm going to take a supplement over to the counter

supplement, which is an acetylcystine. It's called 1800 milligrams of that a day. So,

I need to order that. So, we're going to kind of test that combination. So, but I'm not taking both

the start. I'm going to start with a low dose of elosadome and see if that, he sort of explained

it that the, my issue isn't the, you know, that you don't want to, you don't want to,

where you get the side effects is in the sort of blocking or attempting to block all serotonin.

We're looking to block the excess, you know, the excess adrenaline and serotonin. So,

anyway, I'm going to, I'm going to figure that out. So, I've been working diligently. I'm meeting

once a week, spending lots of money on this support. So, I'm going back to my business,

going through that. You can shoot me an email. If you want to get in this course, I mean, I would,

man, I don't know if Nancy has any space, but I can connect you with Nancy.

You got to be a business owner. And it's going to be a pretty high level group, I think, you know,

some pretty heavy hitters. So, you know, if you're on a come up, I mean, I would try to get in with

people that are way ahead of me. And then the last thing I'm doing is I signed up for a keto

course. It's a 21 day, you know, 21 day program. And so, I'm like deep into all this. I don't

it's so far gone that I can't even imagine being able to do that. And so, but I've got this team

of experts that I'm, you know, shelling out some money to try to fix this. And really, the money,

it's not that much money, it's the time, investing the time in this and then being focused on doing

the things that they tell me to do. So, like for instance, Dr. Julian had me, I had to pretend

to pass out. And I had to say, you know, anytime I thought about it, I had to say, Lord, come,

please, let me pass out right now. And that actually kind of helped me out quite a bit to try to

desensitize the bit and to understand that the passing out part is not that big of a deal. It's

kind of a homeostasis when you pass out, you get horizontal, it's your body kind of bringing you

back or protecting you, not trying to kill you. I think it's wrong with the audio here. I think that

the, I think it's YouTube, which kind of loses buffering. Check, check, check, test, test, test.

Let me, let me try something here. Let me unplug this.

It's YouTube. Check, check, check, test, test, test. Let's try this.

One, two, test one, two.

Unplug that. Come on, catch up the live.

Come on. This is the problem with going live.

All right. I think we're good. I think actually my cable was a little twisted up there when I

took it off and was showing you. Okay. So anyway, let me finish my story here. I don't know if you

care about the story, but the, I signed up for this course and, and I'm working with, oh, I was

talking about, he had me fake passing out. He was just kind of, kind of main up a little bit.

So I, I signed up for this, this keto course. It's a, it's, you know, I'm convinced that the

combination of all the work I'm doing, learning how to challenge the fear, learning how to manage it,

learning how to enjoy life, learning how to be present, all this stuff I've been doing,

figuring out how to make the business profitable or really profitable. So I don't have to take

so much risk or take some risk off the table and really just work towards, you know, what would

be a euphoric life for me and, and, you know, making, understanding what's going to cause stress,

what is not, and then, and then combining that with a, you know, just being super healthy,

being super active, living in a ketogenic state. I bought a safe for the pantry,

which is actually working great because I would have cheated a bunch of times already.

And so I bought a safe for the, you know, just even for like almonds and cashews and things that I,

you know, eat too much of, peanut butter. And so I got a safe and the kids have it, you know,

Michelle, they're the only ones that have the code. I don't. And so I locked that up.

But I'm doing this, doing this frickin keto thing. And it's with like a group of like regular people,

not, I'm used to dealing with you guys, you know, and even you guys drive me crazy at times,

because I'm so off the frickin reservation of crazy. And so the, I'm used to dealing with,

in surrounding myself with, you know, although I'm the pinnacle of crazy, or, or at close to the

top of crazy, at least the people around me kind of get it, they understand it. And, and so I'm in

this group of normies. And all I hear a bunch of frickin excuses. But the concept is to test ketones,

test glucose, and get into a ketogenic state and staying there. The byproduct for me is that I'm

fasting. I'll do lots of mitochondrial repair. I'll do lots of hopefully gut to brain repair.

And man, who knows that, you know, that could be another contributor combined with all this other

stuff that I'm doing that could help me get back to reality here and make sure I can actually go

to SEMA this year again. And so I think that I'm in, but anyway, so my point of my point of my

story here, I'm in this course, and I'm just holding myself back. Like they, first they can't,

they don't know how to use zoom. And then they're not in focus. And then they're moving the camera

around, like they can't get set up. I can't, I can't do like any, it's just a frickin total disaster.

And, and so the whole darn thing is just a mess. And it's like, we're like, we're like

planning or catering to the least common denominator, which is just annoying as crap.

And so the other day, I got myself in trouble. So I'm on the third session, today would be the

fourth session. And so I got myself in trouble on the second session. We were talking for like

15 minutes in our nightly group about coffee and how, you know, and how to not break a fast.

And we're supposed to be talking about health and wellness and improvement and fitness,

you know, and all this stuff. And we're talking about like, I just, I hate how the

entire world is just decided. And then you start looking for, you know, biases. But this idea that,

you know, caffeine, I'm okay with you accept that it's, but don't frickin lie to me here that,

you know, well, you know, Matt, you don't understand caffeine, blah, blah, blah, blah,

blah, is great. And caffeine is the, is the, you know, it has all these benefits and da,

da, da, da, da. It's nonsense. You're addicted. You come off of it, you get a migraine headache.

And you're, you're, you feel like you're dying. That's an addiction. Why if we normalize that?

So I wasn't even picking a fight. I was just saying, look, we're talking about this,

you guys are struggling to not break a fast, to not break ketosis by putting all this weird

crap in this thing that you're addicted to. Can we just admit that you're addicted? Why don't

we just let that go? You know, why don't you just let it go? And especially in this group,

you know, those of you guys that don't have problems, you're fit, you're healthy, you're fine.

Caffeine has some benefits. Coffee has some benefits, I'm sure. I don't know what, but

it has some benefits. It's an enjoyment thing. It's a quality of life thing. I get all that.

But we're in a group of sick people, me included, and we're making all these excuses. And I just,

you know, I'm just asking, and I ask it much nicer than I'm talking to you about this. And people

look like I had fricking, like I had two heads on. And this is after 25 minutes of fumbling around

trying to get everybody into the darn thing. And then we're in a dire rush to get out of the group.

So, or to get it shut down that night, like, let's just get into it. Let's skip all this bullcrap.

And anyway, the doctor who set this thing up, we have like, everything that we're learning,

we've already learned. Like, she's already taught us that. I want to get into the details here and

have a, it was a support group. So anyway, I'm working on that. And so I'm real fricking

frustrated. And I, so what I did is in order to kind of get, I paid two grand for this thing,

and I'm investing a lot of time in it. So kind of like I did with my car journals,

I started in the thread, I started a journal, I said, well, you know, if we're not going to talk

about the details of what we're doing, what I can do is just start a journal sharing, here's

what I'm doing a workout, here's my key, here's my key tone show. So that way I could kind of

put all the data down and analyze it every day. And then I could share what I'm learning. And then

other people contribute and we can learn from each other, at least that way. And yeah, nope.

They, they, I spent three hours on that last night, and they deleted it. I'm like, I should have

asked first, dang it, that was a waste of my time. So anyway, I sent them a message, look,

here's where I'm at, I feel like I'm on an island here, I'm in with a bunch of regular people

that aren't good at anything. And like, I already, everything we're talking about is so elementary,

we're like teaching to the least common denominator. And the funny thing is, we make all these

concessions about, you know, triggers and all of that. And then every single session is up talking

about your triple bypass and your, which triggers me. And I can't do, I don't can't do anything

about it. That's what triggers me is when people start talking about death and destruction, blood

and guts, you know, they're dying and all these people, their feet are about to get lopped off.

And here I am, I'm trying to, you know, run an 18 minute 5k and get to 11% body fat. And so,

and I'm in with these freaking regular normies. So I'm going to suck it up and, and, and try to

stop. I just told you don't have a judgment, assessment and opinion. And then I think this

is probably good for me to, to go through, because what I want is an accountability to keep the

stuff locked up in the pantry, don't have any cheats and get into like a six, nine, 12 month

long-term state of ketosis, where I'm making ketones, which means that I'm, and my glucose is

stable and I'm convinced that that's going to be a major contributing factor to me driving a car

in the mountains. It'll be pretty sick. Let's see. Nicholas, sorry if you already explained it,

but is your process of fasting 24, 48? So I'm doing a probably 18, four. So I have a roughly four

hour eating window. And then I'll throw in a 48 hour water or 72 hour water or sardine fast.

I'm doing a 72 hour sardine fast for, it's not really a fast, I guess, but I'm doing 72 hours

of just eating sardines. So I'll have a morning and, or afternoon and evening sardine tin.

That will really make, you know, tons of ketones and keep your glucose ultra, ultra low.

That's easier than doing a water fast. So I do a lot of 24s while I eat, you know, one meal a day,

or my eating windows an hour. I do that a lot right now. I haven't eaten anything. I will

probably eat some sardines after this podcast. And then

Sunday, I'm starting a 72 hour sardine fast. And I'd like to throw another 72. I think we have a

72 hour water fast. So that's really why I signed up for the course is to kind of do that with a

sardine fast. Let's see. The Obsess Garage Wrinkle Black Wand Holder looks pretty sweet.

Updates on when the stainless with full loadout will be in stock. I'm not sure. So within weeks.

Let's say using the Griot's Boss Foam Can with an active 2.0. Should I use the Aqua Tip

like I've read or is it worth diluting Car Pro Reset? I'd play with the tip and see what works.

I'm not sure which one. It may be pink that you need for it.

We talked about that. Have you heard of Ibogaine? I have.

But I'm like terrified of a, and this, you know, I was listening to,

and I told you I was listening to earlier. Crap. Tim Ferriss about, you know,

he's done a lot of psychedelic stuff. And, you know, sometimes there's risk to it.

Sometimes you break and you end up in like a disreality forever. So that's what I'm

deathly afraid of. Matt, high fatty red meat on carnivore has tremendous mental health benefits.

Yep, your brain needs cholesterol and fat for optimal health. Yep, I agree. Are you eating

enough fat? Or have you considered doing a fat fast? Yeah, I eat tons of that. I'm eating butter

all the time and I eat a ribeye every, a ribeye or a New York strip every day.

And that's why sardines are so great because it's like the perfect balance of fat in it and

protein. And so I manage that. I'm using a chronometer to track that. And so I'm working on that.

Have you tried KCX multi-star? I have. I don't see the point. I'm not much of an APC guy,

but it's okay. Matt, how's your experience been with the new iPhone? Anything you wish was different

with it? Yeah, it's fine. I mean, it's working great. I think it's fine. Let's see. Deceitful MS

is concentrated GS great pressure wash, pre-wash. Deceitful MS. And the best pre-wash is spill amber.

Ryan from Find Detailings here. They're rising them about his problems with the

eight-year coding. That's funny. It's probably because he didn't install it right.

And joke with them a little bit there. Let's see. Are you willing to take medication? Yeah,

I was talking about that. I have been non-responsive to the medications I've taken,

so we're going to try something a little different. Let's see. Do you think the business

and the chase for perfecting things has made your driving portion worse? Oh, for sure. For sure.

But, you know, I'm trying to figure that out. It certainly made everything worse. The pressure,

the risk, the inconsistency, it's the same thing with eating and risk taking. It's like,

all right, tomorrow will be day one. All right, tomorrow I won't take the risk.

And so there's some bad behavior there that's caused me to freaking lose my crap.

And let's see.

Matt, you're doing what you need to do for yourself. You're like me. I always try to take

control. Very hard to go with a program. When I do, I've seen great outcomes. Yeah,

so I've got to figure out a way. And I've been floundering around trying to,

I'm doing this course for a specific purpose and I'm trying to figure out how to navigate it.

Matt, let's see. You mentioned a new bucket filler coming soon. How much of a weight

should it be? We're hoping to have it, if the ultimate is still better, I think,

than the one we're going to do. This is more of sort of a mid-tier replacement. So if the

ultimate is what I'm going to keep. But the one we're doing is, crap, what's the brand? I forgot

it last week too. But we're hoping to have it by spring, so in a month.

Let's see. When's the next wash and talk? I'm going to do a golf cart, a promise,

I'm going to do a golf cart wash this weekend. So anyway, that's the end of the questions.

That's what I had for today. I'm going to go finish the wheels on the GT4 RS, the wheels and

calipers. I want to finish that. I got to run to the gym and back. So I'm going to run,

I'm going to do chest and trice today. Oh, the gym. So my CrossFit gym closed on Monday,

so did our official last workout. There's no CrossFit gyms around here. I

have joined a regular globo gym, Genesis, and Chris, head of design, and I are working out

together, which is great. I think that, I don't know, I've had good days and bad days. Yesterday,

we were doing leg extensions and leg curls. I'm going to go, oh my gosh, this is going to ruin my

whole freaking life here. I'm going to lose all, whatever a little bit of athletic ability I have

left in this nonsense crap and just have big muscles, which I don't give a crap about. I just

want to get, I just want to be fit. So right now, my structure is, I haven't done it because it's been

so freaking cold, but my structure would be, I'm coming to HQ at nine every day now, where I was

going to CrossFit at 830. So I was getting here at like 11 and just staying late. And so what I'm

doing, the gym is two miles from here, so I can freaking walk there or ride with Chris over there

till I can drive myself there hopefully soon. But the intention, plus I'm getting into solid

ketosis here, so I'm hurting right now, energy-wise. So I'm running five days a week, rocking two days

a week on my off days. And then I want to do that in the morning. So wake up, run, rock,

sonic, cold punch, come to HQ. So get up at 6.45, do that. But it's been freaking 28 degrees in

the morning. I don't want to do it. And so I'll probably start next week. So run, rock,

cosonic, cold punch, come here, work here at HQ, do my thing. And then I'm going at six o'clock

to the regular global gym and doing my weight training and doing that. And then I'm going home.

And the problem is my eating structure. I'd like to eat before then. But so I'm trying to figure

out my structure, my scheduling, and I need to throw in some functional stuff. So I do have

a rower now. I got an air bike. I've got a box. I'm going to build a little lifting platform for

deadlifts and cleans. I won't drop the weight, but I want something with a little padding.

And so I'm going to kind of do a hybrid combination of building my own programming.

Right now, I've got a decent structure where I'm not falling apart. But I'm figuring it out.

I'm figuring it out. I'm figuring out what to do here. The advantage of going to regular

gyms, I'm not going to be hurt all the time, injured because there's absolutely no athletic

movements going on there. So it certainly is safer on your joints and stuff. But I want to be able

to walk out the door and run a half marathon right now, any day, any time. I want to be able to maintain

that. Let's see. Have you tried the new Griot's MOD brushes? I have them. They're pretty sweet.

I think they're going to be, but there's still more that hasn't come out yet.

So yeah, I stopped CrossFit because my CrossFit gym closed and there isn't one around.

So I've toyed with the idea of opening my own gym again, but I learned that lesson, I think.

So I think I'm going to avoid that. Matt, will you eventually write a book? Yes, I think I will.

Any chances of black pressure washer and garden hoses for OG? Probably not.

Then no one makes a good black hose. So maybe someday, but not anytime soon.

Ever shoot hoops to unwind? I play basketball and I love driving to the court to shoot hoops every

other morning. No. I mean, there's basketball court right across the street there.

Yeah, I mean, maybe. I thought about a great thing. I used to do this where you just run

the full court and just do a layup drill, but full court by yourself and just do that until

you drop. That's a great workout. What do you think about the LG 6K monitor compared to the

Apple Studio monitor? Mac Mini just doesn't seem to love 4K monitors. So I was wondering how the

6K or 5K was working for you. It's good. It's okay. I mean, I wouldn't recommend it.

I think that the 27-inch studio monitor is better. It's got a camera. I feel like it's

not as the color. There's more contrast and vibrance to it. It also doesn't do well with

routing. So what I like to do is run power to the monitor, have a single USB-C that plugs

into my laptop, and then plug my USB-C for my DAC and other devices into that. But the monitor

kind of times everything out and I have to plug it directly into my laptop, which I don't like.

So anyway, I think that's it for you guys. I'm excited for new drugs. Hopefully I can

fix my life here. Anyway, oh, Middleton Motor Show. Go to the OG Facebook group, sign up. I think

it's worth a trip. I want you to come to the Middleton Motor Show. Things will be freaking awesome.

We want 100 cool cars to line Main Street, and I think this could be a really awesome event.

So let's get you signed up. Anyway, I'll put the episode up on Apple Podcast and all that this

weekend, and I'll see you soon. I didn't shoot a hex vlog this week. Like I said, shoot me some

ideas. What do you want me to talk about inside the hex? I'll shoot a hex cast this weekend for you.

Talk soon. Thanks.

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