Dialed In Podcast: January 9th, 2025

Let's see if this works here today.

I am live, hopefully we've got some good functions, some good sound.

I'm going to move my microphone up here and get it in my face.

Give me some comments here.

Let me know how my audio levels are.

Let's make sure everything's good.

And then after that I should be able to stop asking this because I think I've got a good

setup here.

I can hear it, so I think we're safe.

Anyway, welcome to HQ here and welcome to my new studio.

It's all set up and looking good.

I don't like the, it's a bit yin and yang of yellow and gross versus normal.

So I think what I should do, let's point it this way, that way we don't have to see that

ugly part of the building.

Anyway, give me some questions here today.

I've got some updates for you, I think.

I should probably talk about the elephant in the room here, but I haven't been on video

all week because my head is jacked up.

So I was doing, I think I was crossing on Monday and one of the movements was snatches

and just my form is just jank, just not, I don't know, just wasn't, I wasn't doing the

high pull.

And so I, after the class, after the workout, I won, you know, was talking to Norm, you

know, a buddy who runs the gym and was like, man, some just doesn't feel like I'm doing

something wrong.

And so I was working on my high pull, you know, the pull of the bar.

I had, you know, crazy, about 115 pounds on there.

And I, I did the first one and I kind of, you know, first couple of reps and kind of

fixed the form.

And then the, the third one just fricking yanked it right into my head down there, knocked

myself out.

I didn't need any stitches.

It was bleeding like crazy, but Tuesday, Wednesday, I, Tuesday, I felt like I was okay, but I

felt a little, little, you know, a little jacked up or no, I guess I did it on Tuesday.

Yeah, I did it on Tuesday and then Wednesday, I worked out and then I just didn't get off

the couch like from one till midnight and then, um, and then Thursday I started to feel

a little better, but I guarantee I had a dark concussion.

I mean, it was a big, big fricking bump on my head.

And so yeah, that's what, that's what we're looking at here.

So that again, I guess I did it Tuesday, Wednesday.

I was catatonic Thursday, fine, you know, and today, today I went for running stuff.

So I worked out through it.

So I'm all right.

So anyway, that's what's going on on my fricking head and I can't put a hat on because it

irritates it.

So you're stuck with looking at my, uh, my crazy face here.

So he knows what you get, but I like my setup.

I got my road podcast, Mike, I got my iPhone on here.

Let's hope it doesn't do this kind of glitching in the middle like it has been.

I've been putting the, the episodes up on, on, um, uh, uh, Libsyn.

I always forget the name of it.

Libsyn is the, the sort of the host.

And then that pushes it to, uh, via, I guess, the RSS feed that posts it up to all

the, uh, all the, the various, um, platforms.

And then what we're, what we're going to be doing here.

Um, uh, the, I'm going to be actually producing it.

And so we'll take this, take this off and we'll put intro outro and make sure to

clean it up a little bit.

Uh, it makes sense video alive here, but may not, may not make sense, uh, when

you're just listening to it on, on podcast format.

So what 2026 is going to look like for me is, um, really getting the team firing

on all cylinders, the products team, the design team, the media team.

Um, the, all the various areas of the company, um, to make sure that, uh, we

can, you know, get the content up and get it produced and, um, um, you know,

make sure that I, you know, have the resource that I needed to get, to get

the things up that they were the way that, that the way that they, they, they

should be, uh, and so the podcast is one of the things I've been kind of lazy on.

And so I'd like to, uh, like to stay consistent, um, grow it, maybe even get

a couple of sponsors for it.

And, uh, and then if I do that, then I can reinvest back in it and, you

know, try to make it, make it decent.

So, uh, but I think we'll do it here on the Matt Mormon channel and, uh, I

have to make a decision on if I'm going to move the membership stuff to this

channel or we'll keep it on the main channel.

I'm not sure, but, um, shooting a hex vlog here today and, um, um, I just did

like a 2026 plans video and inside the hex, but I'm going to start to really

promote inside the hex.

So my, my goal for 2026 would be to do three videos a week on Obsessed

Garage, the Obsessed Garage YouTube channel, three videos a week on the

Matt Mormon channel, or more if, if necessary, but we want to try to target

three videos a week.

And I have a lot to say and we have a lot to share and, you know, Mike

building a lot of different things.

And so we'd want it, you know, share, um, all the garage, garage and product

related stuff on OG.

And then I also want to reactivate the OG shorts channel.

Uh, and so we'll talk to Nathan and Bryce and Manny, uh, about, um, probably

shooting a couple of videos or posting a couple of videos a week there.

Uh, that channel will call the Obsessed Garage how to channel, uh, and the

design there would be so we can, uh, videos available for tech support and

design, you know, to, to, um, channel might actually do well.

Uh, and then really go deep into, into making, um, the inside the hex, uh,

platform.

So that's my goals for, for this, this coming, uh, this coming on the, on the

video stuff.

And, you know, one of those is one of those things is the podcast and making

the podcast as, as, as good as it can be.

Uh, and so, um, we're going to, you know, work through that and I'll, you know,

talk more, see some of you guys have questions.

So I'll kind of address that answer that as we kind of run.

Uh, um, yeah, I don't know.

The live header doesn't seem to go where I wanted to.

I'm going to be glad to turn this over to the media team and have me just

show up on set.

I'm, uh, I'm always trying to run through this and, um, shotgun it myself.

So I think that, I think that we'll get, uh, get this figured out as, um, this

time goes on.

Why would the audio keep cutting out?

Hmm.

I haven't changed anything.

Plugged in the iPhone.

Let me know.

Is audio doing all right?

Let me see if I can hear it on the video here.

Let me just play it back.

I freaking, let's go live.

Test, test, test.

Check one, two, check one, two.

Test, test, test.

Check one, two, check one, two.

Yeah.

Well, on this seems to be working for me.

Okay.

Um, yeah, audio is fine.

Every swap and it drops out.

That's weird.

I wonder if my iPhone overheats trying to do this live.

I mean, it doesn't feel hot.

It feels fine.

So we should be good.

We may, we may better go.

Uh, we may, or we may do a better job and go off the iPhone.

But for now it's, it's way easier for me to set this up.

All right.

So, um, Neal White says, what's up with the new AR?

Heard a few bugs with it.

Nope, no bugs for me.

Um, what it doesn't do is it doesn't work with the phone canons.

Don't work.

It's not that it doesn't work.

It's that the phone canons that exist don't work.

Um, the 635 is freaking awesome.

Um, I just have to solve the problem.

And those that are early adopting it, you either got to solve it yourself or you

got to just wait for me.

Um, I'm going to solve it.

Um, and it's going to possibly require in the interim some modifications to

phone canons.

Um, the reason I haven't solved it yet is we had to order a bunch of drill bits

and I don't have 1.1 millimeter up to 2.2 millimeter, you know, um, drill

bits.

They usually start much higher size than that.

So I ordered the drill bits.

So we've got the drill bits.

I'm going to work on it this weekend and I'll video it on the Matt

Mormon channel for you.

Uh, but no, I think things great.

I mean, what, what I think is happening, you know, it's a combination of things.

What I think is happening is that, um, this unit is tuned to the limit.

Uh, and you can see it's tuned to 20, 20 amps.

It's pulling 20 amps, 120 volts.

Uh, and, uh, it's rolling, you know, and surprisingly it's not tripping the

breakers, uh, and, uh, and so it's, it's, it's, it's pulling as much as it

can out of a 20 amp circuit in order to do that.

And they knew that we want it to be flow, you know, high flow.

And then, and then, you know, 1000 PSI is the target.

And so the way that this thing is set up, it, the electric motor can't

handle, um, any more pressure.

Uh, and so the way that it's set up, the way that the unloader is, is

calibrated, the way that the electric motor is dialed, uh, when we're trying

to push a lot of water, see what, what a dual setup can do is the dual setup

has headroom, I think, I think this is what happening.

So a dual setup, even though it's, it has more flow, um, we're not at the

limit, the pressure limit of the, of the, you know, of the individual pumps.

And so I think what's happening is we're at the, we're, we're pushing too

much water, the electric motor doesn't really have the ability to create

enough pressure without overamping the electric motor.

And then the orifice of the Venturi of the home cannon is, uh, is, um, it's,

it's not able to pull enough soap in.

So we got like kind of kind of a confluence of events happening here.

And so what I'm going to play with is obviously different orifices, um,

making sure that the pump stays below 20, um, I also, one person brought up

a good point.

I should check the voltage as well to make sure, you know, we have a,

probably have a 300 foot run over to the electric panel on 12, two.

Um, so maybe we're getting a substantial voltage drop, which is causing

a, a amperage spike, um, but we need to take that in consideration, but I

need to modify the foam cannons to get the foam cannon to work with the pump,

not the pump to work with the foam can.

The pump is perfect.

Uh, the way they calibrated, the way they set it up, the way they maximize it.

It's like, it's like I'm buying a super charged.

Um, it's like, it's like the last iteration of the, you know, of the model

year, say from like BMW.

So it's the M three that they've squeezed all the horsepower out of it.

Uh, and, uh, and so you're getting, you know, they've leaned out the air,

the air fuel mixture and they, you know, they've cranked up the boost as much

as humanly possible.

And then, then we're asking it to go tow a boat.

Uh, and it's not set up that way.

Uh, and so that's kind of what I think is happening here.

And so now I have to, uh, I have to modify and lighten up my boat and make

sure that I can tow it if that's what I wanted to do.

Uh, and so I've got to modify the foam cannon to get the foam cannon to work.

And I, you know, I knew that this would be a thing when I first got it and first

tested it, but I want to make it available to people who want to figure it out

for themselves.

And so the disadvantage to doing that, then I end up with a bunch of

knuckleheads.

They're saying, there's pressure washer sucks.

Well, no, you just don't know what you're doing.

Um, I don't need it.

We've got to figure this out.

And so if you don't want to early adopt, it was the same argument I had with,

uh, with press all, do you want me to just hold on to it forever and not let

people participate?

I would much prefer to be included in the process.

And so, um, the pressure washer works as intended.

Uh, it's the foam cannon that doesn't.

So we need to make the foam cannons work.

So hope to hope that makes sense.

Hey, Matt, now that Ryan has his permit, has he become interested in cars

and driving, um, a little bit, but, um, he likes driving a lot, but he

doesn't really care what car he's driving, which is probably good

for him.

Uh, SC says, uh, Matt, which tiles do you use for the backsplash of your

current home garage, looking for something similar to fit, uh, backsplash of

my favorite cabinet Ray and gray.

It needs about 15 square feet.

I, uh, shoot, I don't remember the brand.

Um, I don't know that you could get it anyway.

It was, you know, like a small batch.

Um, you kind of just have to go to like the tile stores, go around.

Frank found it for me, Frank Fento.

Uh, and so, um, you just kind of have to go around and find some tiles.

They're not like something special.

Uh, and it was just from, uh, like floor into core or something like that

or a tile supplier.

Um, and so I don't know that I could replicate it.

And, uh, I mean, same thing.

I couldn't find the tiles that I used in, uh, in the, uh, what was it?

The harbor Hills garage, uh, the ones where I did those, those limestone ones.

I probably wouldn't have wanted to redo that anyway, cause those,

those tiles are pretty jank.

We had to seal them all.

So yeah, um, I think you'd just want to go to the store and find them.

I think they are four by 12 tiles, four inch by 12 inch over the size.

And then we did them in a linear fashion, not a subway where they were staggered.

Um, the HG adventure said, I didn't know yet an S 2000.

Yeah, that was my CR.

I've had a one, two, three, four S 2000s in my life.

Um, one of them was very short lived, uh, when I got the CR, but that CR was

about 450 horsepower at the wheels, which was too much.

Uh, that's part of the reason why I sold it.

Uh, but John from LHT and I bought or built that.

And it's my first and only black car that I've owned.

It, um, we did a vortex supercharger, like the LHT LHT performance in, um, in

clear water, uh, we did, uh, what else did I do on that?

I think it all in suspension and evoke wheels.

It was pretty sick.

I think it was like, wasn't that maybe some of you guys remember, I think it

was like a, like a 5,000 mile CR that I'd bought for like 40 grand time.

Now it seems like kind of a deal.

I spent a bunch of money on it.

I sold it for 65 and everybody said, there's no way you could sell it.

And I'm sold it for 65 grand.

And I think the guy bought it and he eventually parted it out.

Uh, Neil whites has gone to miss the mic and Mike videos.

Yeah.

Um, the, the Michael Waba is going off to, you know, go back independent, you

know, do his own, you know, build his own business again.

When I, when, when he came here, uh, it was good timing in that, um, um, he

came here in 2019, something like that.

And, um, and so we, you know, we were able to kind of, you know, I think it was

what 20, 21, 22 years old when he came and, um, he, you gave up his business,

you know, he did a little bit on the side for a little while and then gave

up his business and it was good timing because a lot of that contract work

dried up for at least a couple of years.

Uh, and so, um, you know, now that him and his wife were in there, you

know, later twenties and so now, you know, I kind of have gotten as far as I

can go with just what I need from a YouTuber perspective.

Uh, and so, um, you know, they, they, uh, they forced my hand, which is good

for both of us, I think in that they're able to go off and, and, and build

their business and go to the next level for themselves.

I've kind of gotten us as far as we can get us, I think, uh, for, for my, you

know, and so I, so I needed somebody in that, you know, to, to come in at, at a

lower level to, um, to, you know, to just produce the content, you know,

that I'm looking to produce.

So certainly I don't know that anybody would be as good as, as they, they

have been him and, and Andrea who have been able to produce the content.

Um, but the, the, the, I think, um, I think it makes sense.

And so we're going to, um, we can always probably do stuff together.

If obsess garage does what I think it's going to do this year, next year, we

may contract them to do some, you know, some of our documentary style stuff in

the future.

So I hired, uh, this week I hired Wyatt, uh, who's coming from, um, Missouri.

And I hired Alexis, uh, to do the short form stuff who is, uh, coming up from Orlando.

Uh, and so, um, I, uh, you know, built, built a new team pretty quickly.

So we're, um, we, we, we should be good.

Yeah.

Should be able to go to keep producing, keep producing the content.

So that's the, that's the plan.

Let's see here.

Hey, Matt, from Canada, I'd like to try a ceramic coding.

Uh, what do you think of ADS phobic?

Uh, would that be a good start as a beginner?

Uh, they could be, um, I would suggest you do CSL XO.

Um, just know that if you do CSL XO in Canada or our most coatings in Canada,

especially on that sort of entry level, um, you're going to need, um, you're

going to need to probably do it every year, you know, every, you know, I would

do it every spring, um, and then that way, you know, you have it real nice for

the summer and then you, um, you're good to go by, you know, to redo it, do it

at the end of the winter.

So you're good to go for the winter as it gets nasty and crunchy.

Uh, it's Ryan says, what are your thoughts on the GT four RS now that you've

had it for a while?

I'm not really sure yet.

Would you still spec it the same?

Yeah, the spec is good.

Uh, I'm, you know, I may have done like the black wheels instead of the blue,

but I like the blue wheels, but yeah, I would do it exactly the same.

Um, I drove around the parking lot last night.

That's about the extent of my drive in it.

So, uh, it has like 17 miles on or something like that.

Uh, the cops heard me ripped around my parking lot and they came.

Um, so, uh, last night I had all, Mike had all the cars out because we were

working on the, the previous piping and he was working on the previous piping.

And so then I, you know, just ripped them around the park and got him up to

10 to rip them around the parking lot.

Uh, I talked about the AR, we talked about audio here.

Hopefully it's still working.

Uh, let's see.

Hey, Matt, I'm looking to take a position.

I'm looking to take a position at a new company.

Uh, what's something to consider other than pay and benefits.

Pay and benefits should be your last consideration.

Um, not the least that always was my last consideration.

I mean, obviously you need to survive, but, um, if there is upsides,

I'll, you know, tell my story of the, you know, the transition from,

from, uh, sound advice to Merrill Lynch.

Uh, so I, uh, Jim Heaton, who, you know, became my mentor, uh, came in my store.

Um, I have, I had a bachelor's of electrical engineering from Villanova

university, so a very leverageable diploma.

Um, and I knew how to sell.

Uh, so when I, when I graduated Villanova, um, I, I was selling, you know,

at Bryn Marstereo up in, up in Philadelphia and, um, what,

while I was a junior, junior, junior senior.

And so, um, I loved doing that.

I loved it.

And I wanted to move to San Diego, but that was too much of a stretch.

I wanted to move to San Diego because I wanted to play beach volleyball

and indoor volleyball and, you know, San Diego is like the Mecca.

And, uh, I wanted to go there, but that was too much of a stretch.

So Orlando was my second choice.

And so I, I, um, I packed my crap, moved here, got a job at Sound Advice.

I was able to do so because I was like the top salesman, top one or two salesman

at Bryn Marstereo, the Bryn Marstereo division of, of Twitter, who owned

all of the, all these stores.

So I came down and said, look, I'm a top one percent sales person.

Can I come down here?

They hired me on the spot.

I moved to Florida with my buddy Charles.

And, um, and so I wanted to see where that took me.

Uh, and so I, I did, um, you know, home theater design and sales, uh, did

quite a bit of distributed audio stuff throughout Orlando.

Yeah, there's something wrong with this darn, the connection.

You know what I think it is guys?

I think it might be, I think it might be Wi-Fi out here.

Hmm.

I see it keep us skipping a little bit here.

Anyway, we'll, we'll keep powering through.

I show that I have three bars, but the Wi-Fi connection might not

be as good out here.

Uh, yeah.

The video quality drops on the audio cut.

So it seems like an upload problem.

I think it might be a YouTube problem because everything else is stable here.

And I'll try to power through.

So anyway, I, um, I was doing okay there and long story short.

I was, uh, they accused me of stealing and which was nonsense.

And so I really wanted to get that guy out of there.

And so I started looking and was kind of open.

Um, I was kind of open to, to future opportunities.

And I was looking at like Lockheed Martin and my buddy Clay.

I was trying to get him to, uh, uh, trying to get, you know, a job at

progress energy, you know, at the utility company and use my engineering degree.

Um, but the guy from Merrill Lynch came in my store.

And he, um, he, uh, a TV and just, I didn't like, then sell them, but I, you know,

I knew everything there was to know and loved all the stuff and, and maybe not

everything, but I knew a lot and was good at, at articulating.

And he said, you'd be great to do what I do.

And, um, um, I took his card and, and, and started the interview process.

And, uh, I started interviewing, uh, in 2020, sorry, 2003, I got the job after 12

interviews and a year and a half later in April of 2005.

Right.

And so it took me, you know, a year and a half to get the job.

I didn't know what the salary was.

I didn't know what I was going to be starting at.

I didn't care.

I knew what the upside was though.

I knew where I was going to go.

I knew what the potential was.

Uh, and, uh, and then I found out I was making about 90,000, you know,

in 2003, you know, 2004, uh, and I was slated to make, you know, somewhere

on a hundred grand that year.

And, um, I got a job at Merrill Lynch making 39, 39, and I, I was getting married

that year, so I was getting married in 2006.

And so I took the job in 2005.

I had to drive like 40 miles each way, uh, you know, and, and at that time,

you know, oil was what a hundred and, you know, reach peak is like $150 a barrel

or something.

Uh, when did it reach peak?

I guess it would have peaked out in 2007, something like that.

But gas was 350 a gallon and, um, it, uh, it was, it was a big leap, but it

didn't care about benefits and care about the money.

I knew that the money would come, um, had I, because I knew that there was

potential, there was upside.

So I would be much more inclined, um, if you ever are going to get a job.

So anybody who immediately asked me what's the pay, you're out done because

you're leading with the result and you're never, you're always going to lead

with what are my hours?

What is, what is in it for me instead of, I went into it, what can I do for

Merrill Lynch to then eventually I would get some sort of reward myself.

I did the same thing when I was in, you know, selling, selling home theater stuff.

I do the same thing here with you.

What could I do, um, to provide as much value as possible, uh, assuming it was

really interesting to me, how much effort could I put in, um, and then the

result would come.

Uh, and so, um, you change your lifestyle, sell stuff.

So what I did is I sold, um, I sold all my home theater stuff.

I sold my S 2000.

I sold my, uh, Yamaha, YZF R six.

Um, I had actually had a bun, I bought a bunch of stuff before I left sold that.

So I had a little bit of money stockpiled.

I bought a, an Acura RSX type S for my buddy and I paid that off.

And, um, and, and was good.

So it looks like it looks like audio is good here.

So, um, and, and, you know, cause I knew I wanted to chase that.

So I would be, I would be spending almost no time looking at salary and benefits.

I'd be spending all the time looking at what is the potential.

What do I want to do?

Like what, and how much, how willing am I committed?

And if it's something I want to do, I'm going to move heaven and earth.

I'm going to change my lifestyle.

I'm going to downsize my house.

I'm going to move to whatever town I need to move to, and I'm going to go get

after it and I'm going to create my path.

And then if I find out that I get to a place that hasn't carved out, if I didn't

do good enough research and I find out that, that there is no path for me, um,

then I'll start looking around elsewhere and go do the same thing.

Um, but if you, you know, if somebody sends me, I've had, cause I've done

dozens and dozens of interviews the past year for various positions.

And the first thing is what's the pay you're out.

That's a stupid question.

You know, and, and no one wants to hire somebody that it's in it just for them.

We need to do this together.

I need to take care of each other.

And the pay needs to be, you know, commensurate with your, with your, um, you

know, your talent or your experience, um, more talent than experience.

Experience to me is worth very little.

Um, it's, uh, it's who you are, what your makeup is and what you're about.

So I would say screw the salary.

Uh, don't worry about that.

Figure out if it's what you want to do, how much you're willing to commit to,

how long you think it will take you to get to where you think you need to be and

get after it.

So that would be my, uh, my recommendation.

Um, how are you going to manage all the personnel changes with an OG, any

insight for a smooth transition?

Um, I think, you know, part of it is, you know, hiring people that are self starting.

So that's all my interviewing.

That's the key, you know, component.

Um, so Ryan, uh, is going to replace Matt Rutledge, um, on the marketing side.

So I now have a leadership team installed.

So I have an operations, a COO.

I have a controller on the finance side and I have a, a, a, you know, the head of

marketing, VP of marketing, we're calling it.

Uh, and so, and then I have Rutledge that's going to consult and kind of get the

new marketing guy up to speed.

Um, and then each of the departments, we spend a lot of time making sure the

departments are firing on all cylinders.

Um, and, uh, and so we can bolt on a new person, whether it's an addition or it's

a replacement, um, or it's a filling a spot that somebody left behind, um, the

key is to have a good team that can train them up and get them up and running.

Uh, and so that, but that's, that's part of where we're at in this, in this

transition from company to organization.

You know, some people are here for a time.

Some people are here for life, you know, it's part of, part of business.

Uh, let's see, when testing audio, what is your go-to music?

Rock country, easy listening.

I usually do female vocalists.

So I usually do Adele, um, um, I'll, I have a song from the white stripes.

Was it ball and biscuit?

Um, I have a song from a perfect circle on the rock side.

Uh, and then, uh, Chris Dapleton is always, so I have like Adele, Chris

Dapleton, cold, um, when the levy breaks from, um, from perfect circle down by

the river, perfect circle, uh, ball and biscuit from, I think that's what it's

called from, um, from the, I think it's the white stripes, uh, the black keys.

I forget which song, but so I do a bunch of different, bunch of different stuff.

Uh, instead of adding more soap, would it be possible to just adding less water?

Um, I don't think so, um, because you know, when we're, when we have this much

flow and when I open up the venturi, as much as I think I need to open up, it's

going to siphon, you know, suck a lot of water through it.

So I don't know, I'm going to figure it out though.

Uh, Matt, thoughts on the new blue sound, Paul, Cinema Soundbar.

Have you demoed them?

Not yet.

I know they have announced it, but I don't think they're available yet.

It's on our, you know, docket to get one of them.

Um, I'm excited for it because the previous pulse wasn't so great.

Um, the new one is supposed to be pretty nice.

So I'm, I'm, I'm interested in it.

Uh, so it's something, uh, hopefully, hopefully we can test out here soon.

You know, let me just make sure that I'm on wifi here.

I wonder if we should run, yeah, let's go back to my office together.

So let me grab my computer here and let's go back to my office.

I don't think the wifi's strong enough here.

This is why people don't do live podcasts because it's, it's usually pretty

problematic.

Okay.

All right.

Let me know if it's working here.

Yeah.

I finally mounted the picture on the wall because the acoustic treatment, I got

the second version of the acoustic treatment I was planning and it was a

fricking disaster.

So yeah, um, I didn't get a new watch.

I'm like all about Neo vintage now.

I think this is a, um, I think it's a tooth.

No, I think it's a 90 something like 98 Explorer two.

Uh, and so I like this because it's a 39 millimeter.

First of all, they're, they're a little less expensive.

Um, so I think I paid like 7,000 bucks for this and it's basically brand new

unpolished, brand new, um, I like the polar and the black Explorer twos.

So he had a pair of both of them.

Uh, and so I bought both.

Why is my chat not connected now?

Let's see.

Enclose this and refresh this into the pop out chat.

Site can't be reached.

What the heck is going on here with our Wi-Fi?

Maybe that's the problem in HQ.

So yeah, I've been, um, I bought a, I think it was in 1996 or seven coke.

You know, which is a GMT and, uh, I love the sizing of it and I love how it feels.

And so I'm looking for a flat four Kermit.

Um, but yeah, I, I, um, so when I checked the Explorer two, cause the new ones are

43 millimeters, they're bigger.

Uh, and so I like it a lot, man.

I think it's a really nice watch, really simple.

Um, and, uh, you know, the explorers are kind of the entry level date.

Just explorers or the, and the, the oyster perpetuals are the, are the entry levels

for Rolex.

I'm kind of waiting on the Swiss tariff stuff to kind of clean up here in January

to get my Daytona Panda and my Daytona, um, my Daytona black, you know, the black dial

one, um, and then, and then the problem is only the only ones left for me are the

boys, uh, the, um, I really want a Smurf, which is the blue dial, blue bezel, white

gold, I really want a meteorite, uh, was a meteorite Pepsi, which is white gold

with a meteorite dial.

Um, I'd love to have a, what is it, the oyster band, like the rubber band, the

oyster or whatever, oyster comfort or whatever the heck they call it in the,

in the, uh, what do they call that one?

I think it's the white gold, white gold, gold Daytona, but these are 40,

$50,000 watches.

I don't know that I'm ever going to go up to, yeah, oyster flex is what the,

the band is called.

Yeah.

So anyway, um, I don't know that I'm going to get them balling enough to get

those watches, but, um, so I've been getting the cheap ones.

The, I bought the oyster, oyster perpetual, uh, blue dial.

Um, so I've been buying the ones under 10 grand, you know, so, so we'll see.

And I did buy the cookie monster.

That was my gift to myself, um, for selling the Helen house.

That was a 30 something thousand dollar sporge, but, um, most of the ones that I

bought are in the, the, the teens are below, uh, and, uh, I don't know that I can

bring myself to spend, you know, piles of money on, uh, on, on the,

on the expensive ones we'll see.

All right.

Let's see where was I at?

Vidal says, good afternoon.

Finally caught alive at the beginning.

I used my 70 foot OG pressure washer hose for the first time yesterday, uh, folded

better than my quarter inch retractable I was using.

Yeah.

I mean, it's still a single wire hose, so it's still requires some work, but,

um, yeah, uh, car, and through says, Matt, I'm a renter, but interested in

MSS next and getting my buy it once tool set together.

I'm thinking of just starting with a portable cab cabinet and inlays.

Uh, how do you like that cabinet?

Yeah.

I mean, it's, it's pretty good.

Um, you know, the nice thing about the sonic stuff is that, you know,

if you're a renter and you, you can just pack it up and take it with you.

You know, super easily.

You can put it together in a few hours, take it apart in less than a few hours

and take it, take it with you and set it up in the next place.

Um, so, uh, but yeah, I mean, the whole next line is awesome.

So, um, the whole MSS line, the portable stuff, the rolling cards,

they're, I think they're pretty nice.

Uh, do you still have the green GD three?

No, I traded the Brewster touring for my golf blue GT three RS.

So I traded that to, uh, Ryan, uh, was it Ryan Friedman?

And then, um, a OG guy bought it.

Uh, and so I think he still has it.

Let's see.

Cameron says, just installed the OG vacuum setup.

Still thinking, uh, up a solution for mounting all the accessories.

Yeah.

I mean, we're working on a full suite of slat wall accessories, the pro slat,

slat wall accessory.

So I think that having, um, having, you know, vacuum stuff as well, maybe on the,

on the docket for that.

And I know Tommy and Joe Pechette are thinking of all kinds of stuff.

Uh, but, and then I would love to at some point to tackle actual vacuum

accessories, cause what we have isn't great.

Let's see.

Brian Silver says, I'm surprised you don't have any other

American muscle in your lineup, uh, Hellcat.

I, I did the, um, I did the GT 350.

I did the C seven zero six.

It's just not for me.

And a Dodge is certainly not going to be for me automatic, you know, yeah, not,

not, not my bag.

The only American stuff I like, it would be trucks.

Uh, can you hire Mike to collab with Mike?

Um, yeah, I think we could in the future.

Um, so that's something we may, you know, we may come back.

We'll do some nostalgic stuff.

Um, yeah, I mean, I was paying Mike well.

So I pay everybody pretty well.

I mean, they were working on their porches.

So that tells you anything, um, you know, uh, but the, the, I've kind of reached

the limit of what I can do.

So for the upside for them is going to have to be on their own for what I need.

You know, um, especially, you know, the, the, the, if we want to maintain pure

authenticity, I don't know that I have the ability to go viral and to have, you

know, millions of dollars of income from the media, you know, channel to be able to,

to, to support a, you know, uh, you know, super high level team, maybe, maybe someday,

but, um, yeah, uh, what are your thoughts on crypto?

Um, I own, see, I own Bitcoin and Ethereum, 75% Bitcoin, 25% Ethereum.

Um, you know, I just have it as a store of value, um, mainly for hopefully

future use to like use it.

Um, and as kind of a currency hedge, uh, but generally speaking, you know,

cryptocurrency is, you know, highly speculative.

There's lots of nonsense.

This is what I said back in the day with LZ when he's like, what do you think of

Bitcoin?

I said, oh, I think it's nonsense.

Well, at the time it was nonsense.

Uh, but the blockchain does have potential for, you know, future viability.

In fact, you know, one thing's been interesting of the, you know, sort of the

liberation of, uh, of Venezuela, um, I didn't recognize this, but the vast

majority of people are actually using, uh, um, cryptocurrency Bitcoin, um, for

their, you know, their income.

And so they, they, they put everything in it and they pay things with it because

otherwise, you know, their currency has been devalued so dramatically that the

vast majority of people are actually transacting in Bitcoin and using it on a

day-to-day basis.

So, I mean, that's the, you know, that's the, the, the interesting part of it for

me, not so much.

I'm not trying to get rich off of it.

I don't have a ton of it.

I mean, it depends on what your definition of a ton of it is.

Um, but it's one of those things that, you know, I don't look at as an investment.

I look at as a currency hedge for me.

Hey, Matt, uh, my windshield is, uh, glinting with microfiber lint.

I, I use new towels and wash them with rags to riches, uh, recommend a process

to remove lint.

It seems to move around when I try to clean it up.

Um, you're probably just going to want to soak the windshield down, you know, get

a different towel that isn't linting.

Um, even if it was a new towel, sometimes you just never know.

Sometimes you're going to have a towel lint.

Uh, and so you ought to be able to get it off.

You're just going to, I would put up like a beach towel or a large towel on your

dash, use something like invisible glass and just fricking drench it.

Uh, and then get after it and you probably will be able to get it off.

Are you going to buy a Raptor R?

I think someday I probably will.

I love that thing.

I think it's great.

We talked about watches, the picture on the wall, um, as Raptor R again, uh,

Matt, you cave them hanging the picture.

Yeah.

So I ordered a art wall from GIK acoustics, like the one I had in the previous

podcast studio that's now at my office at my house.

And, um, they made one of my GT4 RS.

Um, and then it was terrible, horrible.

And I went and then I called them and they said, well, we'll remake it.

So it remade it even worse.

I just got it today.

And so then I said, Mike, can you hang my fricking picture?

Because, uh, yeah, that's from, um, Samantha Zimmerman.

So that's it.

This is an actual painting, like a original painting of the, uh, 997 RS.

Let's see.

Zach says, Hey Matt, any advice on buying your first house?

Oh, where'd it go?

Uh, trying to figure out what is most important, location, square footage,

how new it is, garage size, et cetera.

I think the thing, the thing that would be most important to me, and I've kind

of screwed this up here is I would want to be really close to work.

I don't want to be commuting.

It's such a waste of time, especially in your, you know, in your 30s, uh, late

young children through teenage years, um, you're doing a lot of sports and school

stuff and you want to be close.

So you want, you want to be close to work and close to school, um, if you can.

Um, and so I would want to be closer to work.

I mean, work to me would be, would be important and, and then making sure that

I'm in a school area where, um, so in a perfect world, this work in school or in

like the same spot.

And then from there, then I'm looking at, you know, I want a home that, um, I

don't have to do a bunch of work to, if I can help it, but you know, that's

kind of hard.

Um, and so then I'm looking at, um, I think the garage would be important to me.

Um, I, I do like prefer a new house from an, than an old house.

I want some old crap where I'm going to have these pipe dreams of doing a remodel.

So new would be important.

Garage would be important.

The least important would be the square footage.

So location, then the garage, then actually it would be the newness of the

house, then the garage, and then, um, then square footage.

Um, and then another thing to consider would be your property tax payment.

You know, how much you're going to pay?

Cause you may be able to move down the street, but, but I'm, I'm looking for

style, the overall package of the house, the style of the house.

Um, Matt, do you still give out list or list via email?

Yeah, I'm going to shoot me an email, whatever you want.

If you want the house list, I'll send it to you at matt.obsessgarage.com.

Um, how is the Acoustament Treatment a disaster?

I've always wanted to get one similar to the one you have in your home office.

So the picture I sent was fricking perfection.

It's great.

It's this picture right here.

Let me show you.

Minimize my screen here.

What's this one?

My camera here, this one here, it's fricking cool.

And so I wanted that on this back wall behind me.

And I want it on four acoustic panels from G I K acoustics.

It's just like the one I have at my fricking house, which is a picture

of my GT three RS, which I got years ago.

And so they sent it to me and the wheel, which is round was like an egg.

It's like, uh, like, like an ellipse, uh, and, uh, an oval or whatever you want

to say, an oblong, um, wheel.

And then it's across like four different acoustic panels.

Kind of, you know, to see how these, there's two of them.

There's a two inch gap.

So they're designing it where the gap in between kind of transitions, but

like the, the fender, like one part would be here and the other part would be there.

And then it's all fuzzy and out of focus and just God awful.

Like, even if you were 35 feet away, it would look terrible.

And so I, you know, they said, well, we need to shrink it down to three panels.

So I had them shrink down to three panels and then they just cut the front bumper off.

So they just, they didn't adjust the image.

Uh, and so it was a total disaster.

I was talking to him, so what happened to you guys?

Did you guys sell the company or what, what the heck is going on here?

So yeah, it was like $1,600 bucks and they tried twice and they wanted to try again.

I'm like, look, I don't think you guys can't do it.

You know, like, how could you even ship this out?

Like, I didn't want you to ship it out.

It probably cost them 250 bucks to ship these things.

Like, what are you doing?

Like, I don't, I don't like to complain and like, I didn't want my money back.

But eventually I was like, look, and I just, this isn't going to work.

Just cancel the order and they were just trying to get out from underneath it.

And so they just gave me my money back and, man, I'm sad.

I want the thing.

I don't want my money back.

I wanted the thing.

So yeah, not good.

So maybe I'll try a different company.

Uh, let's see, there was a good question here.

CYBART 321 says, can you talk us through dual Krenzla versus AR again?

Sure.

So the dual thing is to solve a couple of issues for me.

Um, and we just put it together and tried it and it was such a great experience.

So you can certainly go and just solve your problem by going to a large 240 volt of

higher horsepower electric motor with a larger pump head, uh, which you've seen me

do in the past, you know, the wash bay that I had back in, uh, at Woodgate was,

um, was a KWS or KW 165 STS.

They called it, which had this really beautiful stainless steel enclosure and it

had a, it had an 18 millimeter pump heads of the plungers or 18 millimeters in diameter.

There's three plungers, uh, and it had a big, large electric motor was 240, I think

27 amp or something like that.

Um, and so, you know, it's a, probably a six, seven horsepower.

Uh, maybe one of you guys can do the math for me.

What, what is that?

I mean, it's a, maybe I'm way off.

Maybe it's a three horsepower, but it's a pretty hefty machine pump, um, but it would

run for 30 seconds.

So it had a time delay, not a pressure switch, and it was probably close to 80 dB.

Maybe it was 80 dB loud and it delivered, um, um, with its recommended nozzle.

It delivered about 2,500 PSI, but the pump head, uh, measurement that, you know,

all pressure washers give us, it was 3.3 gallons per minute and 3,300 PSI.

And so when you have this big electric motor, um, and you have this larger pump head, uh,

and if it's calibrated or the unloader and everything is set up, you know, the

machine is set up to produce a certain amount of pressure.

So at the, at the gauge, if I ran their recommended nozzle, which was probably

something like a six point over something like that, I was getting around, you know,

in the real world, around 2.6 gallons a minute at say 3,000 or 2,500 PSI, something

like that.

So high pressure, medium flow.

Now, because that pump in the motor was so robust, we, even when I opened up the

orifice, the pressure dropped, but the flow didn't increase all that much.

Uh, and so I got somewhere around three and a half gallons a minute at a thousand

PSI, I was using something like a 7.0 nozzle.

But again, it ran for 30 seconds.

Uh, and then it was just annoying and at 80 dB and I had to close the barn doors

and never make it, make it, make it aren't video.

It was just loud and, and, and violent.

Um, and the other thing that was a disadvantage to that larger pump, because

it's calibrated and set up to do higher pressure and we're just opening or

releasing the pressure by a larger orifice, you have inline pressure that's held.

And you could certainly build a 240 volt to, to calibrate it to lower pressure.

That's, that's, that's something we could probably create.

Um, but you pull the, you know, you release the trigger and, um, and, or you pull

the trigger and you get this kick, this, this feedback, this kick.

Then we had the KWS 700, which didn't have the pretty stainless cause they

stopped making that stuff.

You know, uh, the, the Krenzla family had a following out with the stainless steel

company was making the, uh, the enclosure.

And so they, they, they stopped doing that, stop making that.

And, uh, and so, um, we had the KWS, the KWS was a, is a 20 millimeter pump.

So it had 20 millimeter plungers, there's three of them.

And then the appropriate electric motor and windings.

Now it was about 78 dB.

So quite a bit quieter than the KWS or the KW 165 STS.

Um, it was, um, what would it, it did a little bit, I forget what the, what the

specs of it did, but that's what I had the yarn building.

And they just didn't like using it.

It's just too much, too much output.

Uh, and so, you know, we finally, we've been talking about this for years.

We finally decided, let's just take two of the 1322s and let's stick them together.

Let's see if we put them in series and parallel, see what works.

And, uh, let's put them together.

Let's see if the pressure switch works.

Uh, we did it and we got, you know, 4.2 gallons a minute.

It was quieter.

So it's about 73 dB with the two of them running simultaneously.

Uh, I gained redundancy and that if one pressure washer failed, I could, um, you

know, I could always operate on, on one at a time.

You know, so I get, if I wanted to, needed to get one serviced.

Um, I've long-term, I want a long-term tested to see if it would work.

You know, cause, cause crimes, I didn't like it, potential cavitation and

you know, issues with the, with the pressure switch.

Um, so we thought maybe we needed to use some check valves, but we found that we

really didn't need to do that either.

Um, and so I get redundancy and the key for me, from a functionality perspective,

I don't have the pressure that's held in line.

So I've got the two pressure washers.

I'm getting the flow, but without any of that heavy feedback, that heavy kick that

just, it's not, it's not a, you know, it's not a deal breaker, but it, you know,

that kickback is just makes the experience not as great.

So it's quieter.

Oh, and by the way, it's, you know, in the Crenzel realm, it's like 1500 bucks

less, you know, the, the big boys were $3,500 to $4,000 to, to 1322s is what,

you know, 2,400 bucks.

Now I did need to buy extra piping and stuff like that.

The other reason why the dual made a lot of sense is I could add the dual and still

use the CR, as long as we set up a valve system, which we've sort of developed,

we could still use the CR, which is at the limit on a single 1322, but it does

work.

Uh, and so we could use the serious policy because they're not really,

there wasn't really a great alternative.

So we now have this high flow thing.

I've got redundancy.

It's quieter.

It's more functional, um, in, in the garage or washing the car because then

then the kickback, um, and it turns off when I release the trigger.

And so now comes into play the active 3.0, the, you know, the, the AR, um, 635,

the, uh, the addition of, um, the max flow stuff that's coming out.

Um, so you have, is it max?

Yeah.

Um, you've got, you're going to have, you know, competition.

Hopefully Crenzla comes out with something as well.

I was testing that 240 volt version.

And, um, so we have, you know, we have players, we have options.

Um, and so, so with the, with the addition to that, I think the dual set

up kind of goes away.

Uh, and, um, yeah, I'd probably rather have four gallons than three gallons,

but I'd rather have my extra $2,000 in the bank and just have a single

pressure washer that's way easier to do.

So I think the 635 is the way to go.

I'm not too confident.

We're going to get the AR or the active 3.0 to test out.

I'm not too confident.

It's going to be any good.

Um, it looks just kind of a repurposed version of the active 2.3, which I

think is a terrible pressure washer.

It's terribly loud.

It doesn't have a great frequency.

I'm confident that James and team can kind of figure it out, but I don't

like that little puny pump head.

Um, I just, I think that 2.3 was a miss.

It doesn't inspire me.

It's not something I'm interested in, sort of make it a little different

color and, you know, and, and change the size of the, uh, change the electric,

you know, the whining of the electric motor and then changing the size

of the plungers and maybe the wobble plate.

And it just doesn't make a lot of sense.

And so the, the other thing that people were asking me in some of the

comments at the last video as well with the 3.0, it's not going to have these

problems, maybe it does.

I'm sure they will test it with the foam cannon stuff, but, um, you know,

that pump, you know, just the design of it, it's just, I just don't think

it's good design.

I don't like it.

Doesn't look right.

Doesn't sound right.

Doesn't, it performs okay.

Um, but the AR is a radio is not a radio axial pump.

It's a, it's a triplex pump.

And so it uses a camshaft design.

Uh, and so I would want the 635, I would want the 635 hot.

And then maybe when we do the 635 FU version, the Matt Mormon version,

we'll see how it goes.

So hope that helps.

Uh, he talked about that, uh, Matt, what are your thoughts on the new food,

food pyramid thought it was funny that red meat is now at the top of the pyramid.

Yeah.

I think it's great.

It's, it's actually based on fact and science testing rather than, um, nonsense,

nonsense, and you know, fed through big food.

So yeah, I think it's fantastic.

Red meat, there's no correlation to heart disease or anything to do with it.

It's nonsense.

Let's see.

Dodge is garbage.

Yes, it is.

The ACR Viper is still kind of garbage.

I haven't decided on a car for Ryan yet.

I still have a year.

Um, let's see, uh, Stig XM3 says, what systems does OG use to maintain timelines

for projects and launches?

Um, I think pretty much everybody here is using Monday boards and then they

communicate, I think on Slack, is it Slack or Discord?

Maybe someone can chime in.

I think maybe it's Discord, um, but we, uh, they all use Monday.

I'm pretty sure I don't use any of that.

I do use the old braineroo and my calendar.

Um, but, uh, they're managing me.

I'm not managing them.

So, um, they manage everything through, through Monday boards.

Are you buying an Nissan GTR?

Um, yeah, I'm going to, um, not yet.

So I'm going to, um, finish the Evo.

First, first, I'm going to coat the GT4 RS with armor pro.

Second, I'm going to finish the Evo.

Third, so the Evo needs to get the Evo nine front bumper, the, the JDM head and

tail lights, uh, we have to take it up to get tuned, um, put the wheels on it.

So I need wheels and tires and so we'll have to sort of shave the fenders a bit.

The rear fenders and then finish that project and decide if I'm going to keep

it or sell it.

Then, um, do the Tesla suspension.

So you're going to do the Tesla modifications.

You got to figure out what wheels I'm going to do from signature wheels for that.

And then in between that, the Bronco Springs need to get done.

Uh, and then I'm going to do the GT3 RS full detail.

Uh, and then we'll decide what I'm going to do.

So I'm going to go through all of that over the course.

And then we're going to do this pretty relatively quickly over the next two or

three months through spring detailing season.

And then the next project car will probably be an R34 GTR.

So that's what I'm looking at doing.

Uh, uh, Hayden, uh, Wyatt says, say Matt, thanks for being transparent, the

transparent attitude on this channel.

I appreciate you being here.

Uh, question, what are your plans this year?

What are your thoughts on the new S 2000 concept?

I mean, we've had 57 S 2000 concepts over the last couple of decades.

And I don't believe it.

I don't believe we're getting one.

Um, if you want to go over plans, uh, I talked a little bit, a couple episodes

ago, and then I just talked about it at in too much detail on hex, the hex

log, so you can subscribe here on, on the OG channel.

It's eight bucks or 15 bucks there.

It's eight bucks a month on the, uh, on the OG website.

If you want to join inside the hex there, uh, but, um, I go through all of it in detail.

Uh, Christopher Oakland says, Hey Matt, I bought the advanced portable accessory

package for the Karcher K 1700.

Do I need to change any meter, metering settings on the soap cannon or have

OG modifications already been made?

Um, for metering, I'm not sure what will work with the K 1700.

So you'll have to test pink versus fuchsia versus purple.

Um, I haven't done, we didn't have metering, uh, when I was doing all of the

Karcher stuff, um, so just test it out.

And it also depends on the soap, you know, I'm suiting using GSF.

So, um, so that's what I'm talking about when we're metering is the, is the tip,

the little tip you put on the end.

Let's see, invasion HD, Matt, have you ever dealt with any, uh, home builders before?

Is there any, you'd recommend around the Carolinas to build a custom home?

I have not, and I'm not much of an expert.

I would probably want to, if I'm doing custom, I don't want to use one of the

Karcher and do it bespoke with them.

Will you be at MTE this year?

I don't think so.

I haven't been in several years.

I probably won't be there.

Yeah.

Egg wheel, egg wheel picture.

Uh, I'm just throwing it away.

Hey, Matt, would you make a compilation video of all the porches you've

owned would be great to watch.

It's not a bad idea.

Maybe we could make that.

That'd be kind of cool.

It's a shame there's no mic and mic anymore.

We'll figure something out.

Um, when will you be testing the max low again?

Um, Eric is coming January 29th or something or 26 or something like that.

Um, so we're going to do some calibrating tuning, figure out what works.

And we got some really cool stuff that I can't share yet, um, but it's going to be sick.

It meant buying a compressor, uh, with a view towards supply, ultra clean air to tools,

tornados, et cetera.

Let's see, uh, supplying ultra clean air.

Okay.

Got it.

So really clean air to the tools, uh, and, and tornados in a non-condition

barn or my condition garage will the Jenny pair with a pre-boss three stage filter.

Yeah, that's a pretty decent combo.

Um, you want to make sure we want to make sure you get, we get you one of the, um,

low RPM, you know, probably, you know, just depending on how much air you need to deliver,

uh, either single stage or two stage.

Um, but yeah, I, the pre-boss three stage filter is really nice.

We'll keep it nice and clean.

Um, you, you may want to consider doing a dryer, especially if you're going to do,

if you're not going to do it in, if you're going to do it in the barn.

Um, and so, um, something like a word or dryer would be, would be smart and

refrigerate, uh, what is that?

Refrigerated dryer instead of a desk and dryer.

So what I've used for most of my time is that I had a, um, I had a Jenny and then

I had a, like an air rev or a word or a dryer in between and refrigerated dryer

into the pre-boss three stage and then you've get some real solid, solid output,

clean air, uh, Bob says, so you're confident you'll solve the foam issues soon

for the AR.

Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.

Um, it may in the beginning will probably be a modification to your foam cannon.

So maybe I'll buy the drill bits and sell them to you and show you what you need

to do, uh, until I can get Griot's or MTM or somebody, you know,

mosmatic to make something that, that works.

Um, let's see.

Didn't see zebra capes on the update of food pyramid.

I mean, either, uh, root, Rousseau multi cart with tool grid.

Is it worth it?

Do you have a general idea how you would build that cart?

Uh, can you talk about that?

Um, yes, definitely worth it.

Really cool, um, set up.

Um, that's called, he's talking about the Rousseau multi tech cart.

I, um, I'm not sure how I would build it yet.

It is on my short list of products to chase.

Um, I also may work with Sonic to make something as well.

Um, and, uh, so, and then Tommy and Joe for obsessed engineering, we might make a cart.

Um, so we've got some ideas.

I've got some stuff to work with, but yeah, if you don't want to wait, you know,

I would just play on their site and figure out which one you want and then

hit up design and tell them which one you want.

And, um, like we can help get that order for you.

You can make it whatever custom color you want.

Be sick.

Uh, did you ever look into the tungsten Mirka or Festool paint dust nib file blade?

Um, yes, um, I'm not sure what we would use it for.

That thing is, uh, we'll rifle right through your paint.

Uh, those things I think are generally served best for people that, um, like have the ability

to repaint if they screw something up.

Uh, let's see.

Car enthusiast.

Was there a period of time since you started the channel that you feel the most nostalgic

about the time at the house with the wash bay feels like an iconic period?

That's a good question to think about that.

So if we broke it into different periods, first period was the Brownhouse Lake Ella,

right?

That was the 24 foot wide by 22 foot deep two car oversized two car garage.

That's the garage where I discovered 6,500 Kelvin, you know, discovered color

temps and verilux bulbs.

I discovered Swiss tracks, saber cabinets.

Um, it's the first version of the TV in the middle with the speakers on the side,

you know, that I dreamt up.

Um, I didn't have tool grid then.

Um, I had Kaisen foam in those drawers.

Uh, so that was one stage.

The next phase was the wash bay, you know, at, uh, at Woodgate.

So the first phase 2014 to 2016.

Um, so that was the first phase of OG.

Then Woodgate happens, Woodgate happens right around the same time that I get

the Oak street garage, you know, when I shared with the Corvette guy, uh, with

Chris, my, you know, the landlord.

Uh, and so that's when I had, um, left and gone to Raymond James.

So actually I went to Raymond James 2000, January, 2016.

I had the garage out there and my garage for one year.

So I actually didn't get Oak street until 2017.

And then shortly after that is when I got fired.

So I don't think I got Oak straight until like early 2017, but Woodgate Oak

street was the next phase of OG.

Um, and so, and then yarn kind of came into the, into, into being.

And so I kind of put, I put Woodgate Oak street and then I put yarn and indecision,

you know, so I moved from Woodgate to was moving to the lake house, which fell

through, which then went to, uh, Harbor Hills, which was a short period.

And then Darlington.

So that Woodgate, so the Woodgate Oak street and then let's call it yarn building,

um, yarn building Darlington, you know, Darlington and, uh, Harbor Hills.

And then the current phase, which is the giant, you know, giant warehouse.

So that my, my, my bank building and Middleton, right?

Uh, so that's, that's, that's the current phase.

So, um, I mean, I feel probably best about the Woodgate time period was probably

best for me.

I could drive, I could go to the mountains, um, still dealing with some angst.

Um, but the Woodgate period was, was, and the, the wash bay, you know, the,

like the kitchen with the appliances, like the high in this, the having the property.

My kids were the cutest then, um, the.

You know, I met Adam LZ then, um, I think that, yeah, I think the Woodgate period,

that's when, you know, I got fired from wealth management and went all in on OG.

So that, that roughly five year period.

So from 16 to like 2020, 2021.

So that was in that five year period was really cool, but I like where I'm headed.

I like where I'm at now.

I like all the periods.

So that's a great question.

Uh, are you still going to redo your kitchen?

I don't know.

Um, we'll see how the laundry room goes, but laundry room is, I just, you know,

sent the check.

So laundry room, um, is in the works.

Happy to hear about plans for more videos.

I need more OG or you're going to get a ton of it.

So hopefully I don't saturate the market.

Um, how's everything holding up with the new blue iPhone?

Any issue with the finish getting jacked up?

No, but I keep the silicone case on it.

So it seems to be doing great.

Uh, let's see.

Mike said the tile is basalt.

It's common.

Uh, let's see.

There's companies that sell foam inlays for toolkits from different manufacturers.

That might be something for sets you put together.

Um, not sure what you're talking about.

There's all kinds of foam stuff, but most of it's pretty janky.

Uh, let's see.

Last question here from Invasion HD.

Uh, Matt, does OG have any lists on things to consider when building a house?

No, that may be a good series to put together.

Maybe we'll add that to the list of a series of what to do, um, what my suggestion would

be if you were building or searching for a garage, what are the things that matter?

And we can kind of break that down into different categories.

I like that idea.

That'd be a, that'd be a good video series to make.

So anyway, uh, thanks for watching.

Um, I'll get it up on, um, on the podcast platforms here this weekend.

And, uh, try to cut out the screw ups.

So, uh, when my new team gets here, I'm going to have them take over the

podcast and, uh, and, you know, w w with us starting the garage obsession

channel and, uh, the chase of, um, trying to, you know, improve the OG channel.

We kind of let the, let the podcast go for a little bit.

So I think that, um, I think I'm going to get this thing figured out.

Uh, we'll get it all dialed in when, when the, you know, the team has the

bandwidth to chase what I want them to chase in the podcasts for them.

So anyway, thanks for being here.

Uh, we'll see you next.

Dialed In Podcast: January 9th, 2025

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