Filthy Hyundai Wash with WD Detailing! | Live Detail Q&A

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Q&A Freakin' Thursday, where today we have a very special

episode for you. Joining me is Mr. RJ from WD, is it, shall I say, detailing or details?

Uh, detailing.

Detailing, okay.

Are you not that familiar with us?

No, I am.

I just didn't know, I didn't know what you want me to, how you want to introduce you.

So anyway, so we have RJ here, thank you so much for joining us today.

We have a special episode where we're actually going to be featuring some WD products

in the background, which is going to be pretty cool.

So over there in the yonder, in the wash bay, the gray bay, we have the one, the only, Gabriel

Garcia.

It's me.

Yeah.

It's a me.

Gabriel.

It's a me, a Gabe.

Yeah.

Can I even say that?

Don't ever say that again.

We won't let you back on the show.

I told Anthony, we want to have fun today.

You know, none of this is just dry as we got to crack some dad jokes, sling

around some WD, you know, all that jazz.

Well, you have a beautiful looking line in front of you, right?

This is, these are, these are basically the bread and butter, right?

Of everything from WD detailing.

You've seen the car restoration vids.

You've seen some amazing magic be done and it was all done with what's in front

of you right here.

To be honest, we've had the chance of watching him throughout this week as you know, showing

us some stuff he's been visiting and he's like, Hey, you guys should try this

stuff out.

So I'm trying this out coming out in front of camera and I'm going to play around with

some of the products.

The one product I'm going to mess around with a little bit different, which, oh, you

can tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm going to try the pre-wash, but I'm going to try

foaming the pre-wash.

Should work.

Should it?

The only thing is it might eat up the filters over time, but one time use, I think

you're all right.

It's, this pre-wash stuff's pretty nuts as far as he, we watched RJ do this

on bugs and oh my gosh, it literally ate up the bugs.

It was like Anthony eating a chocolate chip cookie.

It just went.

That's Gabe.

What?

I prefer snickerdoodle.

Generally speaking.

I mean, if I'm going to pick my cookie, but hey, that's all right.

So needless to say, we're really excited for you to use the products here.

RJ will be here as kind of the product whisperer guiding you along as you go.

You also have some RAG company products as well.

They're going to be demonstrating.

We're going to throw some citrus on this paint today.

Too many dad jokes and too short of time.

You're going to tell me.

We're going to reel that back a little bit.

My dad jokes too much.

I don't think they are.

Now, you guys are probably wondering where Dane is.

Dane Hen and Dane is locked up in the podcast studio kind of area where we normally have

him chained.

He's actually running the comments today.

So if you're wondering where he's at, he is still with us.

He is just going to be without a voice this time, but he will be kind of chiming

from time to time maybe in the chat boxes here.

So RJ, well, welcome to Idaho.

How has your stay been so far?

It's been great.

Idaho reminds me a lot of Colorado, which I've visited a lot because a buddy lives out there

and it's very similar.

A lot of outdoorsy people, a lot of great breweries and pretty good food and I like

it out here.

You like it?

Okay.

So the dry weather hasn't gotten to yet because everybody complains that all the

moisture gets sucked out of their skin once they make it here.

I'm from Cleveland, man.

It's always dead humid.

It's ridiculously humid in Cleveland.

So I don't mind dry weather at all.

Okay.

So not bad.

Very good.

So, but you made your way all the way out here basically because we are going to be shooting

a lot of content specifically for Amazon on the WD detailing brand and the line looks

amazing.

It's really, really nice.

A lot of the smells are great.

The colors are wonderful and I'm actually a really huge fan of the labels.

I love those foil labels there with the matte black.

It just really pops and looks awesome.

So you guys did a great job.

How long, I mean, how long was it that you guys were on the YouTube channel doing all the

different details until you guys were like, you know what, we need a dedicated product

line?

So it's a good question.

We have actually tried this a few times already.

The first time the supplier, actually both times, the suppliers of the products because

we're not chemical formulas and we were approached by a couple different parties and

it was not the right fit and we didn't feel like the products were adequate.

So we actually scrapped the ideas.

We brought one to market and it was a decent product but we weren't able.

We didn't have the control that we wanted.

And so we actually work with the company that I've worked with since my inception of detailing

cars and we worked hand in hand with the chemical, I'm sorry, the chemist that formulates

all of our products and it's actually only an hour south of us.

So those are the same products that not only have I used on the YouTube channel

from inception but then also eight years, nine years prior when I started a mobile detailing

business in high school.

So it's the same products that I've been using for about 15 years now but we've manipulated

and changed a lot of them and kind of curated exactly what we wanted and thankfully we

have fantastic partners that create some really, really great products and allow

us to work on some of the dirtiest cars in the world.

Sweet, sweet.

So I'm sure you're going to get a lot of questions and I'm actually hoping

that people ask questions about your process when it comes to kind of restoring these cars

and finding these cars and kind of what it takes to go and get these because it's not

smoking mirrors.

What you guys do on the YouTube channel is pretty crazy.

You guys go beyond, above and beyond to find these, track them down, get them on a trailer,

get them delivered, bring them to you, do them there so you guys have a kind of

a cool background on what comes to that and we'll get to that here in just a little

bit but this is your opportunity for everybody watching right now to drop some comments

down below.

Yeah.

Okay.

Cool.

So we're still going to wait on some comments but what I do want to talk about right now

is what's going on right now at theragcompany.com.

Yes, that's right.

We currently have a sale going on right now that you guys can score big.

Labor Day sale 20% off almost everything with 69% off particular doorbusters, up

to 69% I should say.

No code necessary.

Simply go to theragcompany.com.

You're going to see Carson there as the main star here in the background of this photo

next to that is Nate's Toyota Tundra foaming some foam and doing some fun stuff.

So scrolling down here, let's go ahead and take a look at the doorbusters because these

are pretty killer.

So if we can click on that blue, up to 60% off doorbusters, there we go.

Perfect.

So what do we have here?

We have the Wolfpack towels, right?

Pick these up right now, seven bucks, freaking crazy.

We're going to get a ton of towel for the money when it comes to, that's a seven, right?

Is that a seven or one seven?

That's seven.

What the heck?

That's a crazy good deal.

Okay, so seven dollars.

Like 48% off.

Oh my God.

That's an incredible deal.

Okay, so holy smokes.

All right.

Well, I might need to get some of this for myself.

All right.

So then we have the big one, right?

We have the premium FTWs in gray coming in at 12 bucks.

Also a killer deal.

Creature edgeless 10 pack coming in for an amazing deal.

Then we have some other awesome just applicators as well as the Eagle applicator, the

six pack of the Terry applicators, and then we have the cyclone wash mitt and a couple

of our smaller two ring packs.

So this is a great time to just stock up on general microfiber if you guys just need some

for application of product or applying tire dressings, things like that.

And then we also do have the Eagle edgeless four pack in gold as well.

So just a super awesome door buster sale with 20% off almost everything else.

So right now is the time to stock up while you can.

So now while we still wait for a few more comments to kind of collect here, Gabriel is

doing his first WDD telling photo shoot over there.

He's looking pretty good posing.

I think he's flexing his arms as he's going through and scrubbing these tires.

Gabriel, do you try to get a pump in usually before these shoots or how does that work?

You know what they call me, Anthony?

They call me the Enrique Iglesias of background washing.

I don't think they've ever said, nobody's ever said that like not one person has

even mentioned that.

Are you serious?

Give me name one Enrique Iglesias song.

I can be your hero, baby.

Okay.

That's pretty good.

I guess he came prepared for that.

Jamie's laughing over there in the background.

Intern doesn't know what to think of this.

But anyway, so let's get to know RJ, what I want to do is I want to get to know

you a little bit more.

So you guys, so you started as a mobile detailer, right?

And then after getting into mobile detailing, you did this in high school, right?

And so at what point did you guys kind of go all in with being, yeah, but making

YouTube videos?

So actually my first job when I was 14 was at a car wash.

I didn't realize that that was an omen for the rest of my life, but I worked at a car wash

and that was detailing cars on the side and then continued to do that when I was in school

in college for accounting.

Okay.

Accounting didn't pan out.

Okay.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Are you a numbers guy?

Do you like numbers?

No, my stepdad owns a accounting firm.

He's a CPA.

So he was just like, hey, do this?

No, I didn't even tell me that.

I was like, oh, well, I got nothing else going on.

I might as well try and then go to school for numbers and then I could take over the firm

one day with that.

It was very short lived and I kept detailing cars throughout school and actually I dropped

out right before the capstone course because I was like, I'm never going to use this.

This is absolutely pointless for me and most people thought I was stupid for it, which

is fine.

I understand why they thought that at the time, but continue to detail cars and

then my business partner, well now business partner Brent, who is the other half

of WD.

I don't know if anyone doesn't know, stands for Wagner the Cheser.

It used to be Wagner detailing and then I was like, well, I'm not going to make a different

logo.

Let's just make it Wagner to Cheser detailing and WD detailing, but Brent came on and started

working for me for a little while and then at some point he was like, hey, what if

we tried making a YouTube video?

I watched these videos online of people detailing cars and I really enjoy them

and I'd like to try my hand at it and I was like, yeah, sure, let's go ahead

and give it a whirl.

So we had tried filming a video onsite at a customer's home.

That's not how you film YouTube videos, especially detailing videos.

Everything takes much longer.

Yes, it does.

Yes.

Don't do it in direct sun.

It's not fun.

Oh my God.

You can't control light.

It was miserable.

It was awful.

Yeah.

So we went ahead and we decided that if we're going to do this again, we need

to set aside a specific day and film a video from start to finish with the correct

conditions in order to get the footage that we need to make a quality YouTube video.

We did that February 28th of 2020, a couple, and I said, we're going to continue

to do this.

We're going to be consistent until it's a net negative on our lives.

Like it's harming either our health or we literally cannot afford this anymore.

And so, of course, as everyone knows, 2020 in March was a pretty rough year

for the world, a rather rough month for the world, a little something happened

that month and everyone had to stay home.

And our third video, I'll never forget, Brent did a good job titling it.

He titled it like cleaning a girl's dirty and hairy jeep.

Okay.

I don't know why those three keywords were true.

The hairy part was it was a lot of dog hair to specify, but anyways, that video

ended up getting a million views and in about a month, which was a bummer

because we weren't monetized yet, so we made $0 on it.

But we did get, you know, accepted and everything was delayed

because of COVID.

So we didn't get paid on that.

And nonetheless, that's what gave me proof of concept.

And I was like, Brent, we're never going to stop this.

And so it, you know, kind of evolved from disaster details to barn finds.

And then we bought, we bought a large, you know, flatbed trailer, then a closed

trailer.

Now we travel around the U.S. looking for some of the dirtiest, most, you know,

the most dirty, enthusiast vehicles that we can possibly find.

We found some, some really, really incredible cars that I can't believe

that people let us take out of their garages without getting, you know,

I mean, we were insured, but they didn't ask for the insurance.

It's nuts, like Ferraris and low mileage RX-7, FDR-7s, that they just let us

grab and drive away.

So who, so when you guys are, are, are searching for these cars,

Mary, putting out applications, are you hearing from, like, word of mouth?

Like, where are you finding them to where these are coming to you,

right, these opportunities?

How does that happen?

Initially, it would be us reaching out through Facebook groups,

you know, checking our local community for cars.

And it was, it was hard at the beginning because

people didn't understand how we would do this because we did for free.

We don't charge anyone for any of the details that we feature on our channel.

Sometimes we even pay them because I need it on the date that I need it

to film the video in time.

So, so in the beginning, it was difficult.

Now it's gotten much easier.

So we utilize obviously our platform.

We built a very, I'm very proud of this, but we built a very good name.

You know, we take care of people.

If we make a mistake, we cover it because everyone makes mistakes,

but it's how you come back from them.

And, and thankfully we've done right by many, many people.

And so the word travels and now we're known as the guys that will travel

anywhere around the world to pick up a car and clean it for free and bring it back.

Or we'll buy it if it's the right number.

But yeah, it's gotten much, much easier.

The larger the channel.

Do you do you think that I mean, so in most situations

when you guys are going picking up a car, is that always a thing

where you guys are bringing it back to your guys's HQ?

Or how does that always work?

Ideally, because our shop is set up for barn finder restorations.

I have all the tools needed there, but we have packed the trailer full

of all the equipment and usually we try and find a local shop.

We're all of these details if you're familiar with him.

He actually allowed us to come out to his place in Virginia

when we found a barn finder, rather an abandoned super

that was left outdoor, outdoors of mark four.

So we have traveled around and done, done cars on site,

but I really prefer to do them back at home now.

So what do you guys do?

So when you guys get, because I mean, when it comes to restorations,

barn findings, things like that, right?

Sometimes these cars will still have paint on them, right?

Okay paint.

What do you do on their paints?

Wasted.

Yeah.

And that's the most difficult part is like sometimes.

So there's three things that we need in order to make

a fantastic automotive detailing restoration YouTube video.

One, I prefer to have a story.

Well, I guess we start with the cars first.

I need a car that's extremely dirty.

Obviously that's number one.

Number two, it needs to be in a good enough condition

to where polishing makes sense because a lot of times

the paint's so bad or there's so much paint missing that

there is really nothing more that you can do on the outside.

And so that's always disheartening when you wash away all the mud

and then you're left with, or rather all the dust

and you're left with subpar paint that really needs a repaint.

It should have been sandblasted.

Yeah.

And then the third is the story.

Gotcha.

And so I guess one of my favorite stories of all time

or rather favorite videos is her name's Denise Mingus

and I'm sure she'd love to be mentioned here today.

Yeah.

But she is the sweetest woman and there was a Monte Carlo that we filmed

and it was in an old farmhouse in the kitchen,

old dilapidated farmhouse and it was a 1985 or 1986 Monte Carlo SS.

And it was her father's car who was an ex Vietnam military,

or ex Vietnam veteran and the car had been in their family.

They had bought it brand new.

They were all there the day it rolled off the trailer at the dealership.

It's been in weddings of their families.

It's been in funerals of their families.

Denise learned how to drive.

She took it to prom.

I mean, just one of those cars.

Just crazy story.

Yeah.

And the car was incredibly dirty.

We actually found a dead cat underneath the car.

And so.

Hopefully it wasn't her cat.

Oh, we don't really know.

I'm not sure.

There was a dead raccoon in there too.

Anyway, yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Yeah.

But we were able to drag it out and it was in phenomenal condition as we cleaned it up.

It was one of those cars that like truly had the upper like like all it needed was a good

detail.

Yeah.

And then we took it over to some friends at Power and Performance,

a shop that was helping us get the cars running.

Turns out he had drained all the gas out of it before he stored it.

And the father had no idea that we did this.

Anyways, he drained all the gas.

All we had to do is put gas and now the thing runs and drives.

And so we got to go back there, I'm sorry, reveal the car to her father for the first

time in 20 years since he had put it in there.

His health had deteriorated.

He couldn't drive the car anymore.

Yeah.

And so we all got to go into the car.

Well, rather Brent did with the camera and then Denise and her father got to drive

that car for the first time and they're crying.

I'm tearing up.

They're hugging each other.

It was just one of those things where it's like that's all three pieces.

Yeah.

That I look for when it comes to making the videos that we do.

But it's hard to find all three in the same car.

Yeah.

It doesn't always line up.

But I mean, if you can get pretty good at that right there, that's kind of your

pedestal moment, right?

Of being like this is why we can find this and do this, right?

Yeah.

And you'll see it in my face.

Like I'm like, oh my God, like this video is going to be amazing.

And like it's a passion.

That's hard to explain to somebody who hasn't ever felt that.

And I'm very lucky to have a job where I can feel that kind of passion.

Dude, totally.

Absolutely.

So Dane did chime in and say that he is ready with some comments and

they're ready to start jumping in.

So here we go.

17 minutes into the Q&A right here.

So we have a DIY with Cain.

So good afternoon, TRC crew.

Minnesota checking in via Maine.

OK, it looks like it sounds like Cain is in Maine.

Hans Klosen, the man with the dragon tattoo, says, hello, hello, hello,

people of the towels.

Thank you, Hans.

Glad to see you here.

Gabe's working hard over there.

And so I know he wanted to say hi.

Then Fred saying, hi, sheep, Anthony, RJ, Drago, and Dewar.

Hello, Fred.

How are you?

Hopefully everything's going well.

That Fred is a good guy.

He is a good guy.

Nice guy.

I think he's selling a, Fred, you're selling a car, aren't you?

I'm doing a trailer right now.

What's he selling?

Something really cool.

I see it on Instagram all the time.

Anyways, I probably should have.

Maybe, no, it's like maybe he'll chime in.

Feel free, right?

We're doing plugs all day here.

Steve the Fomer, right, says, hello, all.

What are the WD flagship products?

And why are they the WD stars?

Hi from New York.

Don't tell my boss.

I am not working.

So if I were to pick three flagship products from our lineup,

my personal favorite is our super slick ceramic sealant.

I think it's one of the easiest, one of the easiest sealants.

And also one of the most effective sealants.

It smells amazing as well.

I've used it on my cars for years and years now.

And I'm very blessed to have it a part of the lineup.

The glass cleaner is also extremely good.

It's safe on all tent.

It won't stain your dashboard because there's no ammonia

or alcohol in our glass cleaner.

And it works extremely well.

And then I'd probably follow that up with our iron kryptonite,

which I think is one of the better smelling iron removers

in the market today.

It smells like cinnamon.

And that's much better than the rotten eggs

that they usually smell like.

Oh yeah, totally, totally, totally, totally.

All right, sweet.

Well, that's helpful.

Next up, thank you for that.

We've got first from Puerto Rico,

Humberto says, hello, TRC team.

Humberto, what's going on?

Glad to see you here in the chat.

That dude does not mess around.

First from Puerto Rico, he is on it.

He is, I'm starting to think he has like a bunch of bots

or like an army of monkeys that we've overall logged in

saying, you know, first try everything,

first from Puerto Rico every time.

Mac Bergson says, no Dane, sad face.

No Dane is here.

He's just locked up Mac.

So feel free to say hello though he sees it.

Fred, saying Humberto, yes.

He has a legend.

Humberto is, he is the legend.

AT4 says, oh, those bottles are eye catching.

I like it.

They really are.

They got good sprayers on them.

They're good looking.

I love the sizing, especially the 32 ounce,

the one liter size or like that size on there.

That feels good.

We put a lot of time and effort

into making sure that the bottles are extremely legible.

And also different enough to where you can identify

what product it is from, from a ways away.

So you can grab it quickly.

And it is pretty nice since that.

Prohibition is pretty straight to the point

and your QR codes are pretty sweet.

I will say though, your will and tire cleaner.

Oh man.

If you get the wrong breath.

You should use it outside or with proper ventilation game.

But he stopped huffing it over there.

Dude, we're here for a good time.

Yeah.

Not a long time.

Or dilution would help as well.

Yeah.

You're safe, Gabe.

Just remember to breathe.

Okay.

Next up here, we've got David Boyce says,

Anthony, did you know WD can operate a small crane shovel

and he detailed it?

Anthony, did you know RJ has a twin

that occasionally makes an appearance in his videos?

I did not know.

Are these real things?

Is this fake?

I have no idea what he's talking about to be honest.

Unless it's a different WD.

Okay, a small crane shovel.

I always look at heavy equipment and I do want like a front end loader.

You've never detailed a small crane shovel.

Gotcha.

And you don't have a twin.

Not that I know of.

And I don't know who David is talking about.

Dave, you're going to have to spill.

I do have a half brother that I've never met,

but that's a story for another day.

That's legit.

I swear to God.

Nobody knows that.

Is that a real story?

I swear to God, dude.

Dude, that might be.

Who knows?

Maybe a story for the second half.

We'll move on.

Next up here, that's too funny.

I'm a long lost relative and what do you know?

David Boy says, oh boy, Dane is back in prison.

He better, he's better off becoming an undertaker.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right, David.

You guys have some loyal fans, loyal followers of the channel.

They know more about us than they probably should know,

to be honest.

You didn't know that you were like a fitness influencer

before?

Fitness influencer?

Oh, they all know that.

Trust me.

I get reminded of that a weekly.

So, WDDealists, there's no Brent today.

Yeah, Brent's back home.

Him and Mike are handling the video of the week

and I'm out here hanging out with the TRC guys

and outside of my travel, because I had a crazy day

of travel the first day getting here.

It took me 19 hours and I was supposed to take like seven.

But anyway, I think I had a better week,

a more fun week than they did.

I think, dude, I think you did.

And it's still ramping up too, right?

You know, I still have one more crazy night here

in Boise, Idaho, as it always is.

Next up, we have on the list of comments here.

Tamara Chase says, I love watching RJ, Mike, and Brett

from WD.

They are awesome.

Thank you.

Thank you, Tamara.

Comments like those, it blows my mind.

Like at the end of the day, we are glorified

car janners on YouTube.

But the fact that so many people from around,

not only the nation, but around the world,

watch us and enjoy watching us clean these cars

is surreal.

Dude, it's fun.

It's fun.

I think the camaraderie too, when like, you know,

you have friends doing it and people get to know you guys

and it kind of becomes like shop.

You know, they feel like they're part of the shop,

you know what I mean?

They feel like they're part of the process.

And yeah, it's kind of like having, you know,

friends, friends in all places.

Yeah.

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All right.

So here we go.

Dragon says, What is in the initial lineup of WD products?

What specific qualities were you looking for in your products?

So I would say our product line is definitely

more exterior focused just because I don't know

how many people use, you know, carpet shampoo.

I mean, you kind of have to have an extractor.

It's a larger barrier for entry.

So we start with a pre-wash,

obviously to break down dirt and grime

on the exterior of your vehicle

before you go ahead with your contact wash.

We have our cherry suds, which is our pH neutral soap.

We then have our tire and wheel cleaner,

obviously to clean the tires and wheels.

And then we have our degreaser for engine bay degreasing

or rocker or wheel well degreasing.

And then our iron remover.

And to finish everything out,

we have our ceramic sealant

to put the final touch on the paint.

And our tires shine, obviously shine the tires.

And then for the interior,

we have our interior cleaner and our glass cleaner.

So we wanted to have a product line

that wasn't too in depth or too into the weeds.

Obviously, you know, if you're really involved in detailing,

you might be looking into various polishes and compounds,

but then the barrier for entry is,

it's a lot more difficult to get to that stage,

you know, to invest,

not only in the equipment, the polishers,

but the knowledge on how to sand paint,

how much then you get in the paint depth gauges.

So people who watch our channel

tend to be weekend warriors or, you know, DIY people.

And so I wanted a line that could not only tackle

some of the dirtiest cars in the world that we detail,

but would be, you know, simple enough

and high quality enough for anyone at home

to have a professional job,

to do a professional job on their vehicle.

Absolutely.

You liking it, Gabe?

Yeah, so the products that I think are really awesome,

obviously the Citrus Cleaner, nuts.

The other one is the pre-wash.

The pre-wash, I was really surprised

with how much it took off bugs.

We worked on a GMC this morning

that had, what, RJ, 180,000 miles,

and it looked like it hadn't had been washed at all.

So the paint was dry.

It had a lot of decant, you know,

a lot of contamination on the front.

He sprayed the pre-wash and it just melted stuff off.

You know, when I think of products

to do a really good job like that,

the initial idea is like forced and it's up there.

Like pre-wash and Citrus,

for anything that's extreme decontamination

and just gross, those are my two go-tos.

I'm excited about the pre-wash

because I personally like doing it like a dwell method,

if you will.

So where you foam it and just let it dwell before,

and that way ensures that any contamination

off the surface, you know,

before you go into the contact wash.

So some good stuff.

So I'm excited.

I'm going to try foaming pre-wash.

RJ did pre-wash and a spray bottle, which you can do.

But I'm hoping you save some for us to have fun with, too, Gabe.

Oh, like you did on our first batch?

Yeah. Oh, yeah, I used to.

Like I blew through like an entire later.

I was wondering where all that went.

Dude, I was just going for it.

Like why are you asking for more fry?

I was having a good time with it.

I was just blowing it up.

I'm like, dude, this stuff's eating away,

all this stuff.

I'm going to spray everything.

So yeah, and you said a pretty massive T-con

with your product.

So very cool.

So Gabe's going to continue on here.

Engine Bay Time, which is going to be a ton of fun.

Next up here, we have Hydra Detailing says,

Anthony, what are your favorite things to use the Wolfpack on slash with?

So the Wolfpack, right, because it's on sale right now,

some people are probably wondering.

So that's going to be a higher pile kind of plush all around microfiber towel.

Now, when you compare it to something like an Eagle Edge List

or something that's going to be really high-end,

really Korean 500 GSM, ultra plush,

the nicest that you could possibly get.

The Wolfpack is a perfect happy medium between something that's affordable

and yet something that's still premium.

But basically, you don't feel bad using it.

Because what happens is people buy our Eagle Edge List towels.

They're like our Eagle 500s, RJ.

And they're such a nice towel that people put them on the shelf

and they go, oh yeah, I'm not going to use those.

And I go, what?

Why'd you buy them?

Well, they're just so nice.

They are.

You just use them.

You bought them to use, right?

Well, I'm saving them.

For what, right?

A baptism, a purification process?

Like what do you save in those towels for?

Like this is like you got to use them.

And so for me, I think the Wolfpack kind of scratches that itch

of still having an ultra plush that you can grab and go,

use and abuse, not feel bad about it.

And the other thing too is that it's relatively durable

because it does have a butter soft suede edge on it.

So 70 30 blend, it's got the perfect GSM.

And I like the multiple colors there.

So where I like to use the Wolfpack personally

is I like to use it for waterless washing.

I'd use it for quick detailing.

I like to use it for kind of like, you know, spot cleaning, right?

So like if I have a bird dropping

or if I have bug guts on the front,

like it's just an easy towel just to grab and go.

I can use it on interiors around my dash.

I can use it around piano black plastics, things like that.

It's going to serve a lot of the same purposes

that you would still use with an eagle.

It's just going to be a little bit more

of an affordable version.

And due to the edge that's on it, it will have less roll.

So have you guys ever noticed

when you're using microfiber towel,

depending on the job, it might roll in your hand.

Hate that, right?

Like that's never like you got to wipe it.

Just like, so do you fold it

and like hold the eyes when you wipe too?

Some people do that, right?

You can do that as well.

But sometimes due to the density, the friction,

the surface tension, some different things on the surface

that towel can roll, right?

What I like about the Wolf Pack

is due to the edge that it has on there

adds a little bit more weight to that leading edge,

thus reducing the amount of rolling

that could possibly happen.

Now it also works great as a rinse-less wash towel as well

because it's going to be ultra plush

and it's going to be extremely soft.

So a lot of different uses.

I wouldn't recommend compound removal with it.

I wouldn't recommend polish removal with it.

It's not going to be the most fun for that.

Wax, light wax removal would probably be fine.

But just keep in mind due to the ultra plush nature

of that towel, you do want to wash those before use

and you want to wash them with other,

hopefully no linting, non-linting towels

because due to the ultra plush nature,

it can hold onto residual lint.

So just keep that in mind.

I was laughing there because the hoodstrike gave up

on Gabe and a him and a head.

Gabe almost got big.

Did you get to call me out?

Did he get bonked out?

Did he?

Did he get bonked out?

He played it off well.

Yeah, literally the hood fell on me.

Yeah, that's what I call Hyundai quality.

Hey, sir, Hyundai are premium quality vehicles.

I don't know.

I think it's more of a user error.

Are you kidding me, Anthony?

Hey, listen, if the Hyundai wants to guillotine you,

then you just got to let it happen.

I thought there was a Genesis.

What? What is that even?

Why?

No, that's definitely a Hyundai.

Genesis is the upper badge, right?

That's when you do the badge swap.

That was kidding.

Yeah.

Next up here.

Can't verify that.

Next up, we do badge swaps here.

At the TRC studio.

Sheepstar says, putting a brand new product on sale,

who do you think you are?

RCA.

What's RCA?

Anybody know what RCA is?

I don't know what that means.

The fact that I have to ask is a problem?

Chime in, Dane, what is RCA?

Fill me in.

He's not going to say anything.

He's just moving on.

I can't hear you.

They're pressure washing it too loud.

Here we go.

Carlos Colley says, what's the biggest factor for you in testing

or choosing chemicals, performance, safety, or ease of use,

and how do you decide which ones make the cut

for your detailing process?

That's a good question.

Over time, I'm going on, let's see,

if I started detailing cars when I was 14, I'm 29.

So I got a decade and a half of detailing experience.

You pretty quickly know what works well.

And thankfully, the chemist, rather,

that has formulated our products,

I've been using his products for the last 10 to 12 years

on our YouTube channel, out of our YouTube channel,

in, I guess, traditional detailing on customers' cars

or on some of the dirtiest cars in the world.

So as far as effectiveness, I'm just, I guess,

lucky enough that I've worked on the whole spectrum

of, like, extremely nice cars and extremely, you know,

that are extremely well-kept versus, you know,

some of the dirtiest cars that you'll see on the internet.

So I guess that's how we have tested it

for effectiveness and ease of use.

And although I'm hanging out with some awesome guys here

and I was invited out here and whatnot,

it might seem like I have, you know, my life together,

I'm also still moron.

Like, don't say that, RJ.

Okay, so hang on, our guy.

Let me rephrase this.

You're a nice guy.

Thanks, Gabe.

I don't care what Anthony said.

No, I know I'm intelligent, but also self-deprecation

is a great way to balance, dude.

Yes, exactly.

To keep yourself humble.

So maybe moron was the wrong word there,

but I always know there's more to learn.

You're still learning.

There you go.

That's what you're putting up.

Yeah, I know enough to know I don't know enough.

Yeah.

And so when it comes to our product line,

I'm just lucky enough to have an incredible,

incredible team around me that has helped, you know,

not only make sure that these chemicals are safe,

but also, again, if I can use them,

that's where I was going with the moron save.

If I can use them, if I can make a car look good

using them, then I'm sure you guys at home could too.

Look at that.

Gabe's put on a show.

So Gabe, what product is that?

This is pre-wash.

Pre-wash, okay.

So this is the product that I really, really like.

Based off of what, watching RJ,

I'm just doing it in kind of a different application,

but if you've got a car that maybe isn't so hammered,

I would say pre-wash because it's slightly diluted,

but if you have a car that is just absolutely hammered,

you want to go straight.

Very cool.

Yeah.

We like it.

It looks good.

It's good.

Looks good.

RJ, you want to tell Anthony how we met through the TikToks?

So that was actually Brent that had reached out.

Oh, it was Brent.

So it was one of these live streams and Brent had commented

on one of your TikToks, I believe, how you're TikTok lives.

And then I really don't even know what the conversation was.

All I know is that he reached out to you guys

and then he passed along any of that in.

Brent is usually the first point of contact.

And then at least when it comes to relationships,

he's the first point of contact,

and then he maintains the contact.

But then I handle all of the business side

and business communications.

But obviously now that I know you guys,

I think I'm probably closer friends

with you guys than Brent is.

And we've also talked a lot more.

But yeah, we met on TikTok live.

So I guess TikTok's good for something.

No, it's great.

It's great.

That really doesn't TikTok me off at all.

But you know that me and RJ met before you guys met,

right, Gabe?

Yeah.

Actually, Jimmy met RJ before you did.

That's not true.

Jimmy met him at the same time.

It goes Anthony and then most impactful me.

Anyway, it's OK.

Well, there was a really cool creator summit

that happened a few years ago over at Car Supplies Warehouse.

And we had a fun time there.

It was really cool.

Next up here, we have here we go,

Dragon asking, are your products PFAS free?

What is PFAS?

Like the forever chemicals.

The what?

The forever chemicals.

Forever chemicals?

You know, that's a good question.

To be honest, I'm not sure.

So we didn't formulate it.

I don't know if he's from California where that is irrelevant.

So now, so face, I mean, I don't, this is a

Dane throwing up a rabbit hole question.

And I don't know why you threw this up here,

but basically, Dane, you dog.

So what there is, right?

So when the forever chemical thing has been brought up

over the last few years because we found out

in a lot of different manufacturing

of a lot of different products, right?

Whether it's plastics, chemicals, bottles, everything

can contain forever chemicals, right?

Once these forever chemicals are essentially sprayed

and held and ingested, things like that,

these chemicals stay inside your body forever, right?

And so what there is, is there is a few brands out there

that are claiming that their chemicals are PFA free.

PFA is free.

And then basically saying that, hey,

they don't have forever chemicals,

it's not going to affect you.

Well, I mean, which I think that's a great marketing.

That's a great thing to market, right?

And it's a great thing for just overall health.

But there's so many of these forever chemicals

and so many other things that it's good to know

it's not coming from the detailing product,

but you're still getting these in plenty of other forms

of ingestion and whatnot.

All of our products are VOC compliant.

Yeah.

As far as forever chemicals, you know,

I can't confidently say, I do know for sure

that SiO2 is one of those, like silica dioxide

is one of the forever chemicals,

and which is why you're supposed to wear a mask

when applying a ceramic coating

where it is a very high percentage of silica dioxide.

Our ceramic sealants is,

most ceramic sealants are under 7%, 8% silica dioxide.

So really, I think it just comes down to

working on your vehicle in a well-ventilated area.

I wouldn't necessarily want to be huffing any chemical.

I don't care what it is.

But I can't confidently say yes or no to PFA.

That's my first time hearing about it.

Yeah.

It's probably many people's first time hearing about it.

I just, yeah.

Anyways, that is a massive rattle.

We're not going to, I'm trying to very surface level

just graze the top of that.

And moving on, as Sheepstar says,

do your SDS sheets show hazard symbols?

Yes, they do.

Sure, they probably do.

Yeah.

No, they actually, some of the labels

will also carry over those hazard symbols as well.

Actually, all the labels have hazard symbols,

but the SDS sheets will have the diamond.

What people are asking is a very,

so what they're, I'll never mind, RJ,

this is too pure of a stream to do this.

They're asking some facetious,

they're facetious questions that some of these people are asking,

not involving you or your brand or anything else,

some other companies.

But some other companies.

Yeah, they're being facetious.

Man, you really have like a cold following.

They have the inside jokes.

Dude, they got inside jokes.

They've seen the pictures of you flexing and everything.

They've got tons of inside stuff,

but Dane's feet in the beast right now.

I don't know why he's doing that.

Carl F. says,

Dream, I think.

It's his way of getting back.

Oh, I guess so.

Carl F. says, I missed last week.

Did you guys all paint the spray,

the Wash Bay Gray?

That's a lot of rhyming.

Smiling.

Yeah, so basically we finished the rest of the wrap

all over here.

So we now have Gray on one side,

Gray on the other side.

It looks really cool in person.

In video, it might look a little bit blue

or a little bit dark in person.

It looks really, really good.

So take our word for it.

The one downside though, RJ,

is that when you wrap a wall, paint a wall,

do an accent, oh, that's darker,

it really sucks a lot of light, right?

When that was white, it was glowing, right?

I get a ton of light coming from that whole section.

Now it's kind of looking slightly parking garage, right?

Dark corner of a parking garage.

It looks great if you're here in person.

I do like the look of it, but I understand,

I can understand what you're saying here.

I think maybe if you guys mirror the Rack Company logo

on your other wall, or maybe a smaller Rack Company logo,

at least would make it a little bit more enticing.

Yeah, Hanzo says, good day everyone.

For everyone new to detailing,

could you go over the importance of removing

bug splatter and bird droppings from a vehicle,

even if it does have a ceramic coating?

Yeah, absolutely.

I would say that is my priority.

Whenever I drive my personal vehicles,

I personally don't care about marring or scratching.

If a bird craps in my car, or if I have bug splatter,

I will just wipe it away with whatever I have nearby.

Doesn't matter.

It could be a paper towel, doesn't matter.

I'm not a stickler for scratches,

although my cars are pretty scratch free,

because I do polish them often.

And I don't mind polishing, I can fix that,

but once bug splatter or bird droppings

etch in your paint, and then I'm putting sandpaper

on my car and polishing, I don't need to be taking away.

Clear it up.

Exactly.

Yeah.

No, so the importance really is that

as soon as you possibly see it, Hanzo,

you have to do something about it.

I mean, the second you see a bird dropping,

the second you see a bug, this isn't like a walk away.

Oh, I got to get that maybe later in the day.

This is a grab whatever you can,

as soon as you can, and clean it off.

And I kind of treat hard water the same way as well, too,

because, I mean, hard water spots can also etch.

I mean, bird droppings can etch.

Certain rain can etch, right?

So there's a lot of different things that can happen,

and if you are aware that that's a possibility, right?

On, especially on your vehicle,

you've got to do something about it quick.

So especially what I find is sometimes

during the fall and during the spring, right?

A lot of etchings are going to happen here.

I mean, even during the summer as well,

but what happens is temperature change

throughout the day, while a,

let's just say an acidic poo or whatever it is,

is sitting on your surface, or bug guts, whatever, whatever,

the temperature change and between the paint shrinking

and expanding the clear, swelling during the heat,

shrinking during the cold.

What's that, Dane?

Yeah, Dane says acidic poo is a great band, Dane.

I don't know why.

Anyway, so what happens is that process,

that bird dropping, those etchings,

everything's just going to get dig deeper and deeper

and deeper into that clear, right?

And so the second it does that,

it just, it's already kind of too late at that point.

So the general rule, like RJ says,

if you have anything to be able to try to remove that,

whether it's water in a t-shirt or a quick detailer

and a random towel, it doesn't matter if the towel is dirty,

some light scratching and marring is always going to be better

than an etching because once an etching happens,

you're going to be doing a lot more scratching to get that out

than you would if you were to just remove it in the first place.

And sometimes, even when you sand and polish an etching

or a hardwater spot, if the paint isn't at the temperature

that that stain was induced, that etching was induced,

you're not going to actually be able to reach that initial stain.

So you have to, I've seen, I don't know if you've ever seen

people use the infrared lights while polishing

to mimic the temperature that the damage was done at.

So if I can avoid that, if I can avoid that, I don't care.

I can polish out a scratch, but polishing out etching

when it's hot and then cold and the hot and cold is...

Etching, etchings and dings, the bane of my existence.

Scratches, again, I'm okay with scratches.

I had one of my cars keyed like a year and a half ago

and listen to me, listen to me.

I had one of my cars keyed like a year and a half ago,

sucked, right? I freak out about everything Gabriel,

but I'm just saying that a ding is the worst to me

because now I have to call somebody because I can't fix a ding.

I'm not good at PDR. I'm an amateur PDR specialist.

I can barely do it. I can just barely do it.

The big ones.

But I have to, yeah, I have to call a friend

and have somebody come out right now that costs time and money.

A scratch is something that I can handle.

And etching is something that I can also handle,

but man, I do died.

Whenever I'm doing, I'm always just cringing.

I'm always like, oh God, here I am removing precious clear coat.

And thank God I got a really, I got a super, super nice

paint up gauge from my friend Jose

and this particular paint up gauge.

Now it makes it a lot less stressful

when I'm sanding through precious clear.

What gauge?

It is the, gosh, the carbon.

Gabriel, is it DTG?

What's it?

I'm trying to think of the brand.

Oh my God.

Okay, I'm blanking, but it's a carbon.

It's in a carbon case.

It looks really, really cool.

You're in here.

Gabriel, what was that gauge called?

It's the something pro-carbon.

Something, something pro-carbon.

Do something pro-carbon?

Starts with a D.

Anyways, it's pretty good.

Do you have the little status scope?

It's no, it's just, it's on, just on your phone.

Oh, really?

And yeah, it's on your phone.

Oh, that's cool.

So you do that, right?

And what I love about it is it straight up pops up

and it says resprayed, right?

Like this has been a second layer of paint.

It tells you if there's Bondo or filler,

it tells you everything.

Wow.

I love it.

That's pretty impressive.

Ron here says, good afternoon everybody.

What's going on, Ron?

Get to see you here in the chat.

Nice to see you.

Good afternoon.

Steve Pearson, RJ.

Which product from WD are you most proud of?

So there's actually three.

Super Slick is my favorite to use

and I think it's honestly, for the money,

I think it's one of the best ceramic sealants

that you could buy.

And it's so versatile

and I don't even coat my cars anymore.

Probably more so from Laziness

but also because I have this

Super Slick product that allows me

to make my car feel like it's coated

after every single wash.

But our Iron Cryptonite

and our Purple Rain Wheel Cleaner

both are a gel formula

and I'm proud of how our Iron Cryptonite functions

but also smells, again,

iron is incredibly stinky.

Ours, once it's aerosolized,

smells like cinnamon

and then our Purple Rain Wheel Cleaner

I think is, I don't know too many wheel gels

out there on the market.

I think it does a great job of both

combining gel properties

with iron removing properties.

I use it on my BMWs, Apex wheels

and it's nice, especially when I'm trying to get,

when I have to allow the Wheel Cleaner

to dwell a little bit to break down the iron.

And so those are the three products

that I feel really stand out amongst our line.

Sweet man, right on.

Okay.

Because of Rensay.

Oh no, Gabriel's still going.

Gabriel, what are you looking for?

Are you looking for that blue bottle?

Yeah, dude.

We're gonna go to town.

Bring that over here really quick.

Bring it over here really quick.

Actually, I gotta hit with a little bit of iron.

Let me get a whiff of this thing.

Oh, you want to get a whiff of it?

Yeah, let me get a hit of this stuff.

I don't know.

Oh, it's so good.

It really does it.

Like, what is that?

It's like hair shampoo.

It's so good.

It's like, yeah.

The scent's actually tropical, tropical breeze.

Is it?

Okay.

But I thought so as well.

I said it smells like L'Oreal for kids.

I think it's fun.

I think, yeah.

Ryan's going deep into paradise,

seeing a sand between my toes.

Not on my paint.

What's in the water?

Yeah.

Joey Belinsky says, hello, my friends.

What's up, RJ?

Looking forward to visiting Boise

in a little over a week.

Get ready, Anthony.

I don't know why they keep saying

in this really mysterious way.

They keep saying, get ready, Anthony.

They're trying to prepare me for something.

And I don't know what they're doing.

I don't know what they're bringing.

I don't know what they're trying to say.

But is this someone you know?

I do know him.

Yeah, but he's just being very mysterious about this.

Next up here, Joey.

We have Mac Bergs and says, hey,

is that the Enrique Iglesias background detailing it?

Crap, somebody did say that.

I said before nobody's ever said that before.

And somebody has said that, Gabe.

So I guess I was wrong.

You want to know the new saying?

What's that?

That can be your detailer, baby.

No?

Man, Gabe, I could literally hear Dane literally stabbing

his eyes out, you know, and ears.

Oh, he is moaning in the background.

He's moaning back there.

Not in a good way.

It's more of a groan.

Next up here, gosh, this is great.

Megan says, I've heard about brake buster to clean sneakers.

What other off-label uses for detailing chemicals

can you reveal?

Brake buster is clean sneakers very well.

You can do that.

I would avoid particular fabrics with brake buster.

Like rubber is great, right?

It'll look great at cleaning particular rubbers.

Other off uses for detailing products like RJ,

do you have anything that you guys like to use?

The WD products for off-label stuff?

So I actually got this idea from Matt Mormon over at Obsessed

Garage, but that guy seems to ceramic coat everything.

So he would ceramic coat his kitchen counters.

He would ceramic coat his glass doors in his shower.

And so I did the same with the exterior of my window

with super slick as well as with the glass doors in my shower

just because I try to avoid the hard water spotting.

And I have like a little squeegee.

Nice, yeah, yeah.

So you like, you know, squeegee all the water down.

Yeah, totally.

And it's made it so much easier.

And so that's the only application I've used inside my house.

I have seen a couple other details.

You use like a really heavy acid to clean toilet bowl stains,

but I'm not advising that.

That's just something I've seen.

Okay, yeah.

Well, I like to use rinse-less washing

for cleaning my baseboards around my house.

I like to spray my microwave and my fridge refrigerator

with particular products, bead maker, spray sealants,

things like that, granite countertops.

I will eventually hit with a sealant of polish

my granite countertops as well.

Gosh, man, APCs for floor cleaning.

I've done a lot of different stuff.

I mean, there's lots of cool things you can do.

I don't think there's any wrong answer.

It's everything's worth trying.

It's just particular chemicals,

maybe aren't meant to be on food surfaces,

if that makes sense.

So just keep that, yeah, keep that in mind.

Next up, here we go.

10 minutes left until the break.

Steve Pearson says,

Joe Belinski seems like you can't stay out of Boise.

Just move there already.

Geez, Steve, that would require

Joey to leave Sacramento, California.

And I think he really loves Sacramento.

I think he's the only person that loves Sacramento.

Yeah, Joey says,

Boise can't afford me full time.

Oh, Joey, you silly goose.

Next up here, Jose Martinez.

There we go.

The man, the myth, the legend.

So this guy, he'll know the paint up gauge.

Yeah, here we go.

Hello, everyone.

Hope all is well.

Anthony, can you add one on one on one

or group detailing class

since everybody's doing it?

So I guess he's asking if we can do

a RAG company detailing course here.

So, Jose, we've talked about this

and thought about this for years.

We do have everything pretty much set up here

at the TRC studio to be able to host something like this.

It's mostly been about capacity,

literally with our schedule and with our team

and basically who can kind of commit

to putting something like this together.

And so when Levi was here,

we had talked about it for a while

and we had thought that it would be something

that me and Levi could possibly do

on a few weekends throughout a year

and offer a training class

and have it be something as easy

as the basics of detailing,

like detailing 101,

all the way up to polishing, coding,

things like that.

But really, it's a big undertaking

because when you're hosting a class

and especially you're getting people

to visit from out of state,

it's okay, where are they staying,

you make them responsible

for their own hotels and whatnot,

but then it's during the days here.

Is it a Saturday, Sunday?

Is it a lunch provided thing?

What are the hours of this training class?

And then what other things could we do

to support our audience, right?

Whether it's in the form of a discount code

or something for them attending,

building them a cool care package.

So what I'm trying to say is we've had ideas,

we know how to do it.

It's more of a capacity thing

and who would all be involved.

If I'm involved, then who else is joining me

from Team DRC to be able to make this happen

and how many people are we committing to to do this?

And so I basically what I'm getting left with,

what I'm saying is I'm gonna be left

with Enrique over here to be my co-partner

and I don't know if I'm ready to handle that just yet.

Am I?

We're about to go to Georgia together, come on.

You and I, we're gonna have a vacation.

It's not a vacation,

it's actually a work trip.

Gabriel, stop calling it that.

Anyway, so I'm not saying never.

Like I'm saying this probably will happen

at some point in the future.

I just don't, I don't know when yet.

Michael DeBlau says,

Hello peeps from Belgium,

tuning in with a fever.

Oh no, I'd be proven for the win.

Yep, stay on top of it.

Get behind the fever,

get behind, we're getting in front of the pain,

getting in front of the fever.

Try to keep it away.

Next up, Drew Detail says,

Good afternoon from Montreal, Canada.

Nice, we got a candidate in the house.

Gabe's going to town over there.

And then Carl F says,

WD Detailing, I've watched quite a few of your videos.

What was your favorite resurrection?

Do you have any specific detail that inspired

any of your current podcasts

or products?

Sorry, don't podcast.

Products.

As far as the products go,

I would say all the,

I know it's a generic question

or rather a generic answer,

but the, all the products are rather,

all the cars that we have featured

have kind of inspired the,

you know, the whole entire line

because I wanted it to be,

you know, I don't know if there's ever

one vehicle where I was like,

I really wish we had a product that did this

because we run through a very

rigid step process.

You know, I would say most cars,

generally, the only thing that differs

is sometimes we use pre-wash

and sometimes we don't,

depending on the kind of paint.

Pre-wash is a highly alkaline.

And so if you have a single-stage paint job,

you are going to stay in that paint

and you are going to have to polish.

Sometimes the guy's back home,

they don't know that

and they do it on accident

and then my polishing takes much, much longer.

But the fact, the favorite resurrection,

it was either the,

yeah, that Monte Carlo, I don't know if-

Not sure, yeah.

That seriously, that video stands out to me

just because that family was

so sweet and so dear.

And like, you know, when cars are,

you know, at the end of the day,

cars are just metal, glass, and rubber.

But when people attach emotion to it

and then you're able to bring out that emotion

just by cleaning the vehicle,

any video where the car that we cleaned

is either a memory,

reminds them of, you know, their youth

or maybe another family member

that's no longer here,

those are the ones,

we had actually a good one

that I can mention is we had cut out

this 57 Chevy Bel Air from a barn.

Yeah.

We actually had to cut the back out,

the father and other veteran,

he was 92 years old

and he was in a nursing home

and they wanted to get the car out

to clean it up to sell it

to help fund, you know,

the cost of him being in the home.

And so we got to clean the car,

he had no idea, we brought it,

brought it to him at the nursing home

and he came out in the wheelchair

and we surprised him.

And, you know, he's looking at the car

and he goes, wow, you know, wow.

He goes, it hasn't looked like that in a long time.

You can almost see it in his eyes.

It's flashing before him

and all the memories with the car

and he goes, you know, it was a good deal

and I drove his car all the time.

You know, you can just see

someone who's lived 92 years of life.

It brings back a lot of memories.

Yeah.

And his whole family was there

and, you know, they go,

you know, he never smiles,

he never smiles.

And he was sitting there in the car

touching the steering wheel

and, you know, it's moments like those

that I, again, I feel so privileged to be a part of

because it's just, it's special.

Yeah, that's why I think it's why I love cars.

Cars signify freedom to me

and they also signify, I guess, expression.

You get to express yourself through your cars

and, you know, people identify you

based on what you drive.

At least a lot of people do.

Like Gabe drives, what is it?

That four-runner outside

with a little whittle-watter on it?

Yeah, it's technically a land.

He'll tell you it's a land cruiser.

A land cruiser, sorry.

I mean, it's all right.

I mean, it's, you know, it's okay.

Well, you have a raft.

I couldn't see.

It's all raft.

What vehicle stands out to you the most out there, RJ?

That raft is sick, dude.

Thanks, man.

Don't give him that.

It's just an F-150.

Thanks, man.

Bronze rims.

I think bronze rims would do so.

Dude, I almost went bronze.

Yeah, I think bronze would move.

I was afraid it was going to be too loud.

I like it, dude.

I was afraid it was going to be a lot.

But no, thank you, Gabe.

I just wanted you to hear that he's a pretty big fan of the Raptor.

So anyways, moving on.

The one who shall remain nameless, right?

We normally give this guy a name throughout the week,

basically because he says he doesn't have a name.

What would you like to name him?

Give me a good name.

Anything.

So when I hear the one who shall not,

well, shall remain nameless,

it reminds me of Harry Potter and the huge shell.

Yeah, I knew Harry.

You're Voldemort for the day, man.

You went Voldemort?

Okay, Voldemort.

That's a huge shell-mappy name.

No, here we go, Voldemort.

So Voldemort in the chat saying,

Happy Friday, Jr., all of you handsome people

from the sunny South Coast of Massachusetts.

Going to catch this one.

Oh God, Voldemort's not going to hang around?

Okay, he's going to catch this one later.

Have a great Labor Day week in everyone, you two, man.

Yet be safe, have fun.

Don't do anything that we wouldn't do, whatever that means.

Next up, fine detailing here in the house says,

how do you get a one million view video asking for a friend?

That's a good question.

Again, I think it comes down to the three things that I'd mentioned,

obviously cleaning an extremely dirty vehicle,

a vehicle that is an enthusiast vehicle that's in good shape,

and then finding a story.

What we've realized over time is that people

are attracted to people.

They want to know some kind of storyline,

and you need to have a payoff.

You need to have a question that you asked

at the beginning of the video

and some kind of resolution that finishes the video at the end.

And I guess our simplest question and answer is,

can we clean this car?

And at the end, yes we can.

But when we can add in something more,

what will the reaction be from the owner of the vehicle?

Can we clean it?

And then getting to show them the clean vehicle

and having that big reaction.

And not a fake one, like a really honest one

where it invokes emotion.

I think that's the ticket,

at least when it comes to detailing.

Because detailing's niche, so I don't know

if you can make a, I'm sure there are people,

I feel like that part of detailing is kind of over,

like the how to polish a car.

I feel like Larry has done many videos like that.

There's a couple other creators

that have done really well on the how to,

Chris Fix, for example, how to hand polish a car.

And I'm sure there's still a market for it,

but I think that might be in short form now.

I think that might, TikTok would be a great place

to get a million view video how to detail a car,

how to polish a car.

But attention spans have shrunk.

So if you're looking for long form attention,

you got to find a good story

or you have to have a crazy question and a great payoff.

Yeah, yeah.

Actually, so it's funny.

Yeah, you see a lot of the same things in a good way

that some of our other YouTube friends have said.

And it's almost like that's really the answer, right?

There's a story and there's a payoff, right?

Usually seems to be what keeps the biggest,

the tensions being longest for a long form video

because I do agree that the short form stuff,

has completely destroyed all of our attention spans.

And unless we're getting information as fast as possible,

we're not happy.

So, Sheepstar says,

I know how you get one million subs.

Okay, all right.

Sheep, good to know.

Making YouTube shorts and post lots of shorts.

They'll get a million subs.

Yeah, you post lots of shorts.

Yeah, all right.

And you'll get the gold plaque

and the people who long form will be crying

as they see that and they go,

how long did it take you?

Oh, do I did it in like two months

and you're like, wow.

I'm so proud of this because we were,

I truly feel this,

that we were like the last of the old YouTube generation

because then they introduced shorts

and there's channels that have 10 million followers on shorts.

And then you look at their long form videos,

they get 50,000 views.

And don't get me wrong, 50,000 is amazing.

1,000 views is crazy on long form content.

But there's people who have built and gotten that gold

and that gold and black meant something.

Yeah.

And now it just, it got degraded at devalue.

Well, it's funny.

We've been making videos over a decade

and we finally got just our silver plaque

and we're like, oh my God, we're super happy about this.

But they shrunk it.

They did.

They shrunk.

You noticed?

I just said that to them at the other place.

I go, did they shrunk the plaque?

I just said that.

They're dishing so many of them out.

I'm like, is it, they shrunk the stuff

because so many people have it.

Now, what the heck is this?

I'm so glad you just confirmed that

because I go, they shrunk the plaque

because the other one, it's,

I mean, the gold one's big.

But like, no, so that's crazy.

That's about probably a third smaller than the original.

I do it.

I literally said two thirds of size.

Yeah, dude.

It's so funny.

It's quite a bit smaller.

So anyways, here we go.

That's actually a good stopping point right now.

We'll talk more about the history in just a minute,

but we do have a break right now.

So for the next few minutes,

we're going to be hearing some messages

from our friends in the industry,

as well as ourselves.

In this time, go to the bathroom,

grab some snacks, go to theradcompany.com,

score 20% off our Labor Day sale right now.

And we will see you here in a few more minutes

to answer more questions with RJ.

All right, and welcome back to the second half here, Q&A Thursday.

Joining us, we have RJ from WDD Telling.

And then over there in the Wash Bay,

we have Mr. Enrique Iglesias.

I mean, Mr. Gabriel Garcia.

Gabe, how's everything going?

Dude, things are going good.

To be honest, I got to go a little bit slow

because I'm washing this bad boy pretty quick.

Thanks to WDD products, of course.

But yeah, so basically we are kind of taking product shots

and videos.

I got Jimmy and I've got Intern following me as well.

And we're kind of getting that done simultaneously

while washing this car.

We still have door jams

and we have glass.

We got to get done.

Wow. Okay. Well, you made really good time.

So I just had one of those nature valley bars, right?

You're choked up. I get it.

It happens.

It was a nature valley bar that's like exceptionally

dry there at the end and just really lodged

in somewhere non-ideal.

So I've been trying to drink as much water.

So I work through this game.

Mr. Glacius, can you please give us a rundown

on what you've done to the car so far?

Yeah. So we did Will and Tire Cleaner.

So we utilized those two products.

Fantastic.

Then what we did for the paint was I did pre-wash,

but what I did was I foamed it and I did 10 to 1.

And then I came back and I did citrus.

Man, you are dying.

Thing I got.

He just died.

So I didn't fly once.

I just wanted something in the throat.

Yeah.

So I've been looking at pieces of plastic.

I saw it fly out of your mouth.

Wow. Second half is off to a great start.

I think it was.

I can't even educate these people.

I'm watching the rapper.

I've got a freaking peanut over there.

I think he ate the rapper.

I think he was part of the Mr. B's festivals.

Okay. Continue.

You're going to make me cry.

Okay. So we did the pre-wash and then we came back

and we did a pH neutral cherry suds.

And then what I did was I came back while it was wet

and I actually clayed it using iron.

And then I neutralized it before doing.

I actually did what is it called?

Superslick.

I did Superslick and I did it as a rinse aid.

And man, this car was pretty dry.

In fact, they have a bluebird sticker.

So they've been running it through a car wash.

So as soon as we did the clay method,

it just made the paint super dry and it was just sheeting.

But after doing Superslick rinse aid,

man, it really, really, really made hydrophobic again.

And what I'm doing is I'm going to probably dress

the plastics really quick, finish dressing the plastics.

And then Jimmy, Mitch, and I are going to go on and do glass

because we are going to try out.

Now, glass cleaner.

I have a question on this because it is aerosol.

Is it just a simple spray and then do your typical box method?

Exactly. Yeah.

Okay.

Anthony, are you going to be okay over there?

I don't know what happened.

Can you carry this for the second half, RJ?

It could be like a Heimlich manure situation.

I'm not really sure what have.

So here's what, so here, I'll just be honest, right?

Once we get to the halftime, right?

I'm usually pretty hungry.

So like my time there is trying to like

whoop down whatever snack I can.

And today's case was like, it was called like a built puff bar,

right? Like a chocolate coconut one.

And I'm pretty sure there was like coconut in it.

And then I followed that up with a nature valley,

neuter green bar, whatever, or a nature valley bar.

And I was like, that's the two worst things

I can be putting in my body.

Coconut and a dry biscuit.

Like even drinking water isn't even breaking me down, dude.

You can't even freaking talk without it.

No, I can't.

I mean, I sound pretty rough.

So anyways, okay, let's try to work through it.

Yeah, let's get into the second half.

I do have a question.

So Gabe had just mentioned, not necessarily a question,

but so me and you, Gabe, we like to use iron remover as both,

well, an iron remover,

but also kind of a clay loop.

I feel like when you have a lot of iron deposit on your car,

you need to abrade it with a clay mitt or a clay scrubber.

And there's some people here at the red company who told me

that they don't like doing that.

I didn't know.

Well, I'll be honest, RJ, if this is a safe place.

I typically don't, but because you did it earlier

with the same clay scrubber, I was like, what the heck?

I'm going to do it.

But the reason why I think typically people shy away

from doing that is with the synthetic clay scrubber

or any of the synthetic clay products we have,

what happens is it breaks it down.

And the benefit is, if you buy a clay scrubber,

for instance, there is two in the pack,

but ultimately some different iron removers,

depending on how strong they are,

they can actually ruin your clay scrubber.

So that's why it's one of those things

where it's like, do it at your own risk.

But I mean, in theory, I guess you could.

I think that there might be some concern

that there's still contamination,

that you could potentially be pushing into your paint.

No, I probably wouldn't do that on my BMW

that I maintain pretty regularly.

But on all the cars that we're working on

that are super jacked up, it's kind of a must.

And honestly, I can promise you, because I've used,

and now I can't vouch for actual clay,

but the synthetic clay, our iron remover does not degrade it.

And honestly, I feel like, especially again,

those really roached cars,

you need that aberration to break down that iron.

Totally.

Well, and in the back, this car,

it really wasn't bad as far as iron,

compared to the vehicle we had this morning.

So that's why I was like, you know what?

Let's have some fun.

Why are you looking at me like that, Anthony?

I'm just laughing at our jokes earlier.

We have fun on here.

No, sorry, you're doing good.

No, we have a great time.

I hope everyone that's watching us,

they're not annoyed by us.

Like probably, we might be coming off

as slightly unprofessional.

So let's go and bring it back

and let's try to make this a professional stream again.

So before we jump into this, let's go ahead

and head to theradcomedy.com right now,

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Meaning you're going to head there,

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Now doorbusters, what kind of doorbusters do we have?

We have some pretty amazing ones.

This includes the wolf pack, the big one.

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We also have the eagle applicator.

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And we have some eagle edge lists

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So a really cool sale we have going on right now.

We only run 20% off a few times throughout the year.

This is one of those times,

meaning that you probably should pick up stuff

to get you through at least till,

I'll just say October.

I'm just going to throw it out there.

Just say until October.

Because in October, some fun stuff is also happening,

but I don't want you guys to have to wait that long,

especially if you're low on supply.

So five days left of the sale here.

This will be running until the 2nd of September.

So anyways, so that's going to be at Thracom.com.

So other than that, we've been running the first half

and RJ has answered quite a few questions

about the UWD line,

talked a little bit about the YouTube channel,

and really it's just been,

I think it's been an awesome few days, right?

You guys were actually filming a video earlier,

and I barged in, not knowing what you guys were doing,

and I said, hey, what's everybody's lunch order?

And everybody was like, hey, Anthony,

we're shooting a video here.

The whole, it blew my mind.

It wasn't necessarily that it had,

because I walk in when something's being filmed,

but it was the whole team going,

I thought they had flies that they were swatting.

You walked in and you're like,

hey, Jimmy, what are we having for lunch?

And we're all looking back,

we're like, Jimmy's like, we're filming,

and I'm going like this.

Yeah, I'm like, they're fighting off the same fly.

And then he's like, what are you guys doing?

And then I yelled, we're filming, we're on a live.

And then Anthony poses, he goes, oh,

so Jimmy, what are we having for lunch?

Oh man.

You know, Fisher, your hunger has caused

some serious issues today at Thracom.com.

But you know what it resulted in?

It resulted in pizza.

It resulted in good times,

good laughs, and everybody, you know,

seems to be back on track.

So that does happen from time to time.

Anyway, so back to some of the comments here,

some of the questions.

Ron A out here saying, well,

TRC be carrying the WD product line.

So this is actually going to be something.

Is that something we're talking about right now?

We're not really talking about in terms of kind of,

I don't think we're talking about anything.

No, we're not talking about anything.

This, we'll call this just a fun thing.

For right now.

You guys are the worst at keeping secrets.

I know we are.

I mean, like I don't want it to be a secret,

but I'm just saying like, hey, we're doing this for fun.

They brought the line.

We're playing with things.

We've been shooting some content.

I don't know if they're going to be carrying it,

but we have been carrying your guys' towels

on our website.

So technically there is a partnership already.

He's calling you out, Fisher.

I guess, I guess, I guess, you know,

what do you mean?

Your towels are already on our website.

I guess in terms of questions,

I just didn't really prepare myself

for what questions could be asked today.

I literally talked to you about this at the beginning

before we went live and you went rogue.

Yeah.

So sorry about that.

So anyways, we might as well.

We're having fun.

Yeah.

All right, Gabe.

She is a little, I'm going to go this guy.

Okay.

Next up here.

Next question.

Hydra detailing says,

I use a Wolfpack to Wife

after shaving my beard multifunctional.

That's sweet.

That's a great way to use TRC premium microfiber.

Just make sure you don't use the same towel

used with detailing chemicals on your face.

Drew's details says,

I've never heard of WD and yet,

and you have my full attention.

Okay.

Well, Drew, we're here.

We've been doing it.

Put some pressure on me.

Be at attention.

Joey Balenci says,

let's not talk about Lenny until he's here.

I don't know what he's talking about.

Moving on.

Cheapstar says,

say his name three times

and he'll buy superior products.

I don't know what that is.

I don't know what we're talking about.

You guys were talking about,

oh, from last week.

Gotcha.

We had a troll last week.

That's the best way to describe it.

And we don't try to feed the trolls,

right, if we can avoid it.

But this particular one,

we were like, yeah,

let's see what happens, right?

So we kind of just went into it a little bit.

It got crazy, RJ.

Like, it was bad.

It was, Dane was fuming.

He wanted to throw the iPad through the TV.

He was not happy about what,

by the time it ended.

And, but it was good.

It was good entertainment is what it was.

The trolls, I mean,

so, I mean, I'm glad to hear,

I shouldn't say glad to hear that you guys deal with them,

but you know, one of the things that people troll us on is,

you know, they say that all of our videos are fake

and we're throwing mud and dirt.

If I was as good of creating barn finds like that,

do you guys think that I would be doing,

like I'm talking to the camera,

but like, I wonder why these trolls

would think that I would be doing this on like a 1962 Dodge Dart

when I could be doing this on like a Mercia Lago

and getting three, four, five, six times a viewership.

Well, because dude, you know, we've seen it.

We've seen it on YouTube where you get the YouTubers, right?

They'd be like buying my abandoned, you know,

I'm just going to throw out an,

I'm going to say NSX, right?

And it's like an NSX that was clearly

parked in a field two weeks prior.

We did an NSX that was parked in a field in Fisher.

What the heck dude?

That was a different NSX, right?

This is a different, I'm talking.

Okay, there was like a week in a sexist.

Do you remember that?

There was like Larry had one.

Larry had one.

And then there was like a couple other car YouTubers

that found it was like,

it was a month of NSX is in a field.

Yeah.

Well, okay, I'm talking about it.

Our guy really popular again on short form,

but we posted that video well over like a year and a half ago.

So sometimes things come around.

What color was your guys?

This is black.

Black, this one I was talking about was like green.

Anyways, long story short,

there's been some situations where you'll see people

and you go, was this stage?

I feel like this was stage.

But you guys, seriously, you guys will go and find,

and the thing is you'll pull a non running car out

of wherever you have to do it to get it

to where you guys can detail it.

That's almost like a whole separate job entirely.

That should be a whole separate channel.

Just moving cars.

Well, man's off for a recovery.

I mean, look at that.

Like, I mean, the amount of skill,

and people don't give tow truck drivers

or flatbed drivers enough credit

because like sometimes you have to do

some really on-the-fly critical thinking.

It's puzzle.

I mean, you have to put the puzzle together

and figure out how do I move something

where three of the wheels are locked up,

two of the wheels are flat,

and it's rolling, being dragged sideways into the trailer.

So someone's in there hitting the...

I mean, there's so many different ways.

So that has been something that R8 that we did,

that Audi R8, that was on bags.

All the bags lost air.

We had to take the front bumper off

to drag that Audi into the trailer.

I mean, yeah.

Because you guys have to really not...

I mean, you can't damage anything, right?

Exactly.

That would defeat the whole purpose

of the restoration and the cleaning and everything.

It's like, well, we got it,

but we damaged the frame, right?

Yeah, God, that would be awful.

I won't lie.

I...

You're going to make mistakes working with cars.

Over time, it's just inevitable.

One of the mistakes that I had made

is we were working on a champion.

It's a holy smoke.

I can't remember what the freaking car...

A pseudo baker.

Sorry, pseudo baker champion.

And back in the day,

they thought on the left side of the car,

if they had right-handed threads,

or I guess left-handed threads,

I can't even remember which one.

I think right-handed threads,

that if they were on the left side of the car,

that as the wheels spun, it would spin the threads off.

So half the car would have normal threads.

The other half would have reverse threads.

And I didn't realize that.

I thought that they were just...

Oh, no.

I thought that they were just seized.

And so I'm...

Yeah, you're zapping it.

Snap.

Like, snap the stud off.

And I'm like, what the heck?

How'd that happen?

Blah, blah, blah.

Do it again.

Snap another one off.

Do it again.

Snap.

And now I'm just piss-snapping studs off.

So I snapped three of them off.

And then eventually, if I look,

I think it's right-handed threads.

Because on there, it says a little R.

I don't know.

I'm not from 1955.

How the heck am I supposed to know that?

Put it the way you zapped the first one.

It comes right out of the way.

Do you know how much...

A drum break with studs for a 1955 Champion Student Bakers?

No, I imagine it's probably quite a bit.

Well, that plus the air hammer,

because I was trying to pound them out

and put new ones in.

And I realized I can't do that.

So I bought a whole...

It was $650 and like 10 hours of my life.

Man, dude.

But I fixed the problem then.

Actually, I didn't fix until the gentleman came back

to the shop and saw the car.

And, you know, I like it because the hub's off.

So I placed the tire.

Like, I was on a Jackson on the rear

and I placed the tire.

So it still looked like it.

I had to walk around the car.

I was like, sir, I just wanted to apologize.

You know, I made this mistake,

but it is being fixed.

I'm just waiting on the parts arrive

and I'm going to make this right.

Oh, I had to get a 10-ton jaw pooler

because I couldn't get the hub off.

It was a mess.

But I...

He walked around the car,

older gentleman.

And I asked him, or rather I told him.

I was like, I'm sorry.

I have to let you know this did happen.

I did it on camera too.

He didn't give...

He didn't care at all.

And then just kept walking around,

looking at the car.

He goes, you guys did a great job.

Didn't acknowledge it at all.

Guy literally did not care at all.

I still fixed the car and gave it back to him.

But I don't know how I got on this topic,

but I'll mess some stuff up,

make some mistakes.

No, it's great.

Yeah.

Last cleaner.

It's interesting in a good way.

It's essentially you spray on,

but unlike aerosol glass cleaners,

it foams after it makes contact.

Not out of the bottle,

which is nice because typically the aerosol,

they clog up on the actual spray.

So tell us about it.

Why does it do the actual foaming

when it hits contact with the surface of the glass?

That's a good question.

I would presume like I said,

so that's the one thing that we don't actually manufacture

in-house because you have to be very careful

in manufacturing aerosols.

But that's actually the same product

that I've used for the last 15 years

on all the windows.

So I'm not sure exactly how it foams up after contact,

but it's one of the most unique window cleaners.

And here's the thing too with WDOS supply.

We've curated this brand

and a lot of the products we are able to go

and blend and change

and kind of modify with the chemist

to fit exactly our needs and make it ours.

But sometimes trying to reinvent the wheel

is a lot harder than using the best product

and something that I've already used

for a very long time.

That's one of those products.

Again, also it's ammonia-free and alcohol-free,

which means it's safe on a window tint,

which is a huge benefit.

Intense window cleaning smell.

But it was just one thing that caught my attention.

First time, genuinely, this is my first time using it,

is how it foams after making contact with the glass.

Pretty interesting.

I have a question for you guys.

So you know that film that builds up

on the inside of your glass over time?

Yeah.

Someone told me a long time ago,

and I never confirmed this or really found any information

to verify this online,

but they told me that that's off-gassing from...

Plastics?

The plastics.

And I just thought it was just dirty air

that gets stuck on your window over time.

So there's adhesives, right?

So in your entire vehicle,

you have multiple different types of adhesive,

as well as...

The new car smell.

As well as...

I mean, there's sealers.

There's different things that happen, right?

As temperatures change, right?

Some of this adhesive,

and it could be carpet adhesive.

It could be plastic adhesive.

There's lots of different adhesives.

Most door panels, right?

For example, a door panel

that has a piece of leather on it, right?

That leather is not sewn into the plastic.

That leather is attached via adhesive, right?

Alcantara on a door panel.

Once that was attached,

via adhesive, right?

Your carpet has a layer of adhesive inside it, right?

So there's adhesives all around the vehicle

and what happens is, as weather changes,

especially on newer vehicles, right?

You'll have an off-gassing process that happens

through warm weather and cold weather

and it will eventually create a film.

Now that's not the only thing that creates a film

on the insetic glass, right?

Air fresheners create a film

on the insetic glass as well, right?

So air fresheners, right?

They release a scent, right?

These scent oils, right?

They're in the air.

They're airborne once they are hung

and begin doing...

mixing with air molecules in the air.

Well, those have to go somewhere, right?

And so oftentimes, they will rest

and they'll find their way onto certain surfaces.

On plastic, you're not going to notice an air freshener,

you know, we'll call it the evaporation process,

whatever.

You don't want to notice it on plastic.

You want to notice it on carpet

or seeds or anything like that,

but you would notice it on windows

because it's something that directly affects your vision,

right?

Being able to see out there.

So oftentimes, if you have a hanging window air freshener

or one of those ones that's oil-based

that like has like a little oil satchel in it, right?

A lot of times those will off-gassing.

Your front windshield may become kind of foggy or cloudy.

That's like a super, super common thing.

But it's not always adhesive.

Adhesive off-gassing happens

for the first several years of a vehicle's life

and it can be pretty prominent.

After that, it kind of calms down.

Usually following that,

it's usually something that has to do

with the air quality inside the vehicle,

which is usually the adhesives, the filter,

what's that?

I just thought it was a Subaru thing.

No.

No, everything does it.

RJ got it.

Anyways.

Okay.

Oh, you're talking about because they vape in their cars.

That also does it too.

Anyways, moving on.

Hydra detailing says,

my number one used for the Wolfpack

is to keep two in my car with a quick detail spray,

one for bird poops and one for the interior

as my window has dust.

And I don't want to use the wipers just for that.

Nice. Okay.

Smart.

All right.

I'm like against using windshield wipers.

Yeah, that would suck.

I don't like windshield wipers.

Yeah, I prefer not to use them either.

I feel like it's at your glass.

Yeah, I feel like it's not a pure process.

I feel that no matter what lubrication you have

with windshield washer fluid,

sometimes a contamination that happens on glass

and that rests within your blades,

it doesn't matter, you still gouge it.

Yeah.

You still gouge your glass.

And then the other thing too,

windshield washer fluid touching my paint.

I don't want that.

It's not my paint's good.

I don't want that on there, sitting on there.

And granted, it's usually made with just water

and it'll evaporate, right?

I don't like it on there.

Still prefer to have it not.

Yeah, I would compare windshield wipers

to toilet paper.

And I would compare glass coatings to a bidet.

Okay.

It's much more effective.

Yeah, yeah.

Right, it's much less messy

and it doesn't etch the paint.

It is, yeah, or etch the glass.

What's that the greatest comparison?

It's just, well, no, you're not wrong.

It's just you're driving, you're dry wiping more often

than you think you are.

Yeah.

And like my wife, she wanted to go use the,

she wanted to use her windshield wipers

on the forerunner the other day.

And she, the windshield was nasty, right?

And I'm like, and I was like,

it's like, oh, I need to clean your windshield, right?

Like here before we go.

And she's like, we don't have enough time.

And I see her press the button to start the spray, right?

Well, the spray starts after the windshield wipers

already begin moving, right?

So the windshield wipers have already moved up

six inches dry before they make contact

with any windshield washer fluid.

And I go, so there's the gouges and that

as I hear nails on a chalkboard.

Yeah.

And glass wants to scratch.

I know they make glass polish.

And I'm sure there's people who still impossible to get

the best scratch that a glass are horrible.

Yeah.

Like, so you have to use cerium oxide.

It's the freaking mess.

Also, it just smears bug guts anyways.

So like it makes visibility worse.

Yeah.

I don't believe in them.

I just, I'm anti-winshield washers

or windshield wipers.

I hate them.

I'm with them.

Black Blank Blank Banshee says the Santa Fe is named Clementine,

by the way.

Oh, that's Maddie.

Right?

Maddie.

That is Maddie.

Clementine.

So we're Clementine Orange.

Right on, Maddie.

Well, we're glad to have you in the chat.

Next up here, we've got David Boyce that says,

R.J. and Anthony, my apologies.

I got the wrong YouTube channel mixed up.

It's the Detail Geek and how he's based in Canada.

In my defense, the two of you kind of look alike.

Okay.

So I have a story about the Detail Geek that I usually don't bring up often.

So when we first started, the Detail Geek was a big influence.

Him, Larry, and Stauffer's Garage.

Those were the three detailing YouTube channels at the time.

And the Detail Geek became the largest pretty quick with the disaster detail.

So, you know, I won't lie.

When you start doing something new, you know, very, very rarely are you going to,

or when you break into an industry, very rarely are you going to be the innovator.

You generally need to kind of find yourself in one of the best,

yeah, and one of the best ways to do it is to imitate, is to mimic.

Just to kind of figure out if it's something even worth doing.

And so, yeah, we were doing disaster details and,

you know, a lot of the content was very similar.

And it was when we were really, really small, like 13 or 14,000 subs,

Brent had commented on one of the Detail Geeks videos.

Someone had asked, I wonder how long it takes him.

He's like, oh, well, Brent had commented.

And I told him not to do this, too.

But he had commented and said like, well, you know,

it usually takes us around 12 or 13 hours to detail the car.

And the guy and the Detail Geek had commented and said,

why don't you guys, it was something along the lines of like,

why don't you guys have an original thought for once and stop copying.

Stop copying me.

Oh, yeah.

And like, yeah, and so we printed that out.

And Brent put it on his, whatever,

his board at home to look at his motivation.

And I don't know, I, listen,

I want people to make as much detailing content.

And if they use our content to try and get involved in the space,

that's awesome.

Like to be someone that to influence the next

potential YouTube personality and detailing is,

I think that's a great honor.

I think that's something to be proud of.

I guess he didn't see it that way.

And I don't know if he had.

She hasn't talked to him since.

We never talked to him.

And like, we had even made a video addressing it like,

hey, we took so much inspiration from you.

You know, like, you know, with all due respect,

like, you know, this comment kind of hurts because like,

we didn't do anything to you.

We just, anyways, and it was again,

detailing drama is not where I want to spend any of my time.

So we didn't.

But nonetheless, it was a motivating factor.

And for a while we would, you know, we were like, you know,

we're going to kick his butt and views this month.

And eventually, eventually we did surpass him.

And he doesn't even make videos anymore.

He just repost some old ones.

But all credit to where credit is due,

he did pave the way for us to move on.

And then Larry from Ammo did as well.

And then we kind of have found our own space.

I mean, it's a little bit of both.

Well, you know, Larry, actually,

there's a certain point where Larry shifted his,

his efforts towards doing more of these types of videos, right?

Kind of the disaster restoration type of videos, right?

And so, because Larry's biggest thing was, you know,

education for a long time.

And then once he got into a studio,

it was going to be the plan to do, you know,

high-end details there, trainings,

things like that of that nature.

And then he found that the disaster details.

I mean, it really started working really well.

You might have seen some of the stuff that was working.

Yeah.

But he was the guy who started that first.

He just didn't dive into it all the way.

Yeah, 100%.

And so, but I mean, even he'd be the first to admit,

holy crap, it's a ton of work, right?

I mean, it's a lot of work.

It's a lot.

And the other thing too is that these,

these are cars that you're not, you're not enjoying.

You're not wanting to clean some of these.

You're not wanting to dive into a rat's nest.

You're not wanting to do this because it is a,

it's a hazard.

It is a hazardous thing to be in, right?

You need protective equipment.

I'm going to live forever for sure.

I swear to God, the stuff I've ingested,

I'm not dead yet.

Oh yeah.

No, you're probably going to be just fine.

I wouldn't worry about that.

But I mean, you are, you know,

you're going into this.

And so sometimes, it's not pretty detailing,

but the result is so much, is it just so worth it?

And so, but I remember talking to Larry about that

because Larry and I have been, you know, friends for,

oh my gosh, now almost what, nine years,

something like that, right?

So it's been a long time and eight, eight or nine years,

actually.

And then following that though,

so the detailed geek, you know,

we had seen some of his videos,

but it was actually like Stauffer's garage, right?

I remember seeing his videos popping up quite a bit.

And I was like, dude, this guy's killing it, man.

Like he's, he's finding these cars,

like he's showcasing them well.

He's talking through the whole process.

It was interesting to find that his background,

that he had been making different types of YouTube videos

for a long time before actually finding the detailing niche,

right?

He had a whole family channel.

His wife did, too.

Yeah, his wife made YouTube videos.

So it was kind of like, I don't want to say this,

I'm trying to say this in the nicest way possible.

Mr. Beast, right?

He, he shot everything at the board.

He literally threw everything at the board,

nothing stuck for like years and years and years, right?

And then eventually, right?

He had his big break with a couple of big videos,

and then it was, then it blew up, right?

And I think what it was, it was a matter of,

hey, keep trying things,

because you might find a career niche,

you might find something you like to do,

and it could eventually take off.

And I think that was a good example

of what he was able to do.

And then I remember when detail geek started,

we had started watching his videos,

and I'm like, you know what?

Pretty good documentation.

I feel like this is easy to follow.

I think it's fun.

And we remember when he had like,

5,000 subscribers, 4,000 subscribers,

and we're like, oh, his videos are doing pretty good.

So let's keep an eye on this.

We would check back in like a couple months,

and it was like, oh, 20,000 subscribers, right?

Check back another month, 60,000 subscribers, right?

Check back another month, 150,000 subscribers,

like, what the heck is going on?

Like, that's crazy.

He grew quick, really, really quick.

He definitely, like I said, all credit to,

when, where credit is due.

I mean, he had kind of innovated the,

him and Stoffer with the ASMR,

kind of like the entertainment, satisfying detailing.

And I'll be honest, like,

when we were making those kinds of video,

videos, they were doing well.

But what I personally really fell in love with

is the storyline.

The story.

And also like messing around with the guys,

and like, I do a lot of characters,

and I like dressing up and being silly on camera.

It's fun for me.

It's, it's, you know, I'm like the,

like an F tier actor.

No, dude, that's, it makes it way more fun

when you can actually like, when,

so, because those videos for some of these guys, right,

they don't really get to be themselves.

So they don't get to be who they are.

They get to, they're providing a service

at a certain point of a template video

to the audience, because that's what you're

expecting to see.

Your audience is there because you want to see

the initial, you want to see the vacuuming,

the blowing out, and then you're like,

please, are you going to extract that carpet?

Extract that carpet.

Then three quarters of the way and bam,

there's the extraction.

Oh yeah.

They're, they know exactly where to skip to, right?

And then they finish it off and then,

you know, they're having a good time

and the video is over, right?

But they know that they need to deliver

that same template for over and over again

because it's an, it's, it's something

that works, right?

But if you're able to have fun

or fit personality into it and be yourself,

I think that's even more rewarding

because then you get to be like,

okay, this is, this is who I am.

And you guys get to see, you know,

more of who I am.

And that's one.

And especially after we launched the product line.

So I answer, I answer every email

that comes through our support at WDOsupply,

our support email, it's at wdosupply.com.

So if you email me there, I answer.

And I handle all the returns

and honestly, eventually it's a point,

I probably can't do that anymore

because I have other stuff I need to do.

But what's really nice is it's given people

the opportunity to reach out to us

because our other email, other emails aren't public.

But that one is.

And so the outpouring of, you know,

hey, Mike, get better.

When, you know, if we mentioned that Mike's sick,

he just got out of a two week really, really rough go.

But, you know, hey guys, I love it.

My kids love your channel.

We get to watch it as a family

because we are a PG or, you know, most of the time.

Yeah, and, and like, oh, you know,

one guy from Australia sent me

in this little hot wheel that had blown off tires

and was all dirty.

And I was like, what the heck is this?

And he wrote me a letter

and it was something along the lines of,

you know, I've had a tumultuous last couple of years.

You know, I had a divorce, lost the kids

and couldn't see them.

And I finally cleaned up and found your videos.

And they have inspired me to, you know,

clean the cars more and the kids get to come over now

and we clean cars together and watch your videos.

And life is a lot better now.

And, you know, I've sobered up.

And, you know, I wanted you to have,

I wanted you to have your littlest barn fine.

He sent this all the way from Australia,

which is like, it probably costs a good penny to send that little letter.

$150, yeah.

Yeah. But that connection with people is like.

Cool.

How do you, yeah.

I mean, you can't even really,

it's hard to describe.

I don't know these people

and they, they have an insight into who we are.

And when I see them, it's, it's all love.

Oh, it is.

Totally dude. That's amazing.

So great.

I mean, we'll kind of continue on here.

Mack Bergson says,

looks like the Enrique and Glacias.

Looks like, looks like the Enrique and Glacias.

It's so famous.

He doesn't know who he actually met.

Gotcha.

Dane said I'm more like George Lopez.

I don't know.

Dude, you're like knock off George Lopez though.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

With the dad jokes.

Yeah.

Don't laugh.

It's not that funny RJ that hit me pretty good.

Oh my gosh.

Well, just a news update over here in the wash bay.

This interior color is pretty nuts.

Yeah.

Pretty nice.

You know what it kind of reminds me of?

Like smell wise?

Because it's a neutral smell.

Polestar.

A little bit of like a Polestar smell.

It's a very neutral but refreshing smell.

It's a compliment.

Yeah.

Do you know what it is?

Do you want to know the, what it actually is?

So, yeah.

So it's a, it's actually a heavy, heavy,

diluted version of black ice.

Sorry.

I can't say black ice.

Because it's trademarked, Arctic ice.

You guys don't know what I'm saying.

But it's like extremely, extremely diluted.

Black mountain.

Mountain, yeah.

Mountain mist, ice.

Dark, dark freeze.

Yeah.

Something like that.

Dark water, is that what it is?

They have like a locked in trademark on that.

Everyone sells a black ice scent.

Oh yeah, dude.

I'm sure they do.

We might even be coming out with a similar scent to that.

That's an actual air freshener.

Because I'm pretty sure it's based on like Joe,

what's it called that?

Dracar.

Dracar noir.

Yeah, I'm right.

I mean that's like, that's like whatever.

They should have done a better,

they should have, as a scent company,

as a fragrance company,

they should have like locked that down or something, right?

We could have Dracar ice.

Yeah, something, right?

Yeah, they should have like licensed it to where,

hey, like, you know, people are licensing everything now,

right?

You go get a ghost energy drink,

you can go and get that in whatever flavor you want,

a C4 and Starburst flavor.

Dracar, they should have just literally been like,

hey, anybody can use their scent.

Yeah.

Just, just license it.

And see what they'd be like.

Yeah, that's just a very, very, very heavily diluted black ice

scent.

Nice.

Okay, we dig it.

Mac Bergsons in the next episode,

sorry after that, Neil White says,

my blood type is brake buster.

That's hilarious, Neil.

Here we go.

Chromatic garage in the house says my blood type is 040

in the latest sheep star video.

I don't know what that is,

but we'll have to check it out.

So Chromatic is up in Canada as another YouTuber friend.

He does awesome videos.

I think I've seen some of his videos.

What's his YouTube, Chromatic Detail?

Chromatic, yeah, yeah.

Chromatic, yeah.

Yeah, I've seen his stuff.

Very, very satisfying.

Is it the realest, like he does like the realest

stuff and he's usually working on like old BMWs

or old Mercedes.

He's got the white floor and the black walls.

Man, your stuff, if you're so hot,

your stuff is killer, man.

I remember looking at your stuff back in the day.

You have, and you know your stuff too,

but like your video editing,

I used to always say I was like,

this guy has some of the best videos.

And I'm glad to see you're still making them.

Hopefully you are.

His style points are insane.

I mean, basically he, so he was a grandmaster back in the day,

right, and really started getting into YouTube videos.

He'd gotten his shop and started building out everything,

but he has like a really nice aesthetic.

Like, I mean, like everything he does

is just like picture perfect.

And so I always kind of joke around that,

you know, we have two picture perfect X grant.

Well, there's still grandmasters,

but we had Vermille, right?

So he is, I say that he is also

one of the most aesthetically pleasing,

like his videos, everything is like a thumbnail, right?

Like you could literally pause something

and be like, yep, that's satisfying, that's satisfying.

And chromatic just, I love, his lenses that he uses.

I love just the style.

I don't know if he uses a filter on some of the shots,

but like, it is just a glow.

Good man, like that is,

he's like the swaggiest detailer I know.

Like when I watch his videos, I'm like, this guy,

like I could, like, it's freaking cool.

You guys should hang out some time, you know what I mean?

We should meet up.

I've never been to Canada.

Yeah, well maybe we do a TRC meetup.

Everybody meets up here and it's a big party.

We go out for a night on the town.

Dane shows us around.

He rents a limo.

Dane, are you cool with driving us around in a limo?

Oh, he said you got it, bro.

Okay, so I guess.

Fix his fence.

Oh, he doesn't want people going to his house

to fix his fence.

Okay, moving on.

Mod Hatter, right?

So this is Maddie says,

I would hope you aren't drinking or inhaling

crazy amounts of detailing chemicals.

We don't do that around here ever.

Ask about this, though.

What is this?

Is that a beer?

I didn't see that too early.

What kind of beer is it?

It's actually a root beer.

I was like, I was just trying to get you guys going.

Yeah, no, Maddie's pure like that.

So it's probably a delicious root beer.

Well, Glenn also likes root beer.

Yeah.

So Glenn and Maddie, they're root beer, the root beer bros.

They literally took this thing off-road this last weekend.

So they're doing a little drinking and driving

root beer style, right?

You got a little too crazy with the root beer.

But they were off-roading with root beer.

That's like the one thing that gets shaken up the most.

It's a mess.

Could you imagine opening that thing up on the trail?

Not at all, especially on like a washboard

or something like that, right?

Yeah.

Ken, Sheepstar says,

I only cover the bottle with one nostril

when I inhale safety first.

Got it, good job.

Sheep.

I don't know.

Next up here, Han says,

how much for your shirt, Anthony?

This is a Carhartt shirt, Hans.

This is not a special shirt.

You don't have to buy the shirt off my back.

That right there, RJ's shirt,

you can buy the shirt off his back.

We're going to start the bidding at $150.

Wow.

Do I get another shirt?

No, no, no, no.

With my gut out for the next.

Yeah, gut out for the next for the next little bit.

No, yeah, you're okay.

Until he pays up, this is how it is.

Next up here,

we've got Sheepstar says,

anyone in the chat used ethos defy?

A serious question.

I've never used it.

Is the owner of ethos, Chris?

I can't remember the last name.

I had, I had a good question.

I'm not sure.

Okay.

Anyways, I'm not sure.

Tamara Chase says,

if I have to give my focus a spit bath

in order to get bird poop off, I will.

Tamara, that's what I'm talking about.

That's the effort and dedication

that we like to see here.

Yeah.

Moving on.

15 minutes left here in the live stream.

So get all your questions in chat.

Buff and Shine Tony.

Acidic poo is a scob and a hundred percent.

I'm pretty sure they had a track

on Tony Hawk Brosgater.

Yeah, right.

I know dude.

Was it Tony Hawk's Brosgater one or two?

You know, was it when you were jumping over the ramp

and grabbing the tape in the first one?

Dude, that game's so much fun.

I miss that game.

Ronnie says, I just detailed a 2024 Subaru Outback

that just got bird bombed at the airport.

Two splotches of seagull crap etched the paint.

Dang it.

It's not a good way to start off, you know,

new vehicle ownership.

We have a crazy amount of seagulls at our shop.

There's a McDonald's and a Home Depot

that they hang out in across a lot.

And then they nest on our roof.

And so every year a baby seagull falls off the roof.

It's guaranteed every single year.

This year we named him Steven, Steven Seagull.

That's hilarious, actually.

And a poor little baby.

We carried him inside, gave him water,

and then we dropped him back off every day

because we couldn't put him back on the roof

without the mom dive bombing us.

And he made it for quite a while,

but they always face the inevitable end

because they never learn how to fly.

Dude, I learned that the hard way.

It was just two years ago.

I explained on a podcast there was a bird,

and the bird's nest above my door

and the one baby fell, right?

And I was like, okay, all right, I can save it.

It's not going to be...

Once you touch it, they don't want that baby back, right?

So you've got to kind of leave it there,

but I'm like, hey, you're going to come fly down

and come save this thing?

They can't pick it up to take it back.

They can't.

So then you've got to figure it out,

but I know what you're saying,

and it's always a sad thing.

So there needs to be what I think,

like a bird, like a baby bird refuge situation,

like a drop-off, like a drop box.

For the babies, yeah.

For the babies.

I mean, light on fire, I hate them.

You have to understand, listen, you like cars, right?

I like cars.

You like your car looking nice.

I like my cars looking nice.

We clean our cars.

Yeah.

Imagine 90 birds pooping on your car every single week.

I can't.

We just still love birds?

No.

They're okay.

We don't get seagulls here in Idaho.

Not really.

I mean, Gabriel, the only seagulls

that we have in like all of Idaho,

they're at the dump, right?

Yeah, the dump.

That's where they hang out.

They only go to our Boise dump, and they go straight there.

Yeah.

And then they'll migrate for, you know,

they'll be there for a little while,

and then they're out.

Seagulls are flying rats.

And you never see them?

They're flying rats.

Yeah.

But the babies are really cute.

Yeah.

They're not in Alaska, they're in Alaska.

Eagles though.

What?

Yeah.

Like dolphins in Florida, like they're nuisance.

Yeah.

Equivalent to seagulls, Alaska is eagles.

The amount of eagles in Alaska has?

It's like going to, like, you know how you

mentioned the dump when you go to the dump.

I love eagles though.

Yeah.

You would see nothing but eagles.

Are they as annoying as seagulls?

They're majestic and beautiful though.

I don't know.

Like, I love seeing a bald eagle in the wild.

I go, wow, look at that.

That is a...

Look at that bald eagle.

It just took my trash.

Yeah.

What?

Anyway, so, you know, seagulls, I, I don't know.

And they don't really taste that good, right?

You know, I've tried to cook one.

I'm just kidding.

I haven't tried.

Just crow.

Dylan.

Dylan says, is there a specific ceramic coating

that you can put on vinyl wrap?

Or is it any coating okay on the surface?

Vinyl is new to me.

Is there anything especially I should be aware about,

or I should know about?

So when it comes to a coating on wrap,

you want something that's going to be relatively flexible,

right?

So not all coatings are going to have

the same flexible properties as others.

So for example, you do have a couple good coatings

specifically made for wrap that are meant to be flexible

and be able to expand and shrink with temperature changes

as well as just the overall elasticity of the wrap.

And that is going to be G-Technics Halo V2,

which they have out, which is going to be their

dedicated wrap and vinyl coating.

And then you also have Diamond Wrap from Diamond ProTech,

which is also pretty good.

There's a few others on the market,

but those are the two that we sell here.

Next up here, Sheepstar says, RJ,

what was the process like starting a product line?

Any good or bad experiences,

things that surprised you?

Question mark.

That's a really, really good question.

Yeah, so I think it's when you come out with a full line,

like you have to launch multiple products at once,

otherwise the line, you know,

there's something left to be desired.

And I think we, you know,

we had to figure out how to do it in a very small space

before you moved into the warehouse next door

and we were able to actually have, you know,

one more space.

So I guess what was very difficult

was trying to, we had the inventory in like

family's garages, we had like bottles and pallets

and all this because we didn't have the space

and then we had to remove the couch from our shop

so we could put up more shelving

to carry more of the product.

And we're also still running the YouTube channel.

So I would say we took on a lot,

but we have a great team.

Mike, who handles all the fulfillment,

Brent, who does all of the editing and the media.

And so without those guys, this was not attainable.

And honestly, Mike was the,

Mike is a character rather, you know,

he's on the YouTube channel with us

and he was an employee there.

And now he's a part owner

and he's one of my best friends,

but he's a part owner in the product line.

So I would say the bad experiences come

from the growing pains of working,

working with, you know, other people

and like being, you know,

trying to figure out how to work together

synergetically and to make sure

that everyone is on the same page.

And there's growing pains, I guess.

So I guess that's one of the hardest parts as well

as launching it with, I mean,

there's no template on how to launch a product company.

So thankfully we had great people around us.

And then the good experiences are the proof of concept,

like when you actually start to start to sell the products

and you see them for the first time.

And, you know, it's your name on there.

And so that was, I think that was one of the most special

parts of it, because this is something that's bigger than

all three of us, Mike Brent and I.

And I think one day it'll even be

bigger than the YouTube channel.

So, dude, that's sweet, man.

I'm really excited for you guys.

Thank you.

The thing, it's sweet.

It's a good looking line and Gabriel's in love.

He's over there enjoying it.

Well, I just did interior.

So we did some product shots on the door panels.

But one thing that I'm really, really happy with

and excited about is this car has cloth seats

and the two front seats have a lot of just, I don't know,

black and it's a tan interior.

This stuff, this interior, pull it up like nothing.

Literally with a detail factory interior brush,

just agitation and then wipe with a towel.

It's gone.

Dude, you're moving and you're grooving.

I like it.

Great job.

I'm a little, I'm a little tired.

Yeah, Enrique Iglesias.

I can be your detailer, baby.

That's, I'm telling you.

I didn't know this was selling.

That's like a good shirt.

Jay Hutan says, so nice to see,

so nice to see that TRC works so well with others in the industry.

Some others, not so much.

Jay, we love working with people in the industry, man.

We like, we like people that are like-minded

and like to have fun.

You know, we're not changing the world.

We're cleaning cars and, but we're having fun doing it.

So that's the most you can hope for.

Next up, we have,

Joe Belinski says,

I will gladly teach a class with you, Anthony.

You'll need, you'll need large hands for some tasks.

My hands are large enough, Joey.

You know, big enough, big enough for things I need to do.

Zero Day Detailing says,

good afternoon TRC.

Checking in from the sunny southeast.

Nice to see what's going on.

Zero Day Detailing, that's an interesting name.

And then Paul Woodcock says,

hopefully Wackstock will be out of hibernation next year.

Will RAG come in to be visiting?

Second question, what trend in the detailing world do you find

the most redundant slash annoying?

That's actually a good question.

So Wackstock is up in the air.

We, you know, we've gone to Wackstock.

What is it?

Three years total.

And we've always had an absolute blast going.

I mean, it's always been so much fun.

Great memories.

Have you ever been to the UK?

No, only early.

Oh man.

So UK, English breakfast, right?

You got to start off every morning

with English breakfast, right?

Beans, toast and beans.

Beans and toast, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Beans, beans, beans and beans and toast.

And tomato slices with their version of bacon.

And then I don't recommend trying the blood pudding.

It's just a bad time.

But the vibes there are great.

We love the people.

We have tons of friends over there in the UK.

And we know that we definitely missed it this last year.

And we're hoping at some point

we have a good plan and good process for shows like that.

So they make sense for us to go to

with hopefully more expansion of TRC around the world.

So we'll see, we'll see.

Second question there.

What do I find the most redundant annoying

as a trend in detailing?

I don't know.

What do you think?

Trend, I don't know.

I don't know if you'd call it a trend.

But ceramic coatings are fantastic.

I don't understand.

And they get better and better.

And so the marketing behind graphing coatings

and like I haven't seen the proof.

It just feels like we're trying to invent something

that has already been invented.

And then slap on a different label

like the amount of graphing

that they're actually putting in these coatings.

I don't again, I could be wrong.

I've never.

You're not though.

Yeah.

So it just seems like you're on the right path.

You're seeing the right things.

Yeah.

It just seems like it's a way that they

and I've never used a graphing coating.

But why is it better?

Like it's not harder.

You say it breathes more or like it's more flexible.

But I don't know.

The ceramic coatings that people have brought to market

are so functional.

They do so well that it just seems like a cheap marketing

tactic to people who aren't as familiar with the ins and outs

of the industry.

OK.

That's fair.

So the graphing thing though, so a couple of years ago

that was like really prevalent, right?

Like being like, oh my gosh, like what the heck's going on?

No, no, no.

I mean, it's still prevalent today.

But like when we were deep, obviously,

within all of our different companies and brand partners

and all of that, a lot of them were,

hey, do we have to go with this trend?

Is this what we have to go, right?

Because this is where things are going.

And we were against it here.

And we said, hey, this too shall pass is what we said.

And it has blown over.

And I think that some of the companies who did come out

with a full graphing line, a lot

of them have trailed back from certain products of those.

And that was a little bit of a trend, right?

A little bit gimmicky.

Some of the products did work fine.

I don't really have any complaints about it.

But I think that for people going, oh no, is my coating bad?

Do I have to strip it off for this new graphing?

No, no, you never had to do that.

You don't have to do that.

Another trend that is stupid is when, and don't be wrong,

we did it because it does give views on Instagram.

But if you take like the Theragun,

put it on the carpet and all the same vibrates,

it doesn't help.

It doesn't help you actually get it.

It just looks cool.

Yeah.

I'm glad that.

What was it?

Are you talking about the polisher?

That one too.

And that totally destroys all the Velcro on your pad,

or your backing plate, rather.

And it definitely jacks up your polisher too.

So just carpet gets all peeled up

and whatever gets all pulled apart.

Those wipes that basically make it look as if it fixes

clear coat.

Do you guys see those ones?

Yeah, yeah.

Where they, yeah.

It's like wipe on clear.

Here's what you're talking about.

Wipe on clear coat.

Wipe on clear coat has been around for a long time.

Is that what it is?

Yeah.

Wipe on clear coat has been around for a long time.

It's a self leveling wipe on clear coat.

You see a lot of guys doing that.

It's not new.

It's just wipe on clear coat.

It's that's like it's always been like a last resort.

Like, hey, like literally this,

this paint is so trash.

This car is so wasted.

Is there anything that could possibly improve this?

Yeah, throw a little wipe on clear coat on there, right?

Yeah, but like, God, that's not like,

that's like, that's like auction car crap though, right?

I mean, like wipe on clear is like,

that's like, that's, that's an auction car situation.

And, and you, you would hate to be the person

to find out that your car had wipe on clear

and you go to polish it for the first time

and you break through the first layer of the wipe.

And you go, what is, what's on this, right?

And then you start breaking through more

and you go, oh no, right?

It can only be a couple of 10 microns.

I mean, it's, I mean, it's thick enough to where it's annoying.

More than that?

Yeah, it's thick.

Oh, it's thick enough to where it's annoying for sure.

It's, yeah, it's thick enough to where it's annoying to remember.

Like 30, 45th, like, could you sand on it?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, I didn't realize it was that thick.

So wipe on clear, you can sand on a little wipe on clears.

It's the same thing with wipe on clears for headlights, right?

So a lot of those headlight restoration kits, right?

What they have inside those packets is, is clear coat.

Just in, in one of, in a, in a cheesecloth, right?

And so you wipe that on and that's how you get the final result there.

But I don't know.

I think it has its place, but I think it's in like the, like the,

like the end of life of a vehicle is worth it.

The buy here, pay here lots, probably.

Yeah, pretty much.

The monkey lots, whatever they call those, the, the, yeah,

the cheap used car, lots, whatever.

So anyways, I would agree that that fad, that fad's kind of annoying.

I don't, I don't know.

There's a few different things going on.

Next up here.

So Jay says, are you going to start paying YouTubers to promote your products too?

Seems almost like everyone out there has now been bought out.

We need some variety.

They're asking if you are going to pay YouTubers to promote your products.

If we were going to do that, I would love to give YouTubers,

like some up and coming YouTubers, especially in the detailing space,

which I think we need more of.

I would love to give them their first paid,

that the first time you get a paid brand deal on your YouTube channel,

you're like, holy crap.

This might actually be something like a brand wants to pay me to promote something.

I'll never forget the first one we ever did was for Manscaped.

And I was like, holy crap.

Like this is, we put so much time and effort into the ad.

And like we were so excited, we had the shirts.

Yeah, we had a blast.

You know, it sure as this is like your balls will thank you.

I mean, it was, it was like the coolest thing ever.

And so if I could do that for, you know, some up and coming YouTubers,

then I would absolutely, and I'm not even really worried about the ROI.

I mean, they would have to have a certain amount of viewership

to make sure that at least if we don't get sales, we get exposure.

But I would love to do it to some, yeah, some new YouTubers,

give them that like that rush of like, wow,

like somebody wants to pay me for my influence.

And we're not influencers, but you know, it,

I guess technically we are, I just hate the term.

But anyways, I'd love to do that for somebody.

That'd be cool.

But as far as like a big promotion,

I think we have some other promotions that I'd rather focus on

that I had more fun doing.

Yeah, truthfully, I think that your stuff speaks for itself.

But I think what I think the biggest question is,

is in order for your products to get out there

to their hands of the right people,

is it going to be a situation where you might have to pay somebody?

And the answer is possibly depending on what people are going to try.

The problem is that there's so many people,

there's so much, there's so much stuff out there right now

to our people, you know, you got to find a way

to get some promotion.

But you have to do it, I'd like to say in a tasteful way

and most for the most part.

But to your point there though,

I can imagine in the YouTube space in that world

that getting your first paid promotion of some sort

is probably pretty exciting

because you're like, wow, this is sweet, right?

Like, that's cool.

Let me make it fun.

Let me try to actually do something cool.

The first money we ever made on YouTube

was from an Amazon affiliate link.

And I was like, holy crap, we made a video and we made money.

Like this is real.

This could be something that could actually

generate income and we could do more of this.

So I think.

That's sweet.

Yeah.

All right, so we are over time.

Now we are two minutes over

and that is going to be a wrap for today's Q&A

Freakin' Thursday, RJ.

Thank you so much, man.

I appreciate you coming and hanging out with us.

This has been a ton of fun.

Gabriel, Mr. Enrique Iglesias over there.

Cleaning Clementine.

I had a blast, man.

And your products are awesome.

I will say that.

We let you out of the TikTok cage.

If any, oh my.

Let's get out of the TikTok.

Don't even get me started on that.

You're on the main channel, Gabriel.

You've done it.

No, that's not.

This does not count.

Gabe is.

This does not count.

Gabe has been laying down the law.

WD detailing supplies.

So you guys can check those out.

Which goes website?

It's wdrsupply.com.

Sweet.

So go and check them out.

This is awesome.

Try it.

We made several recommendations throughout the video

and all of the whole line looks good, smells good.

I personally tested it.

Gabriel obviously loved using it today

and we appreciate RJ being out here

for the week to hang out, shoot content,

and hopefully get some food here, right?

And a little bit later.

So go to the raccom.com, 20% off site-wide.

Labor Day sale ends on the 2nd of September.

I get things while supplies last.

So thank you guys for watching.

Have a great weekend.

Be fun.

Be safe.

Do the right things.

Make good choices.

See you guys.

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