Our FINAL Detail of 2025 | HOLIDAY SPECIAL Q&A with Friends

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to Q&A Thursday where you're here with me,

Dane Hennan, your host, and to my left, Anthony Fisher, fellow host.

Dane, happy holidays. Thanks for having me.

Happy holidays right back at you. And to you, every one of you watching, listening right now,

a happy holidays to you as well. Whatever you celebrate, we want you to have a good time.

And what better way to start it off than with us here at The Rag Company. You know,

fun festive way to start things off. And I do believe we've got some friends visiting throughout

the show today. We don't know who all's going to be there, but I'm sure if our set doesn't

fall apart before the end of the show, we will have some fun. So to all of you who are watching

right now who haven't left a comment or something, tell us what are your, you know, plans coming up

in the new year? Because this is our last show of 2025. This is actually it. This is it. This is

the last live show. So I can't believe that. If you wanted to get some words in before the end

of 2025, make sure they're, you know, family friendly, but get them here in the show and

we will take a chance on you. So, you know, say, hey, no, I'm looking forward to this day. I think

this is going to be great, right? And to your point, right? What do you want for Christmas? What did

you ask Santa for for your, I guess, detailing Christmas present or presents if you want to

go plural there? So then do you deserve it? Okay, I don't know if we should get into the whole

who's deserving and whatnot on this day show. Maybe you're getting cold. Possibly dirt. You're

just getting, you're just getting a traffic, a traffic film for Christmas. Dang it. Finally,

a way we can use that word that actually works around here. That's so no, let's go ahead and get

into some housekeeping. So it is the last show here of the month, the last show of 2025. And we

were coming up into the last bit of holiday season here, which is going to be of course Christmas

and then New Year's. And we have had, honestly, we've had a pretty incredible year. We've had a

great year, a lot of good times, a lot of good laughs, and a lot of good trips as well. And I

know that looking back here, it's been a great year for TRC. We've had a couple speed bumps,

but things that we were able to navigate pretty well, thanks to just a killer team. And I think

that really everything that you guys see here really wouldn't be possible unless, you know,

we had the team that we have. I mean, because everything from, you know, shipping and packing

to our web team to the Amazon team to, of course, the media team, the marketing team, the sales

team, and I mean, everything in between. I mean, we've pretty much been able to navigate this

year and do just an awesome job doing what we do selling premium microfiber and preaching

the gospel of also premium detailing products. And I like to think a few of you or all of you

learned something along the way. So if there was something you felt like you gleaned from

watching our videos or lives, asking questions during Q&As, tell us what stuck out to you this

year. I mean, we're kind of looking for a little bit of a reflection. I think that's a good thing

here in the last show of the year. And I will say, since we do have guests this particular show,

we'll try to get as many of your comments on as possible, but it is going to be pretty busy.

I may or may not have been writing a very long list and I didn't check it twice.

Oh, dang, no, hopefully. Are they all nice or a couple of them naughty?

Well, I think for better or for worse, some of them, unfortunately, just weren't able to make it,

which puts them on my naughty list. But that's that's a little neither here nor there.

Okay, yeah, we tried. So let's get into some other general housekeeping. So we know that

right now at the rag company.com, you know, we are still celebrating Christmas with a couple

Christmassy type of items, right? And so we still have the optimum no rinse Christmas version

that's still left on the site. But I will tell you that we are down to the very few double digits

in the terms of bottles. So there's not a ton left. And once this is gone, it's gone. It's not

coming back. So it's not going to be like a GFX situation where we'll continue to sell like we

did last year for a few months. We are truly going to be out and optimum is also going to stop

selling it. And that's going to be it. So basically, if you want to pick it up, and you want to enjoy

it while you can during rinseless, frequent season and be able to dip your hands into a vat

of piney slash cinnamony goodness, cinnamony cinnamony. Is that a word? Warm, spicy goodness.

I kind of like that, right? Warm, spicy. Sticking your hand into a pinecone wreath of liquid.

None of that sounds good when you break it down to its constituent parts. But tell you what,

your body parts, you won't regret it. Pinecone wreath. Even if the way Anthony described it,

sounded a little clinical. Pinecone wreath extract. Pick yours up today. But anyways, no,

this stuff's awesome. We love it. We've been using it here at the studio as often as we can. We were

actually just doing some rinseless testing the other day with some other random stuff. And

we've been using it just because honestly, it does put you in the mood. It is very, very festive.

And it's green, which is cool. But again, once it's gone, it's freaking gone. There's no special

secret encore supply waiting to happen. This is it. It's gone. So get it while you can. I imagine

that we will be sold out probably by the end of the year, no matter what. But ideally, right, you

think that matter. Outside of that, though, we did have our final day for Christmas arrival to

order your orders on December 16th, which was yesterday, which was two days ago, which was my

birthday. Yeah, yeah, which, you know, happy belated birthday. Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

But so that was the last day before your Christmas, so your Christmas orders would arrive. Right.

As of now, it'd be kind of the wild west because it's if you live closer, it might still show up

in time. If you live or if you live in Boise, right? Come do an in store pick up. That's a

guaranteed if you come and pick it up in person that it's on you to actually show up for Christmas.

Correct. Oh, and then also, please. So oh, yeah, I wrote this is something that we have never really

asked people to do. No, this is new for us. I'm ready to freaking do it, though. So if you can

click on the link right where it's a survey monkey where you can vote for the IDA brand of the year,

it'll take you there and you can vote on TRC as a brand that we would be announced in the IDA

award ceremony. I think come MTE, Mobile Tech Exposed, when they announced it. Yeah, I believe

that's when they announced it. And we've never actually been in that category before. So that's

fun. No, we've never won brand of the year. I don't know if we won supplier of the year,

how that works, but we never run brand of the year. And this year is it 2026. I have a feeling,

but I can't have that feeling unless you guys do something about it. So what I'm hoping is that

everybody listening this watching this at any point can just go to the link and Daniel put it

in the description as well, which will just take you to survey survey monkey dot co dot com slash

r slash X L F Y R T C. That right there is an I exam, Dane. And chances are if you're listening

to this as a podcast sometime in the future, it's already happened. The voting will close on

January 2nd 2026. Maybe I'm just making sure that people are aware. This is a timely thing.

And if you're looking for where to click on that link right now, it's really easy. I made it the

pinned comment in the chat. So all you got to do is just look at that kind of white comment that's

above all the others in the chat box, tap that and the link is there. So in here's here's the cool

part, right? We were talking to Dane about this. He said if we win brand of the year, right,

that be due to his, you know, he's kind of into the tattoo thing right now. He will get the TRC

logo tattooed onto his body. Oh, man. And an inconspicuous area. Hmm. Hmm. I mean, we're always

starting a little bit. So let's let's be careful what we promise. But Dane, you designed the logo.

I think I did design the logo. It is a part of my history as well as the part of your identity.

And I think that realistically, it could absolutely be tattooed on you as it's taken up well over a

decade of your life. Yeah, it's actually gone beyond that at this point. It's crazy actually.

I've been doing this since late 2012. Oh, you'll tell us what you said. It's not like you're gonna

make a deal. I'm 13 years in. I think I can manage. You know, my time here, the company's old enough

to go see a PG-13 movie. I should be able to get a tattoo of the logo. If that happens. Would you go

full color or would you go black and white? What would you do? I want a color one. I want the

blue one. Yeah. No freaking way. Guys make this a reality. Please, we needed somebody to get a

TRC tattoo. And the one guy that had all of the tattoos left. But he could be back. We'll wait

and see. Who knows? He could be knocking at the door sometime soon. Oh, man. So, Dane, let's

answer some questions while we can. Yeah, you know what? Let's get some out there. I'm gonna throw

up some happy holidays because we've had a lot of people just checking in with Eric MDIY saying,

happy holidays. Thanks for all you do. Did first coating this week, had high spots,

light rotary and jewelry using Ivan's teaching, but got some holograms and had to go back with a

DA to fix. So some nice learning. Then he also follows up. Would love to see more paint correction

vids from DIYers for TRC pros. Love simplicity promoted by the DIY system. But first try,

not as great as I hope. Maybe overly simple. Not the best approach. So you know what? You're

learning. You always got to start somewhere. And I think that's good that you're taking chances

and just diving in. Because a lot of people, that's the hardest step. They're too scared to

even start. Yeah. But you, you did it and I want to commend you for that. Yeah. Paint correction.

I mean, again, it's, it's something where it's a hands-on thing. I mean, ultimately, you just,

you just got to do it and it just takes practice and doing it over and over again. Because while

you can watch every video in the world, it is a feel thing at a certain point and you got to get

a good feel for it. Because believe it or not, dude, I see people who learned from YouTube videos,

but didn't still haven't had enough hands-on time with the feel part of it. And when you see them

turn on the machine, you go, yeah, they need more, they need more feel time, right? And I think that

you can do that without YouTube. Dino says, ho, ho, ho, happy holidays TRC crew and all TRC fans.

See you in 2026. Hopefully better than 2025 for some of us. Cheers. We'll take it. Hey, I hope so.

We will take a better year. Sounds great. I want to point out I'm drinking something super weird.

So this is a carbonated protein drink. But it was like sparkling water. It was like carbonated water.

No, it's called sparkling protein by Genius Gourmet. This is a blue raspberry lemonade

thing. I have seen those before. Where have I seen them? Costco. That's why.

Okay. I never bought them though. So I don't know what. It is the weirdest thing because it's,

oh, it's made in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. What? Look at it. It is. I didn't know it's supporting local.

Well, there you go. Good. Okay. That's great. But yeah, it's kind of weird. It's think of like a

sparkling water, but with a thicker consistency. Do you hear that? There's some type of, is that

No, it couldn't be Santa. That's way too. Oh no.

Oh, something on a cork thing. Oh no. Oh my goodness. Holy smokes. The man, the myth, the legend.

Is that Andrew? It is. Casey X. What are you doing here, you old dog?

And he's talking. I can't hear him. Dang it. Either. I can't hear him either. Oh, I'm sure we'll

click the mute button or the unmute button. I was so excited to see him. He's got this colorful

vest on. I mean, look at the whole arrangement he's got there. It's like a nice glow behind him.

He's got a backdrop as well. Oh, okay. It's on his side of things. It's on his side. It's okay.

Andrew, we're going to, we're going to get, we're going to let you figure this out. We're not going

to kick you off. We want you here. But you know, we do think that you're beautiful. Can we just

compliment you for the next five minutes? Yeah, we'll just, you know, we'll just sit here and

talk. Andrew has the most beautiful eyes. You get lost in them. It makes you want to buy Casey X.

Now we hear him. There he is. There he is. Okay, cut the compliments off. Because I used

Chrome like the mental said, and Safari is the one that's working. So it's Gabe's fault. Well,

you know what, sometimes. Gabe's drawing a lot. That's what happens. Yeah. So we're just happy

to have you here, buddy. Yeah. Andrew, how's everything going? Talk to us. It's fantastic.

It's fantastic. How about you guys? Very good. What are your plans for the holiday season? What

are the plans with Casey X for the holiday season? Oh, not not a whole lot more. We're

trying to wind down. We had our to set our Christmas party. We had a back to back go-kart

champ from our CFO. So that was heated, heated rivalry once. And then we got to spend a good

bit of time at a couple stores shopping for for some for some families in need.

Um, so it's it's been pretty cool. Yeah, there's the guy that's happy holiday. You big, you filthy

animal, filthy animal. We love you. And we missed you. I can't hear you, but I just wanted to interrupt

since you were blaming me for your. You can't Gabe, you can't do this for all the guests. So this

is you get one. That's gonna be a long list. A lot of people are gonna be blaming you. So I hope

you're ready. Can't just do that for everybody, Gabriel. Um, no, he means well. He really does.

So no, that's great. So you go carding, right? So a company party. What else did you guys do?

Did you guys, how do you celebrate? Do you give away chemicals to all of the employees?

What is like the festive things that you guys do other than just a party?

You guys, we just get together and have a really good time. So this year we did some

like a funky putt-putt place and nice and then carding. Like I said earlier in the day, we went

and gathered some, some items for some families. And so we'll be handing those out on Saturday,

actually. So it's just really, it's about our whole, our whole team coming together at the

end of the day, especially after something like SEMA as you guys know. So a time to kind of

slow down a little bit. Are you guys in the office for the next few weeks? Are you guys

all going to be there or some of you guys taking some time off? A little bit. Yeah. I mean, a lot

of our guys will take some days. We'll probably be in early next week, some of us. And then we'll

gap there. Not, not like our, our European colleagues, but we're working towards it. We're trying.

Nice. Nice. Cool. Cause you know, what they're doing over there is they're going to, what's that

called? The, the Christmas, what's that called when you go to like a, it's like a, why can I think

of it? Hans knows what I'm talking about. It's where you go and buy stuff. It's like a Christmas

market. Christmas market. Yeah. No, Europe has those. They're really cool. We need some of that

over here. And I think that there's a German town just north of you guys, you know, a couple

hours, right? And Helen, we go to a Christmas market there. That could be our celebratory thing

that we, you know, we do every year with, with you guys. That'd be fun, right? A little taste of

Germany. That would be fantastic. Do you guys hear that? I don't hear. I don't hear. I don't

know what that is. No, I don't know what that is. Just fine. Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, no.

Merry Christmas. Wow. How come you'll get it?

Sid, I thought you were back at the beach again. What do you, what do you do here?

Having some nice candy canes here. He has to make a lot of chemicals. People eat those? I didn't

know that. Oh, they're just for decoration. Yeah, me too.

If you suck on it long enough, it turns into one, right?

Oh, you did? That's, that's all right. How is, how is Mrs. Claus? How, how is she doing? How

does, is she okay with you working this time of year selling GFX?

So I thought I'd come on down and, you know, talk to you guys. Wow. I don't know. I mean,

I don't know how the whole KCX Santa brand deal happened. I don't know what kind of,

it was a money exchange or like just a goodwill thing. But I mean, I'm proud of you guys. I mean,

you're the only brand that has a Santa. It might, I know this will offend some people over there,

but it might just be like the Coca-Cola thing, you know, at the end of the day.

Yeah. And that's just one that Santa wants to be with. There's only one real Santa. There's a lot

of fakes out there. Yeah, it's definitely not you. I mean, you are the real deal for sure.

Yeah. No, I, there's no denying that. Just don't pull on his beard. Okay. Yeah, I don't pull on his

beard. But what's weird is that you might see this Santa at SEMA, which is also kind of weird as

well. He does pick some interesting places to pop up. Yeah. It's mostly places that, you know,

we go to, or like, um, we have a, our friend Justin, who is a Grandmaster of the year from

KCX. So he goes, so Santa goes to a lot of the same places he goes to, which is also funny.

Never seen both of them in the same room at the same time. Yeah, me either. Anyway.

You never will. And you never will. What does that mean, Santa? So, well, we, we are happy to have

you guys as a, as a TRC brand partner. And we love hanging out with you guys. And we think that we

have a ton of fun together. And I'm looking forward to another amazing year in 2026. And I'm also

looking forward to more products that you guys are going to be bringing out in 2026 as well,

because you guys are going to have a couple of cool things. Isn't that right, Santa?

Oh, yes. I hear through the grapevine, as I say, that there's a couple of new products coming out.

Oh, a grapevine. It's a, what are the Christmas vines where they have?

Can't even read these comments. These comments are brutal.

Yeah. That's, that's, well, I'm looking forward to the new product. So when could we expect to

see some of these? Would it be around TRC? Am I here in a few months?

Oh, TRC MA. Yes, correct. Yeah.

Oh, okay. I would love that Santa is going to come visit. We're going to catch them in the off

season. Yeah. Super random event to go to for Santa. But I mean, hey, we're not going to deny it and

totally for it. So that would be a fun time. Winter break.

Oh, yes. It's winter break. Of course. Hey, when, you know, when the elves, when the elves aren't

making things and the reindeer are in there, they're kind of in their bulking stage, right?

They're kind of trying to bulk up. Oh, I thought they were going like a beach holiday or something.

No, beach holiday. That hasn't happened until July. Dang, they still take normal vacations.

Okay. Sorry, Santa. I don't know how it works up there, but you feel free to tell us that there's

any other like, you know, interesting traditions you've got. Yeah. If you guys.

And then you'll have stuff coming out pretty much all year. We should have a lot of new,

at least new, new packaging, not on our existing stuff, but some, some, some new stuff that's coming.

So it should be honestly a pretty, a pretty busy, a busy year for us coming up. We are noted.

We are very much looking forward to it. And I think it's going to be really, really great. So

yeah, we, I would say we have some, we have a full show today, right? We're going to be hanging

out with some more guests and whatnot. And we're going to be talking about other Christmas plans,

but it sounds like you guys have had an awesome start to the holiday season. And it sounds like

you guys are going to have a good kind of a small winter break, not like your German counterparts,

but eventually you keep working hard enough and you will get that, that timeline as well. And,

and then we'll be seeing guys here in just a couple of months, but we just want to say thank you for

dropping in and saying hi and can't wait, can't wait to see you soon. Actually, hold on. Am I seeing

any one of you here in like a month? In Florida? In Florida, correct. In Florida. Yes. Santa's other,

other, you know, holiday vacation spot. Yes. Yes. Okay. I haven't confirmed yet, but there will be

a few of us down there. Absolutely. I can't make the, the MTE here. I can't make that one.

I can't. Okay. Okay. Gotcha. You're a little busy then. And that's okay as well, but you know,

I will be there. And so if anybody from the KCX crew wants to just say hi, hang out, maybe go catch

a ride at Disney or something like that, by all means, I'm available. Yeah. Okay. Santa may be

there now. Maybe. Oh, Santa may be there. I figured something like that would come up.

So anyways, thank you guys for chiming in and we will catch up with you guys soon. Merry Christmas

and happy holidays. All right. Thanks, guys. See ya. See ya. Oh my, wow. There's such silly

gooses. They really are. You know what though? It is pretty cool. Like right off the bat, our first

guest includes Santa Claus. Like what are the odds of that? I just, again, I don't know how they

had that, how he scored that brand deal with Santa. I mean, that's a huge deal. Like Hallmark

couldn't even get Santa. For real? I mean, it took him years and years and years. I mean,

thousands of cards. That doesn't just happen in a vacuum. I mean, thousands of cards in movies.

And I mean, you name it. So the fact that we, you know, we're here now is amazing. So Steve Pearson,

try me with a comment says, laughing that candy cane has put Santa into a vibe. I'm starting to

think that that was, was it illegal candy cane? It might have been, you know, over 18 candy cane.

I was just trying to see if there's anything like plumes of smoke coming from the candy

cane itself, but it looked like it was legit. Oh, I like this one from Megan here saying,

my 13 year old is asking you, quote, the young one is going to be on today, basically calling

all of us old and wanting Lucas back. Oh, the Gen Z. So that's fun. And then I've got, well,

you know, we'll see what we can manage. We actually may have one coming up. If things

have settled upright, we may have one. I got this question here from Mahmood NIA. Yeah,

Mahmood, what's up man? Yeah, let's see, what products have you got up lined up for 2026?

Any teasers other than the new trigger gun? Well, that one is kind of a big freaking deal.

We wanted to release it, you know, as a big deal at SEMA, but obviously like it's still

in that late prototyping stage where we're verifying some last minute changes, getting

some tweaks in there, using feedback that we built over the time period. But really,

Anthony could speak to that better than I can. Yeah, so that's going to be the, it's going to be

a huge launch here, probably end of quarter one or close to end of quarter one here. So

be looking forward to that. I mean, it's more than the spray gun, right? It's also the foam can,

it's also the lance, it's also the nozzles, the pressure washer tips. So there's going to be a

lot coming there. Next to that, there are going to be several new releases, right? So our brand

partners are obviously going to be releasing some things, right? Like we heard from KCX,

but also coming from us here at the RAG company, we will have some new towels throughout the year,

as well as probably a couple of new accessories from our friends over at Detail Factory. So

there's going to be a lot of different things moving. It's going to be a probably a bigger

year for releases in 2026 than it was in 2025. And we had some pretty good ones in 2025.

Oh yeah. Dan Pfeiffer with a good afternoon, a word up from a snowy Minnesota USA. Happy Friday,

AOTRC gang and a Merry Christmas to all. Merry Christmas to you as well. And I'm jealous. I want

snow. I'm really, really bummed. We haven't gotten any yet. It's been too warm here. It just hasn't

gotten cold enough or at least hasn't stayed there. I walked outside the other day and it was

like 62 degrees or something. It was like a cold summer day. And I was like this. A winter day.

It is weird. But what that means for us here in Idaho is usually we're going to get a late winter.

Oh, what does that mean? A late winter? Oh, it's all going to happen in like January or February?

More jingle bells. Oh no, Dan. Okay. Somebody else is going to fall down the chimney. Okay, what's

happening here? Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Look at that. Look, they put Joey in the tall box.

The boys are back in town. What a way to frame. How did you guys both fit down the chimney?

Yeah. Team effort? Quite the feet. Quite the feet. I gave them a little shove.

Did you? Okay. I mean, who is, who is like, who's head was near, near whose feet? I mean,

how was it like, what was the orientation of you boys? Head first, feet first?

I think Joey's got to go ahead first for the aerodynamics.

Gotcha. That makes sense. Yeah. He puts his big hands out. I'm not hearing Alex,

so I don't know what he just said, but I'm going to go with it. Okay. He said something funny.

But I'm not sure why there's connectivity issues, but we'll hopefully get that figured out. But

these are the boys from, I believe, a podcast that is quite popular amongst the detailing

community. What podcast is? Oh, it's the Detail Grind podcast. Yes. Wow. We've got 44 or 45 episodes

so far. We're going strong. I feel bad for missing out on the shirt, but that's okay.

Yeah. What are you wearing, Alex? What are you wearing today?

I am just wearing the most athletic shirt possible because I run into all those hot

deals on that tier website. Gotcha. Gotcha. Athletic fit. No, I love that. Well, Neil

White says, how does Joey fit down a chimney? He is the chimney. That is true, right? Definitely

and Joey. Moving on. Oh boy. Dane, that's too funny. I just like that he called him the chimney,

so that's fun. I like that as well. So what are you guys, what are your plans for the holiday

season? What are you guys looking forward to for Christmas, New Year's? Yeah, I'm just sticking

around town, trying not to freeze up here in the great white north, but just keeping it easy,

keeping it light. As soon as those mild days come, if we've had a lot of freeze thawing happening,

you like to get out and clean up the cars a little bit and just let them get dirty all over again.

I love it. Nice. The rinse and repeat cycle. Joey, what about you? We're also staying local.

For those who have listened to our podcast for the last few weeks, for the last 20-something days,

Sacramento has been under this blanket of fog, so we haven't really seen the sun.

Now it's raining. I'm really, really hoping for a Christmas miracle of like allowing me to wash the

car. Wait, that makes so much sense. Yeah. I did not know that was the case. My sister,

who's in Modesto, right, also posted, so she posted just a picture of the sun

yesterday and said it's a Christmas miracle. And I was like, what are you talking about,

you weirdo? But I didn't think to ask her what that meant. I did not know that you guys have

been under a layer of fog. It's been brutal for those who have, you know, the seasonal depression.

Like it's already like the shortest days of the year, but also just like not have the sun

penetrating through the fog is a whole different layer. So the other day I was in the garage,

I was using Christmas O&R, probably like one of my favorite products of the season.

Stop it. Is that really, I think you're, I think you're not, you're not joking around. I think

you're serious. It's all I've been using. And yeah, I was, I was, I was in the zone and then I

happened to notice, I was like, you know, automatically in my head that I was like, oh,

I don't want this to dry. The sun's going to dry. And I was like, the sun, and I looked outside,

I ran out there and I basked it for like 10 minutes. It was funny. Joy was losing it. Every

day he'd message me. He's like, Alex, day 17, haven't seen it. I don't know where it is.

And a little diary going. Do you, do you want to know a cool trick here in Boise? It's,

it's actually always really fun. So if we ever have an inversion, right, where we have a layer of,

you know, fog slash, you know, clouds at a certain, you know, you know, area here in, in Idaho,

even the entirety of the valley, if we want sun bad enough, like we're craving it and we're like

just, we're, you know, turning into an anti-vampire or whatever you want to call it. We need the sun.

We can drive up to bogus basin to the very tip top of the mountain and get above the clouds,

usually to have what would be the brightest sun you will ever see. It is like absolutely like,

it will incinerate your skin, but it is like, it's like you're on the playground of Terminator.

It's full dose of vitamin D and some people will literally do that just to get out of that

seasonal funk with the inversions that happened here. I went to have dinner with Sydney and Keith

last week and my only, that was my first time getting out of the fog, but it was nighttime. So I did get to go

above it and come down through it. So it was nice. Well, hey, you know what, I'm glad, I'm glad you're

able to get out of there and hopefully for Christmas you get full sun, right? Yeah. Hopefully it's,

hopefully the Hawaiian shirts come out and life's good again. So Alex, since you're Canadian,

is there any interesting Canadian Christmas traditions that you would like to share with

everybody listening? Christmas traditions. Now, probably one of the more popular ones is actually

one that originates over in Quebec, where they take the maple syrup right from the tree,

put it onto a wooden popsicle stick and roll it in the snow to like quick-freeze it

and then you just eat it like a popsicle. So that might be the most Canadian thing I've ever heard.

Is there any bark in that or any type of like contamination or is it pretty pure?

Quebecers are built different so they can eat the bark. You know, we just get the

canned stuff or the jarred stuff, then we toss it in the snow and let's go from there.

Do they prefer to go by Quebecois or Quebecers?

I mean, I think Quebecois because Quebecers, they might, you know, try to get in a fist fight

with you. I don't know. Well, then again, it might be more fun to do the thing that annoys

them though, right? I mean, as an option. Yeah. One of my favorite things about having Alex as a

co-host is I learn something new about Canada every time we have an episode or every time we

get together. I mean, for a country that is literally attached to us, we are learning a lot

of new traditions, you know, quite often, way more than I thought I would ever in my entire life.

But I know we're doing it. So what did you boys ask for for Christmas? A detailing Christmas or

I should say just a TRC, I don't know, worldly Christmas? Like what did you want as presents

from Santa? I wouldn't mind a, you know, maybe a pressure washer upgrade or

a DI system to, you know, when we're not covered in fog, we are the sunniest place on earth for

most of the year. So I think a DI system might be nice. So hopefully Santa can fit that under the

tree. Okay. So DI system, assuming from our friends over at CR Spotless.

I say our friends, funny enough, I didn't even know that they knew we existed until last week.

I existed so if you could pass that along. I'm saying that in like a kind way.

CR Spotless for the most part, they are very, how do I say this? They're very in the industry,

but very out of the kind of in the know of the industry as well. Like you, like they're not really

like super involved in social media. They're not super involved in all the events and, you know,

that kind of stuff and distribution. Like they have a distribution network, but it's much smaller

than kind of what you think. So it was interesting because on Instagram, they'd actually like either

reshared our photo or had commented something on our photo about the, of me dressed up as Santa in

front of the, the, the Camaro, right? Shooting foam. And they said that this is like the greatest

picture ever. And I'm like, that's really nice. I didn't even know they had an Instagram and I

didn't even know that they were watching because every time I've always like, because we call to

place orders for our, our like resin filters, because we replace our resin. So I'll usually call

them to either place the order, I'll do it online, whatever is, whatever is easier at the time.

And every time I call, it's so funny because they go, so you are, I see work with, it's called

the rag company. Okay. I'm going to put that in here and you guys are, you guys are a company.

Like you, what do you sell rags? Yeah, we sell rags. Gotcha. Okay. That's interesting.

She just says the same thing every time. I have ordered from her probably 15 or 20 different

times. And I don't think at this point she's ever actually, she needs some new material,

but you would think that we order like once every two months. You think that she would be like,

oh yeah, I remember the rag company. It's always so the rag. They must have so many customers. They

just can't keep track. All right, dang it. I don't know. We're just, we're just a drop in the, drop

in the hat. It's okay. A drop in the wash bucket. They knew what you guys were. Well, they might

think we're the enemy because we're like, we believe in spotless water that dries on its own.

And you guys sell the, you know, the enemy, the towel. I don't know. We're just there to help

it along. Yeah. What about you? So Alex, what do you want for Christmas? What's on your list?

So have a couple of things. I feel left out with all this peer pressure with all these

press all bottles floating around. So perhaps Santa can send some of those over, but there's

actually a gift that I'm almost fabricating myself in a sense. I'm actually building a whole new

podcast room in the house, renovating whole office space and going to have all the detailing

chauches and such kind of around me that I've collected over the years and just kind of makes

up my own. So holy smokes. Alex, that is huge news. Yeah. So yeah, cause Joey's got the marvel

thing going on, right? And he's got a collection. I actually think it looks pretty good. Like the

Jason mask is great. I mean, there's a lot of fun stuff back there. So I think that both you guys,

I mean, you guys are pretty much going to have a studio looking environment, even though you guys

hundreds of thousands of miles away, hundreds of miles away, I should say hundreds,

not quite a thousand congrats anyway. That's awesome. Yeah. How fun. Joey, what are your thoughts on

speaking of Marvel? What are your thoughts on the, the teaser, the Avengers, you know, accidental

drop? I've been staying away from it. I want to see the road. Yeah. I want to see the real one.

I need to see it in 4k. Glorious. You don't, you don't want the potato cam. You don't want the

leaked potato cam. You want the real deal. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. Okay. Well, you know,

you are a much stronger person than I am. Joey, as a fellow Marvel fan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's

going to be, it's going to be, it's going to be a long year as we wait around for, you know,

the next transition of Marvel, we'll see what happens. But Dan Pfeiffer is here in the comments.

That's true. Dan Pfeiffer says, celebrated with some Christmas O and R the other day,

a great way to detail in my warm garage in the winter. It's awesome stuff. It's great. It's got

a good smell to it. Got a bucket warmer like our friend Jose from Ultimate Car Detail sent over.

Yeah. It adds a whole new layer to the Christmas O and R. It does. It's great.

We've got Dagnit Rodriguez saying hi. Merry Christmas. Love, peace, and chicken grease right

on man. Yeah. All right. Then Jose from Unlimited Car Detail is here in the house actually chiming in.

One of our favorites here says, hello to my TRC family. Happy holidays. Well, you got the full

family here, Jose. Back at Jose. Yes. And then Dain, what do we have here from Mac? All right.

We got Mac here saying, happy last Q and A of the year, everybody. Learned so much this year.

Thank you TRC gang. Started with TRCMA and been watching ever since. Well, I'm really glad you

joined us at a good time and you've been able to follow through the year and I kind of see what

we're about. And hopefully you also gave these guys a follow because they do a great job too.

Would you guys be interested? I love that we've seen this name in the chat for a long time.

You hear that? There's a little guys. I'm sorry. There's somebody else is falling down the chimney.

Oh no.

It felt so long. Oh my god. Here we go. The other boys. Hey guys. Welcome. How's it going?

We got ADS in the house. This is great. This is great. So I didn't know. I didn't know they

celebrated Christmas in Florida, right? I mean, because I mean, it's just a completely different

vibe over there. So I didn't know if you guys still kind of did it, you know, in short, you know,

short sleeves and, you know, Hawaiian shirts and things like that. But it looks like you guys very

much do. Yeah, we try our best here. You know, there's not much snow going around, but we do our

best to still be in the holiday spirit. Nice. Well, Jeff, I like that you're sitting. So Brad,

are you just laying down? He's real relaxed. Thank you. He's real comfortable.

I'm at my height. Yeah, I gotta make sure I'm tall. Gotcha. There's one thing for sure is that I

think Bradley will always make himself comfortable no matter what, right? I don't think he likes

being in discomfort, you know, when he if he can lean back, he would in anything. Well, if he's

detailing all the time, this is a chance like, ah, take a load off when he's driving, when he's

driving his vehicles, you can't even see the top of his head because he's comfortable. He's on our

podcast. You gotta see me from the back window, you know? Yeah. He often likes to sit near the

bathroom. So that's also a comfort measure. Gotcha. Okay. So between between that and leaning back,

you know, it's funny because the only other place I know where they they lean back so far,

you can see when the back window is in Sacramento, right? And that's usually for, you know, other

safety reasons, if anything. Well, when it comes to me, I've got the B-pillar just kind of in my

blind spot because I push the C-actile far, but I'm picking up what you're putting down. Gotcha. Oh,

yeah, I see you know what I'm trying to say. So armor detail supply. What is your Christmas

looking like? What are the holidays looking like? And what are you guys doing over there as a company?

That's been fun.

I'm staying home for the holidays. My parents are going to, going over abroad to see our family,

but I'm stuck here. So I'm just going to be me and the kids and the wife and spend the holidays

that way. And yeah, it should be fun to be a little, a little weird without the parents, but

we'll make do and have some kids. Your parents, your parents are gonna have a party is what

they're going to do. They're like, yeah, we're not doing the kids stuff this year. Yeah, they're

like, we're getting the heck out of here, man. We're going to go out and live it up. Oh boy.

It's like they're going to, they're going to be in their 20s again for, you know, a week or so,

a little over that, you know, probably don't want to talk about that. But I mean, it'll be a good

time. So what, what, what else is new from ADS? Are you guys doing anything? You know, are you guys

taking some time off as a company? Like what's the plan there? I mean, are you guys going to be

working throughout the next couple of weeks? Yeah, we're, we're working because we're super busy,

but we're taking some time off for Christmas, a couple of days and a couple of days for new year.

But we'll be working around and in between just trying to keep up with everything. So

but yeah, we'll take some time off where we can, and the choice and start with the family.

And you've been making it snow over there with the new drift foam cannon. And so

how, how are people liking that? Good. All the feedback's been super, super positive.

Heck yeah. Mostly around the price point, obviously, but people are, people are loving it.

Sweet. And who knows, right? We, there may be a time where there's multiple foam cannons, you know,

available for through the RAG company, including our own at some point, right? So, you know,

we'll see what happens there soon as well. So

I'm hoping Santa brings a drift foam cannon as well to maybe go with that.

One might drift the Sacramento, we'll see. One might drift.

I like that. You could, yeah, you could market that pretty well, you know,

a foam cannon could drift to you, drift, drift away to my mailbox. Oh yeah.

That's too funny. So we have a couple of people commenting says I learned. Oh yeah, yes. In North

Florida, we've seen Christmas songs about snow ironically. Okay, very good. What's the weather

like in Florida right now? Currently 79 degrees and sunny. Man. Oh boy. Sounds nice. I can't wait.

Give me a month. I'll be down there in one month's time and it's going to be amazing. I'm going to

be very much looking forward to the weather there. Dane won't be joining me this year,

unfortunately. Sadly, I won't be there this time around. But, you know, give it another year and

I'll be back. Will you boys be stopping by mobile tech at all or not this year?

We were just talking about that. We're going to, me and Jeff at least, we'll try to make our way

down there and, you know, kind of hang out. We're not having a booth or anything,

but we'll definitely try to make our way down there at least for one day. I mean,

we're only a couple hours away, so it only makes sense. No, we won't see you then.

Based on the way you just said that, me and Jeff, we just talked about it.

We're going to try, whenever Riley says we're going to try, it means it's just not happening, so

we're probably not going to see you. But if you do stop by, we would love to hang out

and maybe grab some food or something in Disney Springs or Hibachi. If you would like to bring

another Hibachi chef, that would be amazing as well. Can I, can I just chime in and say that

our Hibachi party that we had at SEMA at the ADS house, it was the most food I've ever served in

my life. It's ridiculous. It's honestly the only part of SEMA that I think I truly had FOMO about.

I think he was trying to feed us enough to eat us. He was fattening us up. He was fattening us up.

He's like, please, more scallops. I can't do any more scallops. He goes, please, more scallops.

And I'm like, oh my gosh. I'll take him at that point. I've never consumed so many beverages out

of a water gun. We have GM Carcare saying hello to ADS. And so that's awesome. And

I should say any Christmas presents, anything you want to give us before the end of the year,

any information, any new projects, anything like that that we can look forward to in 2026,

or we'll have to be a surprise. We're always working on new cool stuff, but we're going to

leave that one a cool little surprise. All right. Steve Pearson says so much protein. Yes, there

was a ridiculous amount of protein involved. A sickening amount, I should say. But it burned

clean weirdly enough. I actually did. Everything was okay. I didn't really have any issues after

that, which was anything that Anthony says would burn clean in it. Yeah. All right. My Portuguese

beans burned clean. Let's talk about Lloyd here. He was asking a question. Go ahead and read it. You

want to know what's up, guys. Just getting on. Can I get the Cliff's Notes version of the topics

of discussion so far? Well, this is kind of like visiting with friends and fam. So we're catching

up with everybody, but right now we've got the ADS guys on. We've got the Detail Grind podcast on,

and we're chatting. We're having a good time talking about the holidays. So if there's anything

you're missing, don't worry. We got you. Just flow along with it. That's true. That is very,

very true. I wanted to thank you guys for allowing us to come on and hopefully answer some questions.

Of course. And of course, you know, like you said, hang out with friends and family. True.

No, absolutely. And yeah, no, I've got a whole bunch of people saying, hey, happy holidays. But

anything for Bradley and Jeff here as we kind of reach the end of their block?

No, we appreciate you guys. I've kind of told everybody, you know, the other brand partners,

I want to say everybody else. So I've told the other brand partners that we appreciate our partnership

that we have together. And we have a lot on the horizon with ADS. And I think that we're a killer

team. And the world is our oyster, and we're shucking it, you know, and we're doing it, man.

And I think we're doing the dang thing. And I think both companies have been really beneficial

to each other. And we just really appreciate you guys and all the hard work. And we're looking

forward to more chemicals and more cool products in 2026. No, very nice. Lots of cool collaborations

come in stages. All right, guys. Well, hey, don't yeah, take it easy. We're not too easy, Bradley.

Don't lean back any further. He's relaxed. He's relaxed. We don't want you to we don't want you

to fall out of there. But thank you guys so much for being on. And we will talk to you boys very,

very soon. Happy holidays. We appreciate you guys. See us. Thank you. All right. Well, guys, they're

so silly. They are fun. And that was something that I actually made a special note to Nick. I

said, Hey, when the ADS guys come on, let's make sure we still got Joey and Alex present because

I want the part of it because everybody just hangs out. We're like a crew. It's fun. We are

I don't know if I've told this story before, but you know, TRC is obviously one of my favorite

companies in the detailing industry. And then when ADS was here, we're also one of my new favorites.

But the two of you guys didn't talk. And I was like, it'd be so great if you guys would get together.

And I don't know, just take over the world and look, it happened. I'm not going to say I had

anything to do with it. But I think that you definitely played a part in it. I think that you

were kind of played as a matchmaker for a period of time. You said, hey, they think you're kind of

cute and you think they're kind of cute. So what do you say, guys? Exactly how it happened.

Yeah. I just didn't know there's going to be so many dudes involved. But other than that, though,

I mean, it was great. I mean, I think me taking on DJ and Bradley was definitely a feat, but I was

able to, you know, make it happen. So yeah, and then inviting Jeff, like that's yeah. Yeah. No,

he was a cherry on top. He really was. And so they're they're all super awesome. And we love all

the chemicals and we love what they're doing. And you know what? And I'll give them credit where

it's due. The coding that is on my truck is still performing and behaving beautifully. And we've

had nothing but rain for the past few days. The truck is finally actually starting to look dirty

after what's it been? Seven? No, six months? It's been a while. No, seven months. Yeah. The coding

has been on the truck for over seven months now. And this is the first time that it is actually

starting to look like a dirty truck. So when I wash it here pretty soon here in the next couple

days, I'll have to report back some feedback. But I mean, like the water behavior is amazing,

the gloss and slickness is incredible. And I haven't seen any marring induced. I haven't seen any type

of chemical issues with water or mineral deposits or bird etchings or anything like that. It's been

it's been amazing. It's been a really good coding. So shout out. I have the same one on my

I have the same one on my vehicle. And I sent a photo to one of my group chats earlier today. And

uh, having the hatch, you know, like when it gets dirty, it all just kind of runs down and sits on

that back bumper sill. And the car looks spotless except for that bumper sill. It's doing its job.

It's bringing all that dirt down and until it evaporates. I also can't wait to wash it because

this is the first time my car has been really, really dirty. Probably haven't given it a phone

wash in, oh, I don't know, six weeks at this point. Yeah. So yeah, it's, it's going to clean up

beautifully. I'm looking forward to a very long lifespan of this coding. I have a very good feeling

about it. I've been saving up some comments here and what I thought we could do with this section

of time before our next guest comes on maybe around the halfway mark three o'clock. I thought we

could answer some of these viewer questions and Joey and Alex, I'm going to ask you to be a part of

this. So let's go ahead and start off with maybe an easier one. We have the one who shall remain

nameless. He's requesting that we give him a name from a 1960s claymation move.

That's Rudolph. Oh, there's a lot of characters. I mean, Rudolph is a given. That's too easy.

You got to pick like one of the other characters, I think. Do we know the other characters?

See, you can't name one. What's the, what's the dentist toy maker's name? The dentist toy maker

elf? Yeah, which you say that and now I can't remember his name.

Oh, Yukon Cornelius is great. Just call him Yukon. We'll call him Yukon. Is that who we're going

to name him? We're going to name him Yukon today. We're going to name him Yukon today. So next up,

we've got Yukon saying Merry Christmas week Eve and happy Friday, junior TRC family from the

sunny south coast, Massachusetts. I hope I find y'all well today and ready for a great show.

Love that. Now, some actual questions. Let's start it off with a fun one for none other than

Sheepstar. Oh, super, super important question. Oh, this is, I like these important questions.

It says eggnog. Yes or no?

You know, it's tough. It's one of those things that in concept, I thought was going to taste

better. And then the first time I tried it, I was actually like really thrown off by how much I

didn't like it. It just, you got to chew it. It's a chicken. I was imagining it was going to be like

this cream soda type thing, but with alcohol when I was like younger and I was like, oh, I'm going

to try this where it's like, okay, it's kind of, it's, it's like cream. It's like milky, whatever.

Like a malted soda type thing. But it's malted soda type thing. And then it's not that. I thought

it would be like some almost like a butterscotch pudding kind of flavor or something. Yeah,

that's what I imagine. It's like drinking like a really, really bad like cake batter. Yeah. Yeah,

actually, it's not very far off. It's the thickness. I mean, you're one step away from having to gum

it. You know what I mean? You're kind of like, you know what I mean? You're kind of trying to get it

down. There's certain people that mix Kalua in the, you know, in the mix of eggnog to make it a little

bit more like palatable. And at least it's like doing something. But Kalua's so strong, then they're

just drinking Kalua. Yeah, I don't know. Eggnog's pretty strong. I don't really know what my preference

is. What about like an eggnog latte from Starbucks? I'm more on board with that. It's a little bit of

pinkies up bougie, but at the same time, like, I like that better than actual eggnog, probably.

Yeah. I think there's just too many in this group. I think of Christmas vacation. You know,

I think of, I think of like Chevy Chase drinking the eggnog and just like, you know,

I mean, doing that thing with his face. Hallelujah. Holy blank. Where's the Tylenol?

Yeah. All right. Moving along. There's too many of us with dairy intolerances to really enjoy it.

Yeah, that's true. We got a question here from Shark Blue Turbo. I often let my towel soak,

post-wash, in some rags to riches and water and sometimes can't wash them right away.

How long is too long to let them sit in there? So as far as the soak goes, how long before it

starts getting a little funky? No, I mean, you could, you could let them sit in there for a couple

days if you really wanted to, but I always like, my general rule is like, if you can get to it by

like that next day, ideally, that's probably the time to do it. Unless you're soaking like a one

individual towel and you're like trying to like bring it back to life and you're doing a resurrection

process because the way I see it is when you're resurrecting a towel between the candles involved

and the chanting and then all the old people that you have to hire in the robes, you know,

it could take a couple of days to really, you know, accumulate all those things.

Is this a town from hot fuzz? What's going on? What? No, I didn't say, what are you talking about?

This is just like a normal seance. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. Everybody has them. You know, it's,

you know, you see it in movies and stuff like that. It's really, yeah, it's fine. All right,

let's try another one. Okay, take it away. It says if you received a, if you received one

detailing stocking stuffer for less than $30, what products are you, are you going to be most

excited to get? Okay, let's send $3 stocking stuffer. I think there's some really good,

I got one, right? I know what it is already. I like detail factory brushes as a gift. Okay. You

can get in under the $30 mark. I think there's some really good TRC Ultra products that can do that

for you. What do you think, Anthony? Freakin 80 count box of original ripping rags. Oh my god,

you will get every cent worth of value out of ripping rags. Definitely. I can go a little off

the cuff if you like. Do it. Okay. A TRC gift card. Okay. Yeah. That's what I do. That's good.

Because then, you know, they're not disappointed. Get what you want, you know what I mean? And do

the thing. That's fine as well. Okay. I just found out. Ripping rags were definitely my answer.

Yeah. Probably a detail factory brush. I mean, yes, I was throwing out something a

little different because I did feel like ripping rags are like such a go to for me if I'm going

to grab a towel. So I totally get it. But at the same time, if we all had the same idea,

that's probably a clue that that's a really good stocking stuffer. So you should consider that.

The comment that caught my eye here was, nope, the elf's name was Hermie. I was trying to remember

his name. That's right. There we go. I just, I couldn't remember it. So, oh, no, yes. Didn't

realize Anthony's towel decon process involved an eyes wide shut party. Yeah. All right. Then,

next up, we got Rach here with what towel would you use for coating removal first and second wipe?

Also, can you use these towels again or do you chuck them out?

So first and second wipe, a towel that you could use would be like the creature edgeless.

And this is the reason for that is it's a dual pile. So you can actually use the short nap side

as your main like kind of bite towel, you know, your main knock the coating down and then the

plush side as your kind of more premium, you know, wiping experience. Creatures are great and

they're super affordable. So you could, you know, use them as a coating towel. And if you had to

toss them, you really wouldn't feel that bad about them. And you could reuse them again or

demote them in your process to something, you know, not paint related if you wanted to do that.

But yeah, creatures, I find I'm using those the most as a dual purpose towel.

Because at a certain point when it comes to a coating, you are going to be looking at a little

bit at price, but also just the overall effectiveness of the towel, right? You want something that's

going to be effective, but you don't want something that's going to break the bank.

So finding something in the middle like the creature probably makes the most sense.

All right. Well, I think that's a good place for us to tie this one up just for a moment,

because we actually got a little something that I want us all to watch together.

If you're good with that.

Okay, what Dean, is it your family videos? Or is it that one weird video you shot?

Anybody that nobody needs to see that. But I think you might want to watch this. Okay.

It's the final workday before Christmas. The warehouse is glowing with warm lights,

soft music, and the familiar rhythm of the team preparing every order.

Chantal labels each box with precision.

Danique wraps every tool with care. And Quentin checks every list twice.

Going to find out who's naughty or nice.

Together they work like Christmas elves to make sure every detailer gets their package

right on time. Well, almost every package.

After a long day, Quentin finally leaves the warehouse behind.

The city is sparkling with Christmas lights, the air crisp and quiet.

And for a moment, he lets himself breathe. Christmas is almost here.

And the hard work feels worth it.

Later that evening, he sinks into the couch with a well earned sigh.

The day was long, but everything should be ready. At least that's what he thinks.

Hey, didn't we still need to finish the order that was on the packing table?

Shit! Quentin's heart skips a beat. He jumps up, grabs his keys, and rushes out the door.

There's no way he's letting one forgotten package ruin someone's Christmas.

He starts the car, turns up the Christmas music, and races through the quiet December night.

A mission is a mission, especially today.

Back at the warehouse, he moves fast. Pulling products from the shelves,

placing everything neatly in the box, printing the label, sealing the lid tight.

The very last package of the year. Finally complete. He grabs it and hurries toward the exit,

relieved that he made it just in time. But as he steps outside...

Santa Claus?

Don't worry, Quentin. I will never forget the rag company Europe.

And just like that, he's gone off to deliver the very last package of Christmas.

We from the rag company Europe wish you and your family a merry Christmas

and all the very best for 2026.

Wow. Oh my goodness. Who's that?

That was amazing. I just have to say I love Quentin, and I think TRC USA might have to

step their game up a little bit. That content was pretty good.

Oh no, they make us look bad. I mean, they straight up, like, we admit it.

We know that everything that they do crushes some of the stuff that we do,

and that is the perfect thing, though. They're the yin, two are yang,

and they do a really good job. So Quentin, that's kind of a bougie house he's got there, right?

That's pretty nice, right?

Yeah, I didn't know he was a...

Those are candles or lights set up, but I'm like, okay.

You're pretty well.

You're gonna go hang in a Quentin's place, but Sydney, welcome. You are here.

Joining us.

I am here.

We didn't dress you, I know, but you're here in the middle, and you've just literally gotten

to town minutes ago. Where were you at? I can't say.

Oh, okay. Oh, sorry. Wow.

Super secret.

It was a Santa thing, is what it was, right?

Right, as a parent, right? It was a Santa situation. Gotcha. Well, that is fun, and so

cities will be joining us for this next half, where we're gonna answer more questions,

and obviously talk more guests.

Look, it's my friends up there.

Yeah, you got a few.

Do you know those guys?

I do. They're like two of my favorites.

I know. They're here just hanging out, which is fun.

But I feel like I gotta give T.R.C. York more compliments, right? So,

not only do they do an amazing job there, I thought the message was great.

I thought I had some humor in it, which was fun.

And then Quentin Stagiaire, which is basically, he is our...

We named him Stagiaire because that is essentially the Dutch name for intern, right?

Something like that.

That's what they were going with.

So, yeah, something like that.

Oh, here we go.

Oh, no. We've got somebody else falling down the...

Oh my goodness.

I love this part.

Yeah, it's happening.

No, I can hear it.

Oh, God, it's happening.

Hope they're okay.

It just sounds like it hurts every time.

Oh, that's the devil.

There he is.

Welcome, Quinn.

Good afternoon.

Hi, Quinn.

Quinn, so tell us.

There's a lot of work.

Happy belated birthday.

Oh, thank you very much, my friend.

I appreciate that.

I am getting older and older.

I don't know if wiser is part of it, but older for sure.

Quentin, what is up with the...

Is that your house, that apartment that you went into?

It looks very bougie.

It is, yeah.

Wow.

It's in it right now, I assume.

Man, that looks like a beautiful area.

This is the whole set, yeah.

That's a mess, incredible.

I would expect nothing less.

So, do you...

This is what Volkswagen owners do, baby.

Do you forget people's orders all the time,

or is that just a Christmas thing?

No, it happens sometimes, to be honest.

So, needed to step over a game.

Yeah, I can't believe Santa's shown up.

That's crazy that you guys were able to get him in person.

I mean, he was around a couple of years ago, so no, it wasn't.

No.

Can I ask you a question to Quentin?

I think I speak on behalf of a lot of the TRC audience,

but will we get a sequel to the Car Wash commercial?

Heavily debated.

Come on.

You know, I can't say much, but something's up, so...

Okay.

Maybe it's not so much.

What's the most talked about commercial that we have

is the Car Wash commercial.

I heard so, yeah.

For good reason.

People want to know more.

They want to know if your sister stole the products,

or how that actually ended up working out,

or how it all came together.

It was very confusing for many people.

We talked about it while we were at SEMA.

Yeah, yeah.

It's a debate.

It's a hot debate.

It is a debate.

It's incredible, so I'm excited to see where that goes.

They've got truthers out there.

You know what I want?

I want the sequel to the Star Wars video.

Also, the TRC Europe Star Wars, you know, that was...

The Obi-Wan Kenobi's.

Well, I know what happens.

I just want to see how they would film it.

Oh, gosh.

Oh, no.

That's horrible.

So, Quentin, what is going on over in Europe with TRCEU,

and how's everything going over there with the rest of the team?

It's actually really, really good.

So, we're just finishing up everything for the Christmas holidays,

spending some time with family, I mean, SU.

We care a lot about family.

So, we wanted to take some time off.

We're going out for dinner on Tuesday,

and then it's Christmas time.

Yeah.

Are you guys...

So, I know that, again, we were talking about the Christmas markets

a little earlier here in the show.

Is that something that you guys do over there as well?

Because you know, Hans will go to the Christmas markets.

Is that something that just happens in Germany,

or does it happen there in the Netherlands as well?

No, it happens a lot in the Netherlands as well.

I mean, Germany is a lot bigger,

so they have all these different,

different larger cities where they have...

I'm not sure if you've seen Cologne.

The Christmas market is huge.

So, we went there last year.

It was really cool to see.

But that's definitely a thing here in the Netherlands, yeah.

Okay.

What are some of the hot ticket items

when you go to one of those, you know,

stuff maybe people are drinking or eating or buying?

What are the things that stick out?

So, the most used or drunken thing is a glue vine.

So, it's kind of like a warm, more cinnamony wine.

It tastes very, very good.

It's just...

Yeah, I'm not sure if you guys ever tried it,

but you should.

No, I'd not play at all with it.

Is it like an alcoholic apple cider?

Is that kind of what it is or...?

No.

I mean, you were in Frankfurt.

We've all chunked in the Apple wine.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Definitely from the...

We're just a fireball.

Yeah, we have family to have fun.

We do have fireball, and it's...

Really classy.

It's not super classy at all, actually.

Sometimes you hang up on the tree as a little ornament,

and then you just have a day.

Yeah, it's gonna be very American.

Don't start it with fireball.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, too funny.

So, who has better hair here,

says the Detail Grande podcast, Quintin or Dane.

I would say that Quintin's got a lot of the...

I'd say he's got a good volume,

and he's just got good general, like, flow.

His is flowy.

Dane's got the thickness.

You know, it's the thickness with two C's.

I mean, again, you know, he kind of...

I didn't see that coming.

I mean, you're seeing my dad's hair.

It's weird, but it's like...

He's still...

He's not balding it.

Look at the color of the pick for your hair,

because it's just...

It gets dense in that forest.

Okay.

Well, on that note...

I mean, I must give it to Dane, but...

I'm a fan of Quintin's, too, though.

I think he's pretty classy, though.

Yeah, Quintin's got some good style.

I guess this is a draw, then.

Yeah, yeah.

We'll take it.

That's fair.

No straight fighting here.

Yeah, very, very much so.

Sydney, is there anything you want to ask Quintin?

Why, we got him on the horn here?

No, I just want to say hi.

It's good to see your face.

Good to see you, too.

Yeah, we will...

I don't know.

We're going to see you...

You're not coming to...

You're not coming on another North American USA internship.

Are you anytime soon?

Not anytime soon.

I didn't know if your dad was going to get sick of you

and kick you out of the country.

Oh, no, he's already sick of me, I believe.

Oh, okay.

Makes sense.

In a good way, I think.

No, but we...

The whole thing was that we didn't even think about going to MTE up until today,

that we kind of started thinking about it,

so it might be up in the air, but we don't know yet.

I mean, armored retail supply just started talking about it, too,

so you guys can make magic happen.

It's not last minute yet.

Quinn, I would say it is a much shorter flight getting to there

than it would be getting over to Vegas, as well.

So you'd be saving a few hours, and you get to enjoy some tropical nice weather,

where it is very warm and wonderful, and you talk to your dad.

Again, you can make like a Disney trip out of it.

Disney's like two minutes away.

Yeah, I might just go to MTE so I can see the sun.

Yeah, you guys are selling this on me.

Yeah.

No, I'm telling you, there's the snowbird thing of people flocking to Florida

during the winter months.

You get it, you start to understand why the older you get.

Yeah, you kind of, you know, I like this place.

So, Quinn, I want to know, maybe you don't have to be specific,

but were there some general things that you were kind of hoping for this Christmas,

things you were looking to maybe guilt old Pat into putting under the tree there?

Santa's still listening.

Yeah, just in case KCX Santa Claus is still listening.

So I need to watch out, because I believe my girlfriend's also watching this live stream

right now, so I need to be mindful with what I say, so I can't say that much.

There are a couple of things that I would like.

But I mean, yeah, we, so what we do, we have like Christmas Eve,

then we have first Christmas Day, and then we also have a second Christmas Day,

where we have extra time to spend with family.

We have all these different kinds of traditions where we pull straws,

and then somebody needs to buy presents for somebody else in the family.

So it's just a whole fun get together.

Yeah, that's fun.

So you never know who you're going to get until you pull that straw.

Yeah.

Do you guys wear like, so here in the United States, obviously,

many families love wearing matching pajamas, right?

And that's a big tradition.

Dane's family does it, so does Sydney's family.

What I would like to know when you, if you guys do wear matching pajamas,

do you also pair those pajamas with the wooden shoes?

The clumpen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So maybe that's the tradition that we need to address here this year.

All matching pajamas, if we're doing it, that's what it is.

He does the family photo in matching pajamas with the clumpen, the wooden shoes, right?

The clumpen, the clumpen shoes.

They get Han's clothes in to be in his family photos with him, right?

So it's the, it's the Barkle family with Han's clothes in,

featuring Han's clothes in.

He's just an official family member.

The men with the dragon tattoo.

And then maybe they all go get dragon tattoos.

There you go.

Okay.

What do you think, Quinton?

We shall get a TRC tattoos.

So that might be a far stretch.

Listen, hey, Quinton, if we win brand of the year at MTE, right?

Dane's going to get a TRC tattoo.

He's going to do it, right?

I do get it.

Dane, I will go win.

You and TRC may get this tattoo.

Okay.

That sounds like a good deal.

All right.

I like the sound of that.

Sounds like a fun time.

So anyways, we know it's late over there and we know that, you know, it's getting to be a midnight time.

So Quinton, thank you guys so much.

We appreciate everything the Rag Company Europe does.

You guys are an amazing team.

We love our partnership and we are looking forward to many, many more years of doing what we do.

So thank you so much for joining us.

Happy holidays.

Great video too.

Yeah.

Thank you guys as well.

And we wish you all a happy holiday and a happy new year.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Quinton.

We'll see you later.

You guys take care.

Thank you guys.

Take care.

Bye-bye.

All right.

That guy is famous.

He's famous now.

He is one of the most famous TRC commercials.

And you know, the fact that we were able to get him on here, he's a movie star.

It's tough.

It's tough to get these schedules lined up.

But you know, I tried.

And so far, we're doing pretty good.

So thank you to everybody.

I hope I didn't overstep by offering Hans Klozen as a family member.

You know, but you know.

You know he'd be there at the drop of a hat.

He would be.

Anthony's just like, you know, all our Dutch guys, you all look alike.

So we're just going to.

I didn't say that, Dane.

I did not say that.

I just said that maybe they all wear wooden shoes.

It's called the sound it makes.

It's an automaton.

Oh no.

Where's Hans at?

Is he not in these comments?

He's around somewhere.

I have some helpful tips here.

You guys need to get Hans on next year.

I know.

That would be a good idea.

I should have thought of that.

It's too late now.

I'm sorry.

Um, better be good or Krampus will get you says Neil White.

I think Neil White is probably a fan of the Krampus movie.

I think he is.

I don't necessarily want this to happen.

No midsummer vibes, please.

Oh, no, don't don't want that.

Midsommar is actually a beautiful movie.

And I think it's often misinterpreted as a horror movie.

It is a horror movie.

No, it's a love story.

It's a horror movie that happens to be happening mostly during daylight.

It doesn't make it not a horror movie and you love Florence.

My wife could be watching this quiet, but it's true.

She knows I love Florence.

Sorry.

And it is a love story between me and her.

And, you know, and that is just how it is.

She just doesn't know it yet.

Oh dear.

Neil White.

Sid, you wrote the last one.

He did.

Neil White says.

Now this one's for Sidney.

Okay.

Hi, do you spray with crystal wash bottle?

Do I pre spray?

Yes, I do.

I pretty much pre spray everything with crystal wash.

Love it.

All right.

And then GT wanted to make sure and say Sidney.

Yay.

Now the Q and A is complete.

Yay.

And then there's a question from Lloyd Detailer saying,

if you had a hundred dollar budget for your Secret Santa,

how would you spend it at TRC?

Good question.

Go around the horn and see how that goes.

A hundred dollar budget would be pretty easy for me, actually.

RIP and RAG, again, 80 count would be at that.

So it's $30 right there.

So I'd cross that off my list there.

I'd probably get myself a pack of something plush, right?

You know, I'd get a plush towel of some sort

or possibly even like an FTW of some sort, right?

So I've got three pack or a plush pack of something

to get me in that low 20s.

So now I've spent about 50 bucks

and I have some all-purpose random towels,

some plush towels to use on some fancy stuff.

And then I would probably fill the rest

with a couple decent chemicals that I would probably use.

If it's Christmas time, then what I'm going to grab

is probably some Christmas O&R coming in at under $20, right?

If I'm using the plush towels from my Rensseless, I can.

Or I could pick up some additional chenille wash mitts

for a good deal and get that done, right?

And then really all I need to do is top it off

with maybe an IK Trigger Sprayer and probably a-

You've spent well over a hundred dollars.

Nope, there's no way.

There's no way.

I think they meant pre-employee discount.

No, well, no, no, I'm saying pre-employee discount, right?

So look at it.

So 30, right?

30 plus 20, I'm at 50, right?

And then I have O&R, which is sub 20, right?

So I'm at a little under 70.

IK Trigger Sprayer for probably 15, right?

And then I'll probably top it off with a drawing towel,

some sort like the big one.

It puts me right under 100.

Can somebody do the math?

No.

Somebody do the math.

I don't think your math was mapping.

It is mapping.

I promise you it is.

Well, TOC already did the math for me,

and I'm going to pick the ADS exterior wash bundle,

which is $99.99.

I was, I had that queued up.

How the heck?

Oh, man, we are just so insane.

It's because I'm matching a jama pants on right now.

You guys are wrong, and I am adding up this total right now.

Hold on.

Give me a moment.

This is Modesto math right there.

Oh, Modesto math.

Hey, don't, yeah, I don't bring Modesto into this

because it doesn't, yeah, it's not good for anybody.

I'm just giving him a $50 TRC gift card,

and then I'm filling the rest out with ripping rags.

No.

I'm going to show.

You guys are giving out 100 dollar red company tattoos.

Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

Since Joey picked my first pick,

I'm actually going to also go the bundle route,

but the complete exterior wash kit

with a bunch of the P&S products

is a Shine All Break Buster Pearl and Bead Maker

with some wash pads, applicators, and towels.

So there's a lot of bundles

that are $99.99.

It doesn't have to be specific to one brand

if you have another favorite brand

or whoever this gift is for is favorite brand.

Or even as, because Joey and I actually talked about this

on Friday on our last show,

but you can essentially get the whole KCX blue bottle bundle

for 100 bucks, which is regular 260 bucks.

If you like aesthetics and being the same,

you can line it all up nicely.

I like this one from Mac here.

So you might as well get something for yourself

to make that total 115 for free shipping.

So that's an option too.

That's true.

I think that's probably a good way to do it

is probably to get yourself into that,

and get yourself into that range.

I'm currently working on my range right now.

Okay, so Sydney, I'm going to talk to you here

because you know what?

This is actually meant to be your section of the show.

Yeah, but my answer is really easy.

Okay, bring it.

I would literally just keep adding rip and rags

until the total was 100 bucks.

Amazing.

Literally, like I'm obsessed with the rolls,

but I like the 30 count rolls.

Okay, okay, yeah.

Because I keep them in my kitchen too.

So I like the 30 count rolls,

but then I would need a box of Ultras too

because when I go to buy those, I'm always like,

oh, but you know, there's like,

there's a lot of them in there and they're nice.

So I would add a box of Ultras,

and then I would keep adding rolls of rip and rags

until I was at 100 bucks.

Do you guys have a favorite color of the Ultras?

Well, you know what?

Well, this is really probably not a question I should answer.

Because I kind of kicked and screamed

and wanted the white ones, but you know.

They started teal like you want, but not teal enough, I guess.

No, they were blue.

Yeah, they're blue.

The blue ones, I don't know, are softer,

but I really wanted the white ones, and I kind of, you know, asked.

Strongly, for the few of us.

I don't think I noticed a difference between the colors,

but I currently have a box of the white ones,

and I have them in the Gully's Garage shelf,

and I don't know, there's something about

seeing the blue hanging out and the oil I just spurred.

I mean, I still buy both, and I use both,

but I would say that I probably tend

to grab the blue ones first, which, I mean.

All right.

Like, well, I want to still have those.

If you're using them for coatings,

it helps to stay organized,

so I understand the colors, total preference.

I want to get Alpha Tangos in here.

Merry Christmas, TRC, and DGP family.

Thanks for an amazing year.

Do you guys know if I need a 10% coupon code?

Does anybody got on our channel?

GV10.

GV10, baby.

What year is Alex?

Oh, brother.

Are they stack full?

Well, we have GV10 if you want to support both of us.

Yeah.

GV10, hold on.

It's our equal opportunity coupon code.

Let's go ahead and see where I'm at right now.

Okay, so with everything in, oh, crap.

I'm about to pay for this.

I don't want to try not to pay for it.

Okay.

I got everything I told you I was going to get, right,

which includes, I actually will break this down

for you right now.

So here's the one thing, right?

Costa Rippin' Rags did go up just a few bucks, right,

on the 80 count, and I will put in a request to change that.

So it meets, I mean, my goal's here.

But I have IK, TR360 sprayer.

I have a two-pack of Chanel wash mitts.

I have a big one drying towel.

I have the Wolfpack plush towels.

I have an 80-count thing of Rippin' Rags.

And I have the Christmas edition O&R, right,

which comes out to a grand total, right,

minus tax of 105.31 with the GV10 discount code.

That's pretty freaking good for eyeballing.

And I didn't know that there was a price increase

on one of those things.

I would say that's within, like, room for error.

Yeah.

Like, when you have, like, a gift.

That's fair enough.

Well, I think that's fair.

You hear that?

I do.

I'm hearing it again.

Something, you got a visitor, I think.

Huh.

Whoa.

Oh, my goodness, buddy.

Speaking of optimum notice.

Hey, guys, how you been?

Hey, man.

Jason, it is so good to see you.

For people who don't know, Jason's famous

from Optimal and Polymer Technologies.

He goes, hey, guys, Jason with Optimal Polymer,

Optimal and Polymer Technologies.

And today, and then he jumps into, you know, his video.

Similar to, like, a hey, guys, he's in The Rad Company.

But, like, Jason does it better,

because I think his hair is significantly better than mine.

The hair keeps getting better with each guest.

Jason's hair game puts everyone else's to shame.

It does.

So, Jason, happy holidays.

For all my powers you're alive from.

Yeah, talk to us.

How's everything been?

Doing very well.

We're coming to you via a school bus today.

This is wrestling season.

So, I also have the role, not only Jason from OptiCote

and now from Optimal Polymer Technologies,

but I'm also the head coach of the wrestling team.

So, today, all right.

That's amazing.

I love that.

Our call in is on the school bus

in the parking lot of a wrestling meet.

So, I did want to miss it and make sure it's there for you guys.

No, I really appreciate it.

Jason is witnessing this and seeing

that you're doing that good of a job

on a dedication right there to the game.

That's amazing.

I'm glad to be here, guys.

So, Jason, did you watch John Cena's last match on Saturday?

Oh, I did see.

I saw highlights, so.

I had to check.

Okay, so, because Jason, you are a wrestling enthusiast

as well as an RC car enthusiast as well.

This is correct.

I think my friend over there at TRC

kind of got me interested after spending some time out there.

And it wasn't even, I think, three days, Anthony,

that I had called you, sending text pictures of,

what do you think of this one?

What do you think of that one?

Yeah, that's true.

And now, Jason is an RC enthusiast

where he gets to run his dogs

and enjoy the benefits of RC'ing out on acreage,

which I do not have the privilege of doing yet,

but someday, eventually, I'd like to be able to do that.

But on top of that, though, Jason is also

just a big fan of detailing and a big fan of making videos

and the gospel of optimum Palmer technology.

So what is new over at Optimum?

And what are you guys doing for the holiday season?

Well, as you know, we've got the O&R holiday scent,

which is fantastic out there.

It's doing very well.

People are asking for more and more of it

so they can save it for maybe July,

so they can have Christmas in July and bring it out again.

We've got a few new things in the mix for the regular consumer.

We'll probably have those rolled out at TRC SEMA,

so we might keep those a secret for a little bit.

You know, the big MTE conference is coming up.

So we'll be out that talking about our products.

But yeah, you'll have to stay tuned for the TRC SEMA

for the brand new products that'll be ready to order at that time.

Nice. So I'm going to see you here in a month as well,

right? So you'll be here.

Sweet.

Yes, they're 100%.

It'll be a good time, man.

I think it'll be very fun.

I'm going to try to come out and surf your river again

if I get a chance.

Oh, it's true.

Yeah, that's true.

TRC SEMA, it'll be surfing lessons with Jason

at the Boise River.

I think that's right.

You'd look right at home.

Doer, I think we were the only ones not invited

to come visit next month.

I didn't know what to say next month.

I'm saying we're going to MTE next month,

and then here in three months, it will be TRC SEMA.

So but next month it'll be, you know,

so maybe what we'll do is we'll do surfing with Jason,

surfing lessons with Jason at MTE,

which involves alligators and Florida water.

And it's a surf fast kind of kind of thing.

And then at TRC SEMA.

With a polar bear event because that water is really cold.

So we're going to laugh the water from that river it's cold.

How much, so Alex and Joey, how much would you guys,

how much store credit would you guys need

to actually go do surf lessons

with Jason at the Boise River?

On the first of April.

How do you do it?

In what, in what month?

April.

April, April.

Like the very first of April, it's very cold.

Still kind of cold.

Not kind of.

That's all right.

Freezy.

So Alex, I mean, could we do it?

Could, would you guys be interested under peer pressure?

I honestly, I would just do it for the biggest towel you got

to dry myself off when I'm done.

Okay.

Oh wow.

Yeah.

I'm not a great swimmer, so I'm not going to do it.

But I do think that between Joey and Alex,

I think that there's definitely something there.

Well, Joey just stands up in the water.

It doesn't matter how deep it is.

I just touched the bottom of the river.

I also can't say my name out in public anymore

because of the events of this year.

Oh yes, yes, yes, yes.

Of course, of course.

So, no, I think it's going to be a really fun time,

but other than that though, Jason, are you doing,

are you doing anything personal for, for Christmas

or anything like that?

Are you taking any time off?

Are you going to go see family?

Anything like that?

Yeah, I've got some family around this area.

We're going to try to host Christmas this year,

a small version of it.

First time that I've actually hosted Christmas, so.

Oh wow.

Excited about that.

And big wrestling season.

Both I have twin boys that are both hardcore wrestlers

and then I'm a wrestling coach for another team.

So during the holiday season, we'll be working these kids

pretty hard when they're on winter break

to get them ready for their big sectionals come January.

So personally, I'll be working with those guys a lot

during the next couple of weeks to get them ready.

Now, wait a second.

If I heard that right, you don't have to like

run your team up against your own kids at some point, do you?

I do indeed.

Yep, my team goes against them and unfortunately,

their team kicks our butt quite a lot.

The boys, I'm about the same weight as my boys

and about a year ago, I could take them both at the same time,

but don't let them know.

They could probably each take me now,

but don't let them know that.

Okay, we'll make sure they don't watch this.

Yeah, it's TLC secret, all right.

Yeah, that's too funny.

That's awesome.

No, we're looking.

Another exciting, I've got my Belgian Malinois.

Oh, yeah.

It's a fully trained protection dog.

It does service.

It does obedience.

It's due to have its puppies here in January.

So that'll be a big deal.

The police department's coming down to pick some out.

So I've decided to take my very, very good girl

and make more of her and share that with the rest of the world.

I love a dog with a jaw.

That's awesome.

I'm on pregnant pup during the holiday.

How many do you know?

Do you know how many you'll probably expecting

or is it kind of like you just don't know until it happens?

They say it depends on how many times

they get to go on a date with their boyfriend.

Okay.

So yeah, we're looking at probably six to seven

is what the count looks like.

It'll be, I'll know in two weeks when we get the ultrasound.

But yeah, it's kind of a big deal.

Police department's coming in and they've already purchased

two of them, so they pick out their dogs.

So I travel a lot obviously for OptiCoke.

I get a chance to visit you guys,

but I also take advantage of when I'm home.

I can do things like have a litter of puppies.

So that'll be our Christmas present to ourselves, I guess.

That's fine.

Puppies are great.

Do you guys need a puppy?

No, I don't know.

Have you seen my dog?

No.

Oh yeah, I've seen your dog.

Yeah, Piper, yeah.

I mean, but Dane, Dane was those puppies.

Melanoise are amazing dogs.

I'm not fit to take care of the level of intensity

that Melanoise is.

There's no way you could go from a full dog to a Dino.

What if the Melanoise got you like jacked?

Like what if like you turn into a new person because of the dog?

I don't know about that.

Melanoise, he knows.

The Melanoise are intense, man.

You got to keep it engaged.

That's a lot of pressure to put on the dog, ain't it?

Yeah.

That is directly the opposite of puppy.

There's no such thing as a lazy Melanoise.

Yeah.

You know, there's not, depending how many we have,

maybe we'll bring one to TRC SEMA

and we'll do a free puppy giveaway, all right?

Oh man, holy smokes.

And it comes with an RC car to actually run the Melanoise,

right?

I mean, that would be the deal, right?

That might do it.

That is 100% true.

I have a 12 acre front yard and that thing,

I run that dog around the yard while I sit on the porch

having electric lemonade.

Yeah, man.

That's too funny.

I like this comment here from Steve.

I have twin boys and could not imagine

what our house would be like if they were wrestlers.

Are you good at drywall repair now?

Between the wrestlers, the four sheep, the four goats,

the, you know, 16, 20 chickens, we have a full house.

They're not all out in the house, although they try.

Yeah, my carpet has seen better days.

You'd come and look at my carpet that was replaced

two years ago and think that, you know,

my grandma had lived here.

You know what, man?

I was watching it.

It's, you know, you're living it out, man.

That sounds like the funnest time ever though.

I mean, you're going to have a very full filled life.

I will tell you guys something that's,

if you take O&R, the Christmas version,

put it in your carpet shampooer, okay,

which is safe to do, and it doesn't bubble,

you know, and it doesn't like foam up or anything.

That actually does a really good light cleaning

of like your carpets and things like that

and leaves that smell behind.

So that's what I've been using.

Whoa, you should have told me that.

Joey is ready.

That's a great idea.

Joey is ready.

I didn't even think about that.

Yeah.

That's a better, that's a better idea than I have.

I was just going to, you know,

put a little bit on the stove and boil it.

But I think cleaning the process is way better.

Yeah, it's like cinnamon sticks.

Carpacampo is great.

There's some cinnamon sticks in there.

What are you boiling, chemicals?

Honey, that's a good thought.

Don't do that.

That is too funny, man.

Well, Jason, we were,

I like you guys, I'm sorry,

I like you guys to set up in the back.

It looks fantastic.

Thank you.

All credit goes to Glenn, by the way.

Glenn did an awesome job.

Glenn and Nick get everything set up to where it makes

this whole vibe of this absolutely awesome.

But anyways, Jason, we don't want to take too much of your time.

We know you're probably busy.

So thank you so much for joining us on the show.

We appreciate everything that Optimum does.

We appreciate our partnership.

We're looking forward to a great 2026.

But we wanted to wish you just a happy holidays from us

for Christmas as well as New Year's.

Well, you two guys, I saw you out in SEMA.

And you know, I can't go very long without hanging out

with you guys.

So I guess I'll see you here.

And like you said, less than 30 days.

So you guys all have a happy holidays.

Stay safe out there.

And we'll catch you guys around the flip side soon.

Good luck to you, Tim.

Go get them.

Happy holidays.

See you later.

Go Thunderbirds.

Thunderbirds.

That's awesome, man.

That's crazy.

Jason's right.

If you guys have never met Jason in person, not you guys,

but just anybody in general, you got to meet Jason in person.

And Jason's just super awesome, man.

Just such a genuinely nice guy.

And you'll usually catch him at places like SEMA or TRSEMA.

And then I know he does make his way out

to the optimum headquarters from time to time

for training events and certain video shoots and stuff.

So super, super cool.

I have a question here while we wait for our next guest.

Choose Free is wondering, what if O&R in absolute had a baby?

That would be interesting.

What would that?

What would that sound like?

So the Christmas O&R hangs around on the sponge a lot,

I noticed.

And I went between that and in absolute wash.

It was kind of pleasant.

The sponge still had that cinnamon scent,

but I had the coconut lime going on.

So it was like, no Christmas in the bombas.

Yeah.

I've been using the Christmas O&R,

so I need to switch back and see what happens.

Leave it to Joey to mix up all the trees.

Yeah.

No, I hadn't even thought about that.

Not his first time he's mixed up.

That's my joke.

Oh man.

All right.

Let me go back to my cue here while we're waiting for a friend.

I've got a clarification from Megan,

wanted to point out that Sarah would like to issue a correction.

You're middle age, not old.

Also, she is not Gen Z.

She is Gen Alpha.

That's the next one after Z,

because Z pretty much taken the spot of millennials.

Now they're all in their 20s and stuff like that,

so they're dealing with all the things we dealt with last decade.

OK.

Good time.

We are the elder millennials now.

Yeah.

I don't even know what generation I'm in.

You're probably X.

Oh, Dean.

That's just...

What does that mean?

I don't even know.

Dean, this can be a millennial.

She can be a millennial.

I'm sure I'm a millennial, right?

Does X, you're not, but we're X, but we invite you in.

We invite you in.

No, Gen X, the birthdays end in like 82 or three, right?

Yeah, it's 82 or 81.

Some people...

OK.

Is everyone...

Yeah, and...

Who do they start?

They start in like 67, so it's a big range.

So they throw that out there.

But no, no, I think.

Yeah, so that's why you're holding yourself.

You didn't have to...

I pay to be a millennial.

Does that count?

That counts.

Yeah, OK.

Millennials is a state of mind.

Yeah, it's a good millennial.

Most people just want to bag on millennials all the time,

so I wouldn't really want to go out of my way to be one.

It wasn't our fault.

I could probably do my best impression of a millennial.

We're just kind of stuck there.

Anyways, moving on.

Holy smokes, I'm hearing things.

Oh, you're in that?

Yes, we have some bills falling down the chimney again, Dean.

This keeps happening.

Wow, they just keep...

Oh my goodness.

So it crossed the pond.

I have missed this guy.

John Holm, welcome all the way from TRC UK.

Hi, John.

And Clean and Shiny UK for that matter.

Amazing.

And oh no, I realize, I don't know if we can hear him.

We can't hear him.

John, hold on, he's...

It's a setting.

Hold on.

It's OK, you're not the first one to experience this today.

Yeah.

He's going to figure this out.

Andrew Wurkheis from KCX also had the issue,

and we worked it out pretty quickly.

So we believe in you, John.

I just want to put...

Let's start complimenting John until it's time,

because I think he's been a minute or so.

He is the Jason Statham of Rad Company UK.

That's right.

I mean, look at him.

That's absolutely right.

He's got the same dome.

So, yes.

Yes, and my favorite movies that John's in

are The Transporter 1, The Transporter 2.

I love Crank.

I had Crank was also a great movie.

Yeah, in the Fast and Furious movies, of course.

Really good villain in the Fast and Furious, yeah.

Yes, yes.

Every major blockbuster Jason Statham,

John Statham has been in, and it's been great.

Oh, man.

I think he's figuring it out.

We'll give him a minute here.

No, he's figuring it out.

In the meantime, let's talk about the Rad Company UK,

and let's give him a shout out because over the Rad Company UK,

you can find a lot of the same amazing products

as well as a lot of the Rad Company Microfiber products

over there available, and it was previously,

I guess it was technically clean and shiny, right?

It now has transitioned to more of a Rad Company presence

for the UK, specifically kind of taking over that name

the same way Rad Company Europe has taken over that name,

and it's great because it's a spot to be able to get

all of your towels, all of your supplies,

and it is our official extension over in the United Kingdom,

and so very cool.

And we get a lot of questions from people all the time

because we have a pretty international audience,

so we get people watching from the UK, Europe,

and they're wondering, where can I get the products

that are closer to me?

So that's when we turn to our good friends like John here,

and I think they're going to do a little technical fix on it there.

It's okay. Nick's going to get him situated.

So we'll just continue to say nice things about John

until he's back.

Oh, there he is.

Is it working?

There he is.

It's working.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay.

I knew it wouldn't be right until I heard an accent,

so here we go.

There we go.

Perfect.

Hang on.

Welcome.

So happy to have you here, sir.

All these lots of hair everywhere.

I'm sorry.

We didn't mean to rub it in.

John, listen.

Dane's more than happy to donate.

It may not come from the top of his head,

but I mean, he's more than happy to donate,

but would be an abundance of hair.

I don't know if he wants that.

You know, I would say an arms back, chest.

He got a lot to offer, Dane.

Ian, you are just wonderful.

Why don't we ask John how he's doing this holiday season?

Moving on.

Oh, it was Dane this time.

John, please, for a love of God,

tell me how it's going this holiday season over in the UK.

So, John, what are your plans for?

Oh, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Yeah, I'm getting up there four years away from 40,

and it's starting to freak me out a little bit.

But I think I'm going to have four very full and fulfilled

years, yes, ideally.

It's going to go by really fast.

Don't say that.

Slow.

Does not go slow.

It's going to go by very slow, right?

Especially raising children, right?

I'm going to look back and go,

wow, those are a long four years, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

No, it's going to go every year.

I remember full.

You could lose all of your hair between now and then, Anthony.

Don't say that.

It doesn't run in my family, to be honest.

But you know, if I were to, I wouldn't be that worried about it.

And I think the key there is to not be worried about it.

And maybe the less you're worried about it,

the less likely it's going to happen, right?

Yeah.

Maybe that's how it works.

So, John, can you tell me what life is like up there

doing the TRC thing where you are?

What are the products people focus on when you're up there?

What are some of the things you find may differentiate

from where we are here in the U.S.

in terms of the customer wants and needs?

I guess we go through a lot of pre-washes here

because it's always raining, it's always raining.

It's not foggy, but it's always gray.

And it's always raining.

I don't think I've seen the sun in a few days.

Oh, no.

Really?

Has it been a few days?

Yeah, pre-washes, spray sealants.

That sort of thing is what we go through a lot of over here.

And are you still keeping up on...

What's the top-selling pre-wash?

Oh, yeah.

Actually, that's a good question.

Not like that.

The hot-selling pre-wash?

Uh, for us, it would be something like a Stianogloss product

or a Laboposmetica product in the U.K.

Okay.

Yeah.

Those are the two that we...

Yeah.

You know, those are the two that we do the most.

Yeah.

Problem?

Heavy hitters.

Yeah.

So is Force still very popular over there in the U.K.?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's still popular over here.

Yeah, Force is the...

It's a miracle pre-spray product.

I mean, it just melts everything off.

It's incredible.

Very, very good stuff.

And what about your cars, John?

How are you keeping up on those every week?

Are you doing washes?

Are you driving them every week?

Or...

I wish.

I haven't driven my M2 since August.

Oh, wow.

What?

Why?

It's got paint hit.

Well, I took it to the Nerve O'Ring.

I drove it around the Nerve O'Ring four or five times.

I then drove it back and I drove it into a...

I drove it back and dropped it off at the paint shop.

And they painted it.

And then it's just been PPF'd yesterday.

What did they paint on it?

The bonnet, the bumper, the wings.

Was it just a re-spray on it?

Just to touch?

Yeah, just a re-spray.

There was no damage.

It was just a re-spray.

It was stone-shipped.

Do you remember that?

How bad was a stone-shift?

Was it pretty bad?

Yeah.

Don't you remember?

Yeah, I maybe dropped back a little bit.

When it was in the shop.

And I think...

I don't think we were washing it.

I think somebody else was.

But I remember having some...

I don't remember it.

But did it get worse after the ring?

Or were you just like, I'm just going to dry the ring?

Yeah, it's been a couple of years of getting worse.

Okay, gotcha.

Yeah, no, it's now a single-shift.

It's not.

Nice.

She's here.

Gotcha.

Completely restored.

So...

Very good.

I'm hoping that, you know,

maybe Santa or just drop a GT3 RS off or something.

I'm hoping for the same thing, John.

Yeah, where's that Santa?

I don't want that Santa.

I asked what he told us.

Yeah, when that Santa stops by you,

you tell him that the same one to come to my house.

Exactly.

That's the ex-Santa.

The pressure's on, man.

Yeah, I think I'm just going to get like a toy, you know.

I think I've got a Lego one somewhere.

Yeah, that's a start.

Yeah, that is a start.

Yeah, so are you guys taking any time off over there?

Right, coming to UK and Clean and Shiny?

Are you guys going to be working through the holidays?

No, we're going to stop on Christmas Eve

and come back on the 2nd.

Okay, good.

Nice sort of breaks.

You know, we're going to get it on the Friday.

Hopefully get the orders out from over Christmas.

But yes, from next Wednesday it's family time.

I get to be seeing the grandchildren

because I'm old enough for grandchildren, unfortunately.

They're very young grandchildren.

Super young.

Yeah, yeah.

Little Romanian.

Yep, very much so.

Super young.

Young grandpa.

What, in terms of like Christmas presents

and things like that, I mean,

are you guys finding a lot of people

who seem to be buying gifts for others,

you know, coming from the Rad Company UK store,

or do you think a lot of people are buying stuff for themselves?

Or, you know, what do you feel like the main,

you know, kind of purchasing, I don't know?

I mean, we're selling a lot of gift vouchers

and we're having a lot of people coming in

and picking stuff up that isn't your normal sort of

detailing customer who would come in.

There are their girlfriends, wives,

that sort of thing that would come in.

That's not the normal thing.

Scoring some good points is what they're doing then,

right? They're getting the good stuff.

That's cool.

Yeah, no, that's fantastic.

So yeah, no, it's been a busy,

busy few weeks.

We've got a lot of towels that have been going out

and we need to get some more towels in.

Yeah, yeah, no, I'm very sure.

What about, do they do anything exciting in London

for during Christmas time?

Like, what's the most exciting thing in London

that they'll do, like, you know, downtown London?

Well, they have the Winter Wonderland there.

That's in one of the parks.

Okay.

But that's like your German fare type thing.

In the sales trinkets, got rides,

sells the sausages and the food,

and then there's the, like, the Varian beer houses,

that sort of thing.

That's a good time.

You get yourself a good walking sausage

and a good beer, right?

And, you know, and ideally, you don't let go of the sausage.

You're traveling from one sausage stand to the next

and you have a belly full of sausage inside.

Is there a sausage you can't walk with?

There are certain sausages that are more awkward

to walk with, for sure.

But you can break it up with a pretzel.

Like the full U-turn.

Yeah, you don't want, you have to wear those, essentially,

and you don't want to have to do that, right?

Anthony just needs a bib while walking around as well.

Yeah, good walking sausage.

No, I was just curious, because I know, you know,

obviously going through London,

and we've been through London actually multiple times now,

with John, we've ridden, we've done the, like,

the stereotypical bus ride where we're at the top of the thing,

freezing our butts off, you know.

I've got to say, my heads off to you, seriously,

for having us go on the, you know, topless bus tour,

where we're going around on the double deck

or where there's no roof on it.

But that was actually an amazing experience,

and I'm normally one who goes, uh, touristy stuff,

I don't want to.

But actually, I loved that.

Like, it was a great way to see a ton of the city

in a, you know, decently, quick sort of time,

without feeling like you missed anything.

And then you can go back and drop in on the stuff

that caught your interest along the way.

Yeah, exactly.

Oh, no, I love that.

We did the London Eye as well, didn't we?

Yeah, the London Eye was also really cool.

We did the London Eye.

My favorite, well, my, I love going on the,

I thought the London Eye was very interesting, cool.

I love going on the bus ride.

I will, I vividly remember going on the bus ride.

And like, there was the story about the dragon statues.

Do you remember that?

There's like these little dragon statues

that are across different parts of the town.

They had different significance.

And I was like, oh, this is fun and exciting.

And, uh, yeah, the only downside about London

is we'd be finding a bathroom, right?

In a very fast manner.

And that's just an Anthony problem.

So all Anthony worries about that.

Jim Carcare has a question for John,

wondering what your favorite football team is.

Well, I'm not a football guy.

But, uh, I suppose.

Well, you're living in the country where it's a thing, man, so.

We, we find out that people don't like sports.

It's great.

You know, it's, that's how we do things here at TLC.

We all kind of hang out around each other, isn't that funny?

Yeah.

It's because we don't like sports.

We end up finding each other.

That's how it works.

Am I the only one that watches football here?

Yes.

Man, that's crazy.

I know how it works.

There's going to be, there's going to be,

there's going to be a boxing fight tomorrow

that I'm interested in watching

with Jake Paul and the one guy,

just because I want to see Jake Paul beat up.

Oh, look at this.

Yeah, that's going to be good.

Is he the same one that fought Mike Tyson, Jake Paul?

Yeah, that was rigged.

Oh, totally.

It was rigged.

Oh my gosh.

It was rigged.

Mike Tyson could have eaten him alive.

He should have eaten both of his ears and just ended up right there.

While they're distracted with that,

I just want to remind you again,

say thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule

to spend some time with us, to talk for a little bit,

whether there was hair involved or not is neither here nor there.

But I really do appreciate you coming out this way.

And thank you.

Thank you very much.

We can't wait to see you again, John.

We miss you, man.

Good to see you, John.

You're our most trusted resource.

I appreciate you having me on here.

No problem.

I appreciate you having me on here.

And yeah, it's great working with you guys.

It's great seeing you guys again.

And next year, we should do this in person.

We should.

We really should.

Agreed.

I'll make the extra effort and come to Seymour or something.

Please do.

Something you know you're welcome.

Yeah, we'll figure it out.

But John, we appreciate you.

Happy holidays to you and everybody else there in the TRC UK

and Clean and Shiny.

And we'll see you here pretty soon.

Bam.

Thank you.

And to you guys.

And to all the watchers.

Happy holidays, guys.

Happy holidays.

See you later.

Thank you.

See you later.

John's great.

I couldn't believe we got Jason Statham.

I mean, John Statham on the show.

Ron Statham.

No, if KCX got Santa, we got John Statham,

which I feel like is just as good.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

He's solving just as many of the world's problems.

Actually, we had to follow Andrew and Santa.

I just, that was what it was.

That's a little tough.

Well, I understand.

That was kind of intimidating.

You guys have a tough show.

I think as long as Alex can visualize Mike Tyson eating

Jake Paul's ears, then I think you'll be happy.

We have Ron A. Yote in the chat says,

age is just a number and attitude.

And you cannot have a mid-life crisis

if you refuse to grow up.

Yeah, it's a solid point, Ron A. Yote.

True.

Very true.

And I tell my wife all the time that I refuse to grow up.

And she says, that's OK, but you need to really fold your clothes.

And I go, I don't do that.

And she doesn't like that answer very much.

Yeah, there are certain things.

Laundry and dishes.

And does Mike do those things?

Yeah.

He does.

Yeah, Mike's a grown up.

He does the dishes.

And you've got to have a system.

Yeah, I do the laundry.

He's not good at laundry.

I wash the clothes because I can't make a bed to save his life.

Because they need to be a specific size.

And then my wife will put them away.

Gotcha.

I would say in general that the dishes, I'm

great at loading the dishwasher, horrible at unloading it.

Laundry, great at throwing the clothes in, horrible at pulling them out.

And then in general, but there's things like vacuuming.

I love vacuuming.

I think vacuuming is the best thing ever, right?

Something like a freshly vacuumed room, right?

Amazing.

Making a bed, hate that.

And I only hate it because of the reaching

and yanking of the covers to make it perfect.

Because then I go, if it's made so nice and tight,

just don't sleep in the bed.

Right.

Sleep on top of it.

I can't get in a messy bed, though, man.

Oh, yeah.

Dane, but it's got to be nice and tight.

So Dane is a lone wolf, right?

So when it comes to all these chores at your house,

Dane, in your household, is there anything that,

what are you laughing about?

You just called him a lone wolf.

It's almost like he wanted to say lonely wolf.

And then he said lone wolf instead.

Oh, he's a lone wolf?

I mean, he's a lone wolf.

Some people would totally trade him places.

I don't know if he knows.

Sorry, I'm a girlfriend now.

So you have a girlfriend besides the point.

We have a little wringle jingle going on in my ear.

What is this?

I don't know.

Just a little something that understands me.

Somebody that understands me.

Mm.

OK.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, look at this.

It is somebody that understands me.

Oh, my goodness.

He has worms.

Oh, man.

Levi Gates, the master of shine.

Oh, my gosh.

With an actual staff.

What is that in your hand?

Oh, my gosh.

I love it.

Oh, what is that?

OK.

Well, that's fun.

Well, so, Dane, back to what I was saying.

You're a lone wolf.

So is there any particular household thing

that you don't like doing?

I mean, I find a way to do all the things I got to do.

Like laundry.

Whether it's like laundry.

I actually like doing laundry.

I'm fine doing laundry.

You want to do the best.

Putting it away is the hard part.

Putting it into the machine is easy.

Because you have to go up a third story

to put your laundry away.

Do you always do it?

Or do you sometimes put it on the counter?

Oh, I've always done it.

So anyway, we've got Levi here.

He's waiting for you to ask a question.

Oh, Levi, it's master of shine here.

I'm sorry.

I just figured he knew.

Our good friend Levi looking very stern.

I just figured he knew how this works.

Oh, you're hanging out enjoying the activity.

He's not breaking character.

Yes, he is not breaking character.

So Levi, I see you've got some new attire going on here.

So talk us through what that actually means.

Well, so of course you see I've got my liquid elements vest,

my liquid elements t-shirt.

However, I have my favorite football team.

I see that.

Yeah, there you go.

OK.

And then just enjoying.

Got a little decorations up here at the gate's homestead up here.

And yeah, just enjoying it.

Just hanging out, having fun.

But no, we've been selling polishers left and right.

And we've got big things coming for MTE for liquid elements.

So yeah, make sure you guys come to MTE

and see all the fun stuff I got planned in my Krampus basket.

Amazing.

So what about you and the family?

Is there any couches being punctured by Augie this Christmas?

Is Hadley going on any major voyages or journeys?

I do miss these updates.

Yeah.

What's going on there?

So August is there.

Carly is Carly posting any amazing memes?

Like, what's the plan?

So meme production is still at an all-time high.

Oh, that's amazing.

Christmas meme means.

So that's been going on.

August has been, he's at a dance right now.

The end of school.

They have a dance.

So he's over there.

Wooing.

He's got his dicks and flannel on.

Looking sharp.

Multiple girlfriends probably tonight with that look.

He's all backed out today.

So with a little bit of green because of the flannel.

Very nice to see.

And then Hadley has been playing her flute and drawing and enjoying herself.

So we've been having a good time.

I've got my crows in the backyard.

I've been training and working them.

I've got one good one.

And then a few that just show up.

But going to my wife and friends and flies to me and I throw peanuts at him.

My wife feeds the crows every morning with peanuts in our front yard.

Yeah.

We go through about probably $50 a month in peanuts for the crows.

Are these named peanuts, Levi?

Are you buying planters?

Okay, they're Costco.

I didn't know if you were doing the whole fancy nuts situation.

Like it's always sunny.

We're macking the fancy nuts.

You know what I mean?

Like potentially having nuts allergies.

They prefer unsalted.

And then we get salted just as a treat every once in a while.

Oh, yeah.

These crows are just getting bloated.

So there's somebody killing the crows in our neighborhood.

We're pretty sure it's the man with horns and a staff.

He claims to like them.

But I'm not so sure.

I do.

You want me to get it?

What is it?

My wife has the hay bird and they like all come.

But what do you do?

No, I actually have a crow call that I have.

If you...

It's for cause.

And for cause means come over here.

But there's an alert that there might be food.

So it's a for cause call.

And I have a little thing that goes, it's pretty great.

And then when I see it once they get there.

This is crazy.

Wow.

This is a whole thing.

You guys have to come over here and check it out.

So it's pretty exciting.

So Neil White says, crows are great.

Warning alarms for predators in the area.

But yeah, well, they...

I don't know what predators because we have coyotes.

I have coyotes back here.

I have owls and red tail hawks in my backyard.

They usually rest on my...

The hawk rests on my fence and hangs out.

And then there's an owl on the trees.

But the owls hunt crows.

So you know that.

So the crows try to get home before sunset

when the owl comes out.

So a little lore for y'all.

And that's fine.

Find Festivus event.

No, it's like a full ecosystem that you have over there

at the gate's household, which is pretty incredible.

Does your staff...

Does your staff scare them off?

I sent Anthony a video for his birthday

of my backyard in the morning.

He did.

Actually, it was a beautiful sunrise.

And honestly, I felt like Odin was looking down upon

Levi's home based on just the overall look of the area.

It was quite nice.

Quite nice.

Predator, Coyote, Fox, et cetera.

Yeah, I got all of those.

Yes.

We just got a ton of love for Levi here in the comments.

A lot of people who are excited to see him,

which I figured that might be the case.

So I wanted to make sure and save Mr. Levi for last here

and make your big splash.

No, it's been fun.

It's just like meeting with Levi.

We still haven't met in person.

Technically, no, we have not.

That's what's fun.

We haven't met in person.

Isn't that crazy?

I have not.

Yeah, I have not met the Belinsky.

What?

But isn't that weird?

You would remember.

Yeah, that is really strange.

Yeah, I don't understand.

You guys are keeping them from me.

Man.

Yeah, I don't know what's going on.

But I guess the reason for you to go to MTE, Joey,

is that if you went to MTE,

then you'd be able to see the magic in person.

And you could somehow increase the amount of PTO

that Alex and I accrue.

You just got to work for everywhere you want us to be.

But yeah.

Yes.

You just got to work for an international company.

Is there somebody that I could call Joey

on your end of things at that fruit company?

We can talk.

I mean, I can just put in a good word

and I can act like I have some authority

and just see what happens.

I'll buy you a plane ticket.

Yeah.

Since offering you to get your plane ticket.

That's a good deal.

And you know what?

And that would mean, right?

Joey, Joey, we do a Disney Springs dinner,

right, at a place of your choice.

Maybe it's the Edison, possibly maybe even the

Indiana Jones themed bar.

That would be fun as well.

Or even the Rainforest Cafe.

If we're looking just for some overall,

you know, rainforest vibes.

Oh boy.

Get them on the paddle boat.

You guys are selling me.

But you should come.

It's so fun.

Sorry, we're not trying to peer pressure you right now, Joey.

But if anybody can come to MT, I do highly recommend it.

If I honestly, if I could go back in time,

I would actually tell more people to go last year,

not knowing that the Gaylord, the hotel,

was as amazing as it actually is.

It was probably one of the most incredible hotels

I've ever been to.

This year, it's at the Rosen...

Shingo, yeah.

Rosen, Shingo, yeah.

Not as exciting.

Not as exciting, but I will say the lunch is better.

Is it?

Yeah, because you can go to that little shop

and like make your own sandwiches.

I didn't like that.

I didn't like that there was no lunch options.

No, but there was the city.

I got Buffalo chicken wings every day.

But everybody was there though, but with everybody.

That's the real reason.

Yeah, that's true.

And do you remember when we got lunch in Monterey

and the only thing that was left was couscous

and like beef sticks?

Yes, yes.

That was the worst thing ever.

I think couscous and beef sticks were great.

I thought Levi would like that.

Dane ate that on several trips that we've been on,

with Red Bulls.

Yeah, Dane used to eat that all the time.

Couscous and beef sticks.

Yeah, I know.

The road trip choice of champions.

Me and Levi would be in the front seat

and then we would hear my stomach hurts

and then we'd look back and Dane's juice.

Dane's just looking over and we're like,

what did you eat?

And we see a bunch of Slim Jim wrappers in Red Bull camps.

And you know, I think that's about the right point

to round out our show today.

Thank you so much for that trip down there, Dane.

Oh my God.

Okay, well, Levi, I was very excited to have you here

on the Q&A as a follow-up.

Thank you guys for having me.

And thank you for really committing to the bit.

Horns, staff and all, really, you know,

it's amazing, the whole thing going on.

So I love that.

These are the crampus horns I got my kids for Krampus Nock,

which we tried to attend to celebrate

by going to the Christ Kindle Market here in Denver

on Krampus Nock.

But unfortunately, the train situation

didn't allow us to make it there.

So we had to go on St. Nicholas Day the next day.

So, okay.

But Augie has been wearing these to see us.

We might have been in a different world down here for it.

Yeah.

Well, good to see you, Levi.

We'll see you in 30 days.

No, we'll see you guys.

Coming up next.

See you guys.

Merry Christmas.

And a Happy New Year to you as well.

All right.

So thank you very much, Levi.

And thank you, Joey and Alex, for being through this whole show

with us pretty much.

I mean, you guys were hanging out the whole way.

Sydney for joining us at the halfway point.

It's been a fun Christmas episode, holiday episode,

New Year's episode all rolled in the one.

It's been a great time.

So guys, anything left to say before we round us out?

Yes, please go ahead, Joey.

Thank you for having us.

We probably answered two detailing questions this entire time.

But that's how it works.

I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to you guys.

You guys are some of my favorite people.

I'm so glad that we've become friends to the level that we have

and we get to see each other.

So many times per year.

And yeah, I hope you guys have a great holiday season

with your families and your loved ones.

You guys too.

Thank you.

And same to you, of course.

Yep, agree.

Adding on to what Joey said, I appreciate every one of you guys.

And also the ones there behind the scenes that aren't on camera.

A heck of a crew.

Like Joey said, you guys are basically my second family.

So I'm excited for what 2026 is going to bring.

Excited for TRCMA.

We know a little bit of behind the scenes already.

So you don't want to miss it for sure.

And have a safe and fun holiday this year.

You know, it's really not far away.

So I'm looking forward to seeing everybody here in the same place again.

So that should be a lot of fun.

All right.

So you two, all good to go?

We've been messing up.

Yeah, Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays.

Yes, Merry Christmas.

Happy holidays and a happy new year

because we're not going to be back until after that.

But I really do hope you guys have a safe and wonderful time

and look out for each other.

You know, it's it's hard out there.

So just, you know, treat each other right.

That's what I'm saying.

Good message and on.

Definitely.

All right.

So on that note, we'll see you guys later.

Take care.

See you.

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