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The Rag Company is Changing how it does Live Q&A!
The Rag Company is Changing how it does Live Q&A!
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About this episode
Rag Company’s crew gives a post-TRCMA update and then tackles the big change: live Q&A is evolving, not disappearing. They explain YouTube realities (time/cost vs viewership) and why they’re shifting to fewer, more produced “TRC Live” streams with a clear topic, filming a real video in the background, and a shorter Q&A at the end. The team stresses audience participation, community, and keeping the fun. They also tease next Friday’s household-cleaner challenge, plus discuss TRCMA takeaways, product buzz, and detailing questions.
Topics:
15% off
ambassador program
car detailing
ceramic coat
cheap car challenge
clay bar
clay process
Colourlock
compound
Dawn dish soap
The Rag Company Podcast live experience is changing, (Including the long-running weekly Q&A!) and we want to talk about it while answering your questions about cars, trucks, brands, business advice and more!
Auto Detailing experts Anthony Fisher, Sydni Brae Gwinn & Dane Hennen join forces to answer the internet's burning questions about detail products and techniques.
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Technical
Too Afraid to Ask
Company
Rag Company
"Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to yet another Rag Company Q&A."
The Rag Company (TRC) is a detailing-focused brand known for car-care tools and microfiber products. In this episode, they’re running a community Q&A format, so the brand name is central to understanding the context.
Concept
Live Q&A
"Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to yet another Rag Company Q&A. Could this be the last one? We'll see."
Live Q&A means people ask questions in real time and the hosts answer right away. For car care, it’s helpful because you can get advice that matches what’s going on with your car.
A live Q&A is a real-time question-and-answer format where listeners submit questions and the hosts respond on the spot. In car care communities, it’s useful because you can get product and technique guidance tailored to specific paint, coatings, or contamination issues.
Concept
ambassador program
"Also, a little bit of housekeeping, we have announced the official launch of our new ambassador program... at theragcompany.com... created a new tab... application form to apply to be a content creator... there's actually multiple tiers to this whole program."
An ambassador program is when a brand picks creators to represent them. In this case, The Rag Company is letting people apply to become a content creator for their brand, and there are different levels.
An ambassador program is a structured marketing/community program where selected creators represent a brand and help promote products. Here, The Rag Company is describing a new ambassador/creator program with multiple tiers and an application process on their website.
Term
15% off
"Oh, yeah, we do want to save 15% off, so we will sign up for that for our first order."
They’re offering a 15% discount for your first order if you sign up. It’s basically a welcome deal for new customers.
“15% off” refers to a promotional discount offered to new program participants for their first order. For listeners, this is a practical purchasing hook tied to signing up for the program.
Term
OBD2 port
"I for one was surprised when I saw they had like an OBD2 port on the IKs. That was not something I was aware of."
OBD2 is a plug on most cars that lets you read the car’s computer data. If something has an OBD2 connection, it can pull information from the car to help with diagnostics or monitoring.
OBD-II (often written as OBD2) is the standardized diagnostic connector used by mechanics and scan tools to read vehicle data and trouble codes. When a product or device includes an OBD2 port, it can tap into the car’s electronics for monitoring or alerts.
Part
tire inflator
"[703.9s] Oh, tire inflator. [704.6s] Yeah, I really want that. [705.9s] Ego products."
A tire inflator is a small air pump for your tires. Keeping your tires properly inflated helps them last longer and ride better.
A tire inflator is a portable air pump used to add air to tires. It’s especially useful for maintaining proper tire pressure, which affects ride quality, tire wear, and fuel economy.
Term
wet gloss product
"...the most polished KCX segment that they've had with showing off the new wet gloss product. I was really impressed."
A “wet gloss” product is something you put on your car to make it look extra shiny, like it just got wet. It’s usually used after cleaning to boost the shine.
A “wet gloss” product is a car-care dressing or coating designed to make paint and trim look like it’s freshly wet, with a deep shine. These products are often used after washing to enhance gloss and sometimes add short-term protection.
Brand
Colourlock
"...Colourlock refinement of the brand and re-launch is going to be happening because I will straight up admit that there's been this lull here with the leather cleaning stuff..."
Colourlock is a leather-care brand. The host is saying they’re excited Colourlock is back with better availability for cleaning and maintaining car leather.
Colourlock is a well-known brand in leather care, offering cleaners, conditioners, and refinishing products for automotive interiors. Here, the speaker is specifically talking about Colourlock’s brand refinement and re-launch, and how it affects availability of leather-cleaning recommendations.
Concept
SEMA
"...we started to kind of hit a ceiling with that too. And tier SEMA really shows us what happens when like we go all out..."
SEMA is a big car show in the U.S. centered on aftermarket parts and custom projects. It’s known for builds that go all-in, so the speaker is comparing their content effort to that kind of hype.
SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) is a major U.S. trade show focused on automotive aftermarket products and custom builds. When the speaker says “tier SEMA,” they’re referencing the level of effort and spectacle associated with SEMA-style builds.
Concept
decon
"It was the one where Anthony and I were doing three ways to decon a coding, and we told you guys at the beginning that we were going to be filming a real video..."
In car cleaning, “decon” means getting rid of hidden stuff stuck to the paint that regular washing can’t remove. It’s usually done before waxing or polishing so the finish is truly clean.
“Decon” in car-care usually means decontamination—removing bonded contaminants from paint before polishing or applying protection. Common examples include fallout/iron particles and tar/road grime, typically handled with specialized chemical cleaners and proper wash steps.
Concept
evergreen content
"So what that means is that by creating these live videos, these newer, higher produced live videos, that stuff will be evergreen, it will be searchable, it will have a direction to all of it,"
Evergreen content is stuff that doesn’t go out of date quickly. It keeps getting found and helps people long after it’s posted.
“Evergreen” content is material that stays useful long after it’s published. In this context, the hosts are saying live Q&A videos will remain searchable and relevant instead of disappearing like older episodes.
Term
Q&A
"we keep the connection and keep the fun and keep the aspects of the Q&A that everyone loves and gives a place for everybody to gather and have fun and speak."
“Q&A” just means people ask questions and the hosts answer them. Here, they’re focused on keeping those live sessions fun while still being helpful.
“Q&A” is shorthand for question-and-answer sessions. In this context, the hosts are talking about keeping the live format engaging while still providing useful, accurate answers to car-care questions.
Concept
car detailing
"...we can only talk about detailing so much before we start losing our minds, right? so we have to start kind of breaking it up with some rather odd humor..."
Car detailing is like giving your car a deep clean and a little “care and protection,” not just a quick wash. It can include cleaning the paint, wheels, and even the inside, and sometimes adding a protective layer.
Car detailing is the process of thoroughly cleaning and restoring a vehicle’s interior and exterior surfaces, often including washing, decontamination, polishing, and protection. In the context of this podcast, it’s the core topic they’ve covered for years during their main show and Q&A.
Concept
mobile detailing
"we are not sitting here telling you that you're going to get rich mobile detailing, we're not here to offer you or promise you a lifestyle that you could have..."
Mobile detailing means the car cleaning comes to you. Instead of driving to a shop, the detailer shows up and cleans your car where it’s parked.
Mobile detailing is when a detailer comes to the customer’s location (home, workplace, etc.) instead of the customer bringing the car to a shop. It’s often sold as a convenience service and can be structured as packages, subscriptions, or one-off visits.
Term
compound
"maybe, hey, like yeah, you could try like a compound, like last cut would probably do the job..."
A compound is a cleaning/polishing product that helps remove surface imperfections. It’s usually used before the final steps that make the paint look glossy.
A compound is an abrasive polishing product used to remove defects like oxidation, light scratches, and swirls. In detailing, it’s typically followed by a finer polish and/or wax or sealant to refine the finish.
Concept
detailing world
"We go back to work in the detailing world and I develop products and help guide and create videos for people in detailing."
Car detailing is more than just washing. It’s cleaning and protecting the car’s surfaces so it looks better and stays that way longer.
“Detailing” is the process of cleaning, restoring, and protecting a car’s surfaces—typically paint, glass, wheels, and interior. When the host says they’re in the “detailing world,” they’re referring to the day-to-day work of car care professionals and product development for that workflow.
Concept
cheap car challenge
"I mean, for what it's worth when we had the, you know, for people who didn't know, we did a cheap car challenge once... The cheap car challenge was, you know, when me, Levi and Dane all purchased these really cheap cars, right?"
It’s basically a game where people buy a really inexpensive car and then try to make it look better. The focus is on using car-care skills and products to “bring it back to life.”
A “cheap car challenge” is a format where participants buy very low-cost vehicles and then try to improve them using detailing and restoration techniques. In this episode, it’s tied to using detailing products to make neglected cars look and feel better again.
Part
powder coated
"Jeff, his father had to say, Dane, you're into this so much time that I think we need to pay for these wheels to get powder coated because you, I'm paying you to do this."
Powder coating is a way to coat metal parts with a special powder, then bake it so it hardens. It’s popular for wheels because it tends to last longer and resist rust.
Powder coating is a durable finishing process where a dry powder is applied to a surface and then cured with heat to form a tough coating. It’s commonly used on wheels because it can resist corrosion and wear better than many basic paint jobs.
Term
clay bar
"I had to clay bar the blinds to get the freaking stuff off of there."
A clay bar is like a sticky cleaning pad for car paint or glass. It grabs onto tiny grime that regular washing can’t get off.
A clay bar is a detailing tool used to remove bonded contaminants from paint or glass. It works by physically lifting overspray, industrial fallout, and other residue that washing alone can’t remove.
Term
Dawn Powerwash
"Now, with that said, do I mix my own Dawn Powerwash at home? I do. I make my own."
Dawn Powerwash is a spray dish soap that cuts grease. Some people use it for car cleaning too, sometimes by mixing their own version.
Dawn Powerwash is a consumer spray dish detergent product often used in detailing as a degreaser or pre-wash. Some detailers dilute or modify it at home to match their cleaning needs and reduce cost.
Term
Dawn dish soap
"[3425.2s] Don't anybody write this down. [3426.3s] Don't write this down specifically, but I think it's like something like, [3429.3s] you know, four tablespoons of Dawn dish soap or something of that nature"
Dish soap is meant to cut grease, so it can work for cleaning. They’re talking about mixing it in the right amount to mimic a spray cleaner.
Dish soap is a common DIY cleaning ingredient because it’s formulated to break down grease and grime. The episode discusses using Dawn dish soap in a measured amount (tablespoons) to approximate the Powerwash effect.
Concept
MST
"Well, good question. MST and GMT are the same thing, right? No, MST stands for standard time."
MST means Mountain Standard Time. It’s just a label for a specific time zone, and using the wrong one can throw off when you join an event.
MST stands for Mountain Standard Time, a time zone used in parts of North America. The key point here is that time-zone abbreviations can be confusing, and using the wrong one can make you miss scheduled events like live Q&As.
Concept
MDT
"No, MST stands for standard time. MDT is daylight time. You have to make sure that you're using the correct one."
MDT means Mountain Daylight Time, which is used when daylight saving time is in effect. It’s different from MST, so the clock time can be off if you mix them up.
MDT stands for Mountain Daylight Time, which is used during daylight saving time in the Mountain time zone. The distinction matters because MDT and MST are different offsets from UTC/GMT, so event times can shift.
Concept
GMT
"Otherwise, GMT. GMT is Greenwich Mean Time. I thought it was General Mountain Time. No, it's Greenwich Mean Time."
GMT is a baseline time used worldwide. If you know how many hours your location is ahead or behind GMT, you can figure out the correct time to join something.
GMT is Greenwich Mean Time, a reference time used for global timekeeping. The discussion highlights how to convert from GMT to local time using a plus/minus hour offset, which is important for coordinating live events.
Concept
live streams
"...there are people who watch all the videos who seem to never have a clue that we actually do live streams. So we're trying to work on that..."
A live stream is when the video is happening in real time. Viewers can ask questions and get responses immediately, unlike a normal video you watch later.
The hosts distinguish between people who watch pre-recorded videos and people who join live streams. In car-care communities, live streams often change how questions are answered because viewers can react in real time.
Concept
long distance calling fee
"[4075.1s] Like no long distance caller fee. Yeah. [4079.8s] If I can connect via Wi-Fi and literally FaceTime somebody, right?"
Back in the day, calling someone far away could cost extra money. They’re using that idea to compare it to how modern tech should make international calls easier.
A long distance calling fee is an extra charge for placing phone calls outside your local calling area. The discussion uses it as an analogy for why international calling used to be more complicated and expensive than local calls.
Term
Wi-Fi
"[4079.8s] If I can connect via Wi-Fi and literally FaceTime somebody, right? [4084.2s] Or Instagram, call them or whatever it is."
Wi‑Fi is a wireless network technology that lets devices connect to the internet without cellular data. In the segment, it’s referenced as the pathway that enables apps like FaceTime to work without traditional phone “long distance” charges.
Term
water spots
"[5013.9s] Does anyone know if I can dilute down nanoskin heavy duty acid to remove water spots off of paint or should I stay away from it? [5022.9s] I know it's kind of a slippery."
Water spots are the hard mineral marks that show up after water dries on your car. Regular washing usually won’t remove them, so you need a product made to dissolve those minerals.
Water spots are mineral deposits left behind when water evaporates on paint. They’re often harder than typical dirt, and removing them usually requires targeted chemistry (or careful mechanical methods) rather than standard car shampoo.
Term
snow blower
"I'll treat you a snow blower. Whoa, that's actually a. No, I can't do the snow blower."
A snow blower is a tool that throws snow out of the way so you can clear a driveway. People talk about it in winter because snow and road salt can be rough on cars.
A snow blower is a machine used to clear snow from driveways and sidewalks. In car-care culture, it often comes up because winter weather affects how you maintain paint, wheels, and underbody protection.
Term
ceramic coat
"How many towels needed for a Honda Accord application of ceramic coat?"
Ceramic coating is a protective layer you put on your car’s paint. It helps water bead off and makes the paint easier to clean, but you still need the right towels so it goes on evenly.
A ceramic coating is a liquid polymer/silica-based product that bonds to paint to add hydrophobic water beading and chemical/abrasion resistance. It’s typically applied in controlled steps, and the towel/applicator choice matters to avoid streaking and uneven coverage.
Term
clay process
"I mean, the one thing I don't see here is your clay process. So if you're planning on claying or not claying, because what's going to probably be more important than some of those things that's going to be just claying and iron remover makes sense, right?"
Claying is a step where you rub a special clay over the paint to pull off things that washing can’t remove. After claying, the paint feels smoother and products stick better.
The clay process uses a clay bar (or clay mitt) to mechanically remove bonded contaminants that washing can’t lift—like industrial fallout and some overspray. It typically leaves the paint feeling smoother and improves how well subsequent steps (polish, sealant, wax) bond.
Term
mini split
"Yeah. but I mean, you have ventilation in your car, right? Your mini split. And I'm not spraying that much."
They’re basically saying they have some kind of airflow going while they work, so the spray doesn’t hang around. In a car, that would mean using the fan/AC to move air.
“Mini split” is typically an HVAC system term, and here it’s being used as a metaphor for having airflow/ventilation available. In a car context, it likely refers to running the cabin airflow/AC to move air while spraying.
Company
OxyClean
"OxyClean powder. So you don't want to use that because OxyClean, the powders do not completely dissolve."
OxyClean is a stain-fighting cleaner. Here they’re saying the powder form can leave bits behind if it doesn’t dissolve completely, and those bits can act like grit in microfiber towels.
OxyClean is a household oxygen-based cleaner (often sold as a powder) used to lift stains and odors. In this context, the hosts caution that the powder form may not fully dissolve in a microfiber wash, leaving abrasive particulates behind.
Company
P&S Fullsend
"Will Embry, I noticed P&S Fullsend has sold out and has been mentioned in a few live streams. What's the buzz around it other than being a rubber and plastic coating?"
P&S Fullsend is a product you spray on tires and wheels to make them look shiny and clean. The discussion here is about how easy it is to apply and how nice it looks afterward.
P&S Fullsend is a tire and wheel dressing product from P&S (Professional Products & Services). In this segment, the host discusses why people like it—especially its application behavior and how it finishes after spraying.
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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to yet another Rag Company Q&A.
Could this be the last one?
We'll see.
Hmm.
Throw that out there.
Get people scared.
Get people worried.
I think they're worried.
So they tune in.
I think they are a little freaked out.
Yeah.
We've been having some meetings lately, some stuff's been going on, but before we get
into all that, I just want to say thank you to everybody who tuned in to TRCMA.
We will definitely be talking about that today, because guess what, today, kind of an old
school episode.
It's actually very lo-fi.
We don't even have a car we're detailing today.
It's just Sydney, Anthony, and myself sitting here chatting with you and what you guys want
to talk about.
Yeah.
That's the kind of show we were, you know, planning on.
Anyway, is there any kind of housekeeping, anything going on, guys, anything we can touch
on on the website stuff that's happening, or we just want to talk about TRCMA.
I literally hit these guys with zero plan before we walked out here.
That's how old school it is.
We're like barely on re-entry, you know, we're like, we haven't like fully re-entered yet.
Okay.
Well, Dane, thanks for asking.
There it is.
So, there is a little housekeeping we can touch up on, and hey, guys.
Ooh, I got a close one for you.
That's nice.
Hey, you.
Been a while.
I missed you.
Oh, man.
Glad to see your face back here.
Stay awhile.
Sit down.
Ask some questions.
Let's do a deep dive.
Oh, man.
Anyway, so when I say anyway, we're supposed to transition, Glenn, to not such a close
shot.
Nah.
He's going to lean back.
They're checking the hair status.
They're checking the hair status.
So, let's talk about this.
So, a little bit of housekeeping.
Obviously, we finished up with TRCMA, amazing turnout, amazing people involved, everything
from the brand partners.
Obviously, you guys watching, and just the behind the scenes, right, all the technical
aspects of the show went according to plan, and we were super happy that ended up happening.
Now, following that, we obviously had the big sale during TRCMA.
It was great.
A lot of people stocked up on some great detailing supplies.
We understand that we're out of a few things, right, as of the sale, so we're working on
that right now.
We actually have quite a few shipments on the way.
A few of them are actually on the water right now.
That should be here within the next week or two.
And then, you know, obviously, the update on the Ultra H2O stuff as well.
Everything is in the final phases of production there, and then, I think, actually, some of
it is going to be on the water, or if it isn't already on the water for a release here in
the next little while.
So, all good things there across the board.
Now, what we've been doing here in the studio is mostly just kind of, you know, finding,
you know, getting our, whatever it is, Reigns back, our bearings, I should say, not Reigns,
but, like, just getting back to the normal, the normal everyday stuff, because, you know,
during those final few months up to tier SEMA, I mean, really, everything is about the show
and preparing and planning, a lot of communication, you know, back and forth between the brands.
And so, now we're able to kind of get back to doing what we do best, which is, again,
pursuing to create more, obviously, entertaining, fun and educational content for all of you,
as well as more product development stuff, which is really cool.
So, that has been pretty much it.
We know that this summer is going to be pretty jam-packed.
We're going to have brand weeks and all the fun stuff again.
So, things to look forward to.
We'll have our brand partners back in town for more fun events, and then, obviously,
some pretty cool product launches throughout the summer, as well.
I mean, not just from us, but we're also expecting some stuff from DetailFactory.
So, basically, stay tuned and stay signed up on the RAG company newsletter so you don't
miss out on any of that stuff.
Also, a little bit of housekeeping, we have announced the official launch of our new ambassador
program or new kind of creator program for people who are looking for really kind of
a more inviting experience into being a content creator slash influencer.
So, at theragcompany.com, we've actually created a new tab, which is going to take you to the
application form to apply to be a content creator.
So, let's see if we can kind of find that here on the website.
Jimmy kind of knows where it's at.
Oh, yeah, we do want to save 15% off, so we will sign up for that for our first order.
And we'll go down to the different programs.
Let's see if there we go.
There we are.
Become an ambassador.
Hashtag, team, T-R-C.
Pretty sweet.
So, the ambassador kind of break down.
So, there's actually multiple tiers to this whole program.
It's going to start with affiliate, then make its way up to influencer, then eventually
make its way to partner, which basically unlocks more cool opportunities and doors along the
way as you continue to kind of dive into this kind of content creation process with us.
Now, people may have asked, like, what's the difference between this and the Grand
Baster program?
Well, the Grand Baster program, we ran for close to six years, and we had a ton of
fun doing it with a lot of success.
And I mean, I would deem that to be a pretty successful program.
But nowadays, we find that kind of limiting us to one platform-ish and kind of keeping
it very, very exclusive did keep some people out that we probably would have wanted in
if they would have known that they could apply or whatnot.
So, this now opens the doors for more people at all different levels of content creation.
And yeah, I'm excited.
I think you guys should be excited.
I'm excited.
And Jimmy's doing a good job.
And so, I am no longer managing any of that, but Carson and Jimmy are managing it, and
they're doing a wonderful job.
And so, just know if you get accepted, then you're in good hands.
All right.
You're in good hands.
No, excellent.
You know, I was told we actually have an additional camera angle that Glenn's experimenting
with today.
I'd like to see that.
Oh, no.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Well, that is.
Thank you, Glenn.
That was very thoughtful.
Remember when everybody said, they're like, oh, Anthony's balding, and he's losing his
hair?
What's this called?
I'm not losing any of my hair, but it is, again, you can still see just that.
It's just a little thin.
You can see that.
It's not thin.
They don't say that.
It's just the way my hair parts.
I can see skin.
It's just it's the way my hair parts.
I'm sitting right next to it.
Has it always been that way?
Forever.
It's always been that way.
But I have a medium thickness hair.
It's just not, you know, and to be honest, it's nice, you know, it's less demanding.
While we ponder mysteries of life, such as why is Anthony's hair like that, let's bring
some comments and questions on the screen, and that way we can start things off properly
for a Q&A.
Sidney, I want you to read Good Old Bucky's here.
Hi, Alex.
He says he's happy to be here, misses us all, as we miss you as well.
Alex and Joey were fantastic, fantastic hosts for the show.
They really, really carried things along.
Well, we love them for it, and we miss them already.
Yes.
All right.
This is Dan Pfeiffer.
I'm going to have Anthony read this for old time's sake.
Good afternoon, and a word up from a sunny 80 degree spring day in Minnesota.
Happy Friday Eve to the TRC gang.
Hope you all have had a chance to recover it from a great TRC movie.
Thank you very much, Dan.
We're getting there.
It's a little bit surely.
Nice.
All right.
Then we move things along here with, oh boy, we got to give them a name.
Oh, wow.
The one who shall remain nameless.
First of all, before we read it, what is his name today, Sid?
I'm going to go with Arthur.
Oh, Arthur.
We haven't done that before.
My favorite artwork.
Okay.
I was thinking golfer.
I was going to say the king.
The master has just happened.
I don't know.
I watched Arthur.
I was going like regal name, yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
But Arthur is fine.
Arthur it is.
So Arthur says, good evening and happy Friday Junior TRC fam from the sunny 79 degrees
south coast of Massachusetts.
I hope y'all are well today.
Wow.
79.
That is a lot warmer than I anticipated.
We're freezing right now.
It's literally freezing.
We had snow, rain, sunshine, clouds.
It's been everything today.
It was 31 this morning.
It's like somebody's just scrolling through and they can't decide what weather they want.
All right.
Moving along, we have Mac Bergsen who expresses a sentiment I like.
So good to be back.
TRCima was excellent, agreed.
That was a ton of hard work behind the scenes.
Big shout out to Glenn who's running things from the back end.
She did a fantastic job of keeping that show composed, smooth.
Everything ran just like, you know, it was like melted butter.
It was amazing.
Amazing.
But yeah.
No, really, really good show.
And then we have the question, of course, from Arthur wondering is everyone recovered
from TRCima?
How about your bank accounts?
Glenn says she's not.
She says no just for everybody's sake there.
But for you guys, how's the old account holding up?
How's the wallet?
Yeah.
Just wanted to touch on it.
Well, mine's fine because I didn't have time to buy anything.
Right.
Yeah.
We were presenting.
So I was trapped in the box.
In my recovered getting there, but I would not say fully.
I would not say fully.
I did update my wallet quite a bit to get furniture from my deck.
So I guess.
Oh, yeah.
I'm not really safe.
Yeah.
I wanted to have something for the people behind the scene.
So that had to happen, but well, in true, I did have to rent a Tesla.
Right.
So for the week.
That was kind of a bummer.
Yeah.
It's like, couldn't be embarrassed.
You were in that minivan for five seconds.
Yeah.
You were mortified.
Yeah.
Mortified to be caught in the Pacific.
That was that was.
Yeah.
If you guys saw, there was a couple of videos recently on Instagram that featured the cool
minivan.
There was some detail factory shots that Lucas got.
And it was so funny seeing them come up on my feed and I was like, oh, the minivan.
But yeah, I was not about to be caught dead in that thing.
That was rough.
All right.
So we've got Will Embry here.
So many good products from TRCima this year.
Now, was there anything in particular you guys didn't see coming?
I mean, that's not true.
You guys know everything ahead of time, but as far as fun little bonuses, I for one was
surprised when I saw they had like an OBD2 port on the IKs.
That was not something I was aware of.
It's not an OBD2 port.
I'm calling it that.
It's not actually an OBD2 port.
I was like, wait, I missed that.
People were joking in the car.
It was nuts.
They were all like, oh man, you're going to get people who are doing like jailbreak and
like chip tunes on these IK sprayers, making them pump out more power, like just going
way outside the bounds of the warranty and stuff.
It's going to get crazy.
I'm sure.
We got EC readouts on the IK sprayers before Grand Theft Auto 6.
Can you believe that?
Ridiculous.
Yeah.
There was one thing that I really want, which was that darn tire inflator from Ego.
Oh, tire inflator.
Yeah, I really want that.
Ego products.
Once you have a few, it's hard to stop.
Yeah.
Okay.
Anthony, was there anything from T.R.Sema that caught your eye, anything that you were
just like, okay, as soon as this is over, I'm going to go and palm a hundo to somebody
so you can walk away with something?
Doesn't work like that at these shows.
No, actually, for those who are wondering, a lot of these companies, they're like, yeah,
so we'll be taking that back and they'd make us ship the stuff back with them.
Yeah.
It's true.
This year there was a few that hunted their stuff back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There was a few that hunted their stuff back.
Let me think.
There was a lot of cool stuff for sure.
I would say, for me, it was all about the issue of stuff, obviously, and getting that
for this initial, I don't know what I'd call that process.
It's an announcement launch or a launch announcement, whatever we want to call it.
That was the big part for me, so I was really looking forward to that, obviously, but for
other brands, I loved seeing, I think the ego presentation was awesome.
I think that the boys at Flex, considering it was their first time doing it, they did
a great job as well.
Rupa has always put on a good show, and seeing the KCX stuff as well in person, that was
actually probably the most polished KCX segment that they've had with showing off the new
wet gloss product.
I was really impressed.
I think they did a good job.
Yeah, there's definitely a few of the different things I'm happy with, and I'm also really
just happy that Colourlock refinement of the brand and re-launch is going to be happening
because I will straight up admit that there's been this lull here with the leather cleaning
stuff that I myself personally use Colourlock products, where it hasn't really matched what
we've had on the website.
We've been out of things, or there was some label changes happening and all sorts of stuff,
so making the recommendations for certain leather stuff was kind of unavailable for
a little while, so I'm happy that that's back.
Yeah, nice.
So, moving along here, I kind of did this to get us chatting a little bit about Tiers
Amos, and these guys would throw out some related comments and questions about that,
but since we've got a decent number of people here who are kind of checking in and stuff,
and they're obviously curious, they're like, what's changing about Q&A?
Am I going to have to come over there and be someone that is what I think, or like Han
said, he's like, I'm going to have to go over there and open a court session on you guys.
Okay.
He said that, can you pull that up?
Yeah, no, Judge Han's closing, he's in the chat there.
It's during the break, he was busy with that, but yeah, just so you're aware.
Court is now in session, says Hans.
Nice.
Yeah, so, if we could talk about that a little bit.
I know you guys were in the loop when we were kind of doing these discussions.
The fact of the matter is, when it comes to running a YouTube channel, I mean, I'm going
to get like a little behind the wall here, but essentially, YouTube likes what it likes,
and it definitely doesn't like what it doesn't like, and as far as people who show up to
watch things, you know, it's a constant battle of like, giving you guys exactly what you
want or what you think you want versus what YouTube thinks more people are going to want
to see.
And at the end of the day, we want to make sure that we're true to ourselves and we're
providing you with something that we feel good about, but we also have to contend with
the fact that people's time is money around here, and if we're just kind of goofing off
shooting a show and there's like 50 to 100 people watching it, it's not really enough
to justify like the cost of everybody going and spending their time doing this.
So obviously, it does get a little challenging when obviously, like our videos on the channel,
Jimmy does a fantastic job doing that, getting them out there, playing in the stuff out,
Seabass edits a lot of them.
These guys work so hard to produce this stuff, and that's really it.
It's like people's time and effort really is worth something, and we want the actual
end result of like people seeing this stuff to reflect that.
And we only have so much control because at the end of the day, it's on, you know, whoever
tunes in to actually show up, like, subscribe, comment, all that stuff.
And I know you can feel the writing on the wall, you're like, who's it going away?
Sid, you and I in particular really made sure we stuck up for the little guy when it came
to this stuff.
And we talked a lot about how people would feel if something were to change too drastically.
So in our talks, in our discussions, we found what I think was a happy medium that still
gives people those opportunities like Q&A here to be able to talk and have fun in the
comments and like us to kind of, you know, vibe a bit while doing something that is
worth the effort of everybody involved just because there is a lot of, you know, expense
and time set aside for that, that we make it worth everybody's while.
So what we kind of compromised and found was if we're going to do this, we're not going
to have acid.
We're not going to, meh, it's going to be mid, you know, kind of thing, like as much
as we try, sitting at this table and talking kind of kills the momentum of like how many
people are willing to watch a live stream just being frank with you, people aren't super
stoked if they're tuning in and they're just like, oh, there's people sitting at a table.
So for a while there we're like, okay, here's an idea, we detail a car in the background,
we talk and we have a detailer actually doing work so we can like point to it and show it.
And that was a good idea for a time and you guys seemed to like that and I definitely
saw what, you know, people were going for there and I think it did help.
But also we started to kind of hit a ceiling with that too.
And tier SEMA really shows us what happens when like we go all out and we really apply
ourselves in a way that frankly as much as I might sit here and try and be entertaining,
talking to you guys, you know, a host or eat all that kind of stuff and you guys just hanging
out and doing your thing as best you can.
There's only so far we can take it without adding extra layers of production and camera
angles and all this other stuff.
So I'm kind of beating around the bush here.
But basically, yes, I'm beating around the Anthony's hair.
We are going to do live streams.
They're not going away.
They're kind of changing though because there will be fewer of them each month.
We're not going to be doing one every single week, I'm sorry to say.
But what I encourage people to do is in those off weeks, I want people tuning into the Facebook
group.
I want people leaving comments on the videos.
I want to keep the spirit alive of doing that kind of thing so that when we do roll
into the live streams we are going to be doing, it's more active.
It's more engaged.
It's more intense.
It's more fun.
And so with these live streams we plan on doing, we are in fact doing a lot more planning.
I'm going to stir like fly by the seat of your pants and do that kind of thing.
But I'm surrounded by planners here and people who enjoy structure.
So I always kind of feel a little bit out of that.
Yeah, Glenn says she's watching me.
So there's definitely that element going on.
But what I'm here to say is you're going to be getting live streams that are like cranked
up to 11.
These ones are going to be really fun, really out there.
There are things that would have been like a main channel video, but now we're doing
like a live version of it.
And to make it once again worth our while and your while, a lot of these where they
make sense are going to be cut into what will eventually become main channel videos as well.
So they'll actually have enough of a core concept to them that they can work as a standalone
video because another thing we discovered in all of our research and all of our talking
with people was that a lot of people who watch our videos have no clue about the live streams
and a lot of people who watch the live streams, they may watch the videos, but it's a very
core important group to us.
It's just not enough to sustain on its own, so we've got to come up with ways to make
it make sense.
Anyway, I've been talking a whole bunch.
I want to get your guys' feedback on this.
Yeah, do you want to go first?
You want me to?
Go for it, Susan.
So one thing worth noting is that we'll still be super interactive.
So even though we'll be live and we'll be technically kind of behind the scenes filming
a video, we will still totally interact with you guys, and we'll still be ourselves.
I think that was one of my biggest concerns was, and if you guys remember the last Q&A
that we did right before TRCMA, we used this exact method.
So we came out, we did a live stream.
It was the one where Anthony and I were doing three ways to decon a coding, and we told
you guys at the beginning that we were going to be filming a real video, and I actually
thought that was fun for you to be able to kind of see behind the scenes of how we film
a video.
And obviously it's a little bit modified, but kind of fun to go through recording the
intro and the outro and all that funny stuff.
But I think moving forward, that was one of my concerns was, I still wanted the audience
to really see our true personalities and for us to be able to just talk in general and
not have to be so proper that we're recording a video, but we kind of talked about that
and we're not going to lose any of that.
And so that's what kind of made me like, oh yeah, I'm all in.
Because I think it's fun, because when we do record videos, there's a lot of bloopers.
There's a lot.
And you guys don't ever get to see those, but now you actually will get to see them.
And so we might have to redo something or we might drop something, break something,
and so that'll be the fun in it.
And I think it'll be great because there will be a subject for each live stream, but
we will still be able to interact with the audience the same as we do sitting at this
table.
We'll just be moving around.
But it should be really, really fun.
And that is something, just a quick thing before we get to Anthony's side of this.
I want to stress to everybody, because I can see the comments and of course people are
going, oh my God, it's over, I'm dying.
I understand the frustration.
As the person, I'll straight up say, I don't normally wave around, but I'm the one who
started Q&A.
I started our podcast.
I started those things because I love talking directly to the audience and it was a way
to reach people back when we did it as a very simple thing.
I just hook up a phone and I put it up there and we just started talking to it.
And since then, production has obviously changed a lot.
And that is frankly what separates us from a lot of other places that do similar things
or saw what we were doing and try and replicate some of that.
I can't blame anybody for trying.
But it is one of those things where, yeah, engagement really is the end-all-be-all.
And in stressing engagement, I want to say, you guys have the power to shape what those
live streams and those videos become.
So like Sid was saying here, it definitely takes everybody to make this stuff work.
And when you guys go in and we get those goofy kind of like out of left field moments, Matt
Mormons' pants ripping a tear scene the last year, that kind of stuff, that wasn't predictable.
That wasn't anything anybody decided, oh, we're going to take a little knife and loosen
up the threads here so that it will happen at exactly this time.
We're not that premeditated.
It just happened and you roll with it.
But it really does come down to what you guys are able to help us make this thing.
So I really don't want to lose that.
I'm going to emphasize that super heavily on the audience participation front.
You will shape the videos.
Now, Anthony.
Yeah, well, pretty much all said exactly what I said.
So it was fun.
And now it's done.
Oh, man.
Wow.
Don't say it like that.
Oh, my God.
It's a ball thing.
No.
So we, I think what we're going to end up getting out of this is better live streams in general
where I probably more entertaining live streams.
We can basically take this timeframe, not this timeframe, but the allotted time that
we would have taken to set this up and move it towards something that will probably be
a little bit more evergreen, probably live along a little bit longer.
We get the one thing with Q&As and even when we had the main show podcast is that it would
live on honestly, sometimes further than what we expected it to live on.
But for the most part, the effort that we've put into it, I mean, there would probably
be an immediate drop off after, you know, after we're done shooting and after everybody's
going to listen to it, you don't really re-listen to certain podcasts over and over again,
at least not all of them.
And same thing with kind of Q&A.
Once you've kind of heard the questions get asked and answered, that's, you've kind of
got what you need to and you'll move on.
And what's tough is that the Q&A, all the episodes that we have, you know, hundreds and hundreds
of episodes of these Q&As.
This we are at 340, 341 thereabouts for Q&A, not the main show.
40 Q&A.
That's a lot.
There is.
We've done over a thousand episodes of various content.
There is so much information in those that, I mean, really, if you were to go back and
listen to every single one, yes, there would probably be a lot of redundancy with the getting
the same questions asked and answered.
But I think that there's probably enough information in there between the guests we've had, myself,
Levi, Sid, Dane, everybody in between to where you'd probably be able to really have
most of the detailing information you would ever, ever need, really.
But how do you search it?
You can't, right?
You can't go drag company Q&A episode, beadmaker application with Dave Phillips, chances are
Google's probably not going to be able to find that exact Q&A.
And that's what kind of makes it tough is that this information is so good and it's
out there, but it is kind of like a flash in the pan and then it's gone unless you do
a really, really deep dive and not everybody's going to do that because it's 2026, we're
all impatient, we've lost our attention spans.
So we need that immediate gratification as fast as possible.
So what that means is that by creating these live videos, these newer, higher produced live
videos, that stuff will be evergreen, it will be searchable, it will have a direction to
all of it, but ideally we still get somewhat silly in them and we still have a lot of fun
and we still joke around, but it may not, because again, they are going to be searchable things,
we may not get the carryover of the constant, I mean maybe, you never know, things can turn
into certain things on YouTube with, I guess what I'm trying to say is like a certain story,
like will people remember that story for all of the other lives, maybe, maybe not, I'm
not sure, but yeah, I think that this is probably the right general move.
It's not an easy decision.
It's not an easy decision, but I guess this, I mean, truthfully, if we're just going to
be straight up real, if we had like 2,000 watchers on a Q&A Thursday.
Different story.
It would be a completely different story.
They would be like, please do more.
We would do more, we would probably do multiple shows a week, right?
But, you know, we have, let's just say right now, we have 60 people that are watching,
These are like the best 60 people ever.
They're awesome.
We absolutely love these 67 people.
They are our customers, they are our friends, they are essentially, I mean, I'm pretty sure
Han's clothes may actually be family at this point.
You know, I would feel comfortable donating blood for that man, right?
He changed his blood, so he's related to you.
Yes, yes, he did.
He saved the sample the last time we were there.
That's haunting, right?
I mean, and even the same dragon tattoo, right?
So what I mean by that is that, I mean, so many of you have been around for so long,
being like essentially family members, that we don't want you to go away, we want you
to stick around, but we are kind of making the show just for you guys, and when it comes
to running a business, the time and effort, the cost to do these kind of things, like,
we want to make sure we're reaching a wider audience, and I think that from a searchability
standpoint, and from going back to what I said before about things being evergreen, we're
not even really able to get that, right?
And the other thing too is that we're not really forcing it down people's throats that
we do this Q&A.
We tried, but you can only do it so much before you get annoying, right?
I would have to make every single YouTube video and go, this Thursday, Q&A Thursday,
you know?
There was a while where we kind of tried that, and I do the schedule posts.
You guys see them every time in the Facebook group and on the community tab on YouTube,
and we get some response on there, and a lot of companies won't talk about this kind of
stuff, like, hey, numbers just aren't quite there for rationalizing the stuff we do.
And originally, when I was doing it, there was no real goal or metrics attached to it.
It really was just to see what's out there.
I created the Q&A because it was a way to do customer service in an unconventional way,
and lots of other companies had done, like, oh, we'll do a live stream Q&A, like maybe
a couple times a year they'll throw it out there, but nobody was doing it.
Like, I wanted us to do it where, no, we're going to make it like a weekly thing, and
people can tune in, maybe there's a few, maybe there's a lot, but hopefully there's questions
and we can answer them.
And obviously, for those of you who are here right now, it was important enough for you
to actually stick around and be a part of it, and you became hooked, and that's why
I want to bring up the comment from Alpha Tango, because he says the podcasts in the
live are the funnel that led me here to buy from you, just FYI, and Alpha Tango, you've
been an awesome addition to the community here, and I really want to say thank you,
and this all sounds like it's all going away and it's all sad, but once again, this is
just evolution, and I know people are uncomfortable with change, but I want to say, like, I and
Sydney and Anthony and many more people behind the doors here do really care about the spirit
of this thing and making sure that doesn't go away, and we are absolutely doing everything
we can within the bounds of it being a day job, that we try and make this one thing still
continue to exist, and this is how we found a way to make that happen.
Yeah, and I do think that that's important to notice, that that was consistently talked
about through every single discussion, and I mean, we've been having this discussion
for almost a year probably, and it's obviously gotten more serious lately, but I do think
that that collectively amongst the whole team that has been the concern is making sure that
we keep the connection and keep the fun and keep the aspects of the Q&A that everyone
loves and gives a place for everybody to gather and have fun and speak. I do think that one
of the good things that will come out of this is I think that sometimes when we're looking
at the questions, oh gosh, I think sometimes when we're looking at the questions, sometimes
we can tell that sometimes there's just questions being asked to ask a question, but I think
what I love of the new format is we'll have a topic obviously, we're going to have something
that we're actually filming on, and so I think it will help the conversation where the information
that is asked and given will be a higher quality, and I think it will also raise questions
within people that maybe they didn't know they had, so even speaking on Decon or something
like that or using Acid, we're going to be answering questions and showing things that
maybe people didn't realize they had that question, and they didn't realize how to do
that, so I think that that will be cool by having a topic each live stream is that it
will keep the conversation better answers and better questions, I think, and I think
it will be more fun and interactive and we'll make sure that we don't lose that, right?
That is seriously, it's something that is everyone's top concern is to make sure they
stay fun.
That is the most challenging compromise in all this stuff, because as I mentioned earlier,
I'm Mr. Freewheeling, we'll figure it out as we go, we'll build the plane as we're flying,
that whole kind of thing, versus going in with a plan and a structure and a rundown,
which a vast majority of people here prefer because they like knowing what's going to
happen.
In order to do the more produced stuff, it's a fact of life, and frankly, I am less comfortable
with the plan stuff, but at the same time, I see that's how people want it and I'm going
to adapt the best I can to try and match that energy and build on it, but that is kind
of where some of the challenge lies in getting an audience.
When you have a plan, when you show people, here's what we're going to do today, here's
what's going to happen.
To me, that's actually less interesting, but to a YouTube audience, when people are
searching and they're looking for stuff, they're looking for something specific.
When I write, we answer your detailing questions as the title and I make kind of a generalized
thumbnail and it's just pictures of us with a, I try and put a car in there so people
know it's car related, like I'm making all the thumbnails you guys, but as far as all
that stuff goes, it's tough to be, for me to be too specific because I don't want to
pigeonhole us, but what I've realized over the years is YouTube doesn't care, they want
you to be specific, they want you to cater to something very niche because that's what's
going to get people to tune in, but to me, niche was always scary because, well, you're
going to alienate all the people who aren't interested in that very specific thing, whereas
I want to like something broad where people can come in and bring all their wild ideas
and all that stuff to make the show more interesting, that's where I admit, I've been wrong a lot
of the time in trying to make that thing work and just beat my head against a wall and really
try and like make that the thing.
In terms of viewership and engagement, frankly, my method, I'll fully admit, just isn't, ironically,
it's not for everyone, especially not for YouTube, however, I think what we've managed
to get in terms of you guys as the audience, like the amazing people who tune in tell us
their amazing stories when we meet you at like events and conventions and stuff, I love
that, I wouldn't trade that for anything and it means so much to me and I'm sure these
guys too, to have met so many of you in person at these things and just hear stories and
it's always funny when somebody, Anthony knows this, Levi and Anthony and I always used to
talk about this where somebody comes up to you and they're just kind of, they're talking
to you and then about half an hour in to like asking questions, they reveal, oh, I know
everything about you and you're like whoa, you're kind of taking it back when suddenly
it's like, oh right, you've listened since the beginning, you just didn't let me know
that until way later into this conversation and I'm sure that's happened to you and you
many, many times, but that is, it is a difficult balance to make, right?
Yeah, I think too, the other thing was that, we've done this for so long, again we probably
answered every single question, probably we could have ever answered, that to the point
of making it fun and probably interjecting personality, I think that with that, gosh,
we can only talk about detailing so much before we start losing our minds, right, so
we have to start kind of breaking it up with some rather odd humor or we'll throw in weird
stories of Dane's backyard or, you know, if you remember the mail room from back in
the day, Trish, right, you know, my neighbor, what's it called, the Meridian Marmot, I mean
there's so many different, there's so many stories that we've had over the years and
really those stories just kind of came about, you know, on the main show and or the Q&A just
because, oh my gosh, we have to, we got to start covering some other stuff and then the
main show kind of more turned into our weekends and that was kind of fun because it was, sometimes
they were detailing related, sometimes they weren't at all and we would still cover them
and it was really just to kind of say, well, we've talked about this and maybe we could
make more room for detailing on Thursday, but I've seen some podcasts out there where,
you know, I've seen some feedback over the years for hours where it was like, I wish
it was more detailing focused, I wish you guys stayed on detailing topics, I wish you
guys talked more about detailing business techniques and strategies and things like
that and what we realize is that our audience of people really are, they, what?
They're more fun than that.
Our audience is more fun than that, right, I mean we are, we are not hustle bro culture,
we are not sitting here telling you that you're going to get rich mobile detailing, we're
not here to offer you or promise you a lifestyle that you could have if you put a bunch of,
you know, lion posters on the wall that say, stay hungry, we're not going to do that, right?
We're also, I know that that's very specific, but you know the type, you know the type,
right?
And we aren't, we aren't that, we are the type of people, we go, hey, here's this information,
you need to use this to your own, you know, use this as it applies to you to be a better
detail or to just have more knowledge in this and then run with it, but I think what it
is is we're not really ever pitching a sale, we're not trying to pitch our wares, I mean
crap, if you actually think about it in any Q and A, have we ever been pitchy that they
needed to buy this product from us?
No.
That was a core belief we've never ever, we've never said, hey, you need to buy this product,
you need to, you have to use this towel, you have to use this, we would say, oh, something
like an eagle would work, we would say something, or maybe, hey, like yeah, you could try like
a compound, like last cut would probably do the job, we've never said last cut and you
go to their website and you have to go buy it right now, we've never ever been pushy
like that.
And I'm sure in a moment somebody could clip something from years ago or like a week ago
where they're like, oh, you specifically said this, but the spirit of us has always
been just provide assistance and things to people's questions, offer some suggestions,
some solutions, but don't act like it's the end all be all, you have to do this, you have
to do that.
You can talk about sales, but I mean.
Trying to help offer people a path without making them feel like it's the only way.
Yeah, but that's where it makes me wonder.
I hate chilling, I hate pitchy.
I've seen and watched other podcasts, other detailing related things where maybe the
view count is really high or maybe they have really good interaction or maybe something's
going on there.
But I find like the core message is that they're there to sell pitch guide, you know, towards
a I guess a path of a one way path and and I go, well, maybe people do want that, right?
Maybe people want to be told that they need to buy this product or this is the best new
thing and they have to get it or this new color of towel will completely change the
game for them or whatever it is and like much love to juice.
I mean, I don't know and so I guess maybe that is that is one example of people who
want to be sold to and want to be promised this lifestyle or these these detailing skills
and techniques that they will get if they follow this and we just don't really do that
and that was where I don't think we'll ever do it and so that's the tough part too is
that that's not who we are.
That's not how we've ever done business and that's not how we've grown the way that we've
done it.
So to that point, we've always been very loose about how we've gone about talking about detailing
in general and because of that, some people would tune out and say, well, okay, I only
want to talk about detailing.
I only want to do this.
Okay, well, part of me goes like, well, okay, come back in six months when you're detailed
out and you'll find your way back to us and and you'll you'll see why we've gotten to
this point, right?
And sometimes they do sometimes they don't or sometimes they just change hobbies, change
jobs and they go, well, did the detailing thing wasn't for me, right, move on.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that we've taken a lot of different approaches to trying
to do more longer form Q&A slash podcast approach.
We've tried to keep things on the rails of of of detailing.
We've taken things off the rails of people get mad when I do that to you guys.
I don't do it because I love interrupting, even though people think I love to interrupt.
I don't.
And I just did.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
That's why I'm going to be happy with being done with that.
So.
Beautiful.
We're clipping that.
Perfect.
That's the kind of stuff Glenn wants to see.
Yeah.
But no, so I guess, yes, I saw the juice of comments is that anything is the best pitch
is honestly, my pitches, like if I'm ever pitching something, it's usually probably
because I'm actually passionate about it.
And I'm like, hey, I really think that you guys yourself, like as people will probably
like this.
If you like our stuff, you like the show.
If there's a product that I'm passionate about, I go here, here's, I think you will
like this one.
And I try to mean that with all of my heart because I don't feel confident doing that
with everything, but I feel confident doing something.
So, I try to keep my pitches natural.
Even like the old H2O kind of presentation I had at TRCEMA, there wasn't even a sales
between me and selling the product yet, but my thing was just, I'm excited about it.
If I can just be honest and show that I'm excited about it, then it makes everything
so much easier that I don't have to hide behind a lie.
I don't have to, you know, hide the evidence of something or whatever it is.
I don't have to do any of that.
And by doing that, it makes God, it's like freaking refreshing, right?
Because it's just, it's blissful for me.
You guys don't know the difference, but it's blissful for me.
So, anyways, so what I guess what I'm trying to say ultimately in a big, man, man circle
is that we have, we've had a ton of fun doing what we've done.
I, for once worth, my favorite thing was not talking about detailing, to be honest.
I mean, I love just honestly talking about movies that we've seen, I love talking about
anything really other than detailing, because it was kind of like...
And that's why 71 people are watching, not 271 people.
Yeah.
And that is...
But I love it.
The truth is that, you know, because what happens, do you know what happens when the
podcast ends?
Honestly, do you guys want to know what happens?
We go back to work in the detailing world and I develop products and help guide and
create videos for people in detailing.
So this is like the two hours of being able to be like, crap, let's talk about anything
other than detailing.
And unfortunately, it's still on a detailing channel, so you can't do that.
It's the tension that makes it fun though.
But yeah, I mean, we're constantly pursuing this.
So it's not like I have a day job as a, I don't know, I don't work at a IT company,
you know, doing spreadsheets, and then I'm happy to jump into a two hour podcast about
detailing and only talk about detailing because my job is everything detailing related and
thinking about the processes of people detailing cars and doing things and testing products
that makes it like, ah, I guess now I got to talk more about detailing, right?
Which again, I like, but I like to have some variation there.
So yeah, I hope, I hope that helps also too.
And the other weird thing I always wonder too, this is the weird thing.
If you are a detailer, full time, right, say if you're in a shop, right, I don't know about
you guys.
I don't think I want to hear about somebody else talking about detailing cars or products
at the same time.
I've tried it.
I go, well, it's cool.
It's like somebody's with me for a period of time, but then I put on like a movie or
I put on like a, I just listen to music and I get lost into a different world that reminds
me less of that.
But I suppose that if you are detailing a shop every single day and you're the only employee
and there's nobody else in your shop that may be listening to somebody else that's detailing
along with you, makes it feel less lonely or makes it feel like you have somebody else
with you while you're doing the job.
Give me some insight.
What do you think, Sidi?
Yeah, I think, I mean, this kind of goes along with Arthur's question.
I pretty much come here without the rails.
And so yes, like what you just brought up, like as a professional and I know how to detail,
I've always watched the show since the very first episode, right?
And I would say that I probably watched it more to hear the stories and see the craziness
more so than to ask a question and get the information.
So I think, but I think that the new format could lean into that.
I mean, I think that we can still, you know, have those conversations and tell those stories
and the magicians in the editing room will just, you know, still make the best of that.
But I think honestly, there's been times, and I'm sure, Anthony, you feel the same.
There's been times where we're filming a video out here in the studio and something will
happen and the thought will come up like, this is what people need to see because this is
like real life.
I know there's a lot of other shows and videos and creators out there that put out these
videos and you think that they detail perfect and everything goes perfect and they're, you
know, no errors.
They never drop a towel like, oh my gosh, what a big ish this in.
And there is times that things happen in this studio where I'm like, this is what people
need to see.
So I do think with this new format of you guys getting to see some of the behind the
scenes is going to be so much more entertaining.
It may not be, I think for probably for both all of us, we probably need to learn how to
control our mouths so that we don't get demonetized.
However, like the funny stuff that happens in here though is, you know, I mean, we get
compound all over our shirts.
We water splashes in our face.
Somebody gets sprayed with water, but I think the magic that you guys will get to see is
the result of that.
And like, you know, some people will say, oh my gosh, that video was so good.
And I laughed to myself and I say, you should have seen what an absolute disaster that was
during filming, like absolute disaster, you know.
And so I think that that's what will be the really cool takeaway is that we're almost
letting you guys into the studio when we're filming a video, but we're still interacting
with you. And I believe we did say there will still be like a small Q&A session at the end
of every live stream.
So it's not like you're not going to get, you know, if you have a question, you're still
going to be able to answer it.
We're just not going to sit there for two hours and just answer questions.
And it's just not cutting out the Q&A completely.
There will be like, you know, a small part at the end.
Yeah.
But we're definitely doing this at least like our ultimate goal is to do this like every
two weeks.
Yeah.
That's that's what we want to shoot for.
It may early on end up being just like maybe one or two a month.
Just to kind of get figured out because we got some really fun plans of how this is going
to work.
And I do want to stress that like a big part of the Q&A was also like interjecting our
personalities into this.
That was intentional from the very beginning.
Was a chance to like show people a different side of ourselves because in the live format
you get a kind of like stretched out in the main show.
Obviously the podcast you got to have those discussions that you're not going to see in
a detailing video on YouTube.
That's that's all that stuff's cut out.
And so like what you're saying there is absolutely a core tentative like the whole
live process is showing people a little peek behind the curtain, as you said, and a chance
to get to know the people who have the products that maybe they're interested in buying.
But once again, we're going to tell you like if you want to buy from other places from
us, whatever it is, we just hope that, you know, we helped you out in some way, some
form or fashion.
And if you buy from us because you enjoy us, well, then take it from DS here.
He's helping for what it's worth.
The fun stories on the podcast and Q&A is what kept me around and spending money.
And DS, I am definitely not blind to that fact.
I think that was really, really important for a very solid core group of people,
yourself included, because I've been seeing your name up here for years.
I know you've been a part of this for a very long time.
And I just want to say thank you so much.
And I hope that you stick around because the stuff we are going to be doing coming up
here is actually kind of insane.
Glenn did make a point.
I forget the date now of when we're going to do it exactly.
But we the 24th next Friday.
Holy cow.
That's like really soon.
So actually get this next Friday.
We are doing one of these live streams.
We talked about what's the premise, the premise.
We can actually tease the premise.
We might need to dance around what you might be wearing to tease up with us.
But we can tease the premise a bit.
Something to do, Anthony, with household products.
Yeah, yeah, how much are we going to say about that, though?
Because I don't want to give the whole game away, but just, you know,
you see all those videos out there.
People are like, ah, you don't need to buy X, Y, Z detail product.
I'm just going to use this thing you can find in the cleaning drawer of your
household or, you know, your cupboard or whatever.
Use that.
It'll work just as good.
OK.
Well, we're going to we're going to put that into the test and then everything
with Don Parwash and there may or may not be some potential.
I mean, once again, Matt's rip pants, not planned.
This we do have a possible bit of wardrobe for Anthony.
I'm afraid I may even be told I have to wear this at some point, which I am
mortified by. Oh my gosh.
But all I'm saying is this particular bit of wardrobe
feels like it's prone to malfunction.
So I'm just throwing that out there.
Yeah, let's just say so it's kind of nice.
You know, I can probably the best way to describe this.
I know this may be our audience would like to hear this.
You know how like Top Gear and, you know, the Grand Tour, you know,
they always say the producers are having us do that, right?
The way I see it is Jimmy and Glen are the producers, right?
They're the ones that are going to task us with certain things, right,
for these lives that I think will ultimately end in a good video, right?
But I think that part of the reason why this will be fun is that
there will be intention behind what we create, but because it's live,
there's a lot of the unexpected.
So the producers will be having us do certain things and these things
will be live and maybe there's certain twists or maybe there's certain,
I don't know, things that we have to wear, certain things that we have
to try to do within a period of time.
And I think that you'll still very much get our personalities
coming out in that process, right?
I mean, for what it's worth when we had the, you know, for people who didn't know,
we did a cheap car challenge once.
I don't know if you remember that.
That was so much fun.
That was probably one of the funnest things that we ever did.
And one of the probably least viewed videos we've ever made.
It's criminally under viewed.
Oh, no.
Criminally under viewed.
The cheap car challenge was, you know, when me, Levi and Dane all purchased
these really cheap cars, right?
We had a $3,000 budget and we.
You can't find those cars for those prices.
We utilized our skills and premium detailing products available
throughout coming on.
There's a pitch to restore these cars, right?
And bring them back to life.
And what's so funny is that like the, the, if that was shot as a live video,
oh my God, the things you guys would have seen, it would have like, it would have
provided laughs for like years, right?
If you would have seen Dane up until 11 p.m.
at night or 10 p.m.
at night, right?
I'm so glad I shot footage from that.
There were deer walking by in the middle of the night past me.
The paint off of his wheels, right?
That was so painful.
As he sat there, crisscross applesauce, as deer were greeting him in the parking
lot, like, you couldn't, you couldn't make that up.
And not just once, right?
It was twice.
Oh, it was a couple times.
It was twice because Dane screwed up his wheel painting job twice on this, on
this whole challenge, right?
To the point where Jeff, his father had to say, Dane, you're into this so much
time that I think we need to pay for these wheels to get powder coated because
you, I'm paying you to do this.
And it was, there were so many things that I'm like, man, if this was live, if
this, if the downtime here could have been shot and filmed, I don't, it would
have been unreal, the amount of, the amount of funny stories that people have.
So what we're going to be able to do is take this time block of these live
streams, get a lot, hopefully a lot of that same kind of energy and interaction
in there, um, and then provide some really fun, funny and maybe, you know,
entertaining educational content.
So, um, yes, it has to do next week, we'll have to do with household cleaning
products.
Tamara hopes to see Lucas there to a certain point.
Um, and I don't know, there might be some lavender fabuloso.
Oh, oh, wow.
Okay.
Noted.
All right.
Are you picking up what I'm putting down, Sid?
A little bit of lavender fabuloso.
Okay.
No.
There's a long.
Mixing it with powdered tide.
Okay.
So I just want to stress all of that to you guys that don't worry, the fun is
not over, we are continuing, we're just finding ways to do it.
That makes sense.
Hopefully get some new recruits into the TRC fandom here.
We get that community built up.
And what I'm going to stress to you again is if you do not have your
notifications turned on specifically the bell for TRC, turn that on.
Make sure you set up notifications for live streams in particular, because
you can actually click notify me when you see the live streams pop up on the
rag company YouTube page.
That's going to help you because a lot of these live streams that are going to
be coming out no longer just Thursdays.
It's not relegated to one day of the week.
It's actually broken out into several different days.
In this case, it's going to be a Friday.
So changing things up a little bit.
I just want people to be aware.
2pm on Friday next week.
That's when you can look forward to our first touch of this new live format.
And we'll make sure that we get those out there ahead of time, right?
Like so when we will have our schedule built out months in advance.
And so we will make sure that we do a good job, you know, getting it out there
when they are, because they will be a little bit more sporadic so that you
guys can put them on your calendars.
So, I mean, as Arthur says, we're here with Fabuloso, the truth, the true
Portuguese, the truth, the true Portuguese and Anthony is going to come out.
Lavender Fabuloso, the official smell of the California Valley, including
Sacramento to Modesto and even lower areas of Turlock.
So Lavender Fabuloso, I mean, like that that valley radiates this scent, which is
why Joey Balinski commented as well.
If you know, you know, will Embry with the enthusiasm, I like it.
A little optimism.
Fabuloso makes a floor as slick as snot on a doorknob.
Why not car paint?
These are all great questions.
Have I ever told you guys my magic mop solution?
Wait, what's Fabuloso, right?
Yeah, well, there's additives.
So Fabuloso, like a quarter of a cup and then one dishwasher tablet and a quarter
cup of tide powder.
Best mop.
For your floor?
Best mop solution.
So you're just realing your vinyls?
Yeah, you can mop your walls.
Yeah, floors.
This reminds me of when my, this is going to be going off the rails here.
It reminds me of when my wife would take, so she saw that TikTok of people
taking the, what's it called, the downy scents, the, you know, the, you know,
the scent, oh, the melt things.
Oh, I've got those.
Yeah.
And she's like, oh, you know, unstoppable.
Yeah.
And she goes, you know, if you just mix this in with like water and shake it up
in a sprayer, you get a free air freshener for your whole house, right?
She saw this on TikTok and it was my absolute nightmare because she sprayed this.
So, and once those things melted, dissolve, right, they re-solidify with once
they get oxygen again, right?
So she had sprayed the whole house, right?
The couch had a film, a wax film on everything and the blinds, the blinds,
the mist of it landed.
Yeah.
I had to clay the blinds.
I had to clay bar the blinds to get the freaking stuff off of there.
And I'm like, you sprayed candle wax all over our house.
And she goes, it's not supposed to do that.
I don't know why that happened.
And I go, they didn't design it for this.
And I said, where did you see this?
She's like, I saw it as a tip on TikTok.
I'm like, we're going to stop watching the TikTok recommendations
because I don't think that they work very well.
I'm starting to think some of those people are trustworthy.
And I think that these people are just mixing crap, just to make some
you make some content and, you know, and I don't think it works very well.
It kind of sounds like detailing.
Yeah, that, you know, you can see on the mic, we're not doing that, right?
No TikTok doctors, no TikTok dermatologists, no talking, anything that has to do
with anything, what we breathe, what we touch, what we feel.
Let's just get away from that.
Now, your method sounds legit because I can see the plan there, right?
But there's certain things that I'm just like, yeah, I don't, I don't do that.
Now, with that said, do I mix my own Dawn Powerwash at home?
I do.
I make my own.
That I have not tried yet.
I just buy it because I do feel like they do such a great job.
No, Sid, save the money.
Save the money.
Anthony, you're talking to a girl who spends $10 a day to go get coffee.
Six on the coffee, four on the gas.
I know, and another five on the power wash, which is not good.
So let's eliminate some of the spending there.
Dawn Powerwash, it's a very simple.
How do you, how do you remake it?
So empty bottle, empty bottle, right?
Well, now everybody's going to go home and do this.
Empty bottle to get a cease and desist from Dawn Powerwash.
They do this to themselves, right?
Hopefully they're watching.
You need to look up.
We've got a new watcher.
You need to look up the actual like there's there's a there's a ratio there.
And I'm just a little bit alcohol, right?
Correct.
But I'm just going to ballpark it and just tell you, I think what ballpark.
Don't anybody write this down.
Don't write this down specifically, but I think it's like something like,
you know, four tablespoons of Dawn dish soap or something of that nature
or it could be two tablespoons.
Now, is this the ultra or is this original original?
Just the blue one, right?
Okay.
So it's some type of ratio where it's like four tablespoons or two tablespoons.
I can't remember off the top of my head.
But when I use this, when you look at the label, you fill up to a certain point.
Okay.
And then you flip to the next point with this and then you mix the rest of the water.
So it's like four tablespoons of soap or two tablespoons of soap.
And then half of that, I believe close to half of that with IPA, right?
So you get like a 90% or whatever it is.
So you're doing like one tablespoon of IPA or two tablespoons of IPA,
whatever it is that you're wanting to mix.
And then the rest is just filled with just warm water.
It's not.
Oh, gosh, it's not.
And then you mix the rest of the water and you shake it up and it's good to go.
Um, and it literally performs exactly the same.
It's, it's, it's a perfect solution.
And, um, it'll save you like a ton of money because you're really little using
like 10 cents worth of soap and IPA, uh, to save like $5.
But you still need the container though, for the, for the foaming effect.
I'll try, um, but that is the one thing, which I don't know if I think
I saw on an Instagram reels, but like, that's one thing where I was like,
Oh, that's, that's, that's useful.
Right.
Don't make a room spray out of freaking wax, but make a, if you're already using
Don, just figure out how to spray.
And then I can make it whatever scent I want.
Cause I can just use essential oils, right?
Um, you could use essential oils and what you can also do is just
mix up a whole gallon of it and then use, you'll get distilled water, right?
And then just do the ratio, shake it up and then just save it and then
refill your thing as needed.
Okay.
So Joey's not sold.
I ain't homemade Don power wash.
Get out of here, Fisher.
Yes, you are.
You guys are actually ridiculous.
I'm going to try it because you know how bougie I am and how much I just
love for things to be done for me.
So I'm going to go ahead and try it though.
Okay.
Here it is.
Okay.
So, uh, here, I know I got it right.
And it was exactly right.
So here it is.
So to make Don power wash, combine, um, two to four tablespoons of Don dish soap,
right?
Two to four, it's a big ratio.
And it's, it depends on how strong you want it.
I guess.
And then one, and then one to two tables, one to two tablespoons.
That's a dangerous camera.
Yeah, water.
I mean, that seems pretty straightforward.
Okay.
So yeah.
So yeah, four us table spoons, two tables.
Okay.
So, all right, um, it's that easy and you guys are going to be ripping it.
What happened?
Too funny.
What do I mean?
No, I, I actually love this.
This definitely creates some interesting ideas.
And speaking of interesting ideas, I do want everybody who's watching right now
who's kind of heard what we've talked about, like the new live streams,
all that kind of stuff that's going to be going on.
I want to crowdsource some new ideas.
Like we, we obviously are coming up with our own brainstorming, Jimmy, Glenn,
Anthony, all working on stuff to kind of like throw them out there.
But we're taking input.
So like, is there something that you guys think might result in something funny
that still like comes across as professional ish, you know, something
that if we were to do like a live production of it, could result in a video
that you'd find fun and worth watching, but still actually has a point to it.
Is there a question you want answers?
Is there a product that interests you?
It doesn't have to be like DIY products made at home.
But it's that kind of thing where, you know, you've just, you haven't
had a chance to see it done live, maybe.
And we, you know, we might give it a shot.
No guarantee.
But I want you guys to think about that.
And then I want you to throw your suggestions down in the chat and we'll pop
some up and maybe we'll discuss them and see if there's some meat on that bone.
That sounds good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Awesome.
So that brings us to a good little halftime segment here.
We actually think of some ideas.
We are going to go to a brief and last commercial break of CUNY.
I'm just kidding.
I mean, I don't want to say it like that.
We're going to do a brief commercial break.
We're going to hear from ourselves as well as our brand partners.
And we'll be back here.
Just a few minutes.
We will be back.
We'll be right back.
Yeah, I promise.
Promise.
Hello, hello, hello and welcome back to the Q&A Thursday that you know and love
and is changing for the future.
That's right.
I'm leaning into Anthony's doom and gloom over here.
No, actually it is it is changing, but it's not dead.
It's not gone forever.
It is evolving.
And that means you're going to be seeing a little bit less of us each week.
But what you do see is going to be amazing.
Like it really will be a ton of fun and it's already starting next week.
So you won't be missing out for long.
It'll actually be on Friday.
I believe I heard two o'clock is what I heard.
And it is a two o'clock.
That is Friday.
What day is that 24 mountain standard time?
24, 24, OK. Wow.
So beware, there is a live stream coming your way of the new style.
And I'm just going to say if you guys enjoyed those live streams, we did those
like practice kind of warm up streams before to your SEMA.
That's kind of like a little bit of a taste of kind of what we're going for.
But these are going to be, well, this one we're doing next Friday
is a little unhinged, just in the idea alone.
It's going to be a really good time testing a household products,
but maybe not in the way you you think for a detailing channel.
Anyway, yeah, I'm just going to leave it at that.
These folks is two PM MST.
Well, good question.
MST and GMT are the same thing, right?
No, MST stands for standard time.
MDT is daylight time.
You have to make sure that you're using the correct one.
Otherwise, GMT. GMT is Greenwich Mean Time.
I thought it was General Mountain Time.
No, it's Greenwich Mean Time.
That's where the story.
Yeah. And then from GMT to wherever you're located is plus or minus
an hour from GMT.
So from Greenwich. Oh, my moving out.
We are, if I recall correctly, we're Greenwich plus six or seven.
Something like that. I think six.
I thought we were in general plus six.
No, so we're GMT plus six.
So anyway, sorry, we're way out of the weeds here.
Mountain standard time is what we're in.
Now that we've moved back from daylight savings times,
I just say mountain time to be safe.
Yeah, because I can never remember if daylight is when it's.
But we're the same time as Denver, no matter what, though, right?
Yes, we are a mountain time.
That is how that works.
It's the one that we bury from is.
They're screaming at you for General Mountain Time.
They're like, holy.
Yeah, it's so funny.
It's Greenwich means.
You know, Pacific Standard Time, Eastern Standard Time.
Essentially, you know, it was like, well, I mean,
it's a general mountain area.
So I mean, it's a general mountain time, I suppose.
So right now it would be MDT.
Mountain Daylight Time.
Don't you make sense? Yeah.
Anyway, not to confuse people, but Mountain Time, two o'clock
PM on Friday next week, not this Friday, but next Friday.
You can look forward to a very fun live stream.
And if I'm not mistaken, that one could be turned into an actual video
like edited after the fact where they kind of tighten it up, they button it up
and they make it into something they think that the main channel audience will
like, because frankly, live viewers and video viewers are two very different
groups of people in our experience on this channel.
Yeah. And y'all know, like maybe you guys watch some of the videos,
but like there are people who watch all the videos who seem to never have a clue
that we actually do live streams.
So we're trying to work on that, guys, who really are.
But all I can ask is that you help us steer that ship by being awesome commenters,
leaving those, you know, fun chats below and we'll keep the thing running.
But in the meantime, I saw some really fun ideas pop up.
I got a lot of people talking about, you know, everything that we talked about.
Yeah, no, Alkaline just losing his mind at General Mountain Times.
Really, really blew that one.
Let me let me go back here.
Let's see. We've got Jews.
Very excited, by the way, from that ad that we ran that last one there.
That was Hans Klosen as judge popping in a TRCEU to handle, handle,
get down to business, take care of that thing until the dragon tattoo came into
play and then it all got turned on its head.
I look forward to whatever they come up with as a sequel to that.
Yeah. But anyway, that's fun.
Let's go ahead and throw out some.
Oh, I like this.
OK, so Amber actually found us because of the cheap car challenge.
That's really cool. I didn't know that, Amber.
Thank you for sharing. That's awesome.
I don't know that.
And let that be a lesson to you.
If there are videos where we like reference them and you're like, I don't know
what that is, try looking it up, go back and watch it.
Regardless of like how timely some of the advice in them may be,
there's still a fun watch.
I know that's one of my absolute favorite things we ever did on this channel.
Maybe we need to do like a throwback series and like redo some of the old videos
because, yeah, there's some good ones out there.
Always, always good chance as you can redo a video and it feels fresh.
Yeah. Yeah.
Because the hard part is just doing the same thing over and over again.
People feel like it's stale, but that's the people who like tune into everything.
The hard part is you're always reaching a new audience.
So while somebody who's hung around forever feels like it's old hat,
somebody else is like, wow, this is the first time I'm hearing this.
And that's the constant battle of being like a YouTuber is figuring out
how much do you lean in one direction or the other?
Yeah. Oh, right.
David, confused why I know I love that.
I've started this whole we lost it going into
the whole, I mean, but honestly, it's all confusing crap.
Anyways, I mean, it sucks to have to remember everybody's, you know,
right, time zones and stuff like that.
Yeah. I was thinking about the other day, too, said this is.
This is ridiculous.
So I was thinking to myself, why can't I just
call somebody in the UK just right now?
Yeah. Just calling. Right.
Well, the tone sounds different.
No loopholes to jump through.
Yeah. No stupid 2026.
No stupid crap to deal with. Right. Yeah.
Like no long distance caller fee. Yeah.
If I can connect via Wi-Fi and literally FaceTime somebody, right?
Or Instagram, call them or whatever it is.
Why can't I just call somebody in another country?
Anything anywhere?
We'll probably get there.
Thailand, Canada, freaking the South Pole, right?
What is the reason why our satellites, which do communicate to each other
frequently for thousands of things, just make a call go through?
Oh, yeah. If the Internet can do it.
Yeah, we'll probably get there.
You're probably not old enough.
Do you remember ever having to dial long distance to talk to your family
in the state next door? Yeah. Yeah.
You had to buy like long distance calling cards.
Calling cards. Yeah.
So we'll get there eventually.
When my mom would be like, your grandma's calling from Oregon.
You got to answer it. I'm just like, oh God.
I'm like, hey, how's it going?
Well, don't take up too long.
We have three minutes left, right?
And it passed it to the other kids before, you know, passing around.
So I do want to shout out Detail Grind podcast here.
Friday at 2 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.
He is a great lead in four or five p.m.
Mountain Daylight Time show.
Thanks for the support fam.
Very true. Yes.
Very true. So those guys, if you don't know, we're going to give you something to talk about.
Yes, that definitely will be something.
You're all I know is you better be scream recording on your phone.
Some of the stuff that happens, I guarantee you, there's going to be some visuals.
You're going to want handy for the podcast.
Just throwing that out there right now.
Juice says that you can dial.
You have to dial nine first.
What I'm trying to say is, well, yes, you can dial.
I don't know about you guys.
Every time I've tried to dial even just with my cell phone,
like when I used to call the ambassadors, right?
Calls do not go through, right?
They would ring or they wouldn't answer it.
Or there would be some weird dial tone thing.
Right. I don't have to jump through some weird loophole.
Whether I was pressing one nine or the nine, then one,
then whatever the country code was, right?
Oftentimes, it wouldn't even go through.
So then I would have to WhatsApp them or they don't have access to accept the call.
Right. Yeah.
So that's what I'm just trying to say is, yeah, just why not make that crap easy?
And just you just call anybody anytime.
What's what's the big deal in 2026?
Yeah. No, I feel you on that for sure.
But you're right that we'd had minutes.
We had like, can you believe I just, yeah, it's great.
I would come here saying WhatsApp via Internet is great.
And not quite midnight here.
So I refuse to use WhatsApp because I don't know about you guys,
but I get like the wrong.
Oh, there's like some crazy scammers and stuff on there on WhatsApp.
I'm always looking out for that.
But what's funny is like in every other country besides the US,
WhatsApp is like the go to.
Yeah. Everybody uses it.
I'm not a fan.
And, you know, I'm just used to doing an eye message.
Yeah. What I'm wanting to know, I feel you.
I just want to dial.
So so go into your country code, right?
Thinking about that.
I'm curious.
Does anybody have my phone number in any other country?
I'm not going to give it out.
But I'm just saying, does anybody have my phone number in China?
Yeah. Does anybody have my phone number in Russia?
Oh, yeah. Probably.
Do they anywhere?
Yeah, the dark web definitely has your phone.
No, I'm you have provided it.
Does somebody have my identical phone number,
which warrants a different.
I thought you meant, OK, OK.
Does anybody else have my phone number in any other codes or a thing?
Hey, country code automatically makes a difference.
So then why can't we just call people?
Do they have 10 digit phone numbers?
I believe so.
When it all depends on where you're going for the most part.
Yeah, I think you're in the area and you have the proper SIM or eSIM.
You can you can do that.
So but frankly, the Internet's a great equalizer.
You could just I don't know.
I mean, I just as one part, I just go out.
Whatever. Anyway, the same reason why everybody's still a lot.
You know, there's still the Android versus iPhone debate
and why Android still take photos like they're from the 1990s.
People like potatoes, no matter what the Galaxy is,
the nicest camera in the world, but you upload to the Internet.
You other people calling you an Apple fanboy with a potato.
So Robert Clark here with us.
So does this mean Anthony will have time to go on the grind?
Five o'clock on a Friday.
Oh, five o'clock on a Friday.
Man, I'm a dad then.
So I mean, you're sitting in traffic.
You can put it on your phone, drive, drive while stuck in traffic.
You're just kind of home, sit on the little bit of distracted driving.
But, you know, details official.
It was very good from the deck last week.
That's true. I did.
I was on the back deck.
Yeah, I magnetized my phone onto a railing post and I just talked to it.
It worked great. Yeah, totally worked.
OK, so Sal and Joelle here.
It was very fun to have them here during the show.
So shout out those guys.
Details official. Very cool.
They also did a video that I saw about their experience from Tiersima.
So if you want to watch that, go check it out.
Those guys are fun.
Then we've got a bunch of people saying
main detailing time and detail grind time.
So there's just a lot of different time codes.
They can use that.
Honestly, it's we'll see a five PMD GT.
Yeah, hippopotamus stew here.
Anthony, trying to figure out telling time.
I know phone calls.
Listen, you come to Anthony for detailing advice.
You're going to get very solid advice.
Yeah, come to him asking him about life skills, how to make phone calls
or what time it is.
You might. I do think so.
I still am very much in the generation of of like,
I still do like making a call, like in talking to a friend.
But I have my friend group split straight up like 5050.
I have friends that do not want to answer a call this never.
They'll never answer a call.
They want to be texted.
Yeah. But then I have other friends that will answer.
Right. So I'm not most of the time, the older ones, like I guarantee you.
If I if I call Levi right now, he'll pick up right 100 percent.
But if I were, you know, I don't know if I were to call Dane.
Actually, every time I call Dane, he usually answers.
He goes, hey, Anthony, is everything OK?
And I'm like, yes, Dane, everything's freaking fine.
What's wrong with you?
And he goes, well, I just called me.
You just I saw that you're calling me.
It's it's seven p.m. on a Saturday night.
And it was Sunday.
I didn't know if anything was dinner time or not.
I'm like, yeah, I'm just calling you to say, hey, what's going on?
What are you doing?
Well, I mean, I'm just here with my folks right now and we're about to watch a movie.
OK, cool. Give him my love.
So I say, hi, I have set up my life in such a way that the only times I
receive phone calls are either spam, whatever, random, like automated
bot messaging thing I don't want because a phone number got leaked somewhere.
Yeah. Or it's an emergency.
Yeah. Or it's something that's like important.
And a text wasn't enough to get my attention or it's somebody calling
for like a project that I set up to pay somebody to do like gutters
or the big thing or something like that.
Yeah. Those are the times I am.
OK, I get a phone call.
I'm dealing with that. Yeah.
But when somebody, yeah, like I know calls me and they're just calling to like
chill, that's such a foreign concept to me because I just avoid phone calls.
I'm not a phone call.
I'm not either.
Weirdly, I'm a podcast person, but I'm not a phone call.
Yeah, I'm not a phone call person.
Unfortunately, you spend like seven hours a day on the phone, but I'm really
I'm not I'm not a phone call person.
No, I think my the worst text I get is like, do you have a few minutes to talk?
And I'm like, and it's cryptic.
So you're just like, yeah, like, no, actually, I don't.
I don't. I don't.
Well, I I mean, I don't know.
I mean, I get spam calls, but here's the other thing, though, too.
Nobody calls me straight up, dude.
I don't know anybody ever call me.
Like if I call me, I'm going to pick up.
Yeah, I'm going to pick up almost every single time.
Huh. Straight up.
Really? I will pick up almost if somebody is.
I'm not even kidding.
If Joey were to call me on a Saturday, I'm picking up the phone like.
Well, I would pick up the phone for Joey, too.
But nobody calls me.
I'm probably the main minus the spam call.
I'm just going to pick up.
It's easier for me to just get what I need to get done in that phone call,
whether it's whatever it needs to happen.
Then it is for me to go back and forth between a text
and then I forget to respond and then days go by and then I just don't get to it.
And I mean, Glenn's calling right now. Oh, my gosh.
That's crazy. Wow.
Told you I'd pick up.
Make sure you hold it up to the phone or to the mic.
She just wanted to make sure that I didn't fact pick up and I'm going to hang up now.
Oh, my gosh. But I will always pick up, basically.
I'm just that's how I'm wired.
I mean, yeah, Glenn work.
I avoid picking up.
I think it's like a respect thing where it's like somebody I'm calling.
You know, if they like me, they'll probably pick up.
But to my point, though, I guess what I'm trying to say is
phone calling in 2026 is strange.
We're getting further and further away from any bit of that, pretty much ever.
But I think it would make a comeback.
I think in 20 years, I think in 20 years or something like that,
they'll be like, hey, so and so called me.
And they'd be like, what? No way.
That's awesome. That's like super cool.
Right. So they didn't just snap you the single word, you know,
with a blank background. No, they actually called me.
It's going to be cool.
So you want to know my favorite communication style.
And I'm trying to teach my friends, but I do this with Joey and Alex.
But Kelly Minkin, my friend, you know, we will have an entire phone
conversation through Voice Memo. Oh, yeah.
That is my favorite.
That is my yes. Yes.
Except when they get them, they sit down.
But because usually it means I got something to say,
but I do Voice Memo, Joey and Alex all the time.
But Kelly and I for all day will voice memo back and forth.
But we never speak. I mean, we do talk on the phone.
But you know what I mean?
That's like my favorite type of conversation is through Voice Memo
because then we still hear each other. Yeah.
But it's on our own time. Yeah. And I love that.
Yes, I am a major voice memo. That's so funny.
Well, that's how I address the boys there in the chat
because they know I'm horrible at texting.
I'm not the worst at texting back.
And I forget they're all making up a Russian doppelganger.
So I usually just I'll usually if I have to address
some everybody I'll just voice memo them and just do it that way.
But yeah, no phone calls or again, still like them.
But they're going away as much as I hate them.
I still am on the phone like easily.
I bet five hours a day I'm on the phone easily, even though I hate it.
Oh, man, Joey says he's going to start calling me to chat.
No, it's a bunch of yeah.
So I square my calls.
If it's somebody I know and we're having an event
and I know they're part of the event, then I do pick up because I'm like,
oh, they're probably like lost in the direction.
Right. So otherwise, if it's just a regular day, yeah.
If it's Anthony, I more often than not, I will pick up.
Yeah, I pick up because if it's one of us, then there's probably a good reason
why, which is why when I just wanted to chat, then I was like, oh,
see, my heart like raises like, what happened?
I think when I get a phone call, not necessarily an emergency, but like
that is the ordinary.
Can you tell I'm actually an anxious person?
Yeah, that might be an anxiety disorder.
Yeah, for sure.
So yeah, I scream my calls.
If it's important, leave a voicemail.
If you don't leave a voicemail, yeah, I'll just assume it's not important.
Yeah. Yeah.
Straight up.
Now, there's a lot of people down here saying that they want Russian Anthony.
And I was really enjoying that.
So we're getting some comments here.
We did get a couple of detailing questions.
It's the answer.
OK, we're going back here.
We'll find ammonia.
And so I think the reason why I'm thinking back to my
the why do I love phone calling?
I think it's because, you know, I growing up with the Portuguese father, right?
You know, Anthony, I got to make some phone calls, right?
He'd be like on the phone.
He'd be like calling all of his friends.
And he's like, I got to call a guy about something, right?
I got to always say he's got to call a guy for everything, obviously.
But like, he would never tell me who he's calling, right?
He's like, I got to call the witch doctor, right?
From my back, right?
And he'd go to a chiropractor witch doctor in the middle of the woods, right?
I told the detail of the boys this one.
But like, like, or he had, I don't know, he had a guy who was a chicken guy
who had provided premium chickens that were like freshly killed, right?
So he'd go and like get these chickens.
Wow.
So like, he had a guy for everything.
So he was always on the phone.
So like my childhood, I remember, would be driving and I mean, he was either in
his Chevy Blazer, sometimes his 350Z, where he had some type or some vehicle,
right, where there would be the faint sound of Portuguese music in the background
playing through the radio that he wouldn't let me change because he's like,
I need to listen to this.
I'm like, why?
He's like, the newest song from, you know, straight from Lisbon, whatever, right?
And then he'd be on the phone talking and making deals with people as he was
just calling in, I don't know, making these deals.
So phone calls, I go, well, that's a good way to get things done.
And that just seems like a normal thing.
And what was interesting is whenever he called somebody, they always picked up.
He never had anybody not pick up the phone.
It was amazing.
Like it was amazing.
I was like, how did they always pick up?
Yeah.
Why wouldn't they?
And I'm like, I don't know.
I just maybe what if they can't get to the phone, they'll get to the phone.
So then for some reason, I always have this expectation.
Like, well, maybe if I'm important, then they'll answer the phone.
So Dane will answer the phone, but he'll think something is wrong.
But I have a lot of friends that simply will not answer.
Yeah.
And I go, I'm not important.
Yeah. Tony Mazzell, he won't answer my calls.
And I text him last week and I said, nobody sends me to voicemail faster than you do.
Really? Nobody.
Like it won't even ring and it'll just go to voicemail.
And I'll be like, can't do the send a voicemail because that that to me is
like super passive aggressive.
Yeah. No, I watch it ring.
I watch it ring and go to voicemail on its own.
But yeah, he just sends me to voicemail right away.
And so I text him and I go, wow, nobody sends me to voicemail faster than Tony Mazzell.
He says it's like an old main show.
And then dance diamond with a hay family.
So we do have some detailing questions here.
But when I said this was an old school, old school Q&A, what I meant was we are
going to avoid answering detailing questions for as long as possible.
No, not really.
But that's how it almost turns out.
So we are going to go back and actually find some detailing questions.
I'm going way back in there.
Let's take a look.
Oh, go for BC said I was so lucky to be the day three winner of the tears
in the giveaway.
Major props to Anthony for pronouncing my name properly as Stefan or Stephen.
Usually it's Stefan, I would say.
But with the pH.
I'm not even going to try again.
No, you're like, I'm not going to try again.
I was already branded because Dave Rocks and T.R.C.
Emma has me as T.R.C. for all, buddy.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Also, it's T.R.C.
Yeah, Salt Lake City right now.
One of four.
That's awesome.
Those are great prices.
So what was day three?
Day three would have been the I.K. Day.
Did it have all the I.K. stuff?
Oh, I think it did.
Ego, Flex and K.C.X.
Oh, that was a good day.
Yeah, that was a really good day.
So you got the tire inflator.
Oh, it's so Sydney wants to talk to you.
Geez, yeah.
And thank you.
This is the Borealis.
Nice, I like that.
Yeah, very cool.
Dick's in there.
OK, let's see.
We've got does anyone know?
OK, so this is a question from Dean.
Does anyone know if I can dilute down nanoskin heavy duty
acid to remove water spots off of paint or should I stay away from it?
I know it's kind of a slippery.
I've never used it.
I've never used that.
But I think as a general rule, you don't dilute acid.
Do you? Or do you?
Well, you can.
Yeah, you can dilute acid.
Can you?
So like McWires will brighten or you could dilute that to really
whatever the whatever you use for.
OK, I'm thinking like water spot remover.
I guess the ones I have.
Not one that's sold.
You don't.
But yes, the aluminum brightener for sure.
Not one that's sold as a water spot remover.
So basically, yeah, yeah, I don't know.
I'm not sure I've never used that one.
Oh, my goodness.
He's wanting it.
I'll treat you a snow blower.
Whoa, that's actually a.
No, I can't do the snow blower.
That's a pretty big tree.
You know, I almost bought a snow blower this year because I
was expecting him like, I'm going to be prepared.
Yeah.
And we didn't get one.
Not one.
Snowflake.
I think Mike got his out once.
But now he wants the ego dethatcher.
They have a dethatcher.
Yes.
No, they do not.
They do.
He just asked me yesterday.
He said, can I please get a dethatcher?
Oh, man.
I because I've been wanting to look into like getting a
renting an aerator or something like that or dethatcher.
Well, I think I'm going to buy it.
So I'll let you borrow it because I mean, you only need it
once a year.
Yeah, I know.
That's awesome.
So we got another giveaway winner here.
Day two.
Oh, so you got the they got the was it the university set
or the which set of brushes?
Vermil.
The Vermil set.
The Vermil University.
OK, cool.
Yes, you got the brushes and the P&S stuff.
And what else was on Tuesday?
Buff and Shine.
We got the Buff and Shine.
Do you technique?
Yeah, so cool.
People have been fighting to get a hold of those.
That was the full coding kit too.
Yeah, yeah, very cool.
Ah, Alex, main show kept me sane when I was on the road
a lot for work onto the next chapter.
So I think that was the thing for a lot of people.
Thing is, for people who are like newer to us
and haven't experienced all that stuff,
I have the entire backlog saved on YouTube.
I actually built out a playlist with every single episode
on there just as the Rag Company podcast.
You can go back.
We're talking in excess of 1,000 episodes of stuff.
It'll probably say like 700 or 800 stuff,
but I swear there's more than that.
Anyway, definitely check it out if you haven't had a chance.
And I like this one here from Dan saying,
Alpha Tango has a point.
This was how I really came into the community.
That doesn't mean don't change.
Just keep an eye on building the close knit community.
Agreed.
And that is something that once again,
regardless of what you guys may think or feel,
that is something that is a closely held belief for us.
I know I can speak for all of us when we have those meetings
and we talk about what can we do realistically
that would help improve viewership for these things
while not alienating people.
So we definitely wanna build on that.
I did see Detail Grind saying that maybe they should
switch to Thursday since they see a slot fraying up.
I mean, I'm not gonna tell you no
if that's something you wanted to do.
I would be all down for that, I'm not gonna say.
Friday nights are like the witching hour around my house.
I think, yeah, Fridays are kinda weird.
Friday at five, that's rough.
Yeah.
Now go for BC.
I'll miss the old format and the off topic humor creative,
but I get the need to move away from the livestream.
Now that's the thing, we're keeping the livestream.
It's not going away.
It's just kind of transforming a little,
but it's hard enough to keep a cadence
on pre-recorded content
is what he's trying to say.
Now one thing I was gonna stress was in our experience,
everywhere we've gone and just,
the people we've met, the programs we've been on,
I feel like one of the things that always stood out with us
was we were really well-developed when it came to live content
in a way that I think a lot of people had a harder time with.
You put a camera in front of them
and they kinda clam up and stuff.
There's something about just us just brute forcing it,
coming in week after week and really doing this.
I feel much more comfortable doing these livestreams and things
than even doing a regular video,
but it's funny when you get people who are really good
and polished in videos who suddenly come on a livestream
and they're just buffering, buffering.
It's a skill set.
Another thing that I can see coming from this
is we talk about the main channel
or the main podcast that used to happen.
I know a lot of us would go back and listen,
because if we didn't see it live, we wanted to know what happened.
And so what I think will happen from this
is we talk about the two different audiences.
We have the Q&A audience and then we have the main channel audience.
And I think what's going to happen
is it's going to bring the main channel audience
into the live audience,
because they're going to figure it out
that this video was shot under a live.
And so what I can see happening is them going back on the channel
and going, well, I want to see how this was filmed.
People are going to see the two distinct differences
between the finished product and the live
that I think it's going to cause those audiences to cross over.
I really do.
And that's what I'd love to see.
But I wanted to share Tamra here saying,
I've learned so much about Cardcare from all of you.
I appreciate it.
We always love seeing you here, Tamra.
So thank you for popping in and saying that.
And truly the reason we're here.
Definitely, definitely.
I hope your recovery is going well as well.
But yes, Lucas will be involved in some of those lives.
I promise you he will definitely have a place.
We'll have friends join us for sure.
Yeah, it's going to be a little wacky.
And one thing I want to stress about these upcoming lives
and stuff is the fact that I mean,
you guys are kind of getting like a first peak.
It's it's like a behind the scenes thing
before the actual thing happens.
You know how you like you'll see a movie
and the behind the scenes stuff doesn't get released
until like after right when it comes to these.
These are potentially going to become main channel videos.
But you're going to get a chance to see how the sausage is made.
You're going to get a chance to like actually influence it a bit.
We want you guys to be wacky, funny, your usual cells
in the best way we know how in the chat.
We want you guys doing that during these live streams.
We don't want to miss out on that.
So I don't want you guys to feel like this has to be some button down thing.
It really doesn't.
We're actually going to encourage kind of the wackiness.
So we want to keep it fun.
We still want to be educational above all else at the end of the day.
We are trying to educate and give people something
that they can actually walk away and go, I learned something today.
But we don't want it to be boring.
So that is a big part of sitting at this table.
Not withstanding, which I understand is not everybody's cup of tea.
Bucky here saying we need a hand sanitizer explosion main show video.
What can you what can you tell us about that?
When did that happen again?
I can't remember what you had it been.
What 2020 that was a one 2022 all garden parking lot.
Yes, middle of summer.
Dodger and fifteen hundred.
Oh, man, twenty, twenty, twenty one.
Right. I mean, if you were picking up to go,
picking up to go, the window, the window rolled down.
Or I think I said the window was rolled down.
That hand sanitizer is shaking up because I was making my own hand sanitizer.
I don't know if you remember that, but I had that.
I was getting like that.
Like we bought like this bulk amount of like this, I don't know,
this gel sanitizer stuff.
And then I was like throwing my own like sense in, right?
And I think that that was like the one that I had gotten the
the volcano sent essential oils.
I put it inside the thing.
And but like for some reason, there was a weird,
this weird heat effect that was happening to it was like exploding, right?
So I pop the top like it would like literally shoot out the sanitizer.
I'm like shaking it up, but like shaking it
because you had to like get it to the the gel is so thick.
I had to get it to the top of the cap, right?
And then I go to pop it and explodes.
And and then I'm just like in like, oh, my God.
And then I get handed my food like by this girl.
And I'm just like, that did not look good.
And no, no, no, really doesn't look good.
Yeah.
Which is Hans saying, don't text Anthony when at an event he won't fly.
I don't think. Oh, Hans, maybe Hans did text me at one point at an event.
I can't remember if he had my memory of Patrick's shot.
Yeah, maybe you.
But I think you if you did message me, Hans,
it would have been at like Wackstock,
which that is not the place to probably message me when we're pretty busy.
And then fairness.
Yeah, no, Dan, most accurate description of old school Q&A.
Yeah, the one where we say we're going to answer detailing questions
and then we talk about literally anything else, which funny enough,
everybody at this table, I mean, I know we all enjoy it.
So hopefully you do, too.
But we do try and get some detailing in there in the mix as well,
which, by the way, you guys can ask detailing questions like I welcome it.
I'll have to dig back through here to find some.
But I know they're in there somewhere.
So Ryan saying, I have to jump in a meeting.
Just pause in the stream so I can jump back in.
See you at the end. Love you all. Thank you, Ryan.
We really appreciate you being here.
We know you're one of the long termers.
You've been around and we really do appreciate your input.
And we're going to keep doing this thing.
All right, I got Jay Foster here show idea.
Bring back the master of shine for Q&A
so we can find out how Levi Gates is doing.
I've always enjoyed discussions about his home details
and kiddo adventures during the old Q&As.
Those are definitely a thing.
The couch stabbings.
The couch.
To buy another new couch.
Couch stabbings, the breaking of the windows in the house.
I mean, you'd really be like in the audience, a very destructive child, right?
And it wasn't.
They've grown up, though.
Yeah, they have grown up.
Yeah, keep in mind, one of the that my one of my favorite memories
is when I was like I was on a motorcycle ride.
And I was just because what would happen, right?
To my point about Levi picking up Levi's garage is always open as well.
Oh, there's certain things about certain people that you know,
this is what they do.
Yeah, his garage is always open and he's always there in it, right?
Or not far from it, right?
I'd always go on a motorcycle ride over to East Boise, right?
And I'd always do like that big loop around where kind of the reservoir is.
I'd come back around and whenever I was over kind of your bound crossing,
I was right by his house.
So he's probably he's probably out there.
And I ride by and there he was.
He was out there, right?
So I pull up and Augie literally comes out.
And he like, I can't read his ass.
Yeah, where's my hammer?
And and he's like, I don't know how you probably put over on the side of the house
next to the next to the stump, right?
In the in the in the in the in the what's it called in my forging stuff.
No, he would say next to the stump near the forge, but next to his
his trait with what we call the trait of the green bean, the the truck.
But yeah, so the combination of things is probably between this
but on there he's like, OK, so he goes and grabs it.
And then he comes out and he just grabs a rock from the yard,
puts it right onto the driveway concrete and takes his hammer
and starts smashing the rock into the kind of the driveway.
Like, what is this? And I see this and it goes so in my bikes,
like right by and I'm like, I'm like, I'm thinking, OK, well, don't hit that.
A little but looking at what's playing here, right?
He's just going to hammer this driveway until this breaks.
I he's not going to hurt anything.
I could visibly see chunks of asphalt and grant like a grant like grant.
Like just exploding out of it, exploding out of it.
I'm like, are you sure he's doing some actual damage there?
And he goes, ah, no, he's probably fine.
Right, man. So looking back to those days, I go, man,
we really had some pretty entertaining stuff, you know, man.
So and if you're looking for like a recent leave, I think if you go back
to our Christmas episode, we actually had him on an interview at the end of the show.
He's the last guest on there.
So make sure you go check that out if you missed it by chance.
So next up, I've got Johnny Davis with an actual detailing question here.
Good day to you all.
How many towels needed for a Honda Accord application of ceramic coat?
Specifically, Piana Stout of 12 pearls and 36 creatures.
Wow, you're good.
Well, you have plenty. You're good. You have plenty.
You're fine.
So I only use one of each for an entire car.
So one pearl and one creature.
How one doesn't have a horrible buildup issue in the towel.
So you'd be probably fine.
Remember, less is more.
Get good coverage, but you don't need to.
Yeah, yeah, you don't need to get those towels to where they're overfilling.
Andrew Andrew says, what's the most efficient chemical decon process?
Doing my first soon.
I'm thinking, Coach, can we be foam, rinse,
Coach RS foam, then rinse, iron remover, rinse, tar remover, rinse and contact wash.
He washes his car like I wash my biota in that one.
Like a lot of rinsing going on here.
Yeah. So, I mean, you are you're he's he's you're you are doing that much
rinsing. I think it's just it's funny when you read it out like that.
Yeah. Yeah, pretty much.
I mean, that would be fine.
You could probably go through if you're going to be polishing, I'm assuming,
right, then you could try to compile some of those things.
I mean, the one thing I don't see here is your clay process.
So if you're planning on claying or not
claying, because what's going to probably be more important than some of those
things that's going to be just claying and iron remover makes sense, right?
But oftentimes you can pair that really closely with just your claying process.
Tar remover, if and when necessary.
I mean, like if you feel like if it needs, there's covered in tar, then use it,
but it don't use it just to use it also to.
So would there with a coach foam?
I mean, with anything foaming related, I find that if you're you're probably
trying to hit this multiple pH process, you really don't have to do that.
If you don't really want to, you probably could just use something like
reactivation shampoo, call it good, or you could use something like super foam,
call it good. VB is also going to be higher pH as well.
But yeah, most importantly out of all that, I would be claying, if anything,
that would be my preferred thing along with possibly a fall remover.
All right.
Now I got one for Sid from Gardening on a Dime.
Is there a reason P&S No Rub is aerosol only?
I don't like spraying it in a car and breathing it in to spray into a rag
and apply that way. Thoughts?
Yeah, I mean, mainly it's it's the science behind the aerosol, right?
And so it that's why it's called No Rub, is it allows you to very
almost pinpoint apply dressing and then with the aerosol in there,
it helps it kind of settle on its own and dry out.
If you were using, I mean, you could certainly do any kind of dressing
non aerosol, but, you know, you're going to have to wipe it.
So it's the delivery system and the results from that is coming from it
being an aerosol. And so, you know, I use it inside almost every
single car I detail.
I've never noticed that the spring, the spring doesn't bother me to breathe it in.
I think,
yeah, I don't know.
I mean, but I probably breathe in a lot that I'm not supposed to.
So maybe it's like the lesser of the evils for me, but I mean,
unfortunately, the result is, yeah, it's because it's an aerosol.
Yeah, but I mean, you have ventilation in your car, right?
Your mini split.
And I'm not spraying that much.
I mean, I'm using it on the vents.
I'm not using it to dress the interior.
I'm using it on the vents, some of the cracks, maybe the seat belt buckle.
I mean, it's like six spritzes in the car.
Yeah. So I don't really worry about it.
If it bothers you, I would wear a mask.
But but the delivery system and the result is due to it being an aerosol.
That's the beauty in it, unfortunately.
And to be honest, yeah, no rub does leave.
It's so good.
It's like leaves a good look, man.
So good. Yeah.
We have we have a similar product that we have over actually just over here at
MVP over at the TRC storefront.
And it smells like watermelon.
And, you know, you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah. It smells really good.
And I always go, I just spray that.
Just just get in the air, right?
Yeah, just to smell it.
But I know I probably shouldn't be, you know, huffing this stuff.
So Joe Balinski says, any favorite behind the scenes
moments of 20 tier CMA 2026 from each of you guys?
Oh, boy. All right.
What do we got?
Someone stood out.
Yeah. How do I even put them into words?
Um, I don't know.
I really enjoyed Joey, you weren't there because you were suffering
a allergy attack, but my one of my favorites was sitting in the lobby.
I don't often get to do the lobby talks because I live here.
And so I'm not staying at the hotel with everybody.
So I enjoyed the lobby talk this year.
But I also just think that, like, one thing that doesn't get shown on camera
is the dinners.
And I think each of them is unique, but I think just the friendships
and the conversation and how much fun we have after hours, I think is probably,
you know, my favorite behind the scene moment is just something
that other people don't get to see is just how much like in this industry,
how much everyone is just friends.
Like there's not really competition, you know, if there's two chemical companies
here, like there's no competition.
And so I just love how everybody is just friends.
And we all go way back.
And even if there's new people, you know, they jump right in.
And it's I think that that for me is again, you know, we've talked about community here.
So I'll bring that up is just the community, even outside of our users.
But the other brands that we work with is pretty cool.
No, I agree.
And I would say like the competition is kind of like put into the background.
It's like they see themselves as people.
Yeah, yeah, not brands and companies.
Like they understand that at the end of the day, like, yeah, it's competition.
But at the same time, they're also like, but right person to person.
Yeah, that's that's where you get the kind of rapport and everything
that you really look forward to.
For me, it was obviously I enjoyed the deck party when I was expecting
maybe like five or six people and suddenly everybody shows up for the thing.
So yeah, the parking was crazy.
I heard you say that on the detail grind about the like the Calvary of vehicles pulling up.
And it was pretty crazy.
It was just a caravan just rolling up.
And yeah, not a van, but a little just like, yeah, eight cars.
Yeah, that was crazy.
Watching everybody try and find their way into a spot up there
while it was dark and raining. Yeah, that was fun.
That was cool. Yeah.
How about you, Anthony?
Let's see.
So I did not this year did not have time to have my
call it by Anthony garage therapy session, which is just, you know,
everybody in my garage just venting there.
You know, they're like, that's just what matters here.
That's just what matters here, I suppose.
Right. So maybe you next year.
Right. No, I didn't have that this year.
So really, my, you know, my nights were pretty simple.
I mean, Dane's deck party was really fun.
I also liked, you know, having our dinner over here that we had over at the toy box.
That was nice, like an Italian Italian dinner that worked out well.
I really liked that first night where we went to the reef and we had this.
Basically what we had is it's this restaurant slash bar
that it's not open on Mondays, but they rented out the whole facility
or whole place to us and kind of catered it to us.
And it's just a cool place.
Got your vibes.
Yeah. Two stories with the rooftop.
Yeah, that was cool.
Got a tea bar and all sorts of stuff.
And so I really liked that.
I thought that that was a good time.
Yeah. So, yeah, I had me and the, if it was me,
Ryan, fine detailing, Sal, Joel,
everybody, we're, and then who else is up there?
RJ. And then there was Tony.
I think Tony is up there as well.
No, it was Chris from G-Technique.
Chris and George G-Technique.
So we were just there telling stories, just talking about life and whatnot.
And I had a lot of fun just kind of joking around with them.
Because what I like to do is I'll give them the Anthony off-camera,
the off-camera Anthony.
And they're not safe for working.
Yeah, they're not safe for working, Anthony.
And they, and some of them, some of the tastes totally expect it.
Like, they know what I'm going to be talking about.
Like, you know, Joey and Alex, they know exactly they have a person.
You know, I am off-camera and I'll talk about, I'm the same person.
It's just a little bit more unfiltered.
You are you. You just, you use words and say things.
Yeah, I bet, I probably can't.
Spice it up a little bit more.
But, you know, to see the other guys being like, that's funny.
You know, that just, it's just, it was a good time.
And so, no, that was really good.
But yeah, I'm hoping maybe next year, because considering that we,
every T-Rosima we have the worst weather, we had one day of good weather.
And then it got bad again.
Yeah, it's like a joke.
We can't just get a sunny day.
No, it was an insult to injury.
The week prior, we had an amazing like out of the blue.
It just went from being 20, 30 degree highs and the week after.
70, 80 degree highs for a week.
And then, oh, T-Rosima is coming.
Quick, turn it down.
Yeah.
And turn to rain, clouds, all that.
Yeah.
Fun, fun, fun.
Okay, I'm going to throw another one out here.
Juice was asking, hypothetically, if powder weren't an issue,
what would you think of OxyClean free and clear powder
for a microfiber laundry booster?
OxyClean powder.
So you don't want to use that because OxyClean,
the powders do not completely dissolve.
Especially going into a microfiber, we'll call it a base.
So like the towels themselves, in a particular weave,
some of those particulates may not fully dissolve in one wash.
Maybe you're not even in two washes.
And so you just don't want to essentially risk
an abrasive being stuck inside that towel.
It's just not worth it.
I know what you're asking.
And there's some things that do make
sense in terms of what OxyClean is capable of doing,
but not in a powdered form.
Yes, Joe Evelince, he says this.
I don't even remember what story I was telling.
I don't even think it was anything that crazy that night.
It was pretty normal.
That's Anthony, just normal Anthony.
I think Sal and the details boys heard the real stories.
But I still kept those relatively.
Thing is with Anthony, you get all the same energy
you would get outside of live streams and stuff with him
here, it's just cranked up the content a little bit.
I don't think Sal had as many stories as I do.
And Sal was actually surprised.
I was like, oh, dude, I'm like, I had a whole life
before the RAG company.
But I mean, I've definitely, there was probably
a good 10 years where I was turned up
to 11 on max experience of everything.
How much can I experience in 10 years?
And I didn't even realize that I had that going on.
Until now, I'm like, oh, I'm simple nowadays.
He says involved a forest?
Oh, no.
That sounds ominous.
Oh, yeah, he's talking about the story in the Netherlands.
Oh, yeah.
See, now, now, now, I realize.
Yeah, no, sorry.
That's a story for anybody wants to ask him.
Just give Anthony a call, right?
Just find it on the dark red.
There's a particular forest in the Netherlands that, yeah.
It's not the truck stop you think it is.
Oh, I see the videos.
The real Andrew William.
Are we going to get any Anthony RC content, though?
I wonder.
Not on, unfortunately, not, no.
That's OK.
You definitely find ways to do it anyway.
Will Embry, I noticed P&S Fullsend has sold out
and has been mentioned in a few live streams.
What's the buzz around it other than being
a rubber and plastic coating?
Sid?
I think the reason people probably love Fullsend
is because it self-levels on its own.
So compared to some other water-based silicone dressings,
it just has a really nice finish,
and it has the ability for you to not fuss with it.
The other thing that people really like is not only the smell,
but if you spray down your tire and you
need to wipe it off the wheels, it wipes off super easy.
So again, unlike other silicone dressings that
can make your wheels greasy and gross,
this just wipes off really easy.
It's just a really versatile, really, really great base
of a dressing.
All right.
Electric auto detail.
Anthony, you got this one.
Hey, I'm 13 years old and trying
to avoid all the Instagram and Detailer fluff
in the right place.
Valid.
Well, maybe you're in the right place.
Do you think I should get an UberFlex hose,
or could I just stick to a cheaper one?
There's going to be probably some more affordable options
out there.
It just depends on what you need, right?
I mean, I'm assuming UberFlex, you're
going to use that for air, right?
No, air or water.
UberFlex doesn't make air.
Is it air or water on the UberFlex?
Do you know that one, Sid?
I don't.
OK.
Off the top of my head, yeah.
It sounds familiar, but I wouldn't
want to speak out of turn.
I feel like it's probably water.
But no, it is a water yes.
Sorry, it is water yes.
So yeah, no, you don't have to get an UberFlex hose.
You can get quite a few different ones.
They have, I can get a Cobra Jet for probably half
the price of Uber.
I think Cobra Jet is like half the price of UberFlex.
What I would do, though, there's actually
some pretty decent hoses on Amazon lately.
Within the last year, our hose game on Amazon
has been improved dramatically.
I even like poo-pooed my dad who wanted to buy a really
cheap hose on Amazon.
And I thought.
Remember, this guy's 13, so he's a.
No, unless I'm trying to save him money.
So that's what I'm saying.
I had a dad who bought, my dad, I have a dad.
I do have a dad who bought a cheap hose,
and I was like, ah, it's not going to be very good.
I used it, and I said, honestly, this isn't bad.
And he's like, yeah, I was like $35 on Amazon.
So I would check out some reviews on Amazon,
try to find a hose that's a non-marring hose,
and one that is, looks relatively smooth,
because if you are doing detailing on the side,
or if you are going to be knocking out a bunch of cars,
I would go with a hose that's not going to scuff up concrete
and go with a hose that's not going to absolutely
sand through, you know, car paint,
when if it touches it.
So let's try to go for a smooth one,
if you can find some.
It's a good call.
All right, we got Angry Monkey detailing Sydney.
Please tell me there are not a bunch of half-polished cars
in the Boise Airport rental lots.
I have the rental companies caught on yet,
and it's a detail covered by the rental damage waiver.
Well, we didn't consider any of that.
So half a bunch, like no, I don't really think
we didn't really like leave any rental cars hanging this time
other than possibly Bradley's Turro, right?
Right, yeah, but of course I'm here.
He tries to make sure every car does get finished to it.
Yeah, and that said, like obviously,
through all the trainings I've done,
we always use rental cars,
and we always polish them out and coat them,
and they always look 1,000 times better.
Not one person has ever noticed,
and we have never caused any damage to a car either.
Well, do you want to know what the first thing
a rental car company does when they get the return back?
They run it through the scratch-o-matic.
They run it through the car wash.
They do not even look at the paint.
They're not taking a skin grip to it,
they're not doing anything.
They're going to go run that white car,
that black car, that gray car, whatever color it is,
they're going to run it through the scratch-o-matic,
and it's going to go right back on the lot.
So, as long as there's not a major gouge or dent
or missing a bumper, they don't care.
Even if it's only half, it's still more love
than that car's ever seen in its life, so.
Alex, asking the important questions.
Yes, Sydney, is that the Strawberry Sonic beverage?
Yes, so Sonic right now has a strawberry horchata freeze.
What?
That is so good.
Oh, that sounds like an anthrax flare.
That sounds amazing.
Oh my God, I get them all the time.
They're so good.
Is it a limited time thing, or is they having one?
Yeah, but I've gotten them for the last like a month,
every day.
So, strawberry horchata.
Yeah, so it's like strawberry and cinnamon,
and it's a freeze.
It's so good.
It's so good.
Yeah, it sounds the next time.
It's so, so, so good.
Get on that.
To answer Alex's question, the painted hood,
the one that you guys did together, is safe.
It did get moved today.
It got moved into the container outside.
Yeah, it's in storage.
I was hoping we were going to put it right behind us.
We should hang that on a wall.
It needs to be hung up.
It's really, really, really fine.
I think that could go in the bathroom.
That's a wall.
We don't have anything in the bathroom.
Well, we got photos of cars that were in the white walls.
Well, we have a lot of space in those bathrooms.
Some of them are starting to curl.
They are getting worn out from humidity.
Yep, maybe not the best place for that.
Who knows?
Yeah.
All right.
I don't know.
Well, Embry, colorburst drying towel
is by far the best I've ever used.
Well, I'm happy to hear that.
I'm glad to hear that.
Continue to buy more.
They are on a screaming deal.
For sure.
And Will also says, I'm actually just down the road
from Optum Polymer Technologies doing some work.
Oh, awesome.
And then we got a little talk about Tiarsema here
from Alvatango.
So I really like the format this year.
I didn't feel pressured to watch every moment or miss something.
The segments were done very well.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
And then Amber, Sydney, you want to read that one?
Loves Tiarsema this year and you guys were amazing.
So was behind the scenes, which ran the best ever.
Can't wait for new tips on my IK Sprayer
and looking forward to the RAG company Ultra Foam Cannon.
Thank you, Amber.
Me too.
It's going to be great.
Thanks, Amber.
And then Alex, I vote for a two-hour livestream
of Lucas at his desk.
There you go.
That would be something.
Speaking of something, Hans, redo Wash Wednesday with horse
washing.
That was pretty funny, man.
That was one of the more memorable.
That was a crazy episode.
Yeah, that was more memorable.
It's an old episode, but that is a very good episode.
See, we need to bring back some.
We need to re-release some.
We've always been goofy.
We need a narrator to go as the opening
and set the tone of what was going on here.
This is what happened, a recap of the RAG company's YouTube
history with a British narrator, right?
Anthony watched a horse for a while.
Oh my god, that would be so great.
Because there were some really, really good videos
that just didn't get the play that they really need.
Ooh, here at the last second.
Fallout Auto Detailing, let's see a wash and talk
with all the Bill Hamber products.
Bill Hamber products are very good.
I like to see that being pretty good.
I do love these.
That would be good.
All right, next up, we've got, boy, you know what?
I'm going to throw the last comment up on the board here.
Coach Emmy, what's up, TRC?
We had a blast at TRCMA.
Thank you for having us.
So we had a lot of fun.
Yeah, that was awesome.
We love you, boys.
You guys are great.
We always have a fun time with really every team.
But I do love that they bring the whole family home.
So you get a little bit of everybody, right?
So yeah, enough love to go around.
Well, I guess that's it.
That's the last Q&A.
Well, I mean, is there?
I am sure at some point we will have maybe a Q&A of a topic
at some point.
But maybe not a one that is not.
So when we say it's kind of a plan words, OK, guys?
So Q&A Thursday is the Q&A that you've known forever.
It's been a thing forever.
We made it a standard time, day of the week, all that stuff
so that we thought, ah, people will tune in.
It'll be something memorable.
The hard part is, while we do get regulars tuning in,
it wasn't really bringing more new people in in the way
that we were hoping it would.
So not a bad thing.
I love that you guys tune in every week,
but we weren't seeing it building too much.
And in a way, we're really looking for.
So we think by doing more of these focused ones,
we're going to be able to bring in some new folks,
while still having you guys get all the fun you want out
of it.
So all I can really say is make sure you are subscribed
to the RAG Company YouTube channel.
Make sure you hit that notification bell.
Make sure it's turned on.
Because next week, I'm going to remind you again,
we are doing our first of the new livestream style.
Coming up, we just call them TRC Live from now on.
That's what they are.
The Q&A, while it's always been fun,
there will be Q&As in these coming up,
but it's going to be TRC Live.
Every livestream is TRC Live.
So that's just how you're going to know it from now on.
Anyway, we really, really appreciate each and every one
of you who've tuned in with us for years.
Or if today's your first day, we really want you to check in
and not feel alienated by how strange it feels to just sit here
and talk from a desk.
From here on out, we're going to be doing some wild stuff.
So next week, Friday at 2 p.m.,
you are going to see on the 24th household cleaning products.
How do they hold up in the detailing world?
And maybe, just maybe,
you'll see Anthony and a French maid up it.
Oh, I've said too much.
Okay, anyway, moving on, guys.
Have a great one.
We'll see you.
Take care.
Bye.
Well, let's all get out of here before it's too late.
Bye-bye.
See ya.
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