Pan interviews Matt Moreman from Obsessed Garage

[Angrey]

I have a hard time following someone or being a fan of a guy who bends the truth about his health condition just so he has a better story to sell. Vasovagal syncope is NOT OCD. Yes, there’s an obsessive component with Vasovagal syncope but to try and say you deal with OcD instead is just a lie. They are two separate things. Also, I lost a bit of respect when they started to run the illegal lottery’s that they tried to call “giveaways” while profiting hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’m a bit surprised that a majority of the people who gave him money haven’t even taken the time to read the actual rules as they would have realized just how slim their chances of winning really were. There are other situations that rubbed me the wrong way but these were the main issues I encountered.

Not sure it's that simple. Many people suffer from various types and dimensions of OCD, it's not always debilitating.

If you don't like your food to mix on your plate. If you insist that the mustard or ketchup be evenly spread rather than lumped in one spot and it stresses you out to see another person make your sandwich.

If you can't stand rounding to a digit when there are several more digits of information available. If you'd rather turn right and do a U turn than a left turn in heavy traffic.

There are mild and then there are major forms of OCD. I can't sleep with socks on. It bugs the shit out of me and I won't be able to rest easily until they're off.

I once knew a woman who had debilitating OCD. It would take her 4 hours sometimes to get ready. When she took a bath it would take hours, scrubbing, getting out and having the feeling she wasn't clean and getting back in. Putting on every piece of clothing you have multiple times and still being so stressed about what you're wearing you have to be forced out the door.

When it starts to adversely affect your life, when you're late for work and can never keep a schedule because your anxiety causes you to repeat tasks over and over or check things over and over, that is when it's clinical.

But a lot of people suffer from stresses and anxieties and they have adequate coping mechanisms to remain functional. Like when someone absolutely can't watch a movie with subtitles. I once knew a guy who dreaded watching 24 hour news or sports channels with the information bars because he was always stressed out about missing the information.

Many germophobes are obsessive.

My point is, OCD isn't exactly some binary affair, it's a spectrum and a lot of people suffer from it quietly because it's not so debilitating as to prevent them from living a half normal life. Similar to Tourette's, where someone can have a minor tick or have it major ticks and outbursts and uncontrollable ticks. All tourette's cases are not equal.

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[DFB5.0]

I have a hard time following someone or being a fan of a guy who bends the truth about his health condition just so he has a better story to sell. Vasovagal syncope is NOT OCD. Yes, there’s an obsessive component with Vasovagal syncope but to try and say you deal with OcD instead is just a lie. They are two separate things. Also, I lost a bit of respect when they started to run the illegal lottery’s that they tried to call “giveaways” while profiting hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’m a bit surprised that a majority of the people who gave him money haven’t even taken the time to read the actual rules as they would have realized just how slim their chances of winning really were. There are other situations that rubbed me the wrong way but these were the main issues I encountered.

Considering you username, can you verify these claims?

 

[young at heart]

Not sure it's that simple. Many people suffer from various types and dimensions of OCD, it's not always debilitating.

If you don't like your food to mix on your plate. If you insist that the mustard or ketchup be evenly spread rather than lumped in one spot and it stresses you out to see another person make your sandwich.

If you can't stand rounding to a digit when there are several more digits of information available. If you'd rather turn right and do a U turn than a left turn in heavy traffic.

There are mild and then there are major forms of OCD. I can't sleep with socks on. It bugs the shit out of me and I won't be able to rest easily until they're off.

I once knew a woman who had debilitating OCD. It would take her 4 hours sometimes to get ready. When she took a bath it would take hours, scrubbing, getting out and having the feeling she wasn't clean and getting back in. Putting on every piece of clothing you have multiple times and still being so stressed about what you're wearing you have to be forced out the door.

When it starts to adversely affect your life, when you're late for work and can never keep a schedule because your anxiety causes you to repeat tasks over and over or check things over and over, that is when it's clinical.

But a lot of people suffer from stresses and anxieties and they have adequate coping mechanisms to remain functional. Like when someone absolutely can't watch a movie with subtitles. I once knew a guy who dreaded watching 24 hour news or sports channels with the information bars because he was always stressed out about missing the information.

Many germophobes are obsessive.

My point is, OCD isn't exactly some binary affair, it's a spectrum and a lot of people suffer from it quietly because it's not so debilitating as to prevent them from living a half normal life. Similar to Tourette's, where someone can have a minor tick or have it major ticks and outbursts and uncontrollable ticks. All tourette's cases are not equal.

Well and thoughtfully said.

 

[K4fxd]

Who are these guy's?

But I don't watch YT videos because most are 97% someone blowing his own horn and 3% information. Then if an ad pops up in the middle I'm gone

 

[young at heart]

Who are these guy's?

But I don't watch YT videos because most are 97% someone blowing his own horn and 3% information. Then if an ad pops up in the middle I'm gone

Yeah I’m a little like this myself. I’ll watch either one to some extent if they happen to pop up when I do a search for something in particular but that’s about it. But I’m pretty cautious about “free” YT advice to start with. So honestly I really am not aware of what it is that many folks find so objectionable about these guys in the first place. Don’t too much care. I can sift through the BS on my own. Then again, I don’t understand the hate for Stangmode either and I think the P Zeros on my 2020 GT are great tires. So you gotta factor that in.

I will say this: right or wrong regarding his advice, I think the OG guy might just be the universal cure for insomnia. A smile would break his face half in two!

 

[DFB5.0]

Who are these guy's?

But I don't watch YT videos because most are 97% someone blowing his own horn and 3% information. Then if an ad pops up in the middle I'm gone

Very broad statement there. Your milage may vary.

99.9% of my TV viewing is via YouTube. Why? Because free-to-air and cable networks have very little to interest me. No TV network is going to make a program on car detailing, or how to fix a 60-year old lawn mower.....................or insert your favorite hobby here.

Yes, there is a lot of horn blowing to be found, but there are also plenty of channels that I follow that are first rate productions. For example, these two channels provide me with entertainment while showing me new things to learn. Neither toot their own horn or have an agenda to push.

Broadly speaking, I couldn't begin to document what I have learnt from watching YouTube videos, for me its an important learning tool. I recently rebuilt my first carburetor, which YouTube gave me the confidence to do after watching someone else show me how to do it. Take that concept and spread it across just about any hobby, well YouTube has changed how we learn.

Ads popping up mid-way through the video? That's not a problem with YouTube Premium. The main cable network in Australia that you pay through the nose for? Yep, adds every 10-minutes and no way to opt out of them. So, I'm happy to pay for YT Premium.

 

[kilobravo]

So, I'm happy to pay for YT Premium.

I've thought about going that route many times Deyon but so far, the five-second wait for "SKIP" hasn't set off my impatience alarms. I look at it as a game and now that Mr. G. is hiding the countdown timer, the game is to pre-position the mouse cursor where I think that G. is gonna put it. <grin>

And since there are just too many other "services" I have to pay for every month, so far I haven't added insult to injury with YTP. :=) That said, I can imagine that YT is a different experience without advertising and I'm a little envious. <grin> I also don't know the difference between YTP and YTTV but based on the folks that I know who subscribe to "YT TV" do so for music vids.

<Change of subject..sorta>

If I were a betting person, I would wager that the original authors of YT (pre-Google,) could not possibly have foreseen the explosive revolution in content that we see today. If there's a topic NOT represented somewhere on the YT servers, I would be very surprised.

And I'll betcha that more than one of G's executives has said that YT is THE best acquisition they have ever purchased. Just ask yourself this question, who DOESN'T immediately go there when you want a review of a product or to find out how to do something..make that anything.

Having said that, I have run into a dead end a couple times when looking for something like a specific zero turn mower maintenance procedure but that's out of thousands of other successful YT searches. It truly is a treasure trove of knowledge and I for one would be VERY unhappy without it and, based on previous comments, I'm reasonably sure you'd agree with that. :=)

The other big factor in the DIY scenario that hasn't been mentioned is the mobile phone and it's full-time connection to the Web because you can, as my man Tom Petty sang, "take it to the heart," of the project. I DO come indoors to use the larger display sometimes depending on the subject matter but nine times out of ten, I'm "toobing" on the phone and wherever the project's location takes me. My biggest problem is my near vision and even with a big phone and using it in landscape mode, I often need to reach for "cheaters." <smile>

In closing let me say that I dislike and mistrust Alphabet/Google as much as the Meta/Fakebook duo but my life would simply not be the same without YooToob as I learn so much all the time just as you've described, shipmate. <wink>

 

[K4fxd]

I'm finding more and more 2 min ads that cannot be skipped.

It is what it is and the 10 min min for monetizing has ruined it for me. I don't want and will not listen to 8 minuets of babble to get 1:30 of the info I want.

I was watching a pilot show that broke down the reasons for crashes and I stopped because he is now inserting ads.

 

[young at heart]

I have an old college buddy who has gotten unreasonably socially/politically biased in his latter years and constantly besieges me with YT videos that extol his point of view. Never occurs to him that I might or might not agree with him. I humor him with innocuous comments just because well, honestly there aren’t so many of us left on the green side of the dirt anymore.

Point is, he’s completely given up radio, TV, movies or any other form of media except YT. It’s his only outside input. Problem with that is that he has a little difficulty sifting through the BS and is drawn to the hyperbolic headlines.

I guess rabbit holes are just where you choose to find them.

 

[Angrey]

I'm finding more and more 2 min ads that cannot be skipped.

It is what it is and the 10 min min for monetizing has ruined it for me. I don't want and will not listen to 8 minuets of babble to get 1:30 of the info I want.

I was watching a pilot show that broke down the reasons for crashes and I stopped because he is now inserting ads.

I have less issue with free for view services and what they do, but what's particularly offensive is how we eventually go from (it's free, you must suffer through revenue generating adverts, but if you pay you can watch uninterrupted...............to.................hey, thanks for your subscription, and we know that used to mean no commercials, but now you pay AND you suffer commercials.

Paramount Plus is a perfect example. I'm cancelling (after one month) because it's pay AND commercials. yeah, no thanks.

 

[MAGS1]

I have less issue with free for view services and what they do, but what's particularly offensive is how we eventually go from (it's free, you must suffer through revenue generating adverts, but if you pay you can watch uninterrupted...............to.................hey, thanks for your subscription, and we know that used to mean no commercials, but now you pay AND you suffer commercials.

Paramount Plus is a perfect example. I'm cancelling (after one month) because it's pay AND commercials. yeah, no thanks.

Yep, all these streaming services have turned into cable. And it’s beginning to cost just as much as cable, if not more

 

[DFB5.0]

I have less issue with free for view services and what they do, but what's particularly offensive is how we eventually go from (it's free, you must suffer through revenue generating adverts, but if you pay you can watch uninterrupted...............to.................hey, thanks for your subscription, and we know that used to mean no commercials, but now you pay AND you suffer commercials.

Paramount Plus is a perfect example. I'm cancelling (after one month) because it's pay AND commercials. yeah, no thanks.

That's been going on forever though.

When we signed up for the first cable TV service in Australia in the late 90's, it was sold to us as an ad-free service. Within a few years, they started to introduce ads at 15-min intervals or between programs. Then it progressed to point where ads were at the same frequency as a commercial TV channel.

 

[Angrey]

That's been going on forever though.

When we signed up for the first cable TV service in Australia in the late 90's, it was sold to us as an ad-free service. Within a few years, they started to introduce ads at 15-min intervals or between programs. Then it progressed to point where ads were at the same frequency as a commercial TV channel.

Yup, same progression in satellite radio

 

[Verifythesource]

I know Matt hacks off a lot of people, even me at times, but I think his story is worth listening too. Humans are complex beings, and quite often we judge based on surface level. That applies to both Matt and Pan here. Digging deeper, I discovered things I didn't like about Pan, despite him being a polished presenter in his videos. Matt, he comes off as abrasive, but when I started to learn more, I discovered aspects of his life struggles I related to. You really need to hear where he has come from, and how his business is set up to realize why he might ask you to pay for shipping, or not pandering to idiot customers who are just looking for an excuse to be offended.

This video is also worth watching, it goes into more detail with regard to how products come to market, white labeling, business ect. I've never been a huge fan of Jimbo, but I took something away from him here and have a new appreciation for him. Open mind.

The guy is a great businessman but what are your thoughts on him making up the story of being “ocd”? He was diagnosed with Vasovagal Syncope and not OCD but I guess he think OCD sounds better and makes for a better story?

 

[DFB5.0]

The guy is a great businessman but what are your thoughts on him making up the story of being “ocd”? He was diagnosed with Vasovagal Syncope and not OCD but I guess he think OCD sounds better and makes for a better story?

Look, I think we know he is not your cup of tea, nothing I say will change that, and nothing you say will change my thoughts either. Can we please leave it at that.

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