So today was an interesting uh comment thread in the video: I'm uh, I'm in the middle of a project where I I had to put a set of injectors in an uh, what is it an lb7 Duramax an 0304 Duramax one of the earlier production models and during my tear down phase I had found a Uh set of injectors from a company out in Jacksonville Florida it's called Diesel Logic and I had some disparaging things to say about that because of things that I had read and there was in the price point that they were selling those units as and shortly after posting that video a couple of weeks ago I got a call from the Diesel Logic folks and they, uh, they were wondering where I was coming from. Perhaps I had some kind of personal ax to grind to get to the company which wasn't exactly the case I was just doing my normal ramble ramble action and uh, well anyway, so they called me cuz I naturally I upset somebody because I had some disparaging marks or remarks rather and Diesel Logic and myself had a a conversation in my office a couple weeks or about last week or so and they didn't agree with what I said obviously. so I decided it was probably best for all if I walked back a little bit on my statements or rather I gave them an opportunity to walk back or walk me back or change my mind rather and they invited out to their manufacturing facility in Jacksonville which again, that's uh, it's on the other side of the state I'm on the west coast of Florida and they're over on the east coast and uh, so it's not too far of a drive and we're going to go take a miniature field trip next week to Uh to go pay their their facility of visit because uh, the fellas at the marketing team had a lot of things to say about past products and past product reputation failure rates build quality, material selection things of that nature. And yeah, they did have a lot of negative feedback on the particular set of injectors that I had pulled out of this truck.

Now all of a sudden I look at my comment section today and I'm getting called a sellout or they think that uh I was paid to sort of change my position on the matter. Uh, I was told that uh, you know my career is over with because I'm going to get sued and I'm going to owe them every asset that I've ever acquired I Me you guys said a lot of nasty things which is so disheartening because I I make an attempt to do or to take a negative situation and turn it into a positive situation and then I I get personally attacked for it. Which is fine, we all get to have our opinions, but uh I felt that uh, well, that's why I'm here I want to make this video to just kind of talk about that a little bit more now. don't get get me wrong, I did push the issue somewhat heavily uh in my videos commentary which I will leave a link to those videos down in this video's description if you guys want to go back and hear what I said uh I did push the negative issue uh, a little hard and naturally like I said I I did draw the attention of the company in question which I think is a fantastic opportunity both for them myself and for you guys for everyone to get the record straight.

hence the invitation uh out to their manufacturing plant which uh, naturally I I immediately jumped on that because that's an opportunity to do something a little bit different I get to meet some people and we all get to have a uh, sorry I'm pumping gas right now but we all get to have and experience the point of view from the other party in question. So having said all that, I don't see how what I said today turns me into a sellout or how that's going to make me, uh, turn into a shill for this other company or anything like that. I don't see why we have to look at everything in the most negative light possible there walking back out I went in the store. so for example, if I were to take B of these corn dogs right here and spit the corn dog out and say oh, that's gross Racetrack gas station has the worst uh, corn dogs I've ever had Just because RAC Trck might not like that, That doesn't mean Racetrack gets to sue me because I said I don't like their corn dogs.

Furthermore, if I were to publish that opinion and then say this is what I read or say in my opinion, then Racetrack again really does not get to sue me. So everybody jumping the gun in the comment section today talking about how much of a a POS I am because I had an opinion based on the information available to me at the time doesn't warrant sellout, shill, or lawsuit Behavior that's just a difference in opinion and what diesel logic has done is offered the opportunity to me and to others to sway that opinion. That doesn't mean I'm going to sell all their products or I'm going to buy them all day long every day. Uh, it very well may change my mind and I could become a customer of theirs, but that's the reason for the invitation to the manufacturing facility.

Not everything that's a disagreement in this country has to end up in Civil War SL lawsuit or defamation or this and that that's just not how things like that work. You see, one would think that it would be an admirable quality for a person to admit that hey, I jumped the gun or I was wrong or you know, maybe I shouldn't have even said that, but that doesn't mean that person is a bad person for not being 1 billion per right the first time because that's just not how the human species functions. We don't work that way. We're not perfect beings and we do not have the ability to see into the future.

That doesn't mean that I was wrong. You know those folks might make subpar junk components. they might. they might do that.

But for all I know I've kind of taken a position of a one-sided argument and that's what I realized I was wrong about. So hence my effort I mean to, uh, my effort to go back and and allow the record to be corrected I Kind of just find it to be somewhat of a shame that we have to be so polarized in our opinions. Where you know 3 days ago or last week or whatever when I when I made the disparaging comments about those particular products that everyone's like yeah, screw those people, they're horrible. It's the worst company in the world.

But then I walk back my position slightly and now it's like oh, screw you Ray you're the most horrible person in the world like you can't You know, where's the where's the middle ground here? People like, we need to find middle ground because I think that that type of mentality and behavior has caused the citizens of the world a lot more trouble than than it has uh provided. Solutions And you know that's that's kind of my observation on the matter. That's how I feel about it and uh, that's that's what I would want to do. And and furthermore, if somebody said something negative uh, that affected me or my business and then later on decided that hey, you know, maybe you took it a little too far I would appreciate that person for them being honest with themselves.

Now having said all that, these corn dogs stck.