Well shoot, so the guy who's been mixing paint since before I could drive is telling you your whole system is backwards and now you're standing in the garage staring at a bedside like it owes you money. Body filler is basically glue, and glue sticks to rough bare steel way better than it sticks to a slick epoxy coat, that part makes sense. But every old school guy I know swears by sealing first to keep rust from creeping under the filler. So either half the shops in America have been doing it wrong for 30 years, or the paint counter philosopher is just bored and messing with you.

The thing about that Ohio clip that bugs me is the timeline people keep repeating. It didn't blow up because some random guy made a joke. Somebody else recorded him without him knowing and posted it, and then a couple big accounts pushed it for their own clicks. That part almost never gets mentioned. So saying he "lost a job over a joke" kind of skips the middle, where strangers decided his 10 seconds was worth more than his whole life. The punishment still seems way off to me, but the pile on didn't just happen. People built it on purpose.