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S4-177: SIMA 2026 REVIEW SHOW!
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The guys welcome some members of our travel crew who attended SIMA 2026 in Cincinnati with us last week to hear what they thought about the show! Who won, who had the best events, what they liked and did'nt like....
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Introduction and Celebrations
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The SnowJobs Podcast
oh let's get it snow jobs nation here we go we are back again bringing you episode 177 of the snow just podcast main show powered by top gun backblades as always of steve you knows with me
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The SnowJobs Podcast
the best show in snow is off and running what is up jay how are we bud
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RICK JAMES
Hey, Steve-O. Not a lot. Happy birthday, buddy. Happy birthday to the big Steve-O.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. The big five. Oh, has come and gone.
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RICK JAMES
Five-O. You got boy.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yup. Oh yeah.
Cincinnati Trip Stories
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Just another day. Just on the, just another day.
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RICK JAMES
Another day. Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, no, it was good.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, we're back. We made it back alive and safe from Cincinnati, even after having a gun pulled on us though.
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RICK JAMES
Well, that was probably well-deserved.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
but I don't know. I mean, yeah, it was weird. But yeah, no, Cincinnati was great. If you if you stay in the downtown area, it was it was great. If you stray a little trying to find like a late night Kroger or somewhere you can get snacks or something, I highly recommend we should have known when we saw cops emptying the parking lot that we probably shouldn't be in that parking lot at 1050 at night.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That probably was a bad idea.
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RICK JAMES
But hey, there's a story to be told. least you got a story out of it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
the head Sean's got it.
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RICK JAMES
Everybody's good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah ah But we are.
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RICK JAMES
didn't want to mess with you. It's all good. Yeah, whatever. Just because...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
He no, he didn't.
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RICK JAMES
so good
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I think he was trying to just tell us to get out of there that we were interrupting something.
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RICK JAMES
uses yeah whatever
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, you know, I mean, listen, he needed we needed our chips and we needed our soda. So you you take those kind of risks.
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RICK JAMES
it's Just because you brandish doesn't mean you're going use it. and There's a big tough guy.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
true true true it
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RICK JAMES
Ooh.
TSA Pre-check and Airport Tales
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The SnowJobs Podcast
was it was definitely interesting but yeah we are back from sima cincinnati 2026 uh we got back when did we get back friday morning early we all had very early flights it was uh it was pretty easy right getting through the airport for those of us who had pre-check
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RICK JAMES
Let's go.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah. It's a nice airport. Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Pre-check is not sky priority, as we've learned. Or we've had the we've had to teach a couple people.
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RICK JAMES
ah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Pre-check is not sky priority. But, yeah, no, it was...
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RICK JAMES
They tried. Give them an effort. They tried.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They did try. They did try. Apparently, the snow job stickers set off the the but X-ray machines.
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RICK JAMES
Yep. They definitely do.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
we both Right? We both got our bags checked in different airports.
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RICK JAMES
I got... Yep. I did. He's like, it's a big circle on mine. He's like, I'm like, I don't know what's in there. I thought it was a war. Last time was that. And he he's like, no.
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RICK JAMES
He goes, I go, stickers? It was like explosive. It sounded like red explosive. I go, it's just stickers, dude.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah yeah for some reason the pack of stickers showed up ah they like red flagged and they uh the the guy like apologized i'm like don't ever apologize to me for doing your job bud like i'm i'm good with it like you know inconvenience the shit out of me that tells me you're doing your job
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RICK JAMES
And I put a sticker on the machine as I left.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
did you
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The SnowJobs Podcast
uh yeah there are are there are some guys going home with snow job stickers on uh on their vehicles
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RICK JAMES
There's a few snow job stickers around the city of Cincinnati as well.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
just doing snow jobs things oh man that's great but we time we had a good time it was great to be with the boys it was uh it was it was a very nice uh very nice week i thought with the guys
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RICK JAMES
Arctic snow job stickers. We did some tagging.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, very nice. it was fun.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
you
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RICK JAMES
Fun, fun.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
but that's uh yeah that's what we're we're gonna do tonight we're gonna do our annual we always do the preview show and then we always do the review show so that's what we got for you tonight we are back from simon 26 and and uh we got some of the crew they're uh they're gonna help us do a sima show review all of the uh the events that we attended and uh and the trade show itself hear from them what they thought as far as who the winners were and, you know, what what they looked forward to the most and if it lived up to the hype.
Promotions and Upcoming Events
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But that's what we're going to do tonight. And before we do that, you know what we got to do. We got to hear from Team Top Gun. We got to come back and do a quick week in review.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, gang, we're back. So quick week of review before we get to the boys here. If you haven't already checked it out, head over to YouTube, to the Storm Chasing YouTube channel. Check out Storm Chasing Season 2. We got three episodes up there for you to check out if you haven't already done so.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
If you have, watch them again. uh what next up the next event of the year here of the travel year for snow guys is storm field day that's going to mankato minnesota july 29th and 30th uh tickets are on sale currently on the storm website so if you haven't already done it uh get your tickets because that event as we told you about starks sean that event will sell out so get your tickets now don't do not wait for the last second all right uh We have August off this year, right, Jay? We got nothing in August so far?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
but Because storm move there is up to July? You're muted.
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RICK JAMES
Oops, we got that one-day show and for Putsy, August 13th, I think it is. so
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The SnowJobs Podcast
there we go. So if you're in the Fargo-Moorhead area or feel like traveling to Fargo-Moorhead, you have the Valley Green and Associates there. What one day, you know, kind of?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, we're just going to have like Phantom, Turbo Todd's going to be there, and a few local vendors, I think, of stuff.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
meo
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RICK JAMES
So I'll get more.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What was the date on that?
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RICK JAMES
ah 13th, I thought it was, August 13th.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
August 13th. If you happen to be traveling through, if that is a vacation destination for you, Fargo, Moorhead, then, you know, in August.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah. Book now. Flights will be full.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Book now it's a hot spot for vacations in August Fargo Moorhead Oh shit And then after that we go into September And we got that two day Pennsylvania swing You got September 16th is Stork's Annual Plow Tech School uh very very good class can't stress that enough for all you guys running douglas dynamics stuff uh whether it's western fisher snow x that is definitely worth attending uh and if you go to storks on the 16th then hang out drive the hour and 20 minutes to the where is it the scranton wilkes bar area drive over to s&s snow and ice solutions sixth annual snow show on the 17th that's thursday all right uh that is a good time hi mrs de vincenzo
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The SnowJobs Podcast
um
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RICK JAMES
She tried. We saw you.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That was the quickest non-quick story across the screen i've ever seen.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah ah But yeah, check out. We'll be at both of those days. So make sure you guys ah get your tickets. Check them out with us. I know S&S, that's going to be another, for the East Coast guys, that's going another Phantom reveal.
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RICK JAMES
Yep.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So if you haven't seen the Phantom yet and you're looking forward, the Storm Phantom Plows will be at S&S for you to ah to look over and mess around with. And then we get into October.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So October 1st is the big concert, the Morton Wallace concert. in ah the The Northeast De-Icing Solutions Annual De-Icing Day is October 1st, and that's in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
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RICK JAMES
And Laney Spaulding.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And I don't think we have any further information on that yet. Wow.
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RICK JAMES
Jeez, what is that?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
that's What is that, Sean? don't even know what that is.
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RICK JAMES
Jeez.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Was it was it a pizza? Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
What the?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
i don't know what it was we'll have to find out when he comes in but uh yeah looking good um what else ah new snow jobs patch hats are still in the store they look great and uh we had a bunch of still for sale oh yeah the sale the sale is still on for another couple days so spend a hundred dollars in the store get entered to win the uh ojo carry-on luggage for the snow jobs luggage
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, don't know what it was.
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RICK JAMES
Still sell.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Guy's got a.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
all right so head on over to snowjobsnationstore.com get your stuff uh guys keep hitting the apple podcast and spotify like and subscribe five star reviews the whole nine leave the comments leave the reviews uh it's awesome we've been blowing that up lately you guys have been a big help with that and we really appreciate that got anything else buddy
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RICK JAMES
Yep.
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RICK JAMES
I don't.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Wow, record time tonight. All right, cool. All right, we got through that. So let's hear from our partners, and we'll ah get to what we really came to talk about tonight. We'll be right back.
Guest Introductions and Cincinnati Recap
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The SnowJobs Podcast
we're back thank you so much to our partners we appreciate it uh pat salmon shot me a text uh i forgot one event if you are interested and that's gonna be august 27th is the uh the small buffalo snow show there um that northeast the icing attends i don't know if i'm going to that pat i don't know but Let's welcome in the boys. We got Patty Simon. We got Brandon Riley from LADC who joined us on this trip. And as always, crowd favorite, Sean Twinkle Toes DiVincenzo of Native Snow, New Jersey. What's up, boys? Long time no see.
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Brandon Reilly
How's it going?
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RICK JAMES
What's up, guys?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
How we doing?
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Native Snow
Doing good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I'd like to...
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RICK JAMES
Sean, did you win? to do I'm going to get right in.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What?
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RICK JAMES
Sean, did you win the championship or not? Or the game?
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Native Snow
Fucking A.
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RICK JAMES
Did you win the championship?
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Native Snow
Three toddies, two extra points. We out there grinding today, boys.
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RICK JAMES
wood where is the face where Where's the Instagram post of your Twinkle Toes? That's what I'm looking for.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
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Native Snow
I'm waiting for the video the video to come out.
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RICK JAMES
oh yeah.
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Native Snow
So it has like a first.
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RICK JAMES
I'm sure you had a professional taking pictures just locked onto to you.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, oh, oh yeah.
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Native Snow
Yeah, they had a pro there.
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RICK JAMES
One camera locked onto you.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Wide angle.
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Native Snow
I mean, that's that's all they had to lock on was me.
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RICK JAMES
Three TVs, huh? Attaboy.
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Brandon Reilly
GoPro attached to his chest.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Really?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Who are you playing exactly? Kids or who are you playing?
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RICK JAMES
The little giant.
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Patty Salmon
that That's what was going to say.
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RICK JAMES
The little giants.
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Native Snow
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Little Giants.
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Native Snow
bunch of Bunch of Ray Charles.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
oh my god that's great oh it's good to see you guys again long time long time how uh how did everybody's trip home go and any problems good i think we got to do that from now on like everybody first flight out in the morning let's go no i ah sometimes we don't sometimes like we're not on the 5 a.m m or 6 a.m somewhere sometimes we're on like the seven or eight and think that's when shit starts getting screwed up
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Patty Salmon
Quick.
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Brandon Reilly
was very fast.
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Patty Salmon
think we always do.
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RICK JAMES
That's what you do
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Native Snow
Yeah, we usually go.
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RICK JAMES
We do. I do.
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Native Snow
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
but So, Sean, ah how long did it take you to get through a pre-check there with no pre-check?
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Native Snow
It was pretty quick. A couple minutes. I got pre-check on the spot.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
couple minutes?
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RICK JAMES
But then she gets strip search.
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Native Snow
They confiscated my lighter.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, you're lighter. What?
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Native Snow
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, they made an example you.
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Native Snow
Fast.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Children bringing lighters into the airport.
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Native Snow
Well, you can bring lighters, just not torch lighters. I got there with it, but I didn't get back with it. So it is what it is.
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Brandon Reilly
You can bring a normal light around a plane?
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Native Snow
Yeah.
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Brandon Reilly
Oh.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Really?
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Patty Salmon
Really?
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Brandon Reilly
I did not know that.
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RICK JAMES
but the one good I thought the one guy was trying to light his shoe.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not allowed, dude. Either way.
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Native Snow
Yeah, no, you can do it. You just can't do torchlighters. They say they're highly flammable or some shit.
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RICK JAMES
So did you light a change from a lighter to a torch when you were there or what happened? How did it make it there?
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Native Snow
No, it made it there. Just didn't make it back. Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Okay.
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Native Snow
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah TSA, if you're listening.
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Patty Salmon
That was Jersey TSA.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, exactly. Oh, my good Lord.
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Native Snow
As long as you're not like the unit bomber in Newark, they're letting you go through. Oh,
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RICK JAMES
Oh, you look like, con you could be there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, the chin strap. Yeah, I would definitely give you a double double look.
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Brandon Reilly
I don't know. They don't like the Zubas. to have pat-down.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, you look like a homeless guy going through the airport, honestly.
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Native Snow
Yeah, I mean, I thought you stood on a couch and almost shot you.
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Patty Salmon
yeah he did
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RICK JAMES
yeah how How is this guy in first class?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah He wore the same clothes that he was sleeping on the couch. And when Sean came in the door that night and mistaken for a bum that got in our house and was sleeping on the couch. ah That was the funniest shit ever.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, my God. All right. So, Simon 2026 Cincinnati. We got in on ah Tuesday, what, Tuesday morning? Actually, we were supposed to get on Tuesday morning. Some of us did. Some of us didn't. Some of us were delayed multiple times. But you guys got there first and somehow got found a restaurant right off the bat. Well, how did you get the four or five miles over?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I meant to ask you that.
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RICK JAMES
We squeezed in a car.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, clo that's right.
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RICK JAMES
mitche have a
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Patty Salmon
Mitch had a car.
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RICK JAMES
oop
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Mitchell had a clown car.
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Patty Salmon
He's
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Brandon Reilly
yeah
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RICK JAMES
mitchell had a Mitchell had a car and ah we put like seven people in it.
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Patty Salmon
real cozy.
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Native Snow
Yeah, it was pretty much a two-seater with 10 guys in there.
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Brandon Reilly
Six people in a five-seater.
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RICK JAMES
How many people?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
what was the you guys said that place was great right i only came and had a glass of water but you guys ate there and stuff what was it ford's garage was that right
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Brandon Reilly
It was like getting out of a clone car.
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Native Snow
Yeah. Ford's garage. never Never heard of it.
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RICK JAMES
ford Ford's garage. Yeah, was
00:16:01
Brandon Reilly
it was good.
00:16:01
Native Snow
Very good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
place is great good nice so then we uh we headed out we've we got to our airbnb we got some supplies and checked into our airbnb houses and what what do we think was a thumbs up or thumbs down on those houses
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Native Snow
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
really good.
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Brandon Reilly
The houses were great.
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Patty Salmon
Thumbs up.
00:16:17
Brandon Reilly
Location was...
00:16:18
RICK JAMES
They're fine.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
location was a little yeah sketchy.
00:16:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:16:22
Patty Salmon
There's chop shop across the street.
00:16:22
RICK JAMES
That's what makes it fun.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But they didn't bother anybody. They were just doing their thing.
00:16:27
RICK JAMES
Nah. Yeah.
00:16:29
Native Snow
Oh.
00:16:29
RICK JAMES
Even Matt's Raptor made it no problem. That thing was, yeah, so.
00:16:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's true, yeah. Yeah, that was parked out front for a long time. Absolutely.
00:16:36
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:16:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, so the house was good. And then our first event of the of the trip was Tuesday night at the at the Reds game. Had a good time, right? and any ah Everybody approved of that one?
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Native Snow
Yes.
00:16:50
Brandon Reilly
Fantastic.
00:16:50
Patty Salmon
Absolutely.
00:16:50
RICK JAMES
in That was good.
00:16:51
Brandon Reilly
Amazing.
00:16:52
Patty Salmon
going to have to be a yearly thing.
00:16:54
Native Snow
Yeah, that's like, that like set the bar.
00:16:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was a good time. That was a good time. we ah We got to take some of our some of our partners out and and have a good time with the the extended family. That was pretty cool. And thank you to the Cincinnati Reds for the hospitality. They they went above and beyond. That was pretty cool.
00:17:10
RICK JAMES
Yeah, they were really good.
00:17:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
They did a great job. Food was tremendous.
00:17:14
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:17:14
RICK JAMES
It was good.
00:17:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
i mean, because we are a snow show slash food critics, so the food the food at the ballpark was absolutely tremendous.
00:17:18
RICK JAMES
Yes. that
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Native Snow
Yep.
00:17:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
What was your favorite thing, Sean?
00:17:22
RICK JAMES
It was good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
what was ah what was What was on the menu? What was your favorite?
00:17:27
Brandon Reilly
Those chicken wings are awesome. Those buffalo wings.
00:17:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:17:30
Native Snow
I would say those um the sliders are really good.
00:17:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:17:35
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:17:35
RICK JAMES
and never had one.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Potstickers. Potstickers all day.
00:17:37
Patty Salmon
Yes.
00:17:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Those were like crack.
00:17:39
Native Snow
I was actually more impressed with that they stopped serving food at the seventh inning, but you you can drink until the last pitch of the game.
00:17:40
RICK JAMES
Nope.
00:17:47
Native Snow
thou wilt That's great.
00:17:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
00:17:49
Native Snow
I mean, that does not happen.
00:17:50
RICK JAMES
Water. Water. Water.
00:17:53
Native Snow
Yeah, I was just drinking water, you know.
00:17:53
RICK JAMES
That
00:17:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's great.
00:17:56
Native Snow
But in New York, they cut you off in like the seventh inning.
00:17:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
You're too funny, buddy.
00:17:59
Patty Salmon
That mac and cheese was awesome too.
00:18:01
RICK JAMES
that was good. I don't even like mac and cheese. and That was good.
00:18:03
Patty Salmon
Yeah, I'm not a mac and cheese person. That was a good mac and cheese.
00:18:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the one thing I didn't have. i didn't try the mac and cheese. But, yeah, it was a great view. they They got Snow Jobs Nation up on the scoreboard.
00:18:13
RICK JAMES
Great feel.
00:18:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was pretty cool. That was cool to see that.
00:18:17
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And then what we do after that? I took Todd back to his car.
00:18:24
Native Snow
Thank you.
00:18:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
You guys went across the street to what was the name of that bar?
00:18:27
RICK JAMES
We helped some homeless people the rest the night. Just fed them and stuff like that.
00:18:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay. You did your charity work.
00:18:34
RICK JAMES
Charity.
00:18:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:18:35
RICK JAMES
Did some charity stuff.
00:18:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nice. Very cool. And then let's see.
Simon 2026 Seminars and Casino Antics
00:18:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
we had That was Tuesday. Wednesday, they didn't have anything. we didn't go None of us went to class, right?
00:18:47
RICK JAMES
We had a round table Wednesday. We had a round table all day.
00:18:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
In the house.
00:18:50
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:18:51
RICK JAMES
All day in the house.
00:18:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
In the house.
00:18:52
RICK JAMES
yeah That was good.
00:18:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
We had a good really good discussion.
00:18:53
Patty Salmon
private session.
00:18:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
act Yeah, that was a good discussion.
00:18:54
RICK JAMES
That was great. A lot of lot of smart stuff happened there.
00:18:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
So Wednesday was the the seminars and stuff at Simon, but none of us went to it. But because none of us went to it, we put a thing out on the socials to get some to get some opinions of the guys that did go through it. So we'll read a couple of those right now. Let me see here.
00:19:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Where are they? Boom, boomomb boom, boom. All right. So we heard the clue. Well, that's later. The closing keynote speaker was amazing. We heard that from somebody.
00:19:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
We heard some of the classes were just infomercials, guys trying to sign you up for their programs. um that's not that's three or four guys basically said the same thing on that that uh randy dodson says 25 of the classes were decent 75 were not so good
00:19:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
we have big rich says uh was maddie muscles in an arctic shirt i thought he was a metal plus guy get him steve and jeremy ah
00:20:05
RICK JAMES
I
00:20:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
When was he wearing an Arctic shirt? I didn't see it
00:20:07
Patty Salmon
I didn't see Maddie in an Arctic shirt.
00:20:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
I didn't see him.
00:20:10
RICK JAMES
don't know. Well, that would be really smart of him.
00:20:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
That would be.
00:20:14
RICK JAMES
Little poof.
00:20:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Let's see. We got a bunch of guys that said they were taking the AI class and they could not understand the speaker and couldn't see the slides. The audio was horrible and the audio was bleeding through from room to room.
00:20:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
So if you're in one room, you were hearing audio bleed through from the next room over.
00:20:27
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:20:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, same thing for there. So. Sounds like, I don't know.
00:20:39
RICK JAMES
Something like it was hit.
00:20:40
Native Snow
Sounds like they crushed it right out of the park.
00:20:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. ah Yeah. That's, I mean, that's, that's something that I don't think should be a thing. Like you shouldn't have presenters that are trying to sell timeshares basically.
00:20:51
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:20:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, well that's not why guys are going to these classes.
00:20:53
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:20:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're going to these classes to hear, you know, stuff that can help them not sign up, you know, not have a guy pitch you to sign him up as a mentor or as a, you know, as some kind of program he's selling.
00:21:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
That that shouldn't really be the case for these. So, and that was multiple people said that, that they were, felt like they were being sold a timeshare in Florida. um Let's see what else.
00:21:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Another one, presenters for for some of the classes were very hard to understand. The audio was not good.
00:21:29
RICK JAMES
hard to understand. What do you mean? Just like,
00:21:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know. it It sounds like it was an audio thing.
00:21:34
RICK JAMES
okay.
00:21:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
i don't i don't really know. I'm just reading comments here. Presenters for some of the classes were very hard to understand, and the audio did not help.
00:21:38
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:21:43
Native Snow
They might have had some Canadian speakers too. You can't understand those guys.
00:21:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Could be. Could be.
00:21:46
RICK JAMES
but
00:21:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yep.
00:21:49
RICK JAMES
Canadian speakers.
00:21:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man, you're too funny, buddy.
00:21:52
RICK JAMES
Speaking Canadian. Hey,
00:21:53
Native Snow
Yeah. Hey,
00:21:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
All slides for each class should have been up
00:21:58
Native Snow
that's for Kirkham.
00:21:59
RICK JAMES
ah Kirkham was speaking at once. ob Yeah, you're probably not wrong there.
00:22:02
Native Snow
Oh yeah.
00:22:02
RICK JAMES
So yeah.
00:22:03
Native Snow
Oh, definitely. Sorry, Jeremy.
00:22:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
All slides for each class should have been uploaded ahead of time.
00:22:06
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:22:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
um Some were, but most were not, which made it difficult and annoying to have people stress and snap pictures during the lecture. The presenter rushed through the material and missed some key points. ah One lecture, the audio from another room was actually broadcasted into our room.
00:22:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah that' That's a miss.
00:22:30
RICK JAMES
Jesus.
00:22:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
um
00:22:32
Native Snow
I don't have.
00:22:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Let's see.
00:22:34
RICK JAMES
We got some comments, that's for sure.
00:22:35
Patty Salmon
Thank
00:22:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
One of the most... here's This is actually a good one. This is a good one for Simon to take note of. One of the most important times of the show was the snack and chat session, which is basically networking.
00:22:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:22:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that was interrupted with like people worrying about prizes. A lot of people... Let's see. A lot of people, including our table, were in deep conversations and lost our train of thought.
00:23:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
They... and they limited the time, which I think should have been longer for this session. Needed longer time with less interruptions. All right.
00:23:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
What else?
00:23:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, this is actually a good one for Simon to take note of. Anything to be improved. ah They said any new products that are at the show for the first time should have their own section at the on the trade show floor.
00:23:26
RICK JAMES
um Yeah, that'd be cool.
00:23:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
the
00:23:27
Brandon Reilly
Thank you.
00:23:27
Patty Salmon
That's pretty a good idea.
00:23:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's a great idea.
00:23:29
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:23:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
That way you're not hunting all over the place and and trying to find one obscure booth in the middle of everything. That would be good for first-time attendees or brand-new products to have their own own little section under a banner or something, so you could head over there.
00:23:43
Patty Salmon
Yeah, just highlight them.
00:23:44
Native Snow
Isn't that harder to do, though, because they're paying for the size of the booth?
00:23:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:23:48
Native Snow
So if you get a triple-sized booth, you're not going to be...
00:23:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
There was plenty of room in that building.
00:23:51
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:23:52
Brandon Reilly
No, I'm sure they could separate it out.
00:23:52
Native Snow
I don't know.
00:23:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:23:54
Brandon Reilly
Like this section is a bunch of mini booths and all new content. Like, cause obviously are you going to buy a big booth if you're new?
00:24:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:24:02
Patty Salmon
Thank you.
00:24:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
What else see. Try to see anything else.
00:24:09
RICK JAMES
Anything else?
00:24:10
Native Snow
Thank you.
00:24:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, that was about it on both comments.
00:24:11
RICK JAMES
mean, there's all things they can correct if they want to, way it sounds like.
00:24:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure.
00:24:15
RICK JAMES
so
00:24:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
um So that was on Wednesday. So Wednesday night for us was dinner with the family. And then the some guys went to a rooftop thing for certain people um that were invited. And the others went to the casino for a little bit and proceeded to lose a lot of money very quickly.
00:24:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Right, Sean?
00:24:37
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:24:38
Patty Salmon
Jeff rubies.
00:24:39
Native Snow
My mom listens to this show.
00:24:41
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:24:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Ha ha ha ha ha. ah
00:24:48
RICK JAMES
ah
00:24:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was a great dinner. What was it? Was it J. Ruby's or something? What was the name
00:24:55
Patty Salmon
jeff rubies
00:24:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeff Ruby's.
00:24:56
Brandon Reilly
reads
00:24:56
Native Snow
i don't I don't know, but it was really cool.
00:24:58
Brandon Reilly
Highly recommend.
00:24:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Highly recommend.
00:24:59
Native Snow
It was very good.
00:25:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
That place was off the hook.
00:25:01
RICK JAMES
That was good.
00:25:02
Native Snow
I guess it's a chain, right?
00:25:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Place is great.
00:25:04
Native Snow
There's a couple of them, it seems like.
00:25:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think there's a...
00:25:05
Brandon Reilly
Well, in Cincinnati, in that area, there's there four of them.
00:25:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:25:09
Native Snow
Okay.
00:25:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Bunch of locations in that area. I don't think it's a national chain, but think it's a local chain.
00:25:12
Brandon Reilly
Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:13
Native Snow
Gotcha.
00:25:14
RICK JAMES
That was it was good.
00:25:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Highly recommend that.
00:25:17
Brandon Reilly
Good way to celebrate a birthday.
00:25:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was... Yeah, no, that was great. That was a great dinner. Very good.
00:25:22
Native Snow
That fucking cupcake was A1, by the
00:25:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Very good stuff.
00:25:24
RICK JAMES
Yeah. You got a birthday cake and Sean ate it. So that's cool.
00:25:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep, yep. I gave it to him. he looked He looked like he was starving to death.
00:25:29
Patty Salmon
Wagyu Cupcake.
00:25:31
RICK JAMES
Way to go.
00:25:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know?
00:25:35
Native Snow
way. That that cupcake was really good.
00:25:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
what a Yeah, that was it was it was really good. was really Everything there was really good. um But, yeah, we had a nice, easy night Wednesday night, and then ah Thursday was go time.
00:25:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
So Thursday morning, we woke up bright and early at the 10.30 mark.
00:25:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, I mean, you don't have to get up early.
00:25:58
RICK JAMES
We were up before that.
00:26:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
you don't have to get up early when the trade show doesn't start till freaking noon.
00:26:03
RICK JAMES
Yeah, that's retarded.
00:26:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
These hours are getting more and more ridiculous. Oh, I'm sorry. I did have comments. Hold on. let me go Let me backtrack to Wednesday night because Wednesday night was the we didn't go, but it was the trade show after dark.
00:26:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
I have a bunch of comments about that.
00:26:16
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I heard about that.
00:26:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
um one guy said because i asked a direct question how many people were actually there for trade show after dark hours and three people were all in the same range one said 150 he'd estimate uh one said 200 and the other one said between 150 and 200 so it's probably in that in that range of 150 to 200 but the one guy said unless you were storm it was a ghost town yeah
00:26:43
RICK JAMES
Sounds like they're all at storm. Sounds like they're at the storm booth looking at the phantom.
00:26:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, one one the one guy said, unless you were Storm's booth, you were it was the rest of the place was a ghost town. So not worth, that was from a vendor. That was actually from a vendor. Unless you were Storm, it was a ghost town. was not worth being there.
00:27:00
Patty Salmon
Yeah, asked a couple of vendors how the trade show after dark was and if it was worth their time being set up and they all unanimously agreed, no, it was not worth staffing.
00:27:11
RICK JAMES
Not for an hour and a half.
00:27:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
10 for because people are in town for and i don't know if this is thought of by sima i know they're trying to get those extra hours why they don't want to do it on thursday i don't know but
00:27:23
RICK JAMES
Cause the class little classes go to certain time on Thursday morning.
00:27:27
Patty Salmon
In the morning.
00:27:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
again you got guys coming in on sunday for this thing you got monday tuesday wednesday to do whatever you want to do
00:27:28
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:27:28
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:27:29
Native Snow
Classes stopped.
00:27:29
RICK JAMES
Like. Yeah.
00:27:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know. I still nobody and nobody can give you a a reasonable explanation about why.
00:27:41
Patty Salmon
They're just trying to force people to go to classes by not having the trade show.
00:27:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, that's a backfire, especially when you got guys trying to sell them timeshares.
00:27:47
RICK JAMES
Trace shows start nine o'clock in the morning.
00:27:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah Absolutely. Trade shows should be nine o'clock in the morning, nine to five. Done. There you go. There's your day. I mean, I don't know about you guys, but I maybe was able to get to and see six booths total.
00:28:06
Native Snow
but a time By the time you talk to somebody, you're there for a half hour, 40 minutes.
00:28:06
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:28:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Exactly.
00:28:09
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:28:10
Native Snow
that's You're done.
00:28:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
And you are not going to Yeah.
00:28:12
Native Snow
Nope.
00:28:13
RICK JAMES
i can I couldn't even tell you any booths I saw, to be completely honest.
00:28:14
Native Snow
No. Yeah.
00:28:16
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:28:17
RICK JAMES
I tried walking to some, and he just ended up talking to people, and the then next thing you know, time's over.
00:28:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everybody's coming into town for this for this show. they want they want They want to see people they haven't seen or don't normally get to see except once a year. So Wednesday night, nobody's going to go to you know a trade show floor when they have hours on Thursday because they want to maybe, I don't know, go out to dinner with people they haven't seen all year or you know do some kind of networking thing. They don't want to be at the trade show. Those those hours are stupid. It's a waste of time.
00:28:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's an absolute waste of fucking time. So I don't know why they won't just give you more hours on Thursday. it's It's, I don't know, it's mind-boggling because we've been down this road before, you know.
00:29:03
RICK JAMES
And then if you talk to all the vendors about the Friday, they all just like, it's just a waste of time.
00:29:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Exactly. They say Friday is a waste of time. It's not attended either.
00:29:10
RICK JAMES
Three hours, think that three hours on Friday.
00:29:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, half of them, the the complaint last year, if I remember correctly
Trade Show Critiques and Improvements
00:29:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
from the people that were there, the couple people that were there, was that half the boots were already broken down. They were breaking them down, you know, Friday before the thing was even over.
00:29:25
RICK JAMES
I don't blame them.
00:29:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't blame them. Absolutely not. No, they want to get home to their families. I get it. I don't, I think it, I don't know.
00:29:34
Patty Salmon
Especially because most of those vendors come in on Monday, right?
00:29:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Yeah, I think.
00:29:39
RICK JAMES
tuesday yeah lot so Yeah, they set up the a Monday and they shut so start setting up Tuesday is what I've been told. Or
00:29:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I mean, it's, ah it's mind boggling why you're going to go all the five.
00:29:49
RICK JAMES
maybe Monday.
00:29:51
Patty Salmon
Yeah, Monday, so they just want to get out of there on Friday.
00:29:52
RICK JAMES
Yeah, did they? Yeah, I remember Johnny. Yeah, Artic left on Sunday.
00:29:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah they're there um Yeah, they're there on Sunday.
00:29:55
RICK JAMES
remember Johnny left on Sunday and he was setting up Monday, I think. So, yeah.
00:29:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yeah, i don't I don't understand the whole 12 to 5 thing. I wish somebody could give me a viable answer on that, but it makes no sense to do the the hours before or after.
00:30:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Just do a full day on Thursday. If you only want to do one day, just do that. But five hours, 12 to 5, not enough time.
00:30:18
Native Snow
No. And it's a lot of money for those guys to put out for five hours also and not even get the foot traffic.
00:30:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Ridiculous, ridiculous amounts of money.
00:30:23
Native Snow
You know, like they're not even getting the foot traffic because half the people are stopping and talking and like there's more boots I would have liked to see and I couldn't.
00:30:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
uh i i got if i got stopped to talk to one person uh and i i talked to that person for five minutes what was happening was two or three more people would see us talking and they'd stack up behind and they'd wait their turn patiently but now you're not just gonna end that conversation and say oh see you guys you're you got to talk to these people you know you got to say hi yeah
00:30:34
Native Snow
I got, if I got.
00:30:45
Native Snow
Yep.
00:30:52
RICK JAMES
Yeah. and it's not And it's not because of us for any reason. it's Everybody wants to see people they haven't seen, you know?
00:30:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh it's everybody yes It's everybody.
00:31:01
RICK JAMES
So...
00:31:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
This is the social event of the season right now. You know, I mean, you're seeing a lot of lot of people here you haven't seen in a while and you want to talk to them, but there's just not enough time. Like we've discussed this numerous years and they just don't seem to care.
00:31:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
They don't seem to take any of the feedback. And, you know, the one year, what was it? The one year they said, oh, the vendors only want one day. And then we asked all the vendors the next year and found out that is not true because only one out of the 48 vendors we asked said, yeah, we'd only like one day.
00:31:32
RICK JAMES
Well, they probably would be fine if one day if was one full day.
00:31:32
Brandon Reilly
Yeah. As I say, if you started at eight in the morning and went till 530, then yeah, one day would be perfect.
00:31:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
waste. Doing anything on Friday is a waste. Let everybody travel home to their families on Friday. makes no sense but yeah i what what was you what was the overall vibe we went there you know we got there uh the building was nice the expo center was nice right very nice place um
00:31:55
RICK JAMES
Very nice.
00:31:56
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:31:57
RICK JAMES
I thought it was busy. I thought it was busy, obviously, because only have so many hours work. So everybody's got everybody he's gotta to go in there.
00:32:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
sure check-in was easy yep check-in was easy so yeah very uh big check mark to that to sign on that check-in was very easy the people were very nice
00:32:03
RICK JAMES
So thought it was – yeah.
00:32:07
Brandon Reilly
Streamlined very fast.
00:32:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
uh what were we there a grand total of three minutes with the the 10 of us or 12 of us yeah very quick um what was the overall vibe when you when you walked in
00:32:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it was quick.
00:32:21
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:32:21
RICK JAMES
It was very quick.
00:32:28
Patty Salmon
Same as 25.
00:32:29
RICK JAMES
Same old, same old.
00:32:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah i i see i i don't know for whatever reason i when i walked into the trade show floor it seemed more exciting like it seemed like there was like there was energy in that building i i don't i can't put my finger on it that's just the way i felt
00:32:37
Patty Salmon
That's why.
00:32:45
Brandon Reilly
You just walked straight into Arctic.
00:32:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
It felt that well, maybe, i mean, yeah, that was, that was not dumb on their part, putting Arctic's giant booth right there.
00:32:48
RICK JAMES
but Yeah.
00:32:48
Patty Salmon
why
00:32:49
RICK JAMES
yeah Yeah.
00:32:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
i mean, those guys are always, you know, the life of the party. They have fun.
00:32:56
RICK JAMES
Big Daddy yelling at you right away. That's always good.
00:32:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:32:58
Brandon Reilly
I
00:32:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Yeah. um Yeah.
00:33:02
Brandon Reilly
mean, I know had like a quick laugh,
00:33:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
i I thought it was a really good vibe. I thought it was a really good vibe walking in this year.
00:33:07
Brandon Reilly
I thought it was, i don't know. I took a really fast lap around everything just to see where everything was.
00:33:08
Patty Salmon
Thank you.
00:33:12
Brandon Reilly
Cause I knew you'd you know get stuck talking to someone or the products you wanted to see. So walked around quick and then I was able to basic basically slow it down, stop at the places that I wanted to talk with the guys um that I wanted to talk with, with the products.
00:33:24
Brandon Reilly
And the trade show seemed busy the whole time. I mean, booths were people were, it wasn't, you know, like everyone was sitting at one place. I thought people were pretty well mingled around a lot of the different vendors.
00:33:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
and that the places were I thought the place was pretty decent attendance.
00:33:40
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I definitely did. Seemed busy. It seemed busier than last year and it just seemed, like you said, little more upbeat. don't know.
00:33:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
what um So what boots were you guys wanting to to check out? What were you, Jeremy? what do you Did you have a target list on your mind that you wanted to check out? Make sure you got to?
00:34:02
RICK JAMES
Me?
00:34:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, Jeremy. You're Jeremy, right?
00:34:04
RICK JAMES
Oh, well, no, Rick James.
00:34:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:34:06
RICK JAMES
Rick James, bitch.
00:34:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Rick James. All right. Did you have a target list of boots?
00:34:10
RICK JAMES
um I didn't have a target list, I guess. I i just wanted to just check everything out that I could. I failed.
00:34:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, I failed miserably myself.
00:34:20
RICK JAMES
I failed miserably.
00:34:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
00:34:22
RICK JAMES
I couldn't even tell you of what I saw because was too busy talking to people, unfortunately.
00:34:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. And it went so fast. So fast. What about you, Pat?
00:34:29
Brandon Reilly
Okay.
00:34:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did you have a list of boots you wanted to to check out?
00:34:34
Patty Salmon
Had a few, never made them to any of them. Just same thing.
00:34:38
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:34:40
Patty Salmon
You know, you hit the the normal, like Arctic and Boss and Storm, Cinetech. But other than that, you just get stuck talking to people you haven't seen or want to talk to you. And then there goes the whole show.
00:34:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, brandon Brandon had it probably right.
00:34:52
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:34:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
you know Do a quick run around the exterior and find out where everything is and then just start hitting things.
00:35:02
Patty Salmon
But I mean, we probably had the Arctic booth for the first hour talking to those guys. And then like you said, everybody's stacking up, talking to you.
00:35:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
yep yep that is definitely uh that's definitely a problem but but you know you gotta there's things you gotta do you know you gotta give people time
00:35:11
RICK JAMES
yep
00:35:23
Brandon Reilly
Thank you.
00:35:23
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:35:23
RICK JAMES
definitely booths I want them to go to. I just, I feel bad didn't make it to them.
00:35:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
yes 100 dude i didn't even get my western
00:35:28
RICK JAMES
It's just, yeah.
00:35:29
Patty Salmon
But you also feel bad being rude to somebody and saying, all right, hey, nice to see you.
00:35:32
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I don't, yeah, exactly.
00:35:33
Patty Salmon
All right, bye. Call me. All right.
00:35:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
and I am not going to be rude.
00:35:35
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:35:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely not. People want to talk to you. They, you know, they're, they're your listeners. They're the ones that are, that are, you know, keeping the show going. You got to talk to them.
00:35:46
RICK JAMES
I think I had to go. I had somebody wanted talk me, so I was on my way to talk to because the show was about ending. And Turbo Todd wanted to talk me. I like, sorry, you have to be I'll be right back. And course, he gives me shit.
00:35:57
RICK JAMES
Oh, you know, I'm like, just I'll come back and talk to you. I told this other person I talked to him.
00:36:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, yeah, tell them.
00:36:03
RICK JAMES
You know, you're just it is being rude.
00:36:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Do you know who I am?
00:36:06
RICK JAMES
No, that's not that's not at all what it was.
00:36:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
and so I'm telling you.
00:36:09
RICK JAMES
that was
00:36:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's, but, I mean, listen, to a certain degree, that is true.
00:36:13
Patty Salmon
you
00:36:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, there's a lot of people that want to, they want to talk to you.
00:36:18
Native Snow
Yeah, especially when they think I'm you guys and I got to sit there and talk to them and act like I'm you.
00:36:19
Brandon Reilly
Thank
00:36:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, and
00:36:24
Native Snow
I'm like, yeah, yeah. Thanks for listening to my show.
00:36:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool. You're not the first. you know You're not the first to do it. ah Oh, shit. Yeah, didn't somebody come up to you and Robert and say, like, hey, you guys, I love the show. i'm like, man, if that's Steve and Jeremy now, if when we look like Sean and Robert, man, that's ah that's a rough paper route.
00:36:44
RICK JAMES
we gotta get to We gotta get video going here, buddy.
00:36:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we got to get some video.
00:36:49
Native Snow
You do have to give video.
00:36:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
We are much better looking than that.
00:36:50
Native Snow
Because the amount of people that came up to me in the trade show because I had the Snowjobs backpack on.
00:36:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:36:56
Native Snow
And they're like, are you one of the Snowjobs guys? I said, well, I'm with them. But yeah, so what do you want to talk about?
00:37:02
Brandon Reilly
that's
00:37:04
RICK JAMES
I'm the bodyguard.
00:37:05
Native Snow
I'm wheeling and dealing.
00:37:05
Patty Salmon
It's the polos.
00:37:07
Native Snow
was like, you want you want to sign up to be a sponsor?
00:37:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, you can introduce yourself as Sean from the show. You know, they'll know who you are.
00:37:12
Native Snow
I don't want to.
00:37:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
You're like, there
00:37:13
RICK JAMES
Maybe they'll give you money to get so your mom because your mom doesn't give you anything. Maybe they'll give you you some cash.
00:37:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
there you go.
00:37:19
Native Snow
I know, she's stingy.
00:37:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Too funny, man. Yeah, but i didn't even get I didn't even get to the Western booth. I wanted to drop by and say hi to Western. Didn't get there. um What else didn't I get to? I did get by the boss booth. um I did not get one of those cool boss chains. I was going to bring one home one of those home to Riley, but Emily told me, no, you are not permitted to have one of those without doing the scavenger hunt. I'm like, who the hell has time to do a scavenger hunt?
00:37:44
Brandon Reilly
Thank
00:37:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
like I don't got that kind of time. I'm like, I guess I'm not getting one. So Emily put her foot down. She said, no, you cannot have one.
00:37:51
RICK JAMES
send you one now, probably.
00:37:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
but ah you She was doing her job.
00:37:54
Patty Salmon
Lisa gave me one.
00:37:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's all good.
00:37:56
RICK JAMES
I didn't get one, but I don't know what I did with it.
00:37:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
now there The boss people were great. We got the boss.
00:37:59
RICK JAMES
I could hang it up in the office.
00:38:01
Patty Salmon
Yeah.
00:38:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
People are great. We got to got the story.
00:38:05
RICK JAMES
Their booth was busy when I was down there.
00:38:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Their booth was hopping.
00:38:07
RICK JAMES
They were busy.
00:38:07
Patty Salmon
That was packed.
00:38:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:38:08
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:38:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
The booth was hopping.
00:38:11
RICK JAMES
Patty had to go back and do a little interview I saw, so
00:38:13
Patty Salmon
Oh, that was, they didn't even post it.
00:38:14
RICK JAMES
Dude, I could have screwed you up so bad. I was nice to you. I didn't even mess with you like I said I
00:38:21
Patty Salmon
It's the camera. Katie's probably thinking, how does this guy sell so many so much liquid stuff? He can't even talk about pre-treating.
00:38:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Who did?
00:38:30
RICK JAMES
was younger.
00:38:30
Patty Salmon
Yep.
00:38:30
RICK JAMES
Because of the concert.
00:38:30
Native Snow
Pat, Patty, I had, they asked me to I had somebody ask me to do a video testimonial.
00:38:32
Patty Salmon
but but but but
00:38:32
RICK JAMES
Concert and the free we tanker.
00:38:33
Patty Salmon
Brian works nice.
00:38:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah i mean i
00:38:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
who did
00:38:39
Native Snow
uh, Yeti and there was money involved in it. If we, if I did it, I'm like, no, I'm good. Like, but it's a prize money. you know, you, you can win and then we sign you for this gift card. I'm like, Nope.
00:38:50
Native Snow
was like, I'll sit here and talk to you all day, but put me on camera.
Trade Show Successes and Celebrations
00:38:53
Native Snow
was like, I can't, I just can't do it. I can act like an idiot.
00:38:54
Patty Salmon
Exactly.
00:38:56
Native Snow
24 seven, put me on camera.
00:38:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
i have my name is sean i blast now
00:38:57
Native Snow
I'm totally different. man ah
00:39:01
Patty Salmon
Did you get any socks?
00:39:03
Native Snow
Yeah. I got socks.
00:39:05
RICK JAMES
No, I didn't get my socks. I went down to get the socks.
00:39:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
i didn't get by yeti i didn't get by yeti and uh and yeti wanted to talk to me and i didn't get by there and i apologize for that and then i didn't see them at the event later either to talk to them so
00:39:07
RICK JAMES
I didn't get my Yeti socks.
00:39:11
RICK JAMES
They were gone.
00:39:20
RICK JAMES
They were out. I tried.
00:39:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah it's uh it's tough dude it's really tough to to get the stuff i mean we did get by storm we did did uh see our friends over the storm booth and you know congratulations to them i think they had a think they had a banger day yeah did a great show they were packed are you
00:39:37
Brandon Reilly
Thank
00:39:37
RICK JAMES
Did a great show. Yeah.
00:39:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I think there are a lot of eyes on that plow for hydraulic wing plow.
00:39:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh yeah i i I would think they're, in my mind, they're the big winner of the show.
00:39:48
RICK JAMES
There's lot.
00:39:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, they had the most traction. um We already heard from a couple people about Wednesday night, the after hours. If you weren't their booth, then you were a ghost town.
00:40:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
um And then Thursday was no different.
00:40:04
RICK JAMES
The ghost.
00:40:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
There was tons of people in their booth on Thursday. the two Two times around, I was able to go past their booth.
00:40:11
Native Snow
Yep.
00:40:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
um I saw the salt flap. Did you guys see the salt flap guy? so
00:40:17
RICK JAMES
It's on Instagram. I didn't see enough film.
00:40:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
That started that. Yeah. He had a booth the show.
00:40:20
Patty Salmon
Hmm.
00:40:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that started as just the salt flap for under the spreaders, you know, for the tailgate cover that. Now he's got a tarp for over the steel casters and stuff. And it's real easy to put on and off.
00:40:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
And he's also got a tool to open the the polycaster and the tornado flaps. Like, super easy. without like We have to use rebar to push those flaps up on the dump trucks.
00:40:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
And, ah yeah, he's got ah he's got a tool out. So that was pretty cool. So I hope so.
00:40:51
Native Snow
He was at Stork's in April.
00:40:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
What?
00:40:53
Native Snow
He was at Stork's in April.
00:40:55
RICK JAMES
Yeah,
00:40:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I didn't see him at Starks, though.
00:40:55
Patty Salmon
Yeah.
00:40:56
Native Snow
Yeah, I talked to him.
00:40:57
Patty Salmon
Didn't they?
00:40:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
I saw him there.
00:40:58
Native Snow
I talked to him for about an hour there. He's really cool guy. ah
00:41:01
RICK JAMES
yeah he's a good guy.
00:41:01
Native Snow
i i had seen his product probably like a year or two ago when he first started, and he was like in the demo stage.
00:41:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:41:10
Native Snow
But so I went over there and talked to him He's pretty cool. You know, we talked about cars a lot, actually, while we were there.
00:41:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:41:14
RICK JAMES
i was I was going to get a few of those this past winter, and then I just got busy.
00:41:16
Native Snow
But.
00:41:18
RICK JAMES
i was talking to him he was like He said he could brand your logo in them and everything like that, that was kind of cool.
00:41:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Really?
00:41:23
Patty Salmon
That's pretty cool.
00:41:24
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:41:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's cool. I like that.
00:41:27
Patty Salmon
Didn't they redesign those spreader tops to open with a shovel, though, last year?
00:41:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:41:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
They did, um but it's still it's still not the easiest. this This tool made it a lot easier.
00:41:36
Patty Salmon
right.
00:41:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
um well yeah the uh let's see so salt flap what else uh sight tote by vernic that salt spreader that i had over the winter um i went by that booth checked them out i think i sold a couple of those for them to a guy i was talking to at their booth um i just told them you know spread pattern was tremendous that thing is that's a home run so if you if you can get around the price tag that's it's definitely it'll it'll definitely be worth it you eliminate a truck uh what else did i get to
00:41:47
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:42:09
Patty Salmon
Okay.
00:42:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
trying to think i don't know that i got so much else
00:42:18
RICK JAMES
TreeCam.
00:42:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
shit what'd you see brandon oh we did
00:42:21
RICK JAMES
We stopped with TreeCam.
00:42:22
Brandon Reilly
and had like yeah I kind of had like two ways of looking at it. I had my you know normal contacts that I'd reach out to. So obviously Arctic, spent a lot of time with Turbo Todd just because every time I went to go talk to him, ended up talking to some people that were looking and wanted to know more about it.
00:42:37
Brandon Reilly
um Talked to the Treecan Melter guys for a while, u Equipment Exchange, and then basically was hunting down new products. so um Metal Plus came out with an Agramax Live Edge.
00:42:48
Patty Salmon
Thank
00:42:50
Brandon Reilly
um for their tractor plows. So um I wanted to see if that was there. It wasn't. um But basically found out that it was it's very similar to basically their normal live edge technology. It's just a standard standard edge instead of a carbide um for the tractor. So you don't have to use the straight a normal just solid straight blade edge for them.
00:43:10
Brandon Reilly
And then same with like the Provenos and the Norman blowers, the live edge technology. You wanted to see those actually in person, see them on the blowers.
00:43:18
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:43:19
Patty Salmon
They've always had live edge for the agramaxes.
00:43:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Google.
00:43:24
Brandon Reilly
and um Not for the small ones. They've had them for the the big, like the, what is it? I don't know the size where it starts, but now you can get them in like the 611 and the 712.
00:43:33
Patty Salmon
Oh, okay.
00:43:35
Brandon Reilly
And that's what we want on the 4066.
00:43:35
Patty Salmon
I was thinking larger.
00:43:37
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, they have them on the big ones. This is for the little ones.
00:43:39
Patty Salmon
that's pretty cool then.
00:43:40
Brandon Reilly
And so wanted to see that. That wasn't there. um But talked to Bob and and what was, oh, and then of course, winter Winter Equipment spent a lot of time with Ron seeing that they let him out.
00:43:51
Brandon Reilly
Got to hang out with Ron. Pretty interesting.
00:43:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
I didn't even see Ron.
00:43:53
RICK JAMES
Yeah, got to see Ron.
00:43:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
See, I'm pissed.
00:43:54
RICK JAMES
Finally got see Ron.
00:43:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
I didn't see Ron.
00:43:57
RICK JAMES
haven't seen him for like two years.
00:43:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
I know. know. They need to let that guy start doing what he does again.
00:44:03
RICK JAMES
Yeah, he's a salesman. I mean, he knows his shit. He knows his you know edges.
00:44:08
Brandon Reilly
We
00:44:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
he knows his stuff and he knows his customers, so.
00:44:09
RICK JAMES
That guy knows edges. think he's been sitting in the back room just lifting them. The guy's got so much bulk on him now, too.
00:44:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's jacked.
00:44:15
RICK JAMES
He's holy fuck.
00:44:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he's jacked.
00:44:16
RICK JAMES
I go, what the fuck, Ron?
00:44:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
I heard. Yeah, I didn't get to see Ron.
00:44:18
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:44:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
I didn't get to Winter. Didn't make it. Didn't make it.
00:44:24
Brandon Reilly
had a nice big center booth.
00:44:28
Brandon Reilly
um
00:44:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
didn't make it
00:44:30
Brandon Reilly
site photos talked with US Climate Exchange about double downs and their what is it their lease or their lease or rental program that's going on I missed the lease to plow place I didn't see that booth um I know it was there somewhere but basically like leasing arctics there was a booth on that
00:44:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
making
00:44:39
Patty Salmon
Yes.
00:44:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Didn't see it. Didn't make it. o um
00:44:54
Brandon Reilly
ah but I mean, I thought every boot, like, it was busy. Yeah. So I thought i thought it was a good show.
00:44:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:44:59
Brandon Reilly
It was. I mean, well we were pushing like 545 when we walked out of Wasn't it supposed to be done at
00:45:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
530. Yeah.
00:45:07
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:45:09
Patty Salmon
CineTech seemed pretty busy the whole time. So that's ah good for good for Adam.
00:45:12
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:45:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good for big papa.
00:45:17
Brandon Reilly
and Hilltip. They were busy. It was really hard to get around that booth at times.
00:45:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:45:22
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:45:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
I didn't even see Hilltip's booth.
00:45:23
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:45:25
Brandon Reilly
was before storms.
00:45:26
Patty Salmon
It's right across from Mark.
00:45:27
RICK JAMES
I start by Krauss from Arctic.
00:45:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, didn't even see
00:45:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool, cool.
00:45:33
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:45:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
What did any new products out there catch you guys eye?
00:45:45
Brandon Reilly
There's only a few signs that actually said new products, so it's hard to tell what was new.
00:45:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:45:47
Patty Salmon
so
00:45:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, outside what we know, the the Storm, the Phantom.
00:45:54
Brandon Reilly
was going to say, yeah, that's the big one.
00:45:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that was obvious the big winner at that show. um
00:45:59
Brandon Reilly
And I'm looking at their new Arctics.
00:46:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:46:02
RICK JAMES
Yeah, the new black artics.
00:46:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep, those are cool, too. And they have the Snow Jobs sticker on the back of them as well. Love that.
00:46:09
RICK JAMES
On every Arctic product.
00:46:11
Native Snow
I don't remember the name of this salt product that I've seen.
00:46:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it.
00:46:13
Native Snow
I got his card. But he put like salt in a little Ziploc bag, put water in it. Or calcium and you see how hot it got compared to his product that didn't get hot at all it supposed to be need like a better dynamic of melting ice for walkways and stuff because it doesn't flash freeze after it heats up So it goes down to temperature slow ah slowly instead of super fast rapid Which I thought was pretty cool.
00:46:21
RICK JAMES
Water.
00:46:39
Native Snow
I gotta I gotta see the business card But that was probably the only new product that I've seen and the guy actually just called me I was walking by he's like, oh, you want to see something cool? And I was like, you know what?
00:46:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Always.
00:46:48
Native Snow
Sure
00:46:48
Patty Salmon
He looks like a sucker.
00:46:49
Brandon Reilly
yes
00:46:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:46:50
Native Snow
or Why not? Yeah.
00:46:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Look at this guy with that chin strap. I'm going rope him in. you too much.
00:46:55
RICK JAMES
Three balls, $1, throw it at the thing.
00:46:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh. ah ah ah oh too much on
00:47:05
Brandon Reilly
For all the salt boosts, I wonder if anyone was giving out pricing because I'm just curious to where things are at. I've heard some some terrible numbers for what's to come.
00:47:14
Patty Salmon
They're just going to change it anyway.
00:47:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
I walked past the one booth and they were talking to somebody and the the guy said something.
00:47:16
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:47:17
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:47:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
I said, can you guarantee me that when I call you in December and January, no matter what kind of winter we're having, that you're going to be able to get me as much salt as any? Well, no. Then why are you here?
00:47:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, seriously. Like, I think all the salt companies where they're doing damage control.
00:47:39
Patty Salmon
for Eastern.
00:47:39
RICK JAMES
um was's talking about I was talking about Austin, and father and son, and he was saying he talked to assault guys and he didn't take oumia He didn't tell the price, but he said they told him wasn't going to be what he thought going to me increased. So it was going to an increase, but not not as drastic as he thought it was going to be.
00:47:57
RICK JAMES
so
00:47:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm not really honestly worried about the price going up. It's the availability. you know From what that guy was saying, it's the availability. The infrastructure is broken. that's going to shit That's going to happen every year unless the entire United States basically has a super mile winner.
00:48:13
Patty Salmon
Thank you.
00:48:16
Brandon Reilly
But if the price goes up and then they go into shortage and increases.
00:48:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
they They shut those two... Well, they said they shut down the the the root causes of it. He listed two mines when he was talking. he said These two mines produced but what he some ridiculous amount, like percentage, like 45% of domestic salt out of these two mines, they both got shut down in the last three years and not replaced with another mine.
00:48:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
And then they rely on the the stuff coming up the Mississippi. But once once yeah once the barges freeze, if you have an early freeze winter, then the barges ain't coming.
00:48:41
Brandon Reilly
trend.
00:48:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that kind of cuts off the the Midwest there. So, yeah, he didn't paint a rosy picture, man. he was And then they he was coming on the show to talk about it and then legal shut him down. said No, no, no, no, no. No, you're not going to lay that all out.
00:49:04
Brandon Reilly
I mean, I can't get an exact well north of a hundred bucks a ton for white, but
00:49:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
we haven't heard from since we don't even know if he's still alive i
00:49:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah we don't even know if he's still around they might have they might have snuffed him out he was saying too much to salt mafia right red jay we haven't heard from that guy again right nope so that was what three months ago
00:49:21
Native Snow
me Let me call my uncle. I'll find out.
00:49:23
RICK JAMES
I haven't heard from him, no.
00:49:28
RICK JAMES
Oh, at least. think it back in February or March, wasn't it?
00:49:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's in WITSEC. Oh,
00:49:35
Brandon Reilly
Thank
00:49:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
shit. All right. Anything else about the show ah we got to touch on?
00:49:42
RICK JAMES
No.
00:49:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay. So then the after show.
00:49:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
What do we do?
00:49:51
RICK JAMES
We went to the Arctic party. ain't no party like an Arctic party. And
00:49:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
amen ain't no party like an arctic party that was definitely hopping that was some night did anybody none of us we all went together right none of us went to the ball field first did any do we talk to anybody that went to that yes we did did anybody talk to anybody that went to the ball field before they went to arctic
00:49:58
RICK JAMES
that was hopping.
00:50:01
Patty Salmon
Good spot.
00:50:11
RICK JAMES
No, we did that on Tuesday, didn't we? don't think so.
00:50:17
RICK JAMES
think there
00:50:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
right, so we don't know how that event went. Okay. So, yeah, the Arctic party was hopping.
00:50:25
RICK JAMES
Never heard of it.
00:50:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was freaking Spencer can throw a party, dude.
00:50:29
Brandon Reilly
was awesome.
00:50:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
What was our impressions of that?
00:50:33
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:50:36
RICK JAMES
Fantastic. It was good food, good people, very entertaining, lots of stuff to do.
00:50:37
Native Snow
You
00:50:42
Native Snow
you know, it was good.
00:50:42
Brandon Reilly
I see lots of people, lots of talking.
00:50:45
Patty Salmon
Great networking.
00:50:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. What do you think people like numbers wise? How many people?
00:50:53
RICK JAMES
clue.
00:50:54
Native Snow
So I was outside um and I heard them talking about that.
00:50:55
Patty Salmon
Throughout the whole night.
00:50:58
Native Snow
I think they had like, I think around like eight, eight o'clock, nine o'clock, they had like over 300 people in there, three, three 50 coming and out.
00:51:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
They were worried about shutting it down for capacity.
00:51:08
Patty Salmon
but Yeah, I was going to say 350, 400.
00:51:11
Native Snow
Yeah, so, I mean, that was people coming and going cause they had the shuttles all night, which is awesome.
00:51:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I think the final number was for something four something, 460, 480 people.
00:51:15
Native Snow
So you can go.
00:51:19
Native Snow
Really?
00:51:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, a lot of people.
00:51:21
Native Snow
That's good. Yeah.
00:51:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, I mean, it was hopping.
00:51:25
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
00:51:27
Brandon Reilly
And
00:51:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
we got to uh yep we got to uh we uh we were doing our snow jobs nation awards which we started back in january we gave the uh the dealer of the national dealer of the year award the first one to stork's plows and gene and his gang in april at their event
00:51:28
RICK JAMES
was a good time. Everybody was...
00:51:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
And then ah we had already decided to give Randy straight the lifetime achievement award first ever for the snow jobs nation gang. um And we did not know Simon was also deciding to do one this year because they haven't done one since 22. But they did give one to they rewarded one to Paul Vanderzon.
00:52:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Very deserving. Paul's a legend. Congratulations to him on an award. Well-deserved. ah you know Unfortunately, we were both doing it in the same same year. We didn't know about theirs. ah they They definitely didn't know about ours.
00:52:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
So it doesn't hurt to recognize two industry legends at once.
00:52:23
Brandon Reilly
Yes.
00:52:23
RICK JAMES
No, definitely not.
00:52:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
so so randy uh yep absolutely so congratulations to paul on that and uh congratulations to randy um i mean that's an obvious choice for us 48 years in snow and the 20th anniversary of the sectional which i mean in my opinion all plow technology that we're looking at now started with the sectional you know and and kind of grew off that i don't
00:52:25
RICK JAMES
Well deserved on both ends.
00:52:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know.
00:52:49
RICK JAMES
He's the godfather for a reason.
00:52:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
He is the godfather of modern snow. We were very, ah we were honored to be able to present it to him. You could tell it meant a lot to him. And he did a really nice speech, talked about the the three boys, how they're just absolutely killing it, pushing the company forward.
00:53:01
RICK JAMES
Yes.
00:53:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're having an amazing, amazing run. They're making all the right moves and, you know, can't wish those guys anything but the best. They they really, they're the real deal. Congratulations to them.
00:53:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
And they're all on a plane right now to Italy.
00:53:17
Brandon Reilly
an awesome
00:53:18
RICK JAMES
I would. Yeah, definitely. I would say, honestly, that was my highlight of the whole week was giving that to Randy and how he read how he took it.
00:53:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
100 dude you could just tell it meant so much to him
00:53:26
RICK JAMES
you know Oh, yeah. That was definitely highlight of the week.
00:53:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
you believe that 48 years building that size snow company all the people he's helped in the industry with their businesses the products he's created from his own mad scientist brain and he's he said that was the first award he's ever gotten that's insane right
00:53:46
Patty Salmon
It's crazy.
00:53:46
RICK JAMES
That's ridiculous.
00:53:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, I thought he got, I thought he's got a ton of awards.
00:53:49
RICK JAMES
Well, that's.
00:53:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
I honestly thought he'd be like kind of laughing it off. Like, he loved that. That meant so much to him.
00:53:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:53:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
I was shocked. So, good for him.
00:53:59
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:54:00
Brandon Reilly
Thank
00:54:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
that's ah That's really cool. I was, you honored to be able to do it with Jeremy. And, know, we were excited to do it. And I don't think, I don't think the boys knew about it. I don't think Spencer, ah Spencer knew, but I don't think Lucas and Blake knew.
00:54:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that was pretty cool to surprise them with that as well.
00:54:16
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:54:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that's that was really cool.
00:54:19
RICK JAMES
I don't think they did because Blake came up to me and he was, didn't know anybody.
00:54:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
And Big big Daddy didn't know either.
00:54:25
RICK JAMES
What did you tell me?
00:54:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah oh good gotta stay a surprise it's uh yeah it was good i you know he gave a great speech uh as only randy straight can you know that's that's it right off the cuff and if you asked him to do it again right now he'd be able to repeat the whole thing verbatim i don't know how but he does it but he does it he's amazing
00:54:31
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:54:39
RICK JAMES
Right off the cuff. Yeah.
00:54:43
Patty Salmon
Thank you.
00:54:46
RICK JAMES
Yup.
00:54:49
RICK JAMES
Cause there's no fluff. It just comes from his heart. It's natural. It's, it's, it is what it is. So.
00:54:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
100% man that's why he's a he that's why he's an absolute legend and uh it was our great pleasure to do that and i couldn't think of anybody else to to give the first one to i couldn't think anybody else there's nobody that's had more of an impact on me and my business so it made sense um but yeah the arctic party was awesome best cups ever right who'd you guys uh who'd you guys talk to who'd you guys hang out with
00:55:15
Brandon Reilly
yeah
00:55:15
RICK JAMES
A
00:55:20
Patty Salmon
A lot of people. A lot of people.
00:55:22
RICK JAMES
lot of people.
00:55:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
ye
00:55:26
RICK JAMES
Anybody see the ah magician? Anybody see the magician walking around?
00:55:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
I stayed away from him after he freaked a couple people out because i heard he was calling out people's pin numbers for their ATM cards.
00:55:37
Patty Salmon
Yeah.
00:55:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, yeah like seriously.
00:55:40
RICK JAMES
I just saw him doing card tricks when I saw him, but yeah, he's pretty cool.
00:55:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he was legit. He was legit. But I got to, I was talking to Tony and Joey Mooch and and Joey Mooch's girlfriend, Gina.
00:55:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
We spoke for quite a while. i was trying to give them some some tips. They were asking me some stuff about podcasting because they got their own little podcast that they're they're trying to get off the ground.
00:56:03
Brandon Reilly
Bye.
00:56:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
So we were talking for quite a while about that, trying to help them out. That was a that was a good conversation. Those guys were cool. Yeah. Saw a bunch of dudes, man.
00:56:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Got to talk to Jeremy Kirkham for a little bit. I'm trying to think who else.
00:56:24
Patty Salmon
I got to talk to Gene Stork for a decent amount of time, which is which was nice because they're so busy in April at his show.
00:56:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, Gene can't talk in April.
00:56:30
Patty Salmon
I feel like i never get to talk to that dude, and I actually get to spend a lot of time talking to him.
00:56:31
RICK JAMES
Yes.
00:56:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nope.
00:56:34
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:56:36
Patty Salmon
And he's just a good dude, real smart.
00:56:37
RICK JAMES
He's so awesome.
00:56:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's the best, man. This is... ah you know That's the one thing this show seems to have in common, man.
00:56:43
RICK JAMES
I got to talk
00:56:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
We bring the best people together.
00:56:47
RICK JAMES
to him for a bit. I got to talk to Tony from S&S quite a bit too, so it was fun.
00:56:51
Patty Salmon
Yeah.
00:56:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
I did see Tony. I did see Tony there.
00:56:52
Brandon Reilly
Thank
00:56:53
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I talked to him. Uncle Rick was there. Talked to him.
00:56:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uncle Rick. He was always the...
00:56:59
RICK JAMES
Sounds everything's going good.
00:57:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he sounds like it's going good.
00:57:01
RICK JAMES
Everything's, don't everything. talked to a lot. I couldn't even tell you all the guys talked to, which was great. It was a fun time.
00:57:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
A lot of guys introducing themselves for the first time, which is awesome.
00:57:09
Patty Salmon
Thank you.
00:57:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
mean It means the world to us.
00:57:12
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:57:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
like don't you know Definitely don't ever be afraid to tell us that you listen. i mean, that's why we're doing it. It really does mean the world to meet all you guys. and you know Our apologies in advance if we don't have as much time as we'd like to talk to every single person for as long as we want.
00:57:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
But it's it's pretty crazy. Got to see the ah the Bozeman, Montana guys.
00:57:36
RICK JAMES
Yes, yep.
00:57:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
got to see them there uh they got some interesting stuff coming with brian they did have a shit winner they did have a shit winner so you know but yeah it was i mean crazy good party great crazy good event nice night and uh
00:57:40
RICK JAMES
They had a shitty winter, that's for sure. Nine inches. Nine inches.
00:57:45
Brandon Reilly
Crazy. Yeah.
00:57:46
RICK JAMES
Oh, it's all...
00:57:50
RICK JAMES
Everybody out west had one.
00:57:58
RICK JAMES
Oh, the weather was beautiful and the whole time we were there.
00:58:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was.
00:58:00
RICK JAMES
It was...
00:58:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
It absolutely was. Yeah, we we made out like bandits on that, and it looked a little iffy the week before, so I'm glad that all played out for the ball game and the Arctic party.
00:58:10
Brandon Reilly
I think we missed the rain by flying out so early, too, because we hit that weather when we were flying out.
00:58:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:58:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. And then, well, how was the rooftop? I only was up there briefly, briefly rather, proofly briefly. Briefly.
00:58:22
Patty Salmon
The rooftop was good. So obviously, you know, Arctic party, it was it was way too loud to be able to talk to anybody.
00:58:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes, the DJ music was too loud on that floor.
00:58:32
Patty Salmon
Yeah, so the rooftop wasn't even part of their event, we just all migrated up there.
00:58:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, we just took it over.
00:58:36
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:58:37
Patty Salmon
And that's where all the networking was done because you could actually hear.
00:58:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:58:41
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:58:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:58:41
Brandon Reilly
that Yeah, the DJ was so loud and then everyone's talking loud, so it's like screaming. and so it's just getting louder and louder.
00:58:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:58:47
Brandon Reilly
And it was like, I'm trying to hear what you're saying. But it was still a blast.
00:58:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yup. It was, uh, it was definitely good, but yeah, DJ had to, he had to tone it down a little bit. He was too busy trying to get everybody clubbing.
00:59:03
Patty Salmon
They were.
00:59:03
RICK JAMES
mean They were.
00:59:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, I got to talk to Aaron from, uh, Wolf America there from loaders saw him.
00:59:04
Patty Salmon
They were clubbing.
00:59:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was good. Got to see Harry. Um, they said they had a good show.
00:59:14
RICK JAMES
yeah.
00:59:17
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:59:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
They said they had a lot of interest at their booth, which is great. Great to hear.
00:59:22
RICK JAMES
Good.
00:59:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um, yeah, I'm trying to think who else. It's such a blur, dude. Such a quick three days.
00:59:29
RICK JAMES
Yep. Definitely is.
00:59:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
What about you, Sean? Anybody you talk to?
00:59:37
Native Snow
So many people. I can't. I was just looking through my phone trying to remember. And I can't remember. But there There was...
00:59:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh yeah. So Tom.
00:59:45
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, I sat with them and talked to them at the table.
00:59:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's such a good dude, man. He is such a good dude.
00:59:53
RICK JAMES
He's Brock Lesnar's bodyguard, so he's gotta be a good, dude.
00:59:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:59:58
Native Snow
Someone did take my hat and my and my shirt off the table, though.
01:00:03
Patty Salmon
Yeah, and my sunglasses.
01:00:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
what's that really
01:00:05
RICK JAMES
Yeah, somebody got Patty's sunglasses.
01:00:07
Native Snow
Well, Pat, Kinetti has your sunglasses, I believe. That's what I told you.
01:00:11
Patty Salmon
They're ah cheap sunglasses. I just, I knew where they were. i was like, all right, go back at the end of night, grab the hats, the shirts, sunglasses, and everything was gone.
01:00:18
Native Snow
Yeah, my hats and shirts are gone.
01:00:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
if if Tom Kennedy wants your sunglasses you just let him take sunglasses yeah just let him take the sunglasses buy another pair
01:00:22
RICK JAMES
He's going to have them.
01:00:23
Patty Salmon
ah Listen, I'll ship them some. I'll just ship them some.
01:00:28
RICK JAMES
He'll crush you, Pat. I'll take your sunglasses.
01:00:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
01:00:33
Patty Salmon
Here, you want another?
01:00:35
Native Snow
Somebody had something.
01:00:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, he is such a good dude, man.
01:00:35
Native Snow
I don't know if it was Nettie. I think ah it might have actually been Rick had him.
01:00:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, my God. I could talk to that man for hours. He's such a good dude.
01:00:41
RICK JAMES
He's awesome.
01:00:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah What else? Anybody else? I'm trying to think.
01:00:48
RICK JAMES
Just another great party. Great people.
01:00:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
I definitely want to say congratulations to to our friends at Storm.
01:00:51
RICK JAMES
Great horse.
01:00:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was a big, big show for them. And I'm glad it played out the way we had all hoped that that it would for them.
01:01:04
RICK JAMES
Definitely.
01:01:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
trying to think anything else let me hit some commercials here we got a couple a couple of little things and then we'll wrap it up but let's hit some commercials we'll be right back
01:02:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, we're back. So what else? What else? would The salt squeeze. Yeah, I see that. I got that in my bag too, Pat. he
01:02:18
RICK JAMES
Soft squeeze.
01:02:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
What is he showing us that for?
01:02:20
Patty Salmon
No, it's just frozen.
01:02:21
RICK JAMES
Oh, just froze.
01:02:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh it's just frozen like ha ah
01:02:26
RICK JAMES
Perfect timing.
01:02:27
Patty Salmon
It's
01:02:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah too funny oh man well any parting uh any parting thoughts about sima 2026 anything you want to see them improve not that they're going listen but anything you want to see i there there is somebody listening that that wants to do improvements so you know he'll he'll listen but i don't know how much traction you're going get
01:02:43
Patty Salmon
all day on Friday.
01:02:44
Native Snow
Great trade show
01:02:45
Patty Salmon
Ah, Thursday.
Trade Show Dissatisfaction and Suggestions
01:02:47
Native Snow
trade.
01:02:47
Native Snow
So change changing like we talked about last year and I believe the year before that and the year before that.
01:02:55
Native Snow
ah But yeah, other than that, maybe some better classes for the guys that want to attend.
01:03:01
Brandon Reilly
Especially since you're paying so much for them.
01:03:03
Native Snow
I don't, yeah, it is a lot of money.
01:03:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
I know.
01:03:04
Patty Salmon
And and not cheap.
01:03:05
Native Snow
I don't know how you, how do you better vet that? I don't really know. um I guess getting the right guys. I don't know. I don't run a trade show, so I have no idea. But if the guys are not liking the classes and then the people that are going for the trade show are not liking the trade show, it's not going to be a good, good thing. You know, it's not a good thing.
01:03:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Honestly, I think it's all about the booth money. As long as they're getting booth money, I don't i don't really honestly think there's any reason for them to change anything.
01:03:35
Brandon Reilly
Especially some people just meet with people.
01:03:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
long as
01:03:35
Patty Salmon
If I remember last year, the same complaints were.
01:03:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sorry, you're both talking over each other. didn't hear you. Brandon, what'd you have?
01:03:41
Patty Salmon
ahead, Brandon.
01:03:42
Brandon Reilly
i was just saying, no matter what, whether the show good or bad, people are still going to go just so they can meet up with friends and you know see people they don't get to see on a normal basis from all around country that do snow.
01:03:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure.
01:03:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I... I think they know that. I think they know that to a degree.
01:03:56
Brandon Reilly
you know Whether it's going out to a nice steakhouse with a small group, whether it's going to these big parties, like it's just a huge networking thing.
01:03:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
So.
01:04:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yep, and you know that doesn't make them forced to change anything that the people are telling them to change. And they'll say, oh, nobody's telling us to change except you guys. Oh, yeah, well, I got 15, 20 responses in two seconds you know with with great ideas how to change it. Just the the new product section.
01:04:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Have a couple you know boots that have ah under a new products banner that at least you know where they are to go look for them. um Patty, what were you going to say?
01:04:33
Patty Salmon
I was just going to say, I mean, they can change it so so easily. But if I recall last year and probably the year before that, it was all audio problems for all the education you go to, the slideshows.
01:04:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Now, I will play devil's advocate and maybe possibly defend them on that because I don't know. that might be the That might be more on the the venue than Syma.
01:04:52
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:04:53
Patty Salmon
Convention.
01:04:54
RICK JAMES
that yeah
01:04:55
Patty Salmon
right. All right. You just figure, I mean, $875 for a full a full pass.
01:04:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
But I don't know.
01:05:01
Patty Salmon
Some of these companies send a couple of guys to education. It's not cheap for them to not be able to get anything out of it.
01:05:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
i got a...
01:05:08
RICK JAMES
That's just for that. And then they got hotels and everything else.
01:05:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Oh, shit, yeah.
01:05:10
RICK JAMES
mean, that's flights.
01:05:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's thousands of dollars.
01:05:13
Patty Salmon
You just figure if it was, even if it was on the convention center for what people are paying to go there, that they'd somehow do it, like vet it, do an audio check or something, make sure that everything's working.
01:05:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, it's not cheap either because you you look at, like, if guys staying in hotels. These hotels, normal weeks when there's no convention in town are, like, say, $190 a night. As soon as they know a convention in town, they're up to $400.
01:05:35
Patty Salmon
Yeah.
01:05:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, like, guys are paying a lot of money for this, and they should at least not get sold to by infomercial guys, and that's a direct quote.
01:05:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
that's sir That can't happen. You cannot have guys teaching classes trying to push product and sell shit. That is not cool.
01:05:53
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:05:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Somebody's paying, what was it?
01:05:54
RICK JAMES
I think I'm the
01:05:55
Brandon Reilly
That would put me off.
01:05:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
875 for the seminars?
01:05:56
Patty Salmon
yeah
01:05:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
875 for seminars and you had multiple, multiple class. i got a list of three classes here that they said they were straight up product pushes to buy that guy's services. So that can't happen.
01:06:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's a hard pass. What else, Jay? do you got?
01:06:14
RICK JAMES
I was just saying, I think on the floor, they should do like all the salt companies got to be in this area and they all just compete for your business.
01:06:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
like a battle royal.
01:06:22
RICK JAMES
Yeah. If they want, they want to sell you.
01:06:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:06:25
Brandon Reilly
Well, they do that with everything.
01:06:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Steel cage match.
01:06:27
Brandon Reilly
So software, you get in this corner, software, get in that corner.
01:06:29
RICK JAMES
Yep. Everything.
01:06:31
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:06:31
Native Snow
It would make things a lot easier to find.
01:06:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Honestly, wouldn't that be easier if they sectioned everything like that for all the vendors?
01:06:36
RICK JAMES
yeah Yep.
01:06:36
Native Snow
Yes, it would be a lot easier.
01:06:36
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:06:38
RICK JAMES
Like, all right. Who's going to pull me in? Who wants to make a deal? Let's go.
01:06:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
It'd be like Disney world. You'd be very easy to get around to. Where are you? Oh, I'm in a plow land.
01:06:47
Brandon Reilly
this
01:06:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, I'm in salt land.
01:06:51
Patty Salmon
That's a good idea, actually.
01:06:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah I mean, it's not rocket science.
01:06:54
RICK JAMES
I'm full of
01:06:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
like
01:06:56
Brandon Reilly
Well, that's because normally used then you're seeing it side by side too. Now, obviously, it's some of the stuff, it doesn't matter if you see it side by side, but if you're looking at different snowblowers for tractors and you got Provenosa on one side and Norman, right?
01:07:06
Brandon Reilly
I mean, you literally, they're side by side, right?
01:07:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Love it. Let them fight it out.
01:07:11
Brandon Reilly
Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:07:13
RICK JAMES
them. It's a little competition, you know? Maybe even the vendors would be, like, little more interactive than, you know?
01:07:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Ah.
01:07:19
RICK JAMES
They'd be like, oh, got to get it.
01:07:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
I get it for the aesthetics.
01:07:21
RICK JAMES
All right.
01:07:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
They want to randomize the booth sizes and stuff like that. But
01:07:25
Brandon Reilly
I mean, I love how arctics are literally everywhere all over these shows. You got them at US Equipment Exchange. You got them in the case booth. You got them in the storm booth. You got them in the arctic booth. There's just arctics everywhere.
01:07:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah, they're not hidden. Yeah.
01:07:36
RICK JAMES
No.
01:07:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, there
01:07:38
RICK JAMES
The Phantom was, and yeah, the Phantom was, was that only hydraulic wing claw there? think so, wasn't it?
01:07:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
now there were a couple more. I didn't see many though. Um,
01:07:48
Patty Salmon
They're hiding.
01:07:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
what ah What else?
01:07:51
RICK JAMES
Scared of the ghost.
01:07:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Anything else? Any other changes you'd like to see?
01:07:53
Patty Salmon
Spooky.
01:07:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
As I said, they're not going to listen. They haven't listened, and we've been doing this, what, this the fourth one now that we've done?
01:08:02
Patty Salmon
Yep.
01:08:03
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, I guess, yeah, just open it up at 8.
01:08:06
Native Snow
Change takes time, Steve.
01:08:07
Brandon Reilly
Let it go 8-5. to five
01:08:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
What, Sean?
01:08:10
Native Snow
Change takes time.
01:08:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, yeah, no. they're I think they're just being obstinate at this point. They're just going to do the opposite of what we say now.
01:08:21
Patty Salmon
It'll be at one o'clock next year.
01:08:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, next year will be one to four.
01:08:23
Native Snow
Yeah. One to three.
01:08:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
You have the snow jobs to thank, bitches.
01:08:24
Native Snow
One to four. Yeah.
01:08:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Keep complaining. We'll make it one hour long.
01:08:32
Patty Salmon
Milwaukee, right?
01:08:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Milwaukee's next year. yep Can't wait. Can't wait. do they Did they announce dates on that or just Milwaukee is the venue?
01:08:44
RICK JAMES
That's all I know is a no.
01:08:44
Patty Salmon
Just Milwaukee.
01:08:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. All right.
01:08:47
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, isn't there normally a flyer? I guess I didn't i didn't see it, but normally there's a...
01:08:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
I didn't see it.
01:08:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
um Anything else, boys?
01:08:57
Brandon Reilly
I don't think so.
01:08:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right.
01:08:59
RICK JAMES
Just wishing you a happy birthday again, Steve.
01:09:02
Brandon Reilly
Happy birthday.
01:09:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Thank you, brother.
01:09:03
RICK JAMES
i another Another great year, and let's keep rolling.
01:09:03
Native Snow
bur
01:09:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Thank you, brothers. Appreciate it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
01:09:08
RICK JAMES
Keep pushing.
01:09:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
We got some, ah we got some interesting stuff coming. So it's, it's going to be a the good next couple of months. lot of, well, hopefully a lot of good announcements to make, but yeah, if everybody's good, thanks for coming on boys.
Conclusion and Future Plans
01:09:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Appreciate you. And a great trip with you guys and can't wait to do it again. Sean, you're, you are going to Minnesota.
01:09:31
Native Snow
I am not going to Minnesota.
01:09:32
Brandon Reilly
Yes.
01:09:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
You're going to Minnesota.
01:09:34
Native Snow
I'm not.
01:09:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
You are.
01:09:37
Native Snow
All right.
01:09:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Look at me. You're going to Minnesota.
01:09:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
We'll fly you back if she pops.
01:09:43
RICK JAMES
Where's the wife?
01:09:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
You're going to Minnesota.
01:09:44
RICK JAMES
The wife can hear.
01:09:46
Patty Salmon
just bring her
01:09:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah There you go. she be ah She'll be a Minnesota resident, the the baby. Born in Minnesota.
01:09:55
Native Snow
Hey, I'd be able to get a daycare for free.
01:09:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. You'll be able to have your pick of daycares.
01:09:58
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:09:58
Patty Salmon
yeah
01:10:00
RICK JAMES
Take care of, be taken care of.
01:10:02
Native Snow
Yeah, I can apply for the million dollar grant.
01:10:02
Brandon Reilly
I don't
01:10:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Federally funded daycare, baby.
01:10:06
Brandon Reilly
know.
01:10:06
Native Snow
Thank you.
01:10:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it.
01:10:06
Brandon Reilly
Take care is not free here. I wish. this
01:10:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
not for you ah all right well then that'll do it let's wrap it episode 177 our sima 2026 review show is in the books all right thanks to the guys again couldn't do it without them love traveling with these dudes it's a always a great time miss them already uh everybody else that went to sima hope you got home safely and uh everybody have a great week all right take care of yourselves keep pushing
01:10:10
Brandon Reilly
myia