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S3-117: Stork's Snow Alliance 2025 review show!
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The 2025 Stork's Plows Snow Alliance weekend is over, and the guys welcome some of the attendees of the event to the show to talk about their experiences at the event
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Introduction and Trip Recap
00:00:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Let's get it, Snow Jobs Nation. We are back again, bringing you episode 117 of the Snow Jobs Podcast main show, powered by Top Gun Backblades. As always, I'm Steve.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You know who's with me.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
The Chuck Norris of snow, Jeremy Lindstrom, Glacier Snow Management. Jay, what's up?
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RICK JAMES
Hey, and not a lot. Just got back this morning from our big trip. So that was a fun trip. So ah early.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
How's the flights?
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RICK JAMES
and i mean
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Early is right. You wanted that.
00:01:18
RICK JAMES
I mean, it wasn't, it no, yeah, no, I definitely wanted it. No, it was good. it was They were good. started on Fargo to, or Minneapolis Fargo kind of sucked. don't know what the hell happened today, but it seemed like it took forever to go that little distance, but whatever.
00:01:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Were there bison on the runway? They had the circle.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, I think we, ah we circled for three and a half hours waiting for him to chase him off the runway. mean, we had some stride bears out there, so,
Stork Snow Alliance Weekend
00:01:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, as Jay said, we are home, back home after a very big Stork Snow Alliance weekend. That was a lot of fun, right, bro?
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RICK JAMES
so it happens.
00:01:51
RICK JAMES
It was a great time. Yeah, definitely.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Great time.
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RICK JAMES
Good kickoff to the trade show circuit we go on. So, yeah, it was the off season.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
The off-season, if you will.
00:02:00
RICK JAMES
Yeah, no, it was definitely fun. That show was definitely worth it.
00:02:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, I didn't think they could outdo last year, and they knocked this one out of park. they they really ah They really did a phenomenal job again.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Great job. Great people there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
keeps getting better keeps getting bigger and better.
00:02:14
RICK JAMES
i mean, everybody, everybody wants to help. Yeah. That was definitely fun. I was, you know, I, I love to go out and see our, our crew. We have a tech travels with us and I mean, everybody else too, but our main crew, we talked to every day on the phone.
00:02:27
RICK JAMES
I just, it's just nice to see them in person, hang out. So that's, that's to me the best part. So
00:02:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. And this is the, uh, this is the first time we all get to see each other after our, ah our winter hiatus. So since October, so it's, ah it's always a lot of fun.
00:02:38
RICK JAMES
yeah.
00:02:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah you know, the boys, uh, the boys showed up and it was, all you know, we're always going to have a good time with them.
00:02:48
RICK JAMES
Right, and we didn't even use all of our bail money, so that's good.
00:02:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, no, no. The, uh, the bail kitty was, uh, he still had some cash left in it. Pennsylvania police were very nice.
00:02:55
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Understanding.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah No stolen scooters.
00:03:02
RICK JAMES
Yes, sir. No, we're all good. We're going to go out in a bit.
00:03:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
We were good. Yep. But as we said, you know, this past weekend was Stork Snow Alliance Day 2025, and we can't even call it day anymore because now it's a full weekend.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It's a Friday night kickoff party, which was absolutely awesome.
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RICK JAMES
Thank you.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And then Saturday is sor Stork Snow Alliance. ah It was absolutely phenomenal. What a great weekend. ah We all got home today, as Jeremy said, and, ah you know, just...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We're kind of have a little Storks hangover because it was such a such a good time. It was a long day, but what a fantastic event. And what better way to do that and talk about the event than bring some of the the attendees.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So we're going to talk about that tonight, go over a review of what everybody did, what they saw. The the seminars were great this year. ah The panel discussions were awesome. So tonight to help us talk all things Stork Snow Alliance, we got Patty Salmon and DJ Salmon and Northeast De-Icing Solutions.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We have crowd favorite Matty Muscles Young of Young Landscapes.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, there he
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Mikey Sanalucito of ODP and Robert Thing of RD Outdoor.
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RICK JAMES
Oiled up.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They are all here in studio with us. We're going to get this done, but before we get to the boys and hear about the weekend on their from their point of view, let's hear from Team Top Gun. We'll come back to a quick week in review.
Upcoming Events
00:04:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, guys, we're back. Quick week of review. As we said, Stork Snow Alliance Day is in the books. So the next event up for us is June, right? We're going to Syma Show in Grand Rapids. That's June 17th to the 20th.
00:05:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah So if you are going, make your travel arrangements, and hopefully we'll see you there. don't know. Are we going to the show or are we just going to the parties?
00:05:21
RICK JAMES
I don't know.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
even know. I know what we're doing. We'll see. We'll see. But that is the next event up. I don't believe we have anything in May. ah So we're looking forward to seeing all the boys again in June. Snow Jobs Nation store. All right. It's stocked, ready for your orders.
00:05:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Get them. You can get the new Snow Jobs Arctic, you know, with that hat. That's awesome. they were We gave a bunch of them out at the show. So if you were at Storks and you got one, You know, lucky you. If not, you want to order one.
00:05:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's the new collaboration hat. It's ah Snow Jobs and Arctic. Nice little badge on there. Same sticker that you'll be seeing on all the Arctic products coming off the line soon. All right. What else?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What else did we do at Starks? We released for Storm Chasing. We released the season one mega trailer, right?
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RICK JAMES
Oh, mega trailer. Yeah, that was mega trailer.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Mega. Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
That was great. as was That was, was get you pumped up.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
oh
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It was great.
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RICK JAMES
mean,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It was clips of all six episodes. It was what, five minutes long, four and a half minutes long, something like that.
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RICK JAMES
Four and a half, 417 or something, yep.
Storm Chasing Series Launch
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Josh Brecht and his team put that together. That was, uh, that was awesome. We showed it at Storks right before the panel discussion and, uh, everybody there was really, really excited by it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Um, I thought it was great. What'd you think, Jay?
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RICK JAMES
it's Yeah, it was great. Definitely well put together. i mean, it was good little quick little clips, everybody, or you know, just kind of get the gist out there and it was pretty cool.
00:06:47
RICK JAMES
I enjoyed it and and we are recording this on Sunday night and it released tonight on YouTube. So if everybody should go watch it, if you want, I think you should.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Boom.
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RICK JAMES
So I may be a little biased, but who cares?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
There it is.
00:07:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah No, you're not. And speaking of storm chasing, as everybody knows by an now, or at least the vast majority of you do, ah together with our partners at Storm Equipment, we dropped episode one of the Storm Chasing series last Friday night.
00:07:12
RICK JAMES
It's awesome.
00:07:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. yeah That was on YouTube, and it is absolutely on fire. As of 8 p.m. tonight on Sunday night here, it's sitting at 13,000 views. right. It's got ridiculous retention rates for a 47 minute video.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And Josh Brecht said something like 3,400 watch hours, which is absolutely insane.
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RICK JAMES
so awesome
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's absolutely, absolutely crazy.
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RICK JAMES
hu
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Right.
00:07:39
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it's getting it out there. It's what we wanted to do. So, I mean, I and i got a yeah had a couple other things we might do it do with them that's coming up also. So, I think we're going to try release some bloopers and stuff like that, hopefully.
00:07:52
RICK JAMES
you know, keep people interested in until we drop the rest of them coming out here in, what, a couple weeks? or What was the date we're coming out with the rest? I can't remember what Jordan said it was. May.
00:08:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, yeah, it's a couple. The schedule got adjusted a little bit.
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RICK JAMES
It's...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I do not remember the exact dates.
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RICK JAMES
Yep.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
i was a little exhausted last night when he was talking about that.
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RICK JAMES
it was it was a little bit, ah I think it's, yeah, we're going release them every week up to Saima. So five weeks before Saima, we're going to release them every week. so
00:08:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, the last one will drop at Syma.
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RICK JAMES
think the last one's going out at Saima there for the Arctic one.
00:08:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep, absolutely.
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RICK JAMES
So, so be five full weeks beforehand and hopefully between here and there, we're going to, you know, keep you interested by releasing little tidbits here and there, you know, like some blooper reels or whatever we were talking about.
00:08:34
RICK JAMES
So hopefully you guys will just keep an eye out for it and obviously we'll plug it.
00:08:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes, sir.
00:08:39
RICK JAMES
So.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And I believe the last episode is Arctic. and So that'll be dropping at Simon.
00:08:43
RICK JAMES
Yep.
Current Snow Conditions
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But guys, seriously, though, thank you to everyone out there in Snow Jobs Nation who is just to helping that that episode become such a huge success. all right Both your views and your recommendations to your friends um because you know we couldn't do without you. So on behalf of Storm Equipment and the Snow Jobs, thank you everybody who has watched and recommended it to others.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What else you got, Jay?
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RICK JAMES
don't think I have much after that right now. It's kind of in a low, so.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Good enough.
00:09:13
RICK JAMES
God's juice going down this week, so.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right.
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RICK JAMES
ah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. Well, then, I mean, is it it is the season?
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RICK JAMES
Not that you care, but.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, is it dusty yet out there?
00:09:23
RICK JAMES
oh yeah, it's dusty, yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Really? Already?
00:09:27
RICK JAMES
Yeah. We didn't get any moisture out winter, bud.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay. oh well, that that is true.
00:09:30
RICK JAMES
We didn't get any moisture.
00:09:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
That is true.
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RICK JAMES
So.
00:09:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, cool. The only other thing is like and subscribe on whatever platform you listen to us on. All right. It definitely helps us out. And we definitely like reading the reviews and seeing what everybody's thinking, what everybody wants to hear more of. So don't hesitate to do that for us.
00:09:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
But if that's it, let's hear from our partners.
00:09:49
RICK JAMES
hey One more.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We'll be right. Oh, Jeremy's got something else.
00:09:52
RICK JAMES
was going to ask you, what how about last week's show? that How'd that go over with the Glacier Boys? didn't really talk about that.
00:09:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, massive numbers wise.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Massive. Yeah, massive. That was that might be the.
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RICK JAMES
Awesome. It was exciting. Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It's definitely in the top two for one week numbers.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Definitely. it It, yeah, it went off big. I think the momentum from the episode, the people wanted to hear from the, uh, the guys that lived it, you know, the big guys.
00:10:17
RICK JAMES
yeah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And yeah, it was, it was worth it just to see Aaron and his big Hawaiian shirt. You know, that was, uh, that was definitely worth having the boys on.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:10:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah But anyway, if, uh, if that's all, you got anything else, bud?
00:10:32
RICK JAMES
That's it. This one, ah touch on that. So.
00:10:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, cool. So let's hear from our partners real quick. We'll be right back, and we'll get into it with the boys.
00:11:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, we're back. We are back. So without further ado, let's bring in the boys. Mike, Matt, Robert, Patty, what's going on, boys?
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RICK JAMES
Bring them in.
00:11:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Long time no see. Who are you talking to?
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Robert
Good evening, ladies.
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Matty Muscles
What's up?
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RICK JAMES
um
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Matty Muscles
What's up?
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Patrick Salmon
How's it going?
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RICK JAMES
ah ah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You talking to Mike?
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Mike ODP
Shit, it's starting strong.
00:12:01
RICK JAMES
We got some ladies listening.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah We actually do. Crazy enough. Yes, we do. ah So how's everybody's trip home? Everybody good?
00:12:10
RICK JAMES
Real good.
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Patrick Salmon
Good, early.
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Mike ODP
Couldn't be better.
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Robert
Very long.
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Matty Muscles
Yeah, I made it home safe.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
How long did it take you, Robert?
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Robert
When I left at 6.15, got home at about 1.30 a.m. this morning.
00:12:23
Mike ODP
God. You're a better man than me.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's not that bad, actually. Was it seven hours?
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Robert
That's a long ride at night.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It is. i I told you not to fucking leave.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Hence the hotel room.
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Mike ODP
I thought you, hold on. I thought you were flying.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
no he drove.
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Robert
No, I drove.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
He drove. hey drove
00:12:38
Mike ODP
no I know that. But when you were, when I were talking like before the show, I thought you were flying.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
no
00:12:42
Robert
yeah I was looking for plane tickets Wednesday night.
00:12:46
Mike ODP
yeah
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RICK JAMES
that
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Matty Muscles
don't know.
00:12:47
Patrick Salmon
ah that
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What are you on the Sean travel plan?
00:12:50
Patrick Salmon
and
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RICK JAMES
This shiny stay overnight.
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Robert
Literally. Literally.
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RICK JAMES
Sean's leave this morning.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No, Sean flew out to Sean.
00:12:56
Mike ODP
Sean, book his own tickets?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no, God, no. Are you kidding me?
00:12:59
RICK JAMES
John went home Sean went home today, didn't he?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Sean? No, no.
00:13:04
RICK JAMES
didn't leave last night.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Sean left last night. He left right after the show.
00:13:06
RICK JAMES
Oh, thought he stayed. Yeah.
00:13:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
00:13:07
Patrick Salmon
And I think he left straight from the show.
00:13:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. He said, I'll see you back at the hotel. And then he never showed up. So yeah, he had to get home.
00:13:12
RICK JAMES
Yep.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Mom was cooking.
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Robert
Thank
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RICK JAMES
yep
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Mike ODP
ah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
oh Oh, man.
00:13:24
Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It was a good time seeing you boys. It was ah it was great to see ah you guys and see a lot of the same faces and a lot of different faces, too, this year.
00:13:35
RICK JAMES
Yeah, there's a lot of new people out there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It was great, though.
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Mike ODP
Yep.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
A lot of cool guys we didn't see there last year.
00:13:41
Matty Muscles
Awesome turnout.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:13:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, had a boys from MTG out in Ohio, they showed up.
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RICK JAMES
yes
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The SnowJobs Podcast
The Golden Dirty Mike and the boys, the Golden Horseshoe guys from Canada, actually made it and got to stay this year.
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RICK JAMES
Dirty Mike and the boys.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No equipment stolen. They had to run back to Canada to deal with.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:56
RICK JAMES
Got him a onesie. Got him a onesie. I even remembered to bring that for him.
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Mike ODP
yep
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Saved them $50 on shipping.
00:14:01
RICK JAMES
Yep. yeah
00:14:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was awesome. Hey, can you guys throw a onesie in one of your bags so I can save $50 on Canadian shipping?
00:14:05
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:14:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, shit. It's great.
00:14:11
RICK JAMES
ah I'll get him on the tariffs.
00:14:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, yeah, a lot of great people there. it was It was an awesome event again, man. They just
Event Success and Networking
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The SnowJobs Podcast
keep fucking, they just keep coming up with gold. It's absolutely, I didn't think they'd be able to top last year, and they did.
00:14:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
They definitely did. You guys were all there last year, right?
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RICK JAMES
yeah
00:14:29
Matty Muscles
Yep.
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Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
00:14:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Was it, I mean, was I the only one that thought it was, like, not just better, head and shoulders better than it was last year?
00:14:35
Mike ODP
Definitely.
00:14:35
Patrick Salmon
Oh, they had more pretzels this year, so I mean.
00:14:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, that that's a key point.
00:14:38
RICK JAMES
yeah yeah oh we let me talk to you after the show on that there steve that uh what's his name from winterstone that guy you talked can't remember his name uh yeah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That is a key point.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, pretzels? Yeah, shipping pretzels.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, he said, you know ah he's i gotta give you you gotta give him my address, he'll ship something to me, he said. so oh Yeah, I know, that's what I'm afraid of.
00:14:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah Tell him to ship them all to me and I'll make sure you get some.
00:15:01
RICK JAMES
So yeah, make sure you give him my address too.
00:15:04
Matty Muscles
Throw those in with Wiener wiener Wednesday, Jay?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know. yeah i never I don't know.
00:15:07
RICK JAMES
wow we'll we'll put him on a roller if we have to. so
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They never showed up.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that that's how cool Storks is, though. Like, i was absolutely I was absolutely joking last year about not having enough pretzels when I was saying it on the show. i was making a joke, and I had to steal Patty Sammons, and thank God he was in a neck brace. He couldn't see me do it.
00:15:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
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Matty Muscles
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, they they actually took note of that, and the one of the the ladies was so sweet.
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Mike ODP
ah
00:15:33
Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
She came all the way downstairs and outside to tell me that the pretzels were on.
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Matty Muscles
I was there for this.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I was like, you guys are insane.
00:15:39
Matty Muscles
Yep. He's like, Eve, the pretzels are on. Yeah.
00:15:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh my god they're so awesome what i mean what an outstanding crew he's got there i mean no wonder they're so good at business that that whole crew is total buy-in they're all there and they're all happy they're all like over the moon happy to be there it was just a great day so what let's go around the room what did you guys all think mikey
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RICK JAMES
yeah
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Oh, yeah. That was great.
00:16:03
RICK JAMES
if
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Mike ODP
It was definitely like a huge improvement from last year. And last year it was amazing to begin with, but this this year kind took the cake. that There was more people. I know he he capped it at 225 and he ended up like boosting it to 270, which is absurd to think about.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
to seventy yeah
00:16:20
Mike ODP
There was still plenty of room inside that building, which is great. You know, how far can he push the envelope? We we don't know. But sir yeah, the the vendor turnout was fantastic.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
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Mike ODP
The weather, I know it was kind of, pouring raining like cats and dogs. We were inside. It was getting pretty loud. Then we go outside. It was perfect.
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RICK JAMES
and
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Mike ODP
So we we had a great day for it.
00:16:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it worked out. It definitely did. And Gene was so funny with that, too. He's standing there. So how many how many you have here? Well, I capped it 225. Oh, cool. How many showed up? two seventy 270. OK, good.
00:16:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good on you with the cap.
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Mike ODP
He's like, I just couldn't say no.
00:16:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
way to hold your ground. Yeah, I know. He said that.
00:16:54
RICK JAMES
You can't say no.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I just couldn't say no.
00:16:55
RICK JAMES
You can't say no. but
00:16:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, they are absolutely awesome out there, though.
00:17:00
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
00:17:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's great. Matty, what did you think overall?
00:17:03
Matty Muscles
I thought it was a fantastic event. I know we're going to say this you know many times over, but the fact that they were even able to top how good last year's event was is impressive. But not only did they top it, but they obliterated it
00:17:15
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:17:17
Matty Muscles
um It's just like there's nothing that's missed. And, you know, one of the things that resonated with me this year is like it's a Storks, you know, their their family.
00:17:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
00:17:30
Matty Muscles
Like when I was saying goodbye to Jeannie sitting there holding his little daughter and I'm just like, they have multiple generations there.
00:17:32
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
00:17:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:17:40
Matty Muscles
Everybody's full buy in. And it's just amazing.
00:17:42
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
00:17:43
Matty Muscles
extremely well done. So kudos to them.
00:17:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
yep
00:17:47
Matty Muscles
And, you know, being able to just get it done the way that they did. It's already exciting to look forward to next year.
00:17:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. I said that last year, like it wasn't just the workers, the employees of Stork's, the employees of Stork's kids were there and helping out and happy to be there.
00:18:03
Mike ODP
Thank you.
00:18:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
And it's just, it's so phenomenal because you don't see that anymore.
00:18:08
Matty Muscles
Right.
00:18:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
You don't see it. it's so It's so great to see it. It's it's very wholesome to ah to be there and see that kind of family atmosphere on that scale in that kind of stress environment. Like, that is not a no-stress environment, putting on an event like that.
00:18:19
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:18:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
And they're all happy to be there.
00:18:23
RICK JAMES
No.
00:18:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everybody's smiling, taking care of whatever you need. It's awesome.
00:18:26
RICK JAMES
A lot of moving pieces.
00:18:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. What about you, Robert? What did you think?
00:18:32
Robert
No, pretty much the same what everyone's saying is, you know, this year was top from last year. And, you know, it is, I was going to mention the whole family aspect of everything, you know especially at the case, the case, the case party the night before is just, you know, the kids are there.
00:18:46
Robert
And it's just, it's just awesome to kind of be a part of, you know, something like that anyways.
00:18:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%. Patty, what about you?
00:18:56
Patrick Salmon
Yeah, you know, exactly like the rest of the boys said you you left there last year saying ah that that event can't get any better and and they went and they topped it again, you know, I think the the biggest takeaway from last year was the only complaint was hey to store it right one day, what did they do.
00:18:56
RICK JAMES
I'm going to
00:19:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:19:12
Patrick Salmon
They topped it off at the party hosted by case construction the night before welcome party that was that was killer.
00:19:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
it It's like you guys have all done these episodes with us before, because that's a perfect segue into the next question. We'll start off right there. The the case welcome party, ah the the case construction equipment sponsor. They did a phenomenal job.
00:19:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
What did everybody think about that, Mikey?
00:19:34
Patrick Salmon
blew it out of the water
00:19:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'll go ahead.
00:19:36
Mike ODP
you
00:19:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Go ahead, Patty. You can take it.
00:19:38
Patrick Salmon
wow they just they they blew it out of the water they yeah they they killed it in good event good venue plenty of room good good food and excellent food
00:19:52
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:19:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Very cool. Who else?
00:19:53
Robert
I think those, i think those like before parties or whatever, we're actually calling them, I think they're really good for networking.
00:20:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
They are 100%. hundred percent
00:20:01
RICK JAMES
Yes, hars yeah, definitely.
00:20:01
Robert
know?
00:20:03
Mike ODP
It's a good icebreaker too, like if you're just trying to get in there, if your first time going like to meet everybody, maybe some faces you've talked to on LinkedIn or that you see on Instagram or whatever, like it's good for that.
00:20:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
i I was just going to say that.
00:20:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it totally is.
00:20:14
RICK JAMES
definitely definitely a night before you you know like you say you just sit around maybe just talking to some guys in a little circles then then the next day you see him again at the at storks itself then you're gonna continue that conversation and get deeper probably and all that fun stuff so yeah that before party was great i mean they put on a it was fun i mean if you want to be inside you go outside and there's room plenty of room everywhere and
00:20:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Go ahead, Jack.
00:20:38
RICK JAMES
They a loader sitting there we could crawl around, look at and lean on all that fun stuff. They had fire brine. I mean, shit. Who doesn't want some fire burn?
00:20:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Definitely. they they They did take the cue. I think we we named that drink last year. Fire brine is the way to go. that's yeah It was awesome, right?
00:20:53
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:20:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely great.
00:20:55
RICK JAMES
Yeah, was...
00:20:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think, you know, it it um like Mike said, it kind of ah kind of loosens people up. And like, let's face it, not everybody is outgoing enough to just walk up to people and generate a conversation out of thin air. In fact, most people I would say aren't.
00:21:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um, so the more you're around the same group of people, the more likely it is that you will be, Oh, you know, he looks friendly enough. Let's like, let's go. He's not going to bite me if I go talk to him and, um,
00:21:22
Mike ODP
All snow guys look friendly.
00:21:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, well, you know, but it depends on the group they're currently in at the time, you know you know I'm saying?
00:21:24
RICK JAMES
Ha!
00:21:25
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:21:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
So I think that that allows you a one, when you're only there for one day and you're moving around from seminar to seminar, you have limited opportunities to grab guys and have conversations. So I think that party helped a lot with that.
00:21:42
Matty Muscles
I would definitely agree with that One of the things that I told my wife when we were catching up when I got home last night was when you continue to see similar familiar faces that you don't get a chance to always talk to everybody, but when you continue to see them, you know, you give them the head nod in passing or whatever, hi, how are you doing?
00:21:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that was.
00:21:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:21:42
Mike ODP
Definitely.
00:21:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Thank
00:22:00
Matty Muscles
But, you know, it's, it's nice to be able to finally connect with them, have a great conversation, um you know, to be able to get to know them a little bit better, hear their story, And ultimately, like, you know, make make a new friend, make a new you know partner in the in in the industry, et cetera, et cetera.
00:22:18
Matty Muscles
But I thought that the part that case party was done very, very well.
00:22:21
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
00:22:23
Matty Muscles
Kudos to you know, they as a manufacturer, like they stepped up to the plate huge. um
00:22:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:22:29
Matty Muscles
So super, super, super well done for them.
00:22:29
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
00:22:32
Mike ODP
Yeah, they understand the value behind it.
00:22:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:22:33
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:22:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. They understood the assignment. they did
00:22:37
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Well, like Matt just said, you just you go by and you nod at guys and stuff, but it's it's not just a you know ah nod anymore. I mean, you're like, oh, I know that guy or whatever. So you know he stop and have a kind of quick conversation. It's just like we said, just gets you just get to know people a lot better. And they're not just a face on Instagram or at LinkedIn or whatever. that You actually talk to them and it's it's great to...
00:23:00
RICK JAMES
great to do that with all these like-minded guys. i mean, Todd Dickerson came and he brought his own cameraman and mean, he, he, did but he embraced it a ton and it was great. It was fun to, fun to see all that stuff and all those cool people. i mean,
00:23:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
lot of big guys there. A lot of big big names in the industry.
00:23:16
Matty Muscles
And not only that, not only that but you you once you get through the get to know you phase quickly, you start to learn about these new friends in the industry.
00:23:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
with ah Dickerson was there. Go ahead, Matt.
00:23:28
Matty Muscles
and And then all of a sudden, the next time you're talking, to it was like, hey, how's the family? Like, what's going on? Like, you kind of get to have more of a personal relationship with them, which ultimately is what everybody's trying to achieve, you know, whether it be, you know, Snow Jobs Nation or, you know, everything like with the whole Snow Alliance, like this Storks event, it's it's about that grassroots type, you know, type deal of of everybody being, and you know, we're in the same fight together.
00:23:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
never so 100%. Absolutely. And it seems to be attracting more and more people and big names every year. ah There were more big guys there this year than last year, and it's just going to keep growing like that.
00:24:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's great. And there's a lot of young guys that get to rub elbows and have conversations with those big guys that they can pass on knowledge to.
00:24:09
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:24:16
RICK JAMES
Right.
00:24:16
Mike ODP
yeah
00:24:16
RICK JAMES
like you Like you said, the big guys that you think are probably unapproachable, they're all we're all the same.
00:24:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh
00:24:21
RICK JAMES
We're all the same. i mean, you might tell that guy is too. I can't relate with him. Yeah, you can We all can relate.
00:24:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
um Absolutely can.
00:24:28
RICK JAMES
It's just different scales. mean, Yeah.
00:24:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely can. Like I talked to Tom Kennedy and he's from Jersey. He's an, he's a massive, massive company and like shooting the shit for 25 minutes about this, that, and the other thing, just there like, that's the thing.
00:24:34
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:24:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Guys can't be afraid to approach these guys. These guys are all good dudes. They're all willing to talk to you, share their knowledge. That's why they're there.
00:24:49
Matty Muscles
The only guy who has bigger biceps than me, Tom Kennedy right there.
00:24:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:24:50
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:24:52
RICK JAMES
There you go.
00:24:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he made you look tiny.
00:24:54
RICK JAMES
That's true story.
00:24:54
Patrick Salmon
that
00:24:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
He made you look tiny, dude.
00:24:57
RICK JAMES
but
00:24:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, Tom's going to come on with us. he he definite He was like, dude, I love the show.
00:25:01
Matty Muscles
Oh, good.
00:25:01
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:25:01
Matty Muscles
I can't wait. I can't wait.
00:25:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I love the show.
00:25:03
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:25:03
Matty Muscles
He's a great guy.
00:25:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm definitely coming on. He is. He's a very good guy.
00:25:06
RICK JAMES
He might he might be bashful.
00:25:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's been doing it. Yeah, yeah all right?
00:25:08
Matty Muscles
nice Yeah.
00:25:08
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:25:09
RICK JAMES
one
00:25:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah ah
00:25:10
RICK JAMES
And all of these Colts guys are bashful. so
00:25:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, yeah, we're very reserved.
00:25:15
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:25:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah But yeah, he's he's very good and he's willing to like these guys aren't coming to an event like this to just sit there on a pedestal or something like they're there to to have these relationships and and to meet new people and this to share what they know.
00:25:26
Matty Muscles
Great the
00:25:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, you know, good on them. And nobody should be afraid to go up to talk to anybody at these events because you're all there for the same reason.
00:25:38
RICK JAMES
right
00:25:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
So um so anything else on the ah the the the Friday night welcome party?
00:25:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Or can we kick this into into gear?
00:25:47
Matty Muscles
great job across
00:25:48
RICK JAMES
Mikey?
00:25:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:25:49
RICK JAMES
Mikey got something, doesn't he?
00:25:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Great job. Mike, what do you got? you got something?
00:25:51
Mike ODP
No?
00:25:52
RICK JAMES
Oh, I thought you were going to say something, Mike.
00:25:52
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
00:25:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nope.
00:25:53
RICK JAMES
Sorry.
00:25:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
He always looks deep in thought.
00:25:54
Mike ODP
No, you're good? You're good?
00:25:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
He always looks deep in thought.
00:25:55
RICK JAMES
Yeah, he...
00:25:56
Mike ODP
I'm always in thought. I'm always in my head.
00:25:58
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I guess my my biggest thing is when we go to these events, I try to talk to as many people as I can, but... we got We always go with our crew and I always want to talk to them too.
00:26:07
Mike ODP
yeah
00:26:08
RICK JAMES
So you dont so I always kind of go back to them because, you know, I love my crew and I want to talk to them too. So I i probably should expand a little more, but I i feel like I'm missing out on the boys also.
00:26:19
RICK JAMES
So I guess. I got to kind of play that balance. So I'm not as good as Jordan, Jordan Smith.
00:26:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah,
00:26:23
Mike ODP
be having the same boat
00:26:25
RICK JAMES
who He healed his goal is to talk to everybody there in the deal. I mean, that's great.
00:26:28
Patrick Salmon
Oh yeah.
00:26:28
RICK JAMES
I love it. I just wish I could do it. I just feel like I got it. I want hang with my guys too. So it's not like I'm trying to be standoffish.
00:26:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
no.
00:26:34
RICK JAMES
I just, you know, you know how goes.
00:26:35
Matty Muscles
um know yeah I definitely agree with what Jeremy's saying. i That event was from 5 to 9. I feel like they were kind of like pushing us out the door, which fine completely.
00:26:45
Matty Muscles
like I understand everything's on a time frame, but I think a lot of guys were – was it 10?
00:26:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
To be fair, that was a 10. No, it was 5 to 9. They were pushing us out the door at 10.
00:26:55
Matty Muscles
Oh, my bad.
00:26:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
00:26:55
Matty Muscles
Well, we would have stayed there until midnight. like Let's be honest.
00:26:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes, we would have.
00:26:58
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:26:58
Matty Muscles
You know what I mean?
00:26:58
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:26:59
Matty Muscles
like it's like I think what Jeremy's getting at too is that as long as there's if there was, you know, an open timeframe, like you're going to end up connecting with more people, which ultimately is what we're trying to do anyways.
00:26:59
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:27:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's like we always say, add more hours to these events and, you know, it'll be better for everybody. Some some people listen like storks. They knocked it out of the park. That's what we all said last year. Like it it needs to be longer somehow, whether it's a second day or a half a day or some kind of event on Friday night. And they nailed it.
00:27:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, they absolutely took all that advice and they they ran with it. And I thought that added a lot of a lot of quality to the overall weekend. It was worth the trip, um you know, sitting in the two and a half hours of traffic, doubling up my travel time out there.
00:27:40
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:27:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was worth it to not just be there.
00:27:46
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
00:27:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
OK, we're going to hang out with the boys for one night and then we're going to bed. We're waking up, we're doing storks then we're going home in one day. ah That was that that made it feel like it was a destination. It was an actual trip being there for the extra day.
00:28:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that was that was really cool.
00:28:01
Patrick Salmon
and
00:28:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
I love that. I love the idea. i love the venue. ah That was a really cool um former train station. ah That's genius to turn that into a bar slash restaurant.
00:28:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was a great time. I think it's funny. You said Jordan Smith manages talk to everybody. We go to these events. Jordan's the only one we don't talk to.
00:28:19
RICK JAMES
We never talked to him.
00:28:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, like Jordan.
00:28:21
RICK JAMES
Yeah, we never talked to him.
00:28:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
we never We never make it to Jordan.
00:28:25
RICK JAMES
He even said that today. He's like, he goes, God, I just never, I talk to everybody else. I don't talk to my own team or my, are you guys and stuff like that?
00:28:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
00:28:32
RICK JAMES
Which is whatever. mean, understand he's a celebrity.
00:28:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
There's no time.
00:28:35
RICK JAMES
So he's a celebrity.
00:28:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
There's no time.
00:28:36
RICK JAMES
So.
00:28:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, you managed to do quite well. like you You're a little butterfly. you get You pollinate a lot of different flowers over there. you know I see you jumping around from group to group.
00:28:47
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Try to.
00:28:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, we got to do. We got to get you a schedule and have people just sign in for 10-minute blocks of time as you work your way around the room.
00:28:52
RICK JAMES
Oh my god. Yeah.
00:28:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:28:55
RICK JAMES
It'd be so bored.
00:28:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:28:59
Patrick Salmon
What?
00:29:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:29:00
RICK JAMES
Not that exciting.
00:29:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, I said to Jordan, i said we always say that. like We're talking on the phone. We'll be like, oh, that it'll be great. we'll see We'll see each other at Storks next week. We'll hang out. yet that We never do. We never. At any of these events, do we ever spend any time or or talk to Jordan?
00:29:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's so funny.
00:29:14
RICK JAMES
No.
00:29:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
We never get the opportunity. We're always in different places. but So let's talk about the actual Saturday. Friday night was was tame after that, right? Was that the McDonald's night? Was that McDonald's run?
00:29:27
Robert
Yes.
00:29:27
Patrick Salmon
was
00:29:28
RICK JAMES
um Yeah, yep.
00:29:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was. All right.
00:29:29
Matty Muscles
Yep.
00:29:30
Robert
And the scuba knife.
00:29:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, and the scooter night.
00:29:32
RICK JAMES
And the scooter crash. yep
00:29:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
It wasn't a crash, really.
00:29:36
Matty Muscles
It was definitely a crash.
00:29:37
RICK JAMES
A wipeout.
00:29:37
Mike ODP
How's
00:29:37
Matty Muscles
and You can come see the bruise.
00:29:37
RICK JAMES
It was a wipeout.
00:29:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:29:38
Patrick Salmon
Always a try.
00:29:39
Matty Muscles
You can come see the bruise on my right hip.
00:29:40
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:29:40
Mike ODP
the road rash?
00:29:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
It wasn't on film.
00:29:42
RICK JAMES
so
00:29:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
It didn't happen. ah There was.
00:29:44
RICK JAMES
Well, part of it was on sale.
00:29:45
Matty Muscles
I already filed my slip and fall loss.
00:29:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
There was
00:29:47
RICK JAMES
are
00:29:48
Matty Muscles
while
00:29:48
Matty Muscles
must
00:29:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
in the
00:29:49
RICK JAMES
The residence in.
00:29:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
there was snow in the lobby
00:29:51
RICK JAMES
the ah ah pat pat Pat got it a little bit on film right when it started and he shut it off.
00:29:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
00:29:57
RICK JAMES
So I wish he would have got it.
00:29:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, if there's no crash on film, it didn't happen. Oh, my God. All right. So, yeah, that was ah that was a good evening. And then the next morning we got up bright and early headed to check in.
00:30:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Let's start right with from check in. They had this thing nailed. Right. I mean, how was that process for everybody?
00:30:18
RICK JAMES
Great.
00:30:19
Mike ODP
Flawless.
00:30:20
Matty Muscles
Perfect.
00:30:21
Patrick Salmon
easy
00:30:21
Mike ODP
Walk up, get your badge, get a tray full of sammies right there, some yogurt parfaits, waters, head upstairs.
00:30:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Breakfast was tremendous.
00:30:27
Matty Muscles
Mikey hit the parfait hard. I saw that.
00:30:30
Mike ODP
I did, i love a good parfait in the morning.
00:30:31
Matty Muscles
Yeah. Not a parfait guy, but I respect it.
00:30:35
Mike ODP
I had to feel like I was doing something healthy after that that meal from the night before.
00:30:36
RICK JAMES
What was that?
00:30:36
RICK JAMES
I missed that.
00:30:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:30:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
there's There's a word.
00:30:40
RICK JAMES
Oh,
Event Experience and Sponsorship
00:30:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
i The Mickey D's at midnight.
00:30:41
RICK JAMES
that.
00:30:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:30:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
The midnight Mickey D's.
00:30:45
Mike ODP
Oh, no, no. I i didn't i didn't venture out to to Mickey D's. I went right to the hotel and crashed.
00:30:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, because yeah in the lobby, there was like giant bags of McDonald's at midnight. and That was not a good idea, but better than what?
00:30:56
Mike ODP
I thought I smelled fries when I was asleep.
00:30:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, better than the White Castle and at Equip.
00:31:01
RICK JAMES
Oh, i was that was garbage.
00:31:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
that Better than that idea.
00:31:02
Robert
Oh, my God. bo Those are absolutely disgusting.
00:31:03
Mike ODP
yeah
00:31:04
RICK JAMES
That was garbage. Garbage.
00:31:09
Mike ODP
I don't get the appeal.
00:31:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, it's delicious.
00:31:11
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:31:12
Mike ODP
but
00:31:13
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:31:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
but Oh, man. But a check in check in was like that was where it started.
00:31:15
RICK JAMES
the
00:31:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like the organization was incredible. ah They had you just you checked in at the desk. You went to your right, right into the breakfast line. You got your breakfast. You moved right up to, you know, eat your breakfast. They had everything. Egg sandwiches, bacon, egg and cheese, ham, egg and cheese, sausage, egg and cheese.
00:31:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
The parfaits. That's a word I never thought of here on this show. parfait let alone seven times uh but yeah they had mikey's parfaits so uh you know coffee they had everything you could want there for breakfast um and to get you ready for what was going to be a long day but an absolutely fabulous day did anybody look in the um did anybody look in the actual gift gift bag like off because i didn't look until i got home
00:31:40
RICK JAMES
ah hu
00:31:46
Matty Muscles
I
00:32:02
Mike ODP
Not until I got to the hotel.
00:32:02
RICK JAMES
Not until last night.
00:32:02
Matty Muscles
until i got home.
00:32:03
Mike ODP
No, it was unreal. Like it felt heavy when you picked it up. I'm like, Oh, I must just be the, uh, the beer muggins in there. No, there's three hats. There's three tumblers. There's two beanies.
00:32:14
Mike ODP
There's a pocket knife. There's a bunch of like little random stuff in there, like notepads and all this. Like, what do you get anywhere else?
00:32:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:32:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, I was just going to say, yeah as somebody that now does apparel and trade show materials and stuff, I can tell you that anybody complaining about the $200 ticket price, there is over $200 of stuff in that bag.
00:32:23
Mike ODP
This is like $200
00:32:25
Patrick Salmon
Okay.
00:32:36
Matty Muscles
Easily.
00:32:36
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:32:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Easily. so you're getting your money's worth. That's not even counting all the food and everything in the knowledge.
00:32:43
Mike ODP
Now, did Case sponsor those bags?
00:32:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
A lot of... ah the Case was the case was a main sponsor of the show. They they did a lot of a lot of stuff for that.
00:32:51
Mike ODP
Okay.
00:32:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah you know Gene wanted to make sure that we thanked them. We knew we were going to thank Case Construction Equipment.
00:32:57
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:32:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
they They came in huge. like They saw the event last year and And they were all in like, well, what do you need? They they brought equipment through Power Co. Power Co was huge. They brought a bunch of machines so they could put plows on the machines.
00:33:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah It was just it was a big effort. Arctic ah was was huge this year, too. They had a big hand in it. um I heard Hilltip had a big hand in it, too.
00:33:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah So, you know, we give give them to give them a shout out and say thanks to them for all they did for the show. um But yeah, I mean, case was obviously huge. They they were everywhere. their Their banners were everywhere. Their logos were everywhere. Their machines.
00:33:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Were there any other brand machines out there besides one XCMG?
00:33:40
RICK JAMES
ah There's a cat.
00:33:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
was it Was there one cat?
00:33:41
RICK JAMES
Western Lehigh had a cat.
00:33:41
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
00:33:42
Matty Muscles
Yeah, there was a cat.
00:33:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, there was one cat.
00:33:43
RICK JAMES
Western Lehigh had the cat. Yeah.
00:33:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
There might be one Bobcats kid.
00:33:44
RICK JAMES
There's a buck. Wasn't there a bobcat there? Yeah, I saw that.
00:33:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, there might be one Bobcats kid there.
00:33:47
Robert
Bobcat.
00:33:48
RICK JAMES
XCMG.
00:33:48
Matty Muscles
no Yeah, there was a there's a little, I think it was a L28 Bobcat in the XCMG.
00:33:49
RICK JAMES
XCMG. XCMG.
00:33:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:33:50
RICK JAMES
I saw.
00:33:56
Matty Muscles
We were joking about it, actually. Like, last last year, everybody was, like, flocking to the XCMG this year, or last year, and this year it was, like, tucked off in the in the corner a little bit.
00:33:57
RICK JAMES
Hey, home. Sorry.
00:34:07
Matty Muscles
was kind of...
00:34:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, because last year the price was still reasonable and a much better value.
00:34:10
Matty Muscles
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:12
RICK JAMES
Well, might be something to do with case being a sponsor to those case loaders up front.
00:34:15
Mike ODP
yeah
00:34:16
RICK JAMES
Yeah. 421. 420.
00:34:16
Matty Muscles
Yeah, that's a good I mean, I think we could have a whole episode on that 421 in and of itself, if you ask me.
00:34:16
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:34:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, there were a lot of case loaders there. That 341, 421, 421 was there.
00:34:19
RICK JAMES
Well, she got Kate. or four twenty yeah
00:34:24
Patrick Salmon
for cleanliness.
00:34:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
The new model that that that looks.
00:34:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
We could. Yeah, we definitely could do that.
00:34:33
RICK JAMES
know
00:34:34
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
00:34:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was ah it was exceptional.
00:34:34
RICK JAMES
good kid
00:34:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the first time I saw it in person.
00:34:37
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
00:34:37
RICK JAMES
And the 651 was there also the new model like last year was a new model that are you. if I can't remember it was last year or before. So that was out there. So that was nice to see you.
00:34:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:34:46
RICK JAMES
So.
00:34:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
it was ah It was awesome to see ah so much support from the manufacturers and stuff for this because it is a great event. And just the the amount of support that the the manufacturers threw their way to Storks, it just makes it easier on Storks to put on a phenomenal event.
00:35:01
Matty Muscles
Yeah, I mean, I think Case did it a fantastic job.
00:35:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:35:03
Matty Muscles
I mean, i'm I'm a cat and a Case guy, but like I said, this pre-show, I mean, I bought two three twenty ones preseason and all I got after we signed the paperwork was a hat and a t-shirt.
00:35:15
Matty Muscles
And then I show up to the Stone Alliance, you know, on a $250 ticket and I'm getting $300 worth of swag. Like, you know, they they definitely, they killed it.
00:35:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, no, they did great. And I i believe they sold machines yesterday, too. I want to say somebody bought the 321s.
00:35:30
Matty Muscles
They sold me on 2021, I'll tell you that.
00:35:31
RICK JAMES
I know some stuff for sale.
00:35:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
I want to say somebody bought the 321s.
00:35:37
RICK JAMES
Really?
00:35:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
So good for them.
00:35:38
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:35:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:35:39
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:35:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
them
00:35:39
RICK JAMES
That's cool.
00:35:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
But there was it was it me or were there more machines there this year than last year? And I thought they had a good amount last year.
00:35:45
Patrick Salmon
yes
00:35:46
Mike ODP
There was, it was double.
00:35:47
Robert
Well, there's definitely more.
00:35:47
Patrick Salmon
There was a lot more equipment there for sure.
00:35:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, this year it seemed genuinely packed, that whole area.
00:35:49
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:35:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
There was a lot less room to move around, especially under the ah the awning.
00:35:54
Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
00:35:55
Mike ODP
Yeah. think that's the one area there they're out of room at this point. They'd have to branch out into another section of the parking lot or go into the storage area where all the plows are if they could add more stuff.
00:36:06
Matty Muscles
Yeah, I think that's a good thing to, you know, to raise.
00:36:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well...
00:36:08
Matty Muscles
And I'm sure Gene's already thinking about it. But like, ultimately, like this thing is going to continue to grow. Like, I want to see it stay at their facility. And I think they have the ability to accommodate more people.
00:36:20
Matty Muscles
But as more and more vendors and manufacturers want to get involved, which they definitely should. I mean, it's an absolute no brainer. You know, how does it how does it evolve in that kind of a fashion, you know?
00:36:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think they're Mac's.
00:36:33
Mike ODP
It could be a hybrid model. They do it half at their building and half somewhere else with some more open space.
00:36:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think they're maxed. I think running it as a, a storks show where they are ah operating business that has to return to work on Monday. I think they're probably what they did this year.
00:36:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think both comfort, you know, as far as being comfortable with the number of people they're serving and and actually at their facility, I think two 70, I think was, was probably it. I don't, I don't know.
00:37:03
Matty Muscles
I felt like they they felt like they had a lot more and felt like they had a lot more room there for more people.
00:37:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know. That's just my opinion.
00:37:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I don't know. i Yeah, I mean, it it could be.
00:37:12
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
00:37:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
It could be, but I don't know if they're looking to go any bigger than that. It'd be it' be an interesting question for them.
00:37:16
RICK JAMES
that That's was going to say. I mean, that's what I think makes this show really nice. At least I think the the smaller intimate shows, you get you get more more interaction, I believe, in that setting.
00:37:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
I like the intimate.
00:37:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:37:29
RICK JAMES
But I could be wrong. All
00:37:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
i like No, I agree 100%. I like the intimate setting. I liked that i like that it's not there's no tire kickers. there's no like Everybody there is hardcore snow.
00:37:38
RICK JAMES
right.
00:37:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
They want to be there. It's April. It's not you know October going into snow season. There is literally no reason to be excited about snow in April unless you are hardcore about snow. So it's it's really cool.
00:37:50
RICK JAMES
Well, if you go to, like you just said, it's hardcore stuff. It's not like you go to like equip and all you got people just running around grabbing all the free shit, you know, walking That's all they're doing is grabbing stuff off tables.
00:37:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
00:38:02
RICK JAMES
You know, they're not really interacting with anybody, but whatever.
00:38:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%.
00:38:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
people I don't think even looked in the swag bag until they left.
00:38:06
RICK JAMES
All right. Yeah.
00:38:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
That wasn't why they were there.
00:38:10
RICK JAMES
So. Definitely. thats that's what That's what I noticed. you know that's That's what I, you know, like I said, more intimate and people are actually there to learn, actually there to talk to these vendors and see what they have to offer. So.
00:38:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Was that bottle full, Matt, when you started? um Stop encouraging him, Mike.
00:38:26
RICK JAMES
Oh, is that a premix?
00:38:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Stop encouraging him, Mikey. We got a half an hour to go here.
00:38:30
RICK JAMES
ah
00:38:30
Matty Muscles
I couldn't get any Tito's at the walking party, so I had to, you know, had to crack it.
00:38:34
RICK JAMES
What do we call it? What do we call it there? What do they call it? It wasn't Tito's. It was. ah
00:38:39
Matty Muscles
No, they had all PA stuff. It was stateside.
00:38:41
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:38:42
Matty Muscles
It was decent, but it ain't Tito's.
00:38:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah, stateside.
00:38:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was a brewery. They make their own stuff.
00:38:45
RICK JAMES
know it was It wasn't and wasn like, let's bring your own titles.
00:38:48
Matty Muscles
It was good. i mean, i you know, it still did the trick, but it wasn't Tito's.
00:38:52
Robert
you
00:38:52
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:38:52
Mike ODP
I think Pat and Mike and I wiped out the Tito's at the hotel bar last night.
00:38:57
Patrick Salmon
i Yeah, I they think we did almost two bottles.
00:38:58
RICK JAMES
Oh, really?
00:38:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Last night?
00:39:01
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:39:01
Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
00:39:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, you guys stayed up?
00:39:03
Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
00:39:04
RICK JAMES
was that Was it actually open last night?
00:39:04
Patrick Salmon
Yeah, they kicked us out.
00:39:04
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:39:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, you should have told me.
00:39:06
Mike ODP
Oh, yeah. We we kept him there.
00:39:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
and thought you guys were going right to bed.
00:39:10
Patrick Salmon
Oh, no way.
00:39:10
RICK JAMES
Oh, wow.
00:39:10
Mike ODP
You were on the injury you're on the injury list.
00:39:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
I was just literally going up to put the flip-flops on. That was it. I would have come back down if I knew you guys. I thought you guys were going to bed because you had the early flight.
00:39:19
Mike ODP
Oh, dude, I'm sorry.
00:39:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, it's all good.
00:39:20
Matty Muscles
Steve, you call them flip flops, not house slippers?
00:39:21
Mike ODP
would have drowned your pain.
00:39:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think I i was asleep in like seven seven minutes.
00:39:25
RICK JAMES
I was slippers.
00:39:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
so
00:39:26
Matty Muscles
Steve had his house slippers
00:39:28
RICK JAMES
but
00:39:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
The Adidas? Dude, if I could get away with wearing the Adidas flip-flops to the event, I would have.
00:39:30
Patrick Salmon
In
00:39:30
Mike ODP
is nike s slide
00:39:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
I absolutely would have. I love those things. I live for those things. They're great.
00:39:39
RICK JAMES
ah
00:39:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
I even wear them at work. Great. No steel toes for me. Don't tell OSHA.
00:39:44
Patrick Salmon
and the group gallery.
00:39:46
Matty Muscles
Let's me know how much work you're doing if you're wearing fucking flip flops.
00:39:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
00:39:47
RICK JAMES
it groups Yeah, it's for the group group shower.
00:39:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
In the group showers. Trust me. You always wear flip-flops.
00:39:51
RICK JAMES
Whoopsie-daisy.
00:39:51
Matty Muscles
from shower.
00:39:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
You always wear flip-flops in the showers.
00:39:53
RICK JAMES
left
00:39:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right.
00:39:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah, with your powdered soap.
00:39:59
Robert
Especially if you have to share a room with a baby walrus.
00:40:03
Mike ODP
Ha ha ha ha.
00:40:06
Robert
You have no idea how long he goes into that bathroom and what he does.
00:40:12
RICK JAMES
I know Steve said when was on um Saturday morning, he's i could hear I could hear him across the hall snoring.
00:40:18
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
00:40:21
Matty Muscles
Ha ha ha.
00:40:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, he didn't he didn't wake me up, but I got up to to use the bathroom like 3.30, and I could hear him, and he's across the hallway.
00:40:22
Matty Muscles
ah
00:40:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I'm like, there's no way that's Sean. That's got to be somebody above me or in the next room ah you know behind Sharon the wall. And I'm like, nope, it's coming from the door. So I literally walked to the door. I opened it, and I could hear it through through Robert and Sean's door across the hall. i'm like, my God, Robert, how are you doing it, dude? yeah
00:40:49
RICK JAMES
ah
00:40:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
God bless you.
00:40:50
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
00:40:51
RICK JAMES
He's got his earbuds in.
00:40:52
Robert
That's why I always go to bed before everybody else. is i'm like I have to be sleeping. i will never sleep.
00:40:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
I will say this, though. It was a little rare because normally we Airbnb it. We all stay in the same house. It was weird not having that air conditioner type noise of Sean snoring, like like being in completely quiet room.
00:41:08
Robert
Yeah.
00:41:11
Mike ODP
The white noise of Sean.
00:41:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
like
00:41:12
Mike ODP
Sean.
00:41:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
i had to keep the TV on all night long just to simulate the noise.
00:41:13
Robert
yeah
00:41:13
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:41:16
RICK JAMES
oh
00:41:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
it was funny.
00:41:17
Matty Muscles
Steve, throwback to the the first our first get together up at the lake and we were all upstairs like sleeping on the, on the you know, in the big room.
00:41:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yep.
00:41:26
Matty Muscles
Like i I didn't get a wink of sleep. I'm like, the this is absurd.
00:41:31
Robert
but
00:41:32
Matty Muscles
And he wasn't even, it was just like, um I'm lying there twiddling my thumbs looking at the ceiling.
00:41:32
RICK JAMES
Oh,
00:41:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:41:38
Matty Muscles
I'm like, are these guys, and then yeah are these guys alive?
00:41:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
a
00:41:42
Matty Muscles
Clearly, but like,
00:41:42
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:41:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
And you didn't like throw anything at him.
00:41:46
RICK JAMES
so
00:41:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
You guys had all just met.
00:41:47
Mike ODP
wouldn't even move.
00:41:48
Matty Muscles
It wouldn't matter. It wouldn't matter.
00:41:49
RICK JAMES
go ah
00:41:52
Matty Muscles
maybe maybe Maybe, you know, go go you know throw a pillow over his face and put some pressure on it, but...
00:41:52
Mike ODP
it wouldn't even move
00:41:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
um
00:41:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Dude, i listen, man. He's amazing. I love him to death. But you heard you all heard the coming home from Equip two years ago. That that of me recording him snoring in the car.
00:42:05
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah.
00:42:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, my God.
00:42:09
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:42:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
I thought I was hitting rumble strips. The car was shaking because of his snoring.
00:42:13
RICK JAMES
Yeah. He was, then he moved the chip bag across the dash from him.
00:42:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
was crazy. you He did.
00:42:18
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:42:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
He did when he inhaled the chip bag. It was an empty.
00:42:22
RICK JAMES
right
00:42:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
To be fair, it was an empty bag.
00:42:23
RICK JAMES
yeah You were, you were, you were FaceTiming me.
00:42:26
Mike ODP
Thank you.
00:42:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
just ah Yeah, to be fair, was an empty, empty.
00:42:27
RICK JAMES
Awesome. We were driving back and we were really going, what the fuck is going on? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we love you. We love you, Sean.
00:42:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
We do.
00:42:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
but so
00:42:39
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:42:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh my God.
00:42:41
RICK JAMES
oh
00:42:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
But let's get back on track here. So what did everybody do for the morning session? We had two morning, uh, like seminar table or panel discussion sessions. Uh, what everybody do for the first one, which was, I believe a lease versus buy equipment.
00:42:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
And then was it retention of, uh, culture retention, culture contracts.
00:42:59
RICK JAMES
Michael.
00:43:01
Mike ODP
Contracts.
00:43:01
Patrick Salmon
estimating estimating pricing contracts yeah which uh i attended the estimating pricing contracts that was good those are always you know good good events like you said i think
00:43:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's what it was. Okay. All right.
00:43:04
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:43:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Who did what?
00:43:08
Mike ODP
and
00:43:16
Patrick Salmon
I go to a lot of these shows just for the networking, as we discussed, but you you always pick something up that somebody's doing a little bit differently, whether they're doing, you know, couple hundred square feet 500 million square feet plus.
00:43:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
yep
00:43:31
Patrick Salmon
um You always, you just always find a different way to look at things that everybody's doing and learn something and bounce some ideas off of people and ask a bunch of questions from guys who've been doing a lot longer than you have.
00:43:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
What else? Anybody else do anything different? I know me and Jeremy were in ah we were in the equipment leasing versus buying. That was really good.
00:43:53
Matty Muscles
Yeah, I did that too.
00:43:54
RICK JAMES
That was good. Yeah.
00:43:54
Matty Muscles
That was good.
00:43:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, Maddie, you were in there too?
00:43:55
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:43:56
Matty Muscles
Yep.
00:43:57
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:43:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's right, you were.
00:43:59
RICK JAMES
Front row getting picked on getting picked on.
00:44:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
You nerds were in the front row. Yeah, nerds.
00:44:02
Matty Muscles
Well, listen, like you can not, i like I, I was always a back row guy and, uh, you know, growing up in high school and in college, but like, you're, you're going to be more engaged, like, you know, value your time, um, go to the front row.
00:44:16
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:44:16
Matty Muscles
and And honestly, I say that, like I did that for the first for the first session and for the second session, I went like middle and I'm like, oh, man, like can't hear as well.
00:44:17
RICK JAMES
I agree.
00:44:25
Matty Muscles
And like, I'm not as engaged. Like I got this fidget spinner from Plattery Marking Stakes and I can't keep my hands off of it. And it's, you know, drawing my attention elsewhere.
00:44:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that was a bad idea.
00:44:32
RICK JAMES
that
00:44:34
Matty Muscles
and But no, seriously, like, it you know, sit as close as you can, because God damn it, you're going to learn something.
00:44:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
those fidget spinners were hitting the floor all day, all over the place.
00:44:41
Mike ODP
Yep.
00:44:41
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:44:45
RICK JAMES
Maddie still got his. would...
00:44:46
Matty Muscles
you
00:44:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Way to go, McIntosh.
00:44:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:44:49
RICK JAMES
i would i would ah
00:44:50
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
00:44:51
RICK JAMES
I guess the suggestion be, and don't know if they could ever do it, but since, you know, they always got these classical at the same time, if maybe they could record them. So, you know, because there's probably, you know, like I would have liked to have a couple at one time.
00:45:03
RICK JAMES
i dont know i know you just got to pick one, but maybe if some reason they could just record them or something and the guy could like, you know, sit down and watch it or something on the way home or, you know, something to think about.
00:45:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
true
00:45:12
Mike ODP
That's a good point, but they they recorded certain panels and they were recording you guys when you were doing your live segments. So where when is that going to play or is that just...
00:45:21
RICK JAMES
Oh, they did? i didn't know they did that.
00:45:22
Mike ODP
Yeah, yeah there
00:45:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes. do you don't The giant brights bright as the sun light in our face when we were doing the...
00:45:28
Mike ODP
yeah
00:45:28
RICK JAMES
That was Todd Dicker.
00:45:28
Mike ODP
the 12 by 12 LED brick.
00:45:29
Matty Muscles
That was Todd Dickerson's job.
00:45:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was Todd's guy.
00:45:30
RICK JAMES
that that was that was That was Todd's guy. todd top dog's guy.
00:45:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was Todd Dickerson, top dog.
00:45:33
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
00:45:34
Mike ODP
Okay.
00:45:34
RICK JAMES
yeah that that was top dogs guys so
00:45:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't remember signing a permission slip or anything or a waiver.
00:45:37
RICK JAMES
so
00:45:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay. The video.
00:45:42
Matty Muscles
Well, clearly nobody did your makeup for it either, so...
00:45:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no, God, no, no, God, no.
00:45:45
RICK JAMES
i so and and we I don't even think we need video just even just audio just you know just I don't know
00:45:53
Matty Muscles
that I mean, that was something that came up out during the Simon review too. um just
00:45:57
RICK JAMES
yep
00:45:58
Mike ODP
You're right, yeah.
00:45:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, yeah, but we know why they ain't going to do that.
00:45:59
Matty Muscles
you know Well, yeah, I get that. But like here's the thing.
00:46:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
What?
00:46:02
Matty Muscles
like If we're trying to really more or less recreate the wheel here, like let's do it a little bit differently. So I think Jeremy brings a good point to... you know
00:46:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
So with your attendance, with your with your entry fee, if you bought a ticket, basically have a place where they can you can actually download the video of the other session that you missed while the one you were in was going on.
00:46:15
Matty Muscles
Yes.
00:46:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
I like that.
00:46:25
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
00:46:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's probably doable somehow.
00:46:26
RICK JAMES
I mean, I don't it's possible.
00:46:27
Patrick Salmon
Okay.
00:46:28
Robert
Yeah.
00:46:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think it is. i don't i don't think it's...
00:46:29
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Just, I mean, I know there'll be more.
00:46:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
don't know. We'll have to explore that for him.
00:46:34
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:46:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
it's worth It's worth looking into. I mean, I don't think there's much they can improve on. So, I mean, any little i mean little thing. I mean, they they pretty much nailed everything. Like, I don't know what they could actually do to make that any go any better, any smoother.
00:46:45
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:46:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, they had everything organized. You know, again, ahead.
00:46:52
RICK JAMES
so probably just probably just maybe a few mics or something. So, cause I know like some of the guys can hear in the back. I'm not, I'm not talking about our event. I'm talking about like some of the panels and stuff where the bigger rooms, it was harder, harder hear in the back, but they were saying maybe, maybe just, i don't know.
00:47:02
Mike ODP
Yeah. It was hard in the rink. The rink was tough.
00:47:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Well, the rink, yeah, I mean, it's a roller.
00:47:08
RICK JAMES
Yeah. But that's, yeah.
00:47:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's an old roller rink. It's not meant for acoustics.
00:47:12
RICK JAMES
but But even, even the, even the other, even the other, i can't remember the main room there, but but you know, it was still.
00:47:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, it's all steel.
00:47:15
Matty Muscles
In the main room. Yeah. In the main room. That was. Yeah.
00:47:19
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
00:47:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Really?
00:47:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:47:20
Matty Muscles
that was one That was one of my suggestions or that I put into the survey.
00:47:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:47:24
Matty Muscles
I thought the survey was fantastic, um but I was sitting i was sitting midway midway back for the second session and that was immediately noticeable.
00:47:26
RICK JAMES
I forgot to fill it out.
00:47:35
Matty Muscles
like And I said, like um because you have to understand, like people some of the panels or people on the panels, aren't we're not used to we're most of us aren't used to public speaking, right?
00:47:47
Matty Muscles
So, um
00:47:49
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:47:49
Matty Muscles
To project your voice and get it out there, i felt like audio systems would have been very beneficial to ah being able to project into the back of the room. Because again, some people aren't you know aren't don't want to sit in the front like you know and that's fine, but like you want to be able to hear and and value your time the right way.
00:47:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nice.
00:48:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. I like to sit in the back so I can see all the neck rubbing going on in front of me.
00:48:11
Mike ODP
it.
00:48:16
Patrick Salmon
have five minutes.
00:48:16
RICK JAMES
I got a nice one.
00:48:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh...
00:48:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh
00:48:19
RICK JAMES
Matty Muscles.
00:48:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:48:21
Matty Muscles
I got those big, strong hands, buddy.
00:48:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:48:22
RICK JAMES
Big, strong hands.
00:48:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah You guys are funny.
00:48:24
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:48:25
Matty Muscles
but
00:48:25
RICK JAMES
ah
00:48:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, my God. Yeah, it was ah it was really good. The morning session we were in was lease versus buy equipment, like we said, and that had Castle Rocks was on the panel, a guy from Foley Cat, and Lucas Strait from Arctic on from Dinesh leasing there.
00:48:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
um I thought that was, I mean, they covered everything. I think it did.
00:48:48
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:48:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
It gave you all your options and basically left it up to you to decide what was going to work best for your cash flow, what you know your company structure and your business. But yeah, that I think that was definitely worth going to.
00:49:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah did We didn't do the second one. We were getting ready, so we didn't do the second one.
00:49:07
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Michael was, Mike was, Mike was on the panel and Anthony Mann and and that like Bob Marks, right?
00:49:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
We missed Mike.
00:49:12
RICK JAMES
Bob Marks, you three were on that one.
00:49:13
Mike ODP
Yep, I was on there.
00:49:14
RICK JAMES
So, yeah.
00:49:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
How did that go, Mike?
00:49:16
Mike ODP
It was great. it was it was good questions from the audience from that sent them in through the QR code system. I didn't realize it was going to be like half and half between vendors for dealers and materials and all that. So I kind of had to pivot a little bit because I did it previously with ODP years ago, but I haven't done it much now. I know the players, I know how it all works, but I just kind of spoke to what I know and Anthony, he did about the same and know, we had some great vendor partner feedback from, I had one of my vendor partners, Front Row, that services a few of our accounts for us.
00:49:52
Mike ODP
So it was nice to have him there to give me a gut check. Like Nate Stiller from Stiller Snow and Ice Management.
00:49:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Who's that?
00:49:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay, I met them.
00:50:00
Mike ODP
Yeah, no, he's awesome.
00:50:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good dude.
00:50:01
Mike ODP
as His guys do a great job for us, honestly.
00:50:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:50:04
Mike ODP
Great, solid team.
00:50:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
i was trying to take them.
00:50:06
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:50:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're like, can we have a hat? i'm like, you can have 10 hats. They're all here.
00:50:10
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:50:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Take them. like Don't be bashful. Take as much as you want.
00:50:13
Mike ODP
I felt bad. I was picking on him a lot down there because I was just trying to make it like it. Come on, keep me honest here. Like, it is this how it actually is And he played off it well. So it was good. We enjoyed it.
00:50:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
good that's great i'm glad it went well i heard it was good we didn't make it uh what else what everybody else do for the second session was everybody in mike and anthony's thing or somebody do anything different
00:50:25
RICK JAMES
Good.
00:50:30
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:50:36
Matty Muscles
I was in the family.
00:50:36
Patrick Salmon
I did the family, ah ah go ahead, Matt.
00:50:38
Matty Muscles
Yeah, go ahead, Pat. No, you go.
00:50:42
Patrick Salmon
Yeah, I did the family business partnership. I think Matt brought up a good point earlier, which i i also sent into the the the survey there. I was in the middle.
00:50:53
Patrick Salmon
um I honestly, I got a few things out of it, but I couldn't hear i put't hear most of that that panel. They were just very, very soft spoken people, um unfortunately.
00:51:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha.
00:51:04
Patrick Salmon
And like I said, it's nothing they did on um purpose or anything. Like Matt said, lot of those people, I don't think they do a lot of public speaking all the time, so they don't realize how quiet they're being. So definitely got some good points out of it, but but yeah, microphones would be beneficial in the future or recording it to listen to later.
00:51:21
Robert
Thank you.
00:51:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool.
00:51:25
Matty Muscles
Yeah, I think that um for being in that, um I'm hoping Pat provide a little bit more feedback too in this light. Number one, Jordan moderated that. He did a fantastic job.
00:51:38
Matty Muscles
um I was kind of on the fence as to where I was going to go for session two, but i you know being a family business and and a family partnership, I wanted to ah to to see how that turned out. Yeah.
00:51:52
Matty Muscles
Sometimes that I think you have to go into it with an expectation and understand that it's you have no idea what's going to happen. So it didn't necessarily fall into what I was expecting to hear about.
00:52:06
Matty Muscles
um I think the content was good. the um I think that that session alone could have ah could have gone for double the time based off of some of the things that we were ah starting to get into, um which was great.
00:52:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm.
00:52:22
Matty Muscles
But let's be real, like a lot of a lot of this industry is based off of family businesses and partnerships. So um I think that that would be an area... Hopefully that comes, uh, maybe is even introduced as another, uh, another panel for next year, because I think that there was a lot there that could be, um, grown upon. So the Burns, uh, they did a fantastic job.
00:52:51
Matty Muscles
All the panelists did a fantastic job in that, um, But I think that there's a lot more there that we could really dive into. There's, you know, in and I would have sat there for double the time um to really, you know, get that much more out of it.
00:53:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Honestly, you could probably do a whole day seminar on just that.
00:53:11
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
00:53:11
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:53:12
Patrick Salmon
hundred percent
00:53:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
and Really could break it down into like four different sessions of like four different areas of that same discussion.
00:53:18
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
00:53:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
You could do that.
00:53:20
Matty Muscles
And I apologize.
00:53:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm cool.
00:53:20
Matty Muscles
Like I know, obviously, a lot of people are going to be listening to this. I can't remember the names of the the brothers that were on the panel who I actually um related to a little bit more.
00:53:31
Matty Muscles
um But I connected with both of those, you know, ah both sets of the panelists very, very, very well. um So I thought it was very well done. And yeah, Jordan, obviously, like he he he did a fantastic job as always with it, too.
00:53:46
Mike ODP
No rollerblades this year.
00:53:48
Matty Muscles
No, I know.
00:53:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
00:53:49
Mike ODP
What the fuck?
00:53:49
RICK JAMES
Anything else that, Pat?
00:53:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
00:53:52
RICK JAMES
Very,
00:53:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah He was very professional this year. Very... The top button was buttoned this year. There was no letting this hair let his hair down this year.
00:53:59
RICK JAMES
no.
00:54:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man.
00:54:04
RICK JAMES
anything else anything else on that
00:54:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mac, kudos. Kudos.
00:54:07
RICK JAMES
very
00:54:08
Patrick Salmon
yeah i think you can.
00:54:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, I was just saying kudos kudos to Matt for keeping a straight face.
00:54:09
Patrick Salmon
you can
00:54:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Here I am trying to distract you the whole time, make you laugh while you're in that whole speech. Couldn't do it. Good for you.
00:54:18
Matty Muscles
yeah I can't. I don't look at you, Stephen. I'm sorry.
00:54:23
RICK JAMES
Go ahead, Pat.
00:54:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
What do you got, Patty? Go ahead, Patty.
00:54:27
Patrick Salmon
I just saying, yeah, you could definitely make that that panel a lot longer. There's just so many topics to touch on in there.
00:54:31
Mike ODP
Thank you.
00:54:33
Patrick Salmon
you know I think a lot of it was spent, all right, hey, what's everybody's expectations going into this? You got to figure out at the beginning, hey, what are the roles going to be? what What does everybody bring to the table in everything so that it makes things a lot lot easier lot easier down the road if if something something does happen that was that was a topic of a lot of the conversation so but you could definitely make that a lot longer you
00:55:04
RICK JAMES
Great.
00:55:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool.
00:55:07
RICK JAMES
Would you, Robert, what you did you do anything on the second one, or Robert?
00:55:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Noted.
00:55:11
Robert
Yeah, I was in mics on the second one.
00:55:14
RICK JAMES
Gotcha.
00:55:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
How did he do? Do
00:55:15
Robert
You did excellent.
00:55:18
RICK JAMES
Nice.
00:55:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
00:55:19
Mike ODP
That one was fun for me. I enjoyed doing that one.
00:55:22
Robert
No, but I wanted to say something on the first one, the first panel of the day that was the contract structures and the lengths and everything else. I feel like that's a conversation that really needs to happen a lot more.
00:55:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
do
00:55:34
Robert
um especially Castle Rocks when he was talking about a lot of his structures of his contracts, um you know, all the all the different types of verbiage and and everything else. I just and just feel like overall, I feel like that needs to be improved in the industry completely.
00:55:52
Robert
um And I felt like that was also one that I felt like they could have talked all day and never really touched the surface of everything.
00:55:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's another one you could do a whole day seminar on.
00:56:00
Mike ODP
yeah
00:56:02
RICK JAMES
I think I heard a couple of times people were saying they want to get us have us have some guys on sales guys on here and maybe kind of go over some sales structure, how they do stuff.
00:56:02
Robert
For sure.
00:56:13
RICK JAMES
And yeah, we can we can definitely look into that if guys want to reach out and ah want to come on for that. be I think that'd be a couple of good shows, talk about more about the sales end of ah of selling your snow, you you know selling your service.
00:56:26
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:56:26
Matty Muscles
I think that would be a great idea.
00:56:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yep.
00:56:29
Mike ODP
Yeah, definitely.
00:56:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
10, four. oh
00:56:32
Patrick Salmon
What are all your guys' opinions?
00:56:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good.
00:56:33
Patrick Salmon
Would you rather go to, you know, all right, hey, we'll do this session for an hour, then you can do this session for an hour, then do this session for an hour with multiple different things? Or would you rather sit in on one deep dive into a particular um
Panel Discussions and Feedback
00:56:48
Patrick Salmon
topic?
00:56:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think an hour in, in everything snow, I think an hour is tough to cover anything adequately. I think, you know,
00:56:55
Patrick Salmon
But most of those sessions were about an hour, right?
00:56:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:56:57
Patrick Salmon
Or hour and a half.
00:56:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:56:58
Matty Muscles
No one has.
00:56:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think, I think what you could do if you really wanted to deep dive something, I think the best way would probably be to pick two topics you want to deep dive on and make them each like three hours and have, have time for a 15 minute break.
00:57:10
Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
00:57:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
So guys don't get tired. You know, guys can get up, get some coffee, get some snacks, whatever. Uh, but if I'm, I'm saying if you want to deep dive and actually bring tangible stuff out of it that you can use and ask enough questions so that it suits individuals in the room, uh,
00:57:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't think you can really snow's complicated for what on the paper side, you know, i mean, it's, it's less complicated on the pushing side, but on the organization's topics they were tackling, I think it's tough to adequately cover anything in an hour.
00:57:36
Mike ODP
yeah
00:57:43
Patrick Salmon
Yeah, I agree.
00:57:43
RICK JAMES
I, I definitely, I agree with that as well. you know, our, our, you probably want more time, but I'm not sure like that. You probably, you know, you're just trying to touch the surface more or less just get the conversation going so guys can continue to after it.
00:57:56
RICK JAMES
I mean, i don't know if you're going to get guys sitting in a room for three hours, but maybe you are, but um I just, maybe just that hour is fine, but it just, I think it starts more conversations after the fact or, or, or we can go on to something else, you know, that's,
00:58:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. 100%.
00:58:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
under percent
00:58:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm not saying for that event. I'm saying if you wanted to do something like that event is perfect the way it is.
00:58:12
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:58:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think like if you wanted to do something where, you know, like Matt said, we got to we got to have a lot more control. Robert said a lot more on contract structures like that could be if you wanted to do a seminar, you could do it on just that and break it up into two, three hour blocks and have people come for that.
00:58:25
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
00:58:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
But I think as far as this event goes, the structure is perfect the way it is. Don't change a thing. um because that's not what it's, you know, like you said, it's it's there to give you a taste of everything. It's not, you know, there to give you the main course really.
00:58:44
Matty Muscles
I thought that changing to the panel conversation, the the panel format that they did this year, I thought that was fantastic.
00:58:53
Mike ODP
Yeah, it's good to get multiple perspectives on that one topic.
00:58:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
What do you mean? oh Oh, instead of one, yeah, instead of one seminar type thing with one person.
00:58:57
Matty Muscles
Yeah, I felt like it and it brought a lot of more audience interaction, ah you know, to the plate, which was which was really great.
00:58:58
Mike ODP
Yeah.
00:58:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah, that was, that was very good.
00:59:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:59:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, you get different.
00:59:08
RICK JAMES
QR.
00:59:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Go ahead, Jay.
00:59:11
RICK JAMES
I just say the QR code for guys that they want to stand up and say, ah you know, send in questions.
00:59:13
Robert
Thank you.
00:59:15
RICK JAMES
i think that was really cool. So.
00:59:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yeah. I think the, having, having like a panel versus one speaker, you're getting multiple points of view that, you know, if you don't identify with one guy, if there's three guys up there, you got a 33% chance of identifying with one of them and maybe getting a question out of it.
00:59:32
Mike ODP
Damn Okay.
00:59:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
um So I like that too. And it takes a lot of the heat off the guy doing it. If it's, you know, you have time to collect your thoughts, you have time to think about, oh, you know, I should have made that point, but you have that time because two other people are talking.
00:59:39
RICK JAMES
but
00:59:45
Patrick Salmon
I'm
00:59:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
So you can do that.
00:59:47
RICK JAMES
They can feed off each other.
00:59:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
00:59:49
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:59:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, I think they nailed it. the The seminars were great. The way they had them structured. I think they covered that. Anything else before we get to lunch?
01:00:00
RICK JAMES
no
01:00:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. How was the food at lunch? We didn't get any. How was it?
01:00:03
Matty Muscles
Terrible.
01:00:04
Mike ODP
I was
01:00:04
Patrick Salmon
thinking Sean was in front you.
01:00:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
I heard it was freaking awesome. So don't lie.
01:00:06
Matty Muscles
It was amazing.
01:00:07
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I heard it was i heard it wasn't great.
01:00:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was. I heard.
01:00:08
Mike ODP
was, it was incredible. It was unbelievable.
01:00:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
I heard, you know, the brisket,
01:00:11
RICK JAMES
i heard it I heard it was really good.
01:00:12
Mike ODP
The best barbecue I've had in a long time.
01:00:13
RICK JAMES
They have brisket? I heard... i heard
01:00:14
Matty Muscles
They had brisket and I had two plates full.
01:00:15
RICK JAMES
i Oh, man.
01:00:18
Matty Muscles
It was so good.
01:00:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, ah that's Sean.
01:00:20
RICK JAMES
Damn.
01:00:20
Patrick Salmon
It was amazing.
01:00:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sean said the brisket was better than Mission Barbecue, which is tough to do. So he said it was better.
01:00:25
RICK JAMES
Wow.
01:00:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that go.
01:00:27
RICK JAMES
Well, I snooze, I lose.
01:00:28
Robert
You should know had about four plates.
01:00:29
Matty Muscles
Yeah, no, the...
01:00:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
and
01:00:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sean?
01:00:31
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:00:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, I mean, he had to be sure.
01:00:33
Patrick Salmon
yeah
01:00:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
He had to be sure it was better than Mission Barbecue. Yeah. ah they said it They said lunch was outstanding, so good for them, man. That's great. ah
Trade Show Highlights
01:00:44
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:00:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
What else?
01:00:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah So the afternoon was trade show.
01:00:46
RICK JAMES
trade show
01:00:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
What would everybody think about that? I never even made it inside. Was it the same boots as last year in the building?
01:00:51
Patrick Salmon
Thank
01:00:54
Mike ODP
I think it was about the same, yeah.
01:00:54
RICK JAMES
no they had more boots they had a few more yeah i thought they had a few more didn't they it seemed like they did i don't know because think last year didn't they just have i don't know but it was yeah right so i think they had a few more then
01:00:56
Mike ODP
Was it?
01:00:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
You did it? Yeah.
01:01:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think it was just the outer ring last year.
01:01:05
Mike ODP
No, Jeremy, you're right.
01:01:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:01:06
Mike ODP
They didn't have the middle. They had everybody on the perimeter.
01:01:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it was the outer ring last year only.
01:01:11
RICK JAMES
And I talked to a few, I didn't get around to everybody.
01:01:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool.
01:01:13
RICK JAMES
I talked to, you know, the guys that I normally talk to and they said it was good and it it was good to touch base with everybody. And and so View Robotics, they were great.
01:01:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
What view was there?
01:01:23
RICK JAMES
They got some new stuff coming out.
01:01:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
I saw Chris, right?
01:01:25
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:01:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Was Pat there?
01:01:27
Robert
Yeah.
01:01:28
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:01:28
Robert
Yeah, they were both.
01:01:28
RICK JAMES
Yeah. They both are there.
01:01:29
Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
01:01:30
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:01:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
and and i never i never saw Pat at all.
01:01:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Never saw him at all.
01:01:33
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:01:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
um Was Winter Equipment there?
01:01:37
Robert
No.
01:01:37
Mike ODP
They a ah stand.
01:01:37
RICK JAMES
No.
01:01:38
Patrick Salmon
and don't think so
01:01:39
RICK JAMES
I think I think it's a display case.
01:01:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think that's because he's a dealer.
01:01:41
RICK JAMES
That's yeah, i think that was just just play deal there.
01:01:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:01:44
RICK JAMES
So.
01:01:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Winter, you really need to be at this next year. Like, so if you're listening, Ron, yeah.
01:01:47
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:01:49
Matty Muscles
Well, and why aren't they? I mean, they come to SNS.
01:01:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know.
01:01:53
Matty Muscles
Like, what the hell?
01:01:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, they did.
01:01:53
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
01:01:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
They didn't last year. They did the year before, but last year they didn't.
01:01:56
Matty Muscles
Yeah. Yo, so for for guys who for guys who are, like, heavy on print media, which, like, shouldn't even exist anymore, like, yeah they they should definitely, like, hop on board with that.
01:01:58
Mike ODP
Maybe it's maybe it's staffing.
01:01:58
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
01:02:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
You would think. ah So, yeah, I mean, this is definitely for all the vendors and manufacturers listening.
01:02:08
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:02:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, this is definitely an event. If you weren't at this one or last year and you don't know, this is definitely something you want to get involved in.
01:02:19
Mike ODP
Make fidget spinners great again.
01:02:20
RICK JAMES
Paul, right?
01:02:21
Matty Muscles
Big fidget spinners.
01:02:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no fidget split.
01:02:22
RICK JAMES
for
01:02:22
Mike ODP
Okay.
01:02:24
RICK JAMES
More fidget.
01:02:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Man.
01:02:24
Matty Muscles
Haley, big shout out to Haley with Plowright marking stakes because I can't put this thing down.
01:02:25
Patrick Salmon
Best marketing tool ever.
01:02:25
RICK JAMES
Paul.
01:02:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Those things, they were flying everywhere. That was all the...
01:02:33
RICK JAMES
Oh, she ah yeah. You're a professional at it.
01:02:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
like what kept What keeps hitting the floor all over the place? And it was those fidget spinners. Guys trying ah trying to figure them out.
01:02:43
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
01:02:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:02:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, Jesus.
01:02:46
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it it looked like, a I mean, they had this good stuff inside. They had a ton of stuff outside to talk, to go around and look at, too. I mean, Snow Power is there.
01:02:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
ye
01:02:56
RICK JAMES
Arctic, they get rentals. I mean, I don't know. i don that I mean, Western was there.
01:03:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cage was there.
01:03:03
RICK JAMES
Protech.
01:03:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Protech was there. You had... What else? You had JTC articulated with the egg homes and the, um, uh, the altos.
01:03:11
RICK JAMES
Yep. Venture.
01:03:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think he had, I think he had an altos there.
01:03:14
RICK JAMES
Oh.
01:03:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
There was a vent track guy there.
01:03:15
Patrick Salmon
Yep.
01:03:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't remember what dealer name that was.
01:03:19
Matty Muscles
AIG Safety was there, saw them.
01:03:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, that might've been, who was it?
01:03:22
Matty Muscles
AIG Safety, I'm pretty sure.
01:03:24
Matty Muscles
They had the truck out underneath, the lights on.
01:03:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
01:03:24
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah, that light.
01:03:25
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:03:26
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:03:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:03:27
Mike ODP
He's got, he's got some cool stuff, man.
01:03:29
RICK JAMES
Yeah, i i gra I grabbed this card.
01:03:29
Matty Muscles
Yeah, for sure.
01:03:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:03:30
Mike ODP
It is super affordable, super cheap.
01:03:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's pretty cool.
01:03:31
RICK JAMES
I grabbed this card.
01:03:33
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
01:03:35
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:03:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy wants the ah the arrows, the the the hidden arrow signs in the back of the truck.
01:03:38
RICK JAMES
No, I don't need those, but you never know what I'll get, so.
01:03:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, yeah. he was You never know.
01:03:43
Matty Muscles
The doctor was there. I talked with him for a bit.
01:03:45
RICK JAMES
The doctor, oh, yeah.
01:03:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
The
01:03:46
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:03:46
Matty Muscles
I freaking love it.
01:03:47
RICK JAMES
He was, he was, he,
01:03:47
Patrick Salmon
not
01:03:47
Matty Muscles
I love it. Yeah, the doctor was there. a I told him straight up.
01:03:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good for him.
01:03:51
Matty Muscles
I'm like, listen, like Steve can give you all the shit he wants, but like you perform for me, buddy. I appreciate you. And he was like, what you're a good guy. I said, yeah, I am.
01:04:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh we weren't giving him shit.
01:04:03
Matty Muscles
No, but you know let's be honest. you know like
01:04:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
We were being honest.
01:04:07
Matty Muscles
Well, and um and I told him flat out, I'm being honest.
01:04:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's not shit. We're just.
01:04:11
Matty Muscles
like You did good for me. I appreciate you.
01:04:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
You are in a better zip code.
01:04:16
Matty Muscles
Well,
01:04:17
Robert
Yeah. yeah
01:04:18
Matty Muscles
Maybe you should move.
01:04:18
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:04:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah But no hats off though.
01:04:20
RICK JAMES
yes
01:04:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
what What'd you say?
01:04:22
Matty Muscles
Maybe you should move.
01:04:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
i would love to, dude. I would love, you know, I'd love to be North.
01:04:27
Matty Muscles
yeah I'd love to be south.
01:04:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
God.
01:04:28
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:04:29
Matty Muscles
I'd be like being in a Texas zip code. That's where I would be.
01:04:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no.
01:04:31
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:04:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'd be in the Adirondacks all day long.
01:04:34
Matty Muscles
I know it.
01:04:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was a guy that i I meant to talk
Future Event Evolution
01:04:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
to yesterday, and I i saw him like twice, and like, I got to talk to that guy because he's from Chestertown.
01:04:42
Matty Muscles
Chestertown, yeah.
01:04:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Yeah, Adirondack Customs.
01:04:44
Matty Muscles
can't remember. Yeah, i feel terrible because like you remember I can't remember his name.
01:04:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Kevin?
01:04:49
Matty Muscles
I talked to him.
01:04:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Kevin.
01:04:49
Matty Muscles
Seemed like a really great guy. And he's not terribly far away from us. But yeah, definitely it was great to make that connection. so
01:04:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, i wanted to talk to him because he's from Chestertown, and yeah i got the the place in Thai, and I wanted to talk to him about what they actually do and don't do if we ever need anybody up there. That would be a go-to guy.
01:05:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
What you got, Jay?
01:05:12
RICK JAMES
Let's get back to the weather, man.
01:05:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, the doctor?
01:05:14
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:05:15
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, yeah, you know, the the weatherman?
01:05:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's...
01:05:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
See, now you talk about embracing.
01:05:24
RICK JAMES
okay
01:05:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, whether the weathermen can say whatever they want, but they love that we're talking about them.
01:05:26
RICK JAMES
Oh.
01:05:31
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:05:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
They love that we're including them.
01:05:34
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
01:05:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
that
01:05:35
RICK JAMES
We had, we had, mean,
01:05:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
everybody knows Everybody knows them, right?
01:05:38
RICK JAMES
He has white coat on. Did you see that he had a stethoscope?
01:05:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, that was awesome.
01:05:40
Matty Muscles
He had a stethoscope and everything.
01:05:42
RICK JAMES
He even had his name like like a doctor.
01:05:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was the...
01:05:45
RICK JAMES
I mean, well, he is a doctor, obviously. no i mean But we, you know, our nurse practitioner, Nick, he he was a little upset.
01:05:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude...
01:05:50
RICK JAMES
I mean.
01:05:52
Mike ODP
yeah
01:05:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, I thought that was the greatest thing ever when he walked in in the doctor coat with the stethoscope and had Dr.
01:05:58
RICK JAMES
Oh.
01:05:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Shannon and True Weather embroidered on the doctor coat.
01:06:01
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:06:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was just, I mean, I know.
01:06:02
Mike ODP
yep
01:06:03
RICK JAMES
And it was on his name tag, the doctor, his name tag, too.
01:06:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Talk about embracing, ah you know, embracing some good-natured fun. Like, that is awesome. Good for Mark. Yeah.
01:06:13
Mike ODP
I was so pissed.
01:06:13
RICK JAMES
and Don't forget about Nick.
01:06:14
Mike ODP
Jeremy, you sent me that video clip for that from Curb Your Enthusiasm as Mark was teeing off when I was with him that Friday. And I kept trying to get the fucking thing to play and I had shit service out there.
01:06:28
RICK JAMES
I wish he would.
01:06:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
01:06:29
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Nick.
01:06:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm turning you in weather, man.
01:06:33
RICK JAMES
ah
01:06:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, like but yeah, there were some funny dudes, man.
01:06:34
RICK JAMES
ah name
01:06:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nick was there. Nick was great. He's always, he does something.
01:06:39
RICK JAMES
He needs to get some scrubs or something, you know, or not, not in yourself.
01:06:42
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
01:06:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
He'll do it.
01:06:44
RICK JAMES
Not in yourself.
01:06:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nick will do it.
01:06:44
Matty Muscles
imagine Imagine Nick in a naughty nurse outfit.
01:06:45
RICK JAMES
Come
01:06:48
Matty Muscles
Oh, that'd be fucking fantastic.
01:06:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nick.
01:06:49
Matty Muscles
Come on, Nick.
01:06:50
RICK JAMES
go on.
01:06:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
make
01:06:52
RICK JAMES
He'll do it.
01:06:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nick, he has a great sense of humor too.
01:06:53
RICK JAMES
He'll probably do it. Yeah.
01:06:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
He'll do so hell like he'll embrace it. He does embrace it. He loves it. And they all do. even Rob loves it even when I give him crap. They all love it because you know it's publicity. It's so it's all you know it's all good.
01:07:06
RICK JAMES
Yeah, Rob had to miss. I think he was – that was his day he had to buff.
01:07:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
But ah you know we we love those guys.
01:07:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Rob was there Friday.
01:07:13
RICK JAMES
Yeah, but Saturday he had to buff the Emmy, I think is what he was doing all day. He was buffing the Emmy out.
01:07:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
and He shining the Emmy.
01:07:17
RICK JAMES
i think that's what he was doing.
01:07:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:07:18
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:07:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Saturdays. He does do that. i he does He definitely does buff out his, his Emmy. Oh, but yeah, he had some, he had a family event on Saturday, but he did.
01:07:27
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah, I know.
01:07:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
He was at the party. It was good to see him. Good to see everybody. um Yeah. that So trade show, any, anything else? I mean, a lot of, a lot of equipment, lot of boots. It was, it was really good. They were kind of maxed out, I think on boots and equipment where they could go. Like Mike said earlier,
01:07:44
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:07:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:07:45
Mike ODP
The one thing I kind of wish that they did have, you know, being a four hour trade show, you can only see it so many times. Like maybe if there was one or two kind of open mic sessions upstairs with some more industry guys to answer some Q and A questions from the audience or like another topic that you could sneak in there to backfeed some of that time, not do it like two hours into the trade show.
01:08:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's interesting.
01:08:06
Mike ODP
So after the two hour mark, you have something start. So if guys saw everything they want to see, they talked to everybody they want to talk to, they go upstairs, they will relax, they hang out, they listen to another Q and A session.
01:08:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did you see guys standing around doing Because I saw that as people were using that as networking time.
01:08:22
RICK JAMES
Yeah, that's what I saw outside.
01:08:22
Mike ODP
No, it was networking time, yeah.
01:08:23
Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
01:08:24
Matty Muscles
what
01:08:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:08:25
RICK JAMES
But yeah, that' that's what I saw.
01:08:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
I didn't see anybody looking bored, right?
01:08:28
RICK JAMES
The trade show, a lot of guys were just leaning on equipment talking.
01:08:28
Mike ODP
No.
01:08:29
Patrick Salmon
No.
01:08:32
RICK JAMES
I mean, like Mike said, that'd be kind of cool. Otherwise, Gene could get the go-karts back and we could go go-karting.
01:08:38
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:08:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he didn't do that.
01:08:39
Mike ODP
A
01:08:39
Patrick Salmon
Ah.
01:08:40
RICK JAMES
I mean, that would be fun.
01:08:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
We said that last year.
01:08:42
RICK JAMES
I mean, we could ween we could have...
01:08:42
Matty Muscles
have you that as
01:08:44
RICK JAMES
That would be the ticket. Can you imagine the competition for go-karting?
01:08:45
Matty Muscles
I'll smoke all of you.
01:08:47
RICK JAMES
Oh, let's bring it bring it. Let's do it.
01:08:49
Mike ODP
little Drifton competition.
01:08:51
Matty Muscles
I used to race cars so I'll fucking burn your ass.
01:08:51
RICK JAMES
Oh, I raise cards every day.
01:08:55
Patrick Salmon
I they get the space for it.
01:08:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh man. Yeah, he didn't he didn't take us up on that idea last year. We said that last year.
01:09:00
RICK JAMES
ah
01:09:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Bring the go-karts back.
01:09:02
RICK JAMES
imagine the competition that'd be. Oh man.
01:09:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, God. Can you imagine the blood?
01:09:06
Matty Muscles
I mean, speaking of, listen, in in a serious note, speaking of competition, remember Todd brought up the whole idea of like a rodeo.
01:09:07
RICK JAMES
That's part of it.
01:09:12
Matty Muscles
Like, does it, does it ever evolve into something like that?
01:09:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Hard to say.
01:09:16
Mike ODP
You need a lot of space for that.
01:09:19
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:09:19
Matty Muscles
Yeah. But if we're saying like how this, how this event evolves, like I thought that was a great idea. I'd never even, I've never even been to one of those type of events. So if it does turn into, you know, if it does turn it, what's that?
01:09:29
RICK JAMES
Going Buffalo.
01:09:34
RICK JAMES
Go to Buffalo this week. They're doing it up there, Todd said.
01:09:37
Matty Muscles
I'll have to hit him up for an invitation.
01:09:38
Patrick Salmon
Yes.
01:09:38
Matty Muscles
But seriously, like, like that, that could be a realistic evolution of it. Like sign me up. You know what I mean? I'll bring my whole crew.
01:09:48
RICK JAMES
We'll just go to the truck stop across the street and just say say no trucks today.
01:09:50
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
01:09:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. There you go.
01:09:56
Matty Muscles
Is it a, is it a realistic, you know, thing?
01:09:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:10:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know.
01:10:00
RICK JAMES
You never know.
01:10:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know. You never know. It depends what their vision is for it. I mean, I, I, we're, I mean, we're just nitpicking right now. Like we're just like, that was a perfect event.
01:10:09
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:10:09
Mike ODP
We're grabbing the straws.
01:10:10
Patrick Salmon
uh
01:10:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Like we're just grasping anything, but I mean, that was, even if they did nothing else, they nailed that. And that was 100% satisfaction
Event Success and Conclusion
01:10:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
rate. It was perfect. I mean, and what did it have? and It had two thirds of the the trade show time that Simon has. Yeah.
01:10:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
big show in four hours like jesus what more can you ask for that was perfect it was great i think it's uh i think it's only going to get better um i think it's going to get harder ah to get to like you're going to have to get those yeah well yeah i'm saying for guys that are wanting to come in you're going see a mad scramble for tickets like that thing's going to sell out quick uh next year yeah it's great it's absolutely great
01:10:29
Patrick Salmon
yeah
01:10:42
Mike ODP
It's going to harder to get better.
01:10:51
RICK JAMES
That's good.
01:10:51
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:10:53
Matty Muscles
Yeah, that's a great problem to have.
01:10:53
Mike ODP
That's what you want.
01:10:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
So afternoon snack during during the trade show, the pretzels, two varieties this year.
01:11:04
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I i wanted cinnamon one, but i got the salt.
01:11:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did you? You didn't get it?
01:11:07
RICK JAMES
I got the not the cinnamon one.
01:11:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude,
01:11:09
RICK JAMES
I should have. I got the other one, which is great, obviously.
01:11:11
Robert
The one-on-one was wicked good.
01:11:11
Patrick Salmon
Cinnamon good.
01:11:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
first trip, I grabbed one of each. I said, I'm doing it.
01:11:15
RICK JAMES
think that one was plenty, but I was like, yeah.
01:11:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
And
01:11:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
I agree. what Two was too much, but I wasn't missing it. So kudos to Gene, though. He made me try that cream cheese or the cream cheese frosting.
01:11:26
RICK JAMES
Whipped cream? Yep.
01:11:28
Matty Muscles
She's rocking.
01:11:29
Patrick Salmon
I see.
01:11:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, that with the the cinnamon sugar donut or the cinnamon sugar pretzel was incredible. It like put it so over the top. I went back for a second while i couldn't get it.
01:11:39
RICK JAMES
Alright, now i'm hungry.
01:11:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
They had taken them all away.
01:11:41
RICK JAMES
I'm hungry. Okay, tomorrow you gotta call that guy and give him my my address, Steve, so...
01:11:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah Well, they made the cinnamon sugar ones. Actually, they made all.
01:11:50
RICK JAMES
That's fine.
01:11:53
RICK JAMES
But you have an assignment, so...
01:11:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
But it was great. What you think, Robert? You get pretzels?
01:11:57
Robert
Yeah, I got that sermon one. That was wicked good.
01:11:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was really good. It was really, really good. Did anybody have, ah they had all sorts of charcuterie and stuff out there too. Meats and cheeses.
01:12:07
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
01:12:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Anybody have any of that? It was quite the spread for the afternoon snack.
01:12:11
RICK JAMES
It was. Yeah.
01:12:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
01:12:14
RICK JAMES
Definitely.
01:12:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right.
01:12:14
Matty Muscles
I said, I mean, I went into dinner saying like, I'm so full, how am I going to eat any more food?
01:12:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well,
01:12:19
Matty Muscles
And then I had a plate and a half full of dinner, so.
01:12:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
And you did. You found a way.
01:12:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
You found a way. Ain't no quitter. ah um What did everybody think? Let's ah the the main panel, the big panel discussion. You had Josiah Gomez from ECF.
01:12:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
You had Todd Dickerson, top dog.
01:12:36
Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
01:12:40
RICK JAMES
up dog.
01:12:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Top dog Todd. And you had Jonathan wise, a winter stone. And there was one other guy. I can't remember who it was. It was, uh, ah Mikey Santa.
01:12:49
Mike ODP
He was nobody.
01:12:51
RICK JAMES
oh.
01:12:52
Patrick Salmon
yeah
01:12:53
Matty Muscles
Shorty.
01:12:53
RICK JAMES
so
01:12:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Let's see though. Made the main panel.
01:12:54
Matty Muscles
Shorty.
01:12:55
RICK JAMES
Santa Lacito.
01:12:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yup. And Jordan was moderating.
01:12:58
RICK JAMES
ODP.
01:13:01
RICK JAMES
That was a good one.
01:13:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
What everybody think of that?
01:13:01
RICK JAMES
It was, it was, and I enjoyed that.
01:13:03
Mike ODP
What did you guys actually think?
01:13:04
RICK JAMES
Well,
01:13:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
What did I think?
01:13:07
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:13:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
I thought it was perfect, actually, because you had you had politically correct answers, you had company correct answers, and then you had Todd Dickerson, who Todd will tell you, i am like i am a cowboy, bro.
01:13:20
Patrick Salmon
Oh boy,
01:13:20
RICK JAMES
Let her rip.
01:13:23
Patrick Salmon
ah boy up
01:13:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
I am just letting it fly. What you see is what you get. And like he said, I forget what answer he gave to what question, but the whole room just cracked up.
01:13:33
Robert
It was was his answer to Saima.
01:13:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
like Nobody expected it.
01:13:37
Robert
i don't know I don't remember what it was
01:13:37
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
01:13:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
What did he, I don't remember what it was, but Oh my God. Like he just gives you it exactly raw.
01:13:42
RICK JAMES
of
01:13:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like there's no filter. He's going to give it to you. I love hearing that.
01:13:49
Mike ODP
He definitely delivered.
01:13:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's so funny. Oh, it was great.
01:13:52
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:13:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
I thought it was great. I really thought it was there were, you guys are all different in your delivery. You're all different in your philosophy. Uh, I thought Josiah did a really good job. Um,
01:14:02
RICK JAMES
ye
01:14:03
Mike ODP
He did, yeah.
01:14:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, he started, you could tell, like, the first couple answers, he was very tactful in company, you know, line answers. And then he got deeper and deeper every question, like, got more comfortable, and he was giving you really good information up there, especially, like, the back story, you know, ah about how he got to where he is.
01:14:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that I thought that was cool. You know, I liked hearing your experiences with ODP. um Jonathan Wise had some good points. I really thought it was good all the way around.
01:14:30
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Jonathan's awesome. He's great.
01:14:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he is a funny dude.
01:14:34
Mike ODP
He's a really good dude.
01:14:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Although he didn't put the suit on. He said he had the suit.
01:14:37
RICK JAMES
Yeah. He said he had it. I was waiting for it to come out.
01:14:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
He said he had it.
01:14:40
RICK JAMES
So,
01:14:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
No suit.
01:14:43
Matty Muscles
I thought Jonathan did a really good job.
01:14:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
not
01:14:44
Mike ODP
Shame.
01:14:44
Matty Muscles
I thought everybody on the panel did a really good job.
01:14:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
They did. It was perfect.
01:14:48
Matty Muscles
One of the great things that I took away from it was if you're if you run the the age range of that panel, You are talking about a you know, a wide generational gap, right?
01:15:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:15:03
Matty Muscles
So going from Josiah, like who did fantastic, he killed it all the way up to Todd, who killed it. ah Everybody did fantastic. um But it gives you a full perspective of how people look at the industry too, right?
01:15:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
hundred percent
01:15:21
Mike ODP
Yeah, I was nervous to go on that panel because I thought that the questions would be catered a little bit like higher level than I am, like more owner operator or like really senior leader type type personalities.
01:15:21
Matty Muscles
I thought it was awesome.
01:15:35
Mike ODP
And it it kind of took me by surprise how ah easy of the questions were to answer and how um much knowledge i actually did have.
01:15:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, you know your shit, Mike. Yeah.
01:15:44
Mike ODP
no i
01:15:44
RICK JAMES
yeah that's the same way i felt
01:15:45
Mike ODP
I play it off like I don't. I've been in this long enough that I just, I forget how long I've actually been doing it how much I've actually retained over the years.
01:15:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
You definitely know your stuff.
01:15:54
RICK JAMES
that's the same way i felt i felt like that last year mike when i was on the panel because i'm like all these guys and i'm like i know how i know they have all this stuff and i'm like like we just rip it and let her go and
01:16:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
You were Todd. You were last you last year. You were Todd. You were Todd Dickerson last year.
01:16:08
Mike ODP
Yep.
01:16:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
You were the guy that all these guys were talking about systems and stuff. And you were just like, dude, we just go and push now. Like we just do what we need to do.
01:16:16
RICK JAMES
Let get it.
01:16:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
We get it done.
01:16:17
Mike ODP
You're right though, Matt.
01:16:17
RICK JAMES
Let me just get it done.
01:16:18
Mike ODP
you
01:16:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:16:19
Mike ODP
You had somebody from every age group.
01:16:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
01:16:20
Mike ODP
yeah
01:16:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
01:16:21
Mike ODP
Josiah is 21. I'm in my 30s. Jonathan's probably in his 40s. And Todd's got to be is his in his 50s. So you have that entire...
01:16:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Late thirties, Todd. Todd's late thirties.
01:16:32
Matty Muscles
I was late 30s.
01:16:32
RICK JAMES
ah it's
01:16:34
Patrick Salmon
All right.
01:16:34
RICK JAMES
It's been ah been a a rough, rough industry.
01:16:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah ah
01:16:36
Matty Muscles
I'm late 30s, and I wish I looked that good in my late I was 39
01:16:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
01:16:38
RICK JAMES
so
01:16:39
Mike ODP
Wow, Todd, I'm sorry if you're listening.
01:16:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah may
01:16:39
RICK JAMES
the
01:16:40
Mike ODP
Holy
01:16:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's going to laugh at this though.
01:16:42
Matty Muscles
in 364 days.
01:16:42
RICK JAMES
He will listen.
01:16:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's going crack up.
01:16:43
RICK JAMES
He will he does listen.
01:16:44
Mike ODP
shit.
01:16:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah ah
01:16:46
Mike ODP
What an asshole am.
01:16:47
RICK JAMES
Well,
01:16:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's going to, guarantee you his media team clips this. i guarantee
01:16:51
RICK JAMES
yeah.
01:16:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah He's got a great sense of humor.
01:16:53
RICK JAMES
ah
01:16:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
He great. He gets,
01:16:55
Matty Muscles
thirty nine and three hundred and sixty four days
01:16:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
01:16:58
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:16:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
did you uh did you see the sweatshirts the top dog uh houston snow crew sweatshirts those were nice those were all no no you gotta have a podcast to get on that team that was awesome those are cool but uh yeah anybody uh anybody else anything with the panel robert patty
01:17:00
RICK JAMES
no
01:17:05
RICK JAMES
well yeah
01:17:06
Matty Muscles
Those are pretty legit. I didn't i didn't get graced with one, but I'll happily receive one.
01:17:14
Matty Muscles
Jeez.
01:17:17
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:17:22
Robert
I thought it was good. Pretty much everything that you guys have said.
01:17:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
What about you, Pat?
01:17:27
Patrick Salmon
Yes, great.
01:17:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Anything different?
01:17:29
Patrick Salmon
Great. good Good variety of questions and variety of you know different size companies, company structures, everything like that.
01:17:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Cool. ah Okay. We got a couple. We're at dinner right now. So let's ah let's hit some commercials real quick. Let these guys get a drink. We'll come back and wrap up the last 10 minutes or so.
01:18:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, guys, we're back. So let's just get right into how was dinner? What do we think?
01:18:52
Patrick Salmon
Phenomenal.
01:18:52
RICK JAMES
Dinner is great.
01:18:53
Matty Muscles
Awesome.
01:18:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
No complaints, right? Everything was great.
01:18:56
RICK JAMES
Oh, me and Matt, me and Matt ran out to the truck and we walked back in. Apparently we didn't get the memo. You guys are going by tables or something.
01:19:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:19:03
RICK JAMES
So we just walk up.
01:19:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, what the hell?
01:19:06
RICK JAMES
We sit down with Lucas and the Arctic guys and we're like, they didn't have food. I'm like, what what's going on? They're like, yeah, I don't think you guys are supposed to just go up there. Like, oh, well, we did.
01:19:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. We watched him walk in like, oh, Rick James just going to go up and feed himself.
01:19:17
Matty Muscles
Celebrity status.
01:19:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, we're all waiting. Yeah.
01:19:20
Patrick Salmon
you I am?
01:19:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
He must have got a card.
01:19:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:19:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was great. Sean's like, and Sean was pissed because Sean was chomping at the bit to get there. He's like, they got to call us.
01:19:28
RICK JAMES
ah
01:19:28
Patrick Salmon
He was pissed.
01:19:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy just went up and got it. like
01:19:31
RICK JAMES
ah
01:19:31
Patrick Salmon
Oh, jeez.
01:19:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Go ahead.
01:19:33
Matty Muscles
Dinner was awesome.
01:19:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dinner was great. Dinner was absolutely great. Everything was great. I mean, we just keep saying it because it was it really was that good.
01:19:42
RICK JAMES
Oh, we skipped over the arms.
01:19:42
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:19:45
RICK JAMES
I'm going to go back a little bit We skipped over the trailer.
01:19:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
01:19:47
RICK JAMES
What did everybody you think of the trailer?
01:19:48
Matty Muscles
Oh, yeah.
01:19:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
We did. We did.
01:19:50
Robert
Karla was awesome.
01:19:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
We talked about the trailer.
01:19:53
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:19:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everybody seemed to like that, right?
01:19:55
Mike ODP
I shared that like crazy.
01:19:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:19:56
Patrick Salmon
Yeah.
01:19:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Anybody else? It seemed like a good reaction.
01:20:01
Matty Muscles
so i
01:20:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Seemed like a really good reaction.
01:20:02
Matty Muscles
Yeah, I mean, like since since ah since it was available on YouTube, I've watched it at least 10 times. And I showed my wife. I showed my seven-year-old daughter. like And she was like, Daddy, this is awesome.
01:20:15
Matty Muscles
So I sent it to a lot of people. I can't wait to see more of it. I mean, it's just like I'm biased.
01:20:21
Mike ODP
Mm-hmm.
01:20:22
Matty Muscles
like We have biased opinions, but, you know.
01:20:24
RICK JAMES
Yeah, of course. yeah
01:20:27
Matty Muscles
One of the things that I said to the whole Storm team was, this is this is really, really monumental for our industry. So anybody who isn't throwing it out to people who aren't in our industry, like just do it.
01:20:43
Matty Muscles
Because people have no clue. They just have no idea like what we go through and like what we're, you know, the things that we combat with on a daily basis when we're in snow season.
01:20:56
Matty Muscles
Like you got to bring the education to the masses.
01:21:00
Mike ODP
Amen.
01:21:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
01:21:02
Mike ODP
Nice.
01:21:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Love it. What else? How are the raffles?
01:21:09
RICK JAMES
Oh, good.
01:21:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Anybody win? Jeremy won, right?
01:21:11
RICK JAMES
I won. Yeah, I guess.
01:21:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
but What did you win?
01:21:12
RICK JAMES
yeah I won plow right stakes.
01:21:14
Patrick Salmon
I wouldn
01:21:16
RICK JAMES
And then I, will and i then yeah, I just told CJ to ship them to me whenever because I wasn't going to carry them on the plane.
01:21:17
Mike ODP
i
01:21:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did you really?
01:21:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah you should have given them to me. I would have brought them home, shipped them.
01:21:26
RICK JAMES
Oh, you could have just kept them too. Yeah.
01:21:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, I could have. Yeah.
01:21:29
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:21:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
I wasn't thinking that.
01:21:31
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:21:32
Patrick Salmon
that
01:21:32
RICK JAMES
Then I won. the I won. Apparently won something else to grab. They want to see you grab whatever you want. so I don't handle remember what he grabbed. and He grabbed something there. was like, go ahead. um have I don't have any room. So.
01:21:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. Yeah. it looked like a ton of stuff raffled that the sponsors donated to.
01:21:47
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
01:21:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
So good for everybody.
01:21:48
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:21:48
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:21:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I mean, what it was it was great to see like that much buy-in from vendors and stuff that they are really they're backing that event now huge. You know it's good. And i think I think that kind of an intimate setting, I think the ah ROI for them is pretty damn good.
01:22:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think you know they yeah they can definitely make some sales off that. and they're not They don't have to hustle. You know what I'm saying? like Some events you go to that cost you a lot more money to go to as a vendor, you're you're under the gun to try and make some sales and generate some leads. I think that's just such a laid-back family type of event.
01:22:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
A lot less expenditure. It works. It definitely works. I'm glad the vendors are buying in so hard. What else, guys? Anything else? Anything you'd like to see more of or different?
01:22:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Anything we can give them to ah to improve on that you guys saw? I don't think so. I think they nailed it.
01:22:41
Mike ODP
No.
01:22:42
Patrick Salmon
Not without nitpicking little stuff now.
01:22:42
Mike ODP
There's no list. There's nothing.
01:22:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, exactly. And there's no, I think last year I thought it was awesome and I didn't think they could improve it and they did.
01:22:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:22:45
Mike ODP
No.
01:22:46
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
01:22:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, but I think they nailed everything.
01:22:52
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
01:22:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like I think the the welcome party, that was a huge, that was a huge success and a huge need.
01:22:58
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:23:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I think now that they have that in place, I don't see the need to do anything different. I think their format was great this year. Everything was good. They hustled everybody along, but you still had time to do what you wanted to do.
01:23:08
RICK JAMES
Cool.
01:23:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
And if you didn't want to do something and you wanted to go outside and have a conversation, there was nobody saying, you need to be here like the bell rang. yeah Well, it's not that type of event.
01:23:19
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:23:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's really cool.
01:23:22
RICK JAMES
Right.
01:23:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Anything else?
01:23:23
RICK JAMES
um Definitely enjoyable. Can't wait to go again next year. So, yeah.
01:23:28
Mike ODP
huh
01:23:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
01:23:30
Mike ODP
I hope I get that blue Mustang again.
01:23:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
So. Ah, pop the Smurf mobile.
01:23:33
Patrick Salmon
yeah
01:23:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:23:34
Mike ODP
Yep.
01:23:34
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:23:34
Patrick Salmon
It
01:23:35
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
01:23:36
RICK JAMES
ah Did you...
01:23:36
Mike ODP
Patty, hold on.
01:23:37
RICK JAMES
You
01:23:37
Mike ODP
That was a fun little car, wasn't it?
01:23:39
Patrick Salmon
was a fun little car, especially when you whack a bucket at 80 miles an hour after picking it up.
01:23:43
Mike ODP
Oh, my God.
01:23:43
RICK JAMES
hit what?
01:23:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
What?
01:23:45
Mike ODP
don't know.
01:23:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:23:45
Mike ODP
We were... We were driving on the highway and had a tractor trailer next to me and there was a pickup truck in front. And all of a sudden this white five gallon bucket kicks the Jersey barrier to my left and smacks the front bumper.
01:23:58
Mike ODP
I'm like, fuck great. the they probably I got a massive gouge in it.
01:24:00
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:24:02
Mike ODP
Not a dent, not a scratch, not even like a little fluff and buff need just bounced right off to hit the next car.
01:24:06
RICK JAMES
Wow.
01:24:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's hard. It's hard to dent plastic. Plastic is resilient.
01:24:11
Matty Muscles
It's rental.
01:24:11
Mike ODP
Yeah.
01:24:12
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
01:24:13
Matty Muscles
Fucking treated it like a rental.
01:24:13
Mike ODP
Yeah. It's a rental.
01:24:15
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:24:15
Patrick Salmon
We dropped it off in the dark anyway.
01:24:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, it would have been great if it popped both airbags.
01:24:19
Mike ODP
yeah
01:24:19
Robert
And
01:24:19
RICK JAMES
Oh, geez. ah
01:24:21
Patrick Salmon
Listen, and I've already broken my neck once, all right?
01:24:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
but Oh, you shouldn't be sitting so close to them.
01:24:24
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Oh.
01:24:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
You wouldn't break your neck on an airbag.
01:24:29
RICK JAMES
Oh.
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Don't sit so close. Oh, boy. All right, boys. Anything else?
01:24:35
RICK JAMES
I got nothing.
01:24:36
Patrick Salmon
Looking forward to the next one.
01:24:38
Mike ODP
Yep.
01:24:38
Robert
that was a great event.
01:24:39
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Absolutely.
01:24:39
Mike ODP
yep
01:24:39
RICK JAMES
Definitely.
01:24:41
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um I think, you know, on behalf of everybody here, just a huge, huge thank you to Gene and his entire team and their families, because there were there were families of employees involved as well.
01:24:50
Mike ODP
yeah
01:24:54
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Gene's whole family was there. You guys just absolutely killed it. I'm speaking directly to Storks and their family right now. Like, you guys just crushed it. You made it such a welcoming and...
01:25:05
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family atmosphere event for everybody that attended. And I think that's one of the reasons why it's so popular and why it's going to continue to be just a great event. And thank you for having us. I you don't think there's any more to say. like you don't You don't see that kind of...
01:25:20
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input and buy-in from from entire teams you know you always have one or two employees that are outliers that don't want to be involved and stuff like they had complete buy-in every employee they're happy to be there doing their thing i think they take extreme amounts of pride on putting out that event you know i'm putting it on it so good for them you guys crushed it again we can't thank you enough
01:25:38
Mike ODP
Definitely. Okay.
01:25:42
RICK JAMES
yeah them and all the vendors and sponsors and everybody that was there involved and i know like i said it great great going there and to see and see ah see this and our crew and then meet all the new people we got to meet and just everybody there is great uh great to hang out with and see i guess so
01:25:49
Robert
Thank you.
01:25:58
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Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, ah as far as the sponsors go, i mean, the the four main ones, the four biggest ones of that event, well, you know, like we said, Western, thank you very much to Western plows.
01:26:11
Patrick Salmon
Thank you.
01:26:11
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You know, they are, ah that's the Jane. well Sorry, tripping here. Jean's a big dealer for them. um They, they came through a huge case construction equipment was massive, massive. Arctic was massive.
01:26:24
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And Hilltip, they said, was also a big sponsor of the event. So ah good for good for those companies. Thank you for doing that. Thank you for being involved and, you know, promoting the industry and helping us all get better.
01:26:37
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Anything else, boys?
01:26:40
Robert
No, nothing else.
01:26:42
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All right, guys, if you haven't filled out your surveys, though, ah fill them out because Gene just wanted me to mention, he just texted actually, um asking guys to complete the surveys.
01:26:53
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ah There's going to be two winners for a 2026 ticket to the event. All right, so the survey helps them make the event better, and they really want to hear your feedback. So if you fill out the survey, you get entered to win a free ticket to Stork's event next year.
01:27:08
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All right, so that's ah that's a big deal. salt Please help them out. They don't ask much of us, so ah please help them out and help them get better.
01:27:16
Robert
Thank you.
01:27:17
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I don't know what they can possibly get better on, but you know well we'll help them any way they they need.
01:27:23
Mike ODP
Yep.
01:27:23
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So anything else, boys?
01:27:25
Mike ODP
No, sir.
01:27:27
Matty Muscles
No, I'm good.
01:27:27
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All right.
01:27:27
Patrick Salmon
I hope.
01:27:28
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Good to wrap it, Jay.
01:27:29
RICK JAMES
I think so. Yep.
01:27:31
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All right, cool. All right, guys. Well, that's it. Thank you, boys, for coming on with us. As always, miss you guys already. It was a great time, great weekend. um That's going to do it then. Episode 117 of the Snow Jaws Podcast main show in the books.
01:27:45
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ah Thanks again to Gene and the whole Storks gang. Thanks again to our boys for traveling with us. As always, wouldn't want to do this without them. ah Thank you to everybody out there that's making storm chasing with the snow job such a huge success.
01:27:59
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ah Keep liking, subscribing, and forwarding it to your friends and your your fellow industry members. All right, that is all for us. They're trying to make me laugh, but I'm not going to bite. That is it, gang. Everybody be safe. Have a good week.
01:28:14
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Keep pushing.