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Wondering if your shed business needs a physical lot to succeed? The Steel Kings have eye-opening news: "We've sold just as many sheds online as we have on physical lots this year." This revelation sets the tone for a candid conversation about the digital transformation sweeping through the shed and metal building industry.

Jared and Eric take listeners behind the scenes of a difficult business decision—shuttering a shed lot due to unfavorable arrangements. The hosts unpack the challenges dealers face when they "don't own the property, don't own the product," highlighting how this lack of control limits business growth. Their transparent discussion offers valuable perspective for anyone weighing the pros and cons of physical versus digital sales channels.

The digital marketing conversation goes deep as the Steel Kings share their journey from basic website to lead-generating powerhouse. "SEO is not dead," Jared emphasizes, encouraging businesses to invest in their online presence. From Google Analytics to Meta Business Suite, they outline the essential digital infrastructure every shed business needs today. Their marketing experiments—from coffee shop mugs to bowling alley logos—provide a fascinating look at what works and what doesn't in local promotion.

Looking forward, the podcast highlights two major industry events: the Shed Builder Expo in Knoxville (September 24-25) and the Construction Roleforming Show in Dayton (October 1-2). The Steel Kings will be present at both, eager to connect with listeners and industry professionals. Their enthusiasm for these networking opportunities underscores the value of in-person connections, even as sales move increasingly online.

Perhaps most compelling is their vision of an AI-driven future where "artificial intelligence will drive the engine that is sales in this country." This forward-thinking perspective challenges businesses to prepare now for coming changes in consumer behavior and technology.

Ready to transform your shed business for the digital age? Join the Steel Kings at the upcoming expos, connect with them online, or simply apply their hard-earned wisdom to your marketing strategy. Your future customers are searching online—will they find you?

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INTRO:

Hey, this is Joel Oney at J Money in the heart of the Buckeye State, and I want to personally welcome you to today's episode of the Steel Kings podcast with my good friends Jared Ledford and Eric Olson, better known as the Steel Kings. Be sure to check out jmoneyllc. com for financing solutions for your buildings. And now let's get back to the Steel Kings podcast.

Jared Ledford:

What's going on, guys? This is the Steel Kings podcast, and I am Jared and that is Eric, and we are back at you with another episode today. It is Thursday, September the 4th. You guys are going to be getting this probably the week of actually maybe next week, so we're catching up a little bit, getting back into the swing of things. Eric man, how are you today? What's going on?

Eric Olson:

Man, it's going pretty good. You're in head phone land by yourself today. I've got my pod skis in.

Jared Ledford:

The rig was having some issues.

Eric Olson:

I gave up on her.

Jared Ledford:

We'll bring everybody behind the scenes. We just got off a pretty good call with our friend Jeff, and then we got off a good call with our friend Shannon, the Shed Geek. Check out Shannon's podcast on Mondays if you haven't had a chance to. We appreciate you doing that. As always, we are sponsored by the team over at J Money. Give Joel and his team a shout and they will get you helped out with financing needs on your metal buildings, your sheds, whatever it is you're doing pools, windows, roofs they do it all. Check out the team at J Money. Brother, I'm super excited.

Jared Ledford:

Today we have got a Shed Builder Expo on the Horizon Lines, Knoxville. This is a big time of the year. This is a big time of the year. This is a big time of the year for our friends in the shed industry. So, the Steel Kings are going to go to the shed world just for probably this one episode. We're going to talk a lot about sheds today. Brother, I'm excited. Man, we're going to be there with Shannon. We're going to be there. The Steel Kings will be in Knoxville here in a couple weeks. We're going to be there.

Eric Olson:

The Steel Kings will be in Knoxville here in a couple of weeks, so not too far away at all. Man, I know that's I'm like emotional roller coaster, but in good and good, a lot of new things happening. There's some good opportunities coming. I am super excited to spend time with Jeff, you, me and Shannon all in the same booth. Um, I know we, you know I know we are the steel kings podcast, but we're under the shed geek brand. It's on the shed youtube channel so it's exciting to go down there. We'll probably do a couple episodes or maybe two episodes or something down there. I believe my wife is coming, so that'll be fun. Um, to walk around and look at all the sheds. All the friends that are going to be there always love seeing IdeaRoom's booth and all the work that they're doing and all the industries, obviously, that they're doing, and you never know what it's going to bring.

Jared Ledford:

Yeah, man, I'm going to. For those of you that are joining us via YouTube or through a video platform, I'm going to just kind of go over it, man. They are doing what they're referring to as Shed Week, man. So, Monday there's going to be a Q&A session, shed Sales Summit will take place Monday, and then Tuesday is NSRA, the conference there, and then Wednesday and Thursday is the actual expo itself. So, we will be definitely there Wednesday and Thursday. There's talks of getting Eric down to the show a little bit earlier. Man, if we can meet you guys, say hi, just find out any ways that we might be able to help or benefit or just create a community. We want to be part of that with you guys. Registration is available. Shedbuilder expo. com is the website, but you know the show schedule, man. It's going to be pretty cool All day. Wednesday, half day, Thursday. If you guys are in the area, come check us out, man. I mean, we're super excited, super pumped up, um, and ready to get our you know, get our faces out there, shake hands and greet.

Jared Ledford:

And I've been to shed expo a couple of times. I've had a great time Every time I've gone. Um, there's suppliers, there's manufacturers, there's friends, um, lots of cool places in Knoxville as well to eat and have a good time, and, uh, man, I'm just pumped to be there with you. Brother, to be honest with you, we haven't done a podcast in a minute, so you guys are catching us. Shannon, you know, just to give you a peek behind the curtain, we supply the content. Shannon is the is the master, and Indiana and all the folks over there at shed geek podcast, but I mean they're, they're on us. So, I mean we definitely want to get the content going for you guys. Um, we miss doing it. To be honest, it's busy, dude. I mean that's the thing. It's been so busy the last month.

Eric Olson:

Honestly, it really has. I don't know how it's September 4th. Honestly, I have no clue how it's September 4th. I feel like I was just in Knoxville at the pole barn show. I can't even tell you what month that was, cause I don't remember. I think it was May. I think it was May. You know, I've been busy hiding behind a computer monitor building our websites out, and so it'll be good to get out in public and shake hands and get to know some people that I've not met and then, you know, obviously, hang out with people that we uh, we do know we've got some connections that um are gaining some momentum, so we're kind of excited about that, yeah yeah, I think I think it's cool to get with people right.

Jared Ledford:

I mean, we talked about the role forming show. So, we're going to be at the role forming show here in Dayton, which we're super pumped up about. Our friends over at Shield Wall are doing the show there and we're going to be doing that show October 1st and 2nd and had thought you know kind of maybe holding off from Shed Expo. But I mean the response and the ask was pretty grand for us and the ask was pretty grand for us.

Eric Olson:

Hard to say now.

Jared Ledford:

Yeah, we want you guys to be there too. We want you guys to come check it out and be part of the event in Knoxville. So, it's coming up, man. September the 24th and 25th in Knoxville, the expo takes place. Man, I think what I've been dealing with the last couple weeks is the barrage of coming off the summertime. So, I think the last time we really did a podcast, we were talking about Fourth of July and we were talking about the things we want to do with our families over the summer. I was getting busy with soccer and basketball. As basketball winds down, building sales start to pick up because everybody's going back to school. Everybody's getting to that time of the year where they're cleaning out the garage, the shed, they're cleaning out wherever they keep their stuff and they're like man, I might need a building, I might need a metal building, I might need a shed. Dude, what are you seeing? I'm seeing it pick up. I don't know about you, man.

Eric Olson:

I. Something that's super encouraging is our leads. You know, like just to jump into leads as everybody here are business owners that that you can't sell a building to somebody unless you have a lead, and so the leads are dime a dozen. I think we've kind of cracked a little bit of a code. I wouldn't make a claim yet, but what I've certainly seen is that this is not affecting as many people as what I thought. I think that the tariffs are a non-topic. There was that 90-day delay that started August 10th and that pretty much gets you through the holiday season. So, I really don't think that there's a lot. That's what I've realized.

Eric Olson:

Also is something um is having physical, and this is gonna make some people frustrated, maybe, or concerned, like having physical inventory is good, but you don't need a ton of it. Yeah, um, um, I believe that people are online shopping. Everything's doordash, everything is click list. Um, my wife went to the grocery store yesterday. She against click list, she wanted to do click list, but then she came home with a couple items that, um, you know you would not find on click list unless you're just like walk around the store. So I'm like there is still value to going shopping um, but really honestly, everything's going virtual.

Jared Ledford:

I think sometimes when you have too much inventory, I think sometimes when you have too much inventory from a shed perspective, it causes confusion. It makes it harder to do your job when there's too much going on. We've had the most success. So, one of the things that we had to do, unfortunately, was we had to shutter one of our shed lots over the last week. And you know, for those of you that are out there, and you might be on a leased property and you're you know here here's the struggle with selling which wood sheds right, and we've talked about this. We love steel buildings. We control the process from start to finish. We're inside an office space. Everything's great when you get onto a shed lot unless you own the property that you're on and you own the sheds that you're selling. So, if you're a manufacturer, maybe mute out for this part of the conversation. But if you're a dealer, think about it from this perspective. You're on a leased property, you don't own the property, you don't own the product. A moment in time where your manufacturing partner or your landlord becomes an issue, then all of a sudden you are upside down in a real hurry and the problem that we've had from our standpoint is we like to make agreements with people that are beneficial to all parties. So, the situation that we had was we took over a shed lot that you know had had some success and just over time it started to kind of shutter itself right. We came in, did a facelift, we did a whole rebranding Dayton Barns, and all this stuff had a lot of success out of the gate. And I think that the struggle that we had from a business perspective was that agreement was too loose to benefit Dayton Barnes. So Dayton Barns was in a situation where we weren't going to invest a lot of time or money to make the situation any better for us, because we want to invest money where we can make the most money, which is selling metal buildings, being in control of, you know, with the pole barns or whatever it else is that we're doing.

Jared Ledford:

But with sheds we find ourselves in a situation where we don't own the property, we don't own the product, we only supply the people and three Ps people, product and price. We can't set the price, we can't determine what inventory we get, and we certainly can't determine how much or how little a customer is going to stop at our lot. We can try to influence it, but we can't determine the end number. If I could say, man, I'll get a hundred people at that lot a day, yeah, I'm going to invest money in it. But if you invest money and you're not seeing the return, you can't determine where or when a customer is going to stop by. You just can't.

Jared Ledford:

And for us, man, it was a tough decision, but we, we made it. We made it quick, and we made it seamless. Um, we just went ahead and moved on from that location and we made it seamless. We just went ahead and moved on from that location and we're looking for another location, probably sometime next year. And a lot of that struggle has to do with the fact that we had like 35 buildings on that property and that becomes now a problem for our manufacturer. That overflows into everything else that we're dealing with.

Jared Ledford:

So, I had to take time away from what I was focused on to do the clean out of the office shed and things like that. And I think that's where you're coming from, eric, when you say things like man, you don't need a whole lot of inventory. We've sold just as many sheds online as we have on physical lots this year. I mean, that's the truth. You know, that's the absolute truth. Now, physical lots help you. Like you said, eric, you know Heather went to the grocery store and she picked up a couple items that she might not have gotten on a click list but at the same time she might click list next time.

Eric Olson:

Yeah.

Jared Ledford:

You know what I mean.

Eric Olson:

She's click list and she told me she's like I'm not going back. So, if you're a good salesperson and they call and they like your appearance online and they're shopping your inventory and you display it well online, you literally don't need to be there because I do not feel like there's a drop off. You're going to get a guy that wants to show up at the lot. You're going to end up with the guy or the girl or the couple that's obviously probably a little bit older, you know, and they want to see it, touch it. And if you have one lot and a good online presence and somebody really wants to check it out, like they'll drive a half hour. I mean, I'm not saying somebody, you got to torture them and make them drive two hours, but, um, if, if they're interested, I think we do more house calls than have people come to the lot like we're we would prefer to go to you.

Eric Olson:

I remember during COVID they shut it down and I immediately went online and I remember I was going to where I was going to church. I was going there and working just because I wanted to get out of the house every day and it was open every single day. I had an appointment for like I think three weeks. I drove out to yellow Springs, back Beaver Creek. There was those tornadoes that happened in May during the same year. Beaver Creek like three days in a row to people's houses, just showing up with a laptop with like five pictures.

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Eric Olson:

And we were selling for a company that didn't have a 3D design tool. So, I was really like, honestly, just showing pictures from the catalog which you know. If you can sell a picture from a catalog, you definitely can sell. You know something with actually with actual pictures in a 3D design, and I'll say, let me back that up with some data in a 3D design. And I'll say, let me back that up with some data. On website traffic wise, I would say over 50% of the leads that we get are website design and they're filled out. So, it's not like somebody just kind of went to the design tool half, butted it you and submitted it. It's like they're actually complete designs with colored doors and lean to and shutters, um, so the customers are getting into it, you know.

Jared Ledford:

Yeah, I think they're getting used to using one. I think it gives customers a sense of ownership right up front. Right, they can design it and they can imagine it wherever it's going to be. And that's the message that we you know, we give in this office space is like we have an office, yeah, you can come close here, but you're two hours away and I can have you the building in two weeks. You know, and that's really what it comes down to is do you want the building that I'm showing you? You know I can cut corners. I can cut corners a couple of different ways. I can make the price be closer to what you need it to be.

Jared Ledford:

A lot of times, that's the first objection for anybody who's looking to buy anything is eh, it's just too expensive, don't have the money right now. Whatever the case may be, and we can work on overcoming objections that's a totally different conversation, but for me personally, I love the idea of a fully operational storefront online where a customer can come and buy your metal building or your shed or whatever it is. You know it's a graduated version of Facebook marketplace and for everybody who's working on marketplace there's probably a lot of folks that are listening to us, that are on Facebook marketplace, that are advertising buildings that they may make themselves or that they're selling for another manufacturer. It's just taking it to a different level. It's graduating from you know, eric and I use baseball analogies it's like single or double A baseball to major leagues, when you really start to get in front of somebody that is shopping online and not going directly to your website. That's what a lot of people like of people have to remember in the back of their heads that you might be on this call and you don't even know what I'm talking about. But if somebody goes online and searches sheds near me or sheds for sale or whatever no pun intended for sheds for sale but if somebody searches the words shed online, you want them to be naturally gravitating towards your site, whether it be with paid advertising through Google or Meta, whether it be that you're naturally SEOing and you're doing organic. You know all kinds of stuff.

Jared Ledford:

The problem is is that in our industry, it's still the race to the bottom. We've talked about this countless times, and this is the struggle that Eric and I deal with all the time is well, I can get the same building that you're offering for a thousand dollars less. Well, there might be a thousand dollars less material in that building. I gotta know what I'm, I don't know what I'm pricing against. And if you happen to be a customer and you happen to be listening to this, definitely look at the makeup of the shed you're buying, you know. And if you're a manufacturer, a dealer, talk, talk up what you're selling, believe in the product that you're selling.

Jared Ledford:

For sure, I mean, I think that's where we we're very lucky in that, that regard, that we work with a company like sheds direct. Right, we're happy with the product that we're selling. We're not always happy with them. Don't let me. Let me get you know. I'm just gonna shoot you straight. We've had our disagreements over the last, you know, 18 months, whatever you know. But at the end of the day, we know that the product that we're producing for the customer is a high quality, you know, high quality shed that we can be proud of, stand behind and offers a warranty. That's what customers care about. They want a high quality, they want a high quality item. With a warranty, pricing becomes less important thing.

Jared Ledford:

Yeah, answer the phone. I mean, honestly, we get people all the time, man, I was talking to so-and-so or trying to talk to so-and-so, but I can't get them to answer the phone. Well, I can get you a building in two weeks. What's your credit card number? I mean, you know, I learned that from you, eric what's your credit card number? The best question you can ask a customer is what's your credit card number? We're ready to do this deal today. Be confident.

Eric Olson:

Exactly.

Jared Ledford:

Be confident because if they're not ready to give you their credit card number, there's somebody else on the hook that you can ask. You know I can get you a building in two weeks of 50% down period. I don't know, I'm super pumped up, dude. I'm tired, but at the same time I'm pumped up. We just did that clean out. I literally just did that clean out yesterday. So, to give you guys a perspective, I was up at like 630. I didn't get back to the house until after 9 o'clock and you know how it is. You're going to clean out something. I mean, imagine you're cleaning out a repo. I mean imagine you're cleaning out a repo. I mean this had two large desks, monitors, tvs, the whole bit. Got to clean this lot out, Got to get ready to go and at the same time, trying to get excited about the things that are really exciting, like building sales, because right now we're doing pretty good.

Eric Olson:

I mean right now we're pretty good. There's something happening on, you know, and I wish I had a plug for it because it's really us. But you know, seo is not dead. It's not all Facebook. It's not all Facebook If you've got time and energy and a plug on a website. And we were blessed to have a guy build us a pretty good shell of a website that we kind of took and then we parted ways but we took the shell of it and, man, we turned it in. It's cooking now and it's not. It's cooking. The heat just got turned on.

Jared Ledford:

So, it's not really cooking. He was honest enough you know, when we say part ways, we use that term loosely because he basically resigned. He gave us the nuts and bolts of what we wanted. He didn't think he could get us to the finish line. He didn't think he could take us where we wanted to go and, rather than try to go down a series of rabbit holes to get to no results, if you are working with a company like Squarespace, for example, and you want to do serious SEO and you really want to make an impact, get on a different website design platform. Not that Squarespace isn't great. Squarespace is great If you're a regional manufacturer or regional dealer. It's a great entry point. You can do the website yourself. It's drag and drop kind of a thing. You can literally design a website in under an hour and be up and running, get your domains and everything I think he we're talking about something way higher level than that I think he built that because his church's websites there and, uh, shout out to that church.

Eric Olson:

I actually watched his sermon from last Sunday on the website. He's still a great preacher. So, um, we, we took that and kind of I mean I don't even say doubled it, I mean like we took it to a whole different thing. And right now, you know, if you have any questions about your marketing tactics, you know I would say, shoot us a message. I'd be glad to hop on a 20-minute call to see what you guys are up to and throw, because Jared and I have tried every possible area, including flyers, including mugs at local coffee shops, including cups at the Brookville Diner.

Eric Olson:

You know, we've put our logo at a bowling alley. We put our logo on a bowling alley. We put our logo on a on a golf course scorecard. Um, we was at Dayton dragons. You know, um yarders, I remember one guy bought some yard signs to put out. I mean, we have tried every possible nook and cranny and it all ends up being going right back to the same thing, which is the age-old dot com era, 1990s. Everyone goes to Google, everyone goes to GROK, everybody goes to chat, gpt, it's all the same. It all pulls data from the same data.

Jared Ledford:

Positioning yourself. Positioning yourself in an AI forward world is going to change the way we shop. Eric talked about that on an episode a couple episodes ago where we're going to be basically pushed in the direction which we seek. Artificial intelligence will drive the engine that is sales in this country. No doubt it'll probably end up doing things with cryptocurrency and all kinds of different things that are right around the corner and you don't want to catch yourself like think about it right now. Think about where you're at, if you're sitting on a shed lot or in a manufacturing facility and you don't have the basics. You don't have a fully functioning meta business suite. You don't have a fully functioning Google analytics. You don't have that. Think about how far you'll be behind in three years from now.

Eric Olson:

It's worth the time to invest. It's worth it, and lean on us.

Jared Ledford:

We're going to be at Shed Build, because the industry itself is worth it and lean on us. We're going to be at Shed Builder Expo. I'm going to round back to that. We're going to be at Shed Builder Expo in Knoxville September 24th 25th. We're going to be there with Shannon. We're going to be there with the Shed Geek podcast team. We're going to be there hanging out.

Jared Ledford:

We'll answer any questions you have. We are an open book when it comes to this stuff. We'll tell you exactly what we do. We're not going to show you how to do it, but we'll tell you what we do. I mean, you know, we organically SEO. We have lots and lots and lots of pages online. We work to get those pages indexed. We work to work with meta to offer paid advertising. We work with Google to offer paid advertising. We work across the board to try to touch anybody and everybody. Like eric said yard signs, door hangers, flyers, you name it. We've tried it. You know I can tell you. It's funny. You brought up the cups at the Brookville Grill, so quick shout out to the Brookville Grill.

Eric Olson:

Oh, I love the Brookville Grill.

Jared Ledford:

I think. I think we have pretty much every like organized breakfast now pretty much goes to the Brookville Grill but I mean, we're breakfast sponsor of Dayton Barns, and we did, we did the uh, we did the uh the cups, so they had like plastic cups that had business logos on it. We actually did the table, which I'm excited about, but I can tell you we've gotten we've gotten several phone calls from that. Like don't underestimate the value of something like that.

Eric Olson:

Like a local business.

Jared Ledford:

Yeah, local businesses can be a groundswell and specifically for us when we're getting into pole barns and we're building credibility and all these things that we're going to do, having that be.

Jared Ledford:

Oh man, I saw their logo at the Brookville Grill, or I saw their logo at so-and-so, and you know we work with local chambers of commerce. I know a lot of people that are kind of anti-chamber of commerce. I'm on the board of directors for the Brookville Chamber of Commerce. You know I went all in on the Chamber of Commerce and it's funny. Our friends over at the Huber Heights Chamber of Commerce have brought some opportunities to the table that we might be able to talk to you about in the future. That'll be pretty exciting for the Steel Kings and Dayton Barnes and Five Rivers, pole Barnes and you know, all the other entities that we, you know, share with you guys. And that's a relationship that really just started because we had a business in Huber Heights. A guy knocked on the door and he was really nice and friendly and he didn't want anything from us other than, you know, to be part of his group. And ultimately, we've paid for that membership time after time.

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Eric Olson:

They're very active in like professional development as well.

Jared Ledford:

So like they're they don't want to.

Jared Ledford:

Yeah, yeah, and I would say each one's different, but yeah, chamber of Commerce, you got to gauge them, you know. I think we're in three right now we're in Champaign County, Ohio, we're in Huber Heights and we're in Brookville. Don't sign up for every chamber of commerce by any, by any stretch. Sign up where it's important to you. Sign up in your local communities. Build your business brand through where you live. Start there I mean, that would be my number one recommendation, um, you know. And then to potentially grow your business through the network of people that you already lean on. They always say call 50 people that you know when you're starting a new business. I'd say, if you can do that in your community, you're even better off.

Jared Ledford:

But I don't know, man, I think for us, getting to Shed Builder Expo if you're not considering going, you should be, and if you don't make it to this one, go to the next expo. If you're not considering going, you should be, and if you don't make it to this one, go to the next one. If you're sitting back thinking, man, that's just not for me, then maybe this isn't the right space for you. I mean, this is one of the biggest shows of the year. Um, yeah, I mean, get out there, man get there Tuesday night.

Eric Olson:

Get there Tuesday night. Get a hotel. Come to the show Wednesday. We have a huge booth for the shed geek. I mean you're gonna meet the whole team, you're gonna meet basically everybody that we talk about on this show all in one little circle. We're gonna be mic'd up, we're gonna be supercharged, probably saying hi and interviewing people yeah, I'm gonna bring the.

Jared Ledford:

Uh, I'm gonna bring the water and the pure kick. Eric's gonna bring the white monsters probably yeah, somehow we'll be, we'll be shot out of a cannon. I mean we'll be ready to go, because I mean getting to meet you guys. Right, I mean it. You know. I say that loosely. You know how many people are really listening? Tell me, email me, let me know yeah, but I can tell you.

Jared Ledford:

I mean, the analytics don't lie. I mean it sounds to me like there's quite a bit of folks out there listening to us and we really appreciate that. I mean, I can't tell you, man, how exciting it is when I get an email from one of you that says man, I checked out the podcast, I really enjoyed what you said about whatever. Or hey, even if you don't agree with me, send me an email and say why you don't agree with me. You know, I think one thing we'd like to do down the road is maybe do like a Q&A through the emails. Literally, bring your emails right on here. I'll screen share them, I'll black out your info, I'll make sure that you guys are kept private and safe. But, man, if you got a question, let me know. We'll feature it right here, right now on the podcast. We'll answer it pretty much live. We don't do any edits on this program.

Jared Ledford:

Eric and I shoot from the hip. We hit the record button, and we let loose, and I know some episodes seem a little bit more organized and a little bit more buttoned up. Some. Some are just loose man, because we're really just like you guys. We're a lot like everybody on this call. We're running a small business, we have a team of employees that work around us and we're trying to start, you know, whatever opportunity we can, going into the next chapter right, looking six months ahead, a year ahead, 18 months ahead, to say what can we do to make it better? And I mean, I can tell you the one thing I'm looking forward to is two weeks from now, we're going to be a shed builder expo. I can tell you that right now, I know I'm excited to meet.

Eric Olson:

You know it's, it's, it's hard to get a following without meeting them. And so, if you do, man, we're, we're going to go to every booth and say hi to everybody and just, and probably you know. So, if you, if you know us, don't be shy. We would like, we'd like to you guys to be a part of our journey. I think we're on episode, we're almost at episode 30.

Jared Ledford:

I think this is 26 or 27, I always have a check with dan I, I, I have it down.

Jared Ledford:

Actually I have it down. It's 27. So, this is. This is 27, I believe, and the team over at shed geek will be happy to update us with that, but I'm pretty certain we're on 27 now and I can tell you that's been 27 weeks of getting to talk to you, um, whoever's listening out there and give you honest feedback on what we're doing right. And, like I said, some weeks are better than other weeks for us. We have down weeks too. You know, I can tell you it's been probably about a month since we've actually shot content, and what I'm realizing in this moment is that I want to do it a little bit more often. I want to do a little bit more frequent because I think that it's good for me. It's good for me to decompress, it's good for me to be honest with everybody and shoot from the hip. I think it's the same for Eric.

Eric Olson:

There's been things coming. Yeah, I turned 40 last month.

Jared Ledford:

Man, that's a big deal and he looks about 10 years younger than me.

Eric Olson:

I turned 37 in April and I feel like somebody. Somebody at youth said you look like a 28 year old and I was like, yeah, yeah, keep thinking that buddy.

Jared Ledford:

If we could just get the gray in our beard to calm down a little bit. We both look younger, but I'm starting to really get the gray the gray.

Eric Olson:

So, if all the young people can think I'm younger, great. And if all the old people can think I'm just mature, the gray is good yeah, that's right, it brings on the character with it.

Jared Ledford:

It brings on the character with it. Yeah, I will tell you this brother.

Jared Ledford:

I will tell you this brother we are at our stopping point. I want to give a collective shout out to the team at Versabend. If you're in the market for a tubular steel bending equipment, check out the team over there at Versabend csecarport. supply. They will be happy to get you what you need. That Versabend is super slick. And for those of you who don't know, Versabend will be at the Royal Forming Trade Show. I know we're talking a lot about trade shows today, but I want to give that shout out to the Construction Roleforming Show. I'm going to pull this back in. Construction Roleforming Show is Let me get my screen removed here and edit it out a little bit Little technical difficulties for those who are watching, but I can tell you this.

Eric Olson:

There's some big things coming that we didn't even scratch today, but just keep listening, keep your ears peeled.

Jared Ledford:

The construction role-forming show takes place in Dayton at the convention center there, not too far from the Steel Kings, I will tell you. At the convention center there, not too far from the Steel Kings, I will tell you. Set up is Tuesday for those of you who are attending as a vendor, but Wednesday and Thursday is the show again. And, man, this is where you're going to be. I think that might be VersaBend right there, I don't know it is VersaBend.

Jared Ledford:

Yeah, I think it might be. I can tell you this you are not going to. You are not going to miss out. Look at all these vendors. Come and check out the team over at Shield Wall at the Roleforming Construction Show October one and two, and come check us out too. We'll be there. Come check out the Steel Kings at the Shed Builder Expo next two weeks from now in Knoxville. We will be there with Shannon. We'll be there with the Shed Geek team. We're going to talk a podcast. We're going to talk about all things metal buildings, steel buildings and woodshed related. I am stumbling on my words, which means we have hit our cap, brother you got anything for us this week, eric?

Eric Olson:

we, as we end up, no, I think we're good man. September 4th at 70 degrees feels like an October 5th, 15th day, uh weather. So, man, NFL kicks off tonight. We got the cowboys at eagles, so kind of a Dallas at Philly. Who you got here, like of course I gotta go with the boys man yeah, er yeah.

Jared Ledford:

Eric's a diehard Dallas fan.

Eric Olson:

I have all your old jerseys in my drawer upstairs, Literally on the drawer closest to underneath the bed, there's all the Cowboys jerseys.

Jared Ledford:

I am also a Dallas fan, but I am becoming more of a Bengals fan the more I watch. Eric will attest to this. I don't watch a lot of anything.

Eric Olson:

I.

Jared Ledford:

I love professional wrestling. I won't miss it. I for all of those who are excited, Russell Palooza is in Indianapolis. I believe it's the 20th. Uh, it's the first premium live event for WWE on ESPN Uh.

Jared Ledford:

John.

Jared Ledford:

Cena is. John Cena is going to be taking on Brock Lesnar. Uh, we've got a lot of exciting things coming to, so we're not far from it wow I can tell you, if I had the free time, I'd be over there, because Russell Palooza is going to be a big deal.

Eric Olson:

I think it's going to be like I think your daughters would go with him.

Jared Ledford:

I know Julia yeah, Julia would definitely be there with Bells on She'd be in the front row.

Jared Ledford:

I can tell you again, Jared and Eric are open to conversation. If you want to talk professional wrestling, you found yourself a friend. I know there are not many of us out there, but I can tell you. If you want, to drop me a line. If you like professional wrestling man I can give you. Eric will tell you. I could talk your ear off about wrestling. I love music, professional wrestling I. I could talk your ear off about wrestling I love music professional wrestling.

Jared Ledford:

I will give a cheap plug to my favorite professional wrestling podcast, the guys over at Ad Free Shows. If you guys are obviously consuming podcasting, you're listening to us, which we're pretty low on the totem pole. If you're listening to us, that means you enjoy podcasts, right? I mean, let's just be honest, right? So if you're listening to podcasts, check out the guys over at ad free shows. Uh, con his team. I have spent time with Conrad over the years. I've enjoyed myself. Uh, everybody just got back from top guy weekend over labor day. I was feeling salty, as I could feel eric, because I did not partake in top guy weekend as part of my, as part of my continued sobriety journey. I skipped it for the second year in a row and I might give it a try next year. But uh, I am still, you know, 19, almost 20 months no alcohol.

Jared Ledford:

So, I am sticking with that, and that includes no trips to top guy weekend because there's a lot of fun that goes on at top guy weekend, so I will steer clear, so I will steer clear. I will steer clear you. You know, I think you got a couple of phone calls once. I think I was on the phone with you a couple of times.

Jared Ledford:

So I can tell you this guys.

Jared Ledford:

Yeah, Chicago man, I can tell you. I can tell you this, guys, we love you guys, and we appreciate you guys listening to our podcast and giving us the time. Come check us out at the Shed Builder Expo in Knoxville the 24th and 25th. If you have a chance. We'd love to just meet you, shake your hand and say hello and thank you for listening. We will be back at you next week with another episode of the steel kings podcast and we will bring you some exciting updates for the role forming show. We we're going to meet with Shannon this week. We're going to talk about some cool things coming up too that we'll share with you. That will be industry impactful. So, I think we'll have some exciting news over the next few weeks. In the meantime, as always, I am Jared, he is Eric, we are the Steel Kings and we are out of here. I think. Go Reds, are they still in this thing, eric?

Eric Olson:

They got a big series tonight starting at home against the Mets. They're four back. They've got to sweep them to get close.

Jared Ledford:

So, for those of you go Reds, go Dallas Cowboys. We will see you next week on the Steel Kings podcast. Check out J Money.

Eric Olson:

Be blessed.

Jared Ledford:

Check out the Shed Geek podcast, Versabend, J Money. All of our friends and we'll talk at you soon Later on, guys.

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