The Detail Solutions Podcast

"HI my name is Jeffery!  I am from Iowa which is of zero importance to the rest of the world, like me..." was how the text message i got from John Perdue talking about Jeff Oswald went.  Jeff isn't a podcast listener and didn't think he'd have anything important to offer but I love hearing people's stories and sharing them with the world.  Just to mess with Jeff I invited a special...

I got the opportunity to meet Brenda Mortenson at Gloss U and it was a real treat.  Brenda was an alumnus of Gloss U since she went to the first one back in 2020 and she had such a great time she came back again.  She even tried to poach Harry to leave New York and move to Wisconsin to work with her.  Brenda details as a hobby and what a hobby it is when you get to take care of a fe...

What an absolutely fun episode I had with Connor Harrison; it was an hour-long giggle fest as we talked about nothing.  Well not really nothing Connor did mention a bit about his start in detailing and his business in between us laughing about my RS3 taking so long, Flip up taillights on corvettes and his love for the podcast.  One of my favorite episodes I've ever done. Support this sho...

The question was asked in The Detail Solutions Podcast discussion group on facebook about selling retail products out of your detail shop.  Well, there was only one person that we thought of to talk on this subject, Rohan Cole from CSR Detail Supply.  Rohan walks us through how he started and what products he chose to sell.  He also gives advice on how you can get started and when i...

I met Harry Birch at GlossU and what a lucky dude. Harry flew into Wisconsin on his own for the very first time and happened to run into Knoxy and me at the airport.  Harry also robbed Knoxy of the most amount of money over the weekend and walked away with the grand prize giveaway.   Support this show and follow us on Facebook: @thedetailsolutionspodcast and @thedetailsolutionspodcastdis...

Apologies upfront, Markus was a little far from the microphone and he's a bit hard to hear. A little bit ago John Perdue reached out and said he would be in Germany doing some stuff with Modesta and would i be interested in talking with some of their distributors from around Europe? I said yes, of course.  So, John arranged for Michal Plsko, Ryan Smith from the UK, Markus Begander from German...

Jim White of White Details and YouTube fame finally agreed to come on the podcast after months of being like Urkel and wearing him down. i talked to Jim about YouTube and how and why he started that adventure.  Jim tells me about being stranded in New Zealand during covid and he also talks about doing his 100K giveaway to raise money for charity. Support this show and follow us on Facebook: @...

Jason and I are joined by Brice Mason and David Patterson to discuss how we each try to maintain a healthy work/life balance.  Brice is 20 and started his detailing business when he was a junior in High School.  He has a busy schedule of work, college, and bible study let alone trying to have a relationship with college aged girls.  David as we all know runs Oberk on top of doing Gl...

Kyle Clark reached out and said that he and Sydni Gwinn were enjoying the podcast and asked if I was interested in doing something with them. Me being a lazy podcast host said "Yeah, let's have you guys on and talk about P&S and Beadmaker and Coffee".  It was interesting learning how Kyle and Sydni became affiliated with P&S and also how they started their podcast.  Support this...

May is Mental Health awareness month in the USA and after the positive feedback from our first episode on the topic I wanted to revisit it.  This time along with having Kinga Hine come back I invited Cam Watson and Mike Cardenas.  As many of you know from the first episode Kinga is a Mental Health professional in New York state.  Mike Cardenas wrote an awesome article for Detailed I...

You spoke and we listened.  Metal Polishing was one of the more asked for topics that we have received from our listeners.  We reached out to Wyatt Robinson with Yellowstone Detailing to give us the run down on doing metal polishing successfully.  Go to our youtube page (link listed below) to see the video of Wyatt showing us the different tools and metal he polishes. Support this s...

David Patterson has been a friend for a few years and supports the podcast probably as much as I've supported Oberk, so it was time we had him on to tell his story. Dave spent a good amount of time talking about his time at Lake Country Mfg and what goes into pad development.  We talked about his involvement with Oberk in the beginning and how it transitioned into a full-time gig and having a...

Jason Killmer called me one day and said he'd like to come on the podcast and talk about Disaster Detailing.  With a lot of YouTube detailers doing Disaster or Barn Find detailing he thought there could be some good information to get out to new or inexperienced detailers.  We invited Brian Guy and Eddy Fiuza because of their experiences with detailing rare and hard to find cars.  E...

Chris Di Giovanni and the crew over at The Detailer's Roadmap design some of the best detailing websites out there.  The Detailer's Roadmap is dedicated to designing website for detailers and no one else.  Chris has been very successful in designing sites for years that he wanted to do something special for the detailing industry.  His crew is not only trained in web design but also...

The gang is all here for the Gloss University training preview.  David Patterson, Jason Killmer, Eron Knox, Jason Otterness, Grant Menard, Matthew Arendt, Chris DiGiovanni and Jennifer Turcotte are all present on this episode to give us the rundown of what it's like to attend a Gloss U training. From tools, to sanding, to Knoxy's outbursts you'll feel like you are there only at the training y...

Jennifer Turcotte has been on just about every podcast or YouTube show and it's one of the reasons I've never invited her on to tell her story.  So, why now you might be asking? Well as many know Jen has decided to leave igl and she wanted to come on the podcast and tell her side of what REALLY happened and clear the rumors up.  In doing so we get to hear a side of Jen that I don't think...

Some months back Jason told me he had an idea to talk about how detailing podcast benefit the industry.  After a few texts we had some really good friends who have podcasts that were willing to do the show.  Dann Williams w/ The Owner's Pride podcast, Dean Farandatos w/ Dean's Den podcast, Levi Gates w/ The Rag Co. and The Master of Shine at Home podcast and Renny Doyle w/ The Renny Doyl...

Finally, we got the chance to talk to Cam Watson from Wagga Wagga, Australia. Cam talks to us about detailing down under and the setbacks he's had over the years, from a fire burning his shop down, to dealing with Covid and more.  He talks about the importance of travel to network and how meeting new people can help your growth.  We touch on a little about mental and personal health whic...

Freedom Fest 2022 is upon us this weekend April 22-23 in Brooks, KY.  Freedom Fest was started by American Detailer Garage founder Billy Baugus, so we invited Billy to come on and let us know what will happen this weekend.  We also asked Billy what his plans for Freedom Fest in the future are?  Support this show and follow us on Facebook: @thedetailsolutionspodcast and @thedetailsol...

Finally got to talk to one of the bad ass ladies of detailing.  I've followed Justyna for years now on Instagram and she's been an inspiration to push me to be better.  Justyna talks about starting her car wash/detailing career when she was 19 back in 1995.  She talks about how she was never the "face" of the business because she's just a blonde girl.  Now Justyna is one of the...

I got the chance to meet Marco after I did the episode with Chris West from Xpel.  Marco reached out when he was in Orlando for Tinter Battles and invited me and Jason Bruno to stop by to check it out.  Marco is an amazing window tinter and is part of the Xpel team where he does trainings.  Marco shares his story of how he started to traveling the world training installers to do tin...

Dave Fermani made a post in a Facebook group about doing a wash, decon and ceramic coating for $4000 and the detail industry lost their collective minds.  I wanted to bring Dave on to answer some of the questions that I had heard from people and to clear the air about the post.  What I've taken away from all this is we as an industry need to stop whining and get to work.  If you hav...

Sheldon Kaye joins us once again to give us the scoop on what's new for the SDC this year.  Registration for SDC opens Wednesday April 13, 2022, for anyone interested in going.  Education classes are limited in size so if you want to attend a class make sure you sign up early. Support this show and follow us on Facebook: @thedetailsolutionspodcast and @thedetailsolutionspodcastdiscussion...

This just in... is going to be a monthly episode highlighting news around the detailing industry.  Whether it's new product releases or internal company news this podcast will be your source of info for what's going on. Thank you to Vyper Industrial. Ober Car Care, Lake Country MFG, Sonax, Sky's the Limit (Microfiber Madness, KXK Dynamics), Gtechniq, igl, Xpel and American Detailer Garage for...

Scott Perkin joined me tonight to talk a little about detailing, egos and share some amusing tales.  Scott is one of those detailers that goes WAY back and has seen it all.  I don't care what they say about him he's not the angriest Canadian or at least he wasn't to me. Support this show and follow us on Facebook: @thedetailsolutionspodcast and @thedetailsolutionspodcastdiscussiongroup o...