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S3-149: Talking Snow With the Boys....While Getting Snow!
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The guys welcome Matt Young of Young Landscapes, and Brandon Reilly of LADC to the show to talk about how the first month of the season has gone for everyone, and where ever else this from the hip conversation goes!
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Introduction & Surprise Birthday
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, boy, let's get it, Snowjobs Nation. We are back again, bringing you episode 149 of the Snowjobs 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
Steve and Jeremy for the 149th Monday in a row coming at you. What is up, Jay?
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RICK JAMES
ah Hey, you know did you know me. I was doing something.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Your backdrop is a little different than normal here. i There's no giant pictures of you.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No Arctic signs. No, nothing.
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RICK JAMES
No.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Where are you?
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RICK JAMES
I am at Dulles International Airport tonight.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You're stranded on a flight or something, or what are you doing there?
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RICK JAMES
What?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You're stranded on a flight.
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RICK JAMES
Top dog. Top dog Todd's birthday today, so I thought I'd come out and surprise him. And, you know, he got a little snow moving in, and I'm going to be a sniper.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's nice. That's nice of you.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, ah pretty quick.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And it just happened to have snow.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, I mean, I brought him that too. I mean, that's his birthday present. I mean, that's what I do. I make people happy.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Jeremy Lindstorm at it again bringing the snow with him wherever he goes
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Bringing the snow, you know, bringing my presents. I mean, it's all
Weather and Airport Incident
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RICK JAMES
good. All good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
that's awesome good for you yeah it's ah <unk> weird it looks like you're in the nexus in the nerve center there lots going on that is that that looks like a very fancy double wide you're in single wide
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RICK JAMES
Well, yeah, I like the wood paneling. That's, you know, it's pretty sweet. i just got that done today.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, well, it's a single wide, but I can afford the double wide.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You got the air conditioner crank in there.
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RICK JAMES
Hopefully.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't think they're going to need that.
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RICK JAMES
Nah, not tonight. I think I'll leave that off. I mean, I could use it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
It's a lot warmer here than where I'm from. so
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The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah I mean, you you could be plowing in a t-shirt tonight, right?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, maybe shirtless.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Well, we are all getting snow tonight. that is ah That is what we're doing. So we're laying this down because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. So ah New York is getting snow. Jersey's getting snow. DC's getting snow.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Is it going south of DC? Is it Maryland and Virginia or no?
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RICK JAMES
I don't know.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right.
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RICK JAMES
All I know there's a plane on fire here today. So but I didn't start it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, i heard that there was a plane on fire.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Did they foam it?
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RICK JAMES
I was flying in. I was flying in today and there's the lady behind me. She's like, you see, there's a fire. I go, yeah, I see that. She goes, that's kind of concerning. I go, I don't know. It looks like there's burning grass, but apparently a bird flew into an engine or something and started playing on fire.
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RICK JAMES
So I don't know.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I'd be like, it ain't concerning if it ain't my plane on fire.
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RICK JAMES
I was like, I was like, wow.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No offense.
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RICK JAMES
We'll see what happens.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I hate to sound like a selfish bastard, but if it ain't my plane, I ain't concerned.
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RICK JAMES
But you are.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, shit.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Oh, shit. Good times.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome. Good for you. Good for you. But, yeah, we are getting a clipper coming, hitting the northeast and the mid-Atlantic, and it is already snowing here. We already have ah about a ah half an inch maybe down.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Nice, light, fluffy, dry. Should be fun pushing.
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RICK JAMES
Half inch. I'd be full force right now with half inch.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Nah, there's no sense in getting out there yet. We got to lay down a podcast here with the boys. So,
Guest Contributors & Snow Events
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, we do.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah, we are just going to throw something together here to get something recorded for Monday.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So to help us do that tonight, have a couple crowd favorites with us. We got Brandon Riley of LADC, we got Matty Young of Young Landscapes, upstate New York.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
He is actually, he's flexing right now.
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RICK JAMES
Maddy muscles.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
and He is, he's also getting snow.
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RICK JAMES
ah Hey, easy. it The shirt's we're going to rip the shirt there, bud. Hulkamania. Hulkamania. should be doing video.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
mainly Oh shoot Yeah Was it I am a real American There's Maddie's entrance song Oh
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RICK JAMES
it's gotta be his theme music, Hulkamania.
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RICK JAMES
Yep. Yep. I'm a real American.
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RICK JAMES
Or the Macho Man.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, the only one not getting snow tonight is Brandon, right? You get a nice night off, and then you know they've been hitting it pretty hard in Minnesota. minnesota It's so funny, though. I was telling Brandon the other day, all these guys that were crying that they didn't get snow for two straight years are now crying because it won't shut off.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
There's no making these guys happy.
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RICK JAMES
Snow guys, you can't make us happy. think we worked every day this week.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah it's ah it's It's a good start to the season, right?
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RICK JAMES
Very good. I mean, yeah, we haven't had a ton of inches, but we have we put in quite a few hours.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But you're out there, yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, we're working, so.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
you're out Everybody's been out there.
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RICK JAMES
yeah so it's Yeah, like you said, the East Coast is getting hit tonight, you know, so.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Been a good start for most of the snow-pushing universe that that our listeners are in, so that's great. but
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
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RICK JAMES
Ohio's getting hammered. Michigan, been getting just hammered.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, the lake's got to shut up quick for them.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Got Chicago. Chicago's been in a drought for a couple years. they They're getting hammered. The Straits are out there.
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RICK JAMES
so and was Johnny was pushing again today. He was Snapchatting me. he He was pushing in that Sideswiper underneath some trailers.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
crazy yeah everybody's been good it's it's good everybody's happy everybody well i don't think everybody's happy some guys complain him too much but uh it's been good man it's been real good and uh it's a great start to winter and
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RICK JAMES
don't know about happy.
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RICK JAMES
He can't.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
you know We're going to talk about it tonight. We're going to talk about the ah you know welcome to the winter scramble, trying to get an episode laid down while everybody everybody's getting snow or recovering from snow or looking forward to snow tomorrow. so ah We're going to talk to the boys and see how the first pushes of the year have gone.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah you know What's gone well? What hasn't?
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RICK JAMES
Thank you.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What's worked well? What hasn't? What's broken? What's not breaking? stuff
Podcast Achievements
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The SnowJobs Podcast
like that. So that's what we're going to do tonight. But you know what we got to do before we do that? We're going to hear from Team Top Gun. Actually, we're going to run all the commercials, all the 30s, and we're going to right into the week in review with the boys tonight. All right. So we'll be back in two and a half minutes.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
all right we are back so we're gonna do the weekend review with the boys tonight so let's welcome brandon and matt back to the show how are we boys how's everything
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Brandon Reilly
Good. Negative 14 right now. So it's beautiful outside.
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RICK JAMES
Really nice t-shirt weather. Get those nips hard, Brandon.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah it's good if you have an outdoor rink it's tough what's up maddie how are we good very good can't complain
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Matty Muscles
What's up, gentlemen? I'm good. How are you?
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Matty Muscles
little under the weather, but we're making it making it happen.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. All right.
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RICK JAMES
Nice.
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Matty Muscles
Kids.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, that's all I know it.
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Matty Muscles
Kids.
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RICK JAMES
Good girl.
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Matty Muscles
they
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Trust me. I got two weeks.
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RICK JAMES
Tis the season.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Two weeks.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
She was down with a fever.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, so we're going to do the Week in Review with you guys tonight because a lot of what we're going to talk about in the Week in Review, some big news there, concerns, you know, you guys who have helped us get to this point.
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Matty Muscles
Thank
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RICK JAMES
the
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You've always been there for us, and you're not only guest contributors on a semi-regular basis, but you guys are also listeners. So ah we
Birthday Celebration & Snow Updates
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The SnowJobs Podcast
had Spotify drop their 2025 wrapped for creators for the snow jobs this week.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And we took home some hardware, our little snow show. We took home three Spotify 2025 awards, which is pretty cool.
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Matty Muscles
Thank you.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We took home a top 2025 marathon show, which means our listeners listen to our show 98% longer than any other shows on Spotify. We took home a 2025 most talked about show, which means that our show got 93% more comments than other shows on Spotify.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And we took home a 2025 most shared show on Spotify because our listeners shared our show 92% more than other shows on Spotify. So that is directly related to the two of you and all the listeners out there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So we wanted to talk about that with you guys. Thank you very much for all your help. And over the last almost three years now, couldn't do it without you guys. not i but
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Matty Muscles
Yeah, I mean, I think that's great. Like, you guys are killing it.
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Brandon Reilly
That's amazing.
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Matty Muscles
and Like, we play a very, very, very small role in that. So more kudos to you.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Nonsense.
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Matty Muscles
Hey, Todd's here.
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Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Ah, chop dog Todd.
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Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Todd's here. Good birthday, boy.
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Matty Muscles
it's fit
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Happy birthday.
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RICK JAMES
Thank you, boys. Appreciate
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Matty Muscles
Happy birthday, big guy
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Doesn't look a day over 65.
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RICK JAMES
Thank brother. Appreciate
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Matty Muscles
I'm going to give him 45.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
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Matty Muscles
Come on. Look, guys looking good.
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RICK JAMES
that. Appreciate that.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
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RICK JAMES
All good?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
so yeah yeah good it's coming it's ah it's already started here so i mean i thought it was gonna start south first and work its way up but uh apparently uh we're getting it first but um
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RICK JAMES
Everybody good? Can send some of that snow this way for us?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. He's easy wearing white.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
oh he'll get it give him some he'll break something let him and let him get out there and play
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Matty Muscles
get some great Get some grease on that white shirt he's got on. Come on.
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RICK JAMES
easy wearing white
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Matty Muscles
ha ha ha ha.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah he does all he does all the apparel purchasing and my boy does not wear rags
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Matty Muscles
Ha ha ha ha
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah, I don't wear rings, no?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
he does not wear rags listen them you yeah if Gucci made a snow sweatshirt we'd have it alright
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Matty Muscles
yeah
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RICK JAMES
Hey, there's no kill man t-shirts
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Matty Muscles
Yes.
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RICK JAMES
here, I can tell you that. Nope, nope.
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Matty Muscles
ah Guys rocking Travis Matthew right now. Come on.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely Absolutely
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RICK JAMES
Oh, come on, this guy, he has your heart, the stuff you wear always pretty sweet, too, so.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah No we definitely Jeremy's definitely ah He handles all our apparel and we do have Top of the line stuff so he's He's the man with that and he does not wear Reds why
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RICK JAMES
He's already giving me shit tonight about my ah but my apparel, you know, my snow-pushing apparel with joggers and, you know, tennis shoes.
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Matty Muscles
You cracks? yeah You your cracks with you?
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RICK JAMES
I don't wear cro never had a Croc, never tried a pair of Crocs out of my life.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah you kidding me have you ever you ever tried to wrangle carts into a corral wearing crocs that doesn't work you can't do it
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RICK JAMES
no
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Matty Muscles
Bullshit.
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RICK JAMES
No, I haven't. Nope.
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RICK JAMES
I don't have Crocs. Never Tennis shoes. want tennis shoes. I mean, I've got guys showing here in, tracks and all walking around. It's just like, you know, pair jeans or
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The SnowJobs Podcast
well but for jeremy this is like pushing in august you know you're 35 degrees
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Brandon Reilly
It's
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Matty Muscles
You should be happy he's not wearing shorts.
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RICK JAMES
got joggers on.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. um You want to see these chicken legs, don't you?
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Matty Muscles
yeah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man. ah
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RICK JAMES
I got float swabs the truck.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So, uh, yep. So, yeah, it was ah it was kind of interesting. We we took home those those three awards, and we also took home some interesting stats.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So Spotify says we had 1.1 million minutes worth of listen in 2025 just on Spotify, and that's our third-ranked platform for listeners.
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RICK JAMES
That's cool.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So that's pretty cool to have that many minutes of listening by that many guys. where We're the top show for – Over 1,100 guys, 1,187 people. We are the top show on Spotify that they listen to.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
um We were listened to in 32 countries. U.S. and Canada were by far, you know, number one and number two. But guess who was number three? You'll never guess
New Partnership Announcement
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The SnowJobs Podcast
this.
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Matty Muscles
Australia.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No, I would have thought Australia.
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RICK JAMES
Japan?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
What do you got, Todd? What?
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Brandon Reilly
Huh.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No. Our number three most listened to country was Hungary.
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RICK JAMES
Oh.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's what I said. Hungary. Really? I couldn't believe it. Followed by Norway and then Great Britain were our top five company countries. Listen, but it's pretty sick.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Pretty cool. lot of great information that they compile for you as creators.
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Matty Muscles
Yeah, that's awesome.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So that it's it's really cool.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah, we got a... We haven't got any apparel orders from Hungary yet. What the hell?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No, we got one from from Australia, though.
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RICK JAMES
Australia.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's how we knew that was real down there.
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RICK JAMES
I shipped them stuff to Australia last year.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Couldn't believe it.
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Brandon Reilly
Sounds like fun shipping.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Yeah, right. Well, that's what Jeremy did.
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RICK JAMES
don't pay shipping.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
He loaded up the box. The guy, he he ordered a sweatshirt that was going to be like $480 by the time he got shipped there.
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RICK JAMES
I loaded a box for them.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
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RICK JAMES
I loaded it up. It took like a month to get there.
00:15:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he loaded it up. But yeah, we we didn't. We thought that we thought when we had like 250 listens in Australia, we we were thinking like it was snow guys on vacation in the summer listening to the show or something on the beach.
00:15:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
And ah we get this apparel order from from Australia. And the guy was like, no, we get like 10 inches of snow here. I'm like, holy crap. Look at that. Yeah, we didn't know. It was like a legit thing.
00:15:56
RICK JAMES
What's the thing?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So, yeah.
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Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
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Matty Muscles
Can you ask him if the toilets spin the other way?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
um ah
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RICK JAMES
Oh.
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Matty Muscles
That's gotta be a thing, right?
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RICK JAMES
a
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But, yeah, it's pretty cool, man. We got some we got some reach out there. it's It's great. And, you know, it's directly related to all of our listeners and all the guys that have helped us with the show. And everybody every everybody who's listened or been on the show has had a hand in the success of it. You know, it's like I said, it's just – It's me and Jeremy press and record, but it's the whole community that's that's pushing it forward.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So we couldn't do it without every single guy out there and and girl out there that's listening to the show. So thank you guys all for all your listens, all your time. 1.1 million minutes just on Spotify alone of your time.
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Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:16:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
There's some people that ain't doing much else. Because when guys started posting, when when Spotify put their rap out and guys started sending us, like, you listen to the Snowjobs for this many minutes, Like there were guys in like five and 6,000 minutes this year that listened. And we figured out that Sean doesn't listen all that much.
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RICK JAMES
a
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The SnowJobs Podcast
hes He's not, he's not, he wasn't even in the top 15%.
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RICK JAMES
Look at John.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't think.
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RICK JAMES
He can at least put it on the background while he's mapping in the pickup.
00:17:04
Brandon Reilly
with.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
was like, Oh my God.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You would think, right?
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Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:17:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
But he, uh,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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RICK JAMES
He's a Hall Fame fisherman.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
When he's baiting sharks with his feet. Yes. I don't know if you'd call that fishing, but yeah, Sean's getting snow tonight.
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RICK JAMES
ah apple Does Apple not have this kind of deal too or just Spotify?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We're going to see how salt's out he does. don' Sean's getting snow. Yeah. Apple. Apple has analytics, but they don't do like a they don't do like a ah year-end wrap-up for you to see all the – you can compile them yourself if you have the time and hours to do it. But ah to my knowledge, and if I'm wrong, you know somebody please reach out to me and tell me where I can get this type of wrap thing for Apple. But um we just have to look at the analytics on Apple.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But, I mean, they're awesome.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They're they're off the charts because Apple is usually three to four times what we do on Spotify. So it's it's been good.
00:18:03
Matty Muscles
Steve, you might as well throw out some of those big name podcasts that you guys are now associated with.
00:18:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh so yeah so that was what they said like so your your snow job show rap said your snow job show is being listened to in the same sentences with uh sean ryan joe rogan theo vaughn um what the hell was the other guy the other guy i can't remember the the fourth you know like these are like mainstream podcasts and i'm like what
00:18:32
RICK JAMES
That's my, yeah, the show I do by myself. That's the other one. Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
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Matty Muscles
you
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RICK JAMES
Yep. Yep. ah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
the lindstorm
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RICK JAMES
oh
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The SnowJobs Podcast
oh my god but yeah it's uh it's pretty crazy man it's it's really cool uh who would have thought you know in just in just under three we're not even three years old yet we got a what about a month till our little over a month till our third birthday
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Matty Muscles
so
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RICK JAMES
yep
00:19:00
Brandon Reilly
So you get a plaque like YouTube, you know, like now you're a platinum person or...
00:19:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know. Honestly, they sent us nice little certificates in the rap thing for the for the three awards.
00:19:08
Brandon Reilly
Oh, nice.
00:19:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, it was it was pretty wild, pretty unexpected. So it was cool. But um yeah, I mean, again, thanks to all the listeners out there. that That was super unexpected, super cool. And it seems to get every year. It seems to I think last year, what were we like, 23 countries, Jeremy?
00:19:24
RICK JAMES
Something like that, yeah. Sounds about right.
00:19:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
And now we're 32 countries that we have listens to. We have listens in places that don't ever have a prayer of getting snow, which I can't figure out. Like half of South America listens to the show. According to to Spotify.
00:19:38
Matty Muscles
They got to get snow up in the mountains in like Chile or something like that, right?
00:19:40
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:19:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. You think, and you think they're listening up there?
00:19:44
Matty Muscles
Is there a is there a translate option?
00:19:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
i don't think so.
00:19:46
Matty Muscles
i don't know.
00:19:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:19:52
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah. e Sure.
00:19:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's pretty crazy. But, yeah. um So the other... Do we want to we want to talk about our other big piece of news there? Our new partner coming on? Do
00:20:03
RICK JAMES
Yeah,
Snow Challenges & Equipment Issues
00:20:04
RICK JAMES
we might as well. Let rip.
00:20:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
you want to do it?
00:20:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
So starting in December, you guys asked for more episodes.
00:20:07
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:20:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
And as always, you guys ask and we try and make it happen for you. Boss Snowplows has come on board as a partner and they want to do episodes for the guys out there that want to hear them.
00:20:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
So they want to do educational based stuff and give, you know, give guys back some stuff, you know, some knowledge and stuff that'll help them. And they're going to come on and they're going to do episodes with us. I think we're starting with six episodes.
00:20:35
RICK JAMES
Next episode,
00:20:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
And we'll we'll do them all throughout this winter and maybe a couple ah a couple towards you know the fall and next winter. So we're really excited about that and welcome aboard to Boss Snow Plows. That's really cool.
00:20:49
Brandon Reilly
It's amazing.
00:20:49
Matty Muscles
That's awesome. Yeah, that's great.
00:20:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it should be a lot of fun. should be really good. And we'll see some I'm sure we'll talk to some familiar faces in those episodes and hear...
00:20:59
Matty Muscles
It's good to have a tier to truck plow on board.
00:21:03
RICK JAMES
cool.
00:21:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, really, dude? Really?
00:21:05
RICK JAMES
Come on, Matt.
00:21:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Wow.
00:21:06
RICK JAMES
I'm a boss guy. What do you
00:21:07
Matty Muscles
I'm kidding.
00:21:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
well
00:21:08
Matty Muscles
I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
00:21:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:21:10
RICK JAMES
Snow X? No, you're a Fisher guy, aren't you?
00:21:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, yeah, he is a fisher guy.
00:21:14
Matty Muscles
Yeah, i'm and I'm a Douglas guy.
00:21:16
RICK JAMES
Yeah, Douglas. Yeah.
00:21:17
Matty Muscles
no no No shade on boss. I'm just you know trying to trying to keep the stick up.
00:21:22
RICK JAMES
beast
00:21:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we'll probably get into our Arctic Metal Plus argument shortly again.
00:21:24
RICK JAMES
That's fine. You have to. You have
00:21:29
Matty Muscles
I was just going to say, like I got to get it in where I can because I know it's coming later.
00:21:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:21:33
RICK JAMES
to.
00:21:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
I already, i yeah whatever you have to say, I already have the response for you.
00:21:34
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
00:21:38
RICK JAMES
ah
00:21:38
Brandon Reilly
was
00:21:39
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:21:40
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
00:21:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
00:21:42
RICK JAMES
so ye
00:21:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah ah
00:21:47
Matty Muscles
Yeah, and when and when and when that and when that doesn't work, you're just going to put me on mute anyways like you did last time.
00:21:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, what would I do without Ken Jeong?
00:21:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mute.
00:21:52
RICK JAMES
Yep. Yeah.
00:21:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it.
00:21:52
RICK JAMES
Yeah. it is mute matt yeah
00:21:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:21:55
Matty Muscles
Yep.
00:21:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, I got to get the wedding singer.
00:21:55
Matty Muscles
Yep.
00:21:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, I have a microphone.
00:21:57
RICK JAMES
He drank that Kool-Aid. Are you drinking the Kool-Aid again tonight or what do you got, Keto?
00:21:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
yes it not only is
00:22:01
Matty Muscles
Oh, yeah, cool. Yep, yep.
00:22:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's hydraulic fluid.
00:22:03
Matty Muscles
Got a tumbler full of it.
00:22:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's not Kool-Aid.
00:22:05
Matty Muscles
Yeah, it's all hydraulic fluid in here.
00:22:07
Brandon Reilly
like,
00:22:07
RICK JAMES
Well, yeah. I don't blame you.
00:22:08
Brandon Reilly
My member plus was leaking last week.
00:22:09
Matty Muscles
yeah I got drums.
00:22:10
RICK JAMES
You better have there a lot.
00:22:11
Matty Muscles
i got i got i I got drums
00:22:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
What's that, Brandon?
00:22:12
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:22:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
i think Brandon has branon has something to say.
00:22:14
Matty Muscles
i got drums full of it
00:22:14
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:22:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Brandon says ah has something to say.
00:22:17
Brandon Reilly
I was walking through my shop and our Agra Max on our $466 was leaking all over the floor.
00:22:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah no. No. Who could have called that?
00:22:26
RICK JAMES
ah
00:22:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
But you guys have you've had problems with the Yagra Maxes, right, Brandon?
00:22:31
Brandon Reilly
We did with our first batch and then we've, you know, Loctited them up and then We traded in all those ones and got new ones, and then we've been good they're on their second year. But this one was sitting in the shop, and you know when the snow melts off, there was the puddle of water.
00:22:45
Brandon Reilly
And I was like, why is there green eyes are green and puddles inside the water?
00:22:47
Matty Muscles
A rainbow cloud. it is
00:22:49
RICK JAMES
Why does the puddle not dry up?
00:22:50
Matty Muscles
it
00:22:51
RICK JAMES
What
00:22:52
Brandon Reilly
Touched, and I was looks like I got two loose fittings already.
00:22:56
RICK JAMES
did you say? You trade your plows?
00:22:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, I mean.
00:22:59
Brandon Reilly
we yeah We traded the whole whole machine in for brand new ones.
00:22:59
RICK JAMES
What is that like? Oh, wow. Weird. is well we just
00:23:03
Brandon Reilly
Metal Pust was supposed to come to our shop and talk to us about it, never did, and our dealer decided to take those ones off our hands and get us new ones.
00:23:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know.
00:23:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm. Interesting.
00:23:15
RICK JAMES
well
00:23:16
Matty Muscles
And they still leak.
00:23:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, that I'll give him that.
00:23:18
Brandon Reilly
It took two years on it, so I'll give them that. it was better than the first one.
00:23:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that's I'll give him that one. I mean, after yeah after two seasons, stuff loosens up, you know, expanding, contracting, all that stuff.
00:23:29
RICK JAMES
Easy rust together in snow, though, if you have it. Yeah.
00:23:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
That is true, actually. Oh, man.
00:23:35
RICK JAMES
a
00:23:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
So what do we want to talk about tonight, boys? We've all had snow. We've all had events. what what what How have they gone? Brandon, like you probably, how many times have you guys pushed already?
00:23:46
Brandon Reilly
Uh, we are probably close to, well, there are multi-days in these events, I'd say about 13 times probably, you know, with those first accounts with those trace accounts, those half-inch or blows that, you know, require you to push, yeah.
00:23:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
You've had 13 pushes already?
00:23:59
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:24:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, wow.
00:24:04
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:24:04
Brandon Reilly
We've had about 20 de-icings.
00:24:07
RICK JAMES
Peace.
00:24:09
Brandon Reilly
So it's it's been basically from Thanksgiving until now.
00:24:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Holy crap.
00:24:11
Brandon Reilly
i just looking at True Weather's, uh, um like information We basically had Thanksgiving off, but we had ah Tuesday into Wednesday before Thanksgiving, thursday or Thanksgiving off, and then we basically have gotten snow every day since.
00:24:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Wow.
00:24:27
RICK JAMES
Wow.
00:24:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Are you complaining about it or no?
00:24:29
Brandon Reilly
No.
00:24:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
00:24:30
Brandon Reilly
I know you said that to me, but I was like, i don't if it doesn't snow, I don't care. The only thing that talks about not snowing is the guys, right?
00:24:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
I just read.
00:24:38
Brandon Reilly
The guys that do this for a seasonal thing, you lose a lot of them because you know you're they're just not getting the hours and you it's not there. So um obviously when you get this kind of stuff, to get there's plenty of guys.
00:24:49
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:24:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yeah, definitely. i mean, yeah, I've just, I've been glancing at different chat groups and stuff on Facebook and, and stuff like that. And you, you see guys like, all right, shut off already. Like, come on, this is ridiculous now.
00:25:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like what really for two years, you guys were starving. Like now we, you got it.
00:25:07
Brandon Reilly
It was getting tiring.
00:25:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Enjoy it.
00:25:08
Brandon Reilly
I mean, there was a point where it's like, I just i just want the guys to... We're getting at that point where it's they need some rest, right?
00:25:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Getting dangerous.
00:25:14
Brandon Reilly
you're getting Safety concerns right now.
00:25:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:25:16
Brandon Reilly
well
00:25:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Getting dangerous.
00:25:17
Brandon Reilly
We finally got to that point where they you know they got this weekend off. It looks like we might have next week off until maybe Friday. um But at least...
00:25:25
RICK JAMES
I see they already got shot for Christmas in the whole forecast, I see, for us.
00:25:26
Brandon Reilly
re been Yeah, they... Yep.
00:25:31
RICK JAMES
Shocker.
00:25:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
You got snow and Christmas?
00:25:34
RICK JAMES
Every year.
00:25:34
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:25:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Whoa. Yeah, I think we're clear. I think we're clear.
00:25:38
Brandon Reilly
i remember I remember talking to other people and I was like, this can come right now every single day.
00:25:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
for
00:25:42
Brandon Reilly
Just give me the week of Christmas off. And then up but up until New Year's and then we're back at it.
00:25:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
that's
00:25:46
Brandon Reilly
I'm totally fine with that.
00:25:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the kiss of death, though. You can't say that.
00:25:50
RICK JAMES
yeah.
00:25:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
You can think it, but you can't say it out loud.
00:25:50
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Definitely. Definitely.
00:25:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, what about you, Matt? How many times have you pushed so far up there in the great white north of New York?
00:26:00
Matty Muscles
We've had, we've only had one full push. um
00:26:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Really?
00:26:06
Matty Muscles
yeah the uh last week we had i'd say probably like an inch and a half that came down but we did a pre-treat that fought through it and um we were able to follow it up with another ah with another round of salt and not that we're like trying to burn it off but when we have enough it's been so cold we've got enough residual down that it's been able to hold up to it and normally like we're way colder through December than I can remember.
00:26:35
Matty Muscles
I mean, it's just been a really cold spell here. So typically we see some cold temps and then it'll warm up and we'll get some rain and some, you know, like warmer type weather, but we just haven't seen that.
00:26:48
Matty Muscles
So we've been able to kind of fight through it now.
00:26:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. Well,
00:26:51
Matty Muscles
Granted I say that, and then we've got a site that's 45 minutes away from here and they've got like six or eight pushes in already this year. so
00:27:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
that's what I was going to say. I thought, ah so north of you is pushed a lot more. If you go up like Saratoga north.
00:27:04
Matty Muscles
Yeah, north north north yet north Saratoga from there they pushed and then um out west a little bit where they're catching more of the lake effect like they've been pushing too. so But in the greater Albany area, it's it's so hit or miss.
00:27:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. Gotcha.
00:27:17
Matty Muscles
We have this I-90 corridor and like there's usually a split like north of I-90 and south of I-90. um So it's it's kind of all over the map. But for my immediate area, like we've had like one one big one big push. and And
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00:27:34
Matty Muscles
by that, I mean like I think we had like – I measured on my deck. We had like six and a half inches or so. And so during during that storm, we pushed you know three times, but like one great storm.
00:27:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
okay yeah i got the wrong guy jeremy i should have gotten kevin from at around that customs up there because i think they've pushed like six or seven times already up there killing yeah they getting killed up there
00:27:47
Matty Muscles
Not great, but...
00:27:53
RICK JAMES
right.
00:27:55
Matty Muscles
Yeah, they're they're banging it out up there. they had six They had six inches two days ago. where we had where we didn't yeah that was the one we've we were able to kind of you know fight through with salt
00:28:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
gotcha all right well you're in my boat then because we've only had one push we'll do our second push in the morning here or or in a little bit who knows but uh
00:28:15
Matty Muscles
i mean radar says it's snowing at my house right now and it's i'm looking out the window and it's not so that's it that's a true that's a true weather report or i'm sorry a weather pros report
00:28:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
and Okay.
00:28:23
RICK JAMES
Sounds about right.
00:28:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah,
00:28:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah I mean, we're definitely getting it.
00:28:32
Brandon Reilly
Have you tried to run it?
00:28:33
Matty Muscles
you want You want to hit that button? You want to you want to hit that button?
00:28:36
RICK JAMES
The weatherman is wrong?
00:28:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah I don't think I got it. Yeah, I don't got it. Oh, yeah, I do have it. Yeah,
00:28:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
and I do have that one.
00:28:49
RICK JAMES
You can't ever not take that one off.
00:28:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, yeah, I switched them up a little bit. It wasn't in the same spot it usually is. Oh, and Jeremy, you've pushed what? Three, four times?
00:28:59
RICK JAMES
Six times we've been out.
00:29:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Six times to push?
00:29:02
RICK JAMES
Well, it's counting cleanups and stuff, yeah.
00:29:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, yeah. I mean, you guys clean up a tenth of an inch, right?
00:29:06
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:29:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Because you your salt doesn't work out there.
00:29:09
RICK JAMES
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, we clean up a temp of it. For sure.
00:29:12
Brandon Reilly
Well.
00:29:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
The fire brine doesn't burn it all off?
00:29:13
RICK JAMES
Just didn't. Nah, it didn't get spun enough. didn't get spun up enough.
00:29:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, it wasn't warm enough when you put it in the tank?
00:29:21
RICK JAMES
No, we didn't preheat it, so.
00:29:25
RICK JAMES
It had the mix go on it, you know, for a day or two.
00:29:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Jesus.
00:29:30
RICK JAMES
quite the operation.
00:29:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
So let's ah let's go around the room then. So, Brandon, you've obviously pushed the most out of anybody. How has it gone? Is it going as planned? Is it going sideways? Like, how has it gone for you?
00:29:44
Brandon Reilly
It's been pretty good. i mean, we've had our issues, right? We've got new machines that a couple have caught on fire due to melted fuses and things like that.
00:29:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
That happens.
00:29:53
Brandon Reilly
now
00:29:53
RICK JAMES
What?
00:29:54
Brandon Reilly
Not like full one you know, destroyed, but there's, you know, there's spots where like, don't even know what the, you know, quarter size gauged wire is, has basically melted through.
00:29:54
RICK JAMES
What?
00:30:06
Brandon Reilly
um Basically making so loaders can't start and things like that. Yeah. things like that. We've had tires fall off sidewalk machines, um dead machines, just, you know, dead batteries, stuff's not plugged in or can't be plugged in. So just trying to get that stuff to start at the cold weather, but otherwise it's been, it's been pretty good.
00:30:24
Brandon Reilly
um I can't, I can't complain to be honest. I mean, the guys have showed up, they've delivered, um done exactly what we asked them to do. And even through all the the pushing every day and, Like a lot of them, like i said, a lot of them are getting to the point where it's like, can we can we get a day off?
00:30:35
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:30:39
Brandon Reilly
and Just a day a break?
00:30:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that's wild. That's wild.
00:30:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:30:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's cool. So you had new machines burst into flames?
00:30:47
Brandon Reilly
Like the on the back of, i don't know how to describe this, where the battery goes up into the back of the machine where it you know hits all the motherboard and everything. There's like the huge gauge wires.
00:30:58
Brandon Reilly
um There's like four of them.
00:30:58
RICK JAMES
the 926s?
00:30:59
Brandon Reilly
we've had There's like fuses in them and the fuses have caught on fire and melted
00:31:04
RICK JAMES
Oh. Okay.
00:31:06
Brandon Reilly
No, no, the cats have been fine. No, I haven't had any issues with the cats. This is on the 344s.
00:31:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
No. Interesting.
00:31:13
RICK JAMES
There you go.
00:31:15
Brandon Reilly
So the metal plus is just putting too much power through and it's causing them start on fire.
00:31:19
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I'll probably go.
00:31:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Interesting. Sure.
00:31:22
RICK JAMES
Hopefully, don't get that oil burning behind you.
00:31:25
Brandon Reilly
And then we were having a conversation because they're like, this isn't under warranty. You guys didn't. We're like, what wait, what? We didn't wire anything into these wires.
00:31:31
Matty Muscles
Thank
00:31:32
Brandon Reilly
Why why are we being blamed? And we took a picture and like how, because we put battery maintainers on everything, right? So when it plugs in, in the cold, at least the battery's being charged at full charge so it can crank over.
00:31:43
Brandon Reilly
And they're like, you guys wired something in here. I go, we're not wiring anything to where the thing melted. That's, we go straight to the battery. This is not, this was not us.
00:31:50
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:31:51
Brandon Reilly
So.
00:31:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, I mean, that's standard dealer practice, right? Like, deny, deny, deny. This is not on us. Definitely not. that's That's standard operating procedure pretty much right now.
00:32:01
Matty Muscles
you
00:32:03
Brandon Reilly
But no, the dealer was like, no, it's warranty. We're we're we're all good. So they got him up and running that same day. It was an interesting thing to find. Yeah.
00:32:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Very cool. Yeah, you don't expect that, right? You buy a brand new machine, pay way too much for them, and burst into flames.
00:32:18
Brandon Reilly
Now, the tire rolling off my sidewalk machine from 1992, that I get because the tire the rim was rusty. so that this so let's making a joke the other day because we picked up a bunch of you know new fifteen in five s and seventy five s and
00:32:24
Matty Muscles
ah
00:32:25
RICK JAMES
I believe that. Yeah.
00:32:34
Brandon Reilly
um this ninety ninety two f eleven forty five has less rust on it than a machine that is three years old
00:32:38
Matty Muscles
It a
00:32:41
Brandon Reilly
then i'm going ninety two
00:32:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
really yeah
00:32:44
Brandon Reilly
except for that rim that that broke off
00:32:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
that's not bad you got 20 something years out of it oh man maddie what about you anything breaking so far how's things gone on your first push you have problems
00:32:51
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, exactly.
00:33:02
Matty Muscles
We've been all right. I mean, we had, so outside of my complete lack of preparedness, we had, we had some, yeah, yeah. Honestly, yeah, we had some issues.
00:33:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think that was everybody this year.
00:33:14
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:33:15
Matty Muscles
and I don't know.
00:33:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
We were behind too.
00:33:15
Matty Muscles
I mean, I can't sugarcoat it. Like, like, yeah, we had some issues.
00:33:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, we were behind too.
00:33:19
Matty Muscles
We were behind the eight ball. It was completely on me. But um so we had a we had 914 that had charging issue, but we figured that out. um Luckily, like my operator, she was able to fight through it. um She did a great job. Like,
00:33:38
Matty Muscles
Literally, we were figuring out like what we had to do to keep the machine running, turning off like, okay, turn off these lights, turn off the turn.
00:33:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
like Apollo 13.
00:33:48
Matty Muscles
Yes, absolutely.
00:33:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
I need 13 amps. That's it.
00:33:49
Matty Muscles
yeah It literally was. It's like, okay, don't you can only run the heater for so long. And then you can have if you if you hit the road if you hit the road, you can put the lights on but don't I'm serious.
00:33:54
RICK JAMES
Oh, boy.
00:34:00
Matty Muscles
um So we figured that out. um That's all set. Then we had, yeah, we had some other issues too. Like nothing I'm proud of, but you know what? You got to make it through.
00:34:11
Matty Muscles
Like, what are you going to do?
00:34:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
<unk> it
00:34:13
Matty Muscles
you You know, you got to pivot and and do what you got to do to make it through. Sidewalk machines were fine. um Metal Plus lines blew, you know, leaky, you know, just like big you know, big surprise.
00:34:25
Matty Muscles
Some hydraulic lines that blew, but we had...
00:34:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
whoa wait a minute we're we're just gonna gloss over that you we had a 25 minute argument you know what 10 episodes ago 25 minute argument and now we're just gonna gloss oh by the way ah
00:34:28
RICK JAMES
Oh, but it's scraping though, right?
00:34:34
RICK JAMES
Yeah. well
00:34:40
RICK JAMES
No issues. No issues at all.
00:34:42
Matty Muscles
we can
00:34:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
but ah ah
00:34:47
Matty Muscles
listen i'll eat my humble pie but i will tell you like if you're prepared and you know we were prepared enough to have some spare hoses to be able to make it make it work and uh in all fairness like the the plow that um it's a 1020 and i bought it used The previous owner didn't do any kind of maintenance to it.
00:35:12
Matty Muscles
So like I noticed a few hoses. I'm like, yeah, we should probably get some extras for that because that's going to blow the first storm. And sure enough, it did. And, ah you know, 10 minutes later, you're back up and running. But listen, when you can.
00:35:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Obviously, we're joking, you know, like, I mean, any hydraulic, any hydraulics in a snowstorm, you're talking about hot hydraulic fluid in the coldest temperatures, moving fittings back and forth.
00:35:26
Matty Muscles
i get it. get
00:35:28
RICK JAMES
Oui. Right.
00:35:30
Matty Muscles
i get it
00:35:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, shit's going to happen.
00:35:37
Matty Muscles
Yep. Yep. Absolutely. And you know what? Like... By no means, like I said, like i'm I try and think that I'm prepared for all this kind of stuff. And of course, like we feel like we are and
Snow Contracts & Team Performance
00:35:49
Matty Muscles
then we never are. But we did have some foresight on that.
00:35:52
Matty Muscles
So I was glad we were able to to make it work and that worked out OK. So overall, like you know we we made it through the storm. First push, like my guys did great. like They're back into you know back into the routine of of what we do. And and ah you know we made it through.
00:36:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I mean, dude, you, like, at least you are transitioning from, you know, hardscaping, stuff like that, to snow. So, I mean, you have an excuse to not be 100% prepared when the first event comes, especially if that's early.
00:36:21
Matty Muscles
Every day.
00:36:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
I have zero excuse.
00:36:27
Matty Muscles
We literally do that. We do we do that every day.
00:36:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:36:30
Matty Muscles
So a lot of people like who don't understand fully like what what we do, they'll be like, oh, you know, like, how how is it going? Like, I'm like, you know, this is like the busiest time of the season for us because we transition from snow to build work every day.
00:36:45
Matty Muscles
Like it's, it's just like, that's kind of how it goes. And our guys understand it Like they know the routine, but people who don't see it. And, and I know a lot of guys who listen to, to the show and, and can truly appreciate that.
00:36:58
Matty Muscles
But we go through that every day.
00:36:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:37:01
Matty Muscles
It's like, I'm, um I'm popping salters out of trucks so that we can run stone and do you know do build work. And then whether we make it through the day or not, it could be you could be coming back at 3 o'clock in the afternoon throwing a salter back in the truck so you can go out and work till 9, 10 o'clock in the morning and then doing that you know that same routine over and over again.
00:37:21
Matty Muscles
It's just you got to burn it as hard as you can.
00:37:25
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:37:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I mean, dude, like I said, at least you have an excuse if you're not 100% prepared. We were not 100% prepared this year, and I have zero fucking excuse. It just kind of crept up on you. You know, you're trying to get little stuff done.
00:37:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
And, you know, for us, it was no matter what the hell you do to prepare or preventative maintenance. Here and there, things get missed. Here and there, you've taken care of stuff for so long that they've maybe maybe certain pieces of machinery or plow spreaders, what have you. Maybe they've outlived their lifespan.
00:38:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
you know they're you know So you're going to have pieces breaking here and there. It's the natural order of things. But you know we were not we were definitely not We were probably...
00:38:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
a soft 75%, maybe 80%. Like I still have, I still have a couple properties that aren't properly staked.
00:38:16
RICK JAMES
Thank
00:38:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like they're not, they're not done yet. It's just come on. But I have no excuse at this point. We should have been ready. We're just not, you know, where we weren't.
00:38:28
Matty Muscles
we just signed We just signed a couple contracts this past week from people who are like, oh, I guess it's going to s snow.
00:38:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
We are now, but.
00:38:34
Matty Muscles
Yeah, we already we've already pushed before. Like, what are you doing?
00:38:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, that is something you are not kidding. That is something we have never seen before, but we have we have heard that time and time again. We've seen it in our area. there are There are commercial occupancies, like well-known brand name stores in this town that still do not have snow contracts, that three inches went unplowed the first frigging storm.
00:39:01
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:39:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
And they're trying to, you wonder why.
00:39:05
RICK JAMES
I believe that.
00:39:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
And you start seeing like a, you know, Schmacker Paral restaurant, basically, ah that has three inches on it.
00:39:12
Matty Muscles
Smack or peril.
00:39:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, you can't, but you, it has three inches on it and you can't figure out why do these guys not have a snow contract?
00:39:14
RICK JAMES
I didn't even mention pause map.
00:39:15
Matty Muscles
Smack or peril.
00:39:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
And you, you hear from the guy that had it last year and he says, well, I was doing it for 22 last year and they offered me seven this year. It's like, what?
00:39:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Are you kidding me? That's why they don't have a contractor. They're trying to find somebody to take it for seven because they have they have ah you know somebody involved.
00:39:36
RICK JAMES
All right.
00:39:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
you know There's a third party involved.
00:39:42
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, they were doing that around Thanksgiving because we had that. The storm before Thanksgiving was ah like an inch and a half or whatever. But then the storm coming after Thanksgiving was supposed to be four to six.
00:39:52
Brandon Reilly
think we ended up getting like 4.5. But there was like targets just like calling around trying to hey, I have this target. Hey, I have this target. And just no one lined up.
00:40:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:40:02
Brandon Reilly
And you're like, the season already started. it's this Targets aren't even paying you for this.
00:40:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
So here's the funny part. So that's, they're using that there when they're trying to find a contractor. Now they're saying, well, we should get this at a lower rate. Cause we're already done with November and half of December.
00:40:19
Matty Muscles
Yeah, they're trying to prorate it.
00:40:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
So yeah, they're trying to prorate it.
00:40:20
Brandon Reilly
That's
00:40:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're, they're literally rolling the dice for the first two months of the winter. And now they're trying to get it for 50% cheaper for the rest of the year. It's like, are you freaking kidding me with this bullshit?
00:40:32
RICK JAMES
That's the gravy money you want, you know early months.
00:40:33
Brandon Reilly
where the price goes up. If I'm going to bail you out, then my price goes up.
00:40:39
Matty Muscles
just in Just in case you're wondering who you know, who those, just in case you're wondering.
00:40:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Just in case Yes Just in case yep ye Just in case you're wondering who we're talking about
00:40:47
RICK JAMES
Okay.
00:40:48
Brandon Reilly
Okay.
00:40:49
Matty Muscles
boost
00:40:51
RICK JAMES
Okay, Brett.
00:40:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, it's it's crazy. I've never seen anything like it, but that seems to be the strategery, to put it into Will Ferrell there doing George Bush terms. The strategery seems to be they're literally not signing snow contractors until...
00:41:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're three days out from the first major snow event and they're trying to like pro rate saying, well, look, we already, we already made it through the first six weeks or seven weeks of that contract. We don't want to pay what we, what we should pay for the whole season.
00:41:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
We want to pay what we want to pay.
00:41:24
RICK JAMES
Gotta look on the bright side.
00:41:25
Matty Muscles
When they're already making 60% on it anyways.
00:41:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes. You got to look on the bright side of things.
00:41:29
Matty Muscles
ah
00:41:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. Oh,
00:41:34
Brandon Reilly
The crazy thing is the lawn care RFPs are out right now and they're way worse than what I thought.
00:41:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh
00:41:38
Brandon Reilly
the this I thought snow was bad. what What they're doing with lawn right now for coming the next season is they're flat rate they're flat rating everything without even looking at properties.
00:41:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's insane.
00:41:46
Brandon Reilly
They're just saying, hey, five grand for the season. That's what's going to be. Boom, done.
00:41:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Kiss my ass like that.
00:41:52
Brandon Reilly
And it's like, have they looked at these properties?
00:41:52
RICK JAMES
by
00:41:53
Brandon Reilly
Have they measured them? I'm not doing this shit.
00:41:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, it's insane. Yeah, no, it's insane. But yeah, I totally get what you're saying, Matt. it It's happening everywhere. It's happening around here. I've never seen it. um The other thing we're definitely seeing is guys that have signed contracts are chasing payments.
00:42:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
We're hearing that too. Like, wait a minute, where nobody's getting paid. Like what, what the, you have a contract. Apparently contracts are not worth the paper they're printed on anymore. Unless you, the contractor violate.
00:42:22
RICK JAMES
Really not.
00:42:22
Matty Muscles
Thank
00:42:22
Brandon Reilly
Unless you're the big fish on top.
00:42:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes. exactly
00:42:25
Brandon Reilly
minute Yeah, it matters.
00:42:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
and If the, if the customer violates it, they're not worth the paper they're printed on. You have no recourse. But if the contractor violates it, they're coming after your house.
00:42:35
RICK JAMES
Oh, whoa, we gotta worry about that.
00:42:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
like yeah
00:42:38
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:42:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
What's that?
00:42:41
RICK JAMES
No, you said the contractor, if the contractor doesn't fulfill his duty, then we're in big trouble, but that's what I was saying.
00:42:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
what happened i getting get oh we're screwed absolutely screwed oh i got you i got you now i didn't understand it yeah that crazy yeah but it's it's happening it's amazing how much it's happening now like i can't believe just what i've heard in the last week there are two major banks that
00:42:50
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry.
00:43:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
two
First Snow Push & Equipment Insights
00:43:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
major bank chains in my town, two restaurants, two hotels that still do not have a snow contractor for 2025.
00:43:15
Matty Muscles
Good luck.
00:43:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, they'll find somebody, but, you know, you're getting
00:43:21
Brandon Reilly
I mean, those are the truck guys, right? I mean, that's easy in and out, you know.
00:43:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, absolutely. Well, i've already heard I've already heard from two guys saying, hey, I got called by so-and-so, and this seems like a pretty good deal. I'm like, no. God, no, that's not a good deal.
00:43:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Fuck no.
00:43:37
RICK JAMES
deal they're offering you is not a good deal.
00:43:39
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:43:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, no.
00:43:39
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:43:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, that's not good money.
00:43:43
RICK JAMES
Take it times two.
00:43:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, maybe for the sidewalk?
00:43:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it's it's getting crazy out there. Definitely getting crazy.
00:43:51
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, 30-day payments are turning into 45-day payments. If you have the terms in there, it doesn't and yeah doesn't matter.
00:43:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Easily. Easily.
00:43:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. 100%, man. 100%. Yeah, the terms only matter when you fuck up.
00:44:05
Brandon Reilly
But if you are five minutes late to that first snowflake, phone call.
00:44:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
When you violate them.
00:44:06
Matty Muscles
right
00:44:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Exactly. the Contractual terms only matter if the contractor violates it, not if the customer violates it. And hell, sometimes if the contractor, if you're the if you're the right management company, you you you can violate it every time with whoever you have on that site, and they still don't fire you.
00:44:16
RICK JAMES
Customer's eyes, right?
00:44:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
They just keep putting new contractors.
00:44:27
RICK JAMES
You're not wrong.
00:44:29
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:44:29
RICK JAMES
Heard that. You've heard that story.
00:44:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man. So we got into the events and how everybody did. ah Jeremy, how'd you guys make out?
00:44:38
RICK JAMES
All right.
00:44:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
What'd you break?
00:44:41
RICK JAMES
Oh, everything ran perfect. I mean, it was like rainbow sunshine. Nothing, nothing.
00:44:45
Matty Muscles
Nope.
00:44:46
RICK JAMES
they wouldnt god It was like perfect storm. Nah, fuck. I don't know. We had like we put out to put 30 new batteries in this. I mean, it is ridiculous. Everything. All the batteries are just dead.
00:44:57
RICK JAMES
They're just all shit.
00:44:58
Brandon Reilly
I don't think batteries are good anymore.
00:44:58
RICK JAMES
They're just horrible.
00:44:59
Brandon Reilly
They're not like they used to be.
00:45:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
No batteries are junk now. Nope.
00:45:02
RICK JAMES
Nah. And then, don't know, we have same as every time, first push, have fuel rail shit, def shit, and all these, you know, loaders. you know, I had three loaders going down with that, but dealership got them going, but it was, you know, it's just same shit every time.
00:45:19
RICK JAMES
There's stuff that you have no control over with these new loaders and that def stuff.
00:45:22
Matty Muscles
Thank
00:45:24
RICK JAMES
Yeah. it My crew, though, I mean, crew, awesome. They did fantastic. I got a lot of new guys. i got to tell you, these new guys are young kids, really stepping it up and
New Equipment & Technology
00:45:35
RICK JAMES
wanting to work. And so, yeah, mean, I'm trying to rotate guys in the seats. to You know, I got bunch of guys. I want to get them in so I can, you know, see what they are. And I've been working through that. And everybody's been really good.
00:45:48
RICK JAMES
Guys are excited to work again. The chat's gone going hard, very hard.
00:45:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
chat's been good
00:45:53
RICK JAMES
very hard The chat is going very hard already this year, so that's good. mean, we've hauled snow a couple times. it was The first night we hauled like, I think it was like 300-some loads.
00:46:05
RICK JAMES
Just what, two nights ago, we hauled like 460 loads in eight hours. So we're we're moving.
00:46:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
wow hall hall nights seem to be way more raw and unfiltered than push nights on the chats
00:46:10
Brandon Reilly
Nice.
00:46:12
RICK JAMES
or I mean, that's...
00:46:12
Matty Muscles
that's moving
00:46:18
RICK JAMES
Yes, very much so. yes yes very much so we Yeah, it's been good.
00:46:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's cool.
00:46:27
RICK JAMES
Otherwise, I mean, be so i mean this is standard. It seems to be you know always batteries, always f stuff, but not much for the breakdown.
00:46:31
Matty Muscles
so
00:46:36
RICK JAMES
I think we've broken a few rubbers, not not many this year so so far, obviously. But yeah, it's been good.
00:46:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool, cool.
00:46:45
RICK JAMES
Can't wait for more, I guess.
00:46:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
You got any coming? Obviously not if you're in D.C. right now.
00:46:51
RICK JAMES
I'm in Dallas, so nothing until them like next week there's a shot on like next Wednesday or on Wednesday this week. Yeah.
00:46:59
Brandon Reilly
It's supposed to be after we get to like 41 degrees, there's that chance rain to snow thing again.
00:46:59
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:47:03
RICK JAMES
is that most yeah
00:47:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. Gotcha. Cool. Cool. Anybody got any new stuff this year that they've gotten to use for the first time?
00:47:14
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, we got some 926 Catloaders.
00:47:16
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:47:17
Brandon Reilly
They're fucking Cadillacs. It's unbelievable.
00:47:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Can't go wrong with
00:47:20
Brandon Reilly
like guys Now guys are like, fuck, i don't want to go into anything else. This thing is, the cab is, it is the nicest cab i've ever been in my life.
00:47:27
RICK JAMES
But they're very nice.
00:47:28
Brandon Reilly
and i mean I love the 344, I love the John Deere, but the cab of that cat is or nice.
00:47:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:47:33
RICK JAMES
It's the cow. i You said it right. Yeah, it is.
00:47:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:47:35
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:47:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
If you can afford them, they're awesome.
00:47:39
Brandon Reilly
I do love the... The 344 with the 1018 Metal Plus with the thumb control wired to the factory joystick, so no auxiliary switch.
00:47:49
Brandon Reilly
I will say that I i do love that.
00:47:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, that's cool.
00:47:51
Brandon Reilly
um So you don't have to like click your pointer finger you know left, right, center.
00:47:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:47:55
Brandon Reilly
You can just do it all with your thumb, which is absolutely amazing.
00:47:58
RICK JAMES
got Sorry, Brendan. They've got the roller on top still, right? Is that how you're using it?
00:48:02
Brandon Reilly
Yep. Yep, so like the ah there's there's a way to take the Metal Plus harness and go straight into the 3-pin on the 344, and then it runs it straight into the roller right on top.
00:48:15
Brandon Reilly
So to move your wing, you just move your thumb up and down and over and up and down, and you can control it all. Yeah, it's so fast.
00:48:21
RICK JAMES
That's awesome.
00:48:22
Brandon Reilly
It's so efficient.
00:48:23
RICK JAMES
Yeah, i don't have the metal bus, so I guess I don't need it, but it sounds cool.
00:48:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's cool.
00:48:26
RICK JAMES
i but We have the loaders, but...
00:48:27
Brandon Reilly
And I i saw for a guy was showing me ah the other day.
00:48:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, that's awesome for metal plus users.
00:48:31
Brandon Reilly
he goes, dude, you can program your Cat 926. If you put a Metal Plus on there, you can use the factory joystick on the Cat.
00:48:37
RICK JAMES
I heard that.
00:48:38
Brandon Reilly
So you don't have to do the auxiliary switches for that as well. It
00:48:41
RICK JAMES
I heard that, yeah.
00:48:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's pretty cool. If you have a metal plus, that's awesome. No, serious. that's That's really cool because that's a big pain in the butt having that auxiliary button mounted somewhere.
00:48:52
Brandon Reilly
is. Yep.
00:48:55
Brandon Reilly
Yep.
00:48:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome. ah What else? anything anything Did you get used to your get to use your melter yet?
00:49:02
Brandon Reilly
I have quotes out there. We'll see. i don't know.
00:49:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh!
00:49:05
Brandon Reilly
i I'm being told it's too expensive. I'm like, wait, hauling costs more. I don't understand how it's more expensive. It's cheaper to melt than it is to haul.
00:49:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Unbelievable.
00:49:14
Brandon Reilly
So we'll see.
00:49:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Pennywise, dollar foolishness.
00:49:15
Brandon Reilly
i know I know right now everyone's like, you know, they're they're looking. It's supposed to warm up this this week, right? So they're probably looking at going, no you know, we can. We'll see what happens.
00:49:24
Matty Muscles
what do you what's your What do you have for a melter, Brandon?
00:49:25
Brandon Reilly
But we have a tree can PD-80.
00:49:29
Matty Muscles
Nice.
00:49:30
Brandon Reilly
So it'll do 80 tons or what is it like 14 dump trucks in an hour of melting.
00:49:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that's got to be cheaper. and all
00:49:39
Brandon Reilly
It's
00:49:42
RICK JAMES
I think I drove by 10 melters tonight at this airport. It's crazy. Fucking crazy.
00:49:48
Brandon Reilly
it's so cool.
00:49:49
RICK JAMES
Equipment here is so freaking cool. Got to
00:49:51
Brandon Reilly
every every Everyone is getting very itchy.
00:49:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
What are you running?
00:49:53
Brandon Reilly
like We're like, oh, man, or but or like let's get this thing out. like If we can get this out on the site, like can I bet we could get more people to pull the trigger on it.
00:50:02
RICK JAMES
got give them one hour free.
00:50:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, give him a little rebate.
00:50:06
Brandon Reilly
Kind of did, just to say...
00:50:07
RICK JAMES
Let's go really slow, really slow. Load it really slow. The rest of time, go fast the first hour and then the rest of the hours you go really slow.
00:50:18
Brandon Reilly
Well, normally, I mean, we don't build it.
00:50:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
What about
00:50:19
Matty Muscles
so
00:50:20
Brandon Reilly
That's the one thing, like, we don't build out per the hour. It's, you know, it's based off the tonnage and the yardage of the snow. So that one, just they have a set price for it, and you get it done. get it done. So the faster you melt it, it's your derogative.
00:50:33
RICK JAMES
Oh, God.
00:50:34
Brandon Reilly
But it's going ill and In a shift, you're going to burn 1,000 gallons of fuel.
00:50:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha.
00:50:36
RICK JAMES
But what are you going off of their specs?
00:50:41
RICK JAMES
Yeah, feels cheap, right?
00:50:43
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, so, yeah I mean, the hard part is having a tanker next to you to keep it full.
00:50:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:50:46
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
00:50:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Absolutely.
00:50:49
RICK JAMES
What are you going off to just the specs of the machine what? Because you haven't used it yet.
00:50:53
Brandon Reilly
Uh, so there's of our past, past experiences. Obviously that is the the specs online. I'll say this. And then they actually have like a calculator online. They'll tell you light snow, medium snow, and then snow that's been sitting there all season.
00:51:06
Brandon Reilly
Um, this is what, you know, ballpark it's going to do and how fast it will do it And obviously there's conditions. What's the temperature outside. If it's colder outside, you know, if you're sitting at like right now, if you're trying to melt at, you know, negative 14, it's going to melt a lot slower than, you know, let's say 20, 15 degrees.
00:51:21
Brandon Reilly
fifteen degrees
00:51:22
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:51:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. What about you, Matty?
00:51:25
Brandon Reilly
So,
00:51:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Any new stuff for you?
00:51:28
Matty Muscles
Yeah, we got, we actually, we're running a yeah storm vision system right now. So I've been super happy with that. We actually kind of threw it together last minute for that metal plus I was blowing hoses that I was telling you about. um But control wise, like, I mean, came in the box like I had read the installation manual twice to make sure we were doing it right. I mean, it was this literally was the easiest thing I've ever the easiest ply I've ever hooked up.
00:52:00
Matty Muscles
um plug and play bing bang boom like and then throughout the storm like it worked perfectly um my operator loves it can't wait to you know get more pushes in on it um but super happy with that uh other than that new equipment no nothing nothing super new other than that i mean pretty much just like stuck right to what we're used to
00:52:01
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:52:27
Brandon Reilly
So that's like telling that's where it tells them, right, that it's like it's perfectly level, like you're not you're not too far back or forward?
00:52:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool. Yeah. Yep. Yep.
00:52:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:52:33
Matty Muscles
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of features on it. There's other stuff coming too. But like, yeah, there's there's the the level you know the level assist. But then there's also you've got like, um so on the iPad, you can you can actually select, you can push select like left wing, moldboard, or right wing. um And the response on that is super quick.
00:52:53
Matty Muscles
And then the we also have the intermittent switch on the joystick. So that's like a backup. And then you can even use voice control. um One of the things I said to to Dan at Storm when we were talking about it, the voice control delay, like the voice control is cool, it works, but the delay on it is a little bit too long.
00:53:14
Matty Muscles
um So like my operator even said, he's like, I can't wait that long. So he just uses the um the push the push button on the on the iPad.
00:53:22
RICK JAMES
Are
00:53:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
like Jeremy on his earbuds. It's got like a two second lag.
00:53:24
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
00:53:27
RICK JAMES
they, am I delaying?
00:53:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
it No, I'm kidding. I'm fucking around.
00:53:30
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:53:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
um
00:53:31
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:53:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, no, storm vision. That's pretty cool. And they're, they're coming out with new features, right?
00:53:34
RICK JAMES
This is cool. We used the last two.
00:53:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Where you can, you can actually track the productivity of the plow across the whole storm, which I,
00:53:40
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:53:40
Matty Muscles
Yep.
00:53:40
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:53:41
Matty Muscles
Yep. We haven't, I mean, it's so new to us right now. Like we haven't even looked into any of that kind of stuff, but um I know that that's coming down the road.
00:53:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool. What do you got new this year, Jay? Got case machines, right?
00:53:57
RICK JAMES
I got some case to mess leasing case machines that, you know, they're working good.
00:54:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
How have they done?
00:54:02
RICK JAMES
Huh?
00:54:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
have they done the guys like them?
00:54:04
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah. you're going like them. I got a couple of them out on Amazon and one run around town, but no snow tires.
00:54:09
Brandon Reilly
But no snow tires.
00:54:12
RICK JAMES
So
00:54:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm.
00:54:13
RICK JAMES
um it is what it is.
00:54:15
Matty Muscles
I've got snow.
00:54:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm.
00:54:15
Matty Muscles
Yeah, I got a 621G that we got snow tires coming for. Like, they're just night and day. Snow tires are like night and day. Night and day.
00:54:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep, yep.
00:54:25
RICK JAMES
Yeah, um I honestly don't have a lot. Just mainly that. And then we got know more or lease loaders. But got got a hello few other plows, some demo plows, or some um up and coming new better plows that we're using.
00:54:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
The Razorback.
00:54:44
RICK JAMES
So Razorback's doing really good. Touching tips with that.
00:54:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:54:48
Matty Muscles
Thank
00:54:49
RICK JAMES
So yeah.
00:54:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm going to do that tomorrow. I will definitely get a tip touching video with the loader with the Razorback that. the
00:54:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah. No, that's, yeah. Otherwise, everything we have has doing pretty good, honestly. so
00:55:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's actually crazy how excited I am to truck plow now. like I can't wait to get my truck and go plow with this thing just to screw around with it some more and and learn what it can and can't do because there ain't much it can't do based on that first nine hours.
00:55:19
RICK JAMES
That's what you're hearing from everybody that's using that thing nowadays, you know.
00:55:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, it's sick. Like, I knew it was going to be good, but I had no idea it was going to be that good.
00:55:26
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:55:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, it's it's fucking awesome. It really is.
00:55:33
RICK JAMES
yeah Brandon, are you going to get one yet?
00:55:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Impressive.
00:55:35
RICK JAMES
i thought I heard you looking at one.
00:55:37
Brandon Reilly
I was, I bought a hilltip instead. i had to choose between hilltip spreader and a and a plow and went with the spreader.
00:55:39
RICK JAMES
Oh, Christ. It's not even the same operation.
00:55:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nope.
00:55:46
Brandon Reilly
I know, but I was like, this is going on.
00:55:47
RICK JAMES
Is that a spreader or a clock?
00:55:50
Brandon Reilly
was like, we've,
00:55:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
You went with the way more expensive option.
00:55:54
Brandon Reilly
ah that it was about the same price.
00:55:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, well, I bet.
00:55:59
Brandon Reilly
We went with a pickup, like a 1500, so it was just a, you know, fifty eight a m so it's a pickup truck one.
00:56:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, gotcha.
00:56:06
Brandon Reilly
um But I wanted one, and then and just being in my truck and plowing with the the plow, just touching up stuff, I was like, I still would rather just jump into the loader.
00:56:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha, gotcha.
00:56:16
Brandon Reilly
I hate the spinning of the the steering wheel, the long back end.
00:56:18
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:56:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:56:19
Brandon Reilly
I'd rather be in a 244 or 4066 or a bigger loader than jumping that and do it with my truck. Okay.
00:56:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Me too, until last week. Now i'm like, shit, oh I'll be in my truck.
00:56:30
Brandon Reilly
I'll go meet up with Arctic Steve and jump in his truck and make him tell me.
00:56:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Definitely do it, dude. Definitely do it. Go to like a Home Depot or whatever you got big box and get in his truck and just tell him to give you 15 minutes and you'll, you'll buy one.
00:56:45
Matty Muscles
so
00:56:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, Holy crap. it's It's crazy. Cause i' I'm the same way, Brandon, like put me in the fucking loader every day. I'm a happy man. And then I jumped in that and i was like, yeah, I'm not coming out. You guys can, you guys can run that. Like I'll run this the rest of the time.
00:57:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was fun. A lot of fun.
00:57:03
Brandon Reilly
I have sold a couple of cutting edges to guys that have been running them. So they're they the guys that have met me and bought the cutting edges for them, they they have great things to say about them. they absolutely love them.
00:57:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, i haven't I haven't found anybody that that didn't that hasn't liked it yet, the full kit. That thing is it's sick. um What else? i'm trying to think.
00:57:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Do I have anything else? ah we We got to use the new Vernig spreader cube the other day.
00:57:30
RICK JAMES
Oh, how'd that go? How'd that go?
00:57:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
uh it is it is very good it will definitely ah we haven't had a lot of use of it yet we're hoping to do a little bit more as the season you know unfolds here but uh first impressions uh it's definitely better than uh predecessor that it replaced yeah definitely uh definitely much better much better bill it's much heavier duty um it's got it it's much more well thought out
00:57:36
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:57:48
RICK JAMES
Nice.
00:58:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
so
Salt Shortage Skepticism
00:58:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
uh we're we're excited to keep trying that but yeah first uh we have to use it at the shop a little bit and just we want to want to make sure we got everything tweaked and we know what we're looking at before we put it on on too many properties we got a one test property that we we're screwing around but yeah that was pretty cool too um yep oh you want to you want to talk about that already
00:58:09
Matty Muscles
Okay.
00:58:15
RICK JAMES
Cool.
00:58:19
Brandon Reilly
you still getting magic salt? Okay. I thought... Well, no, I just i thought that... I thought something with magic like wasn't a thing anymore.
00:58:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know what's going on with that. i you're You're absolutely right. I don't know the the specifics about it. I am still getting it, and it's to my knowledge, it's still it smells the same, looks the same, acts the same.
00:58:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, I mean, so far, we're we're pretty happy with it this year.
00:58:46
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
00:58:48
Brandon Reilly
was going to say, that's the good thing about your cubes.
00:58:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:58:49
Brandon Reilly
That was always our biggest thing with the plastic poly cubes is sticking inside of them and not, you know, freeze and freezing up and that, you know, that stuff doesn't freeze.
00:58:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure, freezing up.
00:58:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it don't freeze. It definitely don't freeze. We've never had even a little bit of frozen or clumping and with that. um so Do we want to? You know what? Let's let's hit commercials real quick, and then we'll we'll come back and we'll talk about the the shortages, the manufacturing shortages.
00:59:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
well We'll be right back.
00:59:18
Matty Muscles
you
01:00:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, we're back. So you've been seeing it posted now. Uh, American rock salt sent a thing out to in New York. Uh, we heard about it in where else?
01:00:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Ohio, I think was the other state.
01:00:39
RICK JAMES
Yeah, Michigan.
01:00:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
And then, and then yeah, Michigan and up in Canada, actually Canada already, I think on on Ontario, I think they said got cut off for two weeks.
01:00:40
RICK JAMES
again
01:00:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like they were paused on what they could do. So yeah. Oh, the salt shortage is back. Like, does anybody really believe that there's a fucking shortage?
01:00:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Does anybody really not know the game that they're playing?
01:00:59
RICK JAMES
you the goug.
01:01:01
Brandon Reilly
I know they're struggling to get treated around here. um If you're buying it from ah the bulk size, like they, no one has treated in stock or if they do, you're getting the wraparound of like, it's coming, it's in a rail car, a rail car is not here yet. And it's been weeks.
01:01:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, I can understand the treated side because if they're turning it over that quick where guys are having busy early seasons and they need it, they're not going to waste the time to treat it. They're just going to be putting out the regular shit as quick as they can.
01:01:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
I i can understand that. But like to get a to get a notice that got put out for New York users saying that oh it's all we can do, our weekly, what we can mine in a week barely barely keeps up with New York State DOT's demand.
01:01:28
Matty Muscles
so
01:01:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
was what this notice said. And that's got to be horseshit. New York state has supposedly the DLT supposedly using less salt than ever. You know, they're doing a lot of brine and doing all this crap.
01:01:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
It just like guys out there. If you don't understand how this game works, it's a commodity, right? Like anything else, like oil, like everything. So these guys now, Brandon, you went through two starving winters in a row, right?
01:02:06
Matty Muscles
Okay.
01:02:11
RICK JAMES
Thank you.
01:02:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Where you didn't use a lot of salt. I would assume in a starving winter.
01:02:15
Brandon Reilly
We de-iced a lot last year. have ski worth ah It was probably about almost the same.
01:02:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
But as much as you would in a winter like this?
01:02:23
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:02:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
01:02:24
Brandon Reilly
Because have so much freezing fog and rain, so there's more ice events than than normal.
01:02:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, then maybe I'm off base.
01:02:30
Brandon Reilly
Correct.
01:02:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
So you still had events. You just didn't have pushes.
01:02:33
Brandon Reilly
Correct.
01:02:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
So if there's areas that normally get snow, but they were just starved for for snow, which was quite ah quite a bit of areas for the previous two seasons,
01:02:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Now, the the salt manufacturers or or whatever they're called, the conglomerates, they're not in as big a demand for two seasons. theyre there They have salt sitting on fucking docks and and sitting in wherever warehouses and stuff, and there's not as big a demand, so they can't charge as much for it.
01:02:55
Matty Muscles
What?
01:03:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
So when you have a banger winter start out early and often, This is their opportunity to say, shit, we didn't make money for two years. This is how we recoup and get back to average you know income.
01:03:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
we're goingnna oh We're going to claim shortage, and we're going to slow everything down for a couple weeks, slow everybody down, tell them there's all a big shortage. That way we can raise prices $25, $30 a ton, and guys will be begging us to pay more for the same shit.
01:03:35
Matty Muscles
so
01:03:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
whether there's a shortage or not. Does anybody really believe there's an actual shortage?
01:03:40
Brandon Reilly
See, i would if you would have told me last year that we were having one, at least in our market where where they sell it, I would have believed it just because they were selling a shit salt that's been sitting there forever, that's back of the pile of crap that wasn't melting snow at all.
01:03:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, exactly.
01:03:52
Brandon Reilly
It was terrible shit. um This year, um the piles are there. so but i've i've heard I've heard it's being talked about in terms of, like you said, they just fabricated now to be like, hey, it's we've had so much snow now, let's let's ah let's let raise these rates up a little bit.
01:04:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:04:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
There's demand. When there's demand, they got to get the price up. And that's that's it. Because if this if this season slows down, if you get like a three-week break and nothing is moving, nobody's getting events, nobody's salting, and now they're caught up,
01:04:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
they're They're not going to lower prices once they're up.
01:04:28
Brandon Reilly
Correct.
01:04:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Prices will be the same throughout the season. So they're just using this and as ah as a way to jack their prices to make up for what they didn't make in certain areas.
01:04:35
Matty Muscles
I'm not sure what you're doing.
01:04:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Because the the best part was one guy posted a photo going by the one plant, and there's nothing but mountains and mountains of salt as far as the eye can see.
01:04:42
RICK JAMES
I'm not sure what sure what you're doing. sure what I'm not sure what you're
01:04:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's like, where's this shortage? like It's literally Mount St.
01:04:52
RICK JAMES
I'm doing. not what
01:04:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Helens of salt. And, oh, yeah, no, there's a big shortage. Like, I don't know. that's That's just my take on it. I think it's all bullshit. I think this is just a game that they play like any other commodity.
01:05:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
And, you know, you're can to have to deal with it, right?
01:05:07
Matty Muscles
I would agree with that.
01:05:08
Brandon Reilly
I mean, I know when we did our pre-orders and everything and just putting in our contracts, like we were told straight up from Cargill we couldn't get Clearlane.
01:05:08
Matty Muscles
Yeah.
01:05:14
Brandon Reilly
And that's their treated blend. Now, granted, I've also heard that they're slowly getting out of the de-icing game.
01:05:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
01:05:19
Brandon Reilly
So that's why, that's probably why they weren't offering it to contractors. But Windod is still using Clearlane.
01:05:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sure.
01:05:26
Brandon Reilly
But we were told that we couldn't, we couldn't get any.
01:05:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
But are they making it themselves?
01:05:31
Brandon Reilly
No, it's, it it was Cargill? i but
01:05:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, like is MnDOT making it? well Like, are they treating it themselves?
01:05:35
Brandon Reilly
No, they buy it. They buy it made from Cargill. But I know that a lot of municipalities around here are switching.
01:05:41
Matty Muscles
Thank
01:05:43
Brandon Reilly
I mean, a lot of places are using turbo melt now, so they're they're buying white and it's being treated on sites and and stuff like that.
01:05:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, mean, I know it Clear Lane's green, right?
01:05:53
Brandon Reilly
Correct.
01:05:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
So is there another green salt product out there? Because I know around here they're using the green shit too because everything looks like the Emerald Road, you know, Emerald Brick Road.
01:06:04
Brandon Reilly
ah Isn't there a, ah what color is, is zero magic or whatever?
01:06:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's all green.
01:06:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
I have no idea.
01:06:10
Brandon Reilly
The other the other one.
01:06:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Could not tell you.
01:06:13
Brandon Reilly
Okay. I thought that one was green sometimes.
01:06:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
have no clue.
01:06:16
Brandon Reilly
I think it's so hard cause they just dye it.
01:06:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, they just dye it.
01:06:19
Matty Muscles
Yes, they can dye whatever color they want.
01:06:19
RICK JAMES
Yeah, whatever color. They can have whatever color they want.
01:06:23
Brandon Reilly
You know, yeah.
01:06:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm.
01:06:23
Brandon Reilly
Purple slicer. It's purple. Yeah.
01:06:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Yeah, I don't know. But yeah, I'm calling bullshit on the shortage deal already. It's fucking the 12th of December or 13th of December. And you're you're already calling short salt shortage. You've been mining for fucking seven months.
01:06:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, like, give me a give me a freaking break. Three weeks into winter and you're already claiming shortage. It's it's bullshit. It's just to milk more money out of us. And the guys that are going to struggle are the guys on seasonals that did not put any kind of variable in that they're their seasonal price will go up when their salt prices go through the roof or if they can get it at all.
01:06:57
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
01:07:02
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:07:03
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:07:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
So I'm calling bullshit.
01:07:06
Brandon Reilly
Yeah. so If there's an actual shortage and the the state claims, you know, all the salt and then makes it so no one can get it. That's, that's when it, that's when it really is a problem.
01:07:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, the state did that last year. At least New York, I think, did. They they pulled the plug on that.
01:07:19
Brandon Reilly
It's been a while since they've done that here, but um we didn't wait last year. that They, last year they just sold a shitty salt. That was just garbage.
01:07:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's a pain. When I heard that they already cut off Ontario, I'm like, okay, here it comes.
01:07:32
Matty Muscles
Thank
01:07:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
And then somebody sent me the notice that American Rock Salt sent out from to New York um that was out there. So, yeah, I mean, they're all they're all doing it. They all know. it's It's like any other commodity.
01:07:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're going to, you know, when there's demand, they got to make the price go up somehow. So they can't just say, hey, guys, there's the demand right now. We got tons of this shit, but we're going to jack your price, $25, $30 a yard. They can't do that. So they got to claim, oh, there's a shortage, so we're going to jack prices.
01:08:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Does that help the shortage? No. If there really was a shortage, does jacking the price do anything to solve that shortage? No. Doesn't do a fucking thing.
01:08:16
Brandon Reilly
No, because you you still have to do it. It's risk management on our side.
01:08:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
exactly so they just they just want to make more money exactly and you're that's it they they just if they if they label it a shortage and again this is just my opinion this is just my way of thinking through the the issue here if they just call the if they hit the big red button saying shortage and all the alarms start going off they can increase their prices without guys bitching about them just taking advantage of people you know because now there's a shortage now you know the price has to go up because shortage
01:08:18
Brandon Reilly
Still got to get call from someone.
01:08:28
Matty Muscles
Yes.
01:08:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
you know Just like during COVID. look at all the Oh, yeah there was a shortage. Clorox wipes were fucking $55 for fucking one one roll. yeah me Look them now. They're back to $3 a bin.
01:09:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
But you were paying it, right? During COVID. like Clorox wipes, so gotta have them.
01:09:04
Matty Muscles
Well, yeah, you don't have a choice.
01:09:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
How much?
01:09:06
Matty Muscles
Gotta have it.
01:09:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
$120? Here, give me two.
01:09:09
Brandon Reilly
Toilet paper. Really?
01:09:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, exactly. Toilet paper, we're fighting over single ply.
01:09:14
Brandon Reilly
Hey, what what we paid in equipment, that price never went down.
01:09:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
what
01:09:17
Brandon Reilly
that price Skyrocketing.
01:09:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
no never went down this is just all part of the game so don't start freaking out and everybody running out and buying milk and bread and shit it's you know like the sky is falling this is just what they do to get the price up just my opinion i could be totally wrong but i don't think i am you guys think i'm wrong i'm fine if you say yes
Salt Pricing & Contract Strategies
01:09:43
RICK JAMES
Oh, questioner.
01:09:43
Matty Muscles
No, i think I think it makes sense.
01:09:43
Brandon Reilly
No, I think not.
01:09:46
RICK JAMES
It's a commodity, just like you said. That's what they do.
01:09:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%. It's like pork belly.
01:09:49
RICK JAMES
They're going to do whatever they can to make their money, and we just got to pay it.
01:09:54
Brandon Reilly
Especially if January lines up for what everyone's been saying, talking about for the last six months, January's killer for most of the snow snow states.
01:09:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
01:10:02
Brandon Reilly
like Build it up now so that people start freaking out.
01:10:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. I mean, that being said, I am going to keep my bin full, but... you know not going to be happy about paying 25 bucks extra a fucking ton and hopefully we just import more foreign salt yep i'll take it i don't give a shit because it gets treated so at that point hey i don't care if if this is what they're going to do with the regular stuff with the american stuff i will buy egyptian i'll go
01:10:16
RICK JAMES
Thank you.
01:10:21
Brandon Reilly
Egyptian salt.
01:10:28
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:10:34
Brandon Reilly
Are you treating that yourself or are you buying it treated already?
01:10:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
we'll We'll treat the first batch, and then afterwards we're usually too busy that we get it treated.
01:10:44
Matty Muscles
We bring it in pre-treated.
01:10:44
Brandon Reilly
I,
01:10:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
So...
01:10:45
Matty Muscles
it comes in treated for us.
01:10:47
Brandon Reilly
when you When you're doing it in-house, what are you doing?
01:10:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:10:49
Brandon Reilly
How many gallons are you putting per ton?
01:10:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Eight gallons per ton.
01:10:53
Brandon Reilly
Eight?
01:10:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Eight.
01:10:55
Brandon Reilly
That's super salt.
01:10:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's what it says.
01:10:58
Matty Muscles
What, you use less than that?
01:10:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's what...
01:10:59
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, we were doing six.
01:11:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
wouldn't that Oh, with magic, is it says eight gallons per ton.
01:11:03
Matty Muscles
Yeah, eight.
01:11:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
So... Maybe I'm wrong, but that shit is nuclear.
01:11:09
Brandon Reilly
um so That's super salt.
01:11:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Radioactive.
01:11:11
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:11:11
Matty Muscles
No, it's no, it's it's Steve's right.
01:11:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
up
01:11:13
Matty Muscles
it's It's good. Like we've even in the past, like we've taken straight untreated and cut that tree, you know, cut it down and you still get good production out of it.
01:11:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:11:25
Brandon Reilly
Yeah, when we were buying that couple of years back, i was we were doing between five and six gallons a ton.
01:11:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
But I'll tell the one load we got last year.
01:11:33
Brandon Reilly
And it was it was it it was fire.
01:11:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Now, is that... was that that was ibg or was that magic magic minus zero okay
01:11:38
Brandon Reilly
That was that that was that was IBG. And then we we switched to turbo after that, after um the dealers around here switched and have been extremely happy with that. That's nuclear as well.
01:11:49
RICK JAMES
Turbo is really good.
01:11:49
Brandon Reilly
We're doing about six about six tons or six gallons a ton for treatment for treatment
01:11:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
i mean you could definitely get away with that that's for sure because like like i've i've always said like the magic works so fucking good that's why we have to put down so little of it it really It's so, you know, use use a tier one plow and.
01:11:57
Brandon Reilly
Yeah.
01:12:06
Matty Muscles
Thank you.
01:12:08
Brandon Reilly
um I'll never forget. I put in front of a Kohl's door, I put one bag down just to see how long it would melt. So one bag, you know, by just a 20 by 20 section of a sidewalk just to see how long it melt.
01:12:20
Brandon Reilly
It held off three inches of snow. It just kept burning. Now, granted, it was heavy, but it melted all that through the entire duration of that event while the store was open. i didn't have to touch that walkway and it was clean.
01:12:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah absolutely. It's literally radioactive. it literally is it's great
01:12:35
RICK JAMES
It's a special.
01:12:37
Brandon Reilly
And that was just a sample bag that someone gave me.
01:12:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
crazy crazy stuff but yeah like i said i wouldn't everybody i wouldn't run out and say sky is falling sky is falling this is just how they want to make their fucking profit margin it's like anything else and they're gonna they gotta claim shortage so that people aren't storming the gates with torches you know ready to string them up because they want to jack prices 30 bucks a ton in the middle of the season after we've already done our pricing and contracts
01:12:54
Matty Muscles
next slide.
01:13:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that's, you know, you're going like if you haven't already done that, guys, that's not a bad idea with the way all the the industry and the salt industry is going. Put a variable, put some kind of check or balance in your contracts that if your pricing goes up, you can show the customer that your price for salt has gone up. And that way you can increase what you charge them accordingly.
01:13:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Because you you can't you can't quote a price based on what your salt price was in July, and now you get into the you know your second batch or third batch of salt, and now your price has gone up 30%, 40%.
01:13:30
Brandon Reilly
I
01:13:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
You can't just eat that. So you know maybe start thinking about putting that in your contracts accordingly.
Conclusion & Episode Summary
01:13:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah What else, boys? Anything else? Are we good?
01:13:53
Brandon Reilly
think we're pretty good.
01:13:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
right.
01:13:56
RICK JAMES
I think we're good
01:13:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy, you going to go get in the Oberhausen or whatever the hell that's called?
01:13:57
Matty Muscles
Good here.
01:14:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
What is that thing called?
01:14:00
RICK JAMES
good. Oh, the multi, or the multi-functional or whatever?
01:14:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
multiveral multi Multifunctional?
01:14:04
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:14:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Is he going to let you run that?
01:14:05
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
01:14:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
um that's fucking great.
01:14:07
RICK JAMES
Why wouldn't he?
01:14:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Get video of that.
01:14:10
RICK JAMES
Well, I'll have video. Hopefully don't make news.
01:14:12
Brandon Reilly
but Go live. Just go live.
01:14:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Where was it? Yeah, yeah, do a live Instagram live.
01:14:17
RICK JAMES
Oh, I'm like,
01:14:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
did you Did you guys see that?
01:14:20
Matty Muscles
Mm-hmm.
01:14:21
Brandon Reilly
another one on fire.
01:14:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did you guys see that somewhere?
01:14:24
RICK JAMES
What happened?
01:14:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
I thought it was in North Dakota or South. Yeah, i think North Dakota plow truck hit a plane at one of the airports.
01:14:32
Brandon Reilly
oh we had someone run over someone at the airport in MSP.
01:14:34
RICK JAMES
Hell yeah. We're always
01:14:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Ooh, that's not good.
01:14:41
Brandon Reilly
yeah
01:14:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
That is not good. e Messy, messy. Oh, all right. Anything else, boys?
01:14:50
Brandon Reilly
oh Thanks for having us on.
01:14:52
RICK JAMES
good.
01:14:52
Matty Muscles
No, good to go.
01:14:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
No problem. No problem, guys. Thanks. I'm glad we could get this done. And that was a good one for throwing it together last second under the the snow crunch here. So we appreciate you guys coming on.
01:15:03
RICK JAMES
r's good
01:15:04
Matty Muscles
Yeah, we got flakes flying here for sure.
01:15:07
RICK JAMES
Here it comes.
01:15:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
it's It's already here. So, yeah, I'm going to get out there. But thanks, boys. Appreciate you, as always.
01:15:14
RICK JAMES
Thanks a lot, everybody.
01:15:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
You good, Jay?
01:15:15
Brandon Reilly
It's safe.
01:15:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
We'll wrap it up. You can go play with your your your new toys.
01:15:19
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Fuck yeah.
01:15:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
you
01:15:22
RICK JAMES
Let's go.
01:15:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, we'll wrap it there. Then that's going to do it, guys. Episode 149 of the Snowjobs Podcast main show is in the books. Again, thanks to Matt and Brandon for coming on, helping us out, giving us the time today, always being available for us to shoot the shit. And hopefully you guys got something out of this or at least a lot of laughs.
01:15:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
But that is it, guys. Everybody, you guys have a great week. Be safe out there. If you're pushing this week, make some money. And, yeah, keep pushing.
01:15:50
Matty Muscles
Thanks.