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S3-105: Talking "Storm Chasin' with The SnowJobs" with our media team
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The guys sit down with Ghost Dog Media team and Steve Smythe of Storm Equipment to discuss the progress of the "Storm Chasin' with The SnowJobs" video docuseries currently in production.
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Introduction to Season 3, Episode 105
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Let's get it. Snow jobs nation. We are back again. Season three is off and running underway. Episode one Oh five of the snow jobs podcast main show powered by top gun backblades is coming at you as always. I'm Steve. That's right. You know who's with me?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy Lindstrom sick, but in the house, what's up brother?
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RICK JAMES
I got a little under the weather, but I'll be fine.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's cause you were in Jersey, dirty Jersey.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. like Dirty Jersey.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it.
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RICK JAMES
Dirty Jersey.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You were in that flying tin can with a bunch of other Jersey people going to visit Minneapolis.
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RICK JAMES
I think Smith. I think Smith got me sick. I'll just blame him.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You got the storm flu.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. I think so. Storm flu.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, they do get that, right? They all get at it. do They all sick at the same times of the year.
00:01:36
RICK JAMES
I think so. I've heard they've been sick sick.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They are. Wow. Crazy. How's it going there? Snowby one Kenobi doing good.
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RICK JAMES
Doing good. Doing good. Just, uh...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Saving all the, uh, saving all the sites across the country bailing out.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go, bud.
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RICK JAMES
Don't stop. Won't stop.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
The a team.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. We should dig you play your music?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't have it.
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RICK JAMES
Did you put that on the soundboard?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't have that yet.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, you should put that on the soundboard.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah i don't have I don't have the new theme song on the on the board for the A-Team yet.
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RICK JAMES
That was pretty sweet.
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RICK JAMES
oh That was a mistake.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I should have.
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RICK JAMES
mistake.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, you know what? I want to play it for the people first before I drop it on on everybody.
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RICK JAMES
Let's just drop it. When do we care?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That was funny though, right?
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RICK JAMES
Just drop it. It was great. Yeah. No, it was fun. It was a good time. We always like going out with Steve and we're good. We like to hang out together and fly snow.
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RICK JAMES
That's what we do. We're good at. So.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
New Jersey Trip and Snow Encounter
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Jeremy and Steve Smythe headed to New Jersey for the big storm, which you guys didn't really get much, right? What'd you get? Three, four.
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RICK JAMES
Three to four. I don't know something like that, but yeah, I don't know.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
It's not great, but.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Whatever.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
I thought we were going to maybe get to go south and then I had to come back here because we had a couple of days of, like we flew back what, Tuesday morning? The night's snow here, Tuesday night, not much, but enough to do something.
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RICK JAMES
And again, Wednesday, and same thing.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
if you had to do it.
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RICK JAMES
Yep. So I've been out every night. So I think I can help give me a sick too, but whatever. I'll be fine.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You'll man up. You got it.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Just take more drugs.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. Oh, man.
Snow Jobs Nation Edition Discussion
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So we're off with season three. This is a year number three off and running. Crazy, crazy.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, should be a good one. I'm sure that a lot of good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we do. We got a good one tonight.
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RICK JAMES
I've been a lot of good ah feedback from everybody. So it's pretty cool.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
So
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Everybody seemed to like just me and you shooting the shit about the last two years and everything we got coming down the pike and you know where we're going with this. And Oh, I got a good one for you.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
There may and very short order be a jet black Arctic sectional with snow jobs, nation decals only on it. How, how tight is that going to look?
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RICK JAMES
What? Oh shit.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Snow jobs, nation edition, Arctic.
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RICK JAMES
That would be sweet.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
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RICK JAMES
That would be sweet.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
we We might have to raff, we might have to raffle it off maybe ah for a good cause raffle it off.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, why not?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
See who can, uh, who can pick it up. But yeah, that, uh, that's what I said.
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RICK JAMES
I think I don't want it. I think I don't want it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's exactly what I said. I said, Hey, can we do this? And Spencer was like, hell yeah, we could do that.
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RICK JAMES
I'm selfish.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm like, all right.
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RICK JAMES
I'm selfish.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, well, no, I said the same thing. I'm like, as bad as I want it for myself. I think that'd be, I think that'd be awesome. Like to to raffle that off, pick a, pick a good cause and raffle off the, uh, the first ever snow jobs nation edition Arctic jet black.
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RICK JAMES
right I'm a good cause Yeah, yeah Yep would be sweet We're gonna storm chase I'm gonna get a little insight of what's been going on I think we got
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That'll look tight, right?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Can you imagine that on a black loader, all black loader with an all black Arctic that that would be bad-ass absolute bad-ass. But yeah, so that, that was pretty cool to hear that.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That was great. Um, yeah, what else we got going on? What are we doing tonight? We're talking storm chasing, right?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it.
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RICK JAMES
four of the six done I think we got so far wow yeah i think we might do seven we're gonna book him and they'd come back to glacier yeah yeah big daddy big yeah that's what the other big daddy facetime he wasn't yesterday
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, four. Well, three with snow, one without snow.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We got to hurry up. We got to, we got to get Arctic some snow. Arctic, uh, Arctic needs some snow out there in Chicago. I think they're sitting on like seven inches.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Big daddy's got to be chomping at the bit.
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RICK JAMES
He is pretty upset. He's like this sucks. Yeah, so But they went up and chase them snow.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he he can't be happy.
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RICK JAMES
They want to chase some snow themselves up. They got some video and stuff. So that's pretty cool No, they did you see that I think they went up to Michigan or No, I think they went up somewhere in Michigan like John said they were oh Yeah,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Take some Razorbacks and go chase it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No. Oh, is that Indianapolis maybe? Indianapolis.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. I just, I saw a video. I think that they tagged it as Indianapolis where they, uh, they had the pickup truck on the curb.
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RICK JAMES
I heard they went there too Yeah, I heard they went there too.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
running the, uh, the sidewalk and the, uh, the parking lot, like we do with the artics. That's great that you can still do it with the truck. That's awesome.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Going to be tight, man. A new Razorback redesign Razorback. That's going to be tight. I love it.
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RICK JAMES
We gotta, we gotta get out there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Can't wait it. Can't wait to see it. What you do.
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RICK JAMES
I gotta get out there and get the one. They said, they said the one's ready for Andy.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You do. In fact, that's great, man.
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RICK JAMES
We gotta get out there.
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RICK JAMES
So.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Well guys tonight, like we said tonight, we have our gang, all right, that are helping us out.
Collaboration with Ghost Dog Media
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They're bringing snow jobs nation. Our collaboration with storm equipment, which as you all know, by now is storm chasing with the snow jobs. All right. We have the amazing husband and wife team from ghost dog media, Matt and Maddie mesh. All right. They are the ones out there in the cold.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
and the snow hopefully well three out of four times they've been in the snow but they're they're always in the cold right and they're they're the ones that are getting all the great footage of snow pros doing their thing out there uh and we also have steve smith from storm who is the enforcer of storm chasing right he makes sure that all goes smooth and that the snow pros don't get out of line you know they they get the shots they need to get You know, Steve is the coordinator, does all the pre stuff with the the companies that we're filming.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
um You know, he is the liaison that makes it all go smooth. And then Matt and Maddie come in and they do their thing. They got some the the the clip that they did for glaciers episode that that that was tight.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Like I i expected it to be cool. But that looked so freaking awesome. ah That really got me excited to see the ah the finished product.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I was I was pumped.
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RICK JAMES
Definitely. And Maddie said she did that. She said she doesn't usually even make them. So let's wait till Matt gets on it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, then I can't wait to see the the finished product done.
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RICK JAMES
Holy shit.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
If, if she doesn't normally do that, cause that looked pretty freaking professional.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. No pressure. No pressure.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
for some It's never done it.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome.
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RICK JAMES
She's done it, but I think that Matt does more. I think she said or something, but yeah, it was, it was great.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, I can't wait. Can't wait to see them. But the yeah, I mean, we got them here tonight. We're going to ask them all sorts of storm chasing questions. See how it's gone so far. I don't mean myself. I haven't been able to make a single one yet. We've we've been busy. Shockingly, we've been pretty busy here.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
um
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, you've, you've had yourself a good winner.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we definitely have. Definitely. We've we got another nine the other day. Eight point eight point nine, I think they certified us at so. Yeah. Boys, boys crushed it. Absolutely crushed it again. But we'll get into that when we
Season Finale Review and Snow Work
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The SnowJobs Podcast
do the week of review. But before we do that, all right, before we get to Steve, Matt and Maddie, let's hear from team Top Gun and we'll be back. We'll do a quick week and review and be off to the races.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, gang, we're back. So quick week in review. Last week, as we talked about, we had our season two finale, which was basically just me and Jeremy ah kicking it around, talking about the highlights and takeaways from our first two years doing Snowjaws podcast. um This has been an amazing ride. We talked all about it, what we loved, you know what's been surprising to us, um and just basically yeah you know thanking all of you out there for for making this a hit and the success that it is. So again, can't thank everybody enough, and we'll keep this train rolling.
00:09:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Let's see most of the country outside minnesota has been plowing snow all last week and odp got plowable snow in massachusetts, which is great because we were able to get ghost dog up there and get the storm chasing episode footage done and they got some great footage from what i ah heard from mike san elisito yesterday.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah They did a great job, took care of business, and yeah, can't wait to see that episode as well. So ah yeah, we got close to, like I said, we got 8.9, I think, out of it. My guys crushed it. They absolutely crushed it. I don't think we ever, even in the one big complex that normally normally is a little bit of a pain in the butt. I don't think they ever had more than an inch to an inch and a half on those, the on the roads and the parking areas. They were just, they were tag teaming it and just getting it done. So I want to give a shout out to my guys. We finally had all the right asses in the right seats and it definitely showed the the boys were absolutely spectacular on that one.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So, uh, Ed, Matt, Danny, you know, Dave, John and Eric, they crushed it in the machines. Uh, and then the sidewalk ninjas, uh, they were absolutely outstanding. Uh, you know, Brandon, Trent, James, Andrew bump, Tyler and Jaden, they were just.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They're animals. They just get it done They like even one of my equipment operators called me like middle of the storm is like dude Where did you get these guys these sidewalk guys? Because they just get after it like they're really really good at what they do. is Yeah, they they're killing it man They're worth every penny So thank you to my boys. My team killed it again. Can't do it without you guys. And keep, keep crushing it because you guys killed it on that one. And there's lots around here, Jay. Holy crap, man. I was telling you today, like there are lots. I could send pictures that still have two inches, three inches of hard pack on them. Like it's the normal technique of plow it. Even if it's hard pack, plow it up and salt it. It'll melt because it's normally 30, 35 degrees after a storm. That ain't working this week because that storm rolled in.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We went from 33 degrees when it started down to 12 and an hour and a half. And then it got colder as the week went on. So I don't think we've been above, I think the high today was 13.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So it's been cold, man. It's been cold for us.
00:11:49
RICK JAMES
Yeah, all right i'm I was just looking at Facebook here January snow totals Pensacola, Florida 9.4 Mobile, Alabama 7.5 Houston, Texas for Savannah, Georgia 3
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So regular untreated salt ain't getting it done. and Getting it done. And if you don't have a tier one plow, scraping it up, yeah truck plows ain't doing it, man.
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RICK JAMES
Charleston, South Carolina, three, Minneapolis, St. Paul, 1.7.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. The snow belt of Jacksonville.
00:12:18
RICK JAMES
What the fuck? What is going on? This is stupid. Two years of this shit.
00:12:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy, man. It's weird.
00:12:27
RICK JAMES
Global warming.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I could, what New Orleans got crushed, right?
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RICK JAMES
I thought they got a bunch, but like I don't know what they got for a total, but I saw some videos of it down there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. I saw snow on bourbon.
00:12:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I saw that too.
00:12:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's, that's.
00:12:43
RICK JAMES
Some guys doing Stonewall Fates and stuff like that.
00:12:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that's pretty crazy.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Pretty crazy. So I mean, if I don't even know, do they have plows down there? I guarantee they don't plows in Florida.
00:12:54
RICK JAMES
That means Steve should've gotten down there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They're just running loaders with their buckets and stuff.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, I saw that video.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Right.
00:13:00
RICK JAMES
All I did was cringe when I saw it. I was like, oh man, he hit something that's gonna suck. I've been there, done that.
00:13:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, all the paving contractors down there got to be doing the freaking victory dance right now, seeing those loaders with the freaking buckets and cutting edges just all ripping up blacktop. You see the one where the guy like like a five foot chunk of blacktop came up with the snow?
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RICK JAMES
Uh-uh.
00:13:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he had it dug too deep. He had the angle too steep and just ripped the whole section of the road up like, oops, no big deal.
00:13:30
RICK JAMES
I've seen that before.
00:13:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes, sir. But, uh, yeah, it's, it's been wild, man. Wild. The South's getting snow. I mean, I think it is it just Minnesota and Chicago that are really not getting, cause I mean, I've seen Wisconsin getting snow. I've seen Illinois, other parts of Illinois getting snow. Ohio can't shut it the fuck off.
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RICK JAMES
We don't, we don't get much, we only get 12 inches.
00:13:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Wow. So you guys too. Crazy.
00:13:56
RICK JAMES
so yeah whatever okay
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, Time to relocate to Florida. Glacier South. There you go. Oh shit. All right. ah Guys, as always, the Snow Jobs Nation store is open and stocked. We got the a couple of people DM this week looking for the backpacks, the Snow Jobs Nation backpacks. They will be in by the end of this week. As always, if you're getting a storm, you want to ah get on Instagram live, let us know. All right, we'll get it done for you while you guys are out there getting it done. ah Like and subscribe to make Jeremy happy on whatever platform you listen to us on.
00:14:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. He wants, he wants more subscribers, more likes. He wants that, that top 1% rating as bad as I do. All right. So we're so close, so close. All right.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But, uh, you got anything else, Jay?
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RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
Storm Chasing Experiences and Humor
00:14:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, gang, then without further ado, let's hear from our partners and we'll be right back and we'll get into it with these guys.
00:14:50
RICK JAMES
I to try and make it through this.
00:17:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, gang, we are but back. Jeremy, did you hear it? Did you see that metal plus heavy metal song today that I sent you?
00:17:58
RICK JAMES
Oh my god. That was so dumb.
00:18:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
How bad was that?
00:18:01
RICK JAMES
So dumb.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So stupid.
00:18:05
RICK JAMES
Standard.
00:18:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh my God. That's great. It's good to see white snake is still making music though.
00:18:10
RICK JAMES
Yeah. God.
00:18:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Freaking awful.
00:18:14
RICK JAMES
Who did that?
00:18:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did they really do that? Or did somebody do that with AI for them?
00:18:18
RICK JAMES
That's gotta be AI, that little bit.
00:18:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know. It's awful though.
00:18:22
RICK JAMES
That's garbage.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Like painfully bad.
00:18:25
RICK JAMES
Even Steve, even Steve says those, he's shaking his head in.
00:18:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh yeah. Putting words in his mouth. Well, without further ado, then let's let Steve respond to that.
00:18:30
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:18:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Let's bring in Steve, Matt and Maddie guys. Welcome to the snow jobs.
00:18:37
Maddie and Matt
What's up? How's it going?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
How are we?
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Steve Smythe
How's it going?
00:18:40
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Hey, guys.
00:18:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
We figured we had to get smite in here. Cause if we didn't, he's just going to call during the, during the recording anyway.
00:18:46
Steve Smythe
I'll just call in, just call in and just butt in.
00:18:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like he's done the last two or three weeks.
00:18:46
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah.
00:18:50
RICK JAMES
yeah he He must know when we're recording, he always is called.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Like clockwork. What was it? The last two or the last three episodes? Steve is called.
00:18:55
Steve Smythe
Been hanging out with Jeremy so much, I secretly planted a chip on him now.
00:18:56
RICK JAMES
At least he's two of us, though.
00:19:00
RICK JAMES
I like it.
00:19:01
Steve Smythe
I got him sick too this last week, I feel bad about that.
00:19:01
RICK JAMES
I like it. I like it.
00:19:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man. and Guys, that's it sharing a loader.
00:19:06
RICK JAMES
It's alright.
00:19:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
So how's everybody doing?
00:19:09
RICK JAMES
I'll make it.
00:19:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good.
00:19:11
Maddie and Matt
Recovering.
00:19:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Recovering takes a lot out of you.
00:19:13
Maddie and Matt
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
00:19:15
RICK JAMES
You guys have been on the move.
00:19:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Our snow schedule is not easy.
00:19:17
RICK JAMES
You guys have been on the move the last few weeks.
00:19:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
See, not so easy. That's good. We got some, we have two non-snow people here.
00:19:21
Maddie and Matt
and for That you guys never, never go to sleep.
00:19:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
So now that's great. So we can, we can hear all about it. Cause I want to start with you guys. You guys have never been involved with the snow industry before so far.
00:19:30
Steve Smythe
Well,
00:19:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
What, what is the overwhelming theme?
00:19:34
Steve Smythe
we're...
00:19:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like what have you guys learned so far?
00:19:40
Maddie and Matt
You never do.
00:19:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Not from my like November through April. That's for sure.
00:19:46
RICK JAMES
now
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Maddie and Matt
And the excessive amounts of caffeine that are consumed?
00:19:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
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Maddie and Matt
It's a lot.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Dangerous.
00:19:52
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, it is. It's unhealthy.
00:19:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
unhealthy Well, snow removal as a whole is not the healthiest profession. You have no sleep for five to six months out of the year. You, like you said, you exist on caffeine.
00:20:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's yeah, it's not good.
00:20:07
RICK JAMES
Caffeine does nothing for me.
00:20:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's not good for your health. It's top stress.
00:20:10
RICK JAMES
It does nothing for me.
00:20:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
definitely top stress. I mean, very high levels of stress depending on your position. And if you're paying for the equipment that's being damaged, that's definitely. Definitely.
00:20:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Some positions are more stressful than others.
00:20:26
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:20:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah But how's it gone so far, guys? Are you enjoying it?
00:20:30
Maddie and Matt
Oh, it's a good time.
00:20:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:20:33
RICK JAMES
Oh, I don't know, Maddie seems a little apprehensive there, I think so.
00:20:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, Maddie, you can be honest. You listen to God, you know, this is a call it as it is.
00:20:38
RICK JAMES
We're not a show here.
00:20:39
Maddie and Matt
Listen, I see I'm not so easy. I'm just a glorified snow passenger princess for most of these. So
00:20:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
You get to stay warm, you're staying in the truck and stuff.
00:20:47
RICK JAMES
you Yeah.
00:20:50
Maddie and Matt
Yeah.
00:20:50
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:20:50
Maddie and Matt
I mean, I go like 10, 15 minute segments outside and if it's too cold, I say frick this and go back in the truck.
00:20:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
And what does Matt do then? What do you make your husband do?
00:20:59
Maddie and Matt
and the control
00:21:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's out in the cold. He's doing the grunt work.
00:21:03
Maddie and Matt
Exactly.
00:21:04
RICK JAMES
yeah yeah he he doesn't he does whatever he has to do to get the shot you'll go oh Jesus
00:21:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's good. That's great, man.
00:21:06
Maddie and Matt
Who knows who's in charge.
00:21:09
Steve Smythe
Oh, man.
00:21:12
Steve Smythe
he's's yeah
00:21:12
Maddie and Matt
All about, you got to crash the drone, you crash the drone.
00:21:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's important.
00:21:16
Steve Smythe
or or
00:21:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did you crash a drone?
00:21:18
Maddie and Matt
I, uh, might've almost lost it, uh, in a tree.
00:21:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
We'll buy another drone. Get the shot. We'll buy another drone.
00:21:31
Maddie and Matt
That's all I need to know.
00:21:32
Steve Smythe
good good drone Good drone activity up in Fargo with the with the hospital, with the health.
00:21:34
RICK JAMES
i
00:21:37
Maddie and Matt
helicopter pilot
00:21:38
RICK JAMES
oh god that guy was a whiny he was whiny yeah
00:21:38
Maddie and Matt
yeah they don't like
00:21:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh no.
00:21:42
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:21:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Do you have to,
00:21:46
Steve Smythe
You had, yeah, you were yeah spot on.
00:21:46
RICK JAMES
he
00:21:48
Steve Smythe
That guy was just out a handle of hand a little bit.
00:21:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, you guys filed your flight plan and everything for by the hospital.
00:21:50
RICK JAMES
was he was
00:21:52
Steve Smythe
ah
00:21:54
Maddie and Matt
Well, according to my FAA app that the FAA certified, they had said it was clear to fly there. I put her up and then out of nowhere, the helicopter comes in and.
00:22:06
Steve Smythe
we We saw the helicopter coming from quite a ways out and Matt, Matt lowered it down. I mean, you're what, 10 feet off the ground by the snow pile.
00:22:12
Maddie and Matt
Yup.
00:22:13
Steve Smythe
And he still saw the still satellite puffing the chest.
00:22:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, what's he whining about?
00:22:16
Steve Smythe
Oh, you know, he just wanted to be a snow guy.
00:22:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh my God.
00:22:17
RICK JAMES
or He wants to puff his chest out.
00:22:18
Maddie and Matt
He was just jealous.
00:22:19
Steve Smythe
He just wanted to be biased.
00:22:21
RICK JAMES
you know Look at me.
00:22:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, they do. ah They do not like the drones flying too close to the birds. That's for sure. But I mean, if you followed all the rules, there's nothing they can do about it.
00:22:29
RICK JAMES
ah thought I saw well ah so lesse ah saw Lefty his drone on Instagram in the tree.
00:22:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
They can.
00:22:32
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, exactly.
00:22:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, you guys did it right.
00:22:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did he?
00:22:39
RICK JAMES
yeah i was It looked like it was hurt pretty bad.
00:22:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:22:42
Maddie and Matt
They really do.
00:22:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Those trees come out of nowhere.
00:22:45
Maddie and Matt
Especially when you just go straight up into one.
00:22:46
RICK JAMES
yeah kind
00:22:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
You did it yeah on the way up, you crashed.
00:22:53
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, I was taken off, sleep deprived and not thinking straight and just went right into the branches.
00:23:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
So the funny thing about those drones is, you know, the return to home, like it'll return to where it took off.
00:23:01
RICK JAMES
well
00:23:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
If you're not careful with that and you say, have one out on a boat and the boat is moving and you hit return to home, it it'll go to where it took off from, but the boat will no longer be there.
00:23:17
Maddie and Matt
Yes.
00:23:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
It may have been done once.
00:23:20
RICK JAMES
well well if he crashed one in a tree I can guarantee it wasn't here there's no trees around here yeah yeah
00:23:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh man.
00:23:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, that's true.
00:23:26
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:23:27
Maddie and Matt
know That would be more like a light pole.
00:23:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:23:28
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:23:30
Maddie and Matt
That's ah great question.
00:23:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
So what so far what's been the most interesting thing you guys have learned doing the ah the footage for storm chasing Yeah, they do that They do do that swag is important in the snow industry
00:23:43
Maddie and Matt
What do you got, Manny? I don't know. thiswater You guys give out so many sweatshirts. I don't think I need to buy another sweatshirt for like ever.
00:23:50
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:23:54
RICK JAMES
Yeah, you gotta look good.
00:23:55
Steve Smythe
and it really is.
00:23:55
Maddie and Matt
time
00:23:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. It's like, uh, trading pins.
00:23:58
RICK JAMES
you
00:23:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
And, uh, when, when you were in little league and you, you would play games, they'd all trade pins, but snow guys, it's all sweatshirts. And apparently according to leftly it's hats, even though I've never seen one given out hundreds of hundreds of hats.
00:24:11
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah, same.
00:24:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
um I never got one.
00:24:13
RICK JAMES
Mine's laying by his door. He says for months.
00:24:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
and Sure. That old gag.
00:24:17
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:24:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:24:18
RICK JAMES
well just we just keep doing
00:24:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's got have a lot of, he, how's he get out of his door with all those boxes that he, Oh yeah. They've been laying by my door for months.
00:24:25
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:24:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's a standard response from him.
00:24:27
RICK JAMES
That's enough calls for him since he wind about a call out so Yeah, that's right So smite smite what do you think about soul storm chase and what do you and what have you liked about it?
00:24:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, this is a bad call out though, calling him out that he didn't send out what he's supposed to still haven't seen it. Uh, so yeah,
00:24:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
so far, what are your thoughts, Steve on storm chasing?
00:24:45
Steve Smythe
The biggest thing, you know, for the storm chasing, it's super cool. Like Jeremy and I have talked about, it's just seeing the behind the scenes with these companies. It's like I was so in my bubble in the Minneapolis market and kind of just worried about what I did.
00:24:59
Steve Smythe
And now you're, you're seeing these other companies and these big companies, smaller companies, whatever
Learning from Snow Industry Observations
00:25:03
Steve Smythe
it is. And it's just like, you pick up so much information, just being around these guys, just little tidbits of what they do that you could have did different in your operations and whatnot.
00:25:13
Steve Smythe
And it's just, it's, that's super cool.
00:25:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:25:15
Steve Smythe
And this, the camaraderie with the guys, you know, it's like you, you show up, you don't know these guys. And it's like within. half hour of them kind of talking to you. They can kind of see through the BS and know that you' you know if you're there to help and whatnot.
00:25:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. It's the same circus, different clowns all everywhere you go.
00:25:29
Steve Smythe
Yeah, correct. yeah No, it's been a lot of fun working with Maddie.
00:25:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Snow is snow. Snow guys are generally the same. Cool.
00:25:37
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:25:37
Steve Smythe
And Maddie and Matt, like I said, I mean, just a couple of troopers, you know they've never done the snow and just to go out there and grind all night long. And I'm with them or was with them quite a bit at the beginning.
00:25:49
Steve Smythe
but um Never complained, always just a smile. And it's that's pretty sweet to see, too.
00:25:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Has it been fun for you guys?
00:25:57
Maddie and Matt
Oh, yeah. yeah
00:25:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, good.
00:25:59
Maddie and Matt
ah we
00:25:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
It should be fun.
00:26:02
Maddie and Matt
but Yeah, I mean, we like doing something different all the time.
00:26:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
No such thing.
00:26:06
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:26:07
Maddie and Matt
So jumping in the snow is definitely something different, different in a way we didn't expect, but in a good way, I think.
00:26:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:26:13
Steve Smythe
And then you guys are getting to see different parts of the country, too.
00:26:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
So.
00:26:18
Steve Smythe
you know if it's
00:26:19
Maddie and Matt
That's true. Yeah, that's awesome.
00:26:20
Steve Smythe
yeah
00:26:21
Maddie and Matt
I was just telling talking to Matt about this because like I've only now I've been on a plane three times and two out of those three things were for storm chasing, but I'd never been on a plane like before.
00:26:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, there you go.
00:26:31
Maddie and Matt
So I saw the ocean in Boston out of all places, but hey, that was cool.
00:26:32
RICK JAMES
There you go.
00:26:37
RICK JAMES
There you go.
00:26:39
Steve Smythe
Awesome.
00:26:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
So you guys are based in many in Minnesota, right?
Ghost Dog Media's Marketing Services
00:26:44
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, yep.
00:26:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Ghost dog. So what is ghost dog?
00:26:45
Maddie and Matt
ye
00:26:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Tell everybody a little bit about ghost dog, you know, talk about your company there. What do you guys do? What do you primarily specialize in?
00:26:53
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, so we do a little bit of everything. We started Ghostog to be literally like a one-stop marketing shop um for all companies. And we really are, you know, our bread and butter is all construction-based.
00:27:04
Maddie and Matt
That's where we started. That's what we love. um So going into the snow, you know, we kind of knew what we were getting into to a degree. It was just snow versus dirt.
00:27:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh-huh.
00:27:13
Maddie and Matt
ah But we do everything from video, social media management, marketing, coaching, website design, photo, video, you know, We do like everything. Like you name it, we probably do it under the marking umbrella.
00:27:24
Maddie and Matt
um So it's kind of fun. We get to do a little bit of everything and a lot of our clients are kind of with us for the long haul and they do a little bit of everything with us.
00:27:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that's cool.
00:27:31
Maddie and Matt
So yes,
00:27:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
And there's a lot of crossover dirt to snow and vice versa.
00:27:35
Maddie and Matt
absolutely.
00:27:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that's cool.
00:27:36
Maddie and Matt
Yeah. You know, I don't mind the no hard hat thing. That's been kind of nice to shove all my hair up in a hard hat.
00:27:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:41
Maddie and Matt
It's not the easiest task. So I would much rather look like a walking stop sign.
00:27:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Oh, oh, she don't come out in the snow much too cold for them.
00:27:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man. But that's awesome. That's great that you guys are doing that. And now you're going to be famous for this. So that that can be very good for Ghost Dog because this it looks really good. the The clip you guys put together for Jeremy's episode for Glacier. That that looked awesome. Like I got really pumped up for that. So.
00:28:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm excited. you know So kudos to you guys for for putting that together. And I saw the one with the Snow Boss today. That was that was pretty funny.
00:28:19
Maddie and Matt
oh yeah
00:28:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
what he listen Was it Christmas when they were doing that episode?
00:28:20
RICK JAMES
yeah Yeah. Yeah. It was like December 20th.
00:28:23
Maddie and Matt
Oh yeah.
00:28:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was?
00:28:24
RICK JAMES
I think it was December 20th.
00:28:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, okay. So it was before Christmas. All right.
00:28:26
Steve Smythe
of this music.
00:28:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Then that makes more sense.
00:28:27
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:28:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm like, why Snow Boss? Didn't they do that in January? I lost track of dates.
00:28:34
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:28:34
Maddie and Matt
So have we.
00:28:34
RICK JAMES
No, it was.
00:28:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
That makes more sense that the that he was listening to rocking out the Christmas music in the cab.
00:28:36
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:28:41
RICK JAMES
He's a real snow boss.
00:28:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
You don't hear that on the, you don't hear the music on your headset, Jeremy, with the group call.
00:28:48
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:28:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
When he's listening to music, it doesn't come through the blue parrot.
00:28:51
Steve Smythe
All right.
00:28:52
RICK JAMES
Well, sometimes depends on how long they have or how old they have it in the lower so there's been something well It's either either you'll hear it in the background or and you'll be singing so And that's No, no, he's not no he's not ah He loves us Gabby Barrett
00:28:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm.
00:29:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:29:04
Steve Smythe
Yep. Well, the bullets are pretty good. Pretty good. So, uh, say, uh,
00:29:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he's a troubadour. He is a troubadour.
00:29:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man. So you guys have done four episodes so far. Three of them actually saw snow, right? The fourth one was like...
00:29:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that was that was what we did there.
00:29:27
RICK JAMES
Yeah, that was a guarantee though.
00:29:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
the The weathermen were...
00:29:29
Steve Smythe
i was that was that was a that was one from the doctor right like a lot a lot never get old that was a lot seasonal average in two weeks less than two
00:29:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was a lock.
00:29:33
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:29:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was...
00:29:33
RICK JAMES
yeah yeah
00:29:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Never gets old.
00:29:41
RICK JAMES
Never was never going to get old.
00:29:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Never.
00:29:43
RICK JAMES
That's over here.
00:29:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Excuse me, doctor.
00:29:45
RICK JAMES
yeah That was a lock. Remember? That was a lot.
00:29:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was a lock.
00:29:49
RICK JAMES
I still remember. I mean, it was a it was a lock.
00:29:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Haven't seen a system like that in three was three years.
00:29:54
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:29:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
I remember that quote as well.
00:29:57
RICK JAMES
yeah oh yeah you gotta get out there yeah yeah
00:29:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
I do remember that quote as well.
00:30:00
Steve Smythe
Why are you guys still here watching this show? You should be packed up leaving. It's going to be gone.
00:30:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh man. What would the show be?
00:30:09
Steve Smythe
So that was, that was Maddie and Matt's first debut to this whole snow stuff. And they're just probably like, what the heck is going on?
00:30:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, that's a great baptism. Welcome.
00:30:20
Steve Smythe
Yep.
00:30:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's how it goes. That is how it goes.
00:30:23
Steve Smythe
It was it was good because how many times all of us have, you know, it's been a lock and nothing happens and you're up multiple times and then the next.
00:30:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yup.
00:30:29
RICK JAMES
Nothing happens, yeah.
00:30:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
You gear up to the tune of thousands and thousands of dollars and you get dry slotted or wrapped around or whatever. One of the hundred different terms they have and nothing happens and you just, you know, you don't recoup that money and it's frustrating.
00:30:41
RICK JAMES
Rusty trombone.
00:30:45
Steve Smythe
markeys Markey's defense, that was lake effect and like literally like 20 miles or whatever, 20 minutes up the road, they had what, 30 inches or something.
00:30:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah Yeah, no, Lake Effect is tough to pinpoint.
00:30:55
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:30:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
So I mean, yeah, well we we're going to give out shit regardless because it was so much fun.
00:30:57
RICK JAMES
You don't need to defend. You don't need to defend a doctor.
00:30:59
Steve Smythe
We got to get on to that. Yeah.
00:31:01
RICK JAMES
You do not need to defend a doctor.
00:31:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was so funny. It was so funny. I got to hear it again.
00:31:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the greatest sound bite of all time. I freaking love it. But yeah, you know, we're going to give them. We're going to give them a little rip in every now and then they they need it. I will say this.
00:31:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
um Both true weather and weather pros for our storm the other day were dead on. True weather called it on the low side, but they were still in the neighborhood.
00:31:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Their timing was right. um Weather pros was actually dead balls on. So that means Nick had to make that forecast. That couldn't have been Rob.
00:31:41
RICK JAMES
yeah did you do it you should have a golf climb for that
00:31:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Golf clap.
00:31:45
RICK JAMES
yeah yeah
00:31:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, they were right. Timing temperature, even the temperature drop that they said it's going to drop, you know, 18 to 20 degrees in about an hour and everything's going to ice up. So make sure you get the salt down behind the plow.
00:32:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Weather Pros was dead on with with everything. Time, temperature, and total. They actually said they saw us getting 8 to 10 out of that, and we got 8.9.
00:32:07
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Did you do it?
00:32:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
So they were right in the middle of there their a little range.
00:32:10
RICK JAMES
You should have a golf climb for that.
00:32:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that that definitely means Nick had to make that call.
00:32:15
RICK JAMES
and make a little upset us nick Nick was upset we didn't call him on on our last week's show.
00:32:15
Steve Smythe
Good.
00:32:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah That couldn't have couldn't have been Rob.
00:32:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Although, I will say this, I did call the hotline, and nobody picked up. Didn't check it.
00:32:29
RICK JAMES
oh my
00:32:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
at one 30 in the morning. Nobody picked up. I don't know who was on it. I don't know who was on duty, but um you know, it happens, I guess, but yeah, but but both all all kidding aside, both true weather and weather pros were, were very good on that one.
00:32:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
They nailed that one. So we'll
Accuracy of Weather Forecasts
00:32:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
give them both a plus.
00:32:49
RICK JAMES
So what, so what did you guys do when you were at at UD, when it had snow?
00:32:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. What did you do with yourselves? All that gear up and just cold.
00:32:56
Maddie and Matt
<unk> Yeah, we would have lost our marbles.
00:32:58
RICK JAMES
What's the?
00:33:00
Maddie and Matt
We watched them make brine for a full day. I've never learned so much about brine in my life.
00:33:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, it's just salt.
00:33:08
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, I think we could make it on our own now.
00:33:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
it There you go.
00:33:09
Maddie and Matt
I probably could.
00:33:10
RICK JAMES
Is it firebrand?
00:33:11
Maddie and Matt
I still textile and I'm like, look, it's a plow right steak. Look, that's probably brine gotta be 23.3.
00:33:17
RICK JAMES
There you go.
00:33:18
Steve Smythe
There you go.
00:33:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
See, you're learning, learning all this useless knowledge.
00:33:19
RICK JAMES
You got educated.
00:33:19
Steve Smythe
Awesome.
00:33:21
Maddie and Matt
Exactly.
00:33:22
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:33:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, that's great.
00:33:24
Maddie and Matt
It was still fun.
00:33:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's yeah, it does happen.
00:33:25
Maddie and Matt
And I think we'll have a good episode come out of it. I mean, it'll be a lot of preparing for nothing. But like you guys said, it's what happens all the time.
00:33:31
Steve Smythe
we got they Then they they kept kind of forecasting after the after the initial event.
00:33:33
Maddie and Matt
So.
00:33:34
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah, all the time.
00:33:35
Maddie and Matt
i
00:33:38
Steve Smythe
They kept saying each night was a one inch or something like that. So we would you know you'd get up like everybody else would yet, check it out, and did some pre-treating.
00:33:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
They were doubling down.
00:33:48
Steve Smythe
We did have a dusting at one site, so we did get to see a little bit little bit of snow. So throw a little brine down and watch it melt.
00:33:56
Maddie and Matt
When Kyle, the perfect personality for like not having snow, like he's just a likable dude. And so it'll be really easy. I mean, he was probably the best one not to get snow as bad as that sounds, but I mean, he.
00:34:06
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:34:07
RICK JAMES
no
00:34:08
Steve Smythe
and so This whole team that was there is this great, great group of guys.
00:34:11
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:13
Steve Smythe
Real fun to be around.
00:34:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good. That's supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be fun.
00:34:16
RICK JAMES
Right.
00:34:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
If you can't have fun doing this, you're in the wrong business. It's a lot of fun.
00:34:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:34:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's a lot of frustration at times, but it's also a lot of fun.
00:34:24
Steve Smythe
Mm hmm.
00:34:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
You got to love it to do it.
00:34:25
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:34:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cause otherwise what the hell are we doing? If we really weren't having fun and didn't love doing this, then there's a lot easier things to do with your time. That's no, that's for sure.
00:34:35
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:34:36
Steve Smythe
And we then we pivoted from Kyle's was the first one, then we got to go to the the Almighty Glacier.
00:34:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:34:43
Steve Smythe
And that was that was a blast.
00:34:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:34:44
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:34:44
Steve Smythe
That was a whole Yeah, big boys are here.
00:34:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Excuse me. The big boys are here and you actually got snow, right?
00:34:46
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah. Let's go. Let's go.
00:34:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Jeremy, like you got a good snow.
00:34:51
Steve Smythe
That's Oh, yeah.
00:34:52
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. Probably the biggest one a couple of years ago was six inches or something.
00:34:58
Steve Smythe
s six seven
00:34:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's a lot for you guys in the land of one to two inches.
00:34:58
RICK JAMES
Well, not much, but it was, it was, yeah, it was good.
00:34:59
Steve Smythe
yeah
00:35:02
RICK JAMES
yeah Yeah. Well, one to two would be a godsend and everything's point to right now.
00:35:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, right now, but normally one to two is your wheelhouse, right?
00:35:06
RICK JAMES
see'd like but Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. No, it was great. It was good. The wind wasn't terrible. I mean, it wasn't windy, but it wasn't like normal wind.
00:35:17
RICK JAMES
So, I mean, that was good.
00:35:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:35:20
RICK JAMES
I want to, I'd like to, I'd like to have them come up on that one of those, like a couple of years ago, on the Valentine's Day blizzard.
00:35:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good.
00:35:20
Steve Smythe
Yeah, six, seven inches.
00:35:24
RICK JAMES
We had, see that fucking wind. That was by the worst.
00:35:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Was that the one when you were going to rescue Snow Boss?
00:35:29
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was impressive.
00:35:30
RICK JAMES
That would be, that would make a, that would have been a cool video.
00:35:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
that was and That was an impressive video.
00:35:33
RICK JAMES
You can even see a loader.
00:35:35
Maddie and Matt
You won't be flying the drone in that blizzard.
00:35:35
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:35:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Holy crap.
00:35:38
RICK JAMES
Well, I thought your drone could fly.
00:35:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
You couldn't drive a car in that forget about a four pound drone that You'd find it two states away the next day.
00:35:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:35:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was pretty impressive Could not make it down the road And not because of the snow.
00:35:46
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:35:50
RICK JAMES
No, it was fun. It was a good.
00:35:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was just the wind Crazy
00:35:54
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah. It's just the wind. Well, obviously the snow, but yeah, no, it was, it was good. When I got here, we drove around and check. I think we went to Andy's shop and showed him that.
00:36:05
RICK JAMES
Well, first we had to go meet lunch at the brick house, right? yeah think we We always go to the brick house.
00:36:09
Steve Smythe
had lunch and yeah.
00:36:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, what did you think of the brick house?
00:36:10
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:36:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
I've never been there, but all they talk about is this brick house.
00:36:14
Maddie and Matt
You got to go. It's good.
00:36:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:36:17
RICK JAMES
We went there for every meal, I think, could besides Texeronos, right?
00:36:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Is it good?
00:36:20
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, I think that's great. I don't think I had the same thing twice, though, and everything was good.
00:36:23
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:36:25
Maddie and Matt
So, you know.
00:36:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
and Okay.
00:36:26
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:36:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
What kind of food do they have at the brick house?
00:36:29
RICK JAMES
Bar food.
00:36:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's bar food.
00:36:31
RICK JAMES
They got a great they got they agree pizza buffet, but they also have good sandwiches and stuff, so.
00:36:35
Steve Smythe
Pizza, yep, pizza buffet and
00:36:38
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it was you know what? They're in with the Annie's and we went over to pop the shop and show them all his side equipment and the massive Shop he has with all those sidewalk pieces Yeah bangle cats Yeah, then we had Yeah,
00:36:47
Steve Smythe
Got to hang out with his bingle cat.
00:36:50
Maddie and Matt
yeah His cats are so cool. He's lucky he still has them in his shop because I didn't know how to get back.
00:36:59
Steve Smythe
No, that was a great episode.
00:37:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
the cats. Oh man.
00:37:02
RICK JAMES
yeah but yeah, I know we
00:37:04
Steve Smythe
It was ah was a great storm. We got to go out and plow plo during the storm, then go out the next night, clean up, and then we got the haul.
00:37:11
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it was a three night deal, so yeah.
00:37:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
What days of the week was the storm? Do you remember? Like, did they get to experience wiener Wednesdays or no?
00:37:17
Steve Smythe
No, it started, I think the storm started on Thursday, right?
00:37:17
RICK JAMES
No.
00:37:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
No. Oh, just missed it.
00:37:21
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:37:21
Steve Smythe
Right, Fermi? Yeah, we just missed it.
00:37:22
Maddie and Matt
Well, we were there on Wednesday.
00:37:22
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:37:23
Maddie and Matt
but Yeah, we got Wednesday.
00:37:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
And they didn't, they were there Wednesday and you didn't roll out wiener Wednesday for him.
00:37:25
Steve Smythe
We were there on Wednesday.
00:37:29
RICK JAMES
Apparently didn't know. I don't know.
00:37:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, come on, man.
00:37:31
Maddie and Matt
I'm a little upset about that.
00:37:33
RICK JAMES
There's a lot of, there's a lot of stuff going well.
00:37:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's a glacier tradition. Apparently.
00:37:36
RICK JAMES
Well, come back. Oh, I'll get her done for you.
00:37:38
Steve Smythe
That's his way of getting you back up there.
00:37:38
RICK JAMES
Come on back.
00:37:39
Maddie and Matt
Better be on a Wednesday because I want those wieners.
00:37:41
RICK JAMES
Well, it doesn't matter.
00:37:43
Steve Smythe
They're pretty good.
00:37:44
RICK JAMES
I'll make him any day.
00:37:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Don't give us anything we can clip Matt.
00:37:47
RICK JAMES
Oh, I think he already did.
00:37:51
Maddie and Matt
like
00:37:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, I'll give him that one.
00:37:52
RICK JAMES
Touching tips. Wasn't Steve always late?
00:37:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'll give him that one.
00:37:54
RICK JAMES
Touching tips on a later Wednesday?
00:37:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's his first first show with us. I'll give him that one. No clips.
00:37:58
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:37:58
Maddie and Matt
To be fair, we're going to do it to all of you, so it probably is only fair you can do it to us.
00:38:02
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
00:38:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
ain't doing it to me.
00:38:02
Maddie and Matt
Yeah.
00:38:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah hu but that does that become an issue jay where you forget you're micd up
00:38:11
RICK JAMES
yeah actually Yeah, I mean right right away you know you miked up, but yeah, there's I'm sure there's a lot of off-color stuff on there Yeah, yeah but
00:38:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:38:20
Maddie and Matt
Everyone has that. Everyone. no
00:38:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm sure. I'm sure. I was miked up at my wedding and I forgot because they put it on at like noon. And by the time the ceremony happened, I forgot that it was on.
00:38:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
And my wife, when they said, you know, to go give each other, you know, wish each other peace or whatever, my wife went to like 75 different people. And I'm standing up there after I did like three and I'm like, get the fuck back up here.
00:38:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Let's just get this over with.
00:38:46
Maddie and Matt
good
00:38:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
And it was right there on the video. Like you heard it. She thought it was really funny. So she left it in. I'm like, get the fuck back up here.
00:38:52
Maddie and Matt
That's awesome.
00:38:52
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Sounds like you.
00:38:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, you forget about the mic, right?
00:38:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah, that was fun.
00:38:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
So we could never do storm chasing live.
00:38:58
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:39:01
Steve Smythe
You could.
00:39:02
Maddie and Matt
You have to have a live sleep button.
00:39:02
Steve Smythe
You could.
00:39:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Like, yeah. Three second delay with the beep button.
00:39:05
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:39:06
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:39:06
Maddie and Matt
Yeah.
00:39:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
That would be a busy guy though.
00:39:08
RICK JAMES
Matty would be busy.
00:39:08
Maddie and Matt
Yep.
00:39:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah be Busy as hell.
00:39:12
Steve Smythe
She did.
00:39:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, we got a block that completely out.
00:39:15
RICK JAMES
be
00:39:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was off color.
00:39:17
RICK JAMES
That's a glacier after dark.
00:39:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, pretty much. Did Maddie get to experience glacier after dark?
00:39:25
Steve Smythe
she did
00:39:25
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah, yeah, they, yeah, I see.
00:39:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
She was riding in the trucks.
00:39:28
RICK JAMES
steve Yeah.
00:39:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh yeah yeah.
00:39:31
RICK JAMES
All the bad, they fit right in though, man. the The guys loved them.
00:39:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome. Good for you guys.
00:39:34
RICK JAMES
The guys love them. They, they want them to come back.
00:39:35
Steve Smythe
ah The guys guys really liked him and it was good.
00:39:36
RICK JAMES
They, yeah, it they, they do.
00:39:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome. Good for you guys. They're not, and they're not the most accepting crew of outsiders.
00:39:42
Steve Smythe
You know, it was awesome by night too.
00:39:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sometimes sometimes they give outsiders the business. So that's really great that you guys fit right in with them.
00:39:50
Steve Smythe
I think Mattie and Matt were dishing it right back out too.
00:39:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Good.
00:39:53
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah.
00:39:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
You gotta don't take any shit from them.
00:39:54
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Don't take any shit.
00:39:56
Steve Smythe
It was pretty good.
00:39:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
They think they're badasses.
00:39:57
RICK JAMES
they're on the call I think they still get the call don't you get the call when it goes up yeah yeah yeah yeah
00:40:01
Maddie and Matt
Every time you go out.
00:40:02
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:40:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, it's gone off a couple of times in the last couple of days. I will say that, but, uh, that's great, man.
00:40:10
Steve Smythe
Yes, it has.
00:40:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm glad I'm glad it's going well. Glad. So what's been your favorite episode so far to film? Come on. You got it. I'm putting you on the spot. I need an answer. Straight answer.
00:40:21
Maddie and Matt
Honest answer or?
00:40:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, honest. It's okay.
00:40:25
Maddie and Matt
No, Glacier was by far the most fun. I think just the phone call makes
00:40:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:40:30
Maddie and Matt
a little bit of a difference, like, yeah.
00:40:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
It does. Yeah. They're, they're a group. They're, they're a group that's made to have a TV show about them. Honestly, like it's instant.
00:40:38
Maddie and Matt
Oh, yeah.
00:40:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, seriously, you couldn't put a better cast together. They're all a bunch of characters, wing nuts, pirates, snow pirates.
00:40:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:40:46
Maddie and Matt
What can you do? We didn't really get to know Kyle super well, because he didn't have a storm. So we spent most of our time getting to know our hotel. um And, you know, ECF, we were stuck in one, location we were in one location the whole time.
00:40:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:40:54
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:40:57
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:41:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Where did they have you for ECF?
00:41:00
Maddie and Matt
So I didn't really meet any of these guys.
00:41:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Where did they have you for ECF?
00:41:03
Maddie and Matt
And then, in an Amazon facility.
00:41:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, where though? what's I don't even know where you went for it.
00:41:08
Maddie and Matt
Are they exploring Virginia?
00:41:08
RICK JAMES
Frank's right.
00:41:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
brerick Oh, Fredericksburg.
00:41:10
RICK JAMES
Fredericksbury. Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha.
00:41:12
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I had to pull them off.
00:41:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Also, so they were filming you, Jay.
00:41:13
RICK JAMES
They got stuck. Yeah, they got stuck out there to go pull them off.
00:41:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:41:17
Maddie and Matt
Yes, we did. Yeah, Jeremy does get a gold star.
00:41:19
RICK JAMES
Oh, Maddie, Maddie wanted a four-wheel drive and paid extra for it. And they gave her two-wheel drive and they got stuck.
00:41:26
Maddie and Matt
I was so mad.
00:41:27
Steve Smythe
Oh, and that that episode with ECF, you guys were out there for quite a few days, right?
00:41:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
You should have gotten it for free then.
00:41:35
Steve Smythe
Wasn't it? That was that was that storm? I was in Kansas City and was were there?
00:41:37
Maddie and Matt
Five days, I see.
00:41:38
RICK JAMES
yeah Yeah.
00:41:38
Maddie and Matt
Five days, yeah.
00:41:39
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:41:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Wow.
00:41:41
Maddie and Matt
Three and a half of those, we were stuck on site. We did not leave.
00:41:44
Steve Smythe
Sure.
00:41:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:46
Maddie and Matt
yeah Yep. So, but that episode will be a little different in the fact that ECF has their media team and they're going to send us stuff and we're going to be able to bounce around from a bunch of different locations in different markets.
00:41:47
RICK JAMES
Yeah, we were.
00:41:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm hmm.
00:41:55
Steve Smythe
different states.
00:41:56
RICK JAMES
Site to site.
00:41:57
Steve Smythe
Yeah, because we had we had guys in Ohio and then Kentucky and Kansas City and Virginia.
00:41:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cool.
00:42:04
RICK JAMES
Chicago.
00:42:04
Steve Smythe
So it's gonna spread across the country all at once.
00:42:05
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:42:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that'll be cool.
00:42:07
Steve Smythe
So yeah.
00:42:08
RICK JAMES
Yeah, that'd be a cool one.
00:42:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
That'll be cool to show a ah national level company that is doing a lot of different states.
00:42:12
Steve Smythe
ah who
00:42:12
Maddie and Matt
Yeah.
00:42:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
That should be good. And I'm sure Josh Brecht will get you all sorts of great footage and stuff. They do a good job with their media. They really do. Um, so do you guys, like you guys have never done snow before, but you have done, you know, dirt companies
Intensity of Snow Work
00:42:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
and stuff like that. Did you have any preconceived ideas about snow management and you know, what we do and that maybe you feel differently about now?
00:42:39
Maddie and Matt
Honestly, I didn't think it was as many hours as it was.
00:42:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:42:43
Maddie and Matt
It's like just going 30, 40 hours straight, no sleep, never leave the loader.
00:42:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's fair.
00:42:50
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, that was a big surprise to me.
00:42:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. I get that. That's, that's one of the biggest misconceptions out there. Like they just kind of think the snow fairies come, you know, cause they're sleeping while we're getting it done and poof it's yeah.
00:43:03
Steve Smythe
how Now, do you guys feel, question for you guys since you're out there now, do you feel that that 30 hours goes super fast?
00:43:03
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:43:11
Maddie and Matt
Yes. If there's enough going on, if I stop and sit still for long enough, I'm like, Oh my gosh, I'm going to lose my marbles.
00:43:13
Steve Smythe
Sure.
00:43:19
Maddie and Matt
What can I go do now? Versus if like we keep going or there's something going on and we can keep moving. I'd be like, you don't even realize you get tired until you sit down and you're like, Oh crap, I'm really tired.
00:43:30
Maddie and Matt
Like, and then it hits you.
00:43:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
00:43:31
Maddie and Matt
But for the most part, Yeah, I think so.
00:43:32
Steve Smythe
I remember that. It kind of happened to me up at Glacier, I think. I got really tired for a minute.
00:43:36
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It happened to me in Fredericksburg too.
00:43:39
Maddie and Matt
Sleeping in your truck. hitting your steering wheel with your head.
00:43:41
RICK JAMES
I jumped in, I jumped in.
00:43:42
Steve Smythe
I kind of fell asleep, I think I heard the rumor.
00:43:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah. And then you didn't even know you were in my pickup.
00:43:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
There's nothing wrong with that.
00:43:47
RICK JAMES
You didn't even know you were in my, you didn't even know you got in my pickup and fell asleep.
00:43:47
Steve Smythe
What's that?
00:43:50
Steve Smythe
Did I?
00:43:52
RICK JAMES
Yeah. And then I got, when I was in Virginia, I got Matt and Maddie's pickup.
00:43:54
Maddie and Matt
He went
00:43:57
RICK JAMES
I was out. I was out.
00:43:58
Steve Smythe
I got a picture of that.
00:43:59
Maddie and Matt
more than five seconds before you were sleeping.
00:44:02
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I was gone.
00:44:02
Maddie and Matt
And then Matt's like, we're just going to keep going. He's just driving around with you in the backseat.
00:44:06
RICK JAMES
Yeah, snoring away.
00:44:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah You can, ah ye that you definitely, you will definitely not off quick when, especially when you feel like, okay, I'm, I'm not operating the machine or I've, got I've jumped out or I've kind of put it in park or I've jumped into a truck for a little bit and you're not the one driving.
00:44:07
Maddie and Matt
I took a picture and that's not your contact photo in my phone.
00:44:11
RICK JAMES
That's all right. That's what I do to all my guys, too. So I'm proud of that. So that's all my guys' screen shotters.
00:44:14
Maddie and Matt
instead
00:44:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
You can be out in seconds easily, easily. That's how long did you sleep, Jeremy?
00:44:33
Maddie and Matt
yeah
00:44:38
RICK JAMES
I don't know.
00:44:38
Maddie and Matt
10 minutes.
00:44:39
RICK JAMES
Wasn't that one, was it?
00:44:39
Maddie and Matt
You were not sleeping that long, honestly.
00:44:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:44:40
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:44:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
10, 10, 20 minutes and you're back at it for another 24 hours and you're good to go.
00:44:41
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:44:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like it's crazy how you can, how your body can run like that when you get into certain modes, but it's true.
00:44:47
RICK JAMES
I mean,
00:44:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Everybody does it.
00:44:52
RICK JAMES
if you keep moving, keep busy, you don't, that's what I always say, you don't really get tired. But at that point, we were, I was kind of caught up with what I had to do.
00:44:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
00:45:01
RICK JAMES
So it was kind of weird were just waiting on handwork and stuff. like kind of aboard So I So I. but Sleep barely that's what after 35 hours or so Yeah, I want to know Yeah, yeah well i'd I probably worry about my truck breaking breaking down so it was yeah
00:45:11
Maddie and Matt
And that's all good. I think the first time we, cause the first really like long period of time we did was with Glacier. And I, I'm pretty sure I fell asleep in your truck a couple of times, Jeremy. I still tell Matt, I was like, I really hope he didn't notice I fell asleep.
00:45:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're pretty boring guys. Yeah, that's true. Wasn't your, uh, your little mini diesel, uh, having problems?
00:45:34
Steve Smythe
kinds of check engine lights and stuff. Yeah.
00:45:37
RICK JAMES
Yeah, and no it needed an injector.
00:45:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha. So I got one more. What, what's been something about doing this series with us? Uh, that's been completely unexpected for you guys. Anything stick out in your minds?
00:45:51
Maddie and Matt
The guys and like the community support of the whole situation. like i like We went into it and I did not think like there would be as much attention on us as there is.
00:46:03
Maddie and Matt
You know, we are small town, live in a town of like 2000 people, did not think this was going to be like a thing. And then now like we post something and it's kind of nuts on the notifications.
00:46:15
Maddie and Matt
And like, I just didn't realize how much support and community, like how collaborative you guys all are. Like that just, I was not ready for that.
00:46:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:46:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's, yeah, it's, it definitely is.
00:46:24
Maddie and Matt
Yeah.
00:46:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's a good word for a collaborative. It hasn't always been that way, but it's recently, it's, it's definitely taken a turn for the better in that.
Rapid Developments with Ghost Dog Media
00:46:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um, what did, what did Jordan, when he approached you about doing this for us, what did he tell you?
00:46:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, what was your initial contact with him about it? what How did he sell it?
00:46:44
Maddie and Matt
He kind of had been asking around in local Mankato, Minnesota and our name got thrown in the hat and he just reached out and wanted to have a meeting to talk about an idea for a docu-series he had.
00:46:57
Maddie and Matt
And we sat down and chatted about it and we kind of thought it was a cool opportunity for us.
00:47:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:47:03
Maddie and Matt
And so kind of from there, we just went with it and we're making it happen.
00:47:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Are there a lot of media companies in Mankato? Like the town has like three stoplights that I saw when I was there.
00:47:14
RICK JAMES
Oh god.
00:47:15
Maddie and Matt
there's There's a handful of us in town here.
00:47:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
but Are there really? That's awesome.
00:47:19
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, with the two college or three colleges, I guess, in town, we all...
00:47:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's true. There's a big media college or something there, right?
00:47:24
Maddie and Matt
all three Yep, Bethlee Lutheran, which is where we went. There's a big media program there.
00:47:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Gotcha.
00:47:30
Maddie and Matt
They do um Minnesota State Mankato hockey broadcasting.
00:47:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's cool.
00:47:35
Maddie and Matt
And that's kind of where I got started in video, a good chunk of my stuff.
00:47:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome.
00:47:40
Maddie and Matt
but Yeah, all three colleges have kids coming out of it, going into media and...
00:47:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, so that is legit then though.
00:47:48
Maddie and Matt
Yep.
00:47:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
So there are a lot of media around that area. Good. That's cool. That's really, uh, I wouldn't have expected that. So that's awesome. What, um, so, I mean, he obviously got you involved.
00:47:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
He had a conversation was, was what Jordan originally told you. Has it panned out? Like this, was it accurate or is it more than you expected, less than you expected?
00:48:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like what I'm interested. Cause I don't know.
00:48:12
Maddie and Matt
the mo yeah For the most part, it's pretty much the same.
00:48:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
I wasn't in that room on that phone call. I don't know what you guys got sold.
00:48:19
Maddie and Matt
ah The only difference that we weren't really prepared for was how fast things can change in snow.
00:48:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
and Okay, good.
00:48:21
Steve Smythe
Thank you.
00:48:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm hmm. Oh, yeah.
00:48:27
Maddie and Matt
like Jordan had talked about, like you can hop on a plane tomorrow and be shooting snow that night. And this last weekend, we experienced it. Friday, get a phone call from Steve.
00:48:38
Maddie and Matt
They're going to get snow at ODP, and now we're on a plane, and we're in Boston. and shooting them de-ice in that same night, so...
00:48:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
It happens that quick.
00:48:47
RICK JAMES
Yeah, that's awesome And they got it I mean I mean that's
00:48:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Definitely how you guys are on call.
00:48:49
Maddie and Matt
Yeah.
00:48:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it. When you're ready to go to war at a minute's notice.
00:48:54
Maddie and Matt
Always have the batteries charged and ready.
00:48:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome. Good for you guys. What do you got, Jay?
00:49:00
RICK JAMES
No, I was just saying, that's great that they they're all game to just jump and go. Just if we need to go shoot something, they'll just take off and go.
00:49:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome. It's absolutely all. I mean, I love that they bought into it because it's not going to, it's not going to be as well if it's not going to be as done as well. If it feels like a drag, like if you guys are not looking forward to it.
00:49:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
So the fact that you're like all in and you you really are having fun doing it, it's just going to make the episodes that much better. And now you guys have a handle on what you've been filming.
00:49:25
Maddie and Matt
Right.
00:49:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
You've seen how it all works and how much work goes into behind the scenes. And that, I think that will naturally translate when you guys are putting this stuff together.
00:49:36
Maddie and Matt
For sure. The adrenaline is addicting.
00:49:37
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:49:39
Maddie and Matt
When I get my adrenaline going, I'm like, I need that again.
00:49:39
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:49:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, get her a loader, get her a loader.
00:49:43
Maddie and Matt
That was good. I need that again. you know like I constantly say that I'm like this weekend, I'm like, hey, we have nothing going on.
00:49:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:49
Maddie and Matt
We're just going to snow. Maybe we should just go back to Fargo or maybe like like this week it was like, maybe we should just go to Florida. like Who's in Florida that we know? like So the adrenaline is addicting.
00:49:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:49:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's awesome. Good. that It does catch you. it that well You got to get her a loader wherever she goes next.
00:50:02
Steve Smythe
Mm
00:50:02
RICK JAMES
oh We're getting a half inch tomorrow. Come on. We'll be pushing it.
00:50:07
Steve Smythe
hmm.
00:50:09
RICK JAMES
We will.
00:50:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
look
00:50:09
RICK JAMES
We we pushed two tenths twice this week, so...
00:50:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Let Maddie hop in a loader, Jeremy. Wouldn't be the first time she can push.
00:50:13
RICK JAMES
She can jump in whatever she wants.
00:50:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go.
00:50:15
RICK JAMES
I don't care.
00:50:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Push some snow.
00:50:18
RICK JAMES
Yeah?
00:50:18
Maddie and Matt
I can do it. And when it's broken, don't send us the bill.
00:50:19
RICK JAMES
Right?
00:50:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
You definitely could do it.
00:50:19
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:50:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:50:21
Maddie and Matt
I won't break it.
00:50:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
You wouldn't be the, you will not be the only one to break something at Glacier.
00:50:23
RICK JAMES
Don't worry about that.
00:50:23
Maddie and Matt
I'll be fine.
00:50:24
RICK JAMES
That happens anyway. Oh god.
00:50:28
Steve Smythe
Oh boy.
00:50:29
RICK JAMES
It hasn't been bad.
00:50:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no, it hasn't been a bad year.
00:50:32
RICK JAMES
No. No, it's been good.
00:50:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. That's good.
00:50:34
RICK JAMES
No.
00:50:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
How many blocks?
00:50:35
RICK JAMES
know we
00:50:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
What are we up to?
00:50:37
RICK JAMES
ah We've had some blocking out a ton. It's just easy.
00:50:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right. Good.
00:50:40
RICK JAMES
Usually we get the blocks is you know when it freezes forever and and when I mean any guy will hit a frozen pile or something. So that's what we get a block but I don't know We don't haul every lot Steve everyone with but Yeah, yes Yeah, that's where everybody goes first and pushes to check their block
00:50:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
Where are these frozen piles you speak of? You're hauling every freaking no. All right. All right.
00:50:57
Steve Smythe
Just 99%.
00:50:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah. Just, well, there's one lot we don't haul and that's where we break all the blocks.
00:51:03
Steve Smythe
That's the dump site.
00:51:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:51:06
Steve Smythe
A dump site we don't haul.
00:51:08
RICK JAMES
now No, no, that was cool.
00:51:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, it sounds like you guys are all.
00:51:11
RICK JAMES
It's cool. And when they, when they're at ODP, I mean, Steve and I were out at New Jersey and we actually got to be on their conference, our company, they added us to their war room meeting with them.
00:51:23
RICK JAMES
And that was pretty cool. It was kind of see ODP got ready before the storm was tough. And, you know, I picked up a lot of stuff, you know, a little bit. I was on that phone. It was, it's really cool. Those guys are on a tight organization out there. That's for sure.
00:51:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, they do.
00:51:34
RICK JAMES
Just a little bit. I could, I got, got the note also.
00:51:38
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, they were super organized.
00:51:38
RICK JAMES
But.
00:51:39
Maddie and Matt
hey I mean, they had a schedule for us for every night we were out there, which was kind of awesome because they were all over.
00:51:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, yeah.
00:51:45
Maddie and Matt
So they had us driving 40 minutes between sites to make sure we saw all the cool stuff and got the good footage.
00:51:53
Steve Smythe
That's good.
00:51:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, they're very organized. They're very, ah they have, yeah.
00:51:56
Steve Smythe
Deegan and Mikey and all those guys are are really good.
Organized Experience with ODP
00:52:01
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:52:01
Steve Smythe
ah we were kind of We were bummed that we weren't out there, you know' like Johnny, one of their mechanics. I wanted to spend a little time with him just to kind of see the back. you know Those guys are out fixing stuff and whatnot. and what not but Jeremy and I were, we were on our own show.
00:52:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm.
00:52:17
Steve Smythe
Yeah, we were across.
00:52:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:52:17
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:52:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
How, how much would an ODP end up getting up there?
00:52:18
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:52:22
Maddie and Matt
That's a great question. I think they said, I don't remember. Like during the debriefing, I thought they said like eight inches.
00:52:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:52:29
Maddie and Matt
It was a good amount, but like you would go 10.
00:52:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
So they got some word asked. Yeah.
00:52:32
Maddie and Matt
I mean, it was definitely like, it was what what they call it.
00:52:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Localized.
00:52:35
Maddie and Matt
Yeah.
00:52:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:52:35
Maddie and Matt
Like, I mean, you'd go one way and there'd be a ton and then you'd go the next way and there'd be like two inches.
00:52:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Localized. Yeah.
00:52:39
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah.
00:52:40
Maddie and Matt
So.
00:52:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:52:40
Steve Smythe
Yeah, just some of the clips you guys are sending with ramp dumping and stuff like that.
00:52:40
RICK JAMES
Did you guys, yeah.
00:52:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Welcome to the Northeast.
00:52:45
Steve Smythe
It looked pretty cool.
00:52:47
RICK JAMES
Did you guys get some truck brushing video? Were they doing that at all out there?
00:52:50
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, yeah the the morning before we left, they were brushing off over at UPS.
00:52:55
Steve Smythe
Okay.
00:52:55
Maddie and Matt
So it was cool to see that brush in action on top of trucks.
00:52:56
RICK JAMES
Cool. Yeah.
00:52:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, they love those truck brushes. Yep.
00:53:00
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:01
Steve Smythe
That's awesome.
00:53:01
RICK JAMES
They clean also that deal.
00:53:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
Those are, yeah, they're just brushing dollar bills off the top of those trucks.
00:53:04
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:53:05
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:53:05
Maddie and Matt
Every truck.
00:53:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's literally that thing makes one sound cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.
00:53:06
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:53:06
Steve Smythe
yeah
00:53:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:53:11
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:53:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
And you got to do it. That's the beauty.
00:53:13
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:53:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like it's gotta be done.
00:53:14
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:53:15
Maddie and Matt
Yup.
00:53:15
RICK JAMES
Yep. Yep.
00:53:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, it has to be done, but that's, that's pretty cool.
00:53:18
RICK JAMES
So who do we got left?
00:53:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, we got Glacier left. I'm not going to place your Arctic. Sorry, Arctic. If they ever get snow in Chicago again, which is, I was
00:53:25
Steve Smythe
We got Arctic, yep, Arctic in Chicago and curbside in Minneapolis.
00:53:25
RICK JAMES
Yeah, that'll be fun, my big daddy.
00:53:30
RICK JAMES
Yup.
00:53:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
You want to, you want to see a show, uh, Arctic. If you're right, are they going to ride with John? Are they going to be with big daddy?
00:53:37
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:53:38
Steve Smythe
I think Big Daddy would be a good one to view. at
00:53:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh God, that would be, if you, if we can get you embedded with big daddy, that will be a funny ass.
00:53:41
RICK JAMES
Oh, God.
00:53:42
Maddie and Matt
I'm a wood tick to whoever will allow me to be.
00:53:45
Steve Smythe
i think but I think Big Daddy would be awesome.
00:53:45
RICK JAMES
Yup. Oh, God.
00:53:51
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:53:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh my God. At the very least we have to have him mic'd up.
00:53:55
Steve Smythe
Yeah, for sure.
00:53:56
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah, yeah, for sure.
00:53:56
Maddie and Matt
You might come up at some point.
00:53:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like Michael.
00:53:58
Maddie and Matt
We can make it happen.
00:53:59
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:53:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
mic him up the day before don't tell him he's mic'd up like put it on his lapel or something and oh that'll be so much fun oh
00:54:04
Maddie and Matt
This is weird.
00:54:06
RICK JAMES
Oh, you don't care if you like.
00:54:07
Maddie and Matt
I'm pretty good at that. I just click, you know, record on the GoPro and has pretty good audio if I need a worst case scenario.
00:54:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
he's the best he is great he is a cartoon character it's so much fun being around him
00:54:15
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah.
00:54:18
Steve Smythe
Yeah, he would be definitely a good character to watch.
00:54:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh yeah.
00:54:21
Steve Smythe
And he's got...
00:54:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, yeah, and we got Arctic. We still got to do Arctic. Um, and then, is that it?
00:54:26
Maddie and Matt
Curbside.
00:54:27
RICK JAMES
curside
00:54:28
Steve Smythe
curbside. you got We gotta to wait wait for the perfect Minneapolis snowfall when we get curbside.
00:54:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Kerbside, if they ever get snow.
00:54:30
RICK JAMES
curbside here's a stick right there yeah but
00:54:33
Maddie and Matt
Hopefully that we get started.
00:54:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Kerbside, Kerbside correct me if I'm wrong, but Kerbside has said no twice, right? They've turned down two storm opportunities.
00:54:40
Steve Smythe
Yeah, they had that last one was around an inch or something, but you say you talked to him, Steve, and they were all...
00:54:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, they the last one, I'll give them a pass on. They were all sick. They said they had something going through the company, not gonna be a great time to ah to film.
00:54:48
Steve Smythe
they were all yeah
00:54:52
Steve Smythe
think there is I think they're they're just holding out. They're waiting for that perfect Minneapolis storm. And if my gut says February, it's going to happen.
00:54:56
RICK JAMES
Well, yeah.
00:54:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
You better hope so. Better hope so, because I'll tell you, it's not looking good for Minnesota again. I feel really bad for those guys.
00:55:07
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:55:07
Steve Smythe
Two years in a row.
00:55:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
This is two years in a row for you guys.
Minnesota's Snowless Winters
00:55:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's unheard of. Have you ever done that before? Like you've had down winners, I'm sure in the history of Minnesota.
00:55:14
Steve Smythe
We've had down winners, but nothing like this. I mean, this is this is ridiculous. They've been out doing a lot of de-icing this season. I forget. I was just talking to Brandon from LAD.
00:55:21
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:55:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Is this winter worst snowfall than last winter?
00:55:25
Steve Smythe
It feels like it's starting for totals. Yeah, it's that way up.
00:55:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Really? oo Wow.
00:55:31
Steve Smythe
That can turn on a dime.
00:55:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's not good.
00:55:32
Steve Smythe
you know It was like that a few years back, and we had a February where we we pushed every day you know all that month.
00:55:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, there you go.
00:55:38
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:55:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, that's definitely, it could always
00:55:39
RICK JAMES
That's
Ohio's Weather Complaints
00:55:40
RICK JAMES
no business.
00:55:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
happen.
00:55:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Look at Ohio.
00:55:41
Steve Smythe
hu
00:55:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, those guys have been complaining for three years. They've had no winter and now they're complaining because they won't shut off for two and a half weeks.
00:55:47
Steve Smythe
Yep.
00:55:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're never happy.
00:55:51
Steve Smythe
Never happened.
00:55:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're never happy in Ohio. But yeah, that's, uh, it's awesome. I'm glad you guys are having fun doing it. That's the most important
Creative Teasers at Glacier
00:56:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
thing. And, uh, they said, I can't wait to see when, you know, when we start putting together these teasers and stuff that that's just a lot of fun that to see them rolling off and see what footage you, you guys definitely captured what art or what glacier does with those artists out there. That, uh, there was a lot of, a lot of everything that Jeremy's posted before on video. We saw a good number of that with you guys.
00:56:25
Steve Smythe
touched some tips a few times out there.
00:56:25
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:56:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Oh, a lot of tip touch and saw that with trucks, right?
00:56:28
RICK JAMES
Yup. Jesus.
00:56:31
Steve Smythe
touch and jem Jeremy and i jemy and I this weekend, we did some tip touching with two pickups. Yeah.
00:56:36
RICK JAMES
Drox and a metal blesses.
00:56:39
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:56:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, oh, really?
Social Media Incident with Arctic
00:56:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, all right.
00:56:41
RICK JAMES
But we didn't have any hardly any snow, but we did it.
00:56:42
Steve Smythe
Even buckets. When we were loading trucks, we were touching tips on either side.
00:56:47
RICK JAMES
Yup. Yup.
00:56:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Weirdos.
00:56:50
RICK JAMES
Yup. They didn't. We are weird.
00:56:53
Steve Smythe
Arctic just posted a video.
00:56:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
It got weird.
00:56:55
Steve Smythe
arctic Arctic posted a video today. they were They were doing a little tip-touching with the Razorbacks. And I commented, I tagged you on it, and some guy didn't like that.
00:56:59
RICK JAMES
Yup.
00:57:02
Steve Smythe
He called me some kind of name.
00:57:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Really?
00:57:06
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:57:07
RICK JAMES
Who did?
00:57:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, that wasn't very nice.
00:57:08
Steve Smythe
That's a look. I tagged you on it, and then he called me something.
00:57:12
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I know I re-shared it. I guess I didn't see it.
00:57:14
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
00:57:14
RICK JAMES
I'll have a look at it.
00:57:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
huh Okay.
00:57:16
RICK JAMES
Don't mess with Steve.
00:57:17
Steve Smythe
It's kind of like something to buy flour, but different.
00:57:17
RICK JAMES
I'll get after him.
00:57:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:57:21
RICK JAMES
Oh, whatever.
00:57:22
Steve Smythe
I'm kind of excited about that black Arctic to see that.
00:57:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right.
00:57:25
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:57:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, let's hit some commercials and then we'll come back. We'll keep going with these guys. We'll be right back.
Interesting Snow Equipment
00:58:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, we're back. So Matt and Maddie, one more question for you guys. You guys have been to four different companies now. You've seen all the equipment and stuff that these companies have. What was the coolest piece of equipment that you'd never seen before that you got to you got to see used? Anything stand out?
00:58:51
Maddie and Matt
seeing the metal plastic under like the Amazon fulfillment center like trailers that was that was pretty cool they're pretty cool that brush over the like yes yeah that was cool that was different i've never seen that at all before we didn't even know what the thing those
00:58:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
The van wing. OK, that's cool. The truck brush.
00:59:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay.
00:59:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. All right. So truck brush and van wing.
00:59:11
Steve Smythe
How about the big little room blower?
00:59:11
Maddie and Matt
big
00:59:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:59:15
Maddie and Matt
blowers are
00:59:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, ah did they get to see that at Glacier?
00:59:18
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, we did.
00:59:19
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:59:19
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, those were pretty cool to see too.
00:59:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nice.
00:59:20
RICK JAMES
Yup.
00:59:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Those things are, uh,
00:59:23
Maddie and Matt
It's all cool.
00:59:23
RICK JAMES
you brought them off I think I brought them all three in one.
00:59:25
Maddie and Matt
Anything but a standard box is cool.
00:59:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
standard boxes can be cool though. If they're artics.
00:59:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, there's nothing standard about an Arctic. Oh yeah. But the, uh, the LaRue is sweet.
00:59:38
RICK JAMES
no true true story yeah but you won't won't be as cool yeah the pink is sweet no
00:59:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, cause when you're looking at it, you're like, yeah, I could buy this or I could buy a house. It's the same price. It's true. It's very true. Like, yeah, I could buy a two bedroom home or I could live in this, this blower.
00:59:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, it's insane. What is it 250 for those?
01:00:01
RICK JAMES
a little less well for the ours a little less I'm sure the bigger ones are obviously more but yeah
01:00:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
Little less.
01:00:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, they make bigger ones than what you got, right?
01:00:09
RICK JAMES
Yeah, mine's not even that big.
01:00:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it's they make massive ones. Oh, man. What else?
01:00:16
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:00:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
What else you got, Jay? What else you want to ask him?
01:00:19
RICK JAMES
Um, gotta head something here.
01:00:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Steve, you got something?
01:00:26
Steve Smythe
Yeah, just excited to finish up these two. I'm super excited. This is the Arctic. I've ran their equipment for so many years, and just to kind of see the behind the scenes with those guys is super, super exciting
Behind-the-Scenes with Arctic
01:00:40
Steve Smythe
to me. so
01:00:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, we're going to, we're going to get them there. Even if we have to do it at storm Academy.
01:00:45
Steve Smythe
We might do Storm Academy and just blow and get Big Daddy there.
01:00:47
RICK JAMES
Okay. Well, I just, like I said, I talked to big daddy yesterday.
01:00:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
oh
01:00:51
RICK JAMES
He said, if, if we're going to get a storm, he goes, let me know. We'll come up there. So they'll come here. He said so.
01:00:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, that's cool. That would be awesome.
01:00:58
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:00:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Actually, that would be really cool.
01:00:59
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:00:59
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:01:00
Maddie and Matt
I can see my own bed.
01:01:00
RICK JAMES
They were going to come here last year. Yeah. Well, no, we'll be working.
01:01:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
See the Arctic crew roll in the Fargo.
01:01:05
RICK JAMES
We'll be working, Matt.
01:01:07
Maddie and Matt
That's fair.
01:01:07
RICK JAMES
We working.
01:01:07
Maddie and Matt
That's fair.
01:01:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's great.
01:01:10
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I know Matt, he he said he would come out here. If, if we get a storm, and they're not getting one. He said, let them know they'll, they'll have this way. So.
01:01:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
sounds good
01:01:19
Maddie and Matt
Let's travel for us.
01:01:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
well Yeah, indeed.
01:01:21
RICK JAMES
Yes.
01:01:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Indeed. Well, we, I mean, we appreciate you guys doing this for us and getting out there in the elements and getting the shots and making sure everything gets on film. And it's great. And I'm glad, uh, glad we're able to expose you to it.
01:01:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I'm glad you're having fun with it. Cause that's, uh, that's definitely ah with the wrong, the wrong media company, it could be a drag and it's not going to be as good.
01:01:37
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:01:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
So the fact that you guys are loving it and having so much fun with it, I think that's just going to translate.
01:01:46
Steve Smythe
even Even this last week, I mean, every Monday we have all of us all of us and then Marky and whatnot are on our weather briefing every Monday morning. and Last week, there was really nothing going on and you guys were actually going to go work on another project that you were going to do in Arizona. and Also, not weather switched and I called because I figured you were in Arizona and the job didn't work out. We were just like, at a moment, no one is ready to pivot to head to Boston. you know so that was That was super awesome.
01:02:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
really I didn't make that Monday weather call that they they weren't calling for that Monday.
01:02:20
RICK JAMES
No.
01:02:23
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
01:02:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'll see.
01:02:23
Steve Smythe
No.
01:02:23
Maddie and Matt
No, he said there was a chance.
01:02:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
We knew ah we knew about that.
01:02:26
Maddie and Matt
He said there was a light chance, but he didn't think it was going to turn into anything.
01:02:27
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:02:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
We knew about that.
01:02:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
OK.
01:02:31
Maddie and Matt
And then Friday, it turned into the biggest snow they ever seen.
01:02:31
RICK JAMES
Right.
01:02:32
Steve Smythe
Then you, yeah, I think you, you, you have, you asked, you asked specifically cause you were going to, you know, if it wasn't, nothing was going on. You guys had an opportunity for something else. and So yeah.
01:02:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hmm.
01:02:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it was a what else the weather.
01:02:45
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, but I'm glad that opportunity didn't work out and we got to go chase that snow.
Adapting to Unpredictable Weather
01:02:50
Steve Smythe
No, it worked out good, and just thank you both for the positivity and just being able to look to turn on a dime and and do that.
01:02:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I do.
01:02:50
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:02:57
RICK JAMES
We'll, we'll, we'll get that.
01:02:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that's pretty awesome.
01:02:59
RICK JAMES
we'll We'll get Arctic and we'll get that done.
01:03:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're going to get something.
01:03:02
RICK JAMES
you know We'll, we'll get something.
01:03:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're going to get something. You're not going to shut Chicago out for the whole year. They're going to get something and stay with Minneapolis there.
01:03:09
Steve Smythe
Yeah.
01:03:09
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:03:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's going to happen.
01:03:10
Steve Smythe
Might be in April or something, and or May in Minneapolis, but we'll get something.
01:03:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Which would suck.
01:03:14
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:03:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
I mean, honestly, that would really suck, but.
01:03:17
RICK JAMES
That's what always happens to you out here.
01:03:19
Steve Smythe
that's what' That's what happens on years like this also.
01:03:19
RICK JAMES
and We always get that late one after you get everything cleaned up Yeah Because again all your guys aren't interested anymore, you know, so you gotta fight that employees and all that fun stuff so that sucks
01:03:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, but I hope that's not their only one is what I'm saying.
01:03:22
Steve Smythe
el Correct.
01:03:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, I mean, to wait, that that's going to, that's going to really suck if the only snow they get is the in April that.
01:03:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh yeah. And you got wet, heavy shit that you're pushing around. It doesn't look as fucking great. You know, it's, I just, and I don't want them.
01:03:42
Steve Smythe
you No.
01:03:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't, I don't wish that on anybody.
01:03:44
Steve Smythe
No.
01:03:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
I want these guys to get regular snow.
01:03:46
Steve Smythe
It looks like it's going to pick up long-term models right now are kind of showing something first.
01:03:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're showing lot yeah a lot of signals, a lot of storm signals for February. So that's good. I think ah the for us, it's the first week.
01:04:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think we're good for the next nine days where we're we're shut down. And then they said, I think Nick said the first week of February, the first 10 days, we got like three different storm signals.
01:04:09
Steve Smythe
Yeah. We have one of our local local forecasting companies that I still get the email. He's still on his email chain for that. And he he was saying today, again, first part of February.
01:04:20
Steve Smythe
So it'll be good.
01:04:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah. There's some activity there. So hopefully, hopefully Arctic and curbside pick something up and, you know, get them in the ball game. Cause they're two great companies and they're going to be great episodes as well.
01:04:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that's, I mean, that's why we picked them.
01:04:33
RICK JAMES
Right.
01:04:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's why they're in there.
01:04:35
RICK JAMES
Well, let's, uh, let's ask a million dollar question.
01:04:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
So good.
01:04:38
RICK JAMES
Everybody wants to know when are these going to be coming out?
Post-Winter Episode Strategy
01:04:41
RICK JAMES
Do you guys have any kind of timetable?
01:04:44
Maddie and Matt
but Let me know when I am home.
01:04:47
RICK JAMES
Okay.
01:04:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:48
RICK JAMES
Well, you're in a snow business, Maddie.
01:04:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
She's busy.
01:04:49
RICK JAMES
So do you have to just deal with it.
01:04:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Take your time.
01:04:53
RICK JAMES
Now you're in a snow business.
01:04:53
Maddie and Matt
I know.
01:04:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
I've always thought that I've always thought that releasing them starting to release them after the snow was over, like in April through July or April through August, whatever it works out to be.
01:04:55
Maddie and Matt
i
01:05:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
I've always thought that was the play because it keeps it keeps putting out content for guys that are not getting snow, but they still are hungry for snow content. I've always thought that was the play releasing them in the winter.
01:05:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
If something really if something dropped in the last week, I wouldn't have had time to watch it anyway.
01:05:21
Steve Smythe
Yeah, absolutely.
01:05:21
RICK JAMES
Teasers, teasers, we can drop teasers, teasers.
01:05:22
Steve Smythe
Yep.
01:05:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
So I think teasers, all teasers are great. If you can get a couple more teasers together, you know, that'll be awesome. But as far as the main episode, take your time.
01:05:29
Maddie and Matt
Hey, UD maintenance. UD maintenance, Kyle's trailer is coming soon.
01:05:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh yeah, just what is it?
01:05:34
Maddie and Matt
Kyle's already seen it.
01:05:34
RICK JAMES
Ooh.
01:05:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Two minutes of brine making.
01:05:37
RICK JAMES
Water, just water and salt.
01:05:38
Maddie and Matt
Yeah. Maybe.
01:05:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
You should track one solitary snowflake as it falls to the ground.
01:05:43
Maddie and Matt
He had
01:05:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the whole teaser for that episode.
01:05:46
RICK JAMES
It's gonna be, it's gonna be
01:05:47
Maddie and Matt
some guys out there filming drone stuff or something a couple of weeks ago.
01:05:51
Steve Smythe
Hey, Dad.
01:05:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, he did. Yeah, he did put a call out for some shooters.
01:05:52
Maddie and Matt
was
01:05:52
RICK JAMES
oh yeah yeah he's been busy he's yeah no he's been busy so it's another
01:05:53
Maddie and Matt
yeah
01:05:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, he did put a call out for some shooters to come film their one of the storms that they just got. They have been getting snow lately, just not when they were supposed to.
01:06:03
Maddie and Matt
Yep. Yeah, no, we're sorting through footage as we speak. I mean, I was looking at stuff today, just got to sit down and sync every, all the audio up with the video and then start putting the story together.
Editing Challenges with Footage
01:06:17
Maddie and Matt
And we're working with Josh Breck over at the ECF and he's going to help with some of the storylines and we'll make something happen hopefully soon.
01:06:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:06:27
RICK JAMES
because how many hours you gotta go through with all your cameras and stuff?
01:06:30
Maddie and Matt
Too many.
01:06:31
RICK JAMES
I mean, that's gonna be a lot of hours, right?
01:06:32
Maddie and Matt
I don't know. Don't ask that question. I have about one terabyte for every location we've been to between my camera, Maddie's camera, six action cameras, all the microphones.
01:06:34
RICK JAMES
Okay, okay.
01:06:40
RICK JAMES
Wow.
01:06:45
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
01:06:45
Maddie and Matt
I mean, just dumping it like to a safe location when we get back takes us a whole work day. It takes us like eight hours just to dump the footage. um I mean, if I was to estimate, I mean, it'll be 200 plus hours an episode by the time it's all said and done.
01:06:53
RICK JAMES
Wow.
01:07:00
Maddie and Matt
And then like those trailers take almost eight hours to make.
01:07:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Wow.
01:07:05
Maddie and Matt
So it's not ah it's not a so fast process.
01:07:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
I grew agree. I think take it as easy and slow as you need to.
01:07:09
Steve Smythe
ah trailer a Glacier trailer is pretty sweet just with the voice voiceovers and stuff and how you did it.
01:07:13
RICK JAMES
He's made my reels when I'm driving.
01:07:17
Steve Smythe
That was that was pretty cool
01:07:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah. It's like Jeremy's voice was made for, uh, for like, I don't know, podcasting and video.
Jeremy's Ideal Media Voice
01:07:25
Steve Smythe
For like TV oh Now now it now you'll be able to see his face on this one though, too.
01:07:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's, uh, it was good.
01:07:25
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah. Yeah, you bet.
01:07:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was good. It was good on there. It sounded good.
01:07:32
Maddie and Matt
That's true.
01:07:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's good.
01:07:33
Steve Smythe
Oh, that's good.
01:07:34
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:07:34
Steve Smythe
Yep
01:07:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Was he wearing the, uh, was he wearing the proper attire?
01:07:37
Steve Smythe
He at the very end, he did have his blue blazer on.
01:07:37
RICK JAMES
No.
01:07:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Did we get video of the blazer and the hat?
01:07:41
RICK JAMES
My blue blazer.
01:07:43
Steve Smythe
I got pictures of it.
01:07:43
Maddie and Matt
I think so.
01:07:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:07:45
Maddie and Matt
Maybe not. I don't remember.
01:07:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
the The pimp, the pimp coat and hat.
01:07:47
Steve Smythe
and i and I sent you guys that footage, right?
01:07:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, we need this.
01:07:48
RICK JAMES
Yeah, they're gonna come back.
01:07:49
Steve Smythe
after
01:07:50
RICK JAMES
I'm not worried. They're coming back here.
01:07:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
We need the footage of the snow pimp hat and coat. That is a must.
01:07:55
Maddie and Matt
We'll make sure we get the whole episode on it.
01:07:55
RICK JAMES
Dude, they're, they're, they're, they're coming back to glaciers.
01:07:58
Steve Smythe
yeah
01:07:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, that you could do a whole episode on Jay.
01:07:59
RICK JAMES
no Don't even worry about it.
01:08:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
That would, that would get views.
01:08:01
RICK JAMES
They're coming back here. The guy that got, everybody wants him back. So, I mean, Matt can't just leave snowballs hanging that long. I mean, there's a little love of hair going on there.
01:08:11
Steve Smythe
that That was great when Matt up the snow boss.
01:08:12
RICK JAMES
So right yep yeah.
01:08:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh yeah.
01:08:13
Maddie and Matt
That actually does.
01:08:16
Steve Smythe
That was actually pretty good, yep.
01:08:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right.
01:08:18
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
01:08:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Aaron had fun.
01:08:19
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Oh, he, Matt had to make them up and Aaron made i looking them look in the, in the eyes while he put the mic down his shirt.
01:08:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's good.
01:08:26
RICK JAMES
So
01:08:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
I love it.
Enjoyable On-Set Moments
01:08:30
RICK JAMES
you know, our crew, you know, our guys, that's all about the fun.
01:08:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Aaron's great. Aaron is great. They are good dudes.
01:08:35
Maddie and Matt
That was my favorite moment, probably.
01:08:35
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:08:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're very funny.
01:08:38
Maddie and Matt
The whole thing.
01:08:38
RICK JAMES
It was fun.
01:08:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're very funny.
01:08:41
Steve Smythe
Jackie had a great time.
01:08:41
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
01:08:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, that's great guys. Well, good luck putting the episodes together. I'm sure they're going to be great. I have no doubts. Uh, the, the, like I said, the teaser was awesome. Jeremy, you got anything else for these guys?
01:08:56
RICK JAMES
Nah, I apologize for my voice. Sounds like crap.
01:08:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's all right. It usually sounds like crap. It's all good.
01:09:01
RICK JAMES
I'm well aware.
01:09:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's all good. Uh, you ever think we go too far?
01:09:09
RICK JAMES
No, not even close.
01:09:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, we don't know.
01:09:11
RICK JAMES
Not even close.
01:09:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
We don't. yeah
01:09:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Moi? No, never. Oh, man. All right. Well, we'll let you guys go. Thank you so much again for joining us on this project. I mean, it's great to have you aboard and you guys are doing a great job so far. Everybody I've asked everybody, hey, how are the ghost dog guys? And ah they were very everybody's been like, they're awesome. You know, it's great having
Positive Feedback on Ghost Dog Team
01:09:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
them. they They fit right in seamlessly. So, you know, whatever you're doing, keep doing it out there. And thanks for being available to to leave at a moment's notice and
01:09:50
Maddie and Matt
Yeah.
01:09:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
and see what we all go through and what we all do.
01:09:53
Maddie and Matt
Yeah, thanks for having us. We love it.
01:09:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
No problem. No problem. Steve, you got anything else? Any parting thoughts?
01:09:59
Steve Smythe
I don't, I don't, we'll just keep, just keep pushing.
01:10:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, there we go. He stole my line.
01:10:05
RICK JAMES
He did.
01:10:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the second week in a row. Stole my line.
01:10:08
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Well, you let me do it last week.
01:10:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
As long as I saw somebody else stole my line, did you notice that out there in the last couple of weeks, Steve?
01:10:14
Steve Smythe
Uh huh.
01:10:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
On a, maybe a LinkedIn post?
01:10:16
Steve Smythe
Uh huh.
01:10:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh yeah, somebody else stole keep pushing.
01:10:19
Steve Smythe
Uh huh.
01:10:20
RICK JAMES
I don't know.
01:10:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm-hmm.
01:10:21
RICK JAMES
I missed it.
01:10:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh yeah, I'll send it to you. The one guy that should not be saying it.
01:10:24
RICK JAMES
Well, let's take care of
01:10:26
Steve Smythe
one guy one the guy The one guy that doesn't push, the poser.
01:10:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
But anyway.
01:10:28
RICK JAMES
Take care of them.
01:10:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yep. So, but anyway, well, listen, big thanks to Matt and Maddie for joining us. Steve is always, he's been here before.
01:10:36
Steve Smythe
yeah
01:10:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, uh, thanks guys so much for coming on. We appreciate all your hard work. Keep, keep killing it out there for us. And I can't wait. Uh, and the whole whole snow community can't wait for these things to start dropping in the spring.
01:10:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
But that's it. I think we're going to wrap it up. That's it for episode five, number one of season three. It's in the books. All right. Thank you guys so much again. We wish you guys all the best this winter. All right. Keep ah being safe out there, getting the footage for us and have a great week. We'll see on the next one for everybody else. Keep pushing.