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S3-151: Last one of 2025!
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Coming off a fresh major snowstorm in the Northeast, The guys sit down with a few crowd favorites to do a year end wrap up show! Mike Santolucito of ODP, Kyle Martin of UDM Snow, and Todd "Cricket Wireless" Dickerson of Top Dog Services sit down with us to talk about their highlights of 2025!
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Introduction and Final Episode Announcement
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This No Jobs podcast episode is brought to you by Top Gun Backblades.
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ready for the best damn lot of Give me a hell, give me a Stand up right now And give hell, give yell Stand up right now Get ready to She ain't moving slow She's taking control Pushing the pedal to the floor for fire
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Let's go, Snowjobs Nation.
Hosts' Updates and Weather Experiences
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Here we go back again, bringing episode 151, the last episode of the Snowjobs podcast for 2025.
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You know who I am. I'm talking to the juice box guy. You know who's with me. one of the baddest motherfuckers of all time. One of the best singers. One of the best looking motherfuckers you've ever seen. Hold my drink, bitch. Steve and Jeremy for the final time of 2025 coming at you. The best show in snow.
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You know who we are. You know what the show is all about. And we're doing it one more time in 2025. And I'm half a zombie. Jeremy's well rested. And what's going on, Jay?
Recent Weather Events Discussion
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ah Hey, Steve-O, not a lot. Just so get ready for an event to slide in here tomorrow morning, it sounds like. so Nice. so Otherwise, we've had a pretty uneventful week. We worked Christmas Day. We had the salt again, but that's... We work every Christmas around here, it seems like. That's just Fargo.
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That's just Fargo. know. know. Whatever. How about you? What's new with you? ah far enough You've been plowing? Pretty quiet. no Pretty quiet? and we You guys had any weather? Anything in the forecast? Nothing? We got punched in the face last night a little bit. No, it was good. It was really good. They...
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The weathermen were all over this one. They really nailed it. First of all, I'm not a weatherman. I'm a meteorologist. I'd appreciate a little bit of respect. Always love getting that email from the weathermen saying, hey, yeah, you're clear from the 24th to the 2nd, and we've had 18 inches of snow since then.
Inaccurate Forecasts and Snow Impact on Traffic
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Yeah, we got that I love that.
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I mean, we didn't get snow like you, but yeah, we're we're supposed to be cleared through like the second or third, but now it looks like we're going to get snow. Yeah, i don't know I don't really get it. Maybe they're just like playing tricks on us.
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I don't know. i Honestly, I think it's it's all of them, so it's got to be something. There's got to be a disconnect somewhere in the models or something where, because it's all of them saying the same thing, and then boom, pop-up storm. Oh, by the way, 48 hours from now, you're gonna have 10 inches.
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then it happens Did they say it was going to be 10 inches? or what It started as 2 to 4 and then quickly went to, you could yeah, we're liking this way it's coming together. if you're in the sweet spot, you get 5, and then it quickly became 8 to 10, 8 to 12, you know, locally. What does that mean?
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Locally higher totals. Wherever you're at, that's local. Oh, yes. It covers all bases. Listen, if you get more than the forecast calls for, you're locally. Yeah, 100%.
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That's your local area. ah It's great. with da a yeah They were a little, don't know. Was it a sidewinder or a shoulder? A wraparound. Reach around. Oh, you got the dirty Sam Chaz wraparound? Oh, yeah. They gave you the Sam Chaz, huh? yeah we got the dirty sanchez we got the dude it started at 5 15 it was supposed to start between 4 and 6 you know you get the whole rundown you get first inch by seven second inch by nine heaviest snow between 11 p.m 3 a.m
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something like that and then boom started at 5 15 we had two inches by 6 15 and it was shits on cars off the road everywhere interstate shut down immediately with accidents nobody could get anywhere it was a lot of fun for the first hour and a half two hours see what happened it was just ah Yeah, I saw
Handling Intense Snowstorms and Equipment
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your shit. it was It was snowing heavy there I've never seen that in person before. Oh, God. i I had the lights turned off again. I did call the straights as I'm driving, and I'm like, all right, boys, i finally found a flaw with the Razorback. Oh, shit, what happened?
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Headlights, too bright. I'm driving down the road. I said, I'm driving down the road with marker lights. Can we have a dimmable headlight, please? Oh, boy. We can turn it down. Dude, it was white out. It was a white curtain for, God, the first three hours maybe before it finally slowed down, and then it would kick back up again.
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But the boys handled it as they always do. They were they were going like crazy. A lot of good teamwork. the The ninjas were in full force. they I don't know how they get it done so fast, they but they get their stuff done. They don't mess around. And they got their chicken fingers and fries, so they were all happy.
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Everybody was happy. sorry you That's you can ask for. Nothing broke. Nothing broke.
Preparing for Future Storms and Contracts
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amish nope I I can't even recall a storm and nothing broken. Nothing broke. we had ah two We had two ground faults on one of the spreaders, but they were quickly rectified. You know, the old smack the side of it. Okay, we're good to go. That fixed it.
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That was that. but Yeah, other than that, you know, Razorback did great. that we ah I wanted to get some some experience with it or some time with it pushing like heavy, heavy snow accumulating, and we don't really let anything accumulate. So being the timing of the storm, we had – uh three places that had already told us they were out of they were closed till monday so we just let it build up and then we could go just freaking gangbusters on it and see what it could do and that thing was still pushing nine ten inches and that thing was still scraping black pavement you're seeing the parking lines so it was impressive yep yep that's great yes sir so you got snow coming tomorrow
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That's what they
Year Reflection and Future Weather Expectations
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say. and went from nothing to an another. I just got alert. It says 5 8..01 to 1..01 to 8 inches, I guess it is now. so It's going to be a 40 to 60 mile hour winds, they're saying, so that'll be fun.
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Very cool. Well, the winds always make it interesting. You get to push it seven times. It'll be a whiteout. It'll carry on for two days. yeah it'll be fun. Now I know like why you guys do hourly. When you get the wind and you get that dry, fluffy snow that just keeps blowing around, like that's why you guys don't do seasonals, like why you do hourly. We do plenty of seasonals. We do plenty of seasonals.
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You can be out there forever with that shit. Yep. I kind of like the snow that stays put, you know, when it drops. Yeah, I don't understand. You guys have a fucking maid out there. You have snows, it stops, 6 a.m., everything's black and you're home and bad. Like, what the fuck? That was the perfect. It really was
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good timing. It's not even real life. That's not even thing around here.
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Listen, the first three times we pushed this year, there were daytime weekday storms. That was like the worst thing you could possibly have. know Full traffic, everybody's at work, not enough to keep people home or off the roads.
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So everybody's still coming before Christmas, so nobody's staying home. This one was nice. This one was was a little early start. you know if ah if If I could make one complaint to the weather gods, you know it was a little early on the start time.
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But ah by 9 p.m., everybody was done fucking around and got off the road, so then it was just keep up with it. You didn't run any red lights, did you? i run i ran all the red lights.
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Perfect. Absolutely. snow It's more dangerous to try and stop. That's my argument. It's more dangerous to try and stop because... people were not i mean you can't like the the dots they can't possibly keep up with those kind of snowfall rates you know you're gonna have six seven inches of snow on on main roads six seven six seven oh my son god damn i hate that you did it like it means nothing do you realize that that means absolutely nothing wait till you figure it out
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jesus But anyway, so that's, ah yeah, that was my last day. umm ah I apologize in advance if I fire off any questionable so any questionable words, but I am ah i'm operating if we If you do, we're going to do this when you're always asleep. then There you go.
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It might be better. Who knows? But yeah, so this is the last episode of 2025. You know, we're coming up. a I'm coming off a big storm. Jeremy's got one tomorrow. We had to get something laid down. So we're going to do a 2025 year in review show with a couple of the boys.
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So to help us do that tonight, we have crowd favorite Mike Santa
Guest Introductions and Holiday Experiences
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Lucito what is it now? is it Is it Outdoor Pride? Is it ODP? We're still saying Outdoor Pride. Okay. of Outdoor Pride, Kyle Martin of UD Maintenance, and the big dick, Todd Dickerson, Top Dog Service. That's not what you wanted to call him. Last night you were telling me you were to call something different. what I don't remember last night, dude. It was like a hangover, dude. I don't remember what I did last night. Oh, shit.
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ah But anyway, yeah, we got the boys here. This will be entertaining as hell. We're going to talk about everybody's year, how it went, and see what kind of shit we can get into tonight. But before we do that, as always, we're going to hear from Team Top Gun. We'll come right back.
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I hope everybody had a great holiday with their families. Did anybody push on Christmas that we know Not that I'm aware of. I think it was pretty quiet across the country. Gotcha. All right,
Memorable Snow Events of 2025
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good. And then the the storm machine has been cranking up. but After Christmas, immediately after Christmas, the Northeast got snow. And the Midwest, I think Minnesota, you're getting snow tonight, I think guys were talking about.
00:11:23
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Yeah, we're going to get something something tomorrow. But yeah, we had we had ice the last couple of days, so we were out salting and stuff Christmas Day and the day after. so the treatment is so too The deadly triple salt blend?
00:11:37
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Yeah, yeah. Fire brine. Dude. Ice in Fargo is different, man. You can't just treat it with one type of salt. You got to have a triple salt blend. Yeah, I'm right. You sure do.
00:11:52
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ah but yeah it seems like winter this dude this could be when's the last time like can you remember a winter where it's been evenly distributed where most of everywhere that gets snow has actually had a great start to the winter oh not no not but in the past like do we know anybody out there that's not happy with their start to the winter like is anybody like dying for uh snow still think pretty much everybody's had something Yeah.
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I think it's been good. And yeah, rob Rob from the Weather Pros said, this is a winter we're not having... How did he put it? This is a winter that we will not have seen in many, many years. So it says from the 1st, January 1st to the 11th, we have like three storms, possibly one nor'easter. So this could be a a busy start.
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And then February will be 60 degrees and sunny or something. Who knows? I'll be fine with that. Yeah. So, yeah, but we had Christmas last week.
New Snow Products and Equipment Performance
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As we said, everybody, we hope you had a great holiday with your family. Thank you to everybody who got Snow Jobs Nation gear for their loved ones. There were a lot of Christmas orders.
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lot of last-second shit. What do I get them? Yeah, he was. i that I put a bunch of stuff out, that's for sure. Yeah, you definitely did, man. You were busier than Santa Claus getting packages out.
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Yep. What else you got for the week of review? We really didn't do much last week. We didn't do much last week. I mean, we had our show, and we're going to have some more shows about salters and sidewalk machines in the future. and time Right after the new year, we're going to get the side the the sidewalk and salter panel together, let them kick that around.
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Yeah, that was ah that was a good one. A lot of good questions on there. um I still have not been able to locate a sidewalk machine that is 36 inches other than the SSV.
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and That's it. no but Yes, sir. So the Snow Job Nation store, as we said, stocked and ready for your orders. The new tumblers are in. They are awesome. So ah get them Carhartt beanies on there too now.
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beanies are on there yep for carhartt beanies i hear those are nice some car hurts were out of stock i think i stocked everything back up so sounds good all right i don't got anything else for weaker review you got anything no good no i'm good let's start i'm gonna turn this chat off yeah
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Community Building and Future Expectations
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All right, gang, we are back. So let's welcome in the boys. Mike, Kyle, Todd, how are we guys? Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. How you guys making out?
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What up? What's guys? Merry Christmas. Happy almost New Year. boys What up boys? Hello, Todd. I identify it identify as Isaac tonight.
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ah oldal What can go wrong will go wrong? Yes. yes What kind of car are you driving right now? Is that a Ford? Of course it's a Ford.
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of course it's a ford I hear all the road noise in the background. It sounded like the Ford.
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That's my monster. Oh man How are we all doing guys? Everybody's Christmas is good. Good. Good. Good.
00:18:02
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So we're here. The last show for 2025. The last episode we got third birthday in three weeks. Yeah, I think 23rd, 30th, something like that.
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ah So the year in review, we'll just talk about ah how our 2025s went in our snow worlds and, you know, any big events or anything noteworthy that happened to us over the last year. ah But to get it started, let's just, we'll we'll throw an easy one out there. What was your favorite event that you went to throughout 2025?
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mikey Oh, dude, it's got to be Starks. It's always Starks. Starks is hard to beat. Yeah, Starks is fun. It was a really good time. It's always good kickoff to the season. It is. See everybody after a long winter. It's even better now that they did the night before party, too.
00:18:56
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Yeah. Because now it doesn't feel like you're rolling in for four or five hours.
00:19:02
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Yeah. Yeah, it is right after the winter, which is great. You know, you're not you're totally sick of snow but ready to see the boys. Yep. To bitch about snow. That's it.
00:19:14
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Oh, Yeah, I'm never doing snow again. Hey, we're going to Storks. All right, I'm there.
00:19:23
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Yep. Oh, shit. What about you, Kyle? What was your favorite event there of 2025? I missed Storks. I don't remember why I missed Storks, but Simon was the only thing I hit this year. All right. That was the only thing I missed.
00:19:35
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Yeah, it was all right. We good time. yeah Jeremy, what was your favorite event? My birthday. I'm just kidding. I No, it had to be...
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Oh, we had the the field day thing. that a Field day was a good time. Yeah, a good time. I like Storks because like you just said, no it kicks us off after a long winter. We get to see the boys. But obviously, store I really like Storks because you might not go the woods up here. And then all the boys come up here and get to see this land. And we get to We always have a good time at the old hotel with some burnouts and stuff, don't we, Tom? Allegedly.
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but Budget might be listening. Budget. You are listening.
00:20:28
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It's still not the worst thing that Tacoma has gone through. Patrick Salmon is his name.
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Patrick Salmon.
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All right, we're difficulties, and we're going to hear from Top Dog Todd what his best event for 2025 was. What do you think, Todd? No question. Stork was the best. um I felt like I got thrown into jail with a DWI and got to meet a bunch of you convicts up there. So it was a good time coming out party.
00:21:02
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Did you go to snow events? like are are you you Or do you stick to like the airport type snow events? um I've been to SEMA, I think, twice.
00:21:13
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But mainly, i stick to the airport snow conferences just because, you know, stay in your lane, right? But the summer you were mainstreaming. You went to Storm Day. You went to Storks. Well, you know, you had such a profound impact on me, Steve. I was like, what happened? Hold on. Game! Game!
00:21:41
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I mean what what mean, I've never seen such wealth of knowledge come out of one human being in my life. What what are the biggest differences, though, from the guys that go the guys that go to the airport stuff to the the mainstream snow guys? What are the biggest differences you see in the show in the shows?
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um I would say the biggest thing is like this the, you know, you're all's events are the normal dudes, right? um The airport, you have some of the operators, which are like us, normal, you know, everyday guys. And then you have the, you know, government.
00:22:21
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Let me, let me write my contract. And, you know, the the keyboard warrior people. Okay. Gotcha. You know, gotcha gotcha like for an example at Buffalo, we sponsor the the rodeo every year because it's all the operators from all over the country trying to win the award.
00:22:39
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And like, those are the guys that that we can relate to. So that's why that's why we get involved in that. But I would say it's ah probably 60-40 with the keyboard warriors in favor compared to the ah the operator, which, you know.
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I like to still pretend I'm an operator, even though I'm not. You don't get to jump in a machine anymore? i do, but when I do that, it's like I leave all my phones, everything in the car, and in the noisy truck. and ah and you know What's that like?
00:23:16
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yeah yeah seriously hey it is what is that like i could throw this thing in a snow pile and just sit in a loader all day that'd be therapy it is the best experience ever during a snowstorm sign me up yep so so what really led you to go into like you know storm days and starts what what do you think it was this year um I mean, being the the snow geek that I am, right? Like, you got to check out other stuff, right? You got to learn. yeah
00:23:49
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You know, look, none of us on the on this thing right now are in my arena. But you guys have taught me some stuff and hopefully I've taught you some stuff that...
00:24:02
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only makes us better all of us right well no matter what it is whether i mean we we have a razorback this year you know we we're trying that we're trying a couple different things you know you always got to try to improve the mousetrap as i call it right i mean you know it's snow tires yeah that's that's the next thing coming right but like and and Perfect example. You're right, Steve. Like, we had no idea that there's a company out there that would trade our tires in and give us, you know, a fair, a good value for them.
00:24:37
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So, yeah you know, like I always tell everybody, if you go to a trade show and pick up three or four nuggets of information and three and four contacts, it's a home run. it It's more than paid for itself. That's a win. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:54
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Very cool. What's you, Steve? uh i don't know that would have to be i i will say this i the most improved event of 2025 was by far patty salmon you know the northeast the icing they really uh they really ratcheted that one up i'm excited to go back to that one this year um storks was great storks is always great it's always top shelf um Storm was great, too.
00:25:26
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it's it's ah It's a tough one. I didn't have to get on a plane to go to Stork's. so Plus, the one other thing, you know, I keep hearing all these good food reviews from all these shows.
00:25:36
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So, like, I mean, how can you not want to go try some of these these food reviews? Try some of the what? Food reviews. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard we talk about food a lot. do. Snow and food. that Yeah,
00:25:58
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yeah you're not going hungry at any of them. No, definitely not. but yeah it would it would be between storks and storm but yeah the pro the one that i'm most looking forward to uh for 2026 would be to see what patty salmon how that day evolves because that really that they did a nice job from year one to year two that was that was quite ah a big jump up so excited to see what they do with that um yeah So, best new product that you guys used, snow product in 2025. What you got, Mike?
00:26:37
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I'd say it's the Apex, the Snow Wolf Apex on our L95 mini loaders. That thing is a a little Swiss Army knife. I like that. Yeah. Compared to the Quattro, you get the weight, you get the size, and it's just got a little bit more aggressive scrape pattern.
00:26:51
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Is that the Metal Plus, their their version of the Metal Plus? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Cool. It's a really nice unit. The guys like it. Jeremy, you ran that, right, last year for a day or something? Yeah, we had it here a couple years ago, I think it was. i'm like was that i know eight Was it the name? yeah Did they change the name?
00:27:10
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It was Freedom is what we had. i think Yeah, I thought it was like the Freedom or something. I think so. yeah I think that was the first name they came out with. I could be wrong. with that That didn't work. Switch it up.
00:27:21
Speaker
It was three years ago, i think it was, when we had a big winner. I think we had it. so Yeah, I think when they got bought or acquired, whatever, they changed it Gotcha.
00:27:32
Speaker
Cool. All right. Cool. Very good. What about you, Kyle? um Our biggest new endeavor we can't really talk about, I guess, but the we were talking about those new salt trucks the other day.
00:27:45
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Those have been a good asset thus far. Okay, cool. So we built a few 26,000-pound trucks. twenty six thousand pound direct mount spreaders.
00:27:56
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Those turned out awesome. We got five of those now. You know, it's awesome having dedicated trucks with doing the excavating year round. No more taking spreaders in and out of dump trucks.
00:28:09
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So great move on that part. that is the That is the pain in the ass, right? Swapping trucks back over? Yeah, you can't go wrong with the direct mount frame, though. and Those are awesome.
00:28:23
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Those trucks turned out awesome from what I've seen with pictures. Yeah, they did. The last one hitting the road tomorrow. Nice. yellow Sean wants to buy one from you. He'll give you $25. wants one. He'll
00:28:38
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trade him he want one out yeah give his DoorDash card. That's Oh, God. What about you, Jeremy?
00:28:50
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New products for 2025? Do you guys run anything new? i'd I'd say the Razorback. That's been killing it. mean A little bit of snow we've had so far and then we used little bit last year. So that thing just... a phenomenal plow to have on a pickup like i've always said turns your pickup into compact loader and things performing like it's supposed to and you know it's arctic so love it and the company that's behind it stands behind it and they treat us well love it and we also have another plow that we can't really talk about yet but yeah that's that's performing really nice too so
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10-4. What about you, Todd? Best product, 2025? Anything new you guys got? I sense a little attitude tonight. just i'm I'm like drunk with sleep sleep deprivation here. is just really happy to have you. I'll jump in.
00:29:46
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I'm sure he's just happy that I'm back. um That's right. I would just follow in the footsteps of the Razorback. I mean, we've only had, I think, one or two pushes with it so far.
00:29:59
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um but excited to uh see what that does and see where see where it takes us but very cool otherwise we're pretty uh we're pretty boring with new stuff about you steve uh definitely the definitely the razorback uh it's only been four four or five pushes now but That thing has definitely proven itself to me.
00:30:27
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And then a a second place would probably be that Vernig, the Vernig version of the Quick Cube. Oh, yeah. Got to use that a bunch of times now. And if you have site-specific equipment and, like,
00:30:41
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We have salt trucks on a route, but there are nights like last night where you just can't possibly keep up with everything. And to have those cubes right there that if the guys say, hey, these hills are getting a little slick, boom, they pop the Arctic off, they pop the attachment on, and they put their own salt down, give themselves traction.
00:31:01
Speaker
It makes sense. Huh? How are you filling those? Just with a the dump truck once they're on site we just only have 5500 up much lower
00:31:12
Speaker
um next um right out they're much lower they're they're They're shorter than the Quick Cube was. Okay, so you can get underneath them. Yeah, you can get right underneath them, whereas the Quick Cube was like you you were like right there from conveyor to the top of the cube, and you couldn't fill it off a pickup truck. You can actually – I'm pretty sure – we haven't done it yet. I should try that. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to fill it off a pickup truck spreader too. Okay, nice.
00:31:41
Speaker
They're a lot lower. If you could have an add-on to the Razorback or something you'd want to try different, what would you... What would you... You got a slogan you want to use for your Razorback? I think it was shovel holder. He wants me to say this is a famous line now. was saying... I told, I was on the phone with Lucas straight. And um he's like, hey, how's it going out there?
00:32:06
Speaker
And I was just, you know I was up a long time. I was very happy the way the plow was performing and what I was able to get done with it. And I just said, dude, if I could fuck this plow, I would.
00:32:21
Speaker
That's what he wants me to There you go. You're going to put that in a Google review. There you go. That's it. That'll be the next t-shirt. That's a t-shirt.
00:32:32
Speaker
It's impressive. It really is so ah Last night we were hogging it with 9, 10 inches and that thing was taking everything I could throw at it. Hogging it. It bulks. It bulks out, That's what we call it.
00:32:49
Speaker
ah Take you can give it off. Take everything I can give it.
00:32:58
Speaker
yeah This will be a whole new apparel line. There you go. That's it. Oh, man. That's two new t-shirts right there. That's it. Print them up. Print them up.
00:33:11
Speaker
They're already on back order, I think. Yep. I saw, you know, interestingly enough, who would have thought Christmas time would have been the busiest time of the year for the, uh, your girl is on my plow list. T-shirt. Absolutely. It's all guys ordering those Christmas.
00:33:28
Speaker
Oh God. That's funny. Uh, so what else in 2025? Uh, what was your, i don't know. What was the biggest snowstorm you got in 2025? How many inches do you remember?
00:33:42
Speaker
think ours is like five. The guards was seven in Dallas.
00:33:49
Speaker
Kyle, you had that lock in in late November last year. Yeah, what was that? mom point That was going to be like a 30. 30 something, right? Wasn't it going to what it was, yeah.
00:34:04
Speaker
We had a down year last year. Last year was the first year we didn't have a double-digit storm in a long, long time. But we've already eliminated that for this year. Our December total this year is up, that's for sure.
00:34:17
Speaker
Yes. It beats the hell out of all last year. Yeah, I said that before we started recording. I can't remember another December that we were over 20 inches without a nor'easter. Right. Usually you get that one, you know, 15, 16-inch nor'easter, and then you get one three. Okay, you're at 20, but it's not a real, you know, you're not, it's it's not a five-event 20. It's a one-and-a-half, you know, event 20. Right.
00:34:42
Speaker
But, yeah, the Northeast has been... been doing well i mean new york city's gotten snow three times already this year which i don't think they saw snow for three years like measurable you know snow on the surface
00:34:58
Speaker
so yeah it's been good man let's uh hopefully it keeps going you know we're gonna be doing it without salt but uh you know it'll uh it'll keep going kyle Kyle and all the Ohio guys keep using all the salt for everybody else.
00:35:13
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:16
Speaker
Kyle and Matt's got stacked macintore they get it they got their bins full. Yep, we're stacked up. Oh, I got a good one for you.
00:35:29
Speaker
So when you're getting two-plus inches an hour, snowfall rate, Would you possibly, if you're dropping blades to plow that and keep up with it, are you dropping salt?
00:35:42
Speaker
No. Absolutely not a chance. Why was every DOT dropping salt? Oh, that's taxpayer money. It doesn't count. Yeah. Dude, what a waste of fucking product. Different pile, different budget, different mine.
00:35:56
Speaker
It's just a waste of fuck. And you wonder why we're in a shortage. god I mean listen, if you're on a hill you're just trying to keep something underneath you. That's different. I'm talking about main flat roads, not no hills dumping, you know, probably a thousand pounds per square foot.
00:36:13
Speaker
but I don't get it. Yeah. lot of, a lot of stuff coming out of the back of trucks last night. I'm like, why, or why, why, why are you salting? What, what, what are you possibly hoping to be gained?
00:36:31
Speaker
yeah I will say this, the state the the state and the Thruway Authority in New York there the ah you know that does the the local garage does like the state roads versus the interstates, two very different animals here.
00:36:48
Speaker
Like, they... i don't know how they I don't know how they dispatch. I don't know how they they handle the divvying up, but the guys that did the state roads were on point. They were out there, and they were running. They had their wolf packs going, making passes, and they didn't stop. The state roads were pretty good the whole storm.
00:37:06
Speaker
the ah The interstate was not so good. that was not That did not go well for a while. They they eventually got it under control, but it was and was a little dicey there for a while.
00:37:22
Speaker
uh what else do we got here best memory of 2025. you
00:37:29
Speaker
guys have memories true i'm out on this question right now i don't i barely know my name at this point oh I'd probably say Sean's DoorDash, McDonald's DoorDash. Oh, that was fucking great. I mean, Sean's got to be in the running for everybody. Yeah. yeah ah ah Steve, you weren't there for that, right?
00:37:55
Speaker
What, at the DoorDash? Yeah. I was there. I wasn't i wasn't right there. all right. That was good. All I keep thinking about with him is, you know, every time I hear his name, I hear, Ma, Meatloaf. 100%. Literally 100%. That is Sean. to God, that's all that pops in my head every time I hear the word Sean.
00:38:17
Speaker
When she got the fucking receipt for that one, man. Yeah. Sean, what were you doing? Was that Storks when he wanted to go to McDonald's after the party before we went back to the hotel? said, yeah, all right, I'll take you. Yeah, he did. Yeah, you guys did go there.
00:38:34
Speaker
It was like $180 McDonald's. I'm like, yeah goes it'll go. It'll go. no It'll go. And i think I think it all got eaten, too. And it went. Yeah, it did go. Absolutely.
00:38:47
Speaker
He's like, 20 double cheeseburgers, please. Four 20-piece-cricked nuggets. like They're like, Sean, is that you? brother sha it was i mean It was right when they were closing, too, right?
00:39:02
Speaker
Yeah, it was. It definitely was. was fucking late when we were there, that's for sure. getting the cooks in there right now. who the fuck is this guy?
00:39:13
Speaker
oh i'm all thumbs today. Dropping everything on the floor. Whoopsie. That's when Matt Young wiped out on the scooter too, I think. in the yes Yes, that was that.
00:39:24
Speaker
yeah That did happen. That was pretty good. We took some scooters that night, Jada, didn't we? Yeah, it was Simon. We took some scooters. Yeah, yeah down after Arco. Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:37
Speaker
that was a That was a fun time. Simon Cincinnati this year. Who's going? Oh, yeah, for sure. No, Mike? Nope. I don't make that invite list anymore. No, thank you. Maybe you get the Stone Job Scholarship.
00:39:55
Speaker
Snow job scholarship. job scholarship. Hey, I will send myself to Storks every year. That is worth the show. yes Storks is great.
00:40:07
Speaker
Cincinnati, that's like, I don't know. Is there anything to do in Cincinnati? We'll find something.
00:40:15
Speaker
I think his wife's in the background there. That was sort of educational. Yeah. It's what? Is she? I saw her a little while ago.
00:40:30
Speaker
Educational purposes only. That's it. of course you know we drove through cincinnati i think to get to me and sean drove through there he was sleeping but i was awake uh to get to what you were where did where did we go well no at all times not one of us was awake there were times where both of us were asleep we were going to water buffalo curled up in the back oh my god man the Dude, you can't make this shit up. The fact that he was able to move the potato chip bag with his snoring. The empty potato chip bag was we got few stops absolutely incredible. like you If I didn't, you would never believe it.
00:41:11
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yeah
00:41:15
Speaker
Oh, man. what was What was one mistake you guys made this year that you used won't make again? Going on the Snow Jazz podcast. Yeah, exactly. ah
00:41:31
Speaker
One mistake. I got to think about that one.
00:41:38
Speaker
um We're all perfect, so it's going to be a very hard question. yeah and you go first yes um I like to see them as learning experiences, not mistakes. right That's right.
00:41:55
Speaker
I
00:42:00
Speaker
can't think of them.
00:42:03
Speaker
Oh, well, actually, one mistake. One mistake, not directly supervising the spring put away of our snow equipment. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. he did say that That's a good one.
00:42:14
Speaker
The first time I ever did not directly make sure everything, all the I's were dotted, T's were crossed, and, yeah, we had a couple little misses. but The T's got dotted.
00:42:26
Speaker
What's that that? Your T's got dotted. Yeah. Yep, the T's got dotted. That's exactly right. So that was definitely a mistake. That's a crucial point.
00:42:38
Speaker
It is. It's hard, though. I mean, fucking time.
00:42:44
Speaker
You know, just, yeah. I think it just comes down to everybody is their own... Everybody got their own mental picture of how things should be done and everything. And nobody's going to share your same vision 100%. They may share it 90%. But at the end of the day, if you if you have a very rigid process of things you want to get done, it's going to fall on you to make sure that they're getting it done the way you want. Because otherwise...
00:43:15
Speaker
it ain't going to get done. me in And I got a lot of receipts to prove it this year. This was by far, this was our most costly season going in.
00:43:29
Speaker
Yeah. By far, just prep, like everything needed. Like, I mean, you get the the yearly stuff. All the trucks have to get breaks before the winter. um You know, they all get their services done. The machines all get service, stuff like that.
00:43:42
Speaker
But, you know, the little stuff like, uh, what what do I mean, what do we do? with Everything needed cutting edges. Like, normally we have we have one one one or two plows here, then a year later, another two plows. Like, everything for some reason was, like, right there at the same time this year where we just had to pull the trigger.
00:44:04
Speaker
So there was no staggering.
00:44:10
Speaker
I'm nobody else has any mistakes. You're all I'm asking for and fucking because I'm drawing a fucking b blank. All perfect. hello perfect ah Trusting you're on. None of mine are snow related.
00:44:21
Speaker
i just left one about an hour ago, but we
00:44:28
Speaker
Nice. If you know, you know. That's funny. Word. funny I'd say trusting the wrong people. That's always though, man. yeah Trusting the wrong goddamn people.
00:44:42
Speaker
That'll always bite you. yeah That's never going to Trust but verify, boys. Trust but verify. That's it. i like that. yeah yeah Yep.
00:44:55
Speaker
Another t-shirt. we do I mean, we are making some shit. right right I'm pretty sure that one's trademarks. Can't can't do that one. I'm going to have Spencer listen his show. He'll just knock them all down for us here.
00:45:09
Speaker
Media Shack. Yep. There you go. Yeah, those guys, that was a great ah tip there. did you get your backpacks? Yeah, they did. They got us our backpacks and Got me some other stuff in time for holiday gifts. So those dudes kill us.
00:45:26
Speaker
They're awesome. You were able to get media shack to do a rush order. Yeah. He's Todd Dickerson. Yeah, he is. He's got top. ever are He's top dog.
00:45:42
Speaker
He's right. Jack Russell services. Yeah. What's the what's gonna complain about now? i like Oh oh okay yeah yeah Little dog. There's always there's always a tension negativity with you, Steve. I'm trying oh god to get you to glass have so much fun with you, Todd. so but
00:46:18
Speaker
Oh, my Lord. too funny. That's why you and my brother get along so well, because of your first responder nature. everything's ah everything what's wrong what's this what i'm like there's nothing wrong i was just calling to say hi how you doing we're no we're always expecting the worst yeah it's kind of the profession i' i'm not knocking you i'm agreeing with you you know 100 has he gotten the plow with the razorback yet ah yeah Yeah, he's done. he's He's plowed a couple times. So maybe maybe you should have him on next time. and i Should? hear his that way kind of phone service does he He's on cricket. Cricket. What are they going to do? Compare their holes in the Razorback or what?
00:47:12
Speaker
It took everything I could give it. Choking to death here. so It must be something with guys named Kyle. That's all I got to say. That's funny. Kyle's really quiet He don't anything fly. No way. Nope. Let's see. Best dealer in 2025 that you dealt with? Storm.
00:47:27
Speaker
nowhere no let's see best best dealer in twenty twenty five that you dealt with
00:47:38
Speaker
storm yep Can't say much about it, but yep. You cant you can try. i'd say it's Arctic, you know, while they're not. house more service They're not a dealer. Yeah. That's the OEM. Yeah, OEM. Dealer for support and service. Yes. Parts service.
00:48:01
Speaker
Yeah, so I got, a I mean, Gene helped my brother out with the Razorback, but ah our number one dealer is... Probably Rippian Equipment. Big Fischer. Is that your deer dealer?
00:48:16
Speaker
Fisher Dealer. you know our main Our main dealer besides John Deere, they they're probably our main dealer. And they they kill it all the time. I mean, we got a key to the shop, leave a note on the counter, take whatever we need.
00:48:30
Speaker
you know great Great family family business. It's reported us since day one. So I got to give them props. Gotta have it. Yeah. He is top dog.
00:48:43
Speaker
Right there. Enough, Jeremy. Enough. You're stirring him up. I always like to stir Steve. I can see that vein on top of his head starting to shake. It's my job.
00:48:55
Speaker
It's why I'm here. That's it. The puppet master. Yes. hey i or I really want to say this, but I'll get in trouble, so I'm going to make Steve say
00:49:10
Speaker
it. Storks by far. um I mean, it's it's three hours away, but literally it's easier for me to. throw one text out there i don't even have to have a part number i just describe vaguely describe the part i need and it's in my hand 12 to 16 hours
00:49:33
Speaker
like it's not even worth driving to my dealer and doing it if i can just literally okay i'm at the shop i now i now know i need this part for one of my douglas dynamics spreaders or plows i send one text and by midday the next day i have the part it's uh i will say we can't beat that we sent a couple guys to that but you were there steve that plow class he put on yep that has been invaluable That is a tremendous class. That book alone.
00:50:04
Speaker
Yes, the book of secrets. Absolutely. You could fucking fix anything out of there. you Yeah, that was tremendous. well yeah that manual is the ultimate cheat code to to douglas plows and spreaders but on the same token you call gene anytime and i mean i think he's got that book fucking memorized 10 times over yeah definitely they're incredible they really they really are but like just the just the service base the parts and service where they have everything even the obscure shit yeah like
00:50:39
Speaker
yeah I could call five places and four of them will not have it in stock. Storks has it. yeah So it's like, you know, why? Why? I'm not going anywhere else. it's It's just everybody today. I'm not ashamed to say Like everybody's looking for hit the easy button. Everybody says it all the time. Hit the easy button. That's my easy button.
00:50:59
Speaker
Well, you know what's cool to me about about Gene and his his people? I guess they do like that rehab stuff where they they'll trade in old equipment and then rehab it.
00:51:10
Speaker
And then, like, how cool is that for them to do that for, you know, guys in need or guys that are like, yeah yeah just trying to get into the business or whatever. Like, those are the kind of people that you want to support. Like, you know, they're all they're doing is helping us get better.
00:51:28
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. 100%. I mean, they'll kill it for Arctic. That that is just, oh, God, yeah. Yeah. yeah He's going need to find another amusement park to turn into a shop. Yeah. A couple of them. That roller skater is going to be full.
00:51:43
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah there I don't know how many polyblocks you can fit in there, but. I mean, that Lehigh Valley area, that that's all that's a big metal plus stronghold, right? Yeah, that's it. Not too many Artics out there until now.
00:51:58
Speaker
There will be. There will be. him I've already seen them. I've already seen videos. So, yeah, the gray Artics are a dead giveaway. They look good. from they look real good They look really good.
00:52:10
Speaker
yeah yeah nothing ah Gene and his family are incredible. We finally got to use them this year. He helped us find some SnowX modules for our ah our drop spreaders on the back of our AT450s and our Ventrax got them there overnight.
00:52:24
Speaker
As usual, anybody yes that any kind of hard parts you need to find, go to Storks. Gene's guys will hook you up. Absolutely. What else? What else? What else do you want to talk about?
00:52:40
Speaker
Year in review?
00:52:47
Speaker
His problems his problems problem of the year was proactively dispatching that was his 2025 Learning curve It's good. Who's was that?
00:53:02
Speaker
I asked my operations manager. What is his biggest learning curve was for the year?
00:53:08
Speaker
Getting the guys out early. Yep proactive. That's fair don' know if there's ever early. There's too early. You can always be too early, but you got to basically stay up and look at that radar like a hawk every hour.
00:53:23
Speaker
ah feel like that's something we're doing more and more, though, is just early dispatching, not leaving it as a an on-call storm basis, you know, just set a time, and they're there. If they fucking need them, they need them. If not, well, oh, well.
00:53:40
Speaker
don't know. We're doing the opposite.
00:53:45
Speaker
Keep it tight. everybody Keep it everybody it tight. same oh They can drive in the snow. It's all good. Until they're four hours late, right? well and Yeah, until the shit hits the fan.
00:53:57
Speaker
Right. and the You can't get anywhere because everybody's off the road. There's accidents everywhere. Your guys are delayed for hours. yeah trying These guys are driving in Honda Civics. Yep, exactly.
00:54:09
Speaker
yeah not knocking the car on steve you you know how to drive dude listen i mean that's that's the commuter that you gotta love that car but like even my the sidewalk ninjas the the operators are funny because they all sit there what do they call they call they call them grandma's hoopties these kids come in in these rear wheel drive like older cars and they they jump over a foot and a half of snow and there's no way we're getting that out Because they just park anywhere they can when the the call goes out. They all get the trucks and they go.
00:54:45
Speaker
No, they they're just they're so funny. They're so funny. But they get it done. They always get it done. And they get the cars out. I don't know how. It's that's so bad. Jeremy, what was yours? You had one, right?
00:54:59
Speaker
don't know. What was the question again? don't remember now. No, you were going to ask the of 2025. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I was going ask these guys, but what are they what would they expect more of on our show? what Is there something they want to hear more of? Anybody got any suggestions?
00:55:17
Speaker
what do you guys anybody got any suggestions
00:55:22
Speaker
I don't know what you could do better because you touch on everything. Yeah, man. It's such a wide array. The good, the bad, the ugly. Don't hide the bullshit.
00:55:33
Speaker
Yeah. Which you don't. But I'd say keep that up. Yeah. good i filtered I'd say keep it real no matter who the sponsors are Keep it real. Oh, we always do. I know you will. I'm just saying like that's why that's why everybody loves this thing because it's real.
00:55:52
Speaker
yep We will talk the good, the bad, the ugly, no matter what. Oh, don't I know it. Yeah.
00:56:01
Speaker
ah yeah pat Oh, that being said, we had the we had to go to the Muscox emergency plan last night. Uh-oh.
00:56:13
Speaker
Because we were at a stack room. Oh, I've seen that. We were even below freezing. So everything was fucking, nothing had melted, and the one complex did not give clearance to Hall.
00:56:24
Speaker
or blow so we were frozen in place there and the boys were like all right like i it couldn't have been two hours in and they were already nope all right one machine put the muskox on and we're blowing because it worked good for you oh the dude that thing goes through everything i don't yeah i mean it it chops the frozen pile too it just takes a little longer now Was that the new style?
00:56:51
Speaker
Yeah, it was the new one. But i put the um when I got back to the shop today, I put the the original on the track machine. It was just basically cleaning up and screwing around.
00:57:01
Speaker
And, man, that that track machine really likes that original muskox. I don't think I've ever run it on there before because we have that that quick attach blower for that one. don't think I've ever put the muskox, but I grabbed the muskox.
00:57:15
Speaker
That thing just eats, man. It really... They just love snow. It went through frozen shit, what heavy wet shit, you know compacted loader piles, no problems.
00:57:27
Speaker
Awesome. Thing works good. the ah The one thing we did do, we ripped off the rubber, that new rubber cutting edge they have basically. So you you're squeegeeing as you're blowing forward.
00:57:38
Speaker
it's They took the metal edge. You can replace the steel cutting edge now with the piece of rubber. We ripped half of that off. on the indent uh the curb indents like where you have the milled curbs yeah they go they go down for the driveways but they're still raised up that whatever inch and a half two inches for so the road road uh road water doesn't get onto the driveways vice versa so yeah we tore that tore half of that cutting edge off and it was like i heard the sound i'm like what is that sound oh that's the cutting edge getting sucked into the blower i'm like oh
00:58:12
Speaker
probably problematic they're like no it's not problematic at all as it gets uh it just chops it up you see little pieces of rubber fly every now and now i'm like oh okay we could just take a box cutter cut it in place so yeah we don't have time for that okay yeah the boys got it done they just they just work i sit on What is what is many guys proudest moments of the year of this last year with your either personally or your company or whatever?
00:58:47
Speaker
I'd say a lot of our new operations managers stepping up during some really difficult shit show storms, mostly ice storms this year. Guys that are brand new to operations came from crew lead type roles and really just kind of grabbed it by the horns whether they were short staff whether guys didn't show up no call no show communicating with each other on all the group chats to you know supply each other with shovel help operator help you know getting into each other's machines if their area was done or if their area had nothing like just
00:59:27
Speaker
Just seeing the the new operations managers here coming into their own just in the month of December. like We're not at the beginning of the season, and they're already crushing it. So it's definitely my proudest moment of the year. Awesome.
00:59:41
Speaker
Love it. Here, let me jump on that, Mikey. So I lost my operations manager back in June. Oh, man, where'd go?
00:59:54
Speaker
He's selling snow equipment out West to the airport. ah So, uh, so i put uh, one of my project managers and phase two of that is my daughter who works for us now, or my daughter who works for us now. Um, those two have kind of taken over the operation at Dulles and like,
01:00:19
Speaker
kind of a cool dad moment for both of them that's awesome even though one's only you know my my real daughter like they're both killing it so i kind of understand what you're good about there you know you're nervous going in and you're like how's this gonna go and not only have they exceeded expectations they brought a different kind of light being you know not just one of the guys right like yeah and even the even the crews have responded in my opinion, I don't want to say better, but in a different way to, you know, make them feel like they're doing a good job too. So it's been a cool transition to see that.
01:00:58
Speaker
So it's an uncomfortable feeling, right? Like giving somebody that kind of like rain to run your business that, Obviously you trust or you wouldn't put them in there, but to to relinquish that control and see them flourish, it's a dice roll that you'd love to see happen every time. you know Yeah. I mean, it's, it's hard to like stand back and let them run. Right.
01:01:20
Speaker
You know, it's like you're, it's like when your first kid starts walking and you're like, all right, let them take a couple of steps. And next thing you know, they're, they're running down the street and you're like, Oh, crap. Like, I got to keep up with this. So, you know, but, you know, both Michaela and Jessica have been killing it. So I hope that continues to let us let me.
01:01:42
Speaker
us continue to grow, so, because they're killing it. Yeah, I was actually there for an event, and I got to see it firsthand, and I didn obviously don't know what it was beforehand, but I thought it ran pretty good for, you know, everything Todd said, and Todd todd stayed out of it.
01:01:57
Speaker
he He let them do their thing, and it was it was pretty – It was ran great, I thought, for what I what i saw of the operation. so it was It was pretty pretty cool to see how his daughter was stepping in. She you know got a little nervous couple times, but he's like, you figured it out, and she did. you know yeah It was it was it cool to see how those two do that. so
01:02:22
Speaker
Cool, cool. i ah Steve, anything? m Proudest moment?
01:02:30
Speaker
don't know if it was one um throughout the course of the year it's probably a lot of little moments that add up to basically the same thing where i'm really proud of the platform and the community that we've kind of put together here like we you know we just put the name on it but all the snow guys that every time somebody asks a question and you don't have the answer, and all I have to do is literally put it out on a fucking Instagram story, and there's 20 guys lining up to help that person solve their problem in minutes.
01:03:09
Speaker
Like, that's really fucking... you know, I'm proud of that that. That, you know, there's a place now everybody comes together, and It's really cool. I'm um'm proud of the guys in the community. I'm um proud of the snow guys that are doing it the right way.
01:03:25
Speaker
It's not easy. Usually you do things the right way and the way you're supposed to. Usually you will always lose and get kicked in the nuts. But every once in a while, you know, things go right and the good guys win.
01:03:36
Speaker
um And we saw a lot of that this year where guys stepped up to help other guys out, you know, didn't have to do it, you know, whether it was with knowledge or equipment or expertise, you know, and, and you know, i'm I'm kind of proud of that, that that so many guys have have basically rallied around this and have gotten on board. So that's probably it's it's it's not just one. It's it's probably a bunch of moments over the year.
01:04:04
Speaker
nice I would totally echo that, everything you said. and oh there all the like the Same thing, all the cool guys we've met. mean like The group of guys we've got here. me yeah um I would consider all you guys best friends. i mean it's just to It's just the group of guys we've Not even just our internal people, just Instagramming people and stuff like that. Like you said, it's just, it's, it's great. We got a hell of a community that we, you know, we, we all know we don't get credit for shit and that's way it is. not like we need it, but once a while it's nice to get that. but Are we classified as influencers now?
01:04:38
Speaker
that what Are we influencers now? No. I don't even know what that is You don't have a blue checkmark, Mikey. Provocative horse. I don't even have a yellow it's LinkedIn checkmark. How about you, Kyle? Anything? Any proud moment?
01:04:58
Speaker
ah I mean, there's lots of little shit. I would say the most, as far as this business goes, um we made a decision late in the fall there to build that new dome and pre-buy fuck ton of material, and that is very, very well paid off. and I really don't know where we'd be sitting if we did not do that this year.
01:05:20
Speaker
So very hesitant at first. It's a lot of capital to shell out, you know, right before the season starts, but it was a good good investment, good idea. I'm glad we did it. Yeah.
01:05:36
Speaker
Why don't you tell everybody your personal one? know your personal one. Tell everybody your personal one. Which one? Your boy. oh did I love seeing, I love seeing your, I love seeing your Instagram, your snapchats of you and him and the loaders and everything. and That's just cool. He loves it, man. That's just, you you're being a great father. That's awesome. loves it.
01:05:56
Speaker
Loves it all. We've got one more coming in here, rolling. Be crazy. Brandon's got one coming here in February too. I saw that. you Is that, is that number two for you, Kyle? It is. It is.
01:06:11
Speaker
congrats yep i got number two coming in four weeks four weeks yep second one's easy damn right the middle of it man you know you guys are supposed to like plan those so they happen in the summer right right right no then they can't make any of the events then then that's the excuse why they can't go to the events right do it in the winter get it out of the way so you need a break yeahp I gotta go away. Sorry. Right.
01:06:43
Speaker
Let's say thing you're most looking forward to in 2026.
01:06:51
Speaker
I'll make this easy. good Go ahead, Todd. Go ahead. I was just going say we're off to a good good start to the year and no end in sight with that. So it's nice to kind of see that for a change.
01:07:04
Speaker
I think this year is going to help with the way things are going, weed out some of the... Oh, yeah. Let's just say people that need to be weeded out. Right. So it's going to help with sales. It's going to help just create that image across the board that needs to be created.
01:07:21
Speaker
So, yeah, I mean, overall, I can't think we' we're just talking about this a little bit ago here. Last time in December, we've had something like this happening. So.
01:07:34
Speaker
Yep. It's all good.
01:07:38
Speaker
100%, Kyle, I agree with you on all those levels. um Obviously, everybody's been asking me about, they've they've been seeing our move to Atlanta. um And, you know, that's that's just getting fired up. We have two more equipment deliveries. By the time it's all done, we should have about almost 40 pieces down there.
01:08:01
Speaker
awesome And, I mean, it's a number, first, or Largest airport in North America. So it's exciting to see what's going to happen down there.
01:08:13
Speaker
Um, and it's only going to get, bigger it's only going to get bigger and and better every year. So the snow belt, Todd, do you have any idea like what your duration is there going into that? Are you kind of, kind of blind walking in there?
01:08:27
Speaker
Um, are you talking contract term or what are we? Yeah. Yeah. Um, Yeah, right now we have a multi-year deal that's going to evergreen and continue until we get into a long-term situation.
01:08:40
Speaker
Right on. So, it's... ah Dude, it's it's literally every day. it's It's growing every day. And I'm like...
01:08:52
Speaker
You know, I mean, we're already they're already on item M and item N and we're still on A and B. And I'm like, let's slow down and get these under control first. So. Right. But ah <unk>s it's exciting. It's it's definitely growing like wildfire, as I like to say, horizontally inside.
01:09:11
Speaker
um That's good. And yeah. So and yes, Steve, you know, it is not the snow belt. But guess what? What is the average stonefall there? I don't even know. That that money's still green, baby. Oh, 100%. 100%. Absolutely. I'm actually looking at an airport contract in Naples, Florida. Hey. i' trying I'm trying to get to the Rica airport. There you It's real easy.
01:09:38
Speaker
Bahamas. Yeah. um Last year they had 2.3.
01:09:45
Speaker
Inch snowstorm and a 1.9 back-to-back. All right, so they get some snow. And it shut them down for four days. Oh. 100%. 100%. Wow.
01:09:58
Speaker
They don't have snow plows down there, Mike. I'm telling you right now, no no joke on the and this is a serious comment. You guys take your worst snow plow vehicle that you have in your fleet.
01:10:12
Speaker
And that is the best snowplow vehicle in their fleet. Oh, I bet. i mean, then it is like we're taking Were they doing this in-house before? What's that?
01:10:24
Speaker
This was in-house work beforehand. City of Atlanta. um Okay. Department of Aviation. But. Yep. you know they just Number one, they don't get enough shots at it. Until you get ah enough shots, like you don't get good at it.
01:10:39
Speaker
It's not their fault. and then Number two, like when it comes, that they don't know how to react you know fast enough. Right. um I mean, we're we're taking these multis down there and we're we're reinventing the the wheel.
01:10:56
Speaker
And they're like, well, why? You know, they literally plow runways like your driveway. Go out, clear it, go back to the to the barn. You know, let's have let's have breakfast. Let's do this.
01:11:09
Speaker
Go back out. Clear that. That's not how you clear airfields. You make a route and you just continuously loop with the multis and let's go, let's go, let's go and keep the priority one areas open.
01:11:21
Speaker
So, you know, it's it's going to be a game changer down there. And all the stakeholders down there, meaning the airlines are like, let's go. We we cannot wait.
01:11:32
Speaker
So, I mean, Delta's flying 1,200 flights out of there a day. So. Yeah, so four days, what'd they lose in revenue then? Billions. million b Billions? Yes. Yeah.
01:11:45
Speaker
And I was told that point blank to my face.
01:11:50
Speaker
Todd said I'm there. So I don't care. being one of those billions. It'll never happen again. Yeah, that's right. Give me a couple. no question No question.
01:12:04
Speaker
Good for you, man. That's exciting. Yeah, it's fun. we How far a drive, like, how far out is that from you, from your closest location? From Dulles, it's 10 hours.
01:12:17
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, it's not terrible.
01:12:21
Speaker
Hour and 15 minute flight. Nice. think mine's going to be all the new team members that we are now working with with this merger we just went through. We've got some real, really good guys coming on in multiple different areas. It's going really beef up our snow operation for next year. Awesome.
01:12:45
Speaker
It already has this year. We're just learning to match with each other. You know how that goes. Right. Mm-hmm.
01:12:52
Speaker
One team, baby. One team. One team.
01:12:59
Speaker
oh What else? Anybody else? Jeremy, what about you, 2026?
01:13:05
Speaker
um Could be a lot of new things on the horizon. You never know. i don't know what's happening. you know Just going to keep plugging away and see where Nice.
01:13:17
Speaker
my
01:13:23
Speaker
How about you, Steve? i don't know. I don't know. Anything could happen in 26. I have no idea. Hang up your bootstraps or what? Anything could happen. I don't know.
01:13:34
Speaker
We'll see. like we'll see ah Right now I'm enjoying it. I'm having fun. We'll see how it goes. But anything can happen. you know what You look like a million bucks.
01:13:46
Speaker
Thank you. Thank very much. Not. All right. We're not doing video, so everybody looks good. A million right now.
01:13:56
Speaker
Hey, can that be a New Year's resolution? Can we start doing some video? We do video sometimes. it's It's hard when you have a cricket wireless. i yeah ah ah What is it? Mint Mobile? what What's Ryan Reynolds' Yeah, We're just giving all these guys plugs tonight.
01:14:26
Speaker
Oh my God. Check in the mail. Yeah. 2026 will be interesting. I don't know. I'm, uh, I'm probably going retire from one thing, start another thing. i don't know. It's anything can happen. I'm looking forward to, uh, hopefully continuing to be able to be, uh, at every game, or at least 99% of them for my kids. Um,
01:14:53
Speaker
uh somehow find more time there is no more time but when figure that out let me know exactly right it always manages to get filled you know you drop one thing and another thing just picks up that you didn't yeah expect but you know you you prioritize and you you move forward but Yeah, 2026 should be good. I'm excited for the snow jobs universe to see where that goes and and how that keeps growing and exploding.
01:15:25
Speaker
um it's going up it's going up up up it ain't going down that's for sure i can't uh i can't believe uh the year we had with like spotify with the 1.1 million minutes listen yeah dude on only our third ranked platform that's pretty fucking good so but yeah it should be exciting 2026 should be good anybody got anything else you want to wrap it can wrap it.
01:15:55
Speaker
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01:17:05
Speaker
All right, we're back. So we'll ah we'll we'll wrap it there. Thank you to the boys for coming on. Sorry, everybody listening, if this is not our normal type episode. but No, this is this is one of my favorites.
01:17:18
Speaker
This was fantastic.
Audience Preferences on Podcast Content
01:17:20
Speaker
This real. absolutely i liked it i mean that's i think it's weird some like you got half our audience that loves the just basically a bullshit session and then half of them like want to hear like legit snow talk all the time so it's like i don't know how do you keep them how do you keep everybody happy every day lucky for us lucky for us is us showing doing the hell we want that's right
01:17:49
Speaker
I'm not making myself... I don't give a fuck. real ah All right, boys.
Gratitude and Looking Forward to 2026
01:18:01
Speaker
Thank you for everything you've done for us in 2025. And we look forward to 2026. We can't thank you enough. You guys are always there for anything we need. All the support in the world from you.
01:18:15
Speaker
And we really appreciate that. Appreciate you guys. Thank you so much. Thank you guys for everything. and most Happy New Year, boys. You guys' are friendships. Absolutely.
Project Success and Encouragement for Growth
01:18:25
Speaker
Thank you guys for everything you do for us. you you No problem. You don't take enough of the credit, and you guys have built this thing into a monster. So, congrats. Trying. True that.
01:18:35
Speaker
trying keep growing it keep growing it and we'll see it's uh it's nice it keeps everybody honest it keeps uh you all the all the people that used to take advantage of things in uh behind closed doors now they gotta watch todd you're following too close to somebody
01:18:59
Speaker
ah Either that or somebody fired a missile at you. It's my cricket. Minutes are up. Minutes are up.
01:19:10
Speaker
Oh, shit. All
Final Goodbyes and New Year Wishes
01:19:12
Speaker
right. We'll wrap it there. Listen, everybody out there, Snow Jobs Nation, I hope you guys had a great 2025, and here's to an even better 2026. That is it for the last episode of 2025, episode 151. All right, thanks to the boys again for helping us out, coming on and shooting the shit tonight.
01:19:31
Speaker
ah Everybody, have a great week. Have a happy new year. We wish you all the best, and we'll see you soon. Keep pushing.