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S2-91: Equip Expo Review Show with the boys!
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The guys welcome listener favorites Shawn DiVencenzo of Native Snow NJ, and Robert Thyng of RD Outdoor to help us review what snow products and events we experienced at Equip Expo 2024 in Louisville Kentucky
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Introduction: Episode 91
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snowjobspodcast
All right, Snow Jobs Nation, we are back again, bringing you Episode 91 of the Snow Jobs podcast, powered by Top Gun Backblades. As always, I'm Steve. That's right.
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snowjobspodcast
You know who's with me, my main man, my co-host couldn't do it without him, Snow Compadre. but Everything, you know, what do you got?
Event Season Overview
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snowjobspodcast
Snowby One Kenobi?
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RICK JAMES
You just keep keep short you you keep you keep shorting me on all my names, I think Similar stream My drink bitch doing good, how about you?
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snowjobspodcast
I don't know. The Tom Brady of Snow.
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snowjobspodcast
Short? I can't remember them all. There's like 20 of them now. But you all know him as Rick James!
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snowjobspodcast
Sup, Jay?
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snowjobspodcast
I'm alright, man. Back home.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah back home the last hurrah
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snowjobspodcast
Yeah.
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snowjobspodcast
Everybody's-
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snowjobspodcast
Event season is over. Completed successfully. We've been going what monthly since April.
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RICK JAMES
successfully.
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RICK JAMES
I think we skipped July, didn't we?
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snowjobspodcast
Uh, maybe we did.
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RICK JAMES
We skipped July and May, I think. no Oh, OK.
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snowjobspodcast
No, may we had, uh, what should we call it? Patty salmon.
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snowjobspodcast
Yeah. Uh-huh.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, I guess so.
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snowjobspodcast
Northeast de-icing solutions. Yeah. See. All right. Yeah. We did skip July though. Didn't we? All right, but it was a busy show season.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
It was a good.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Nobody, everybody got to see the boys.
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snowjobspodcast
It was good.
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snowjobspodcast
Got to see the boys.
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RICK JAMES
Nobody went to jail. I mean, nobody got hurt that week.
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snowjobspodcast
Nobody went to jail. ah No convictions.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. we yeah yeah but That's what we'll say. and no convictions
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snowjobspodcast
Uh, no, you know what? It was awesome. It was great art.
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RICK JAMES
Oh yeah.
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snowjobspodcast
You got to hand it to our guys, man. They travel. They show up. It's ah pretty awesome. Pretty awesome.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, we got a little biased, but yeah, we got the best crew, but that's the way we roll.
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snowjobspodcast
ah I don't think it's biased. I think it's just the way it is. We do have the best crew and they definitely show up for us.
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RICK JAMES
I don't know. Keep doing the stuff and we just keep adding more and more people to our crew and it's great. I love it. It's fun.
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snowjobspodcast
Yeah, you can always get Sean.
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RICK JAMES
Great, great, great people.
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snowjobspodcast
Just get him food. Make sure he's fed. Sean will show up. You know, it's great.
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RICK JAMES
Here we go. Here we go.
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snowjobspodcast
Here we go, baby.
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RICK JAMES
Oh boy.
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snowjobspodcast
Oh, man. Well, like we said, guys, we were at equip in Louisville last
Post-Expo Snow Product Review
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snowjobspodcast
week. All right. Equip Expo 2024 is in the books, but we are home now and we're going to do a little equip review for the snow products and stuff and the snow guys we saw there.
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snowjobspodcast
And to help us do that, we're going to bring back a couple of crowd favorites, bring them back. Sean DiVincenzo of native snow, New Jersey, and Sean's babysitter, Robert Thing of already outdoor handler babysitter.
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RICK JAMES
It's handler.
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snowjobspodcast
David has to make sure he gets up.
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RICK JAMES
They're like brothers.
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snowjobspodcast
but What's that? They are.
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RICK JAMES
They're like brothers.
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snowjobspodcast
They're so inseparable. It's so funny. Well, I mean, cause Sean wouldn't go anywhere if it wasn't for Robert waking them up. to get Sean, Sean, get up!
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RICK JAMES
That's true. Well, if you leave Scott for three minutes, he's sleeping somewhere.
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snowjobspodcast
Leave it in five minutes.
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snowjobspodcast
He is.
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RICK JAMES
It's like the hell.
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snowjobspodcast
Dude, it's incredible. And he's not just sleeping. He's pants off under the covers, face down snoring. It's incredible. I don't know. You literally...
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RICK JAMES
How do you know you have pants off to be checked out out or what?
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snowjobspodcast
Oh yeah. I made the mistake of throwing his covers off at one time. he'll get out of bed Like shit, dude, you've been out of sight for three minutes.
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RICK JAMES
ah Then you cuddled with them.
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snowjobspodcast
How are you this invested in an app? Oh man.
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RICK JAMES
ah
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snowjobspodcast
Well, it's fun. It's always good with these guys. So before we get into it with the boys though, let's do what we got to do here. All right. We're going to hear from team top gun. We're going to come back to a quick week in review. Be right back.
Winterstone's Success Story
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snowjobspodcast
All right, guys, we're back. So a quick week of review. Last week, we dropped the episode with Jonathan Wise at Winterstone. He came on with us. They're a relatively young company, guys, but they've been growing like crazy every year. I think they're in their going into their fifth winter. It was great to hear from Jonathan, hear how they're tackling the growth and keeping it sustainable and manageable. ah That was a good episode. The guys out there, seemed you guys all seem to be liking it. So thanks thanks to Jonathan again, coming on best to Winterstone this winter.
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snowjobspodcast
Show season 2024, like we said, over. We've been going since April. it's ah It's been a great season of events for Snow Guys. We're proud that we were requested at so many events. And we're you know as always, we're extremely happy to help these events grow and get better every year. It was an absolute pleasure meeting so many guys out there at these events, being able to talk you know just talk to you one-on-one, say thank you in person for everything you guys do for us with this show, keeping the keeping it growing like crazy. We couldn't do it without you guys. And you know we both sincerely appreciate
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snowjobspodcast
All the insane support that we get from you guys. So thank you very much What else we got
Equip Expo Highlights
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snowjobspodcast
coming? We're dropping the live from equip Expo Arctic Army roll call episode this week All right, we sat down with the Arctic gang at equip recorded an episode right from their booth, which was awesome Got to hear from the professional scooter racer John Big Daddy Starick Oh Jeremy's joining us in big pimp coat Sean. Did you get a picture of that? Oh Got a picture of Jeremy's coat. All right. Cool. So John Starr came out with us for a couple of minutes. Uh, we got, we, we had the honor of talking to the mad scientist himself, right? Blake straight came on and gave us a few minutes talking about the Razorback complete plow, uh, debut. They got their own head gear now, their own mounting system and all the changes they made to the blade this year to make it better. They, you know, you guys were out there talking.
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snowjobspodcast
about what needed to be changed with it. from last year and they listened right so then we yeah
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RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
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snowjobspodcast
we talked to blake and then we wrapped it up talking to spencer straight ah spencer handles the marketing for arctic and he took us through all arctic's new social media push and the special programs they're going to run to help the yeah Arctic users show their stuff.
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snowjobspodcast
all right they yeah they want to you know They want to repay you guys for being such loyal Arctic users. ah So they they got a couple of things coming. And and ah that we'll we'll wait for for that episode to drop on Thursday.
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snowjobspodcast
And you can hear it. all right But it was a good time at the Arctic booth. We thank them for the invite. And it's been a and a real blast having them aboard. They're a lot of fun.
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snowjobspodcast
What else you got, Jay?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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snowjobspodcast
You got anything? Oh, he's taking me. I got a mid-drink.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. I had to get a drink.
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snowjobspodcast
All good.
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RICK JAMES
No, as a so I mean, obviously we'll get into the show when we can get into the show here, but yeah. Um, talk about, what do we got?
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snowjobspodcast
Burch.
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RICK JAMES
Merch. Let's do some merch.
Merchandise Popularity and Promos
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snowjobspodcast
All right.
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RICK JAMES
Hey guys, let's, let's, let's sell some of this merch. I mean, everybody saw him. That was that equip. Say Andy Brown. They loved it. Loved the girls on your plotless shirt. And a lot of you guys have seen it, but I know, but it seemed like it was, I don't know, refresh or something when it was up there.
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snowjobspodcast
They did.
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RICK JAMES
I got a lot of people. Apparently I'm at the call Spencer tomorrow and order some more.
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snowjobspodcast
like
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RICK JAMES
Cause I wasn't going to, but now I'm probably have to. So restock.
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snowjobspodcast
There were non-Snow guys that wanted that shirt.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I've butt i've gotten like three three DMs just last night when I was at home.
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snowjobspodcast
There were.
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RICK JAMES
I was like, what the hell? I don't even know what these people are, but yeah.
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snowjobspodcast
The entire PBR bar wanted that shirt. There were guys stopping him and just taking pictures with the back of the shirt.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, we should have. Yeah, I don't know what we would do with maybe next time we'll just sell it in the back of the car in the parking lot or something.
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snowjobspodcast
You know, we should have done. We should have brought a box of those shirts to maybe have the employees of PBR wear.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, fuck. yeah But they're pretty, yeah, those employees are nice.
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snowjobspodcast
Next year. Next year. Yes. Yes.
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RICK JAMES
Nice nice young ah young ladies.
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snowjobspodcast
They were very, very nice. They, uh, they will wear it for us. I'm sure if we asked them, um, yeah. So hit snow jobs, nation store.com. Like Jeremy said, get all your snow jobs, nation gear.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, I still got that sale going on through the end of October.
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snowjobspodcast
What else bud?
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RICK JAMES
I think I, I think I put it toward the end of October, 20% off everything except for the car hurts. I think it was on there.
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snowjobspodcast
Ah. And here's another tip since I see some of these orders coming through.
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RICK JAMES
So.
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snowjobspodcast
If you're going to order stuff and the sale is on, use the promo code.
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RICK JAMES
I've been trying to catch it and put it on there for him.
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snowjobspodcast
yeah Get the money off. where We're running a sale. yeah Don't pay full price.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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snowjobspodcast
Just do it. Oh man.
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RICK JAMES
I've got a couple and gave him the money and all that code, so
Cold Nights and Gear Talk
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RICK JAMES
whatever.
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snowjobspodcast
Let me tell you, those car hearts came in super handy because there were a couple cold ass party nights at Equip, right?
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RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, there were at first.
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snowjobspodcast
First and second night were cold.
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RICK JAMES
second night wasn't bad but i wasn't outside that much okay
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snowjobspodcast
ah Second night if you were outside was still cold. It was definitely cold at Jim Beam.
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RICK JAMES
i went outside for a while but i didn't stay up i was warmed yes yes that was fun um god i thought i had something else
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snowjobspodcast
You were warmed from the inside out.
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snowjobspodcast
You were definitely warm. Oh my god. But yeah, get your car hearts. Get your new baby onesies, all right? They're still there. um Yeah, that's all I got. You got anything else, Jay?
Detailed Expo Discussion with Guests
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RICK JAMES
to tell you about or announce but
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RICK JAMES
ah I'll think about it and we'll spread it later.
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RICK JAMES
Yep. That's me.
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snowjobspodcast
I've been waiting to drop that one.
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RICK JAMES
I know if you get that in your little book there that you're like you've had it.
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snowjobspodcast
but I have, dude. It's so funny. I got a couple of them. um But anyway, all right, man. Well, let's ah we'll we'll hear from our partners and we'll get get this on with the boys.
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snowjobspodcast
All right, guys, we'll be back in a minute.
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snowjobspodcast
All
Yeti Products Endorsement
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snowjobspodcast
right. We're back. We are back. We got, uh, Sean's a Yeti user, right? Yeah. I think Sean, Sean loves Yeti, right?
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RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
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snowjobspodcast
Sean, you can tell him you like Yeti.
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Native Snow
Yeah, it's good. Gonna be definitely using a lot more this year.
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snowjobspodcast
Yeah, that's good.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, that's good.
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snowjobspodcast
That's that's a glowing endorsement right there.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it's good.
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snowjobspodcast
Jesus Christmas, man.
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Brine Boss
It's great.
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snowjobspodcast
ah
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RICK JAMES
Uh,
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snowjobspodcast
Dude, you keep freezing up. If you cause, if if you cost me editing work tonight, I'm going to kill you.
00:14:09
Native Snow
Wow, what's wrong?
00:14:10
Brine Boss
It's your work.
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snowjobspodcast
I don't know. you You keep freezing up, but anyway, let's roll here. Welcome boys. Sean and Robert. How are we?
00:14:18
Native Snow
Good, how you guys doing?
00:14:18
Brine Boss
Doing well.
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snowjobspodcast
Yeah. How are your flights home?
00:14:20
Native Snow
Thanks for having us.
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snowjobspodcast
Everybody good?
00:14:23
Brine Boss
You made it always.
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RICK JAMES
Real good.
00:14:24
Native Snow
It was good.
00:14:26
snowjobspodcast
That's good. All right. Love hearing it.
00:14:28
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I'm ready again.
00:14:28
Native Snow
Nice and some quick.
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snowjobspodcast
Oh, where is the hat?
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RICK JAMES
I got it. Took a Snapchat of this code I'm wearing and Josh is all pissed because I don't have the hat on, but I don't have the hat. It's an, it's an Andy's pickup. I haven't got it back from him yet.
00:14:39
snowjobspodcast
All right.
00:14:39
RICK JAMES
Maybe he's wearing it.
00:14:41
snowjobspodcast
gotcha You didn't wear it on the plane?
00:14:41
RICK JAMES
So no, I sent him back with Andy.
00:14:44
snowjobspodcast
Oh, you should have, dude. You should have worn that on the plane.
00:14:47
RICK JAMES
yeah I should have the pimp hat to go with the pink.
00:14:48
snowjobspodcast
Oh, man. Josh and Brianna got Jeremy a big pimp hat to to match his pimp coat. It's beautiful.
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RICK JAMES
It's something.
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snowjobspodcast
Oh, I know.
00:15:00
RICK JAMES
Why not make a, yeah. Oh, well, it'll be fun.
00:15:03
snowjobspodcast
Another good time though, boys.
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RICK JAMES
We're all about fun.
00:15:06
Brine Boss
Yeah, it was great. Had an awesome some time seeing everybody again.
00:15:10
snowjobspodcast
Yep. It's always a good time. Always, always entertaining as hell, man. I tell you, I go home and like my throat and my stomach muscles are still hurting because I'm laughing so much. It's incredible how much I laugh around you guys, mostly at Sean, but I mean, it's, it's really always a good time.
00:15:24
Brine Boss
ah
00:15:29
snowjobspodcast
Always a good time with you guys. Thanks for coming again.
00:15:31
Brine Boss
Yeah, it's great.
00:15:32
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:15:33
snowjobspodcast
Alright, so lets let's get into this. let's ah what did you guys ah What did you guys think about Equip this year compared to last year? Same stuff? Anything new?
00:15:44
Brine Boss
I didn't personally see anything new. um I think the biggest thing I saw that was new was obviously Arctic's new headgear and everything for their new their new truck blade there.
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Brine Boss
But other than that, I think um a lot of it's just somewhat of the same innovations.
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RICK JAMES
it was good.
00:16:01
Brine Boss
Just ah tweak here and tweak there across all the different manufacturers and companies and businesses and and everything along those lines.
00:16:09
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. What about you, Sean?
00:16:11
Native Snow
Yeah, same thing. Nothing new. A lot of electric lawnmowers and stuff like that. Other than that, the snow stuff, everything that was new I already seen during the year and all the other stuff as we did.
00:16:21
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. ah Yeah.
00:16:23
Native Snow
Nothing really snow related to talk about. me
00:16:25
snowjobspodcast
I was just going to say that a lot of the new snow stuff we've already seen at previous events, like we got to see that new cage wing plow, right?
00:16:29
Native Snow
Yeah, multiple times. Yeah, yeah we've seen multiple times already, so.
00:16:32
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:35
snowjobspodcast
Mm hmm.
00:16:36
Brine Boss
as we saw it in action in Minnesota at Sanco.
Innovations in Snow Gear
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snowjobspodcast
Yep, we did.
00:16:41
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:16:41
snowjobspodcast
Got to see that.
00:16:42
RICK JAMES
I think I talked a cage I talked a cage about that plow a little bit and I thought they told me because I was trying to figure out how much it weighs and because I think it was 50 no, it's like 5,500.
00:16:43
snowjobspodcast
Uh, what about you, Jake?
00:16:52
snowjobspodcast
A lot.
00:16:55
RICK JAMES
I think is what he said 53 or 55
00:16:55
Native Snow
55. Thank you.
00:16:58
RICK JAMES
Yeah. At one point he said seven or, or, but then they said, no, that was something was wrong. So, but they were saying 5,500 pounds. I don't know. As far as snow equipment. Yeah. There wasn't a lot of new stuff.
00:17:08
RICK JAMES
Just obviously the new headgear from Arctic. That was when he's new snow stuff. I saw, I mean, that shows that thing is bad.
00:17:15
snowjobspodcast
which was sick, not to undersell it, but the the new headgear from Arctic is, it's sick.
00:17:18
Brine Boss
Alright.
00:17:19
RICK JAMES
That thing is bad. I mean, just the hydraulic pins and I think Blake could that thing on and off and
00:17:22
snowjobspodcast
Yup.
00:17:25
RICK JAMES
I don't know, 20 seconds. If that, I mean, it was um boom, boom.
00:17:28
snowjobspodcast
Not even, yeah, I don't think it was that long.
00:17:31
RICK JAMES
It was cool. It's going to be fun to try that. That's for sure.
00:17:34
snowjobspodcast
Robert, was it you that jumped in the in the truck and said you couldn't even feel it going over to going over the curb block?
00:17:40
Brine Boss
Yeah. Yeah. Cause I wrote in the truck and they were going over those five inch curbs. And, um, when he went over it, like kind of dead center and one of the mold boards, I mean, yeah but it literally just felt like an um an imperfection in the parking lot.
00:17:55
Brine Boss
And then when he extended the way out straight and whenever the curb were just the way, I mean, you didn't even know what happened. I mean, the only the only reason you knew was because the window was down and you could hear it trip.
00:18:04
snowjobspodcast
Yeah.
00:18:08
RICK JAMES
even
00:18:09
snowjobspodcast
So you may actually have guys telling the truth now when they're like, I didn't hear anything. I don't know. I just have.
00:18:13
RICK JAMES
ah
00:18:14
Native Snow
that
00:18:16
snowjobspodcast
Uh, yup.
00:18:16
RICK JAMES
well Well, hopefully nothing's damaged and they, we don't, we can keep going not to worry about it. So no, it was cool.
00:18:22
snowjobspodcast
Absolutely. But yeah, that was, uh, go ahead.
00:18:24
RICK JAMES
i When we're, when Robert was in the pickup, I was in front of it, you know, with my phone out videoing it and it was just from the, from the ground itself. I looked really smooth. I mean, it was just like a typical article and up and over and where you go.
00:18:37
RICK JAMES
So.
00:18:38
snowjobspodcast
Yeah, it was pretty impressive though. The headgear, like they really did their homework. All the, everything's self-contained, sealed in that, in that weatherproof box and stuff. and Nice and easy to get to if you needed to. The, the hydraulic pins to put it on that, that's, I mean, they really, they, that's why they took their time, I guess. Cause they, they needed it to be like that because it was awesome. It was awesome to see.
00:19:00
RICK JAMES
Like Blake opened open the hood and was showing me other you know that if anybody knows how at least Like I'm familiar with boss plows and there's a lot of shit.
00:19:11
RICK JAMES
I read the hood, you know from all your electrical stuff I don't know what the other brands are but the bosses are like that and what he showed me is looked like a
00:19:12
snowjobspodcast
Yes. Yep.
00:19:19
RICK JAMES
I don't know, like a notepad, pretty much. That was all, you know, something that was about the size of a notepad and a couple of wires running through it. So it was really and didn't take up shit for room underneath your hood or anything like that.
00:19:30
RICK JAMES
So that was pretty, I thought that was pretty impressive. So I don't know. One little thing I saw guys that actually plow and have to deal with all that shit.
00:19:35
snowjobspodcast
Yep.
00:19:39
RICK JAMES
Think about stuff like that. You know, so.
00:19:42
snowjobspodcast
Amen.
00:19:42
Brine Boss
Jeremy was that tide do they um tap into the like headlight wiring harness for that. I didn't I didn't check out under the hood Yeah Yeah, it's just cleaner Yeah
00:19:50
RICK JAMES
It goes from the, he said there are harness that go on your headlights and it just tees off into, you know, I think it's just like every other one, but just, but it's not like a big harness system. It's just so like, it's just a TF.
00:20:00
RICK JAMES
so I mean, that's what I got from what Blake was telling me. So tees off into that. Then you just, it's just cleaner and simple, just simple. I mean, then the wires that went, Oh, you once you took them off, you could click them together.
00:20:15
RICK JAMES
So they're always sealed up. So that was kind of nice also.
00:20:17
Native Snow
Thank you.
00:20:19
RICK JAMES
So as far as the other ah other snowy equipment, there wasn't like, wasn't a lot, but I know we're always, I don't think we're all just going there for snowy equipment.
00:20:19
snowjobspodcast
Very cool.
00:20:20
Brine Boss
nice
00:20:27
RICK JAMES
where We're going there to look at everything, I guess, but Oh yeah.
00:20:28
Brine Boss
Nice.
00:20:31
snowjobspodcast
No.
00:20:31
Brine Boss
Sean's salt sprayers were there.
00:20:33
snowjobspodcast
Yeah, Sean's walk behind salt spreaders are back.
00:20:34
RICK JAMES
Yeah. His walk behind.
00:20:35
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:20:36
Brine Boss
Did he buy any, Sean?
00:20:36
Native Snow
and it I did not buy any, but I'm probably going to buy some more this year. They are good.
00:20:42
snowjobspodcast
What was the name of it? Well, let's let's see if we can remember the name Charles Walters.
00:20:44
Native Snow
Charles Walters.
00:20:46
snowjobspodcast
I think I think that was it.
00:20:47
Native Snow
Yeah, they're good.
00:20:48
RICK JAMES
Charles Walters. Okay. Yeah.
00:20:49
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. We tried to remember last year. I remember on the review and we couldn't remember the name Charles Walters.
00:20:54
Native Snow
Yeah, somebody ended up giving you one through the DM, thankfully.
00:20:55
snowjobspodcast
Give him a shout.
00:20:57
snowjobspodcast
Nice.
00:20:59
Native Snow
and
00:20:59
RICK JAMES
And I got you one.
00:21:01
Native Snow
No, no, they gave steveve they gave Steve the the name of the company. We couldn't remember it.
00:21:05
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. He couldn't remember the name.
00:21:06
RICK JAMES
Oh, gotcha.
00:21:07
snowjobspodcast
He spent an hour and a half there. Couldn't remember the name of the place. So ah but he he was doing his homework, doing his due diligence.
00:21:10
RICK JAMES
He was, he was previously.
00:21:17
RICK JAMES
Yeah. good Good salespeople there, I guess, huh?
00:21:21
snowjobspodcast
Yup, yup, yup, yup.
00:21:21
Native Snow
but
00:21:22
RICK JAMES
but
00:21:23
snowjobspodcast
You'd have to just go walk behind golf players.
00:21:27
Brine Boss
the new boss vbx plus um i haven't seen that anywhere besides at that show um ah got looking at that because we have we have one vbx now and looking at how they did change all the wiring harnesses in the rear plug in plug the sander in from the truck side um the led lights that are finally now standard and not the cheap halogen ones and strobe lights on it um it does have um a bunch of rate control features um i don't know everything about it but i was playing around with it and saw that it does have great options and you can
00:22:07
Brine Boss
i I believe you can set up jobs on there up to like 10, 10 different sites.
00:22:08
snowjobspodcast
Yes.
00:22:13
Brine Boss
Um, I thought that's pretty cool.
00:22:13
snowjobspodcast
Yeah.
00:22:15
Brine Boss
That's a lot of, that's a lot of innovation from our current VBX, I guess. Um, I mean, there's just a lot more going on with that. I mean, whether it's good or yes,
00:22:24
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. I believe there's material tracking on there. Like I think they're, they're trying to get it dialed in.
00:22:28
Brine Boss
yes yes.
00:22:29
snowjobspodcast
So you know how many pounds you're using, which is great.
00:22:31
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:22:32
Brine Boss
And on next,
00:22:32
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I did see that pounds per minute.
00:22:33
snowjobspodcast
Did you get a price tag on that Robert?
00:22:35
Brine Boss
i Did not I did not but I'm on the spreader so on your you can actually when you adjust it It's actually telling you like what the width is and feet how far you're kind of throwing it and everything and then it's also I believe the rate control is something along like pounds per minute or something along those I believe The whole me to it, but I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
00:22:47
snowjobspodcast
Hmm.
00:22:58
Brine Boss
I thought that was pretty cool I kind of I kind of totally forgot about that though just now What's up?
00:22:59
snowjobspodcast
Cool.
00:23:03
snowjobspodcast
That's great.
00:23:04
RICK JAMES
Well, I looked at it too. I guess I didn't look at it in depth as you did, but pounds per minute. Well, that'd be kind of, how do you, how do you figure that?
00:23:08
snowjobspodcast
Maybe pounds per mile.
00:23:11
RICK JAMES
Wouldn't it be like per lane mile or something or, or what?
00:23:11
snowjobspodcast
Uh, maybe pounds per mile.
00:23:13
Brine Boss
I don't think it was my to be honest. I'm, I'm almost like 90% positive. It wasn't my, it was like per minute or something like that. I, I'm not sure you'd have to look into it.
00:23:22
RICK JAMES
Huh.
00:23:23
snowjobspodcast
Hmm.
00:23:24
RICK JAMES
I'll have to look into that.
00:23:25
snowjobspodcast
We'll have to look in.
00:23:25
RICK JAMES
Look pretty slick. I mean, I mean, it was like you said, a lot of innovation or better than it was.
00:23:27
Brine Boss
Yeah.
00:23:33
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. Speaking of boss, I did see that they're, um, the snow Raider mag now has a ah nice cab option for it. I don't know what the feasibility is. The thing's about 10 feet tall, but.
00:23:46
Brine Boss
We certainly need to blow over here at this door.
00:23:46
snowjobspodcast
It was huge. It was yeah, it was huge, but it was a nice ah The only question I had about it was it it you know, it was fully enclosed. It was not like a ah Fabric material.
00:23:57
snowjobspodcast
It was a fiberglass and you know had a full windshield But I don't I didn't see it had a windshield wiper didn't see it the frost option Which if you're using the snowblower or the broom and there's any wind that's coming right back to your windshield and I just see that windshield frosting over big time
00:24:05
Native Snow
That's gonna be a problem.
00:24:14
Native Snow
Yeah, I think that's gonna be a problem.
00:24:14
snowjobspodcast
um
00:24:14
RICK JAMES
and Not here.
00:24:15
Native Snow
He was telling us that the defroster was gonna be the same the same thing for your hands, right? That was like the only heat that was there.
00:24:21
snowjobspodcast
Oh yeah, that little vent there.
00:24:23
Native Snow
Yeah, so I don't think that's enough heat.
00:24:25
snowjobspodcast
I don't think so, but they do have the cab option.
00:24:27
Native Snow
That was nice.
00:24:27
snowjobspodcast
So for the guys that have the, uh, the snow Raider map, but they are tall. That thing was super tall.
00:24:31
Native Snow
$2,500, I think he said it was though, right?
00:24:35
snowjobspodcast
2200, I think.
00:24:35
RICK JAMES
um Oh.
00:24:36
snowjobspodcast
Yeah.
00:24:36
Native Snow
Twenty two hundred and twenty two hundred.
00:24:36
snowjobspodcast
2200 for the cab.
00:24:39
RICK JAMES
Huh.
00:24:39
snowjobspodcast
but
Equipment Challenges and Solutions
00:24:40
snowjobspodcast
So, you know, if you're on a big industrial site and you don't have any low hanging trees or awnings and stuff and you have a need, check it out.
00:24:40
Native Snow
I'm expensing that on.
00:24:46
snowjobspodcast
They're out there. Um, what else? They're still, they're still not narrow enough. Their wheel base is too wide for, uh, from my neck of the woods. I want to say they're what, 40 inches.
00:24:59
snowjobspodcast
I think they're 40 inches wide.
00:24:59
Brine Boss
Well,
00:24:59
Native Snow
Yeah, I think we measured right forty inches.
00:25:00
snowjobspodcast
The bug, the buggy is 40 inches wide and that won't work on 36 inch sidewalks.
00:25:02
Brine Boss
thanks.
00:25:03
Native Snow
no
00:25:07
Brine Boss
What about that scout? How wide is that scout?
00:25:10
snowjobspodcast
I don't know. I honestly didn't, I didn't check it out because for me, for this is just for me, my own personal opinion. If I'm going to spend money on a sidewalk machine, I need it to salt and they have no option for salt on that.
00:25:25
snowjobspodcast
As far as I know, it's just the blade. Cause I didn't, I asked Sean, didn't I ask him, you can put the exact path on it.
00:25:28
RICK JAMES
um really?
00:25:28
Native Snow
Yeah, they said you can put that they said you could put that broadcast tailgate spreader on it that's on the mag, but it's not a recommended option.
00:25:31
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:25:35
snowjobspodcast
That ain't going to do it. That's going to put salt everywhere though, on the sidewalk.
00:25:38
Native Snow
Yeah, they they said it's not a recommended option, but you could do it. They've seen it done. um The Scout is a nice machine though.
00:25:44
snowjobspodcast
Yeah.
00:25:47
Native Snow
They change the controllers.
00:25:47
snowjobspodcast
It's entry level. It's sub $10,000. So yeah.
00:25:49
Native Snow
It's under 10,000, which is huge. Um, and they changed the controller from the left-hand side joystick for the plow ah right where it should be, you know?
00:25:56
snowjobspodcast
To the right. Yeah. Yep.
00:26:00
Native Snow
So that's, that's good.
00:26:01
snowjobspodcast
What is, um, what is a regular snow Raider? Not the mag. What's the other snow Raider running now?
00:26:06
Native Snow
Two years ago, I paid 12 seven each.
00:26:06
snowjobspodcast
The 14.
00:26:08
Native Snow
So it's gotta be 13, I probably 13.
00:26:10
snowjobspodcast
So 14 maybe.
00:26:12
Native Snow
Yeah, I don't know.
00:26:14
snowjobspodcast
All right.
00:26:15
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:26:16
snowjobspodcast
But I mean, at least that you can put the exact path on.
00:26:19
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:26:20
snowjobspodcast
But, but yeah, so I mean, there was, there was a couple of new innovations from boss there, which was a nice to see.
00:26:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:26:25
snowjobspodcast
Cause I haven't, I mean, I don't remember anything really earth shattering from him.
00:26:28
Native Snow
Or if you buy the Scout, save a couple thousand dollars and buy some Charles Walters walk-behinds and have you guys walk around. That's what I do.
00:26:34
snowjobspodcast
That's the, uh, even Chenzo plan. Here it is.
00:26:37
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:26:39
snowjobspodcast
ah well ah but Uh, what else was out there?
00:26:41
RICK JAMES
Well, if it works, it works.
00:26:44
snowjobspodcast
Anything else we saw? We got to see storm vision again, uh, that booth.
00:26:48
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:26:49
snowjobspodcast
Um, they had that there.
00:26:49
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah. Stormbooth was there. I think Darcy was flashing everybody there, wasn't she?
00:26:54
snowjobspodcast
What? I missed that.
00:26:56
Brine Boss
yeah but
00:26:58
RICK JAMES
ah I mean, handing out flashlights. That's what I meant.
00:27:00
snowjobspodcast
Oh, yes. We did get those cool magnetic, uh, led lights.
00:27:03
Native Snow
Yeah, nice. Have you turned it on in a complete dark net dark yet?
00:27:05
snowjobspodcast
They are nice.
00:27:07
Native Snow
It's light. It's a good light
00:27:08
snowjobspodcast
Absolutely. So, I mean, that was made for you, Sean, for that two hours before first flakes, when you're mobilizing your fleet for the first time all all year, and know he'll you'll be able to use those lights.
00:27:21
RICK JAMES
I'll tape him onto to his salters.
00:27:21
snowjobspodcast
ah
00:27:23
RICK JAMES
and yeah
00:27:25
snowjobspodcast
Oh gosh. But yeah, I got to see yeah see the storm guys again and and storm vision, which they were they had some people there.
00:27:27
RICK JAMES
oh
00:27:30
RICK JAMES
and
00:27:34
snowjobspodcast
The couple of times I walked through, they had definitely conversations going on, which was good to see. ah Who else did we see?
00:27:40
RICK JAMES
I got to, I got to check out that new, ah well, Corey Lampieri, he's, he'd send me those pictures.
00:27:46
snowjobspodcast
Who?
00:27:46
RICK JAMES
I've seen brochure cory Corey Corey.
00:27:49
snowjobspodcast
Who? I don't know any Corey Lampier.
00:27:50
RICK JAMES
Oh, you don't know Corey. Okay.
00:27:52
snowjobspodcast
I knew him last year, but then he ditched us his one night in town, didn't hang out like he was supposed to.
00:27:53
RICK JAMES
Well, yeah.
00:27:57
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah. What the, I don't understand that deal, but that's, that's he's in, he's in timeout.
00:28:00
Native Snow
He's in timeout right now.
00:28:00
snowjobspodcast
Suspended. he's in Time out.
00:28:03
RICK JAMES
He's, he's, he's on the blacklist.
00:28:03
snowjobspodcast
he's in Time out.
00:28:05
RICK JAMES
So he's just going to get checkmarked for awhile, but no, he, he wants to tell me.
00:28:08
snowjobspodcast
Oh, man.
00:28:08
Native Snow
Dad is not happy with him.
00:28:11
RICK JAMES
What's that?
00:28:12
Native Snow
I said dad is not happy with him.
00:28:17
RICK JAMES
Well, no, I got to check out that new cat skids there in person with the new cab and stuff. That was pretty sweet. Not that I need one, but still pretty sweet.
00:28:25
snowjobspodcast
Cool. Very cool. Uh, trying to think what else do we see? Um, we saw that new Western, uh, equipment plow, the wing plow.
00:28:39
snowjobspodcast
What that kind of thing called. I can't even remember. I forget.
00:28:44
RICK JAMES
I don't know.
00:28:45
snowjobspodcast
I don't know.
00:28:45
Brine Boss
I don't want to even see it.
00:28:45
snowjobspodcast
Me and you walk by Jeremy.
00:28:45
RICK JAMES
Oh, the pile driver? Is that the pile driver? No.
00:28:48
Native Snow
Yeah, a bottle driver with wings, right?
00:28:48
snowjobspodcast
I don't know if it's a pile driver.
00:28:48
RICK JAMES
Or what is it?
00:28:50
snowjobspodcast
Is it, is that what it is?
00:28:51
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:28:51
Native Snow
I don't know what it's called though.
00:28:52
snowjobspodcast
Yeah.
00:28:52
RICK JAMES
I think it's something like.
00:28:53
snowjobspodcast
It looked pretty, uh, interesting. That a lot. Did a lot of ah framing behind the the plow.
00:28:59
RICK JAMES
There's a lot of shit going on back there, that's for sure.
00:29:00
snowjobspodcast
Right? Yeah, there was a lot of stuff.
00:29:01
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:29:02
snowjobspodcast
Like, I wish I could have spent a little more time actually looking at what was going where.
00:29:06
RICK JAMES
Well, we were standing there and we're like, the we're just like, guy asks if we're.
00:29:08
snowjobspodcast
It was interesting.
00:29:11
RICK JAMES
and We were like, I was just looking and then he just laughed. I was like, wow, you didn't really want to, you don't really want to sell this thing.
00:29:15
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. Can I help you guys with something? Nah, we're just looking. All right. but Bye bye.
00:29:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah. It was like, I would at least let, I don't know if I should ask them more about it or something, but.
00:29:25
snowjobspodcast
yeah it Give us the rundown on it. like You know, we told hey, maybe he's just respecting that we said no, we're good It was pretty funny though Like oh, thank God Bye vapor trail Oh Man trying to think what else uh
00:29:30
RICK JAMES
No. Yeah. I wasn't holding it against my thought. It was, well he was like, bye.
00:29:37
Native Snow
got
00:29:39
RICK JAMES
He's he's.
00:29:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah. um
00:29:48
Native Snow
rape We were going to see puppies.
00:29:48
snowjobspodcast
Hmm. The reap that that is something to keep an eye on.
00:29:51
RICK JAMES
Where the puppies were.
00:29:53
snowjobspodcast
We, uh, we found out by accident, right? Wasn't that like tucked into like, by the, you went to play with the dogs. Yeah. The puppies, they had puppies that you could pet there.
00:29:59
Native Snow
and We were going to see puppies.
00:29:59
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I want to go see the puppies.
00:30:05
snowjobspodcast
So of course we all had to go walk halfway across Kentucky to pet these puppies.
00:30:08
RICK JAMES
like There are like three of them by the time I got there. I was like, there's too many people around. I couldn't even pet the puppies.
00:30:14
snowjobspodcast
Did they all get adopted?
00:30:16
Brine Boss
yeah they all got it job
00:30:16
RICK JAMES
I don't know.
00:30:18
Brine Boss
so long
00:30:18
snowjobspodcast
Oh, that's cool.
00:30:19
Brine Boss
yeah
00:30:20
snowjobspodcast
That's cool. um But yeah, there was this thing over there when we were walking over to see the puppies that were like two towns away from the actual show. There was this machine called the REAP.
00:30:31
snowjobspodcast
R-E-A-P. And I think if you want to Instagram there, it's REAP. M-F-G, I think it is. ah on there and they have a prototype there that is like a transformer.
00:30:39
Brine Boss
Yeah, they all got adopted.
00:30:42
snowjobspodcast
You can pretty much do everything with it. It's a zero turn, um, stand on mower, like kind of like the skag V ride too. And then you can actually insert, you can take the.
00:30:54
snowjobspodcast
ah take the casters and spread them wide to steady the machine to basically brace it. And then you can slide into a four-wheel drive, a two more wheels coming on the front.
00:31:06
snowjobspodcast
And this thing will hook up to, but there were like 15 attachments, right? There was a V-blade, a straight blade, snow blower, broom, mower decks, tillers, trenches.
00:31:17
snowjobspodcast
Like they had all all sorts of attachments for it.
00:31:17
RICK JAMES
Hmm. Yeah.
00:31:19
snowjobspodcast
it
Introducing the Reap Prototype
00:31:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah. There's lots on here. Yeah. I just pulled them up.
00:31:20
snowjobspodcast
was
00:31:21
Native Snow
yeah there's a lot
00:31:21
snowjobspodcast
You got it, right? Yeah.
00:31:22
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:31:23
Native Snow
lot
00:31:23
snowjobspodcast
Read them off, Jay.
00:31:23
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:31:23
snowjobspodcast
What else they got?
00:31:23
RICK JAMES
There's straight blade, V, blurt, V blade landscape, right? Power bucket, power rake, soil cultivator, tiller,
00:31:38
snowjobspodcast
A lot of stuff.
00:31:41
RICK JAMES
Stump grinder, sod cutter, and 95-inch finish. Yeah, lots of that's a lot of attachments. Hmm.
00:31:47
snowjobspodcast
They had a couple of them there.
00:31:47
RICK JAMES
Yeah, look.
00:31:48
snowjobspodcast
Um, it was interesting to see. I asked, you know, where, you know, uh, where you could get them or where you could find them. and And she told me that it was just a prototype. They only have, I think two built.
00:31:57
RICK JAMES
Whoa, whoa. Sorry.
00:31:58
snowjobspodcast
So that's all right. You good?
00:32:00
RICK JAMES
I'm good.
00:32:00
snowjobspodcast
but Um, but yeah, she said that they, uh, they only have, I think two built right now.
00:32:03
RICK JAMES
ah
00:32:07
snowjobspodcast
And, but I mean, the thing looked like a tank.
00:32:10
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah, it looks like a tank.
00:32:12
snowjobspodcast
massive hydraulic pumps and hydraulic lines everywhere it was uh but it was pretty well put together i don't know but it was it was built heavy duty i'll tell you that uh so yeah keep an eye on that the reap
00:32:12
RICK JAMES
Looks like something else but something.
00:32:17
Native Snow
I wonder how heavy that thing is.
00:32:23
RICK JAMES
I think it's in the reach.
00:32:26
Native Snow
Yeah, I was on their website the other day. um but After you posted it, I followed them and I went on their website and I was reading a little bit. They said they're going to be like a niche market for commercial ah use applications.
00:32:37
Native Snow
Really, they're not they're not looking to brand off into like smaller usage, they wanna be that that brand that just is like for what they are. They're not gonna try to downsize it or whatever, which is good.
00:32:48
snowjobspodcast
Sure.
00:32:50
Native Snow
Hopefully it works out for them. Hopefully it's a good product.
00:32:52
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. I don't see how you're going to use a landscape rake, like a Harley rake type deal.
00:32:54
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
00:32:59
RICK JAMES
I could.
00:32:59
snowjobspodcast
If you, if you only have skid steer control, then that kind of defeats the purpose of making everything nice and smooth.
00:33:02
RICK JAMES
Well, I mean.
00:33:07
snowjobspodcast
If you're going to just turn and tear it all up.
00:33:07
RICK JAMES
I figured operator.
00:33:12
snowjobspodcast
Okay.
00:33:12
Brine Boss
I was just going to say a lot of you are good.
00:33:13
snowjobspodcast
Well, there you go. yeah If you're Rick James, okay.
00:33:14
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I think it'd be, there's a place for a lot of these places, you know, all these homes and stuff that I have like hardly any backyards really small to get into, you know, it'd be kind of be like that ASV that real, that little ASV, you know, I don't know.
00:33:25
snowjobspodcast
Yeah, absolutely.
00:33:30
snowjobspodcast
Yup. Absolutely. We'll RT what is RT 50 RT 40.
00:33:32
RICK JAMES
So yeah, I think putts is going to buy one of those.
00:33:37
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. Those things are sick. I love the SS, the ASVs. Those things are great. um Yeah, so keep an eye on the reap.
00:33:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:33:45
snowjobspodcast
Check it out. ah Get them, check them out on Instagram and ah get ahold of them, get some information. It looked but like ah like almost like a Swiss Army knife. Thing does everything. yeah You're not limited by attachments, that's for sure.
00:33:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it was like that matte green. So it was kind of a cool color to it and everything. So no uncle Rick was there.
00:34:01
snowjobspodcast
Yeah, it was. That was nice. um What else we got? Any other snow products that we saw? Got to see the Snow Power V again. Uncle Rick was there.
00:34:16
RICK JAMES
That was, that's always fun. One of his guys is like. He's like, I don't know. He was demoing these guys. I walked up on these guys. He was demoing it too.
00:34:26
RICK JAMES
And they were like, they couldn't believe that that V was going to work with that little straight thing in the middle. I'm like, dude, this is going to work just fine.
00:34:33
snowjobspodcast
I think it is.
00:34:35
RICK JAMES
That thing's slick. So I don't know.
00:34:38
snowjobspodcast
I can't wait to put it in scoop and, uh, and see what we can do as far as the the pure volume increase that you can get over a regular, you know, big three, uh, V plow.
00:34:48
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I'm pretty excited about it. Those those are pretty cool.
00:34:50
snowjobspodcast
I'm not going to be good.
00:34:51
RICK JAMES
so
00:34:52
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. Um, all right. If we don't get any other snow products, what was, uh, anybody meet anybody, uh, for the first time that was really cool.
00:35:02
RICK JAMES
That's our bell again. He's always fun to see.
00:35:04
snowjobspodcast
A bell is always awesome. That is entertainment from start to finish.
00:35:07
RICK JAMES
Did he get his training card?
00:35:11
snowjobspodcast
Oh, shit, people.
00:35:13
RICK JAMES
I got, I got, I got an autographed trading card.
00:35:13
snowjobspodcast
I got his card.
00:35:16
RICK JAMES
I traded it. No, it's a, it's a rookie card.
00:35:17
snowjobspodcast
He traded it.
00:35:20
RICK JAMES
I got to wait for me.
00:35:21
snowjobspodcast
You got a lawn legends, lawn legends.
00:35:22
RICK JAMES
Worth a lot of money.
00:35:24
snowjobspodcast
A bell made the list.
00:35:25
RICK JAMES
Um,
00:35:26
snowjobspodcast
He had a big week, man.
00:35:26
RICK JAMES
um
00:35:27
snowjobspodcast
Moved into a new shop. Had equipped his own baseball card.
00:35:29
RICK JAMES
yeah. Yeah.
00:35:33
snowjobspodcast
Yeah.
00:35:33
RICK JAMES
Uh, met hotter in person that that was fun. Hotter and his crew, the, uh,
00:35:37
snowjobspodcast
Martin, the Canadians.
00:35:39
RICK JAMES
Yeah, those guys are always a blast. Those guys are fun.
00:35:41
snowjobspodcast
Yep.
00:35:42
RICK JAMES
God, those guys are a blast.
00:35:44
snowjobspodcast
Hodder had 30, 30 hour trip home from that.
00:35:46
RICK JAMES
It was over 30, I guess.
00:35:50
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. The, and the over under was like 30 and a half hours to get it home to Nova Scotia. It's a trip, but he better get home. They could have snow any day now.
00:36:00
RICK JAMES
but Yeah, we met back out with Josh and Brianna hung out with them again.
00:36:02
snowjobspodcast
Yep.
00:36:05
RICK JAMES
That was, that was a blast.
00:36:07
snowjobspodcast
prairie yep what about you shawn anybody cool you met the first time no ah my pillow
00:36:07
RICK JAMES
Can't even. Prairie la landscape, yeah.
00:36:18
Native Snow
No, umm I'm the coolest person in the room at all times.
00:36:24
RICK JAMES
He met his pillow, the new pillow he met.
00:36:27
Native Snow
um
00:36:33
RICK JAMES
yeah that's That guy's a sponsor, Sean.
00:36:35
snowjobspodcast
No.
00:36:35
Native Snow
kind of
00:36:36
snowjobspodcast
Oh man. That's great. So Sean didn't meet. What about you, Robert?
00:36:41
Brine Boss
No one and no one brand new I guess um Just some people that you may not talk to you know
00:36:45
snowjobspodcast
and
00:36:50
Brine Boss
Every month or week or whatever just people you may see once a year and you have good great conversations with and everything like that Which is which is always great Well,
00:36:59
snowjobspodcast
You guys gotta stop just hanging out with each other. You gotta put yourself out there, meet some new people, these things.
00:37:05
Brine Boss
it's like yeah you shake hands and meet new people but you think but I can't remember names I
00:37:08
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:37:11
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:37:11
snowjobspodcast
Yeah, I have a tough time with that too.
00:37:11
Native Snow
My problem.
00:37:11
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:37:11
Native Snow
My problem is I have CRS can't remember shit and I talked to a bunch of people and I do not remember her name.
00:37:20
RICK JAMES
have um Yeah.
00:37:20
snowjobspodcast
oh
00:37:20
Native Snow
So I don't even want to say anything.
00:37:21
snowjobspodcast
yeah
00:37:22
Native Snow
Cause I'm like, ah I did meet a couple cool people. I don't remember who they are though. Terrible. I remember the conversation.
00:37:27
snowjobspodcast
ah Very helpful.
00:37:28
Native Snow
Don't remember who.
00:37:32
snowjobspodcast
All right.
00:37:34
RICK JAMES
yeah but like What you see on me?
00:37:34
snowjobspodcast
oh Yeah.
00:37:35
RICK JAMES
You'll remember, right?
00:37:36
Native Snow
Yeah, exactly. exactly
00:37:37
snowjobspodcast
Oh, it's you.
00:37:37
RICK JAMES
Not their name, but do you remember I talked to them?
00:37:39
Native Snow
Yeah, I'm bad with, I'm really bad with names.
00:37:40
snowjobspodcast
Oh, it's you, Robert.
00:37:40
RICK JAMES
So no, I don't know.
00:37:41
snowjobspodcast
Introduce yourself.
00:37:43
Native Snow
Really bad with names and you know, I think a little bit too much drinking once in a while.
00:37:44
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:37:48
Native Snow
You forget things.
00:37:50
snowjobspodcast
Oh my God.
00:37:52
RICK JAMES
No, I, yeah, I met a lot of different people who came up and shook our hands and, you know, that listened to our show and all that stuff.
00:37:53
snowjobspodcast
Oh.
00:37:58
RICK JAMES
So I don't remember their names, unfortunately, but I appreciate them.
00:38:01
snowjobspodcast
Yep. Uh. Absolutely. I met a couple local guys to me. One guy's up north in the county.
00:38:08
RICK JAMES
oh yeah
00:38:09
snowjobspodcast
ah He stopped by the Arctic booth. That was cool. I met the guys from Daily Landscaping in Massachusetts. Those guys were cool as shit. um they were ah They wanted to say hello.
00:38:20
snowjobspodcast
and They were actually just saying, you know, what, what a big impact the shows made on their business. So that's, that's awesome to hear. Um, Colin from KL excavating in Michigan.
00:38:29
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
00:38:31
snowjobspodcast
He had the, uh, the top gun blade at, uh, at the top gun party.
00:38:35
RICK JAMES
Hey, he's a good shirt, that guy.
00:38:36
snowjobspodcast
He, I'll tell you what a good dude to let all these animals jump in his truck and bang that plow up and down all night long on that truck.
00:38:45
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
00:38:46
snowjobspodcast
That, that brand new truck, right? That thing was like.
00:38:47
RICK JAMES
Yeah, 84 X.
00:38:51
snowjobspodcast
Yep, beautiful truck. And then I i saw it like a bunch of guys wearing our stuff. A lot of our hats out there at Equip, a bunch of shirts, a bunch of sweatshirts.
00:39:00
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
00:39:04
snowjobspodcast
And one guy I spotted, and I'm like, Sean and Robert, I'll be right back. And I i ran him down. I'm like, hey, ah nice hat. And he's like, oh, yeah, thanks. And he's like, oh, shit. It was all crap.
00:39:16
snowjobspodcast
You know, you're one of the guys. I'm like, yeah. So Brandon Hoover from Ohio had the hat on. He was representing at the at equip. And he was one of the guys I actually he was within arms reach and I could track him down and say thanks.
00:39:27
snowjobspodcast
So we're going to send him a hoodie.
00:39:31
RICK JAMES
Gotcha.
00:39:31
snowjobspodcast
Because he's already got the hat.
00:39:31
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah, I got that. You told me. Yeah. ah
00:39:34
snowjobspodcast
He's already got the hat. But yeah, that was I mean, that was cool to see see so many people wearing our stuff again. Kind of trippy.
00:39:40
RICK JAMES
Do you think next you think next in Grand Rapids next year that Simon let anybody in by and wearing our stuff?
00:39:47
snowjobspodcast
Probably not. That'll probably be on the band list.
00:39:48
RICK JAMES
Probably not. Yeah, you got to take that off before you come in.
00:39:51
snowjobspodcast
yes It'll probably be snow jobs gear on the band articles list. We'll probably be right under the, this guy owes me $270,000 shirt. You can't wear it out either.
00:40:02
RICK JAMES
Oh man, I can't wear that.
00:40:02
Brine Boss
second No.
00:40:03
snowjobspodcast
Can't wear it out. So that'll, those they'll probably make the band list.
00:40:06
RICK JAMES
Oh, sweet.
00:40:10
snowjobspodcast
No snow jobs gear.
00:40:11
RICK JAMES
It's always good to be on a list.
00:40:12
snowjobspodcast
ah Absolutely. I don't mind being on lists. Lists are good.
00:40:17
RICK JAMES
Ah, the demo area.
00:40:18
snowjobspodcast
ah
00:40:18
RICK JAMES
The demo area was fun. Did you guys demo anything? I don't know.
00:40:22
snowjobspodcast
Oh, Oh, Yanmar compact loader.
00:40:23
Native Snow
I did not know.
00:40:23
RICK JAMES
Oh, did you?
00:40:26
snowjobspodcast
Yup.
00:40:27
RICK JAMES
How do you like it?
00:40:29
snowjobspodcast
Um. I liked it. I liked it. I wish I had more time with it. Um, I don't think it's as fast as the three 21s, but it's not as big.
00:40:41
snowjobspodcast
It's not as heavy either. Um, but I think it would be a niche, a nice little thing, a step up from the skid steers, but maybe like not as giant a workhorse. Cause I think it was the V eight that we're running V.
00:40:53
RICK JAMES
OK. What they got? They got a V12 too, don't they? and don
00:40:56
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. They got a V V six V eight V 10 V 12.
00:40:56
Native Snow
yeah
00:40:59
snowjobspodcast
And I think the V 10 and 12 are like a hundred horsepower, maybe a little more. And then the ah V eight is.
00:41:04
RICK JAMES
Really?
00:41:06
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:07
RICK JAMES
Oh, I didn't think that that much.
00:41:08
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. They have to.
00:41:08
RICK JAMES
So they, so they have deaf and everything. Not if they're that much.
00:41:10
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. Yep. But the V eight is a 74, I believe.
00:41:14
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:41:16
snowjobspodcast
And that was a comparable.
00:41:16
RICK JAMES
Okay. That's be like a nine Oh eight. None. That'd be like, yeah.
00:41:18
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:41:18
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. Be like a nine Oh eight power plant and.
00:41:20
RICK JAMES
And what did that, what do you want to wait?
00:41:23
snowjobspodcast
I don't, I don't remember what it weighed, but I know it was less than three 21, but, uh, it was, you know, it was a typical, like what I would call a typical, what you would expect from a much less expensive, uh, loader, but it it had everything you needed.
00:41:27
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:41:39
snowjobspodcast
You know, it had everything you needed. I'd like to see the top end speed. I'd like to get it out there, but, uh, you know, you couldn't do that in a tiny little corral. They didn't want you running through all the hay bales.
00:41:47
RICK JAMES
What?
00:41:50
RICK JAMES
Yeah, you can do that. That's what the demo is for.
00:41:51
snowjobspodcast
taking the flags where you're at.
00:41:51
Native Snow
so So the V8, Steve, is 62 horsepower, 10,800 pounds.
00:41:59
snowjobspodcast
There you go.
00:41:59
Native Snow
The V10 is 72 horsepower, so that would be like a 908 or a 321.
00:42:02
snowjobspodcast
Yep.
00:42:03
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:04
Native Snow
Well, the V8 is pretty much like a 906 or 907.
00:42:04
snowjobspodcast
And the wall.
00:42:07
RICK JAMES
Probably. ah Yeah.
00:42:08
Native Snow
I think that's right.
00:42:08
snowjobspodcast
Gotcha.
00:42:08
RICK JAMES
Yeah. What's the, does it say the speed on there?
00:42:09
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:42:10
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. Top speed.
00:42:13
Native Snow
It does not. um The V12 is 100 horsepower, 15,400 pounds.
00:42:18
snowjobspodcast
Yeah.
00:42:19
RICK JAMES
Okay. Huh.
00:42:20
snowjobspodcast
So that's heavy.
00:42:20
Native Snow
like
00:42:21
snowjobspodcast
That's bigger than the three 21.
00:42:24
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:42:24
Native Snow
Let's see.
00:42:24
snowjobspodcast
So yeah, it was interesting though.
00:42:24
RICK JAMES
Yeah. like isn what was What was the, what was the MR?
00:42:25
snowjobspodcast
I mean, like you're talking price point though, it's what are the three 21s running now over a hundred.
00:42:33
snowjobspodcast
So, I mean, if you're, if you could pick up.
00:42:35
RICK JAMES
What was, did they tell you a price?
00:42:36
snowjobspodcast
The Yanmar, I want to say the V8 was, oh shit, was it 68 or 80?
Yanmar Loader Review
00:42:43
snowjobspodcast
I can't remember. It was somewhere in that range. Cause they gave me all four models prices and I, I don't want to confuse them, but they were definitely less, definitely less.
00:42:53
RICK JAMES
have a dealer near you near you I know I know you got one on you love that thing.
00:42:55
snowjobspodcast
I do. I have a Yammar excavator. Yeah. Yep.
00:43:00
RICK JAMES
So yeah
00:43:00
snowjobspodcast
Love that thing. That thing is bulletproof. That thing is, uh, it works its ass off. Doesn't know how to quit. So we've been very happy with that. And I believe that the GAN Mars, uh, they all use the YAMR diesels, which most of the compact equipment out there does. YAMR diesels are, you know, bulletproof and you never get any problems from those, but yeah, it was interesting. I was the first time I was ever in behind the wheel of one of the loaders and it was for what it is. I thought it was well-equipped.
00:43:26
Native Snow
Speed says it's a 22 miles per hour top speed.
00:43:27
RICK JAMES
Was the cab comfortable?
00:43:29
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. 22 so then it's the same as 321 on the V1 on the V12 All right, that's even better then so that's so in the V8 you're looking at like basically it's replacing a skid, but it's three times as fast Getting down the road so I
00:43:32
Native Snow
Yeah Yeah, the V the V8 is 22.8
00:43:32
RICK JAMES
Really?
00:43:37
RICK JAMES
Huh.
00:43:43
RICK JAMES
Oh, nice. That's good. Great.
00:43:58
RICK JAMES
Two times, two times.
00:43:59
snowjobspodcast
ah Yeah, two times I wouldn't go I don't think I'd go anything bigger than an eight or maybe a 10 max on that pushing wise But if you throw some nokeens on it Yeah for an Arctic.
00:44:08
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm. Oh, for like a pusher on it. Oh, yeah, you can do a 10 on that. Yeah, I guess.
00:44:13
snowjobspodcast
Yeah On
00:44:14
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I'm sure you can do a 10.
00:44:16
Native Snow
Now with the concrete snow.
00:44:16
RICK JAMES
But I mean, not the con how's it going?
00:44:19
snowjobspodcast
Creek Come on you chicken
00:44:19
RICK JAMES
Come on, Robert. Come on. he says he didn't He says he didn't say like that on the show.
00:44:24
Native Snow
Say it.
00:44:26
RICK JAMES
He says he did.
00:44:27
Brine Boss
Yeah, I don't know i don'tt know where you got that but it's concrete.
00:44:27
snowjobspodcast
He does.
00:44:27
RICK JAMES
I did not say that.
00:44:29
snowjobspodcast
if i got way Oh man.
00:44:31
Brine Boss
It's not concrete.
00:44:32
Native Snow
Concrete.
00:44:33
RICK JAMES
we have We have receipts. Queue up the receipt from his show.
00:44:40
RICK JAMES
Uh, we did not get kicked out, but like we got there and that guy was the same guy that was there last year, his young guy out on Atlanta.
00:44:41
snowjobspodcast
But yeah, but that was cool. But now Jeremy, uh, did you get kicked out of John Deere booth again this year? No.
00:44:52
RICK JAMES
I can't remember his name. He goes, I remember you two to me in a bullet. I'm like, look, he just smiled.
00:44:57
snowjobspodcast
ah
00:44:58
RICK JAMES
I'm like, yeah, we're going to go fuck some shit up. And he's goes, all right, do what you need to do. So. I got in the skid and the bullet got in the skid and we started, there were two piles and we started. There was one pile when we finished and the bullet was, I was feeding them and he was ramping it.
00:45:12
RICK JAMES
So we made a ramp out of those two piles over there. So it was fun.
00:45:16
snowjobspodcast
Did you make the jump?
00:45:18
RICK JAMES
Uh, we did not jump it. The guy, the guy actually stopped the bullet when he was going, he goes, I don't care what you do.
00:45:20
snowjobspodcast
Oh,
00:45:23
RICK JAMES
There's a different guy who came up to an older gentleman and he goes, I don't care what you do. Just don't go over top of it. ah So apparently they must have remembered who they're talking to.
00:45:31
snowjobspodcast
ah that's it.
00:45:33
RICK JAMES
So.
00:45:34
RICK JAMES
But no, we had a good time.
00:45:34
snowjobspodcast
Oh man.
00:45:35
snowjobspodcast
That's great.
00:45:36
RICK JAMES
It was fun.
00:45:37
snowjobspodcast
and
00:45:37
RICK JAMES
I mean, they had that Teleboom there at the John Deere booth on that 324. That was pretty neat. They didn't really let you use it, but it was ah kind of cool to see that in person.
00:45:47
snowjobspodcast
Hmm.
00:45:48
RICK JAMES
I think they said it went up to 15 feet or something.
00:45:49
snowjobspodcast
I didn't see that.
00:45:52
snowjobspodcast
Really?
00:45:53
RICK JAMES
Yeah, and then it had a safety.
00:45:53
snowjobspodcast
Is that the, is that the one that it won't let you, it won't let you dump it.
00:45:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it won't let you dump it.
00:45:57
snowjobspodcast
Like it won't let you overload it.
00:45:58
RICK JAMES
Yeah, it won't let you overload it. I mean, that's if all your sensors work and you know they never fail.
00:46:02
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. No, they never fail.
00:46:05
RICK JAMES
So, but yeah, yeah, that's good.
00:46:05
snowjobspodcast
Uh, that's only speed sensors. I'm sure the rest of them work fine. so hello
00:46:11
RICK JAMES
Speed sensors on those suck.
00:46:13
snowjobspodcast
Oh man. Anybody else test anything out there in the pit?
00:46:18
Brine Boss
Not a thing.
00:46:18
Native Snow
No, I didn't.
00:46:19
Native Snow
The one day we were out there it was freezing. I didn't want to stand in line.
00:46:23
snowjobspodcast
Gotcha. All right.
00:46:25
RICK JAMES
Well, they were, he was there two days, Sean, you could have got out again.
00:46:25
snowjobspodcast
Uh, he doesn't remember.
00:46:32
snowjobspodcast
All right.
00:46:32
RICK JAMES
That was cool.
00:46:33
snowjobspodcast
Uh, so we had a, we had events every night that we were there. Um, we had plow ride on Tuesday night. We had Top Gun Wednesday night and we had Arctic on Thursday night.
00:46:45
snowjobspodcast
Best event. What'd you have the most fun at?
00:46:49
Brine Boss
Jim Bean Yeah,
00:46:51
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. Top Gun. No.
00:46:53
Brine Boss
well it's pretty cool um I think it was just it was really neat to kind of see the whole facility of that Jim Bean distillery and Kind of you know, the food was phenomenal and yeah, yeah Sean made me spend a hundred dollars on a shot of 1940s bourbon Yeah, yeah but we have it we split it
00:47:05
snowjobspodcast
Incredible. Yeah.
00:47:08
RICK JAMES
oh
00:47:09
snowjobspodcast
but Wasn't it 200?
00:47:16
snowjobspodcast
Oh. For a sip.
00:47:18
RICK JAMES
ah
00:47:19
snowjobspodcast
$200 for a sip of bourbon.
00:47:20
RICK JAMES
It wasn't ounce.
00:47:21
snowjobspodcast
Are you guys out of your fucking minds?
00:47:21
RICK JAMES
It wasn't ounce. they said One ounce.
00:47:23
Brine Boss
one out.
00:47:24
Native Snow
If you just don't get it
00:47:25
snowjobspodcast
God, no, I don't get it. I do not get that at all. You two morons given $200 for like three drops of fricking liquid.
00:47:35
RICK JAMES
Who drank it and who put it in the other guy's mouth?
00:47:38
snowjobspodcast
Sean drank it. Robert got to lick the fucking last couple of drops out of the fucking cup.
00:47:41
RICK JAMES
so
00:47:42
snowjobspodcast
I guarantee it.
00:47:43
RICK JAMES
andy burham baby birdham
00:47:46
snowjobspodcast
ah baby burned What was that called that bottle? Do you remember?
00:47:51
Native Snow
No, I have a picture of it.
00:47:54
snowjobspodcast
Oh, Jesus, you and your pictures. We need to make sure I'm like a pop up book.
00:47:59
RICK JAMES
No, they're all great.
00:47:59
snowjobspodcast
Oh, my.
00:48:00
Brine Boss
It's called Old Overholt Straight Rye Whiskey.
00:48:06
snowjobspodcast
How old was it?
00:48:08
Brine Boss
It says, what did they say, 1840?
00:48:09
Native Snow
Oh.
00:48:11
snowjobspodcast
1940s.
00:48:12
Brine Boss
Yeah, it was 1840.
00:48:12
Native Snow
Oh.
00:48:14
snowjobspodcast
I think it was 1940. I don't think it was 1840. Was it 1840?
00:48:18
Native Snow
I don't know.
00:48:18
Brine Boss
Was it 18 or 19?
00:48:19
snowjobspodcast
Oh.
00:48:20
Native Snow
I don't know. Let me check my pictures.
00:48:23
snowjobspodcast
Oh, God.
00:48:24
Brine Boss
the bottom
00:48:24
snowjobspodcast
Sean, those are well really interesting.
00:48:25
RICK JAMES
ah
00:48:26
Brine Boss
The bottle said it was established in 1810. A hundred proofs.
00:48:30
RICK JAMES
so
00:48:34
snowjobspodcast
Yeah, I don't know.
00:48:34
Brine Boss
by
00:48:36
RICK JAMES
They were all great parties, we went to.
00:48:37
Brine Boss
for
00:48:38
snowjobspodcast
They were great parties.
00:48:39
Brine Boss
ah school
00:48:39
snowjobspodcast
All three of them were great parties.
00:48:39
Brine Boss
and
00:48:40
snowjobspodcast
They were absolutely great.
00:48:41
Native Snow
I want to say this one, it was established in 1810, but I think the bottle was from 1940.
00:48:41
Brine Boss
but
00:48:48
Native Snow
And then it was, and it was, and it's, uh, I think a six year, uh, whatever the hell it's called when they distill it for, uh, was it age six years or somewhere?
00:48:49
snowjobspodcast
That sounds right.
00:48:59
Native Snow
15 years age, 15 year age, I think it was.
00:48:59
snowjobspodcast
age well there was only a shot when when did it get open because there was only a shot left you guys kicked the bottle right really yeah why don't you just try and get a second ounce for like half price
00:49:02
Native Snow
And it was like, uh, the bottle's old. I don't know. The label was like ripping off of it.
00:49:12
Native Snow
No, there's still one ounce left in that bottle.
00:49:15
RICK JAMES
you should have went for two for two for one make a deal
00:49:15
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:49:22
Native Snow
Um, I don't know.
00:49:24
snowjobspodcast
That would be the only person you didn't try and shake down on this trip.
00:49:32
RICK JAMES
ah
00:49:33
snowjobspodcast
Every time I turn around, Sean's making deals. ah well Oh my God.
00:49:37
Native Snow
We're learning beyond.
00:49:37
RICK JAMES
That's what you're there to do, buddy.
00:49:39
Native Snow
We're learning beyond.
00:49:39
snowjobspodcast
That's it.
00:49:40
RICK JAMES
No, the the farright party was good. yeah That venue is pretty, pretty cool.
00:49:43
snowjobspodcast
My ride was great.
00:49:44
RICK JAMES
They had the fires going help keep us warm because it was cool.
00:49:45
snowjobspodcast
That was really cool.
00:49:47
RICK JAMES
The food was, food was good. I mean, it was, I don't know. It was a, it was a fun time.
00:49:53
snowjobspodcast
That was nice. That was a nice way to start off the the four days or three days, whatever we were out there for.
00:49:58
Native Snow
yeah absolutely
00:49:59
snowjobspodcast
It was very laid back, very cool. Just, you know, hanging out with snow guys, talking shop, almost got to see another metal plus Arctic brawl. It was awesome.
00:50:09
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah.
00:50:09
snowjobspodcast
That was great.
00:50:09
RICK JAMES
John and Paul.
00:50:11
snowjobspodcast
Big daddy and Paul Van Der Zon going at it.
00:50:11
RICK JAMES
Well, yeah. I think Paul, the chief shot at John, didn't he?
00:50:16
snowjobspodcast
We said we were going to say that because of John Scooter accident.
00:50:18
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:50:19
snowjobspodcast
Had a nice black eye.
00:50:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Paul fricking came up behind him and gave him my one, one, two.
00:50:23
Native Snow
Yeah, absolutely.
00:50:26
snowjobspodcast
That did not really happen.
Event Mishaps and Humor
00:50:28
RICK JAMES
but
00:50:29
snowjobspodcast
John is living proof why grown men do not ride children scooters around an event.
00:50:30
Brine Boss
Thank you very much.
00:50:33
RICK JAMES
ah
00:50:34
snowjobspodcast
He took a header, took a header, almost died off it.
00:50:35
RICK JAMES
ah like
00:50:38
snowjobspodcast
Oh my God.
00:50:38
RICK JAMES
oh
00:50:38
snowjobspodcast
Thank God. He's all right.
00:50:39
RICK JAMES
I think he said he knocked himself out. He ran into one out.
00:50:42
snowjobspodcast
He said somebody helped them up. that He doesn't know. he He doesn't remember.
00:50:45
RICK JAMES
He bumped or something?
00:50:46
snowjobspodcast
Yeah. He hit a speed bump on a kid scooter.
00:50:47
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:49
snowjobspodcast
That is not good. That's why you wear helmets with that stuff.
00:50:52
RICK JAMES
Oh, God.
00:50:52
Native Snow
yep
00:50:53
snowjobspodcast
But, uh, Yeah, no, it was a good, the the parties were great.
00:50:56
RICK JAMES
but
00:50:57
snowjobspodcast
um up yo Yes.
00:50:57
RICK JAMES
The parties were like, like, like it was like a, sorry to interrupt, but the, the plot, they all, they're all three different levels. Like you just kept increasing them each night, you know?
00:51:07
Native Snow
you You kept increasing them.
00:51:08
RICK JAMES
So.
00:51:08
snowjobspodcast
Yes.
00:51:09
RICK JAMES
Well, maybe I did.
00:51:09
Native Snow
Nobody else.
00:51:09
snowjobspodcast
yeah
00:51:12
RICK JAMES
Maybe it're like maybe it was and it was game time and it was post game with Arctic.
00:51:12
Native Snow
Nobody else feels that way.
00:51:18
snowjobspodcast
Yes. Yes.
00:51:20
Native Snow
ah The turn up was real.
00:51:20
RICK JAMES
So, Hey, I'm there to have a, I'm there to have a good time.
00:51:20
snowjobspodcast
Yes. Like plow, right?
00:51:24
RICK JAMES
Fucking Rick James, man.
00:51:25
snowjobspodcast
Yep.
00:51:25
RICK JAMES
I'm there to have a good time.
00:51:26
snowjobspodcast
That's it.
00:51:26
Native Snow
The turn up was real.
00:51:26
RICK JAMES
I mean, we're, we're Top Gun really kicked it off hard.
00:51:28
snowjobspodcast
Plow right was definitely a warm up night. And then, uh, yeah, the top gun, top gun was okay. Last off.
00:51:35
RICK JAMES
you Yeah, it was your blast off.
00:51:37
snowjobspodcast
Uh, once he got his pimp hat, once he got his pimp hat, he was off to the races.
00:51:41
RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was that place is great.
00:51:42
Native Snow
not
00:51:42
snowjobspodcast
That was it. He really was.
00:51:45
RICK JAMES
That was cool.
00:51:46
snowjobspodcast
That was, that was a cool experience.
00:51:47
RICK JAMES
The food, like I said, food is great. i Well, I can't handle heat, but that shrimp I put in my mouth. Oh my God. but That was hot.
00:51:58
snowjobspodcast
Dude, that bread pudding was insane.
00:51:58
RICK JAMES
Spicy. Oh, never had any of that.
00:52:01
snowjobspodcast
Oh, I love bread pudding. It was insane.
00:52:03
Native Snow
Yeah.
00:52:04
RICK JAMES
ah
00:52:04
snowjobspodcast
But yeah, the food was outstanding. The location was great. I mean, just for the experience alone, that's that's really cool. You got to just go to the Jim Beam Distillery. They have an awesome, awesome bar and restaurant there.
00:52:15
snowjobspodcast
um And that was just a cool, it was just a cool atmosphere, cool event.
00:52:15
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
00:52:19
snowjobspodcast
they They all, each event that we went to after party, whatever you want to call it, had its own little, I don't know, had its own feel to it, I guess is the right word. Like, I guess Plowwright was super chill, super laid back, just snow guys talking shop, getting ready for the winter, you know, talking about the show and just a good get together and and hey, welcome back together type thing.
00:52:29
Brine Boss
Yeah for sure.
00:52:42
snowjobspodcast
And then ah Top Gun was, uh, that was a little more. Okay. The pilot light was lit. Now we're given a little gas.
00:52:48
RICK JAMES
so
00:52:50
snowjobspodcast
there And then that brings us into the Arctic party at PBR ah the last night. and That was ah for most of those guys that was full steam ahead.
00:53:00
Native Snow
yeah Yeah, I was going to say something very similar, Steve.
00:53:00
RICK JAMES
Well, you know, it it was, it was a lot of horsepower there.
00:53:02
Native Snow
I was going to say the first night was nice. It was just talking with snow guys. It was awesome. It was like right right in the right environment.
00:53:08
snowjobspodcast
Mm hmm.
00:53:11
Native Snow
The second night was just nice because like I didn't even talk that much the first half of the night. I was outside just enjoying the view. The view was beautiful, watching the sunset and just having a glass of whiskey.
00:53:19
snowjobspodcast
Mm hmm.
00:53:21
Native Snow
i was in my I was in my own little environment. I was just kind of chilling on the rocking chair next to Jim Bean himself at the statue of Jim.
00:53:27
RICK JAMES
Oh.
00:53:29
Native Snow
You know, yeah yeah.
00:53:29
RICK JAMES
to really set the tone and set the picture right there, buddy.
00:53:30
snowjobspodcast
ah
00:53:33
Native Snow
And then, you know, went inside, watched my Mets get brutalized.
00:53:34
snowjobspodcast
He was trying to make a deal with him.
00:53:36
Native Snow
Yeah, I was trying to own a distillery.
00:53:41
Native Snow
ah That was, you know, then we went inside, eat some food, drank some more, watched the Mets get blown out over here in a playoff loss while everybody else was talking.
00:53:41
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:53:41
snowjobspodcast
the
00:53:50
Native Snow
So I was just kind of just hanging out. And then the third night, obviously, the PBR bar, that's always a good time, watching Jeremy ride the bull and smack its ass.
00:53:56
snowjobspodcast
Yep.
00:53:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:53:58
snowjobspodcast
Jeremy was surprisingly awesome at the bull ride.
00:53:59
RICK JAMES
Yeah. God damn right. You know, I go to Kentucky, I got to ride the bull. What'd I do about six rounds on the bull? You know, it's like, uh, well, I knew that.
00:54:07
snowjobspodcast
I don't know, but that chick got pissed when you started trying to dust that with dust, the bull with your hat to toss your ass in a hurry.
00:54:11
RICK JAMES
I knew that. That's what that's. I was like, you know what? I was, I've been up here for a while. I'm, I'm ready to be done. So i I knew as soon as I started to dust that bull off, she's going to crank her up and I, that's why I did it.
00:54:22
RICK JAMES
It was fun.
00:54:22
snowjobspodcast
No, you, you did great, man.
00:54:23
RICK JAMES
But.
00:54:24
snowjobspodcast
You and Andy, Andy, I'll tell you the bullet can ride a bull too. He was doing great North Dakota.
00:54:29
RICK JAMES
Yeah, we're Dakota boys.
00:54:29
snowjobspodcast
They've had the last of these bulls on main street.
00:54:31
RICK JAMES
Wow. Sometimes they're on the street out in front and you got to get them out of the way. So, you know, so, so yeah, we saved you.
00:54:35
snowjobspodcast
You got to do it. I hear you, bro. I hear you. Thank God you guys were there. But, uh, PBR was great.
00:54:40
RICK JAMES
Yeah. yeah
00:54:42
snowjobspodcast
Uh, thank you to Arctic for inviting us. Thank you to plow ride for having us Tuesday night. Top Gun Rob. Thank you for having us Wednesday night. Cause you're not just getting us, you're getting the, uh, you're getting the whole extended family and, uh, you know, they know how to, they know how to have a good time.
00:54:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:54:59
RICK JAMES
Well, yeah, that's what we're there to do.
00:55:00
snowjobspodcast
$200 a shot. $200 a shot. They know how to have a good time. The much cheaper whiskey you could have had.
00:55:06
RICK JAMES
And we had a nice night. We had a nice little dinner for our own crew to Thursday night before, before the Arctic party.
00:55:11
snowjobspodcast
We did. We did.
00:55:13
RICK JAMES
So yeah, that was, that was fun.
00:55:16
snowjobspodcast
Yes, we did.
00:55:17
RICK JAMES
We watched Sean, uh, try, try, uh, eat all the meat and Louisville.
00:55:17
snowjobspodcast
oh
00:55:26
RICK JAMES
Right.
00:55:26
Brine Boss
They stopped to you this year Sean.
00:55:27
RICK JAMES
Sean.
00:55:30
Native Snow
What was that?
00:55:31
Brine Boss
They just stopped. They just stopped coming over.
00:55:34
Native Snow
Yeah, I know they didn't love me.
00:55:34
RICK JAMES
I'll just cause everybody on the table had red cards except for him. Well, you know who gave you a running?
00:55:38
Brine Boss
but
00:55:40
RICK JAMES
Bryson. Bryson was eating just as much as you. I mean, that guy can put away some food. He's just a little shit.
00:55:46
snowjobspodcast
Really?
00:55:47
RICK JAMES
Oh God. He didn't stop.
00:55:51
snowjobspodcast
Wow.
00:55:51
Native Snow
Yeah, this year i this year I gave up a lot quicker than last year.
00:55:53
snowjobspodcast
Did not know that.
00:55:57
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:55:57
Native Snow
Last year I was like, I was eating.
00:56:00
RICK JAMES
I don't know.
00:56:00
snowjobspodcast
Could've done without the white castles ah in Louisville.
00:56:00
Brine Boss
you weren Yeah.
00:56:03
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah, you guys don't know.
00:56:04
Native Snow
You guys get their first Holy Castle experience.
00:56:04
RICK JAMES
I'll never eat that crap.
00:56:08
Brine Boss
i had I had one and I'll never have another one again in my life.
00:56:13
Native Snow
the love
00:56:14
Brine Boss
Those are nasty.
00:56:16
snowjobspodcast
Louisville.
00:56:17
RICK JAMES
terrible.
00:56:17
Brine Boss
They must take those out of the freezer and just microwave them.
00:56:21
Native Snow
You guys don't know what you're missing.
00:56:21
snowjobspodcast
No, those are, those are great.
00:56:23
RICK JAMES
Steve and Sean bought our suitcase and split it.
00:56:24
snowjobspodcast
ah It's a crave case.
00:56:29
RICK JAMES
steve Looks like a suitcase to me and you guys, you know, you guys slammed it.
00:56:31
snowjobspodcast
ah
00:56:34
RICK JAMES
Well, I guess you weren't feeling good the next day, were you?
00:56:37
snowjobspodcast
No. And the day after that, the day after that, but that's not the point.
00:56:40
RICK JAMES
well but let's keep I had one and it was gross.
00:56:41
Native Snow
We're still till today.
00:56:43
snowjobspodcast
What did we say? we said it before We said it before you even had one. You guys will be absolutely fine because you're drunk. If if you're drunk, they're okay. Sober people, this will screw up badly for like two days.
00:56:56
snowjobspodcast
It's not fun. It was good. It was so good.
00:57:00
RICK JAMES
ah
00:57:01
snowjobspodcast
Sean, come on.
00:57:03
Native Snow
They're good. I know these guys, they don't really know.
00:57:03
snowjobspodcast
It's a Northeast thing. They're good.
00:57:05
Native Snow
They don't understand.
00:57:05
snowjobspodcast
They don't understand good food.
00:57:06
Brine Boss
I am higher on the Northeast than you guys and we don't need.
00:57:08
Native Snow
You are not even on the Northeast, bro. You're in a different continent.
00:57:11
snowjobspodcast
You're not in the Northeast.
00:57:12
Native Snow
yeah yeah ah You're pretty much in a different continent.
00:57:12
snowjobspodcast
You're in Canada, bro. You're basically counted up there.
00:57:14
RICK JAMES
so
00:57:14
Brine Boss
um
00:57:16
RICK JAMES
ah
00:57:16
Brine Boss
no Hey, Steve, we forgot who we met in the airport.
00:57:19
Native Snow
This guy's in a different continent, saying he's in a different continent.
00:57:19
snowjobspodcast
Oh, man.
00:57:24
snowjobspodcast
Oh, what?
00:57:24
RICK JAMES
Oh, the real Mitchell.
00:57:25
snowjobspodcast
Darryl?
00:57:26
Brine Boss
No, Mitchell.
00:57:27
snowjobspodcast
oh Oh, oh, yeah, I'll get to that. But Darrell Strawberry was on my plane out to equip. That was pretty cool. And then, yes, we did meet ah leaving me and Robert. We're having, I don't know if it was breakfast or lunch, but we're sitting there and there's a guy that walks in.
00:57:41
snowjobspodcast
We both did a double take. I'm like, holy shit. He even has a hat that says Mitchell on it. Mitchell decks or something look just like Mitchell. So like, you know what? We're replacing Mitchell.
00:57:51
snowjobspodcast
He didn't come. We're going to get a new Mitchell. Took a picture with him the whole nine.
00:57:53
RICK JAMES
And we all fuck Mitchell.
00:57:57
snowjobspodcast
He's got two imaginary planes, a new Mitchell.
00:58:00
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:58:01
snowjobspodcast
He's got two of them. He's twice as good.
00:58:02
RICK JAMES
Two of them.
00:58:04
snowjobspodcast
ah We miss
00:58:04
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
Reflections on Equip 24
00:58:06
snowjobspodcast
Mitchell.
00:58:06
snowjobspodcast
Wish Mitchell would have come.
00:58:07
RICK JAMES
Who does?
00:58:08
Native Snow
Just do that.
00:58:08
snowjobspodcast
I miss Mitchell. I like Mitchell. Mitch Ditch.
00:58:11
RICK JAMES
Mitch did.
00:58:13
RICK JAMES
I miss I miss Aaron.
00:58:13
snowjobspodcast
Gotta love Jesus.
00:58:16
snowjobspodcast
Oh, man. So I'm trying to think what else do we have? We talked about that. I think I'm good, boys. You guys got anything else about Equip 24?
00:58:28
RICK JAMES
No, only equipped 20.
00:58:29
Brine Boss
Now is a good time. Great to see everybody. And, uh, I don't know. What is this? Simon's next or storks.
00:58:36
snowjobspodcast
No, no, Storks. And now it's two days.
00:58:38
Brine Boss
what
00:58:38
RICK JAMES
or Is there a PBR of their bar?
00:58:39
snowjobspodcast
Storks is two days in April now.
00:58:40
Brine Boss
so
00:58:41
snowjobspodcast
Gotta come in for the opening night party.
00:58:45
snowjobspodcast
I don't think so. I don't know.
00:58:47
Native Snow
We could bring a bowl.
00:58:47
snowjobspodcast
I don't know what there is out there.
00:58:47
RICK JAMES
Um, they should build one.
00:58:49
snowjobspodcast
Pretty rural out that way.
00:58:51
RICK JAMES
Hmm.
00:58:51
Native Snow
Robert, why don't you bring one of your bowls?
00:58:52
RICK JAMES
Well, we can write real balls.
00:58:55
Brine Boss
I don't, I don't know the ball Sean, like he'll do this.
00:58:56
RICK JAMES
He's got college.
00:58:59
snowjobspodcast
We've been over this between your third and fourth nap. We've been over this. Oh my God.
00:59:07
Native Snow
I can't remember.
00:59:08
snowjobspodcast
Well, It was a good time. It was definitely good seeing you guys. It sucks. It goes it always goes so freaking fast, but the the house was nice, right?
00:59:16
RICK JAMES
It was really tough.
00:59:17
snowjobspodcast
The house was good.
00:59:18
Brine Boss
Yeah house was good
00:59:18
RICK JAMES
This was great.
00:59:20
Native Snow
of the house.
00:59:20
snowjobspodcast
House was good.
00:59:20
Native Snow
It was awesome.
Hardscape Competition Insights
00:59:22
RICK JAMES
Oh, we got to watch Anthony man compete again in his hardscape deal.
00:59:24
snowjobspodcast
We did. In his brand new work boots, never been used.
00:59:26
RICK JAMES
Yes.
00:59:30
snowjobspodcast
Oh, good Lord.
00:59:30
RICK JAMES
He had to buy them on his shoulder didn because he had to he had to compete.
00:59:33
snowjobspodcast
Sweatin'.
00:59:34
Brine Boss
Very well.
00:59:34
snowjobspodcast
somebody Somebody said he went, i don't I can't confirm this, we'll have to ask Anthony this, but somebody told me that he went by the Carhartt booth and shook them down for a pair of their display booths.
00:59:46
RICK JAMES
Really?
00:59:46
snowjobspodcast
I mean, I would normally dismiss this right off the bat, but that does sound like something Anthony would do. Like, bro, I need a pair of boots, bro.
00:59:53
RICK JAMES
ah He would talk a lot of it.
00:59:55
snowjobspodcast
Bro, I need a pair of boots.
00:59:57
RICK JAMES
He would be able to talk a lot.
00:59:57
snowjobspodcast
I forgot my boots.
00:59:58
RICK JAMES
He's a hell of a talker. He he could he could talk a lot of them.
01:00:00
snowjobspodcast
ah
01:00:01
RICK JAMES
So he but know him and his crew, didn't they did a good job.
01:00:02
snowjobspodcast
oh
01:00:05
RICK JAMES
I mean, that's a lot of hard work that's a lot of hard work those guys do.
01:00:06
snowjobspodcast
They did him and Dan. Absolutely, man, it was ah it was good watching them compete again.
01:00:09
RICK JAMES
so
01:00:12
snowjobspodcast
I don't know how I don't i didn't hear the results today.
01:00:15
RICK JAMES
I don't know.
01:00:16
snowjobspodcast
All I know is that the defending champs were done in like eight minutes, like, holy crap.
01:00:16
RICK JAMES
the Those guys are fast.
01:00:20
snowjobspodcast
I don't know how the hell did they do that in that time?
01:00:21
Native Snow
Yeah, they're fast. It's literally insane.
01:00:25
RICK JAMES
Uh, yeah, like minutes.
01:00:26
Native Snow
Those guys are.
01:00:26
snowjobspodcast
They put down a full patio, you know, with base like in like 25 minutes. Like, holy shit.
01:00:31
RICK JAMES
I don't know.
01:00:33
snowjobspodcast
It was insane.
01:00:33
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:00:34
Native Snow
That's a paver cheat code.
01:00:34
RICK JAMES
Did you see that? Do you know that, that saw that Anthony was using that saw that he was using? I apparently Josh and Brianna went back next day and bought it cause he needed a sock.
01:00:42
snowjobspodcast
Mm-hmm.
01:00:45
RICK JAMES
So he got it. He got a smoking deal on it cause we can always use in that show.
01:00:48
snowjobspodcast
Because it was misused during the competition.
01:00:52
RICK JAMES
ah So they got a great deal he ah and they had to wheel it in their hotel.
01:00:56
snowjobspodcast
That's awesome.
01:00:59
snowjobspodcast
You can do that.
01:01:00
RICK JAMES
They had to wheel it in their whole hotel room because they didn't want to get stolen off their truck.
01:01:04
snowjobspodcast
No, why would it get stolen in Louisville?
01:01:07
RICK JAMES
I have no idea.
01:01:08
snowjobspodcast
ah
01:01:09
Native Snow
Not a saw that people would have actually had to work. They stole it.
01:01:13
snowjobspodcast
We we did meet Jeremy and I did talk about one thing next year. We were stupid this year. We should have stayed one more day. ah Louisville played Miami.
01:01:21
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah.
01:01:22
snowjobspodcast
We should have gotten gone on StubHub or something. Got tickets gone to see Louisville play Miami and football. That would have been cool.
01:01:29
RICK JAMES
Having fun.
01:01:30
snowjobspodcast
Taking a college football game down there.
01:01:32
Native Snow
Yeah, that definitely would have been cool.
01:01:32
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
Culinary Adventures
01:01:34
snowjobspodcast
Shout out to Mission Barbecue. Never been to one of those before.
01:01:36
RICK JAMES
Ooh, that was good.
01:01:38
snowjobspodcast
That place was insanely good, right?
01:01:39
Brine Boss
and
01:01:41
Native Snow
Yeah, we went there twice.
01:01:42
Brine Boss
i was go
01:01:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:01:43
snowjobspodcast
we Me and Sean didn't go back.
01:01:43
Native Snow
It was really good.
01:01:45
snowjobspodcast
We went back.
01:01:47
Native Snow
It was really good.
01:01:47
RICK JAMES
I could sure go for some of that brisket.
01:01:49
snowjobspodcast
The brisket was insane. What was it, moist? You could get it moist or dry?
01:01:52
Native Snow
Moist.
01:01:53
snowjobspodcast
Moist, definitely get it moist.
01:01:54
RICK JAMES
Wet, wet, or moist, whatever word do you like better.
01:01:57
Native Snow
I think they were using moist.
01:01:57
snowjobspodcast
it was It was good.
01:02:00
RICK JAMES
It was wet.
01:02:00
snowjobspodcast
It was great. Yeah, we don't have them here. So that was that was a first for me in a second. That was a really good barbecue. Really good barbecue. Excellent decor.
01:02:12
snowjobspodcast
I wish I had them around here. My kids would love that type place.
01:02:16
RICK JAMES
I it.
01:02:16
snowjobspodcast
Oh, well.
Final Thoughts and Gratitude
01:02:17
snowjobspodcast
All right, boys. Got anything else?
01:02:19
RICK JAMES
that Oh, yeah.
01:02:19
snowjobspodcast
We got to do some commercials here. We'll do some commercials. We'll come right back and wrap it up.
01:03:28
snowjobspodcast
All right, gang, we're back. All right, boys. Last chance. Anything, anything to add?
01:03:34
Brine Boss
Nothing I think we covered at all. It was great seeing everybody.
01:03:36
snowjobspodcast
Yeah.
01:03:38
Brine Boss
I'm looking forward to another snow season and see everybody again in April.
01:03:44
snowjobspodcast
Absolutely. like Sean, anything?
01:03:47
Native Snow
Nope, that's it. See everybody in April.
01:03:49
snowjobspodcast
Jay.
01:03:51
RICK JAMES
Nope. It was another fun show. I got to see the boys and all the guys that actually made it to the show. It was fun to see everybody. And I appreciate everybody that came up to us and shook my hand and introduced yourself.
01:04:02
RICK JAMES
And it was just always fun meeting new people. So I had a good time and can't wait to do it again.
01:04:05
snowjobspodcast
Absolutely
Season Transition and Future Plans
01:04:07
snowjobspodcast
Absolutely. I agree same for me. It was really cool meeting so many cool guys that you know came up and Said love the show listen to the show all the time, you know this that the other thing it was awesome And we really appreciate all the support guys. Keep it coming. We'll keep banging this out for you um want to thank Arctic want to thank plow right want to thank Top Gun and Definitely, ah you know all all the again all the guys that that made this trip a success and you know our friends that came with us So that's about it for us guys It's gonna do it for episode 91 want to thank the boys for coming out with us You know couldn't do it without Sean and couldn't do it without Robert watching Sean. All right, so ah
01:04:52
snowjobspodcast
that
01:04:53
RICK JAMES
but
01:04:54
snowjobspodcast
Full-time job full-time job babysitting but uh, yes That's it.
01:04:58
RICK JAMES
You help babysit shot too.
01:05:00
Brine Boss
oh
01:05:00
snowjobspodcast
I do I do help ah But event season 2024 is over right? It's time for us now. We got to get serious and get to work ah Snow's gonna be here before we know it.
01:05:11
snowjobspodcast
So ah make those last-second adjustments guys make the preparations Do not wait for the last second Shawn. All right Everybody. Good luck. All right. We wish you guys all the best this winter. Everybody be safe out there. Have a great week. Keep pushing.