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S2-104: Season 2 Finale! Steve & Jeremy talk two years of The SnowJobs
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In this Season 2 Finale, the guys sit down and talk about the two year anniversary of the show, where it came from, and where its heading!
A huge thank you to all the listeners for all your support over the last two years!
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Introduction and Season Finale
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Here we go. Snow jobs nation. We are back again, bringing you season two finale episode one oh four of the snow jobs podcast powered by Top Gun Backblades.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
As always, you know who I am. That's right.
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RICK JAMES
here
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You know who's with me.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Steve and Jeremy coming at you for the hundred and forty seventh time in the last two years. What's up, Jay?
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RICK JAMES
wolf hey It's another night. It was two years, I guess. Holy shit.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Two, two years, brother, two years, blink of an eye, right?
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RICK JAMES
It went by fast.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, that was quick. it was a Yeah, definitely fast. Definitely a lot of good things happen, that's for sure.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh,
Reflecting on the Journey
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The SnowJobs Podcast
great. It's been a ride. It's been a ride. I can't say enough. It's been awesome.
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RICK JAMES
Who would have thought? Who would have thought?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, you did, right? You, you thought you, you knew it was going to be huge right off the bat.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, well, I knew it was huge. I did. I didn't know that. but i here I thought I'd have a different course by now, but I guess you'll stick around. so
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The SnowJobs Podcast
if you knew, if you knew how to press record and edit, you'd do it yourself. Get rid of me.
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RICK JAMES
not Not a chance, not a chance in hell, not a chance.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No, dude, it works. It's, it's been great. It's really been some ride two years. It's, uh, it's hard to believe. Really hard to believe. I still remember literally doing James Doyle's first episode, like fucking being nervous and shit, wondering what we're going to talk about for an hour.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And it seems like yesterday.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, that was a that was that was a treat. I remember that, too, because um I remember. I remember my Internet was all shitty and it wasn't.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
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RICK JAMES
It was not. I was like, oh, boy, because I wasn't.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We didn't know how to do shit.
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RICK JAMES
Well, I didn't you know I wasn't even in my office and I was at a different office and it was like, ah shit, it didn didn't work out. I mean, it it worked out, but.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Didn't know how to run the board. Didn't know if we were running the board, right? Didn't know if we set it up right. We recorded the whole episode and we let James get off before his tracks had downloaded.
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RICK JAMES
yeah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So we had to call him, make him get back on the computer like six hours later. So the tracks would force download. It was a mess.
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RICK JAMES
But you know
Podcast Growth and Global Reach
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RICK JAMES
what? It's just like snow removal. You just fucking wing it, throw it out there, and you make it fucking happen.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it.
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RICK JAMES
It gets done. It gets done.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We got it done. We got it done.
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RICK JAMES
We got it done.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We somehow, I had help to get the first episode posted and get it to drop and it dropped and we had a hit.
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RICK JAMES
and
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We were off to the races. it was I remember seeing those 24 hour numbers when they first came in.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, was a...
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I think it took two days to get the first set of numbers in for the analytics. And when they dropped, it was like, ah is are we missing, a is like, is that comma supposed to be there?
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RICK JAMES
i'm
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, what are we doing? There's a comma. Holy crap.
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RICK JAMES
hu That was great. Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It was crazy.
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RICK JAMES
Definitely. It was fun. It was ah definitely a definitely good start. It was but it's been a ride, that's for sure.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It has. It definitely
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RICK JAMES
So.
Authenticity and Connection with Audience
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The SnowJobs Podcast
has, man.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
it And it just kind of spiraled. It just kind of shot up from there. It was, ah everybody was talking about it. Everybody almost overnight, it seemed like we were getting tagged and everything.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And guys were filling out the, we we had the website up pretty quickly, which was good.
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RICK JAMES
Yep.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So guys started filling out the guest forms to to be a guest on the show.
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RICK JAMES
Yep.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And it was like, wow, this is like really something. Like guys are loving this shit. So. It was good. I think, you know, I think, I think the mass, yeah, the mass amounts of snow guys.
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RICK JAMES
plus We're crazy.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I think they were happy to hear from two other idiots that are pushing the, you know, the push snow. You know, it's like, we're not two guys in suits in an office talking snow.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, exactly. I mean, we're but definitely in that boat.
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RICK JAMES
much No.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, it's like, we're real. We're boots on the ground dirt under our fingernails doing it.
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RICK JAMES
I mean, I could go get a suit and put it one on.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
i
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RICK JAMES
i put I should have put one on for the show. ah I mean,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You
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RICK JAMES
We keep talking.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
you
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RICK JAMES
We would have been in video, but we don't do that, apparently.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You, you got your coat, you got your coat and your hat you can put on.
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RICK JAMES
So not like I my coat. Yeah, I'm going to pimp hat. You know, I love them.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh my God. All the nicknames you you have now, all the persona.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah, I'm something.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It's great. It's a legend.
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RICK JAMES
Holy shit.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
He's a legend.
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RICK JAMES
If only any but if I was only as good as my reputation.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it, right? Oh man.
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RICK JAMES
ah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Now watch, you're all pixelated now. Are we going to lose you here?
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RICK JAMES
but You were pixelated on my end. I don't know.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. I'm on, I'm on hardwire, man.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, we're good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm hardwired right now, but we'll keep going.
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RICK JAMES
You're bricked up.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Hopefully you clear up there. No, there you go.
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RICK JAMES
Yep.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
You're back. You're back.
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RICK JAMES
I'm back.
Impressive Statistics and Listener Engagement
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah So two years in 147 episodes total over a half million listens total on our top three platforms.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Haven't even, no, you don't like it.
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RICK JAMES
What?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, you're frozen with a, like a ah questioning face.
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RICK JAMES
no no No, I don't know what's going on.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know.
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RICK JAMES
no It's all good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
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RICK JAMES
Maybe we're doing a repeat from the first show. and but this
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The SnowJobs Podcast
could be. Could be, dude. But yeah, 508,000. I got the figures here. Let's take a look real quick since we don't have a guest tonight.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We're just talking about two years here.
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RICK JAMES
i
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So yeah, our top three listening platforms are Apple, Spotify, and Zencast.
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RICK JAMES
yeah
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We are at 508,456 total listens across those three platforms.
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RICK JAMES
that
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah The other 12 or 13 platforms that carry us are very much smaller in numbers of listeners and listens, so we don't even bother tallying them.
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RICK JAMES
plus
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The SnowJobs Podcast
34 countries so far, according to Zencaster, have downloaded and listened to this show.
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RICK JAMES
um Yep, Zimbabwe?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Dude, half of South America list has listeners. It's crazy.
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RICK JAMES
Huh?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Australia, New Zealand, Japan, ah Russia, um all the countries and but all the countries in ah in Europe that you would think would be listening, Finland, Norway, Germany, ah the that get ridiculous amounts of snow.
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RICK JAMES
That's crazy.
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RICK JAMES
Well, we always know Russia. Well, there's no Russia is listening. China, China, Russia.
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RICK JAMES
China.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
um
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RICK JAMES
Well, South Korea.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, crazy. Uh, I don't know. I didn't even check that on the map, but, uh, I know, uh, South America had a bunch, Argentina, Brazil, uh, Mexico, uh, Central America.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And yeah, so I mean, we're, we're everywhere. 20 different countries on Spotify, but 34 countries on Zencaster. Um, 87 or 8,800 listeners weekly.
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RICK JAMES
America.
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RICK JAMES
Not bad.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So no, not bad brother.
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RICK JAMES
Not bad. Not bad.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Better than
Technical Mishaps and Anecdotes
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RICK JAMES
Get in.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
80%, better than 80% average consumption and an average episode length hour and 32 minutes.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
So I've been told that's pretty freaking good that you're keeping people an hour and a half and 80% of them are staying with you.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, that's what we were hearing the other day. That's that's really good. I mean, shit.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Because they never know what we're going to say.
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RICK JAMES
Oh.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Episode 147, we still haven't learned to silence our fucking phones.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, I did. My phone is silence. My watch isn't apparently my phone.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
that
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RICK JAMES
Steve Smythe calling. He must know every time we're doing a podcast, he calls me.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Dude, he's constantly bothering us while we record.
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RICK JAMES
oh ah I know.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh my god.
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RICK JAMES
Hey, my phone is on silent. I didn't. I didn't silence my watch, apparently.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Technicality. ah Bob Euchre passed away.
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RICK JAMES
But hey, without. Oh, just, yeah I did, I saw that.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It's a shame.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, better silence, there's no getting in trouble with my dad.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Rest in peace, Bob. Thanks for all the great sound bites, man.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh man, they're going to be mainstays of the show. But, uh, yeah, it's, uh, it's been
Building a Community
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The SnowJobs Podcast
crazy, man. What a, what a crazy ride. When, uh, Luke asked me to actually look up some numbers for him and stuff to talk about. I was kind of taken aback by that. I saw Zencaster, they actually have a globe and they have pins in all the countries that you have listeners in. It tells you how many listeners and yeah, 34 countries. I was like, what the heck? It's crazy.
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RICK JAMES
Well, I guess we we could tell though, we did a show recorder show yesterday. Not that it matters what time we recorded, but for a dirt bag, we're going to be on there in a couple dirt bag.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
The dirt bag.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
The dirt bag.
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RICK JAMES
Dirt bag. Now little gager brown we're be on there one, in two weeks.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
The dirt bag podcast.
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RICK JAMES
I think not this like couple of Fridays or probably be a week after this show airs or, you know, yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Two weeks.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, like a week, the last week of January, first couple of days of February. I don't know when they normally, when do they drop? I don't even know when they drop. I can't, I can't lie and say, I listen to them.
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RICK JAMES
it's not a friday It drops on Friday jobs on friday and we'll probably break the internet and we're on that.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It does.
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RICK JAMES
so yeah that's That's what I mean.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And we were good. We were, we were pretty well behaved. I thought we were pretty well behaved.
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RICK JAMES
and we're we're goingnna we're goingnna We're going to light this show up and get his numbers up.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, well, I think we were the most popular episode he had the first time around when we did it last year for him.
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RICK JAMES
so
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RICK JAMES
If we weren't, we're able to say we are. so what's What's he going to do, dispute us?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Prove it.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. No, don't prove it. You can prove it, but but he's he's not here to defend himself so he can ah we can say what we want.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, that's great.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No, it's always great to, Luke is a great dude, man. Both Luke's are great dudes, but there's only one Luke now doing the dirt bag podcast and, you know, anything we can do for Luke. He's, ah he's been a big, big vocal supporter telling the dirt industry, you know, about the show. Cause a lot of those guys cross over and do snow. And, you know, he's been, he's been very good to us and, you know, we in turn,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
and We're always trying to help our friends out and we've we've we've you know extended a couple things his way and been able to help him grow and and phaser marketing is just crushing it, absolutely crushing it.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
like He's going to be one of those guys, i think I think within two to three years, he'll be retired and just flying around in his private jet and he'll have minions doing the work.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah, he's he's awesome. He was like on every Viking in the last four weeks of the year, he was in.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I saw that.
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RICK JAMES
I was like, Jesus, but he was in Seattle, I think he was, and he was in Detroit and then he was in Arizona for that playoff game, lost really shit to bed. Yeah, that's good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
And it's all a write-off because he puts it down as visiting customers, you know?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
He has customers in all these cities.
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RICK JAMES
Right.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It's a business trip.
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RICK JAMES
Right.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
But yeah, now it looks the best.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Anything we can do to help Luke out, we will definitely do. And now like I said, he's been a big supporter of us and what we're doing here. So that was a lot of fun yesterday. That was a good time to to not have to not have to run it, just be able to sit in the seat and talk.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It was pretty good.
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RICK JAMES
Right. It was great. It was actually fun to sit there.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. A lot of fun. Maybe we should get somebody. We should just get a third party
Weather Challenges and Humor
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The SnowJobs Podcast
to just, you know, run the ah run the episode and me and you can just bullshit. Have like a, I don't know, like a third leg or something there.
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RICK JAMES
You know well they know what? I'm really good at bullshitting. I'm good at that. that's for um That's where I shine. I just shine at bullshitting.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
but
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RICK JAMES
I can bullshit the best with the best of them.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
i'm
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's where I shine. Oh my God. Oh, well, you know, we got some stuff to talk about. We're going to, we're going to talk about the last two years and what, you know, maybe the next two years, we got some stuff up our sleeves and, uh, you know, we'll talk about that, shed some light on some things we're doing and, uh,
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We'll get into that. But before we do that, guys, as always, let's hear from the people that continue to allow us to do this, because this is not easy to do. This is a lot of time, a lot of effort. ah But the, you know, the partners we have in this, ah they just they make our lives a lot easier and they make us able to be able to attend events and do everything we need to do to keep this show growing and keep the Snow Jobs Nation growing. So ah let's hear from Team Top Gun, who's one of them. We thank them for being on board for God, what when did they come on the three months in two months in?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Like really quick.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah. fairly After we got them on the show.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Right after muskox, right?
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. like So that was great.
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RICK JAMES
Yep. Yep. Been doing good.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
We had to keep the secret for a year with the short iron top gun secret for a whole year.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Come on, wrap this deal up.
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RICK JAMES
See, I can keep secrets. I can keep secrets.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That was back then but as you've gotten, as you've gotten celebrity has grown, you know, just kidding.
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RICK JAMES
i
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RICK JAMES
I let one thing out of make that didn't even happen. Number one, that didn't even happen. That that even didn't even happen. So that doesn't even count that you didn't even count because.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't know.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, come on, Uncle Rick didn't care either.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It was a live show.
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RICK JAMES
So it was a live show.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no. Cause uncle Rick, most people like they have one phenomenal idea that is like the next big thing and they protect it with all they, they have. and But Rick is like, Oh, you just blew one idea out of no problem.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I got this notebook with 4,500 other great ideas. It just goes to the next one.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah, exactly.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's a genius of Rick.
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RICK JAMES
So it didn't matter what I say. I could i could i got 145 more secrets to tell.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It did not matter. You literally could have rattled off the next 10 things on his list and he would have just gone with 11.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's Rick. But all right, so let's hear from team Top Gun real quick. We'll be back and we'll get into this.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Okay, we're back. Sorry, Jeremy's texting me as we're coming out of commercial here. so but's ah Jeremy's heading to Jersey for a storm.
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RICK JAMES
I could i get just talk to you if you guys if we want to talk about this, we can talk about it. you don't I'm going to Jersey, apparently, so.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
well You'll be close. What are you going to help Sean?
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RICK JAMES
Oh, yeah, Shawn had a salter broke down, so I got to bring a couple out there to help them.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Driving a pickup truck to Jersey.
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RICK JAMES
We're not bringing we're not bringing blades, we're just bringing salters and we've got endumps full of salt heading that way just to salt it salt it off all Salt zaddy.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Ron. Battle handle six inches the zaddy.
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RICK JAMES
Salt zaddy.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh god. He's a cartoon character. I love him That would be cool that would be really cool Does it really all right 10-4
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RICK JAMES
I'll bring the big truck, that'll help the big truck, the quad. That would be, I don't know if it'd be cool in any hits parking lots, but that thing takes about two football fields to turn it, so. Oh yeah, it's not a great turning radius.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
All right, gang, so what do we do last week, brother?
Memorable Guests and Episodes
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Last week, we had Kyle Martin of UD Maintenance and Corey Lamphere of Lamphere Lawns from Ohio, both of them, talking about Ohio's two straight weeks of snowfall every day. Good times. That was...
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RICK JAMES
they're still getting snow they're still getting snow
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That was fun. They're still getting snow, still getting snow on a daily basis in Ohio. It's, uh, it's so funny.
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RICK JAMES
that's right um theres
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The SnowJobs Podcast
I posted a, I posted a meme today, uh, a real with the guy dancing, saying that, uh, snow, Ohio snow guys spotted leaving their office after doing billing for the last two weeks.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
It's crazy, but yeah.
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RICK JAMES
Well, that's billing. Wait till, are the checks coming in back in?
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The SnowJobs Podcast
That's going to be the question.
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RICK JAMES
That's going to be the question.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
but Well, you figure they haven't.
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RICK JAMES
Cause they don't have snow for, had snow for what, three years or whatever.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. was just go Three years.
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RICK JAMES
that So.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They said three years. So now that people are used to not paying for snow and they go per push or per event. And now they're going to get hit with a freaking 14 to 16 event, you know, bill that's, uh, that's going to be tough.
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RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
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The SnowJobs Podcast
They're probably paying more for that two weeks. And they had all three last year's combined.
00:16:08
RICK JAMES
It's according to Kyle. Do you see Kyle's text?
00:16:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Kyle's payroll? Yeah, yeah.
00:16:12
RICK JAMES
Yeah, this is what payroll was hired to last two weeks in the last two years combined or something.
00:16:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's wild.
00:16:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, wild. But I mean, good for them. They finally, they're getting a winter. You know, they've they complained for three years that they weren't getting winter and now they're getting winter and they're complaining. But they're getting winter.
00:16:28
RICK JAMES
That sounds something about right.
00:16:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
It sounds Snow Guy.
00:16:30
RICK JAMES
You can play in one another, so you can play when you get too much.
00:16:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's it that's literally Snow Guy 101 right there.
00:16:35
RICK JAMES
Well, it's, you know, it sucks. I mean, it is how it is it how it sucks.
00:16:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
It does.
00:16:40
RICK JAMES
So, you know, you can't just, yeah no, not, you know, you you can't just get it.
00:16:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Enough is enough already.
00:16:45
RICK JAMES
You always got to get it all at once. You can't just, use pre it's just the way it goes.
00:16:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:16:49
RICK JAMES
I mean, you got to deal with it. and You know, once it's done, they probably won't get snow again the rest of the season. So like I always say, if anyone can be your last one, you just got to deal with it. You know, suck it up, suck it up and deal with it.
00:16:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it. Take it.
00:17:00
RICK JAMES
Sucks. I know it really sucks. Guys are tired and and shit's breaking and all that fun stuff, but you know, you so somehow got to get through it and make the best of it.
00:17:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Didn't sound like much was breaking cause it was all light and fluffy. So, I mean, good for them. Cause if, it if it was, you know, 14 days of heavy wet shit and everything was breaking on them, that's, that's a real killer.
00:17:16
RICK JAMES
partner
00:17:21
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I heard they were like waiting, though, for what they they were pulled off the road for off the lots for a while because they're waiting for the oil tanker trucks to get there to refill those metal pluses back up.
00:17:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
That hurts.
00:17:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah The pluses but had to get in there.
00:17:33
RICK JAMES
Boom, there you go, Kyle.
00:17:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
I had to get that in there.
00:17:37
RICK JAMES
Can't wait to hear that. I'll get in trouble for that one, I'm
Listener Gratitude and Business Advice
00:17:40
RICK JAMES
sure.
00:17:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
well It was a good time having those guys on I'm glad they could take an hour and talk to us in between like they were literally getting more snow ah I think in like an hour or two after they got off with us the what Are
00:17:51
RICK JAMES
No, it didn't happen. It didn't happen until the evening. It was supposed to happen an hour, but it got pushed back like six, eight hours, Kyle said. So the weathermen were, what were they?
00:18:04
RICK JAMES
Yeah. so Yeah, you bet.
00:18:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
you kidding me they were off
00:18:10
RICK JAMES
They were.
00:18:14
RICK JAMES
Excuse me.
00:18:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it. Don't call them weathermen. They don't like that.
00:18:19
RICK JAMES
Doctor.
00:18:21
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Doctor. Excuse me, doctor.
00:18:22
RICK JAMES
doctor every time we Every time we deal with Monday weather deals with Shannon Burger, I'm going to say hello, Doctor.
00:18:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, God.
00:18:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
Every time I text them, I put doctor. and What do you got, doctor?
00:18:33
RICK JAMES
Dr. Shannon Burger, Paging Dr.
00:18:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:18:35
RICK JAMES
Shannon Burger.
00:18:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, man, it's ah it's a lot of fun. Yeah, the weather guys will see how they are. We're getting a potential big one Sunday. So we'll see how close they are, because ah right now, as it stands, we are what, 745 p.m.
00:18:46
RICK JAMES
i gotta be
00:18:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Eastern on Friday. I think it is right. It's Friday.
00:18:54
RICK JAMES
Yep, it's
00:18:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
So right now true weather has us at, I want to say three and a half inches and Nick and Rob have us at five to seven.
00:19:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
So we'll see, uh, see who wins out.
00:19:11
RICK JAMES
So is the snowmageddon?
00:19:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think we're going to be on the heavier side.
00:19:13
RICK JAMES
Is the snowmageddon out there?
00:19:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
00:19:15
RICK JAMES
Am I going in the snowmageddon? Am I going out there to?
00:19:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't, I don't really, well, I mean, I think there's potential for some places to get up to a foot. I don't think it's widespread though, but I think a lot of guys are going to be in that five to seven, five to eight range um from it. And then there's going to be on the outskirts, you know, the guys that get one to three out of it. So it's. a the models don't agree right now.
00:19:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
So we'll see who's going to be right. But I think, you know, looking at how everything is kind of overperformed for us so far this year, I would put us in that five to eight range, five to seven.
00:19:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think, I think weather pros has got a beat on this, but we'll see. And that's what, that's what's fun about it. yeah You know, next week we can tell you who was right, who was wrong.
00:19:54
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:19:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
And you know, it's a,
00:19:59
RICK JAMES
I mean, we want we won't razzle too much, will we?
00:20:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
I will.
00:20:04
RICK JAMES
No. Oh.
00:20:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
I definitely They are.
00:20:06
RICK JAMES
No, I couldn't do that. You know, they're they're trying their hardest with the information they have. They're just doing the best they can. They're doing the best they can.
00:20:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're doing the best they can.
00:20:16
RICK JAMES
I mean, everybody gets a ribbon.
00:20:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're not trying to mess up.
00:20:18
RICK JAMES
Everybody gets a ribbon. They're particip participation. they're You know, you know, me, I'm all about everybody just being equal.
00:20:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
participation trophies all.
00:20:23
RICK JAMES
Even Steven, they're, I don't want to, um they're not winners and losers.
00:20:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh,
00:20:27
RICK JAMES
There's just guys that participate. That's, that's all, you know, that's all I care about.
00:20:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
long
00:20:31
RICK JAMES
As long as everybody make everybody's safe and sound. No, nobody loses.
00:20:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Saint Jeremy, there he is.
00:20:37
RICK JAMES
Fuck that. You didn't know me. There's winners or losers. And that's it.
00:20:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it. If you lost, you lost.
00:20:42
RICK JAMES
Jesus.
00:20:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Learn how to lose, take it like a man, work harder.
00:20:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:20:46
RICK JAMES
No, learn how to win or get out of the business.
00:20:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Get it done. There you go, that too. you ah What else we got? So yeah, that was last week. um Yeah, that's it.
00:20:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Snow Jobs Nation store, as always, open and stocked.
00:20:58
RICK JAMES
isn'
00:21:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Had a lot of orders this week, but most of them were Freos.
00:21:06
RICK JAMES
free yeah well Well, I had to head our head the give a lot like you suggested we do to our boys.
00:21:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Throwing a lot of Freos out there.
00:21:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, yeah.
00:21:13
RICK JAMES
so
00:21:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
And we had some questions. ah the The new Glacier sweatshirt, is that going to be put on the store? Because a couple of guys asked if it would be available through the store. They want them.
00:21:23
RICK JAMES
I don't know. I thought I hadn't thought of it. Maybe I can.
00:21:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
10% take 10% off the top and we'll we'll put them on the store play sure can sell on the ah on the store.
00:21:32
RICK JAMES
I don't know.
00:21:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh Yeah, that that was legit legit a couple guys have now sent messages asking if they will be available on the store because they wanted to acquire them
00:21:42
RICK JAMES
hey Yeah, let's tell him to DM me and I'll figure it out.
00:21:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Will do. All right. As always guys, like and subscribe on whatever platform you listen to us on, keep those numbers growing. Um, and yeah, I think you got anything else for the week in review.
00:21:58
RICK JAMES
Not a weaker reveal, I think we're good on that one, so.
00:22:01
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All right. Then let's hear from our partners real quick and we'll be back and we'll get into some questions here.
00:24:59
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All right, guys, we are back.
Favorite Moments and Laughter
00:25:02
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So, Jay, let's talk about the last two years, two full seasons in the books. You got what what are your thoughts on the two years?
00:25:10
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I mean, is it everything you thought it would be? You're y'all good. You unmuted. All right. Good. I thought I was going to have to tell you to manually unmute.
00:25:16
RICK JAMES
I had to cough. I had to, I don't want to do it on Luke. So I, I tried to mute.
00:25:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was great.
00:25:20
RICK JAMES
I tried to mute it. And then I coughed right into the mic. I was a little late on that.
00:25:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was great.
00:25:24
RICK JAMES
I didn't, I didn't, I pushed a little button. I pushed that button. I didn't really take apparently, but whatever.
00:25:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was so great. It was so great.
00:25:30
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Oh, well, that's, it is what it is.
00:25:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
but You'll hear it in two weeks. Uh, so did you two years done?
00:25:36
RICK JAMES
Wow.
00:25:39
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It's gone fast, right?
00:25:41
RICK JAMES
It's gone very fast. I mean, obviously it's, it's blown up more than we would have thought it has. Even though what, even if I cared about it, but yeah, it's, it's been amazing. It's been a great fun.
00:25:52
RICK JAMES
It's been a fun ride. I mean, I don't even know where to start on this. Honestly, it's been a, it's been a ride.
00:25:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
I know.
00:25:59
RICK JAMES
It's been, and we've done it every week. It's it's, uh, yeah.
00:26:03
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Every week we have not missed. Reliability is the key. Snow guys have to be reliable, right? So the guys talking to snow guys have to be reliable.
00:26:09
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:26:12
RICK JAMES
All right.
00:26:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
We get it, you know, every week, no matter what we have going on, we always make sure we get something.
00:26:15
RICK JAMES
summer
00:26:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
They may not all be, you know, prom queens, but yeah well we'll get something recorded for you guys.
00:26:23
RICK JAMES
Well, I mean, we talk about all the time, oh, we're going to do a couple of this week so we can have a week off and we're going to put some in the hopper.
00:26:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, something to entertain you for an hour.
00:26:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh.
00:26:31
RICK JAMES
Never happened.
00:26:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
I know good.
00:26:31
RICK JAMES
I think we did that like once.
00:26:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Never.
00:26:33
RICK JAMES
I think we did that once.
00:26:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
I, I think we did it over the summer. We had to, cause we were on the road, right? I think we did like three.
00:26:39
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yeah, I think so.
00:26:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. But yeah, we're always saying, well, let's get a couple in the barrel so we can just, you know, take a, we got some busy season coming up with snow and stuff. Never. We never, never do it.
00:26:49
RICK JAMES
Plus it's hard. It's hard to do anyway, because you kind of want to be a current somewhat current when you're recording this, you know, if something happens or whatever.
00:26:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
It is.
00:26:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
You do.
00:26:56
RICK JAMES
So there is that aspect of it. So I don't know.
00:27:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
I agree.
00:27:00
RICK JAMES
It's been been a blast.
00:27:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
I agree completely. I think our formula works. I think our formula works. We'll stick with it.
00:27:06
RICK JAMES
Yeah, I think so. I mean, it seems to be working great, honestly. I mean, it's the guys are the people we met have been crazy and fun. I mean, we we met everybody and it's it's been a blast.
00:27:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's great.
00:27:21
RICK JAMES
It's I mean, I don't go ahead.
00:27:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
So what's what's your favorite thing so far doing the actually doing the show? What is your favorite thing about doing the actual recordings, all the episodes?
00:27:32
RICK JAMES
Doing the recordings just ah
00:27:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:27:36
RICK JAMES
just the interaction we have between me and me and you, how we always kind of feed off each other and break each other's balls, that, and then just ah what's going to come up on the show with whoever we actually have on, you know, if we don't really know where the conversation is going to go, we just kind of let it, I mean, we have basic, we're talking to the guys, we have basic questions, and but after that, we just kind of, we'll see where see where it takes us.
00:27:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh yeah.
00:28:00
RICK JAMES
How about you? What what are your thoughts on that?
00:28:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah The favorite thing doing the episodes is I know that even if I got so much crap going on and I got to like physically move 20 things around just to carve out an hour and a half to do this, I know that at least once I sit down and I put the headphones on, I'm going to laugh my ass off for an hour and a half.
00:28:15
RICK JAMES
they Yeah.
00:28:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's like a stress relief. It really is. so It's ah it's sometimes extremely stressful trying to get the recording lined up and get everything done. But once we're recording, it's usually a fucking shit show. And it's just it's fun. It's it's a lot of laughs. It's a good time.
00:28:36
RICK JAMES
It definitely is. yeah No matter if you're having a shitty day or whatever, we can record whenever we're going to record. We're going to have a good time for that hour and a half, two hours. It's usually at least two hours by the time we get done talking and all that stuff.
00:28:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:28:45
RICK JAMES
so it's minimum I'd say at least a minimum of two hours around this thing. but it's It's always going to be that a good time where whatever's happening, we try to block it out and just enjoy our time. i guess i guess
00:28:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
100 percent. I agree.
00:28:57
RICK JAMES
that's
00:28:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
I agree completely. What is the favorite thing that you got to do because of the show? These are questions my wife actually came up with a bunch of them.
00:29:06
RICK JAMES
Ah, Gina.
00:29:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah So yeah what ah what's your guys favorite thing that you got to do because of the show?
00:29:13
RICK JAMES
I still think one of my, I mean, one of the favorite things I got to do probably it was our first trip out to your lake place. Just, I mean, that was probably, I mean, we didn't know what we're in for and you were gracious enough to open your house up to myself and a bunch of other strangers and, um,
00:29:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mm hmm.
00:29:32
RICK JAMES
I mean, we've done a lot of cool things since there, but that kind of, that kind of set the tone for how we interact when we're together.
00:29:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah but
00:29:38
RICK JAMES
Cause we just, we just were like, we, we got there and we all just kind of let loose. Like we didn't know each other. I mean, we, you and I knew each other from this, but not like personally.
00:29:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:46
RICK JAMES
And then.
00:29:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nope.
00:29:48
RICK JAMES
a few of the other guys, we know them because we had them on the show. But once we got there and we just started breaking each other's balls, I was like, we know each other forever. And it was like, like, like we're all best friends, which we were.
00:29:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:29:59
RICK JAMES
By the time we got done with it, probably before we got done with it, it was, I mean, like I said, we've done a lot of cool things since then, but that kind of set the tone to how we interact with each other and all the all the group we have, my my my opinion anyway.
00:30:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:30:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%. yeah That was, I love that ah that. That is a great memory. It's a great, absolutely an awesome thing.
00:30:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I kind of knew, like, I'm pretty good. I usually have a pretty good beat on people ah relatively quickly. And I could tell you, like, within five minutes of meeting somebody and talking to somebody, like, this guy's a fucking tool or I'm really, you know, I like this guy.
00:30:31
RICK JAMES
a
00:30:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
This guy's cool. You know, he's going to be okay. and ah
00:30:39
RICK JAMES
How does Sean get in a group?
00:30:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
so the
00:30:40
RICK JAMES
i
00:30:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
so what Well, Sean actually, believe it or not, Sean, how I got a hold of Sean was what I call typical, you know, good snow guy behavior.
00:30:42
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:30:44
RICK JAMES
ah
00:30:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
He posted that he picked up, he just bought two original snow Raiders, like the, not the mags, the original snow Raiders.
00:30:54
RICK JAMES
Oh, I remember that.
00:30:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
And it was right after I had gotten rid of our snow Raiders and switched over everything to SSVs. And I still had shelves of parts and stuff for, for, for the snow Raiders.
00:31:08
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:31:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
So he posted that he was a local, you know, Jersey guy. And I just reached out to him. I said, dude, I got, I got replacement cutting edges. I got all the i got oils. I got all this stuff that's, you know, uh, specific to that machine that I can't use.
00:31:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I'm not going to waste my time going on eBay or whatever, trying to sell it. So I said, if you want it, you know, it's yours. And he said, I'll tell, I'll take all of it. You know, typical Sean fashion, you know, it's free.
00:31:32
RICK JAMES
Give it a shot. Sean always wins.
00:31:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's for me.
00:31:35
RICK JAMES
Sean always wins.
00:31:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
If it's free, it's for me. He's shipping on down.
00:31:41
RICK JAMES
ah
00:31:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
so ah but you know we talked ah we we were taught We started talking just basically how me and you did. It was like a chance chance meeting and just started talking about snow. and That's the one thing that we all have in common and usually is enough to get the conversation started.
00:31:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
and yeah Before you know it, you know, but we, the rest of the guys were early guests on the show that seemed really cool.
00:32:03
RICK JAMES
one
00:32:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I think, so we started February 1st, like January 30th, I think was the first episode drop. And then Simon was in June. So that was like five months. And um yeah, we just opened it up and I put in a couple invitations out there and said, hey, if you're you're coming to Simon, you know, come up to the house a couple of days early and we'll hang out, eat some good food and, you know, shoot the shit and hang out in the lake and.
00:32:19
RICK JAMES
first okay
00:32:29
RICK JAMES
quick
00:32:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
And it was it was great. like literally we and It's cliche to say it, but I literally felt when we left Simon, and everybody started going their sit their're separate ways. I literally felt like guys were upset that they were actually leaving. Like, this sucks. like you know when and When can we do this again? we' We're already making plans for Equip.
00:32:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Right? Like that was the next, like, when's the next show we can go to together?
00:32:49
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:32:51
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:32:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
And and then it was, you know, on. So it was great. And that that became our core group. And I think we had a ah group text right by the end of that weekend, but before everybody was even home from Sima, you know, we had the group chat and it's great.
00:32:59
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah.
00:33:05
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:33:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that was, uh, you know, Robert, Sean, Maddie, young, uh, Jeff young, his brother came for a couple hours. Uh, James Doyle, putsy, Mitchell, Aaron.
00:33:13
RICK JAMES
Mitchell, Aaron, Pudsey.
00:33:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. And, uh, it was a great time.
00:33:18
RICK JAMES
Sean.
00:33:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Robert and Sean, the odd couple, hundred percent.
00:33:18
RICK JAMES
Yeah. And that was, yeah. Yeah. That was, uh, that was great. That was, uh, like I said, that was kind of to me that set the tone to how we interact. And obviously we, we talk, we talk, we but pretty much talk daily in the group.
00:33:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:33:34
RICK JAMES
I mean, to be off, we don't miss many days. So yeah.
00:33:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
The group has grown a little bit. The, the group texts. Yeah. I think the originals were what eight, eight of us.
00:33:42
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Uh, eight to 10.
00:33:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Neither was nine it eight or nine.
00:33:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Now what is there?
00:33:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:33:45
RICK JAMES
23 or something.
00:33:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. There's a bunch.
00:33:47
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:33:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
There's a bunch of guys in there now, but the yeah, it's been
Friendships and Community Collaboration
00:33:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
great, man. That's probably, I agree. that's That's definitely one of my favorites, but I think the favorite thing I got to do. Because of the show, um I think is meeting all the guys that we we put in contact with somebody else. like no you know We don't have all the answers. We're not Mr. you know mr Snow times two. We don't know everything. we know We know our business. We know how we do it.
00:34:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
and But what we've done is we've been able to build a community of guys that are all pushing in the same direction. And a lot of guys have expertise in a lot of different areas.
00:34:24
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
00:34:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
And we're like the snow jobs, like Steve and Jeremy are like a giant Rolodex now where you text us with a problem and we just freaking go, okay, what's the problem?
00:34:31
RICK JAMES
yeahp
00:34:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Hydraulics on a metal plus. Oh, well we know 25 different guys. We can put you in contact for that. But, uh,
00:34:41
RICK JAMES
and the EPA
00:34:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
wow But yeah, but we can point guys in the right direction for guys that can actually help them. And everybody we've met is always willing to help. So I think that's my favorite thing that I've got to do is when guys reach out with problems, we can actually get them solved for them relatively short time. like That's pretty cool. um Funniest person that you've missed is definitely my wife's question. Funniest person you've met so far because of the show?
00:35:09
RICK JAMES
It's gotta be Sean.
00:35:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah Unanimous.
00:35:10
RICK JAMES
It's gotta to be Sean. It's gotta be Sean.
00:35:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Motion carried.
00:35:14
RICK JAMES
I love that guy. He's, you know, give shit. He does. Even if it's serious, he makes it funny.
00:35:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
a
00:35:21
RICK JAMES
So he's, he's, he's got that great attitude and he's got that shit, shit had grin on his face. He always has that shit grin. that but I mean, he get baby, I don't know, he could really be fucking something up and he just turned me.
00:35:35
RICK JAMES
I get to see him turn his head with that smile and be like, you fucker.
00:35:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
Shrug his shoulders.
00:35:38
RICK JAMES
It's just. Yeah. What are you going to do?
00:35:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, that's it.
00:35:42
RICK JAMES
You know, you always kiss the ring or whatever he says all the time.
00:35:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
you Dude, he is he is. I love him to death.
00:35:47
RICK JAMES
look
00:35:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
He is a cartoon character. I second that. That is the funniest person I've met so far because of the show. ah what What has been the most rewarding to you so far in the last two years with the show?
00:35:54
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:36:01
RICK JAMES
100% has got to be all the friendships I made. I mean, I met some of my best friends in the last two years just from the show.
00:36:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
00:36:08
RICK JAMES
Like I said, we talk to each other daily. Excuse me. And it's got to be the friendships I made. I mean, lifelong friendships and guys will come. here guys that will come If i I call them, they'll come help me at any moment.
00:36:21
RICK JAMES
So yeah, that's that's what I would say. You yourself, same.
00:36:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. i I agree completely. Same. Absolutely. the The guys that we've met and become friends with and, you know, built this community with, uh, that grows by the day. It's just, that's the people, the people are the most rewarding thing.
00:36:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like everybody is, everybody's awesome. Like what have we met out of two or 3000 people we've met in the last two years and in, in snow, what tour douchebags, like, I mean, it's overwhelmingly an awesome community and awesome industry.
00:36:48
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:36:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
The people in it are great.
00:36:52
RICK JAMES
Right. I mean, just like we always talk about my glacier guys, my core group of glacier guys that we're on this big call with. I mean, we're pretty tight. And I brought all you guys into my core group of guys.
00:37:05
RICK JAMES
I mean, that tells you, I mean, how close you get, everybody has to kind of like a family, you know, we're just, I mean, you guys come into our calls, you guys are always welcome anytime and you guys have done the said the same thing to anybody we have.
00:37:17
RICK JAMES
So it's, I mean, it's just, to me, that's, that's the way it needs to be.
00:37:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%, 100%.
00:37:22
RICK JAMES
So.
00:37:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
I agree completely. like Yeah. My, you know, like it's, it's just been, it's really been great doing that.
00:37:28
RICK JAMES
butpa
00:37:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
it's it's really rewarding when definitely when guys reach out to you saying you know with whatever whether it's a dm email whether they come up to you at a show or something and just tell you like i was i tried this that i heard on the show and it worked like thanks so much for that like i tried this like i've heard a bunch of times like the uh
00:37:46
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yep.
00:37:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
in the meetings, the mid presentation meetings, i've I've had a bunch of guys say like, dude, I did what you told me to do. And it worked like I was higher and I got it, you know, be more professional, like be more professional than the other guy, show them what they're paying for.
00:38:01
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
00:38:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that's probably the most outside of the relationships and friendships we built. The most rewarding thing is when guys come up or or reach out and tell you like something they heard on the show worked for them and and it made their business better.
00:38:20
RICK JAMES
That's humbling. I mean, when the guys will say, hey, guys you guys have done this for us or that for us, where we get these messages.
00:38:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
u
00:38:26
RICK JAMES
I mean, that's, you don't really think about that until they actually say it. And you're like, wow, that's, we are actually kind of making an impact. And, you know, a lot of people, you know, wouldn't think that. I mean, you know, snow has always kind of seemed to be looked down upon, but when you got the guys in the industry, your peers are telling you, you're helping them out.
00:38:44
RICK JAMES
That's really something. I mean, that that makes you feel good about what you're doing. and
00:38:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. And I think the timing, I think our timing had a lot to do with it too, because like post COVID, there was a big changeover.
00:38:50
RICK JAMES
team.
00:38:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
um A lot of the older guys got out of snow and there was a lot of new blood after COVID getting into snow in the last four to five years. And it's ah they're younger guys.
00:39:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're hungry for information. And that I think that has kind of coincided where they've been hungry for and for information and learning. They're listening to podcasts. They're, you know, stuff we didn't do.
00:39:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, did you ever listen to a podcast before you started doing one?
00:39:22
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:39:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
I didn't. I never listened to a podcast before I started doing this.
00:39:25
RICK JAMES
Oh sorry yeah
00:39:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
so I was a music only guy. You know, ah no, no podcast.
00:39:31
RICK JAMES
Yeah. I remember that. I remember you saying that. Yeah. No, no, I listened to. Yeah. This is a couple of ones.
00:39:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
But the younger the younger guys do though.
00:39:36
RICK JAMES
I i don't listen to too many. ah Yeah.
00:39:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
The younger guys, that's that's like and it's like a mobile encyclopedia for them.
00:39:40
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:39:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
that's that They get a lot of information, a lot of knowledge based off podcasts. So I think that made it really popular. And like you said, when these guys are reaching out saying, dude, you know i I heard you guys say this or I heard one of your guests say that and I tried it and it worked.
00:39:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
you know Thanks so much. That that's that means the world. like that's Like you said, it's extremely humbling.
00:40:02
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm. Definitely.
00:40:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Definitely is. um Does the success of the show shock you? Or did you know it was going to be this huge?
00:40:10
RICK JAMES
Oh, I knew it was going to be this huge. I mean, I thought we were bigger by it all.
00:40:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Holy shit.
00:40:15
RICK JAMES
I mean, I thought we'd have our own jet and we'd just be flying around just.
00:40:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Close. Close.
00:40:19
RICK JAMES
I mean, I thought, oh. shit No, obviously not.
00:40:23
The SnowJobs Podcast
a
00:40:24
RICK JAMES
i mean it's i mean like we we We've talked off air and stuff. where like Kind of like we say, we we thought industry needed something, whether they needed us or not, but they got us.
00:40:34
RICK JAMES
and we're doing We're doing pretty good. to be i mean We ought to toot our own
Aspirations for Industry Growth
00:40:39
RICK JAMES
horn. You got your little horn thing, beep, beep.
00:40:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't.
00:40:42
RICK JAMES
ah We're doing pretty good for who we are, what you know what what we're doing, I i believe. so yeah we were never No one ever thought we'd we'd grow like this, but i mean i'm I'm very proud of it. i mean
00:40:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah.
00:40:55
RICK JAMES
but so
00:40:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think there was definitely, we both knew there was a need because that's one of the reasons we talked about starting doing it. And the need was there. We knew, we knew a certain type of person would listen to it.
00:41:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
A certain type of snow guy would listen. The trick was, I think for us getting it out there, we got it out there in the winter. I think if you started this in June, i don't think it got the track I don't think it would have gotten the traction right off the bat.
00:41:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think I was starting it in the middle of the winter and it was a slow winter for a lot of guys, so they were hungry for snow.
00:41:21
RICK JAMES
No.
00:41:25
RICK JAMES
Yup.
00:41:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think um i think that was a key. Because if if it had started off and we had released it in say July and nobody found it until November, they might have been looking at the first eight episodes that before we called it quits because there wasn't enough people listening to make it worth our while doing the time. um So I think we we hit it right with that. I think we knew there was a need. I think we knew it would get listens. I did not see it being as widely accepted where
00:41:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
We always say this, the people in snow that are supposed to love the show do. And the people that have reason to hate it, they he have every reason to hate it.
00:42:07
RICK JAMES
Right.
00:42:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, it's fine.
00:42:08
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:42:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that's fine by us.
00:42:09
RICK JAMES
Like, yeah, we don't care. I mean, honestly, we're, we're just shooting from the hip, doing our thing.
00:42:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
um and
00:42:14
RICK JAMES
And I mean, obviously it's the younger guys that are, I mean, there's a lot of the other guys, they don't obviously probably listen to many podcasts and they'll just snub their nose at us, but big deal. It's, uh,
00:42:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
See that, and that was the thing I had for Luke because Luke wanted to know about our demographic because the first year it was a very specific demographic. In the last year, we've evened out. Everything from 65 down to 17. We've evened out like 25, 30%. Our overwhelming bracket, I think it I think it's like 40% are 21 to 34, but we have now legitimate listening demographics in each bracket all the way up to 65.
00:42:56
RICK JAMES
Good. Well, that's good. Guys are actually listening and not saying they're changing, but they're listening and knowing trying to see what people are wanting and expecting, you know, but more, you know, whatever.
00:43:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah
00:43:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
I think a lot of guys listen to hear, hear the reviews of everybody on, on products and equipment that they're using, not necessarily our opinions anymore.
00:43:16
RICK JAMES
Right.
00:43:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
They know, they know our stance on stuff, but every guest has their own take and their own equipment and stuff that they like and don't like and why.
00:43:17
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:43:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
So I think, I think people listen for that too.
00:43:27
RICK JAMES
But we still got to do our snow jobs.
00:43:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:43:31
RICK JAMES
ah approve Approved by snow jobs.
00:43:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
You're you're not getting the steal of approval.
00:43:33
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:43:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah That's uh,
00:43:34
RICK JAMES
I think we still got agree we got to get up, get that out.
00:43:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
We are, we're going to do that. We're going to do a snow jobs approved products.
00:43:39
RICK JAMES
That's a manufacturer's approved by snow jobs.
00:43:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:43:42
RICK JAMES
I mean, then you know, it's then you know, it's good.
00:43:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
You want it. Yeah. You want your products tested and and get a snow jobs nation sick sticker of approved by snow jobs nation.
00:43:46
RICK JAMES
sure oh
00:43:50
RICK JAMES
wow
00:43:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
You send one of your products to storm Academy. You let different snow contractors beat on it for a whole winter and let them write reviews.
00:44:00
RICK JAMES
beat up.
00:44:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
And if it's overwhelmingly not beat on, but use, you know, use,
00:44:03
RICK JAMES
speed on, it's just the wrong word, because everybody everybody takes that the wrong way. Just use it. I mean, snow industry, yeah, use it the way you're supposed to use, but it's going to be used.
00:44:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Use it in, yeah. Use it daily.
00:44:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Daily.
00:44:13
RICK JAMES
That's what the product's made for. Yeah, that's what the product's made for.
00:44:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:44:16
RICK JAMES
you No one's going to abuse it. You're going to use it the way it's snow. I mean, it's snow. Shit happens to snow. You're going to hit shit under the snow. You're going to do whatever, but you know that's just part of it.
00:44:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, absolutely.
00:44:26
RICK JAMES
No one's going to go out and, you know, oh, there's a light bulb. I'm going to go out and just hammer that thing into a light bulb and see what happens.
00:44:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, no, we're never, we're never saying that.
00:44:30
RICK JAMES
I mean, no one no one does that.
00:44:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
We're never saying that, but you know, use it on a, yes.
00:44:33
RICK JAMES
No, but i'm I'm just telling you how some people would interpret that, you know, so.
00:44:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I got you. Yeah, bad word. ah But yeah, use it. Send it to Storm Academy. Let all the snow pros from different areas of the country that are going to go there to push snow because they can make their own snow. Sorry, I had to clear my throat there. um Send it out there. Let the guys that are using it write reviews on it after their use of it. And then if it's overwhelmingly positive and the the piece of machine the the know the equipment holds up,
00:45:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
OK, we'll give you the Snow Jobs Nation you know approved sticker. You can put it on all your products.
00:45:07
RICK JAMES
and Yeah.
00:45:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
We're doing that. Yeah, done. it's that's That's done.
00:45:09
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:45:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was one of the things on the list that we're going to we're doing in the future.
00:45:13
RICK JAMES
Well.
00:45:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
So there you go. There's one of them. ah Yeah, i don't i i think I don't think I thought it would be to the level it was, the success.
00:45:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
I don't think it would be like we're getting requested to go to shows now and do live episodes here, live episodes there, and we actually have people paying to be in the room.
00:45:30
RICK JAMES
no
00:45:34
RICK JAMES
better
00:45:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
like That's the shocking part. And I'm not, I don't know, I'm not really down with that.
00:45:37
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:45:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like, personally, if you want to come, if we want to do a live show or somebody wants to do a live show at their event, no problem, we'll do it for you. I don't know if I'm down with people paying to come listen to us two idiots talk for, you know, an hour.
00:45:53
RICK JAMES
Oh, i um I mean, people pay you to see me every Friday, Saturday night, Sunday.
00:45:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, but that's on the poll.
00:45:58
RICK JAMES
Oh, oh, shit.
00:46:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
A dollar, dollar bill, y'all.
00:46:05
RICK JAMES
but Rick James baby, Rick James fur coats coming off.
00:46:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it. Kim potent hat. That's it.
00:46:10
RICK JAMES
good
00:46:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh man. But yeah. Uh, best memory the last two years around the show.
00:46:13
RICK JAMES
but
00:46:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
What's the, the one that stands out in your mind over the last two years?
00:46:21
RICK JAMES
Best memory around the show. Like you talking like a guest or what?
00:46:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
What we've done, anything, what we've done, uh, in the last two years or or trips, whatever, anything that stands out as being really cool.
00:46:34
RICK JAMES
Oh, I enjoy, I enjoy getting out of town and just getting together with the guys and to our, to our little events, you know, like the SNS and, and, uh, Oh, that was, that was really fun.
00:46:44
RICK JAMES
I mean, just the private jet we took there with Jordan. That was, I was pretty trippy with, you know, Yeah, Starks.
00:46:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
The storks. Yeah, that was crazy, right?
00:46:51
RICK JAMES
That was a good event there. So, I mean, it's all these little events we're going through that like we're going to have to go to, which are great. but We did a fair share last summer, and i hopefully this summer is I hope this summer is kind of the same thing, because it was a good time.
00:47:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Every month.
00:47:04
RICK JAMES
And I miss the boys, and it's always fun to go see them.
00:47:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:47:08
RICK JAMES
And I like to get all see you know get out of this country and go go see the world a little bit. Not world, but go see ah go see the the boys mainly.
00:47:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
00:47:16
RICK JAMES
to
00:47:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Outside the borders of Fargo.
00:47:18
RICK JAMES
Yes, i got get once we get the runway clear of the Buffalo, we can get going. you know What if I do dust control on it?
00:47:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
I want I want to fly until they have paved roads.
00:47:26
RICK JAMES
so
00:47:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, shit.
00:47:33
RICK JAMES
Uh, yeah, I used to roll trucking now, I guess. Huh?
00:47:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go.
00:47:37
RICK JAMES
So no, it's, it's, I would say that just getting going to these events have been great.
00:47:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:47:42
RICK JAMES
And these little, little shows and bigger shows just hanging out with the guys and having our little, having our time together. And we just always have a good time, whether we're at the show or after hours, when we don't get too carried away.
00:47:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:47:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah Yeah. Um, I, I want to say for me, I think storks honestly, cause that was the first event, right?
00:47:58
RICK JAMES
How about you?
00:48:02
RICK JAMES
excuse
00:48:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's April. So that was the first event after the winter. And that was like kind of overwhelming cause gene was nice enough to reach out and invite us.
00:48:08
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
00:48:13
RICK JAMES
The live show, the live show was fun.
00:48:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
to to come do a live show. He really wanted us there to do a show. And, and that was that, that's an exceptional event. So, I mean, we were going to do whatever we needed to do to help him promote that to begin with.
00:48:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cause that's just a great event for snow guys.
00:48:27
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
00:48:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, it's no nonsense, no fluff. It's not corporate, you know, uh, to like a Simon type deal. It's, you know, it's just storks and they're putting on the event to just better the industry.
00:48:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
And it's awesome of them to do that. Um, so.
00:48:43
RICK JAMES
and was That was a great show.
00:48:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was a great show and it was a great time because everybody, we put the call out and everybody traveled like our whole group.
00:48:54
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:48:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was like, what are we doing? We're going to the casino, which the in hindsight, that was a horrible idea, you know, horrible idea to go an hour and a half away the night before.
00:49:00
RICK JAMES
Horrible, horrible idea. Horrible.
00:49:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
And we had to be there at seven the next morning, but uh,
00:49:08
RICK JAMES
Not that not that the casino was bad. It was fine. It was just too far away. I mean, it was.
00:49:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
too far away. Yeah, too far away.
00:49:13
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:49:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Casino was great. I mean, we, but yeah, all the boys got in.
00:49:15
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:49:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
We stayed at the casino hotel and we went to, we went out to dinner as a group. I think we had 20 something guys at the dinner. It was, it was awesome to be able to see all the guys from out West again and all the, you know, the guys that we hadn't seen all winter.
00:49:24
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:49:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cause we don't get to see each other at all during the winter.
00:49:34
RICK JAMES
No.
00:49:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, like FaceTime is basically it. And then, you know, that's it. So April going, doing storks, doing the live show, um seeing the the room packed, you know, like to to hear two idiots talk about snow for an hour while they're eating lunch.
00:49:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like that was, and they paid to be there.
00:49:50
RICK JAMES
Yeah, that was fun.
00:49:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
That was the crazy part. Like, what?
00:49:53
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:49:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
You guys paid to be in here? Like idiots.
00:49:56
RICK JAMES
The live show was fun. I was kind of kind of my kind of deal. You just fly by the, you know, we got a few questions and then we just let her rip. So kind of like this one.
00:50:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Winging it, giving away secrets.
00:50:06
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Give singers away. I mean, I'll do that all day long.
00:50:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
blackinger Yeah, it was, uh, that, that's probably my best memory.
00:50:10
RICK JAMES
Let's go.
00:50:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cause honestly that took off. That was the, that was the impetus for the whole summer. Like that, would that showed me how the whole summer was going to go every month. We're going to different events and you know, we had, we had the same people showing up like at all the events, like everybody was traveling.
00:50:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was, it was great.
00:50:31
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Got to be on some panels.
00:50:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was great.
00:50:33
RICK JAMES
Panels are fun to be on.
00:50:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yep.
00:50:35
RICK JAMES
I mean, who wants to listen to me?
00:50:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. We did what? So we did storks in April, then, uh, Northeast D icing in May, right?
00:50:39
RICK JAMES
and me correct
00:50:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
Patty salmon thing.
00:50:42
RICK JAMES
That he said that was great. Oh, June Storm.
00:50:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. Simon was June. So that was Pittsburgh. Uh, did we, we didn't do anything in July. July was our only off month and then storm in August.
00:50:52
RICK JAMES
Nope. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. Stormy storm. I guess maybe we did, uh, equip.
00:50:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Equipped in October. No, and that's an S in September SNS was September equipped in October.
00:50:59
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
00:51:02
RICK JAMES
Oh yeah. no Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was, that was fun.
00:51:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, it was a busy summer.
00:51:07
RICK JAMES
Hopefully this we can do it all again.
00:51:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
It was a lot of fun.
00:51:09
RICK JAMES
That was fun. It was fun. It's always good to see the boys.
00:51:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
well and we're Well, and we got our, you know, another little teaser. We got our our, you know, networking events, one day networking, Snow Jobs Nation networking events that are coming. We're going to do just like ah just like the Storks model in the and S and&S, different regions of the country. get We're going to get companies to host and just get together, network for the day, maybe a couple light, you know, ah Q and&As or seminars on something that,
00:51:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
We'll bring value to guys that are making the trip and just basically hang out, have good food, bullshit with snow guys from different parts of the country. Just make our, you know, it make everybody's network and roll the decks a little bit bigger, you know, because that's the best part, man.
00:51:46
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
00:51:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Putting guys in touch with guys that are in the same area but never really talked.
00:51:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah, exactly.
00:51:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's it's really cool. It's really, really cool to do that.
00:51:59
RICK JAMES
Yeah. It's kind of. It's kind of fun to watch like all these events went to these little circles, circles, joint, you know, guys just go from go from circle to circle and talk.
00:52:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yup. Yup.
00:52:11
RICK JAMES
and it I mean, I mean, it's I don't know what you want to say about it.
00:52:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
But it's not clicky. It's not clicky.
00:52:15
RICK JAMES
No, it's not clicky. That's not what I'm trying to say. It's just like a guy will be in this group for a while and then he wanders over this group and everybody's just not like, everybody just come on in.
00:52:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes. Yup.
00:52:24
RICK JAMES
Listen, what are we talking about?
00:52:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
00:52:25
RICK JAMES
You know?
00:52:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's, it's like basically having stations, but it's, it's guys just like break up into conversational groups, just shooting the shit.
00:52:26
RICK JAMES
know Yeah.
00:52:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
And two or three guys, every 25, 30 minutes, we'll rotate around the five or six different group conversations.
00:52:37
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's pretty cool.
00:52:39
RICK JAMES
And we can solve a lot of problems.
00:52:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
We, we solve a lot of the world's problems. It's pretty funny.
00:52:44
RICK JAMES
Yes.
00:52:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
But, uh, yeah, so that would, that would pretty much be, uh, that would be it for me. What do you want to accomplish with the show going forward? What are your goals? Jeremy Lindstrom goals for the snow jobs.
00:53:00
RICK JAMES
of east i don't know I mean, obviously just keep kind of doing what we're doing, just trying to better the industry, bring more knowledge to people that we can and obviously us get more knowledge.
00:53:10
RICK JAMES
And I mean, I just wanted to keep rising, keep going up, getting better at what we're doing. Obviously, I want to get better at this myself and you see where this is going to take us.
00:53:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
00:53:20
RICK JAMES
I mean, hopefully we can expand it. I don't even know where to, but I want to get bigger and better. i mean that's if you're not That's my opinion.
00:53:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
00:53:30
RICK JAMES
I just want to keep growing, see where it's going to take me.
00:53:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Got to keep pushing.
00:53:34
RICK JAMES
I don't really have any, I don't really, yeah, we got to keep pushing.
00:53:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, you got to keep pushing.
00:53:37
RICK JAMES
You got that right.
00:53:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
nothing'
00:53:38
RICK JAMES
No, we just, I just want to, I don't know. It's hard to really explain it, but you just want to get the industry. I want to i want to get the industry, the recognition it deserves, honestly, is what I want to do.
00:53:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. Absolutely. That's the goal every day. That's literally the goal every day get everybody better everybody more professional everybody better everybody building a network around them stop fighting each other and You know our fight should be with the the people in places that where it deserves to be not amongst the guys that are actually doing the work um Yeah, I want to honestly my number one goal right now is just because I've had so many people not in snow that are like
00:53:54
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm. And I'll keep preaching that.
00:54:10
RICK JAMES
Right.
00:54:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
podcast type guys that know the podcasting world and numbers and advertising and stuff. I want to hit that top 1% globally podcast. yeah we It was 18 months. They said, no, you guys are too niche. You'll never get enough listeners or listeners to ah hit the top 10% globally. And I think we did that in six months. And then we were down to top 5% in nine months.
00:54:50
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, after a year, we were top 4% and then we hit top 2% globally on listen notes right at Simon this year. Um, I'd like to, I'd like to get to that top 1% because I have a friend that has a podcast is in the top 1% and he keeps telling me there's no fucking way you guys can do it doing snow.
00:55:02
RICK JAMES
yeah
00:55:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
There's just not enough people that do snow that are going to listen to you.
00:55:14
RICK JAMES
Hey, that's.
00:55:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'd like, I'd like to prove he said that at every juncture. So I would like to prove him wrong once again. and and and see that top 1% globally out of 3.5 million podcasts, I'd like to to jump from 2% into the 1%.
00:55:20
RICK JAMES
Yeah, that'd be great.
00:55:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that would be awesome.
00:55:28
RICK JAMES
That would be quite the feel. I mean, that'd be awesome. I mean, it's all already unbelievable what we've done, but it's like so that tells everybody like and subscribe and tell your friends to jump on the Snow Jobs podcast.
00:55:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep. It's already awesome. Already crazy.
00:55:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. There you go.
00:55:42
RICK JAMES
I mean,
00:55:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
There you go. Yep. I would love to i would love to be able to do that. um some stuff that I want to accomplish going forward. Like you said, I want to keep pushing.
00:55:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
I want to, to keep building upon what we've started, what we've created. Um, the snow jobs, like we said it on Luke's thing the other day, and I think it was spot on the the whole snow jobs thing.
00:56:02
RICK JAMES
sorry
00:56:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
We just, we just put a name to it and started it, but the community is, you know, what we got.
00:56:13
RICK JAMES
I was going to, since we're doing this, like you just said, the snow jobs name, we got to give Gina credit, your wife.
00:56:20
RICK JAMES
She's the one who came, Gina came up with the name, the snow jobs podcast. Your wife actually came up with the name.
00:56:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
00:56:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
She did two blow jobs talking in snow.
00:56:26
RICK JAMES
So, so but yeah. So Steve's wife, Gina came up with the name, the snow jobs.
00:56:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah
00:56:33
RICK JAMES
So we've got to give you credit, Gina.
00:56:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Very true. Very true. She did. She did. She's, I mean, she's a good girl like that. So it's, uh, you know, she, she always, she can hang with the boys.
00:56:40
RICK JAMES
Yep.
00:56:42
The SnowJobs Podcast
She can fire shots. She's, she's good, but Oh, absolutely.
00:56:44
RICK JAMES
No, I've heard you talked to her. Yeah, she's definitely...
00:56:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
She can fire.
00:56:48
RICK JAMES
Yeah, she ain't weak-minded, that's for sure.
00:56:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's, uh,
00:56:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, absolutely not. No, you can't be in this house, but, uh, but yeah, I would like to, I mean, I would like to keep building the community that is around the show now. Cause it belongs to all snow guys, belongs to everybody that follows the show and, and does everything, you know, tagging the show and building the community and continuing to grow the community. So, I mean, it doesn't, it's not me and Jeremy it's.
00:57:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
or Jeremy and I, sorry, I get corrected all the time. um It belongs to to all the snow guys out there. So I want to keep building it for them, give them more avenues, more tentacles, if you will, that it goes off into. Like the ah the approval, you know the product approval you know approved by Snow Jobs Nation. I i would love to have 150 guys use a product at Storm Academy, and okay, that's 150 different snow guys that you're getting reviews from. if that kind of if they If you have that kind of approval process and you get 135 out of 150 that give it a glowing rating, then bang, you're approved. I'd like to do that.
00:57:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
We have the storm chasing with the snow jobs, you know ah video series that's gonna be huge for snow guys It's ah yet again another way for snow guys to promote their business It's another way for the industry to be promoted as a whole and shed in a good light What we do um You know, I would like to yeah, I and I you know, I mean my
00:58:11
RICK JAMES
Yep. I'm really super excited.
00:58:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
My goals for for us as a show, I think we have enough momentum. We've been we've been requested now twice um in the last couple months to, at some point in the next year or two, put on a large-scale, SEMA-sized trade show, Snow Jobs Nation trade show.
00:58:30
RICK JAMES
on
00:58:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
And we are going to do that. That is something we are going to do. So you can you can it's on recording.
00:58:45
RICK JAMES
But we did.
00:58:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's it's recorded. It's official. The wheels are in motion. So, you know, but more to follow on that in the next ah coming months.
00:58:54
RICK JAMES
go on
00:58:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
But we we will be doing a trade show.
00:58:58
RICK JAMES
We were also asking me at the inauguration, but we had the post. We couldn't make it to that. so
00:59:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Got to do snow. We have snow.
00:59:04
RICK JAMES
Yeah. So, so sorry.
00:59:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sorry. We got s snow coming.
00:59:06
RICK JAMES
We we got it. We got it. I mean, we just couldn't make her.
00:59:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
Sorry, Donnie.
00:59:10
RICK JAMES
Sorry, Donnie. We couldn't make it. We apologize. We will we'll be there next time.
00:59:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
who will be the next one
00:59:14
RICK JAMES
or
00:59:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah shit But yeah, that's I mean that is that is what that's the the couple biggest things work out some kind of product approval testing um That you know, we can we can we can help manufacturers and we can help snow guys as well, you know cut out the ah the unknown basically um and the
00:59:18
RICK JAMES
yeah so
00:59:23
RICK JAMES
and Yeah. hit Right.
00:59:37
RICK JAMES
And let's, let's be honest, um I'll jump in here. Let's be honest. This is, this is the advertising now. It's the podcast. There isn't them, you know, print isn't, it's, it's, it's more, more or less us talking.
00:59:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%, print is dead.
00:59:49
RICK JAMES
I mean, that's going to get guys and guys using the equipment, but you know, it's going to get people to buy the stuff. It's not a picture on a piece of paper. I mean, obviously that's still out there, but for guys that really want to know how stuff is, this is kind of the platform they want to go with.
01:00:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
As a manufacturer, a dealer, you are absolutely out of your mind and you should fire your marketing people if you do not have a piece of equipment at Storm Academy.
01:00:05
RICK JAMES
So.
01:00:07
RICK JAMES
back
01:00:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
for the exposure that that's gonna get. that That's where products are gonna get sold.
01:00:19
RICK JAMES
here
01:00:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
you know Once they start putting videos of the classes they're doing there and stuff like that and having guys do that, that once they get that all dialed in, you you are missing the boat if you are not taking advantage of that opportunity.
01:00:20
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:00:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's gonna be one piece of equipment. You know, and it'll get used properly and we'll see, you know, we'll see if you stack up.
01:00:37
RICK JAMES
help
01:00:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
If you not are not confident in your product, then by all means, don't send it.
01:00:41
RICK JAMES
and They won't send it. They won't send it there.
01:00:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Don't, don't send it.
01:00:44
RICK JAMES
They won't send
01:00:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know,
Snowboarding Challenges and Training
01:00:45
RICK JAMES
it there.
01:00:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
if, if it's all smoke and mirrors, don't send it, you know, we'll just.
01:00:45
RICK JAMES
I mean, they're... or Or people worry that oh that it's storm cat or storm, they're going to want to just copy or plow or do this or you know do that. That's not what it's about. No one's going to do that. It's about about the snow industry, not about we're going to build a better mousetrap or something. know It's not like we're going to take something off of yours and do yours. that's you know i've heard I've heard rumors of that going on. so
01:01:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
No.
01:01:09
RICK JAMES
that's not
01:01:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, it's literally, it's literally, they have a snowboarder and they're opening it up for guys to basically get better.
01:01:11
RICK JAMES
Right.
01:01:15
RICK JAMES
i right
01:01:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Cause right now we're at the, we're at the control of mother nature. We're at the behest of her. If she doesn't produce snow, we can't train. Like we'll go to Ohio the last three years.
01:01:27
RICK JAMES
and
01:01:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
If those guys weren't getting snow, they could still keep their full time guys in the winter. They can say, Hey, we're not getting anything, but we're going to stay sharp. Let's go out to storm academy, get it done. Yeah. We'll, we'll push for a couple of days.
01:01:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that's what it is. But the product, the ah the ability to be able to test products and have products used by a wide selection of Snow Guys,
01:01:46
RICK JAMES
That's what it's about.
Product Testing and Industry Feedback
01:01:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
that is just a smart thing to do and take advantage of if you're a dealer or manufacturer.
01:01:49
RICK JAMES
to go
01:01:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
But that's up to them at the end of the day, like anything else.
01:01:55
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm. Oh, yeah.
01:01:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
um
01:01:56
RICK JAMES
I mean, obviously they do their own testing, all that stuff, too. But I'm just saying, if you want to get it, like you just said, in the hands of end users, that's where you need to bring your stuff.
01:02:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:02:05
RICK JAMES
And if I'm going to.
01:02:06
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's literally ah it's a, it's a fucking test drive.
01:02:07
RICK JAMES
first
01:02:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's literally a test drive opportunity in snow.
01:02:09
RICK JAMES
Right. Exactly. And also you, you mentioned storm Jason. That to me it was very exciting at Simon. our our The party we had was storm equipment.
01:02:21
RICK JAMES
I mean, that was the setting was fantastic at the P and P and G park, right?
01:02:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Huge. That was great.
01:02:27
RICK JAMES
That was a
01:02:27
The SnowJobs Podcast
PNC. Yeah.
Pride in Snow Industry and Social Media
01:02:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
PNC.
01:02:28
RICK JAMES
PNC park.
01:02:28
RICK JAMES
That was, that was fantastic. I mean, and then I don't know if everybody's standing around and that video kind came on the board of the preview of what we wanted to do. I mean, that was, I don't know, that was,
01:02:41
RICK JAMES
kind of a, it was an experience, it was pretty trippy in experience and all everybody's kind of, everybody has focused on those screens and what we got coming. And now we're actually trying to, we're trying to, we're recording that stuff this winter.
01:02:53
RICK JAMES
You know, we've done a few recordings and it's, I think it's going to be phenomenal, honestly.
01:02:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Looks awesome.
01:02:58
RICK JAMES
So.
01:02:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, it looks awesome.
01:03:00
RICK JAMES
I'm not, yeah, I mean, it's, it's just cool. I love this industry. That's why I want, I want to show it. That's why I get a lot of crap on my Instagram. So they why you I'm like, cause I love this industry.
01:03:11
RICK JAMES
I love to see what show what like my, personally, my guys are doing on a night. I'm proud of what they get done. So it's, it's, I'm very proud of this, what we get done.
01:03:22
RICK JAMES
And it's a thankless job, honestly.
01:03:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
It is absolutely is.
01:03:24
RICK JAMES
So that's why I try to show it.
01:03:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
100% brother, 100%.
01:03:30
RICK JAMES
very
01:03:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
What are you proudest of with the show the last two years?
Community Connections and Support
01:03:35
RICK JAMES
I'm proudest of. Well, kind of piggyback on what we just said, I'm just proudest, proud of. proud of all the connections we made with different people and, um, manufacturers and stuff like that.
01:03:48
RICK JAMES
You know, I mean, that's, I'm pretty proud of that. Honestly, how, how we've, how we've gotten to know all these people and kind of just got a nice knit, tight knit group of people that we can lean on for anything we need.
01:03:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:04:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%.
Exposure for Smaller Manufacturers
01:04:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
I agree.
01:04:05
RICK JAMES
What do you, how about you?
01:04:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um.
01:04:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
I love, yeah, the relationships. Absolutely. But not just with snow guys. I love the relationships that we've made with manufacturers of good products that like we said on Luke show, that might not be able to compete with the multimillion dollar advertising budgets and stuff. They're smaller companies, mom and pop operations that build good products. I'm proud as hell that we've been able to get, you know, companies like muskox,
Opportunities for Growth
01:04:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
plow, right? Top gun ah traction.
01:04:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
and get them exposure to the point where people will test their stuff and take a look at it and purchase if it makes sense for them and that that's huge you know to that we're able to help the little guy you know the not little guy but that's a bad you know it's not the most accurate description but yeah that that's probably the i'm most proud that we're in a position that we can help get people opportunity that's probably a good way to say it
01:04:54
RICK JAMES
Right. I know it just um yeah and what saying.
01:05:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
is that we can we can help these guys get opportunities.
01:05:08
RICK JAMES
Right. Exactly.
01:05:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
And then it's up to them. Then it's up to them, did you really build a great product? And are you able to stand behind it? And they have been, they all have, everybody that's been involved with the show.
01:05:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that's been great. And I'm i'm proudest that we we built something that we had the opportunity to help people, ah to help people get their products out there to guys that it makes a difference to.
01:05:29
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
01:05:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
So that's pretty cool.
Innovative Partnerships
01:05:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
um Let's see, and then speaking with that, we would be totally remiss if we didn't thank all our partners ah that came on board. Muskox from almost day one, ah Adam, ah his whole family, ah Ron, oh my God, Ron is a genius. He's like an Uncle Rick. Can you imagine if Ron and Rick were like locked in a room for a weekend?
01:05:59
RICK JAMES
Oh, shit.
01:05:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
like
01:05:59
RICK JAMES
oh ah We should do that.
01:06:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
The ideas that would come out of that room?
01:06:04
RICK JAMES
We should do that.
01:06:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh my god. like then Holy crap.
01:06:07
RICK JAMES
Let's let's see what you two can come up with this weekend. Boom.
01:06:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I just, oh my god, nuclear powered snow removal. like They'd have a nuclear reactor built between the two of them, two coconuts and thing a string.
01:06:17
RICK JAMES
couple
01:06:20
RICK JAMES
Oh, that would be good.
01:06:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're geniuses. But yeah, Adam, Ron, Noah, um just great. They're just a fantastic family. um They build a great product that has helped my business personally. And I know a lot of other guys since ah you know they got on board with the show have found them. um And they're still crushing it. They're still coming out with innovation and stuff. so But they were they were the first. They were literally, I think, episode six. like yeah Six, I think, and they were on board by seven.
01:06:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
So Muskox, awesome.
Influential Figures and Hypothetical Scenarios
01:06:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
um Top Gun, you know Top Gun Rob, ah just one of the all time great characters in this industry. Just a great dude. um Took a big gamble with Top Gun. Looks like it's paying off huge. you You're starting to see more and more of them out there. um It's a great product if you have a need for that. you know if you're If you're looking for that and you're in that niche market, that'll definitely help you. Glad we were able to help them. ah Plowwright, Matt,
01:07:21
RICK JAMES
here
01:07:21
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, you know, unfortunately Eric's not with us anymore, but you know that those guys great and other family owned business, great product. They, they stand behind it. They make it right. Uh, when it doesn't, you know, when something doesn't go right.
01:07:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um, you know, Arctic, what can you say about the straights and big daddy, you know, but absolutely.
01:07:38
RICK JAMES
oh I love those guys. well You know me, I've been with them for quite a few years, but yeah, they they are fantastic family. Great plow. I'm not even talking about the plow, just personally, they're great people. so
01:07:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
Fantastic. Yeah. I mean, they're all, I love that the three brothers all have a hand in a different, you know, that that's awesome that Randy structured it that way.
01:07:57
RICK JAMES
Mm hmm.
01:08:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um, no big daddy, John Stark.
01:08:00
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:08:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
He's, he's just like, uh,
01:08:03
RICK JAMES
Oh, love him. Talk to him daily. I talked to him daily on Snapchat. And oh, my God, he's.
01:08:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
He is one of the greatest characters in the snow industry. He is just so funny.
01:08:13
RICK JAMES
I love him. Well, like I.
01:08:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
He is so funny. But yeah, I mean, but Randy straight, you know, the original, uh, started Arctic, the the line of products that, you know, you can say what you want.
Show Growth and Audience Engagement
01:08:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, but everybody knows that Arctic's number one.
01:08:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
So I mean that there's really no disputing that, you know, it's, uh, not in this room.
01:08:30
RICK JAMES
Not in this room.
01:08:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Exactly. Uh, Yeah, but that it's great. Arctic Sanco equipment out in Minnesota, they got on board.
01:08:38
RICK JAMES
Yes.
01:08:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
They've been great. they They're XCMG dealer out there. um Sounds like they got more and more of them out there too in that neck of the woods. So ah that was good. Dustin said he he likes it, pushing really well.
01:08:51
RICK JAMES
Yeah, yep.
01:08:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah So that was cool. A couple of weeks ago, right? He said that.
01:08:55
RICK JAMES
Yeah, he was saying it was really working good.
01:08:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
um Yeah. And then Yeti snow, a great software.
01:09:00
RICK JAMES
ey
01:09:00
The SnowJobs Podcast
If you have a need in the software thing, definitely check out Yeti, but yeah, all, all of our sponsors and you know, we call them, you know, partners, obviously this.
01:09:01
RICK JAMES
Yeti.
01:09:07
RICK JAMES
a Plus all of our product profiles to those guys have been great too for, for putting, you know, for jumping on board and wanting to promote their stuff out on our show.
01:09:12
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. Yep.
01:09:19
RICK JAMES
I was, you know,
01:09:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep, snow power, view robotics. I mean, yeah, all ah the list goes on. It's it's awesome, but we we literally could not do what we do without our partners. you know we we couldn't quick First of all, it just this has become a time consumption animal. um We've said it multiple times.
Balancing Show and Business Responsibilities
01:09:40
The SnowJobs Podcast
if The one thing I would say to Jeremy, and I have said to Jeremy, if I had any inclination, like we thought this would be popular,
01:09:47
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah We did not know what we were getting into as far as the time demand on it to do that Everything around the show not just the actual episode but everything that goes with it ah From scheduling to apparel to answering 40 to 50 DMS a day ah emails like it's it's insane and You have to as I've said multiple occasions You have to give everybody a couple minutes like they're taking the time to reach out there reaching out to you They're listening there while you're here.
01:10:10
RICK JAMES
wow
01:10:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
You need to you know, you have to give them the time
01:10:16
RICK JAMES
Right. I know where you're going to say to you and say, if you knew all the time, I know where you're going with this, that you probably went to done it, but, ah but, but I'm just saying, but hear me out
01:10:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
I would have retired first. No, I would have done it, but I would have had to retire first from the, from.
Engaging with Audience and Responding to DMs
01:10:28
RICK JAMES
here.
01:10:28
RICK JAMES
You're, but.
01:10:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:10:30
RICK JAMES
What would your days be like if you didn't have, I mean, now it's just kind of routine that you're going to do this, right? So it's just kind of part of what's going on. You know, I'm check my DMS. I mean, it's, it's just part of your daily life now, to be honest.
01:10:41
RICK JAMES
You know, you you don't really think of it as, I know it's a time consumption, but you really don't think of it as, at least I don't. But I mean, you probably, you answer and buy more DMS than I do, but it was, you know.
01:10:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
it
01:10:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
It throws me off my game. If I like, if I, I'm okay. I'm up in the morning. I have this, this, and this to do. And I make the mistake of looking at the phone first and there's, you know, eight text messages, two missed calls and DMS up the wazoo on Instagram.
01:11:10
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:11:11
The SnowJobs Podcast
I spend an hour, hour and 20 minutes doing that before I even get started on what I'm supposed to be doing. So it's like, fuck, you know?
01:11:18
RICK JAMES
car You do a lot, you do the DMs on our DMs. I have, which is fine, which is, I mean, you're doing, you're doing, you're doing, I have plenty of DMs on my Glacier account too.
01:11:25
The SnowJobs Podcast
We both do our part, man.
01:11:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
You do, you do.
01:11:31
RICK JAMES
So it's like, it's, but whichever, I'm not complaining.
01:11:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah we both We both have our areas.
01:11:34
RICK JAMES
I don't complain. I don't complain at all. I mean, I enjoy it. I love trying to help people if I can, or at least point them in the right direction. So I mean, it's the least I can do.
01:11:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, I'm not complaining. I'm just saying it's a it's a big time you know time draw that I wasn't counting on.
01:11:46
RICK JAMES
No, I know. and
01:11:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
And if I was just doing the show, no problem. But I'm still running a snow company.
01:11:56
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:11:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm still you know my other career. It's a lot.
01:12:00
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:12:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm still trying to be a good dad. like It's like crap.
01:12:02
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:12:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I got two little ones. So it's it's tough.
01:12:05
RICK JAMES
so
01:12:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
that are They're going in different directions every day for sports. so it's like Crap, I probably would have x'ed one thing off the list if i if you told me that this is what was, it's gonna blow up and it's gonna blow up quick and get in a lot of different directions.
Support from Sponsors and Partners
01:12:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
I would have ended one thing.
01:12:20
RICK JAMES
Same thing between between all my regular duties and mysteries. I mean, I'm around people like your phone ever quit going. I'm like, no, it really doesn't.
01:12:28
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, it doesn't.
01:12:29
RICK JAMES
I'm just I'm just used to it. And, you know, I know I should prioritize stuff here and there. But I also I also just like I want to answer. I want to you know, not that I need to. I just I just want to be respectful and try to get back to people.
01:12:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. A hundred percent, man. They're taking the time to reach out to you you.
01:12:43
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:12:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, you're why they're, you know, they're why you're here. They're why their snow jobs exist.
01:12:46
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:12:48
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, you know, you're going to do what needs to be done or what they need you to do and help them. So that's, that's great.
01:12:53
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:12:54
The SnowJobs Podcast
But, uh, yeah, our, our sponsors make that a lot easier.
01:12:57
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:12:58
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um, they, they let us travel to events. You know that it's that that's that's huge for us that that we don't have to worry about like and this isn't cheap either I don't know if you looked up hosting fees and stuff like that ah you know this stuff is not cheap to do anymore.
01:13:09
RICK JAMES
<unk>
01:13:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
um All these different platforms and stuff the webinar platform the hosting platforms that. Oh, the bandwidth and stuff. it It gets a little up there at times.
01:13:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
So the the sponsors make it ah able to be done. So we want to thank all of them um for being on board with us and for sticking with us. And, you know, we we love them and we couldn't do it without them.
01:13:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
So we want to make sure we say that.
01:13:37
RICK JAMES
No.
01:13:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
um What else?
01:13:41
RICK JAMES
We should be going to commercials now.
01:13:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Yeah, we could do that.
01:13:44
RICK JAMES
twelve
01:13:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, ah we'll hit the commercials and then we'll come back and we'll do a little more. We've got a couple more things and then we'll get out of here.
01:14:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
and All right, guys, we are back. Oh, so people, we got to thank some people, right?
01:15:01
RICK JAMES
Yeah, definitely.
01:15:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Who do you want to thank?
01:15:05
RICK JAMES
Well, we just thanked all of our sponsors.
01:15:08
The SnowJobs Podcast
No, we did.
01:15:08
RICK JAMES
But I mean, obviously, I want to thank Glacier themselves for allowing me the time and to travel and get out of here.
01:15:19
RICK JAMES
And then I use my office for a warehouse for for all the
01:15:22
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. ah ah
01:15:25
RICK JAMES
for the clothing and stuff here. So they've been pretty understanding for the most part on all that. So you've got to thank Don on that and Dave.
01:15:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yup. Uh-huh. Eggs, Don.
01:15:33
RICK JAMES
And so, yeah, even the hobbies pusher says, thanks.
01:15:37
The SnowJobs Podcast
The hobby pushers says thank you.
01:15:37
RICK JAMES
so um Yeah, I mean, thank all of our wonderful guests we've had. I mean, you know, they've been great.
Memorable Guests and Episodes
01:15:46
RICK JAMES
They've been fun. I mean, speaking of that, whatever, you whatever were your favorite guests?
01:15:53
The SnowJobs Podcast
Favorite guests, uh, well, I don't know. That's that's a tough one.
01:15:58
RICK JAMES
That might be us.
01:15:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
I I love Billy Moore. Billy Moore's episode was a lot of fun.
01:16:02
RICK JAMES
That was good. That was really good.
01:16:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Uh, as far as laughing my ass off and being entertained, I'd say probably Billy Moore. I think don't quote me. Maybe that was episode like 33 if I'm, if I'm remembering, I don't know.
01:16:16
RICK JAMES
open up a little bit.
01:16:17
The SnowJobs Podcast
but
01:16:17
RICK JAMES
though you Yeah, we got to get him back on.
01:16:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. Yeah. Billy's got a, you know, he's got to come out of his shell a little bit, but, uh, yeah, we do. We definitely do. we did We definitely, he's a kept man now, you know, he's.
01:16:27
RICK JAMES
yeah oh yeah yeah He's ah engaged Angela's got him. Angela's got him.
01:16:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah. So, well, yeah, but Billy was probably the most entertaining. Um, my favorite as far as just wanting to hear what he had to say is probably Randy straight.
01:16:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um, just hearing that whole story.
01:16:46
RICK JAMES
I would, I would agree. I mean, I was, a I mean, I had heard the story, but not, not that in depth.
01:16:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
Right? 40 years in snow.
01:16:52
RICK JAMES
So that was, that was great. I mean, between Randy and Josh, I mean, reason with Josh, Josh is a different level because, because everybody knew the persona or not everybody, but a lot of people knew the persona of Josh.
01:16:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Josh on a different level. For me, Josh, yeah.
01:17:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
01:17:07
RICK JAMES
And then once we got him on the show, he opened up. And, you know, and obviously you and I have got to know Josh more of a personal level.
01:17:15
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:17:16
RICK JAMES
So it's even better. Like like today when I'm hopefully going out, I'm going to sound like I'm getting a call anytime here to go out East coast to help East coast again. um But he said to me, he's like, you're going to be with me.
01:17:29
RICK JAMES
What is this text said? You're going to be with me and my son because you're family. I mean, that's that's pretty incredible. So I mean, I, I, I really, I mean, that's.
01:17:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, he is, you know, he's like that.
01:17:39
RICK JAMES
He goes, you're proud of me because you're part of my family. I'm like, that's, that's awesome. I mean, that's, I mean, he's a great guy. I've, we're, we come really good friends.
01:17:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, I mean, I love that we had that first episode with Josh because it allowed Josh, like you said, to show who he actually is.
01:17:47
RICK JAMES
so
01:17:50
RICK JAMES
of
01:17:56
The SnowJobs Podcast
Not what, you know, not the ideas that so many guys may have had without even knowing him, without ever having talked to him. You know, like he he was able, I think, to to blow up a lot of those those false ideals or ideas about him ah with that episode.
01:18:12
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
01:18:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
I'm glad we were able to do that. And, you know, he didn't disappoint, dude. He didn't hold anything back. He fired away. It was great.
01:18:18
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:18:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
love that. But as far as like, like just on our respect factor, like the top of a mountain the mountain, the godfather of modern snow has got to be Randy straight.
01:18:28
RICK JAMES
Yes, yep.
01:18:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
You know, I mean, you you know, just respect the alone.
01:18:30
RICK JAMES
Randy straight. Yep, yep.
01:18:34
The SnowJobs Podcast
That is my favorite episode, hearing all the early stage stories, you know, about
01:18:39
RICK JAMES
but it's what makes it even better. You and I, we've told this story to people already, but we had to record the episode twice and it was pretty much verbatim. It was i you two and a half hours of pretty much what we started off with.
01:18:53
RICK JAMES
Hey, Randy, how'd you tell us about Randy straight? And it was the same stuff.
01:18:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Boom. Two and a half hours later, we got to end the show.
01:18:58
RICK JAMES
It was very wet. I was like, yeah, we're like, all right, cool.
01:19:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Oh, dude, it was great.
01:19:03
RICK JAMES
Fantastic.
Family-Owned Business Legacy
01:19:05
RICK JAMES
So, I mean, it was,
01:19:05
The SnowJobs Podcast
Well, yeah, we had to record it twice and he was gold both times and almost verbatim almost literally like Jeremy said, two and a half hours.
01:19:10
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:19:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
And he repeated it almost verbatim. We got all the great stories in again. And like it was just great hearing hearing how he built the monster that Artax become.
01:19:21
RICK JAMES
ae
01:19:24
The SnowJobs Podcast
And it's still family owned. His you know, the three sons, the triangle, as he calls it.
01:19:28
RICK JAMES
Yeah. Yep.
01:19:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's the dream right there. Y'all being able to bring your kids in on a business that you built and have them be so passionate about it and all of them handle their own, their own corner of that business.
01:19:32
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:19:41
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's, that's gotta be the most pride you can have as a parent.
01:19:41
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:19:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Honestly, it's great.
01:19:44
RICK JAMES
right
01:19:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
And I'm glad we, I'm glad we got to hear that episode from him. Um, I'm glad we got to do Josh's episode for him.
01:19:50
RICK JAMES
me That's. And Josh, you got the same thing going with his sons. He's got the same thing going on.
01:19:55
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. Josh does too.
01:19:56
RICK JAMES
It's fantastic. I mean, family owned business and what he's, I mean, they have a map out, I mean, to what's going to happen.
01:19:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:20:03
RICK JAMES
And it's already, you know, halfway there.
01:20:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, absolutely.
01:20:05
RICK JAMES
So I mean, it's, I mean, for what he wants. So it's a, it's kind of mapped out and they're going to hit it because they're
Partnerships and Shared Principles
01:20:12
RICK JAMES
not going to stop. So ECF, ECL anything can stop them as themselves.
01:20:13
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah, nothing's going to stop them.
01:20:16
RICK JAMES
And they're not going to do that with their drive.
01:20:16
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:20:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely. No, but yeah, that but those would be the those would be the ones. Billy Moore for the most entertaining, and then Josh and and Randy for the most impactful, I think is the right word.
01:20:25
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:20:28
RICK JAMES
Yep. You're right.
01:20:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
um
01:20:30
RICK JAMES
Exactly. I'd agree with that.
01:20:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
That definitely those two. um Yeah, but I mean, people that i we I think we got to thank, though, in the industry that are helping growth. They're helping the show grow and they're helping us all grow through the show.
01:20:45
The SnowJobs Podcast
ah Jordan Smith, VSI and Storm, I mean, doing all the liquids episodes, doing all the um the dustings with us to to just basically give us the the updates of what's going on out there in the snow industry that we might not hear about when we are inside our own little bubbles.
01:20:46
RICK JAMES
Jordan Smith. Yeah. A hundred percent. Yep. Fantastic.
01:21:01
The SnowJobs Podcast
um
01:21:01
RICK JAMES
Just getting an open amount of personal level to Jordan.
01:21:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%, 100%.
01:21:04
RICK JAMES
He'll answer any question you have any time and he's he's become a great friend
Openness and Transparency in Industry
01:21:10
RICK JAMES
too as well.
01:21:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Absolutely.
01:21:10
RICK JAMES
I mean, he's hi I can call him anytime and he'll get back to me. I mean, he's a busy man, but yet he'll always make time for you. I mean, he he sends notes or texts once in all just a while just to check in.
01:21:21
RICK JAMES
I mean, that's, I love that. Thank you, Jordan.
01:21:26
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep, absolutely couldn't couldn't. I mean, I don't think the show would be where it is today without Jordan and all he's done, you know, not only not only on the air ah behind the scenes, you know, to help grow it.
01:21:36
RICK JAMES
Right. Exactly.
01:21:38
The SnowJobs Podcast
It's it's been great. And, you know, it's been great to. ah to help him get the liquids word out there and to promote storm equipment as the great company that they are. They're just, they're good people.
01:21:49
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're, they stand behind what they sell.
01:21:50
RICK JAMES
Oh, phenomenal.
01:21:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
They're just the best people there. They're great. And that's, that's what we're about. Like we want the good guys to win. That's dead. I mean, bottom line, good guys should win. I'm tired of the good guys finishing last.
01:22:02
The SnowJobs Podcast
So, you know, and, uh, but yeah, Jordan, big, huge thank you to Jordan for everything he's done for the show over the last two years. Uh, we couldn't do it without him. And you know, we value his, his friendship and thank him for everything.
01:22:14
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um, the entire straight family, as we said, big daddy, John Stark, the, the Arctic gang.
01:22:18
RICK JAMES
Ah, yeah.
01:22:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
Um, again, they are doing the Arctic army roll call now because they just want to pay the information forward, help snow guys with all their 40 years of experience in this game.
01:22:23
RICK JAMES
Mm-hmm.
01:22:29
RICK JAMES
jumped on board. They jumped on board.
01:22:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
That's it.
01:22:31
RICK JAMES
They so just stood behind us.
01:22:31
The SnowJobs Podcast
What can we do?
01:22:32
RICK JAMES
They seem, yeah, they're like, you guys are doing something good. We want to be part of it.
01:22:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
100%.
01:22:36
RICK JAMES
And they jumped on board and that's phenomenal.
01:22:39
The SnowJobs Podcast
They literally said, love what you guys are doing. What can we do? How can we be involved? you know What
Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration
01:22:46
The SnowJobs Podcast
do you need from us? Like, OK, you guys have 40 years and in in the game.
01:22:51
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:22:51
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah Give them the information.
01:22:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
And that's what they're doing. And it's phenomenal that they're willing to do that. And I think that's that's the other great thing about the show is Snow used to be like 25 years ago, very close to the vest.
01:23:03
The SnowJobs Podcast
Oh, everything was secretive.
01:23:04
RICK JAMES
Oh, secrets.
01:23:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
like Oh, yeah, we're not just pushing left and then pushing back to the right and pushing back left again.
01:23:09
RICK JAMES
trip
01:23:10
The SnowJobs Podcast
Like it's a big secret how we do that crap.
01:23:11
RICK JAMES
I love that when people think that it's like, dude, anybody can go watch you do whatever you're doing, whatever you're doing at any time.
01:23:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
yeah Yes.
01:23:18
RICK JAMES
There's no secrets. I mean, all these guys think everything's so secret.
01:23:20
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yes.
01:23:22
RICK JAMES
Like I like i said, the I was blowing snow in the trucks a couple of weeks ago and there's a dr drone flying over me. I have no idea whose drone that was. It wasn't Matty and Matt's drone.
01:23:32
The SnowJobs Podcast
Premier.
01:23:32
RICK JAMES
it was It was probably Adam.
01:23:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
Premier.
01:23:34
RICK JAMES
yeah I was like, I was like, there's, I go, there's a drone over me.
01:23:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
probably Adam.
01:23:39
RICK JAMES
I'm like, Who cares? We're, we're bones. I mean, I don't care who's watching me.
01:23:43
The SnowJobs Podcast
Shoot it down. Shoot it down.
01:23:45
RICK JAMES
I was like, I was like, I don't like anybody can watch you doing any times. There's no secret sauce. There's no, you know, I mean, there's, I don't know. It's to me, it's like, you just get the job done.
01:23:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
There's not, but you know, like the Arctic, you know, the the Arctic, the straight family, Jordan, um, even Josh, uh, Gomez, they've, they've understood that the way we can all get better and win is to not have four to five guys at a table and have four bids that are 75% higher than one bid.
01:24:08
RICK JAMES
i
01:24:18
The SnowJobs Podcast
Have everybody educated to the point where they know what they should be using, what they should be charging, how they should be doing it to a degree. You know, so we're all in the same ballpark and we are together and we grow together and we get better and more professional together.
01:24:33
The SnowJobs Podcast
And they're all in that, they're all in the same mind. They all have the same mind on that. So I think that's why they find each other. And you know, those kinds of minds kind of find each other and stick together and they're all pushing in the same direction now, which is, it's great news for the guys doing snow work for the actual boots on the ground guys.
01:24:49
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:24:52
The SnowJobs Podcast
And they're willing to help guys get better without with benefit of their knowledge.
01:24:52
RICK JAMES
mr There's no need to fight each other. There's plenty of work out there.
01:24:57
The SnowJobs Podcast
Nope, 100%.
01:24:57
RICK JAMES
And we we all just got to get a someone on the same page, like you just said, and get the right price for the job we're doing.
01:24:59
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:25:04
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yep.
01:25:05
RICK JAMES
Oh,
01:25:07
The SnowJobs Podcast
Mikey San Luisito, ODP.
01:25:08
RICK JAMES
ah
01:25:09
The SnowJobs Podcast
For all the early dustings episodes he did within in the early early stages of the show, Mike was like, he reached out one day, like I think it was like episode two, like, this is awesome.
01:25:09
RICK JAMES
awesome.
01:25:19
The SnowJobs Podcast
How long I've waited for something like this in snow, it's just great. What can I do to help? And like, hey, what's your area of expertise? And he wrote down like three or four topic ideas.
01:25:27
RICK JAMES
Oh, he's awesome.
01:25:30
The SnowJobs Podcast
and We're like, yeah, no problem. Mike, Mike was great. He was, he's very smart.
01:25:34
RICK JAMES
So much knowledge, so much knowledge.
01:25:35
The SnowJobs Podcast
So much knowledge in
Show Evolution and Future Plans
01:25:36
The SnowJobs Podcast
the snow industry. And again, willing to share it with all the guys out there doing those early dustings for us. Um, so thanks, big thanks to Mike.
01:25:41
RICK JAMES
and old ODP for London.
01:25:44
The SnowJobs Podcast
Yeah.
01:25:44
RICK JAMES
ODP for London.
01:25:44
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And ODP for letting them do it.
01:25:45
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:25:47
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Uh, Brandon Riley from ledc, he was another guy with the a lot of information early on. Um, you know, we couldn't have done it without these guys. So this is, you know, we're, we're two years now going on to season three, year three, uh, because of all these guys we're mentioning, um, and our whole gang, our whole gang that.
01:26:03
RICK JAMES
yeah ah
01:26:06
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You know, if you're having a bad day, too bad, you know, they're going to, they're going to make you laugh. They're going to get you motivated to keep doing it. And they, they travel with us. They always show up.
01:26:17
RICK JAMES
fuck
01:26:17
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If we have something going on.
01:26:18
RICK JAMES
i
01:26:19
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Uh, and like Jeremy said, you can literally put a text out on that group. And even though guys are 1500 miles away, uh, if you really need them, they're going to be there.
01:26:25
RICK JAMES
Yep.
01:26:27
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I guarantee it.
01:26:28
RICK JAMES
Yep. yeah
01:26:29
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How many hours does it take to drive 1500 miles? Cause give them 20 more minutes than that. And they're going to, they're going to show up.
01:26:36
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:26:37
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So it's awesome. But you got anything else, bud?
01:26:40
RICK JAMES
I don't think so.
01:26:41
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Anybody else?
01:26:41
RICK JAMES
We're going to do what a 45.
01:26:42
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It's dangerous when you start naming guys.
01:26:44
RICK JAMES
I know we'll get that Christian left to you where we didn't forget to call somebody out, you know, but I don't know where, what we plan on what a 45 minute show or about an hour and a half.
01:26:47
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and
01:26:54
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45 minutes and we're 90 minutes now.
01:26:57
RICK JAMES
So no it's it's hard it's hard to just wrap it all up.
01:26:57
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Yeah. ah
01:27:00
RICK JAMES
but I mean, like we've said, it's it's all the people. It just comes down to all the people and all our our friendships we made. It's been great. And obviously we're going to keep moving forward and trying to grow this thing.
01:27:11
RICK JAMES
This is our plan, I guess. so
01:27:13
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100% we're gonna keep pushing we're gonna keep doing it the the guys out there want more They constantly asking for more and you know, we're gonna we're here for you guys. So that's what we're gonna do We like can't say it enough like much love for everybody out there that that has made the show what it's become and it belongs to all you guys out there It's not just us and ah we hope you feel like that too.
01:27:29
RICK JAMES
ah
01:27:35
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Like, you know, it's been great. It's been a great two years and Great two seasons of the show great everything that's gone on outside the show as far as events and stuff Awesome meeting all of you guys out there at all these different events the guys that reach out constantly It's great.
01:27:46
RICK JAMES
um I mean, keep reaching out, keep reaching out.
01:27:51
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Keep doing it. Yeah, keep don't don't worry about it.
01:27:53
RICK JAMES
I mean, yeah.
01:27:53
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Keep on barding us with shit. Don't worry about it Keep it coming because we will definitely get back to you. And every time somebody does, then our network grows and we all get better. So, ah you know, just keep it coming and keep pushing forward and we'll keep doing what we do for you guys.
01:28:04
RICK JAMES
yeah
01:28:09
RICK JAMES
park
01:28:10
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Anything else, Jay?
01:28:12
RICK JAMES
That's all I got, buddy. It's been great. It's been fun with you. Thank you for being and such a great co-host and ah even a better friend.
01:28:15
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Absolutely, brother.
01:28:18
RICK JAMES
You know, one of my best friends, obviously now. So, yeah.
01:28:20
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YouTube, brother.
01:28:21
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:28:22
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YouTube couldn't do it without you wouldn't want you, wouldn't want to do it without you. It's ah it's it's it's fun. It's definitely fun. I'm glad ah i' glad we got together on this and shit.
01:28:32
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Never ah never saw it going this this long. how How long are we going on this?
01:28:37
RICK JAMES
So, nobody wants to listen, I guess, or we die.
01:28:41
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Well, the the death death is ah if death is coming.
01:28:44
RICK JAMES
Death is upon me. You never know. It can happen. And guess what?
01:28:48
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we got You know what we should probably do? we should probably mean We're not spring chickens. We should probably name like the next generation. Who's going to take over?
01:28:56
RICK JAMES
Yeah.
01:28:57
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Keep keep the snow jobs going. Who'll take over for us?
01:28:59
RICK JAMES
That's up to somebody else.
01:29:00
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Who could have chemistry? Who could have chemistry? You got anybody in mind that you put two guys together but of of the people we know currently?
01:29:08
RICK JAMES
so so We could put I got a whole crew on my glacier crew. That's
01:29:14
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There you go.
01:29:15
RICK JAMES
Old boys Yeah, oh boy All
01:29:15
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That can definitely do it. I keep saying I would love to do an offshoot snow job show where it's like a 30 minute Sean and Robert just going at it every week. That would be hysterical.
01:29:27
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Those two guys. Oh, Snow Jobs After Dark or something.
01:29:33
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Let those two just pick a topic and argue about it like they do for 30 minutes.
01:29:39
RICK JAMES
right
01:29:39
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But yeah, but that's all, man. That's all I got. Two years in the books, two seasons in the books. We're on to season three.
01:29:46
RICK JAMES
Yes, sir.
01:29:48
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You got anything else, bud?
01:29:49
RICK JAMES
I don't.
01:29:49
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Wrap it up.
01:29:50
RICK JAMES
Let's wrap it up. I got to get a trip buck to Jersey. It sounds like so.
01:29:55
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All right. Sounds good. All right, gang. Well, that's going to do it then. Episode 104, season two finale in the books. All right. Two full years over.
01:30:07
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Done. We are on to season three. it's It's crazy to say that. We want to thank everybody again, all of you guys out there, everybody listening to this.
01:30:13
RICK JAMES
It is.
01:30:18
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ah This is all possible only because of you. So keep doing it. Like Jeremy says, keep liking, subscribing, keep reaching out with anything we can help you with. And we'll keep crushing this for you.
01:30:29
The SnowJobs Podcast
Keep keep it moving forward and keep getting us all better. All right, guys, but that is it. Everybody be safe out there. Have a great week. You want to say it, Jack?
01:30:39
RICK JAMES
Keep pushing. Keep pushing.
01:30:40
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All right, there we go.
01:30:42
RICK JAMES
so