Episode #56
Nate and AJ got to sit down, in person with Joe Sexton during the Parts and Labor all snowboarding trade show in Denver.
Peep Joe’s new 1817 edit:
Communicate Directly with Joe at his Tumblr page: http://publicimpressions.tumblr.com/ or stay up on insta: JoeSexton1817
Public Snowboards 17/18 Parts and Labor
This episode covers:
VX Filming
The first Double Cork – with JP
Why Parts & Labor as opposed to SIA
Building Public quickly
Thoughts on brand marketing and the art direction of Public
Jason Borgestede’s business questions to Joe
Being burned by a pro snowboarder as a kid and the impact that it had on him
Facebook Live questions: David Thacker of Thacker’s Transmission
How Bradshaw got on Public
The power of language
The board development process at Public
The Jed Anderson question
Leaving StepChild Snowboards
Listener questions (Halldor, Alex Dunn AKA – BLOWUP Skateboards, Jason Borgstede, Noah Vincent, Mike Happy Bauer, Daniel Cochrane, Cody Nesbit)
Thoughts on the future of street snowboarding
Hitting his head resulting in a TBI
Snoring and sleep talking
The House of 1817 stories
Minnesota snowboarding
How your outfit impacts your snowboarding
The importance of family
Growing up with a twin brother
Hockey
Facebook pokes and phone hacking
Crashing JP Walker’s motorcycle
Don Brown and the tough guy shot
Send artwork and VHS tapes to: publicsnowboards@gmail.com
Backcountry snowboarding with Sean Johnson
Quotes from the episode:
“If you try it and if fails, at least you tried it.”
“A lot of younger kids can fire up a great text conversaion, but when you see them in real life you can hardly get a word out of em.”
“There’s been some talks – Jed’s a good friend.”
“We have a team board called the General Public – that one has two wide sizes.”
“There’s something cool about 3am with the generator on.”
“If I’m not feeling it – it’s ok to walk away. I need to listen to my body more.”
“For like two weeks -the whole world would spin and then I’d throw up.”
“That’s the hard thing with injuries, you have to get obsessed with being patient.”
“When I lived at that house I was such a pile.”
“I don’t want to sit on a chairlift for a half hour and go down the hill once. I want to ride a rope tow for an hour and a half and feel like I’ve been there all day.”
“If my pants are a certain size and I wear some that are one centimeter bigger, I’m like, I have baggy pants on.”
“I like to be a able to tell people how I feel and not hold anything back.”
“I don’t have a Facebook… There was a fake one of me though.”
“Getting a compliment from guys that you really look up to is kind of the end goal.”
“When JodyHighroller (Riff Raff) face palmed me – that was a bit aggressive.”
Want to help the podcast grow? Just click the banner ad below before shopping on Amazon and the podcast will receive a small commission from your purchases at no cost to you.
Thanks in advance -Nate and AJ