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DJ ate all the bananas – many of them he didn’t even have to bite once!
Episode #48
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This episode covers the following topics:
Quotes form the Episode:
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Episode #37
AJ Skypes in from Portland to chat with Todd Canipe and Nate. We delve deeply into the state of skate and snow retail. We also gain an understanding of which parts of Star Wars media are considered to be “Cannon” (official).
This episode covers the following topics:
Stay up to date with Todd online:
Todd’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/toddcanipe
Todd’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toddcanipe/
Quotes from Todd:
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Episode #34
Harrison and Nate discussed:
Quotes from the episode:
“At the end of the day the cyclical part of our entire lives comes down to the buying and the selling.”
“I had fallen asleep at the wheel and broadsided a one ton dually pick-up truck… I have seven titanium plates in my face, jacked up my knee and knocked all the teeth out of my mouth.”
“So here I was 24 – 25 years old and I was the number one salesperson in the company.”
“I experienced things professionally that I didn’t enjoy that helped get me to where I am.”
“At this point if someone is dismissing snowboarding as a fad – they should be punched in the face.”
“Some of my friends gave me shit – instant rep, just add water.”
“I’ve had some really good years, but it’s been seven or eight years since it’s been great.”
“Skateboards don’t cost as much and the margins suck.”
“I’d love to be the guy drawing the lines… There’s this recurring theme about the lines.”
“Marketing is the closest thing to being a sales rep, but you get a paycheck…”
“If it wasn’t for the retailers, I wouldn’t have a job…”
“Too many retailers have tried to be too big. Too big a store, too many staff, too much product and not a real plan to deal with it when it doesn’t work out.”
“Why would we open another store while this one’s not perfect.”
“My job is not just to sell you stuff – it’s also to be an advisor.”
“Invest in the little guys – invest in the guys that aren’t all over the internet.”
“There’s still a touch it, feel it, see it component to how I buy.”
“Would you really want to buy a car online without driving it?”
“What’s the most important part of your set-up? Boots man.”
“Oh, and then there’s Harrison with 25% of the country.”
“…What has made all of those experiences worth it is the guys that I get to do it with.”
“I walk into a shop and I’m like what is this bullshit on the wall!”
“If you have a sale section in your store – it should be the smallest part of your store.”
“I don’t think I’d want to open a shop with less than 100K in the bank.”
“You can’t make a living in this industry just selling one thing anymore.”
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Episode #33
My buddy, Paul Horning, and I sat down and chatted with Marty over Skype – we discussed Marty’s new custom snowboard company Custom Cult Snowboards. Paul and Marty reminisced about the good ole days a bit which was quite funny as Paul used to work for Marty at Whitetail. We walked down the path that Marty took in building his first online business – which actually has nothing to do with snowboarding. It was a really fun conversation- Marty is amazing at deconstructing processes and seeing opportunities that others don’t see or act on.
We covered:
New Mexico living
Reminiscing the good ole days at Whitetail
Paul’s mullet and goatee
Eric Gibson’s vert ramp teardown
Skating vert in snowboard boots
Paul’s work ethic
Nate’s bow hunting skills and the zombie apocalypse
Paul gets shot with an arrow
Working for Kingpin Snowboards
Background on Custom Cult Snowboards
US Open at Stratton
Tim Ferriss and his book The Four Hour Work Week
Western Belts and moccasins on E-bay
Snowboards made out of dirt
Quotes from the episode:
“I remember – every year that I instructed or worked at a ski resort. I never made enough money to cover my expenses. I went into debt deeper everyone of those years.”
“I’ll get this ramp and people will just magically come help set it up… people would rather be snowboarding than setting up a ramp.”
“See Nate, Marty’s a good friend.” -Paul
“I ride with a zero zero stance… I tried to have a skateboard stance on my snowboard.”
“It was an eye opening experience – just how different you can make a board by tweaking just one spec”
“There’s a handful of custom shops around the world”
“I think you can make a surfboard with less equipment and overhead than a snowboard.”
“I’ve been doing the board design for Smokin since they began.”
“I’ve started my businesses by accident… I was completely broke, unemployed and almost homeless.”
“I noticed that I’d get up in the morning and spend 5 minutes pronging ou the labels and sending via the internet fax regardless of if I sold one item or a hundred items.”
“About a year ago, I took all my snowboard making equipment and threw it out.”
“You don’t want a board designed for you by someone you don’t know. You want a board designed for you by someone who’s riding style that you look up to or that you’d want to emulate. You don’t want a board designed for you by someone that’s a poser or someone that sucks or an engineering nerd.”
“Shit I know a bunch of people that look up to Paul’s riding…”
“I hated sitting in front of the computer screen all day… and I realized that I’d probably die a virgin.”
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Episode #31
Peter, Nate and AJ all connect via skype (eventually) to discuss:
Quotes from the episode:
“There was no one telling us what was cool, what wasn’t cool or how to do it… and at that time, I mean what was right? It was 1986.”
“Get on the floor and push a penny with your nose – high school hazing.”
“At that time skaters stuck together.”
“We had four sheets of plywood leading to a launch ramp – we landed in the grass, cause that’s what we had in the country.”
“I was a snow TM, the GM and I was running Iota sales.”
“I liked the idea of begging a question, that’s unique – it makes them ask and inquire and it gives them an opportunity to learn.”
“It’s not that we’re in the midwest and in the plains, it’s that we’re a vehicle and we’re moving through theses different dimensions.”
“There are riders and you can ride a board, but you pilot a board.”
“You ride an Interior board and you’re riding a piece of my heart.”
“If saving five bucks on something means the world to you, I’m sorry that’s your reality.”
“Online’s not the devil, but if you’re not supporting your local shops, you’re not supporting the community of snowboarding.”
“The thing that snowboarding fucked up al long time ago is that they started sponsoring all of theses kids – in the bike industry a sponsored rider is still paying for their frame.”
“The midwest is the fabric of snowboarding.”
“Reverse camber is just an old construction that was brought back and reinvented. It comes back to culture, in America we want everything easier.”
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Episode #27
AJ and I wanted to record an episode to convey why there’s been a gap and what to expect moving forwards.
We also touched on the following:
Some quotes from the episode:
“It’s hard to produce a podcast every week when you’re transient like I am and just a step above homeless.” -AJ
“Lately it’s been The Not Podcasting Podcast.” -Nate
“I’m really stoked that Caitlyn got to do her thing and I’m really stoked that I got to be apart of it in a really small way.” -AJ
“We’re busy getting stung by bees and almost getting eaten by sharks while surfing.” -AJ
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