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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:
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Episode #44
AJ and Nate connect with 31 year old Finnish snowboarder Antti Autti over Skype as he’s preparing to head to New Zealand for some backcountry shredding. Antti has been one of the main riders pushing superpipe progression over the past decade. He’s won tons of contests over the years including the X-games. He also represented Finland in the 2006 Olympics where he very controversially ended up in fifth place after a nearly flawless run. We get into Antti’s thoughts on surfing and skateboardings recent admission into the 2020 olympics as well as his transition from competitive snowboarding to the backcountry.
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Episode #43
For this episode, by buddy Paul (from the Todd Richards episode), joined me in my basement AKA TNSP HQ – we connected with AJ and Chad over Skype. Paul used to ride with Chad in the 90’s – they kick the episode off discussing the good ole days.
Cover photo shot by Chip Proulx
Topics we discuss:
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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 #26
In this weeks episode Aj and I talk with New Zealand snowboarder Nick Hyne. Nick’s also a filmmaker, an App developer, and quite the world traveler.
We get into:
Quotes:
“It’s all snowboarding so it’s all pretty fun to me. I’m obsessed with snowboarding!”
“Japan is actually the biggest market for the Trick Bag App. US is number 2.”
“I’ve spent twelve New Zealand summers (winters) in Japan now.”
“I didn’t even know that Japan (had snow) – I mean, I knew they had snow, but I didn’t realize that it was the powder maker of the world.”
“There’s a different kind of culture in Japan. What you do is not for yourself, it’s more for society.”
“When you get a good day at your home resort it’s kinda hard to beat.”
“The progression that snowboarding is taking relies less and less on the conditions…”
“To learn a new carving variation – you can do it literarily on grey bird rainy day and it might break the internet.”
“Not everybody wakes up at seven in the morning like, ok, today’s 1080 day…”
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Episode #24
I set-up a podcast studio in my hotel room at Superpark 19 at Seven Springs and had a chat with Burton Knowbuddy rider, day trader and music engineer, Thomas Heckler.
We covered:
Quotes:
“I have a lot of friends who are my age or maybe a little bit older who don’t really know anything about investing.”
“The more money you have the more money you can make.”
“It seems like my generation is much less in tune with how money or wealth is accumulated.”
“I think it’s important for younger people to think about how they got to where they are….The ability to be able to go ride every weekend, have a pass, that stuff costs so much money.”
“You think, money, it’s just money, it doesn’t make me happy, snowboarding makes me happy……And then you have ACL surgery and you realize that it costs a hundred grand to fix a knee.”
“Guys like Warren Buffet have made billions of dollars basically by dumbing it down.”
“The smartest guys in the room are the guys that can see through all of that noise and see an opportunity.”
“At the end of the day what matters is that your ATM still spews the money out.”
“As far as trading is concerned, by the time the book comes out, the strategy is blown.”
“My dad used to say – it’s not rocket science, keep it simple…But it’s the stock market – it’s not simple…”
“A lot of it is trial and error, it’s really tough to make money in the stock market – in investing.”
“I went to school for sound technology, recording arts – recording and mixing records.”
“After the fact you go in you arrange, set levels and add different types of processing to create a picture with a song.”
“Back when vinyl was the medium… It was so much about creating a visual picture…. you could see the band.”
“I think that listeners don’t really understand that engineers are as much an artist as the actual musicians that play the instrument.”
“You can create this movement – this movie – with the sound. It’s very artistic, it’s cool.”
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Episode #23
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Episode #19
AJ was in Salt Lake so he sat down with Scott in person and I joined via Skype.
We covered:
Some of my favorite quotes:
“I’m almost moving away more from the shit that I don’t enjoy.”
“When I’m snowboarding by myself and not with a huge crew is when I do some of my best stuff.”
“High Cascade is like the All Star Games for snowboarding”
“I learned (my style) from watching people like Travis Parker and Kyle Clancy.”
“You got to be ready to see stuff that you thought would never be possible.”
“One footed snowboarding is kind of like – we’ve raped this pretty hard right now.”
“In my head, I would love to say that backcountry would be a thing…but, my knees are getting bad.”
“I was hanging out with this kid… I was watching how he ate and I was like holy shit I eat exactly like you.”
“When it comes to loading a sled up, waking up at the butt crack of dawn and driving out to Whistler – that part of it kills me. I’d of been better off there back in the 90’s when snowboarders were perceived as lazy.”
“I want to snowboard on my terms and that’s not all that possible when you get paid to do it.”
On snowboard videos: “I probably have most of what’s come out since 1997”
“It’s gotten a little bit creepy how into it (tramp skating) I am… It’s something that I’ve gotten, in my eyes, better than snowboarding.”
“Bode is fucking good at everything…. he wont lose – you can’t even call him an alpha male, he’s a god amongst mortals.”
“I’ve built tramp skate followers on Instagram that don’t even know I snowboard.”
“My first job a High Cascade was the trampoline monitor.”
On video parts – “I pay attention to what been done and what has not been done.”
“It’s slightly hard to find a balance and only be slightly parkourish.”
“I see these Too Hard chicks hitting rails that I don’t want to hit.”
“If I find out that some of my friends don’t like dogs, we don’t hang out so much.”
“My parents were super into Seinfeld, they’d have Seinfeld parties.”
“George is probably my favorite character.”
“I turn into Larry David on an airplane… I feel like the middle seat should get both arm rests…”
“Chris and I want to give back to snowboarding – with Change That Tape.”
Find Scott on Instagram at @sleepystevens and at www.changethattape.com
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Episode #16
Aj sits down with Lane and Mini (the dog – see pic below) at Boreal for a chat about the following:
Some of my favorite quotes:
“If I ever have it (splitboard) on the mountain I have it split in ski mode – for shits and giggles.”
“There’s a million things that can go wrong while you’re out there…. I’ve just always enjoyed snowboarding by myself.”
“Snowboarding’s been my life since I was a child… it’s something I will do as long as my body will let me.”
“I’ve listened to Brooke’s (podcast episode) quite a few times… that chick is amazing…. I love what she does with Yobeat”
“That place is the shit (Kingvale), Rest in Peace.”
“I’d just go put my VX on a tripod and hit record and film until I’d run out of tape.”
“If you eat shit and no one is there to see it, you didn’t eat shit.”
“When you’re doing things on your own it’s because you love it.”
“That’s one of the best things about Smokin – Jay’s a diehard snowboarder.”
“If you’re not that much of a religious person having a random stranger marry you is weird.”
“After about five minutes of surfing the web and 10 minutes of figuring out how to pay for it – I was ordained”
“I went through the whole ceremony and married them without actually asking them if “they do”…. I was so embarrassed until the entire crowd started laughing.”
“I ate 7-11 twice a day there (Japan) and I ate better food that if I ate at Trader Joe’s here.”
“Hopefully my dad doesn’t hear this… We were about as smooth as sandpaper… we got busted for drinking vodka.”
“Crotch rockets are so much fun, but they are just a deathwish”
“I saw too many Juvenile videos on MTV and wanted a street bike.”
“We got our own motorcycle club out here… The Death Diggers.”
“Never worry about am I going to get hurt… Rodney Mullen breaks everything down to the most simplistic plan of events.. your brain can’t tell the difference between visualizing and doing.”
“Danny Kass would say think of the worse case scenario and try to think of a way out of it before it happens.”
“It’s something that I fucking love so if i hrt myself doing it fuck it, I hurt myself doing it.”
“Bring your splitboard to a rail in the park.. Hit it, Split-it…”
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Episode #3
Aj and I chat with David Zemens from the snowboarding blog Agnarchy.com. David describes the blog as original commentary & opinion on snowsports industry trends and news, and unbiased reviews of the newest gear without overwhelming you with every single press release and recycled web edit.
For me – even though this was the first time we’ve ever spoken to each other, chatting with David was like reconnecting with an old friend. We’re even planning to get together and shred together this winter.
We cover the following topics and much – much more: