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GBP / Gremlinz | Burning Man | Sababa Land | Gold Mining | The Awakening

Episode #54

AJ joins Nico, Dylan, Josh, The Kid, Tyler and Max – Nate joins in via Skype and they go right into discussing how to purchase and sell arms on the global market!

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This episode covers:
War Dogs and Govplanet.org
Anonymous hackers
Little Buddy Heaters and the Dakota Pipeline
The Bus stories and veggie oil logistics
Commodities trading
Mayan Calendar and 2012
Sababa Land
Gold mining and sluice boxes
Redneck games and splitting wood

Handling the rattlesnake situation

Poison Oak parties
Human trafficing into Burning Man
Surfing and not being able to swim
Splitboarding with Tanner Hall and Moss
Brunch with Bernard Sanders
Hillary vs Trump
Mike Happy Bauer – “What does Miggs do?”
Sustainiblity and permaculture
How to build your own GBP crew
Earthship
The Awakening

Quotes from this episode:

“The price of oil is going up and down because they know a changes is coming… It’s all speculators.”
“We just had to get back to Vermont for the end of the world.”
“The reality of growing enough food – you’ve got to be set-up.”
“I think you make like ten dollars an hour on the average day of gold mining.”
“Next Gremlin Games – Axe Throwing?”
“We had to kill three rattlesnakes, the first one was in the shower.”
“Most of us don’t eat meat.”
“There’s no animals to fear in Vermont.”
“You’ve never been to Burning Man, but you have this bus?!? This is a Burning Man Bus!”
“Paddling out is the hardest part.”
“Splitboarding – I had never skied… I just crossed tips and fell over.”
“If you’re a friend, it doesn’t even matter (skiing).”
“He was the only person against the Iraq war.”
“Donald Trump has no friends.”
“As much as people might like a Facebook page – they need to get out and vote.”
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Will Ritter | Spark R&D | 3D Printing | Scaling Up | Parenting | Splitboarding

Episode #51

In this episode we connect with Will Ritter, Founder of Spark R&D Splitboard Bindings  to discuss family, parenting, entrepreneurship, scaling a business, problem solving, education, rapid prototyping and of course splitboarding. 

Shout out to Dan Ventura  for connecting us with Will. Check out the newly launched Spark R&D podcast here: http://www.sparkrandd.com/podcast/

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Team Ritter

This episode covers the following topics:

Family dinner at the Ritter house
Parenting skills
Baby Sylvia’s premature birth story 
Limiting screen time and reading with the kids 
3D printing and computer assisted design (CAD)
Scaling up a business 
3d printed pancakes 
Rapid prototyping 
April Fools pranks 
Working with his wife, Becca Ritter. 
Sharing a shop with Tyler Jaroz of 26 products 
Killing birds with wind turbines in college 
Getting a Masters Degree at MSU Bozeman 
Trials and error – Danny Harrison 
Skype Drop 
The initial Spark 
Apple iPod 
Market reserach
The story behind the name Spark R&D 
Tesla 
Updates on the binding line 
The wammy bar 
Backcountry sketchy situations 
Avalanche Safety 
Will and Becca Ritter

Will and Becca Ritter

 

 

Quotes from this episode:

“Dinner time manners are something we’re trying to work on at the Ritter house.”
“The two year old will throw food across the house.”
“Kids are just programed to find out where the boundaries are… As their parent – they’re always experimenting on you.”
“We crash landed into parent hood.”  
“The screens come in handy – it’s like you hit the deactivate button on your kids…” 
“They’re smart, they know how to steal a phone and unlock it (the 2 and 4 year olds).”
“Getting my Masters really taught me how to get into a big problem, slice it into small problems and go after the small problems.” 
“If there’s something you want to do – just start doing it…. There’s a small step you could take every day…” 
“If you want to get after something epic – you’re going to have to work for it.” 
“For us, it’s always been about how much more of this can we do ourselves”
“The mega growth can be a huge problem – you can grow yourself to death.”  
“You gotta take your hands off the wheel a little bit when you have people working for you.” 
“I’m a former park rat from Minnesota.” 
“I lost my Ice landing steez out here pretty fast.”
“The day I turned 30, I was out (splitboarding) with some friends…. As soon as we dropped in, everything just started sliding out… I went in the washing machine and was buried up to my waist.”  

 

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