Life Wide Open with CboysTV - From Broke To X Games Gold Medalist: Brett Turcotte

Episode Date: October 11, 2022

In today's podcast, Brett Turcotte joins the show and breaks down the sacrifices needed to win X Games Gold, shares stories about underground partying in Colorado, and doing world's first tricks.  Follow us on Instagram @cboystv and @lifewideopenpodcast To watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/LifeWideOpenWithCboysTV You can also check out our main YouTube channel CboysTV: https://www.youtube.com/c/CboysTV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Oh, yeah, dude. He had all of it right, except for the legend. part of it. Oh, I was thinking there's all kinds of athletes crawling out there or at least showing up and we somehow got the best one sitting next to us here. Well, if you're not first or the last. What do you mean? Yeah, dude, this is exciting. There's a little bit of a kickoff to the 509 headquarters, brick and mortar store, I like to call it. So us and all the athletes. I love everyone's, David's very clear about that. The athletes are coming, meet the athletes, and C-boys. Because they are not athletes. And that's actually.

accurate. Yeah, not athletes for sure. So you made it down to America. We made it, dude. Honestly, today it was like gnarly. We were up early with my dad. Nikki and I were up at like five in the morning to go try and get an elk. We were going to get an elk. Here's how it was supposed to play out. We're going to get an elk. We were going to just leave my dad with it to deal with it and then come down here and hang with you guys and do this five when I kickoff to party. But the elk was on the other side of the river. It was foggy. We couldn't see. So we pulled the pin, got down here nice and early. and now we're sitting down, having a good time. So did you drive from your house? Where do you live now? Camloops, BC. So, like pretty much smack dab, center, interior, British Columbia. Got it. Pretty much the best spot for me as an athlete for snowmobiling to be.

Because within two hours of any direction is the best snowmobiling in North America and maybe even the world. Revelstoke, right? Or where's your idea of earth? Yeah. Revelstoke is like the visual. The visual best? The back pocket. The back pocket doors are, yeah, they're not in real stuff.

Okay. The ones that we don't speak of. Yeah. Well, the ones that I'd say we don't even know about. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and that's the best kept secret. And you just go north of Camloops and you'll find it. And that's awesome.

Where in British Columbia did you grow up? Actually, an hour north of Canloups in Clearwater, BC, small, super small town, like small enough that my grandma was my delivery nurse. Okay. Wow. Yeah. Were you born in like a bathtub or? No, damn near.

Yeah, a small hospital. Okay. Yeah, a small hospital. My grandma was a nurse there and she delivered me and my brother actually. So, yeah, pretty neat story. Yeah, just grew up in this small town with big dreams and here we are. So the big dream started at a young age. So that's, yeah, what we wanted to get into.

When did you know that you wanted a career in snowmobiling? I don't know if it was ever really a want. It was just kind of something like developed, you know. It was like, um, You know, I was in hockey, and I told David the kind of the same story. I was in hockey, and, and they put me on defense because I was kind of like a chunkier kid. And my brother was the goalie, so I'd just go in and I'd clean the crease. And finally, the refs would, like, come over and talk to my parents after the game.

Like, you got to tell your boy, like, you can't be doing that. Like, there's not the NHL, you know, and I were like, well, I'm going to play hockey for a living. And, you know, my brother was a goalie. He was a really good goalie. And it was my job to protect him. But when you're eight to nine years old, crosschecks from behind don't really fly. So, you know, I made the decision kind of cumulatively with my family with everybody around me that, you know, I wasn't going to play hockey anymore. And the next best thing that I could do with my, with my dad was to go snowmobiling.

And yeah, I just, it was a crazy whirlwind from the time that I'm, you know, Hudson's age. She's six now. It's a crazy flashback to put myself kind of in those shoes, you know. And like if I wanted to go snowmobiling, it was with my dad. And if he wanted to go snowmobiling, he had to bring me. You know, so it was kind of because my mom would take my brother to the rink. So, you know, I kind of just grew into it naturally. He had a snowmobile dealership.

He actually had a Polaris dealership. So, you know, in my career, I went full circle. I started on Plaris, went to a couple other brands. Here I am back on Plaris. And, yeah, I feel ready at home. So did you start in freestyle or did you start in racing? Started in racing. And actually, my first X-Games medal was in racing in Snowcross in 2008.

I was racing on the Blair Morgan race team which was like kind of the coveted team so if you were to compare that to Supercross right now that's like the pro circuit team right or like factory Kawasaki or you know like at the highest level that you could be at yeah we were competing against Tucker Hibbard

and you guys from being from Minnesota yeah for sure and you know it was always the Blair versus Tucker battle right and so Blair developed this team and I got to race on it And, you know, I got to, you know, have some success there. And just moment in time, I just decided that, uh, the racing wasn't really going down the road that my life was.

And, uh, I just made the decision that I'm going to stick around home and, and, uh, just do this free ride thing. And, and I did one of my first years was in 2009 with the sled necks. And, uh, I was riding one of my old race sleds, my practice sled that the team had given me and you know I was doing all of these these big things and I always I'd always seen these sledneck movies when I was growing up and I was like man I'd love to be there and I got there and I was like whoa this is reality now like I there's something here and but I was working full time I was logging you know I was I had to like pay my dues exactly and and then I met my wife

Nikki and she seen what I was doing but then also was like yeah you know like working is cool but Like, I think that there's something more for you. So she kind of gave me, like, the support and the nudge to push, yeah, to take my career from full-time logger, part-time filmer, the other way around to just, like, full-time filmer, full-time X-Games. She goes, like, you know, what do you want to do with your life? I was like, well, I want to win more X-Games medals. And she goes, okay, so why aren't you doing X-games? And I kind of had to, like, explain the process. And I hadn't done backflips.

I hadn't really done a bunch of freestyle tricks. And she goes, well, I've seen. the way that you ride you know how to do those things like why aren't you doing them and uh yeah for sure like uh i owe it all to her to you know that was the that was the push that i needed to get my career going to to where it is now right because that was kind of my question was like you you obviously knew that you were capable of some sort of uh free riding you know you had all these years of riding under your belt yeah i was like when was this transition of you being like was it one day you had out with all those guys super awesome but then you just said it was like her

pushing you and i think that it was planted in my brain the night that i was like pretty drunk after my first x-game snowcross middle and my manager at the time uh it was the first year that they ever did freestyle at x games and levi had one but he was also racing snowcross and didn't place and he kind of like pulled me to the side and he's like what do you think about that freestyle stuff you think you can backflip a snowmobile i'm like if i had the resources man anything's possible And then it wasn't long after that I quit racing and went down the like free ride. You know, I did the free ride thing where it was like it was in the backcountry, we were shoveling jumps.

That was just like, that was just personal expression. It wasn't for recognition. Although I did have one moment where kind of like set myself apart in those years with that huge GoPro drop. Yeah. So like went pretty viral on on Facebook and YouTube. Which like clips like that few and far between at the time. Yeah.

for sure like gopros were like this huge thing right like mounted it to your helmet in this clear case and had terrible audio and um you know that that singular clip actually landed my monster energy contract really and that like backcountry right yeah it was strictly as a backcountry athlete for you know just making films and um Nikki came into my life at the right time and kind of saved me and showed me a path that has led us to this insane lifestyle that I now call my job okay how many X-Games gold medals do you have? I got three golds, four silvers and one bronze. Actually two bronze because we found a spare one the other year. That's not surprise me at all. And two of them came in one year, right? Yeah. Yeah, 2018 double golds. Uh, insane. The backstory behind that one is so

deep and so gnarly. Nikki and I just gotten married 2017 in the spring in May, weekly. I snapped myself off, snap myself off on a dirt bike, break my tailbone, break my ankle. We spent our honeymoon in the hospital. Ooh. You know, I was laid up and I was like having just like those dark days or those down days where I'm like, is this really what I should be doing? Like we've got a young family together where, you know, we've got a house with a mortgage and like.

Right. Yeah. I mean you had to have had at least one of those moments. Yeah. I feel like natural thoughts after a bad injury. It's like, do I really want to do this? Yeah. And so, you know, we kind of did it the natural way. And, and Nikki got me back on my feet. And within three months again, I was back riding dirt bikes. And that season, I just dedicated everything that I possibly could. Every ounce of energy, every ounce or every minute of time was focused towards like a big comeback. And shows. Yeah. It definitely does. For sure. Lucky enough for you, you're able to put that time in. But when you do it, it shows. Yeah, and it comes at sacrifice, you know, there was times where I missed putting Hudson to bed and missed getting Hannah to the bus in the morning and, and, you know, my other two kids and, and, but for me, that was, that was such a drive in my life. That was, that was, that was a goal, right? I had, I had one silver medal and I had a bronze at that time. And I was, there's more. There's, there's more for me. And, and, and for me, it was, it was, it was, it was, I wanted to do things on snowmobiles that hadn't ever been done. And so I'd go to the phone pit and just beat the shit out of myself for,

hours on end each day until I got these tricks nailed then I would take them to the airbag and land them and I would send Nikki the video because she's at home like managing the family and making sure that the bills are getting paid and my sponsors are happy and we're producing content you know and I was just like so channel focused on on one goal and to go in there I won the first one against Levi that was really cool in speed and style I don't know that I have ever had a battle with Levi that I've won. If you go back and watch the footage, you could tell that he, like, had a bit of a, you know, he was, he was aggressive and, and that was how it was like to race Levi LaValle.

Like, that's, that's who he is, you know. Yeah, it's so cool that we've actually been able to have conversations with both of you, because you two are two of the, like, strongest, tallest pillars in the snowmobile industry. You said tall, man, and him and I don't know. Yeah, yeah, you're all, dude. But, like, it's cool because Monster and Redwell, it was almost like a, uh, a pretty like cool back and forth type of thing you guys had going yeah for sure you know and um and battling him i i knew that he was going to try and push me off the track right inside

me and it was but i was so focused on my tricks because i knew that you know if i was going to beat him anywhere it was probably going to be on the tricks and uh you know if you go go go back and watch the footage you can see that i stayed close to him for quite a while and then i opened up a gap and that was because the snow from his snowmobile was going into the end of the end of the intake of my motor and it was like causing my motor to run very bad and and so then I was like ingesting water and my sled was blurbling and doing all sorts of weird stuff and I'm trying to hit these ramps and do backflips and how you want yeah you know and I'm like oh man I got to give him some space and at that point I was like okay well I'm either going to win on style like I can't win on speed I can't be

this close to him um and that one I mean as much as it was a TV show was was a movie like yeah they wait they made us wait so long to it now too the winner was and And, yeah, that moment, I'll never forget that one. Nicky was right there behind me with Hudson. Hudson was just tiny, you know, like I remember Nikki, like hanging her off of the hip. And you go back and watch the footage and we experience that as a family and my dad's there. And, yeah, it was really awesome. And then to back that up with a freestyle goal, the next night was pretty wild.

You're kind of like the king of snowmobile backflips, I feel like. Yeah, just, man, I really like pulling back. I think so. That's your like favorite move to do on a slide, right? Yeah, for sure. Anything that you can like pull back or ride away from, you know, like I've been doing re-entries and doing 180s and stuff since I was like a kid in 2005, 2006, like doing the big 180s stuff is kind of, it's gone for me now.

Yeah. That sort of thrill, I guess. I'd say like as of late too, most pictures that people see of you like Carter's trailer for Stoke the stoke trailer you just had rap you're upside down on it that's not that's not uncommon at all yeah the main door in here you're upside down you look at and you go is that picture upside down you're like nope just brett sometimes i get tripped out because like my favorite tricks to do is like a tsunami backflip so i'll get the snowmobile to do a backflip and then i'll do a handstand underneath of it while it's flying upside down you'd actually take that picture and flip it 180 and it works that way

it's the same way uh because i could do that trick upside down or right side up you pulled one of those at heydays i believe and i was standing watching it was sunday and i texted you about it and when you went around it seemed like it took a bit longer than normal to come around on it yeah it felt like an eternity and i and you know it's one of those things where it's like probably one of the narlier tricks in my yeah in my bag but it's also the one that i'm the most comfortable with and it's just it's yeah you pull hard and you step off the back and hope that the sled's going to fly around your head yeah it is so nnarly but the crowd it everybody was trained but that was electric for a Sunday crowd yeah you hear the whole

a whole field of people start roaring after something like that so sweet I was hoping for that trick on Saturday and it just didn't work out for me I had a little bit of radiator issues um oh blaine I was hoping for that trick on Saturday it just didn't work out the big crowd was there but I had a radiator issue on the back of my snowmobile had a small leak in the waffles and it was a pretty steady drip out of there. So I had to shut the snowmobile down and kind of just enjoy the dirt bike while I had. And as soon as that show was done, I went back into the pits, grabbed as much J.B. weld as I could. And I just started filling every seam and every crack that I could of that radiator to try and be ready for Sunday. It is pretty gnarly that. Normally you would think of when you're doing that, people would be

like, oh, I can't do that. I can't do that on my sled. You know, I got a leak in the radiator or whatever. And you're just like, no, J.B. Weld it up. Like you do all the normal tricks that we do. around the shop too just to get the thing to run right and then you're still throwing gnarly tricks on it i think there is something to be said about like it's so it's your favorite trick you said sometimes it feels like the easier trick to do sometimes in a way in a weird way i don't know sometimes i'd rather do that trick than just a straight back right but it's like and then there is moments like people have seen you do that maybe multiple times at least on youtube or social media but then when you don't do it saturday they're what's you pushing out for but there is there's a lot of back yes to it buddy you hit

that freestyle ramp. It's awesome. We've been to, I don't know, Jackson and then Haydays and then I guess me and a couple of buddies were at Nitro Rallycross when you were there too. And it's fun.

Usually Nikki is right there watching you. Like, I mean, at this point don't even seem nervous anymore. I was going to ask, I wanted to actually, if we could maybe something by pulling Nikki, but does Nikki get, does Nikki get nervous for you?

Because I saw after that flip. She was walking around. She went like this. You looked nervous. I actually believe that when I stopped and pulled up to her and she said, you're such an asshole. Why did you go and do that? It's Sunday.

She's actually the one that pushed me to do those tricks to begin with. So it's a double-ed sword for her. It stresses her out. I mean, that's dangerous, right? We got family. We got bills to pay. We got, you know, the list goes on. But she's confident in my abilities.

She can see it. She can tell from the time that I wake up in the morning how the day is going to go yeah you know so um perfect example yeah so i leave the cordillane show which is about two weeks before heydays and i rode said snowmobile at cordelaine and i go home and i i take that snowmobile apart and i'm going through stuff and i i have my flip levers off which is the the parts that i flip up and when i'm doing backflips and i'm doing that trick they hold me to the snowmobile while i'm rotating around so i had those off because i was doing something to the bars and I looked at her

and I'm kind of just like I don't know if I want to bring those this weekend you know like it's heydays I got lots going on it's going to be Because it wouldn't pressure you too It's going to be hectic you know And she looks at me She knows me better at myself

She goes You know that if you don't put those on You're going to be pacing around heydays Looking for somebody that's got a sec Feeling good Like you got a 600 mod It's loud It's really fun to ride

And you're going to want to go And do your biggest trick And at that moment And I was like, okay, they're getting bolted on. I guess I'm doing it. You know, and yeah, just given the circumstances at Haydays, it's a gnarly show. It's in the middle of a, I don't want to call it a gravel pit, but this sand is 300 feet by 300 feet wide sandbox. Yeah.

And we're jumping snowmobiles inside of it. And yeah, it was. In the middle of August. Yeah, in the middle of August. I mean, so was there ever a time, I guess as far as freestyle went, was there ever a time when there, when airbags were not a common thing or AK didn't even exist yeah i mean i i feel like i stepped into the freestyle game right when airbags were becoming a thing um that being said a lot of the tricks that i learned prior to my double gold medal year was learn them in the foam pit foam to snow you know really and that was like a gnarly equation because

when we were training at de mellow's place in in southern bc like he doesn't get much snow there like a few inches at a time so we would grab his kid steer and we would just scrape up as much snow as we could and put it up onto one of his freestyle motorcross landings. And then you get like four or five hits and then all the snow just gets washed off, right? Sounds terrifying. Yeah. And so I did that for like three years. And then finally airbags became a thing and bag jump.

And that seemed like a no-brainer. Yeah, because now of a sudden, yeah, now of a sudden we're putting this airbag on the top of a frozen dirt landing and you're actually not even feeling the dirt. So that changed the game. Learning the tricks, though, is still to foam. And people have this gnarly image of these foam pits are. just like do anything you want into them you know yeah don't they still hurt oh man i've got things can happen i've been hurt more in the foam pit trying snowmobile tricks than i have been actually on my snowmobile riding you know like yeah there's you you know nick you can attest to it and

and you know shitty nick my mechanic like it's hard on snowmobiles and it's hard on the body and and when you're trying these tricks and and and pushing yourselves and trying to push the sport of snowmobiling it gets like at one year i'm going to call it 2019. I wrote it down in my journal. I actually, I became scared of the phone pit. I had to like just not foam pit ride for over a week because I was so banged up and so beat up. And I just like had this image in my mind that if I jump into this phone pit, it's going to hurt, you know? And so I like, that was a mental block for me. I had to, I had to like park the sled and not jump the sled into the foam pit. So yeah, airbags kind of open it up because anytime you can ride away from a trick, it feels so much better than getting back on.

nail it and then you just on to the snowmobile and and driving into that into that foam like there's been times where I hit the bottom of the pit there's been times where I've been folded upside down or folded in half upside down underneath my snowmobile and it's dripping gas into my eye and I'm wondering if I'm going to catch on fire like yeah waiting for the crane to come and yanky out of the thing yeah if the guys can get to you yeah and if you get hurt in there like it feels like an eternity I bet I just I never knew that like being a guy who just watched people going to Pits, you know, you watch like Travis and Nitro Circus and all that. You go, oh, yeah, they just do it in the foam pit.

It's okay. It's all cool. And the more that we've talked to people who have experience with them, they go, no, they hurt. Yeah. It hurts worse than landing the trick. That's for sure. Perfect example.

Be like, if you, if you had a puddle of water and you took a piece of bread, call it toast, and you dropped it straight up and down into the water and it kind of like falls through it and then just kind of washes out. Mm-hmm. Like the dirt bike falls through the foam and kind of takes a lot of, like it slices is through the foam, whereas the snowmobile be like if you took the piece of bread and laid it flat and drop it onto the water, just

slaps. You know, there's so much surface area with the skis and the track and everything that the foam helps, but it's certainly that's not soft. Yeah. You've been working on a trick I've seen. I believe the video I saw you doing it was in the back country, the front flip.

Yeah. Has anybody front flipped a snowmobile? Yeah, Heath Frisbee did it. I can't quote the year because I'll get it wrong, but Heath Frisbee did it in the X games in Best Trick, like so gnarly, dude, and so committed. He spent an entire season committed to that front flip. And I was like, okay, like it's possible. I don't want to go do it to the phone pick because I've seen how terrifying it was.

Yeah. I just believed in my abilities and believed in my skill. And it was like, I'm just going to take this thing to snow. And you did it in the backcountry, right? Or did you practice? No, I was in the, man. No practice necessary. I mean, obviously it was necessary, but I just, I didn't, didn't really feel like I needed to.

I, in my mind, I was landing that one and riding away. And, you know, unfortunately, it just didn't really go the way that I had anticipated. And I got splatted. Yeah. Essentially, like, you know, fly swatter with a, with a bug. So were you okay? Yeah, what was the recovery on that? I mean.

I was walking. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like a joke like that is like, I think David had called us. And he was like, Brett crashed and like, it could have been really bad, but he's okay. Like 15 minutes later, I like stand up and I'm like, where did all of these people come? Oh, so that. But I had like a 25 person crew with me the entire day. Whoa.

Okay. So could you walk us through it? Oh, because this was for your real snow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there was a bit of a crew. That's cool.

Yeah. It was a huge crew. So in that day, I had landed a world's first and I had this like aspiration. I'm going to do three worlds first in three days. Okay. And so I did a, the day before, I did a tsunami backflip, snow to snow. The following day, we went and built this huge flip jump and I did a secret backflip, snow to snow. And then in that same afternoon, I'm like, okay, I'm feeling it.

This is good. Like, let's go find this front flip spot. And I was just checking boxes, you know, and like had motivation and obviously some confidence. And I was feeling good. And the crew around me was very supportive. And we had a safety plan. And we found this front flip spot. And I built the little cheater bump.

in it and you know that is supposed to be only as wide as the track is right and the skis don't hit that and so the front of the snowmobile skid is supposed to hit that cheater bump and put all of the inertia into the back into the snowmobile and it should be pushing me on my heels and like trying to buck me over the bars yeah uh that didn't happen the i watched the footage back and the the nose of the snowmobile smeared that cheater bump out because you hit it's so fast it just yeah it was like too abrupt and it was It was too soft. I should have let it set overnight so that it was like rock hard.

Yeah. And, yeah, the nose going to that, the nose going on the snow wheel just like smeared that bump flat. And it was basically a pretty flat lip. So I was trying to front flip off of something that like, not to take it away from you guys,

but like something you guys would. Yeah, exactly. Like it wasn't consequential. Yeah. It was a bit of a downhill landing. It was like a tabletop jump. The lip wasn't crazy steep. But that little center section was,

was supposed to be the maker break. kicker, and it didn't. Yeah. Did you know immediately? Like you felt it like, oh, crap. Oh, this is, I was having, by the way. I'm sorry, I had to do that. What do you think of him, by the way?

Seems nice. Great guy. Yeah, I knew right away, man. I went off of the lip and I grabbed a handful of break and I pinched the tunnel and I lean forward and I look through my elbow, right? Yeah, it was full commitment. Yeah, I looked through. my elbow and I'm dragging in my heels and I see lip go by and then I see sky and I see sky and I'm

like oh man it's not going white like I was expecting to see snow again um and I'm I'm doing all this looking through my elbow in about 0.5 of a second you know yeah it's and it's registering and I'm like I'm dead like I I'm looking through my elbow like this and last minute I just look straight up and get linear with the snowmobile and just got hot tubbed like I I was a little bit separated from the snowmobile and I held onto the bars and when the snowmobile punched me into the hole I was actually hanging on bars so hard that they snapped off on each side of the riser and I punched the dash and shattered the tip of my finger off. It's like close close to losing it, you know, like Cody Matichanick and Cody McNulty were there and like I would flip the sled off

and they peel me out of the hole and and it was kind of like the roadrunner is scenario, you know, they're like peeling out of all. Yeah. And I'm like, man, I can't feel my finger. I can't feel my finger. And they like take my moto glove off. And I'm like, how is it? And Cody looks at me. He's like, it's going to be fine.

He like grabs whatever is the closest and just covers it back up. Yeah. But I like got up, walked away from it. Oh my God. That's crazy. Didn't have a. The somewhat beauty of snow, the fact that you got punched in. Yeah, for sure.

It had somewhere to go versus. Yeah. Like if that was to a land. ending out of a different story. It probably wouldn't be here right now. Yeah. Yeah, that was kind of the mentality. I'm either going to land this thing or I'm going to get flown out of here, you know.

That's why we had a safety plan. We knew where cell service was. We had search and rescue. We knew what time the helicopter could fly until, like, it was down to, like, within the 20th minute, you know? Like, we called, got the heli on its way and got me loaded up. And I was talking to the pilot on the flight out because I was filming and kind of like just kind of messing around. pretty concussed and I was like oh this is a nice way to leave the mountain and I'm like watching all of my buddies ride their snowmobiles out along the ridge like it was actually pretty

peaceful for what went on an hour before then oh my gosh um but yeah just having good people around me definitely uh made me want to do that one and I wouldn't say that it's off of the table but it's not something that I'm looking at right now you know I mean I think just you trying it that's huge yeah also I mean was this one on uh the 146 Yeah, it was on a 146. Yeah, okay. So that, like, for that particular one threw me off, but then for all the other ones, I was like, to be honest, this is huge for you and huge for Polaris.

Like, you're not on a purpose built. Yeah, it was a, it was a 146 of salt. Yeah, you just put your little touches on it and then went for it. It was, that was crazy. I had a seat grab seat built that I just took water pipe, like eight inch water pipe, melted it down, and stuffed it into my side. That's how you make it. I didn't know that.

Evan's going home to make one when he gets back. Yeah, that's a whole tutorial in itself. Literally. Yeah, so I had a seed seed in it. It had stock suspension in it. And my flip leaders, stock bars. Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah, the stock assault bar that year was amazing. So. You got called in and he just stayed right there. You're coming in. I'm calling you out. I'll get Micah to call you out. We're going to talk about how Micah tried to take you home with my mustache. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure you noticed, I'm sure you noticed I shaved my mullet off quite literally like a day before I came here.

But that was the last time. Was it even the last? I don't know. When we were in Jackson, you had a mullet of haydays? Yeah, right, right. I kept it for heydays. But I shaved my mustache to look just like you, which you obviously saw. That was great.

I loved it. It was a look. I already loved my mullet. And then I did this. that and then I put on an American flag shirt and I just started floating. See, the problem is now that you don't have the mullet, dude, you're going to lose your wings. Like somebody just worried about that. You legit just got snipped, dude.

I was worried about that. I heard you say something and then I'm like, and then when everyone was like, dude, you're, you're kind of killing it lately. And I was like, it's the mullet. Just kind of being funny, but maybe that wasn't a lie at all. I mean, I've cut my hair in the past and I kind of go on this like one haircut a year sort of scenario and I just let Nicky do it. It looks like it's trimmed up a bit.

Yeah, a little bit. I don't know. It's still there. Cut it a while ago. Yeah. But I love like the flap of the hair just on the back of the helmet. Especially in the helmet. You know?

Like when I'm in the air or if I'm going fast, that's how I know. That's my gauge. Yeah. When the hair's moved in the way. You're like, you hit a big jump. You get a couple of hair whips on the back of the home. Like, oh, that's a nice one. Just do a real fat trick.

And you're like, dude, do you see my hair? Or like the slow mo? Like when you see the very. video after you're like man I guys got good hair yeah the front of my hair sucks so I just got to rely on the back keep the hat on keep the helmet on yeah at the party flow yeah I'd say I think I got less gray hair than you dude I earned these I'm more sorry more I earned all of these ones so like damn dude call him you old bro uh actually earned every single one of these yeah comes with having three daughters also maybe the lifestyle that I've lived and partying and freestyle

motorcross and freestyle snowmobiles. Mixed up at all. Yeah, I didn't, I mean, we talk with saying sometimes about it, like the days, the party days in sled necks, and anything among that same genre of content and partying is

wild. Beyond wild, I heard. I mean, you know, just, thank you, thank you. She could see that we're all getting empty. Pull up a seat. Yeah, so I would like, Nikki, would you like to come in a little bit. Can you take over for heaven, please?

I can. Okay. What you do? Brett was talking a lot about how much you have helped him through his career. And I feel like you guys are a bit of a power couple in the snowmobiling industry. Full blown. Yeah, full blown. She's actually got her own fan club.

I do. Okay. I was wondering if we could bring this up. You do have your own fan club. I do, apparently. It's a thing. I just found out about it at him. hey days.

Brett was finishing a freestyle show or I think that he was walking somewhere and these guys walk up to him in this sign and it's literally forget Brett. We're here to see Nikki. I was impressed. I got like a little turned on. Mama's still got it. So then they come over and they're just like, oh man, like we just like really wanted to meet you.

This is like our highlight of the entire trip. Oh, so they were like they weren't They're straight up there to see They weren't just schmoozing you I mean they were like no no And then he goes Hey I want to show you something really cool And he pulls out his phone

And there's a fan club And there's like 30 to 40 dudes In this group chat Whoa And it's called Nikki T fan club With like a peach It's amazing On what?

Like Facebook? No it's like just like a group chat Like that was an Instagram group chat Yeah Or something amazing And then I'm just like oh my goodness so then i like made a post about it because i was and then they came back they're like our wives are pissed oh shit sorry not sorry but

nicky's just over your ruffling feathers literally yeah i'm not surprised that their wives were pissed but what are you going to do they made the group chat yeah at the end of the day i went and followed them on instagram and i like you know followed their wives your husband's so great he came and said hi you know like because i'm like i'm like i'm like girl like I love women maybe not she loves women that's all but it's always like hey like your wife your girlfriend you're you know like it's always and they're cool dudes man and I mean if you're going to go through the motions of you're not going to go to heydays and make a sign and not be seen you know that's true like are they that mad or they kind of just downplay in the fact

they're like oh you like kind of met Nikki and she's pretty nice you know like um it's just a picture for memory reasons it's not the first hey days where nicky's gotten some attention either i mean there was one there was a few years ago when we were walking around the swaps it said uh free beer for hot moms or something evan classic yeah i feel like maybe that might have been uh that was amazing yeah Evan would totally hold a sign like that so he actually that was his booth oh Oh, that was, Edm? No way.

I was like, that's totally something Evan would do, but of course it was him. Before he was even associated with you guys, that's where he was. Yeah, that's how Nikki first met Evan. And I, like, he messaged me here. He's like, you know, that was my booth. I was like, no, no, it wasn't. So good. Yeah, it was really good.

Turkey Reinhart was cruising around with Larry and Ticer at the time. I remember that. That was fun. Larry's on a comeback. He is. I did see that. He's been blowing up on TikTok. I think he got a manager signed.

Yeah. So we'll see how that goes. You know, sometimes managers are good and sometimes they're not. I'm a good manager. It's his brother, so I think he can just beat him up if it's not that good.

Oh, so it still is. Yeah. Well, there's a whole thing about, like, I heard his brother was pushing him too hard. And then he was like,

I don't like this. I don't want to die. Yeah. And then it's like, it's an 80 snow will be like, I can only jump it so far. Yeah, it was a big part of that.

Have you seen some of his crashes, though? They're notly. Get-offs and I'm just like... Just gets bounced. Wow. Like most days I like get out of bed wrong and I can't walk, let alone. Although he doesn't... He looks way older than he is.

Yeah, he's pretty young. But yeah, either way, it was just interesting. He posted the one video and people were like, yes, they were all about it. You know, he didn't even really accomplish much in the video, but people were really excited to have him back. That will be cool. Yeah, Turkey Reinhart was always like... Is Turkey coming back this? winter you got plans for turkey i haven't i love have you actually coming around at all you want to hear

the best turkey story of my life the first night the nicky ever met me i was dressed as turkey really no shit that's like that's quality funny no like 100 like legit like i met bret and we were beyond drunk and you were i'm pretty sure we don't even remember oh yeah i don't i didn't recall meeting her i just something came up on my facebook i'm like i recognize that girl follow And then he immediately into the DMs. Like it wasn't even like a follow. I'm going to like a couple of picks. It was like a follow and like DM.

Just like hey. Head first, dude. Well, it seems like it worked out. Yeah. He actually told me in the first conversation bubble. Like you know when you were like Facebook messenger now, this was like almost 10 years ago. Okay.

And so it was like first conversation bubble and that was like the dating thing back then. He told me. he was going to marry me. I was like, so when's a wedding? She's like, well, if you could kiss her, I'll keep you around. That's exactly. So, yeah, here we go, 10 years later.

10 years later, you're in. You guys need to, like, spice things up in the bedroom. Can you dress up as turkey? There's actually some cowboy boots by the door. Okay. The best part about that all, actually, is that Nikki didn't know who Brett Turkot was. No, I had really care to know who Brett Turkot was. She was just at a party with her friend and her friend had invited.

She latered her to this, to the, it was actually a 5-1-9 premiere. Yeah, okay. So, full circle. I had no idea what snowmueling even was. Wait, really? Yeah, no. Where were you from? I was from Fort McMurray.

So I'm an oil field girl. Got it. So I like. Super far northern. So it was a lot less recreational activities per se as far as like sledding. Oh, yeah. No, I didn't do any of it. I just worked.

That was my thing. But she had toys, you know, and she was like, oh, you snowmills? I have a snowmobile like can we go snowmobiling so we did and I just was a terrible boyfriend at the time and just leave her stuck in the back and my buddies is on the same Brett's doing flips out there and you're like hey can you come and get me yeah my friends are like getting her on stock and yeah it was yeah that was quite the quite the time of our lives but so does being sick on a snowmobile pick up girls did that work for you no no that wasn't it I had to earn it dude he had to earn it like He had to, like, actually chase me for, like, three or four months.

And I was like, okay, maybe I'll come to BC and see you. At that point, I was like, I'm going filming. She's like, filming what? You know, and I'm like, she's like, I thought you just locked. And then you know what he said? Google me. Really? I love that.

Well, 10 years later, here we are. Cheers to that. Yeah, no kidding. And then you did Google him, right? No. I didn't. I actually waited for the movie. to come out that phone.

It's pretty fun to like I guess just a side note like if you Google us there's a bunch of shit that comes up but only shit we put out our videos our podcasts our Instagram but then when you Google you it's like you know it's just fun

it's fun to read there's a whole there's a player is right up there's a Wikipedia right up there's like X games does it right up on you like all kinds of stuff I found one the other day that said that I was worth like eight million or so nice

those are always bullshit Where did these come from? We'll get, yeah, the net worth, it'll say, yeah, Ryan's net worth is 60 million and then it's, yeah. And someone's like, he's got a college. People were like, is that real? And I'm like, guys, if I was worth, it's like 300 and some million. I was like, if I'm worth, if I was worth 320 million,

you think I'd be in this shitty apartment? Like, no. No, I would be in a visa on a yacht. Yes, exactly. Or Monaco watching Formula One. Yeah, there we go. Walking on my treadmill. you've thought about this

I've actually back to like the push that Nikki had though and Nikki can chime in on this one from her side you know like a lot of people see me on the snowmobile right and a lot of people see

Nicky sort of like on the sidelines like there was an Instagram real made of her the other day from Haydays of just like pacing up and down the run in you know and it's like I probably had asked her like hey can you go find such and such Chicago, they're like, I lost my mouth guard.

And she's like, these small things. But if it weren't for her in my corner and for her doing the things that she does to support my career, I call it our career sometimes, like you said, like not, not that it's like cheesy, but like power couple, but it's like people see Nikki and associate me and then people see me and they're like, where's Nikki? You know, like definitely. It happens a lot. Yeah, I'd say so for sure.

Yeah. Yeah. I just like I met him and I was like full like I'm very like numbers driven. So I was, you know, like making really good money. And I was like, hey, you should quit your job and go be a full time snowmobiler because you're so passionate about it. And just like enabled him to be like, hey, you go do your things. I'll look after all the back end and whatever you want to do. And like even like after you got hurt, he was saying, I don't know if I want to like do like those dark moments. and I'm like, get out of it. No, you're not quitting.

Like, no, like, absolutely not. You're definitely right about the highs being better, too. That's a really positive thing to say. The highs will be better. 100%, right? And everyone has dark days. It doesn't matter what industry you're in or what you're doing or where you're at.

Everyone has those like, I don't know how I'm going to become better or be more, you know, like, viral or like how are we going to do this and like the people who are in your corner at that time that are you're just like I'm going to quit I'm done the people are like no you're not like one bad day doesn't when I say that I went all in on on 2018 it was like all in oh yeah like we had sleep and breathe while you were practicing from the minute that I was hurt and laying in the hospital bed until we got to Aspen it was that's crazy and it's crazy and it's crazy too because like a lot of people don't know the backstory to it like we were like to the point

of like we had a thousand dollars in our account we had skipped three mortgage payments borrowed money for my dad to get there to get to Aspen and I like I was like Hudson was a one at point and I was like one and a half maybe and I was like hey I love you I support you but if this doesn't go the way that it needs to this is the end of us like not just like your career. It's like we lose the house. I don't know how we're getting home because we don't have no gas money. Like this is like where we're at at this point. If you don't come home with a gold metal, we're like done. Talk about pressure on, I mean, you know, yourself. I strive so hard on it though. Yeah. I was going to say good pressure. The minute that I relax and just put things on cruise control is when you see

me kind of just like make a mistake or you know um so that pressure not that it was in my mind while i was riding but just knowing that like how committed we were and how in deep we were um you know i i say that we were all in like yeah we did spend every dollar we had to get there and and you know people have this image that you go to win x games and you're winning millions it's like man if you don't go win x games from ours perspective you're from british columbia Canada. I had to buy my snowmobiles that year. I didn't have support for snowmobiles. I was getting free mountain sleds, but I had to buy my X game sled. Two of them actually, because I bought a mod and I bought a stocker. So I go to X games and I had hired a mechanic at

a thousand bucks a month and that was like, that was just barely covering his bills so that he could be away from home, you know? So I hired a mechanic because up until then I was doing all of it myself. So I would wake up in the morning. I'd get in the snow. that we had borrowed go and push up my landing make it really nice come in like fill the sled up warm the sled up give it once over give it a once over ask nicky to come down and watch me ride yeah because no one was around so i was there with an infant yeah in the vehicle watching it train and i would like put this little run together and she's like no your feet weren't together you look like shit you're not going to win like that i actually was like you look like a frog put your feet together

I'm like, at this time, I'm like, at this time, I'm like, feeling like, I was like, that was a new trick for me. I thought it felt pretty good. She said, no, you look like shit. I'm like, I hate you so much. So then I would go and do it good. She's like, throw me horns. I'm like, okay, that's a good one, you know. I think there's such a misconception with like freestyle riders and super cross riders.

And honestly, just I think the snowmobile world in general, I grew up, you know, obsessed with all the guys in sled. all the racers all the freestyle guys and i would have thought you guys were flying in landing flying in first class riding in a bus over there eating gourmet meals hopping on the sled riding flying back home near mansions and wherever like i because you guys were larger than life are larger than life and it's crazy that this industry doesn't pay out and honestly like reward the work and how much effort you have to put in to be able to make just a living doing it you know like you're saying you're like yeah I'm I'm doing worlds first I'm pushing limits and I'm still logging you know just to pay to be able to do it and you're putting your body in your life and everything on

the line well and I think that that's like a big thing too like when I met Brett like he couldn't even afford to put gas in his track and I was like okay I literally am working 24 and 4s working for Enbridge making a bunch of money and I've now fallen in love with this random dude turkey Ryan Hart. And I was like, what do you want to do? Like, it's endless. Like, where do you want to go? Like, and I put everything that I had my whole life, my savings, my, you know, pension, everything that got invested for all those years working into it. And it's paid off, thankfully. Yeah. Well, clearly you saw. You saw two things. You saw talent and drive. No, it was the passion. Like, I've never met anybody ever that has loved something so much than he loves snowmobiling.

Now it's kind of like gone gone in the other direction of like X Games has been taken off of the table, you know. Quite a bit, yeah. And now, you know, Nikki and I kind of made this decision together. And it's like everything has gotten so content based and so like at everyone's fingertips, you know. And, you know, I started the clinics thing, and, and that's, that's all been great. And, and with the, the passion that I have for snowmobiling and the support that I have in the industry, it's allowed me to be able to branch, you know, and, but without Nikki's help and without her knowledge and without her knowledge. Because, like, I'm just, like, dumb athlete guy, you know, like, I like snowmobiles, like, you know, you're much more than that.

He's actually not that. Yeah. You know, but, like, I just, like, maybe with. my phone. I'm so bad at texting my friends back or like posting a reel. Like every morning, like I don't sit a reminder of my phone. It's like, it's her. She's like, do you post a reel yet today? And I'm like, no, I haven't. Post a post. Do some stories. It can be more difficult than you think. It is. It helps so much having that. You know, and I'm, I'm waking up and I'm like, did I make that parts order or like, what do I need for the season? And she's like, hey, you haven't

posted a reel in two days. Like, you're, you're following. Yeah, I guess we didn't mention that right away, but you started your YouTube channel, which is really good. Just one of those things that it's like moving into the content world, but it's something that I think, especially people snow and building, but other people want to see. Yeah. And what's your day to day look like? Yeah, and I'm trying to keep it real on there. I mean, even this weekend. I like that. Personally, watching it, I really enjoy how real it is. And it's like I'm pulling up. So it's broken, so it's fixed. Yeah. It's that. Everything. I love it. Yeah. And I mean, even the weekend we're making a vlog based on this weekend and like i want to show people kind of you know

our life yeah as much as it is me there's like so much more to it you know like there's nicky driving the truck down here because i was tired from hunting all week and kind of just like i yeah you know i we spent so much time on the road this summer and and uh you know just just the the life you know yeah and kind of the the turkot brand it's not me like i i i turkot is a brand or becoming a brand now like people are starting to associate the name with multiple people and uh you know our kids and and everybody that's kind of around us you know so with the youtube channel i'm trying to you know trying to keep it well-rounded and keep it as real as i can i'm trying not to manufacture things in there and right well because some people that don't know about what you

should do or there's not this right a wrong thing to do here but they might be like cool you're going to go make a freestyle edit but you're like no i yeah you're smart including you is big including the kids is big and that's what people are watching on youtube well and really we get a lot of our inspiration from you guys i'm gonna stop it oh oh no oh no all right sorry guys we're not in our studio we don't uh the cameras sometimes turn off so we just had that so we'll pick back up yeah right when we started to get a little emotion too. Right?

Yeah. No, what I was just. Like I'm, you know, just like, but really inspirational wise, like I look at what you guys are doing and I was like, Brett. You need to start fucking around more. Why are you doing cool shit like them? Like, what are we doing here? Like, it is fun sometimes inspiring like, I'm trying to think we had a

Enduro rider Spencer Wilton come over. He was killing it. And he was watching us and he was very inspired by us. because he was like, I see all I was just stuck on these riding blogs. And then he's like, I mean, this is, there's just a random idea. I was like, maybe I should do something where I like, he was like, I'm going to fill my tire with gummy worms. Just a random idea, right? But I'm like, no, stuff like, stuff like, if you do your race stuff and do what you do and then just do fun stuff too.

Yeah. I feel like Brett has a hard time having fun stuff sometimes. Like, he's got his turkey reinhart, but like, he's a pretty serious. Pretty serious fella. Well, you guys see me and hate him. No, it's like a Jackson. But you've got to be. Like I got to work, you know?

Like I've created or we've created this sort of like professional image for myself. And it's like I can't, if I was to go back and like reset it, I could like kind of have this other branch where it's this like I just mess around all the time and I can like try funky stuff. But I'm also on the other side of it. I'm like trying to uphold my reputation is like the YouTube world's wild. And I mean, our kids watch some wacky stuff on there. She's like, why can't we do that? And I was like, do you want to do that? It's me.

And, you know, and so not to say there isn't stuff that's on the list for this coming winner that's going to be like a little bit different and maybe not so professional. But yeah, I think there is that room to have fun. And, you know, that's where Nikki comes in really strong and kind of just like flies the flag for me is like at advance or, you know, contests or where we're out in public and doing stuff. Like I'm so, I'm pretty focused. I'm not the most loose. Ella, if you want to say that.

Well, you're trying to stay a lot. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of stress. Let's take haydase, for example, because it's fresh and it's in my mind. Like I have like a six drink cap. Like on Saturday night before I got to go do a KOD flip on Sunday, I'll have five or six drinks and like hang out and be hung over and not be too stiff. You know, but not to like throw anybody under the table, but Nikki will wake up and you're like,

oh, today feels a good day. Like, can we have a butt light now? well you guys we were in jackson yeah yeah you guys did three nights in jackson we did you guys got the nitty tea experience yeah like the keep in mind but the whole time we were like we had you in in our thoughts and prayers you know in our yeah i put him to bed and i was like okay i know you got a big date i got i know you i support you but i am not going down this Thanks for working this weekend, honey. I'm going to go party.

Unfortunately, I am not going to bed at 8.30 tonight. But I see why you are. So have fun. I wouldn't want to keep you from it. That part about it. I'm glad you're able to do that really without, I mean, there's such a thing. Everyone gets FOMO, but like you're really able to do that well. Yeah.

Because I get FOMO. I'm like, I don't think I can just go to bed tonight just because I got an early morning tomorrow. Well, you're also not doing KOD flips tomorrow. And so that does help. But I mean, anything you got to do. I mean, let's just say you got like a big interview or, I don't know. You still seem to have that discipline. For sure.

That'd be a lot better. He has discipline. I do not. Yeah. And that's why the power couple works. Yeah. Nikki's like, Nikki's so good with people and, you know, that's what that's been like a big

influential part of my career is that like with that association is like people understand the job that I do, but they also understand that like, I think he's kind of unofficially my manager, you know? I'd say, yeah, I'd say so. And she'll, like,

she makes the best deals after midnight. It's like, that's just how, that's just how some of the industry works, you know. Like anything, like we'll be like, I met,

you know, one of the three owners of Monster Energy drinking red wine, had no idea who she was until the next morning. I was like, oh, you're standing in front of everybody. Yeah.

We're all at the round table for breakfast and the girl that Nikki was just previously partying with is standing in front and like saying like, you know, marketing. Yeah. And she's like, her thank you is. And Nikki's like, that person was pretty important. Oh, we talked three bottles of wine together last night. No, and that's just I, that's who I am.

Yeah. I make friends with everybody. It doesn't matter who you are. We've been to some like crazy parties. Like we've seen machine gun kill live. We've been at the top of Aspen. We've, you know, we've seen and been. If you haven't been underground in Aspen, Colorado, you have never.

You have never. Underground and Aspen. It is gnarly in there. I may or may not, yeah, I may or may not have spent multiples of thousands of dollars on bottle service underground in Aspen. Damn, I think we need to go there. Oh, yeah, it's a good time. We have always had that outlook too. like a lot of our connections we make through,

I guess, partying. Hang it. Yeah, just. Hang in. Yeah. Just hang in. Yeah.

Well, because that's when people are the realist, right? Like, and that's, I remember meeting you guys seven years ago and being like, who the fuck are you? Like just being an asshole. If we aren't punks now, we were definitely punts.

We were definitely punts that. It was good. Someone needed to call us a punk. I was laughing so hard and now I look back at it and I was like, oh, foot in mouth. And you guys manage. So among all of that, right, of you trying to stay somewhat focused or more focus when you have to do big things and you covering everything else and the personal relations, you got three kids.

So it's like that's four kids, four kids, four, yeah, a lot to keep up with. 13, 11, and six. Yeah, all spread out like, but it's good. It's great. We actually just were trying to have another one and it just hasn't. to make it number five but it just hasn't worked and so we're just back on the party train uh i saw that you guys have a a track in your backyard is that right for the kids and for you wow i mean uh yeah for sure uh hudson is is our youngest one she's six and she's got electric uh gas gas 50 so um you know we

in the spring once the snowballing kind of winds down we do kind of shift our focus Sindamoto and she expressed some interest in that and just the passion that I have for motor sports and for anything that is gnarly is like, okay, you want to do it? I'm going to just drop everything that I'm doing right now and give you that opportunity. Our children, you know, legitimately have $200,000 worth of mountain bikes and dirt bikes and snowmobiles. So it should be. It's like a dream. Yeah, it's just stuff, right? Things in the garage. Yeah. But I mean that place right now where is it true the neighbors maybe don't like well they don't like the gas bikes man but my lawnmower is louder than my one time so like when i'm clanking rocks with the lawnmower is way loud i'll tell you

what really happened was we had an absolute rager okay and we were in the pool with 40 people till 3 a.m. I'm going to be in Canada because we've got to come to these parties. There's people jumping off of our roof. You guys renovated the backyard into just the most mint, the hangout spot. It's like the Turcourt Resort back. So I am, I wear many hats. So I'm an equipment operator, interior designer,

manager, business, accountant, bookkeeping, media. I literally just wear all the hats. And so we bought the house and I was like, this pool is shit. Excuse my language. but I was like, I want it. I want it.

It's the internet, babe. It's the internet. I want it like this. And so we just, wow. Brett helped. Yeah, I put some time in. Actually, at the beginning of the spring, we'd walk the mini excavator over to the pool

that had about two feet of ice built up into it. And I just started punching the ice with the excavator bucket because she was so eager to get the ice out of the pool to get the pool fired up so that we could start building on the yard. Yeah, also are. Fast forward things till July. We got a more. to cross track in the backyard.

The pool's fire enough. Yeah, a lot happened. People jumping off of our roof into the pool. We had a house-waring party, and it was Mexican-themed. And you got there, and I had bought, like, 50-millimeter patron bottles. Yeah, that was the right of passage. So that was the rate of passage. You either did a shot of fireball with a, like, fake mustache on.

So you had, I, like, super glued, like, fake mustaches to people's faces. Super glued. Or, like, taped or whatever. Nice call on the bluff. So then you had to put on a mustache and drink the fireball or you did the patron shot and then put a Mexican hat on and you had to wear the Mexican hat all night. So we had people like our pool was actually dyed a different color because the Mexican ass. Because all that sombrero was like moved out into it.

Yeah, it was great. But that was the reason why bylaw. Yeah, just go back to the bylaw thing. So we're actually away at a friend's place. We're surfing on the boat. And Nikki's like, gets this doorbell ringer notification. We can see there's like a weird stripe on a truck and there's a canopy and a light on top. And she's like, what the heck?

Like did the dogs get out? Is there a bear in the yard? And nobody's home. And so then we're like trying to talk through the doorbell to this lady. And we could see that she's in uniform. And like, oh, well, we get home. We get home and we get this notice, right? There's multiple options on the, on the list.

It's like, you know, noise complaint. Noise complained, such and such, like garbage left out, da-da-da. And it was like, other. And it just said dirt bike noise. You know? Dirt bike noise. And so then for like a week, we are calling the bylaw, calling, calling, calling nothing. Finally someone answers.

And I was at work. So wait, who dropped off the note? Was it the police? Yeah. It was like bylaw. Yeah. Just by law. I don't know what by law is.

It's like a one. It's like a security, like a mall security. So they deal with like. Oh. The deal small issues. Like if you have a dog and it's shitting in your neighbor's yard, they can call 911. So she didn't call 911 because 911 told her to fuck off.

Probably. So she called bylaw. Okay. And then they came over and left a notice on our door. And so then the girl shows up and I'm home. Brett's away. And she goes, yeah, like we got a call for dirt bike noise. And I said, well, yeah, we got a dirt bike truck.

She's like, yeah, that's fucking sick. The file officer was like, oh. like man this is sick like your kids ride here like can you show me videos so me and her bro down for like half hour i like bring out the electric bike do a fucking laugh and she's like oh this is cool yeah your neighbors can fuck right off i'm sure your neighbor was just upset they didn't get invited to the party but we invited there was an open invite on facebook for our like commute like you know how like the neighborhood watch and i post i said hey we're not 13 rager yeah but we are doing this

yeah I and I put it on Facebook because I hey it's going to be loud it's going to be noisy we're having a pool party there's tequila and lots of tequila involved like I still have half of a two six a patron silver in the freezer of our trailer just waiting but it was like a full pit bike national there was two pit bikes and the rest was serons

but there was like a dozen serons there and it was like okay so start about your seron races so we started the seron races. I was going to kind of ask you about that because we were just at the dealership checking all the serons and I was like, we need them. How do you fly them home? I don't know, but we need them. Okay, so we started the first ever seron race.

Sort of like in Western Canada. In Western Canada at our house. So I built this track for Hudson in the backyard. Then all of a sudden, like my buddy's like, oh, can we bring the serons over there? Like, yeah, yeah, okay. So then we like start this little group chat thing going. and all of a sudden now there's a dozen Suron dudes that want to come to our place on a Thursday night.

And I'm like, not just ride. I'm like, I text Nikki. I'm like, hey, babe, you want to go to Costco and grab one of those PA system speakers with the Lai? We're like stringing extension cords into the backyard and firing up the tragger and doing burgers and dogs. And like we created this whole like scene. And so then each week pretty much all summer long,

we had this like Suron like summer night series in our backyard. And like people just showed me. building like the fields of dreams in your backyard for sure but now they're doing it now there's like a full national series there's a national series they just did one in ontario like it's literally like nationwide now you've been to any that weren't yeah oh yeah i went to one and actually well the first one yeah the the first one was um in june or july in canada camloops and uh yeah it was huge there was like 20 something entries or something it was like Saturday night after a amateur national there was yeah there was a mom motto i don't want to talk about that there was like a

full surrun like full mom motto to the point of i may or may not have grabbed the wrong break drank in too much before said beverages before said motto and came into a corner and forgot which was the front and which is it reversed from like a bicycle or dude those first throws me off not having a foot brake. Yeah. So I just like full like dirt. Slammed. Dirt slam.

Two laps in a row actually and then comes in and she like. Two laps in a row. Okay. Comes in like comes in like. Check the brakes while you're under the bus. Comes in like slams the bike on the ground. She's like the front end's loose. And I was like, pardon?

I'm like I just actually won on that bike. And it felt great. Like I, the suspension was dialed. It feels good. It was not the operator. Typical racer, you know. She's so competitive. So then the video comes out.

Like there's actually like video footage of it. And I was like, I had the Insta 360 so I could see exactly what was happening. Yeah. And I was like, it didn't happen. It's a mirrored image. That's pretty cool. So they had, they have one for kids too. Yeah, there was a, there was a kids race and like Ezra, Ezra raced it.

And, yeah, the surrounding school. The electric thing is cool. start to make waves yeah make waves and make uh less neighbors mad yeah yeah and i got a i got a stark on order i'm waiting oh really i won't see it till the end of next summer what's a stark uh the kind of a new tape mode on an alter yeah okay so we had an alter oh you did okay we had an alter yeah yeah we bought one for me and i like customized the seat and did all the graphics and then those things are we're kind of scary very obviously like i haven't spent a lot lot of time on one, but they're kind of scary.

Hi, David. Hi, David. How are we doing? We're good. There's a latte there for you. There's a lot. An athlete. Yeah, I agree, though, though, with you on the scary side is like, because it's electric,

you don't respect the sound and power that it has. Right. I agree. For sure. I just remember, I mean, one time CJ got on an all tough first time ever, and he was like, yeah, it's cool, like, unlimited torque. It's kind of crazy fast. Next thing, you know, he, like, hit looped out.

There's like, they were. there was like an airplane strip so they just dumped off so it's like just think of hitting a big ditch and I'm not he could have jumped over two buses and he just went and he's like flying in the air and he goes fuck those electric bikes yeah well I like it like um just because I really hate blowing a clutch or like missing a shit yeah like the motor doesn't get hot yeah and so I like put Hudson on the front, me and her will go like do a motor and it'll be like sick. I don't have to worry about like her leg getting burnt on the exhaust or, you know, like. Well, there's a lot of pluses.

There's a lot of pluses. And also I don't ride a dirt bike that well. So it makes me feel really cool. You know, like, yeah, that's what I liked about it for sure. Well, that was badass. Thank you for coming on. Yeah. Thank you for having me.

We want you to have you too long. Thank you so much. It wouldn't have been a podcast. I was talking on the way down. She's like, man, like last night I had this dream. Like, you talked about me in your podcast. Like, I don't know what you said, but you talked about me. I'm like, you know you're going to be on it, right?

Yeah. She's like, no, no, no. I was like, well, no, babe, like, that's us. Like, yeah, originally was hoping for that. Yeah. We love you guys. Like, we love you too. Like, I'm excited for tonight, dude.

I don't have any events tomorrow. Say you're on vacation this week. Yeah, this is the first time I think that you guys have actually like been able to like. May or may not keep my shirt on. Jay's physical I am very excited we're going to get Jay and Blaine on here after you guys

I'm excited to see the Jay and Blaine show I love Jay Minterbury well that makes two of us he is like I remember best memory of Jay probably about nine years ago we were at a 509 heli shoot in Sycamuse

and we were in the back of somebody's RV that they were pulling with a truck and we were having a part, a dance party in the RV as they were driving it down the road. Amazing. And that's how we like went from location to location and it was. We got to track down an RV for tonight. Yeah. Yeah.

We're going from the windows to the wall. Yeah. Your YouTube channel, Brett Turcott. Yeah, Brett Turcott. Instagram, Turkot 16. And make sure you guys go and follow Nikki as well. She kind of supports the whole thing. And yeah, send me a DM if you want to find out.

more info. Got it. Great. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Perfect. All right.

We had a little bit of a roster swap here. We got Jay and Blaine. Well, wait, we got to cut in the clip of what we just did between the two. We broke out the bongzilla. Yep. And we, not to get it twisted as to what you might think it would be, but we, we prepped up. That's all it was, was just a little podcast prep. Just a little podcast fluid.

Yep. So we have J. Menneaberry and Blaine Matthews. What are your numbers again? My phone number? No. 411. 4.11. 2.30.

I just feel like that's important to know. Yeah. In the racing. That's our race numbers and our Instagram handles. Yeah? Why buddy go to the dentist? What time was the guy, buddy's appointment at the dentist? What time was buddy's appointment at the dentist?

2.30. 230. I was really hoping it would be a good one. That was a D-slopper. That's a dad. So you guys recently just launched the Jay and Blaine show. Where is it Blaine and Jay? Jay and Blaine.

You're in the process of launching it. Yeah, it's kind of in the... Well, if you look at the Blaine and J, if you abbreviate it, it's the BJ show. Yeah. All right. Now I'm... I don't know why no one told me this. Because...

So we kept it kind of PG. Yeah. By going with Jay and Blaine? Yeah. Because if you Google BJ show, what do you think you're going to get a picture of us? Yeah, we can't. And you don't want to get like your faces in with all the other ones. Yeah, bad vibe.

Yeah. Get out. That's smart. So you guys grew, do you, when did you meet? Racing. It's been about 10 years. We were racing each other. And semi-pro.

Yeah, we were like, oh, fuck this guy, he's beating me. And he's like, fuck this guy, he's beating me. And the cool thing then was like, Jay was writing a Polaris when I started racing in. him i was a few years older than him but like my first year racing semi-pro i was having a pretty good season and then this guy came along and was like man who was this guy he's like gave you a run for yeah like it was now as a battle and we duked it out and uh and then shortly right after the year after you went back to skis yeah it was a short stint with very short but uh like that created the competitiveness was like all this off-brain guys duking it out with me so i have to like try to beat him

he was thinking the same and then the next year we're teammates essentially that's where we create a bond the true bond yeah and then the friendship beyond the racing and the sleds and all that right because like i mean how far away do you live from each other about hour and a half if you're on the highway but i mean we're just like two peas in a pod we're quite literally yeah we well that's what i thought you were a one-off character and then you brought blaine along one time And I was like, I didn't think you could bring anyone crazier than you with. No, he is crazier than me. Like, if you like me, you're going to like him.

Yeah, even more. We get into some good stuff. Yeah. He lives a good life. I live a pretty crazy life. I mean, yeah, he lives a good life. He drives a Ford Ranger. You still have that?

Oh, fuck, yeah. Of course. Dude, it's mint. I've seen Jay somewhere this summer. Oh, is it a golf tournament? Pinda, like this cool-ass golf tournament they do. And they assume, like, I was busy working and couldn't be there. But I whip in that afternoon, just go have some beers everybody at the golf tournament.

I see this Ford Ranger. And I'm like, that is Jay's Ford Ranger. Like I was thinking he was going to drive a nice truck. No. No. The Ranger goes everywhere. It takes me everywhere. And you know what?

I went back home through the dirt roads on that thing. You couldn't do that on the F350. I mean, you could, but it's not as cool. Fuck yeah. Legendary status, 24-7. You guys have some Rangers still? We just one. Just one.

Only one survived? Yeah, we're in the process of turning it into a duly right now. Like the grindhard guys. Yes, except for they did six wheel. They have a six with that one's next level. Have you seen that in person yet? No. Oh my God.

It's a work of art. Yeah. As all Rangers are. Yeah. I think it's duly that was pretty. True. It's going to be nice. It's good because we have the goose neck attachment in the box.

Yep. So it will be good to have a little bit more road coverage. It looks professional. Yeah, exactly. We're like, we're going to start doing hot shots. trucking. Did we add any of these springs? No,

we didn't add anything to the suspension. Don't forget your department of transportation number. Yeah. They'll be calling. They're going to be looking. Not for hire. Yeah. So what do you guys have planned for once a snow starts to fly?

I guess together or apart, but together. Well, virtually everything now is kind of together. Like we're one. We really have been for a couple years now. Yeah. We've, when the friendship started,

like it started the race and we've got pictures, you know, 2014, 2014. at 15 that we're hanging out the hill we're scoping out lines you know the photographer companies took and we look back now and like we didn't realize what we had then and then this thing the friendship really hit we're riding together every day we're we're planning trips together we're doing stuff in the off season and that's what really means like it's not the every day on the snow you know it's like the friends all of us together commodity and uh that's what really sparked it and then last season things really like this idea like because it's kind of been a show

you know like when we're together it's a spectacle yeah it's like there's gonna be something to it is laugh at or like we're i don't know we're not going to float our boats but it's a good time like yeah and this i mean goes way back to when we first started to to meeting everyone but meeting everyone on the 519 all the athletes and we go all of us said the same thing we're like damn They're all so fun. I would have never known because I wouldn't have. You know, watching the films. You would have never known what you did in your personal life, what your humor was like, nothing.

I think that's really cool. I'm glad that 5-09's starting to do that with now that they're doing the podcast and the YouTube series. Like every rider is getting a lot more of a spotlight and where you get to see them develop. Because I remember my first year coming out here for the premiere, I was terrified. Because I'm like, what am I going to talk to these riders about? can't talk to them about my snowmobiling stories they're going to be like oh sick buddy you did a little wheelie and turned out you know like and then we ended up having one of the best times yeah right that there's something to be said about like don't talk about your snowmobiling stories

with professional snowmobilers or even i mean that we get that some dudes like yo you guys love sleds i love sleds too should we talk about them for the next half hour in the bar not necessarily Yeah, not necessarily. It always creates that common bond. So now you're talking about the most random thing in the world. Yeah. And now you become friends over it. And that's like what him and I, I think, have really brought to a lot of people.

Like, you know, the professional athlete, the professional, this and that, what the title? Like, we love that. We enjoy that way of passion for it. You know, we like to push our limits, whether it be the racing in the back country. You know, obviously a guy like Brett really pushes the industry in the back country. I mean, he's kind of like the top tier, right? And we look up to a lot of that stuff. But this one thing that we really believe in, too, is, like, the relativiveness that everybody is still human, you know.

Like, we do this because we have a passion because of not one little thing, not one jump we hit, not one line we pulled because of the people that are involved in industry. And that's what I think set us apart a little bit in this idea. So to your point, that's kind of what we want to show is that we do the athlete stuff, just like Brett. He's got a serious side. He's business. he's you know he's what was a racer he's in competition so are we we're competitive we're you know we're racing for the top spot in a professional series but we're also a couple of guys that like to drink beer and we we I feel like we balance it out we try to balance it very well and

I think a lot of people can appreciate that and that's what we want to show because of you guys like you guys show that it's not all serious like you don't have to be like this corporate and you can and you can get somewhere with that yeah yeah it's like and it's kind of a weight off my shoulders too because i look back on my career like you said going to those premieres and i thought i had to be like this yeah this thing that i was so uncomfortable with and now i'm like fuck it I'm going to be myself because

right or like yeah early on I mean and we would still get this like right when we first met you it's like what was you like in person yeah

and then I would kind of be I mean all good things but I was just like a normal dude but a lot different than you think a lot funnier and cooler and more fun and more out there than you'd think

yeah which you just wouldn't guess right so a normal dude just way better at snowmobiling than us. Right, which is the one thing that I can say that I have. Like, I'm kind of a one-trick pony. I'm not good at anything else. So if I can be a good snowmobiler and then also be like a good friend or a good human, I want to show that. If we're in the business to like do what we do and entertain, then might as well like be real with it. Exactly. Fuck it. And you guys have really

I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, I've never, it's funny. I've never really been like a YouTube watcher or or like really related to anybody, but when I first met you guys, honestly, I didn't really know who you were. I knew you had a YouTube channel and you did what you did, but then I started actually watching your stuff and like I look forward

to every episode because... Yeah, honestly, honestly, like it's inspired. It's like, what are we going to do next? And it's funny. You guys, your banter between all of you and the shenanigans and like, it's like, I want to be there. because it would be so fun you guys like through the curveball industry of whatever it may be

you know like the people's passion the curveball come from like you guys because if you look at professional athlete's standpoint okay they're staying you know professional and like you say you guys meet someone back in the day oh gosh how do I handle this guy I talk to him when they're they are real people yeah all you know there's no difference between any of us we like to have fun we have a passion for things we enjoy but like you guys really really opened up that doors for like say big corporates this and that to understand the importance of people are human and they like to have a good time they like their surroundings they're not just like a robot and not only that but that people like to see you guys be human yeah you know like

to see people be human and like that's why i love that right is and everything yeah like we get to elaborate and and be ourselves and just check which is really fun and yeah uh yeah it's been fun seeing that out of you guys uh also fun to see i mean like we roll up and you're like yeah i just got done with uh you know handful of rodeos like you were doing that you know i just got done i was out bear hunting i was out moose alcunting all that stuff right yeah like we have you know the lifestyles you guys are definitely mountain men oh for sure i love the mountains yeah well him more so than I yeah but but but but well Oh, it's cool to hear that you're out hunting, too.

Yeah, yeah. That's a whole other aspect of, like, our personal lives. He's fluent in hunting and, you know, wrangling. Rangling, anything. I can't live, like, a pretty Wild West lifestyle. Yeah. Where I, you know, pine to Wyoming, it's pretty, it's not remote, but it's still old school mentality there, you know.

Wild West, for sure. Yeah, I mean, everybody has rules. We have rules. But at the same time, like, it's pretty laxed. What do you guys think about that? Those are the unwritten rules that everyone knows. Yeah. What do you guys think about so many people moving west

and the mountains being taken over by people that maybe didn't grow up there? Honestly. Double-edged sword. It is. It is. Because you can't blame them. Yeah, it's amazing. I want to be there.

Right. But we're there because we love it and we know why people are coming. But at the same time, it's like, man, another one. Another one. But at the same time, like, I sit back and look at this. I mean, I've spent my last 10, 15 years, you know, deep in the back country, whether it be snowmobiling or in the summer because, like, between pack trips and hunting trips.

I mean, that's, like, what I did for a living was be in the back country, mostly hunting and summer pack trips. But they still, people are still unwilling, like, the people are moving out and they're settling in because, God, I'm getting away from whatever they're getting away from or they just want something new. They still don't get what's out there. Yeah. Like, there's still remoteness within the states here, especially in Wyoming. Right.

Yeah. And it's, I'm like, that's okay, because they'll never find it. It's a pretty daring thing, really, like, to go back in somewhere deep. And it's right there, but they don't know that. They're there, but they're not really there. So it's like, yeah, yeah, I was going to say, especially, I don't know what I mean when I really say people like that because they're moving from all over. But, like, you're right.

They're not cluttering up the mountain by any means. No. especially where we go. Exactly. And they're there and they live there. They build a house, buy a house, whatever.

And that's good because that's a whole other conversation. And shop at the stores. They eat at the lunch at the place. At the place and stuff. They might venture into the mountains a little bit. They don't have those. Yeah, we don't have. But we still have our own sanctuaries essentially, you know.

So it's okay. Like I said, blame them because I would do the same thing yeah so it's all good so is your so this coming winter like would will your next 519 episode was it already you two last year yeah the last two years now kind of well I like to think it would be but yeah that's you know last year we uh we filmed our episode together and uh I mean it was just our natural selves it was like kind of effortless yeah it's like a day of writing and that's what made it fun and unique is even like you look at David McKinney's side

like some of these guys like they go out there and they're grinding their butts off you know and we go with them and if they just have their camera on they're going to get something cool. Yeah. Whether it be something Narbar or just something absolutely stupid the apple juice for instance if you guys remember that in the episode. I don't remember

the apple juice. It's just I'll bring it up because it's pretty great like Dave McKinney's walking around it's our first day before we're filming and you know we do the backcountry thing but we also have the hill climb stuff so we have a lot of snowmobiles between mostly at jays house all my sleds end up there we're doing everything together so it looks like a skidoo dealership yeah and uh we're trying to gas sleds up

because we forgot to go gas them up but luckily we're classic between like the 15 sleds around there we just start siphoning fuel from all the sleds to put in our sleds that they were to ride it's like nine o'clock in the morning it's frosty and jays rolling around with a modella as david's filming for our episode and the best part is right he cuts it to apple juice Applegious, Jayette. Cheers and it's still frosty. It's just like that's the stuff that people relate to. Yeah, exactly.

And that's us. We're not a fake thing and that's what we want to be. Yeah. I mean, maybe it bites us in the ass at the end of the race day because we're not like Keith Curtis where we're just. That man's a machine. He's a machine. And you've got respect him to it.

Absolutely. But him and I talk all the time about, and we're real about it. We're just like, man, we could do that. but we'd miss out of so much of this. And I think for life is too short to like just be. Because it's not like you're going out and you're sucking ass. Like going out and it's not good. Because then you'd be like we've got to reevaluate.

Right. If we can balance like winning and being competitive but also having fun, that's what I would like to die with instead of just, oh yeah, I won everything. but I don't have any friends. Not saying Keith doesn't, but like his life is different than ours. It's super professional and he's super disciplined, probably the most disciplined guys out there.

I mean, the dude's gnarly. And I respect that so much. I'm a good friend, Keith, so is Jay. You know, we outside of the racing, we ride with those guys, we hang out with them. But, you know, and like we're still learning. We're in a curve of like, you know, how far can we take it as far as enjoying our passion, you know within the limits of all right we we are essentially a contracted riders in the racing side of the things to be as successful as possible and if we're out there doing silly stuff well that

doesn't look good for us you know and we're not trying to take it down that avenue you know we're we want to keep a professional and do the best we can so it's a learning curve continuously of like all right well we need to tone it back and we need to spend more focus on you know being mentally and physically prepared you know and so I think we do pretty good job with that you know guys may think we're just reckless and out of control we're really not you know we do put a lot of effort and training and time i mean actually insane amounts yeah you know but we also express our fashion yeah sure to blow off some steam yeah exactly i think uh maybe we can relate to that in a way where people think every week we just like just get real drunk and go

what should we do and then there's so much more thought and planning yeah and uh strategy that goes into it yeah beyond that it's for sure it is it's interesting to think that we're almost slightly opposite of that so it's like if you guys watch majority of the videos that you guys are a part of you're going to be like wow very uh stand up um focused whatever you know just no shenanigans yeah up until now and then they look at us and they're like yeah we highlight yeah they're like damn they and how do they get any work done you know and So that's what we're trying to do is bring both of those worlds and just roll with both Exactly from your perspective I think if there was if we weren't already Midwest and that's kind of our thing but the mountains is a great place to capture like the lifestyle of being a guy who's interested in power sports like there's not a better place in the world could for dirt bikes in the summer somers in the winter hunting fishing side by side by side by sides is everything.

So it's really cool. I'm excited to see what you guys do. Dude, I mean, I don't know why I'll just never forget it. But, I mean, we've talked about getting a place in two places. That's it. Florida and he, uh, somewhere in the West. Yeah,

I remember that conversation. Yeah, we talked about it. And then you were like, well, like, I don't have per se the capital to just either a build a building or buy land and build a building, whatever. And then you're like, well, would you guys ever? And it was just a random question. And I was like, to be honest, yes. I was like, what if,

We, I mean, among, like, as many people that could own a shop in the mecca of, you know, around Alpine. Then my mind started just going crazy. Because that'd be unreal. It would be. And we'd, and we would just, yeah, I mean, we'd have all our sleds there. We'd have all the best tools. And that's all you'd really. And then a couch.

That's all you need. One or two. And there's no one built a couch, you can do it. And a good fridge. And then a good fridge. And a grill. I couldn't be a mini. That's it.

That was the fun thought about that for me. It was like, wow, that's literally all we would need to have a good time for 20 years and then something. Yeah. Yeah. Until the next chapter. That's the cool thing. Because I feel like we're all living, not day by day, but we're not like stuck to our 20 year plan or 15th and whatever. Like things are very, what's the word?

Viable? No, not viable. Volatile. So I knew that was the word. I don't really know what it means. Yeah. Do you agree? Like,

yeah, definitely. You got to kind of roll with the punch. Whereas to be a little softer, it's like, I know we're all going to be lifelong friends, but I don't know what it looks like. Right.

Well, it's just like I was talking with Brett. I believe that you guys are pioneering a new side of this industry. And taking it from being the person. professional athlete side and then showcasing the personal side of the professional athlete. And I think that will draw a lot more people to sport. It'll make it seem. But for you guys to almost kind of write the rulebook on it is a big undertaking, you know,

to transfer in and do things like that. We always look, well, we always, I look forward to exactly that happening because the bigger snowmobile, snowmobile gets on like a, uh, mainstream scale the more we get to do it exactly and uh we we've cut down a little bit as far as like i mean ken doesn't ride sleds is hard cj doesn't ride at all so it's like what ride in the mountains that is um and it's like ryan it's ryan and i's favorite thing to do yeah it's like if i could do it every weekend i would yeah i believe that all we can do to do it um which in in the long grand scheme of things is the bigger it gets the more people will watch it and the more

reason we'll have to go and do it. Yeah. More reason you have to do it. Yeah, for sure. Which sounds like kind of sounds conceited. Well, also, yeah, people are like, just go. Just go. Yeah. But it's also part of our, you have to do a job. Exactly. And part of our job is satisfying a large

group of people, people that have never even seen the mountains, stuff like that. Maybe don't love snowmobiling. So, and snowmobiling is a very niche market. But the people that are in it are all about. Yeah. There's no more. passionate group of people you cannot share them from that and this is the like this whole kickoff the winter thing you know say we have the group of athletes the sea boys are here and you know the way you guys put that really awesome but true uh the athletes the the group of 509 people here the community five and nine community you know it's this big gathering kick off the winter so the outside

world kind of looks this like oh that just the athletes are there and go meet them but the way this deal set up is here it's kind of a meet and greet hang out, interact, everyone just being themselves. Yeah. But what people don't realize is like, we're all here for the weekend having a good time. And we're going out and being ourselves. We're essentially here for the same reason that anybody else. Exactly.

Yeah. Because we love someone. Not because we're obligated. Not because we're getting paid. We're not getting paid. Maybe you guys are getting paid. No, it was. It was like an open, like you guys can come if you want.

And then we're like, I'm trying to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the cool thing. Yeah. And I think over the next few years, you know, our goal is to, you know, to get pushed people or not really push, but like open the eyes that realize, like, all of us are humans. And we love this sport.

We share the same passion. No matter how good you are, that's the thing. Yeah. That's what it's about. Like, you, when we first rode together, you guys were not, you know, like, yeah, I said the first time. Not good. The first. It depends on your perspective.

Yeah. Like, you weren't. our level but you're also not like incompetent incompetent yes we looked like we'd seen a snowmobile but you had good attitudes and you were you were stoked on it you made snowmuel what it is we don't give shit we're not going to be like oh we're not going to ride with you because of that any day on the mountain is a good day for us whether we're up in the shit where only we can get to or whether we're down in a good spot where everyone hanging out with you little peasants no not I can't make it up the hill.

Not even because I love to watch the progression of you guys. It pushes. That's like what we love is like another thing of the industry. Like, oh, well, good guys only ride is good guys. Totally false. Screw that. Some of our favorite days are riding with guys that are learning and trying to progress, you know,

and what helps them progress further is pushing them. Yeah. And that's why I love riding with you guys because it's great. We get to go out and I get to see the way that you attack something, go at it. We did that with Brett. We did Jackson training. ground.

Oh, yeah, I love that. And I learned more that day than I have in a long time. I saw that through the video. That was a good time. Brett's putting these guys through the motions, and I can see in the video that they're learning. Yeah. And that's just the video.

Through the mistakes. There's probably so much behind the scenes that Mike's probably like, what the fuck? I mean, I was like, this is really difficult. And then it was like, we had a handful of people that are like,

oh, you guys are going to Jackson? Why aren't you racing it? because I wouldn't make it past the first. I think, yeah, there's a few other, there's a few other, you know, let's just say like snowmobilers in the industry. They got the same questions, I'm sure.

And then they were like, well, I'm not ready. And I'm just like, I don't even know how to put into words why I'm not doing it. But I'd go throw my sled at the mountain. It's going to end up at the bottom of it. And then I think the cool thing about that is like, okay, so people really, really covet it. Or covet like, I don't know. It's just like X games. It's like hearing the story that Brett told about what it took to get there.

Some people might go, why? Yeah, why? Why so much effort. But it's just it's coveted and then obviously the passion. Huge. Yeah. You guys should raise Jackson. Well, so there's a, to be honest, not in the near near future, but there is a, the qualifying race that's closest to us is in Michigan.

The master circuit. Is that? Yeah, it'd be the master's circuit. I think that'd be a lot of fun to either just get my feet wet, to be honest. Not even try to qualify for the accident. I think you would enjoy it. Like, I'm not trying to push you to do something because we do it and we think it'd be good for whatever. Genuinely, from a friend to a friend, you would enjoy it.

That's why we do it. So damn fun. Everyone shows up because they love it. It's not some facade, you know. Like, we just become obsessed. over it you know like when we started racing and we were racing you know smaller cc sleds they're usually stock maybe improved and now we're strapping it on factory mods and you just can't get yeah you guys the sleds are insane yeah it's nuts factory mud strap on best strap on you ever like how much

you know that's we get that all the time people are like what it's horsepower and and you know really it's not that much it's the slatway is nothing it's the tunability and how well they work yeah the efficiency of everything it used to be we used to build extremely high like when we were building our own mods high boost ton of power hard to ride unride now like the actual power they're probably down but they're delivered they just work so perfect and then you can ride them too and that's why they're faster you know as horsepower wise they're probably not up to what we used to build 10 years ago they're not even probably close yeah but the sled's like three times a sled and it feels probably much more than it feels by like more power because you can ride it it's manageable

but they're just perfect and overall factory mods are just insane days all right crack them bitches and then we better get to we better get to it the reason that we came here this week yeah we get there's a big obstacle course and there's a dunk tank

and I don't know who you guys are against but are you guys against each other we haven't heard any of the yeah you guys know some rules that we don't know I just know there's an obstacle course and I would love for you guys to be against each other because they'd be pretty entertaining because the loser goes in the dunk tank. Oh, fuck that.

But it's a dunk tank of battery acid, so it's kind of scary. Oh, six, Jeffrey Dommer's style. Actually, I just started watching that show on Netflix. Have you where you at? Yeah, it's intense, yeah. There's some messed up people on there. Anyway, none of us are like that. Nope, we're all, again, just, we're normal people with some social media influence

and you guys are normal people that are really fucking good at someone. It won't be like. Cheers to that. Cheers to that. We love you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Appreciate it. We're in a foreign environment here, but go ahead and subscribe and check us out on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. Thanks, guys. Yes, big thanks to Jay and Blaine and especially Brett and Nikki for coming on. Yeah. We love you guys.

And we'll have you out to Minnesota soon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.