May 26, 2025 • 7 mins
We dive deep into the psychology and tactics of snow removal, exploring everything from avoiding responsibility to neighborhood snow-clearing dynamics. Our lighthearted debate reveals how something as simple as clearing a driveway can expose personality traits, living situations, and neighborly relationships.
• Different approaches to snow removal based on housing situation
• The struggle with heavy, packed snow left by municipal plows
• Battery-powered snow tools and their effectiveness for different snow types
• Snowblower maintenance and usage strategies
• The unspoken pressure of maintaining snow-cleared property near professionally serviced homes
• Extending snow removal efforts to help neighbors
• The contrast between minimal effort (single paths) and maximum clearing (widened driveways)
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Just admit it You're afraid of snow.
So, if you prepare for snow,what do you do at your house, as
far as like if you just waitfor all the snow to come down
(00:23):
and then plow, shovel yourdriveway, or do you do it in
like?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
For the people at home, Jay.
Doesn't have a driveway, livesin a fucking apartment like a
teenager.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I don't need to cut my grass, I don't need to blow
my snow away.
I don't need to do anythingoutside.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't do any of that either oh yeah, you have
that's right.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You have people that do it for you.
You got in-house livinggroundskeepers yeah,
groundskeepers that that takecare of your house and
surroundings.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I have someone who takes care of the snow for me
too yeah fucking mother natureyou ever heard of her gets warm
out soon you have like an icerink in your, in your driveway
for months it's always so badjust one path along your
sidewalk.
Dude it's so bad I get.
If I get the snowblower runningI'll clean it up real nice.
(01:20):
And then I make my drivewaylike wisconsin gigantic driveway
where half my side like becauseI'll plow the snow three foot
off each side.
Yeah, just make it bigger theworld's largest driveway you see
the news.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
The new plow thing is you can get like battery
powered.
Almost look like weed whackersare you watching infomercials
again?
I watch them all the time I'mnever gonna get it because they
don't have a driveway.
But have you seen those?
Do you think those actuallywork?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
For like drifting snow.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Until you get a real Wisconsin packy snow.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So what I keep clean is the end of the driveway where
the fucking plow plows it inevery time, so the plow comes
through the street and then Igot the fucking plow plows it in
every time, so the plow comesthrough the street and then I
got the heaviest snow bank, theheaviest salt snow mix.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It won't go through the blower, so then I'm out
there with the fucking shoveldoes that turn into a giant
speed bump for you when you getdriving into your driveway?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
well, that's what that can also turn into a fence.
It's the ultimate.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It's the ultimate, I mean you have to make a decision
.
One thing that happens is Iknow my wife's gonna get home
before me if it snows likeduring the day and the plows
come through and I know that'sjust ramming speed.
She's just gonna ramming speedin there could tear off the rear
bumper.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Who knows what'll happen once you drive over it,
walk over it, whatever, then itturns to shit ice and you're
fucked.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, this is stuff.
At the end of the road it's alllike, yeah, then you're mixed
in with all the salt and it'slike a slush it won't go through
the snowblower.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So you gotta like shovel it yeah, but your, your
24 volt broom you're trying tobuy would probably handle it
pretty good I've used one ofthose things.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Actually, let me guess Amy's got one At my
grandpa's house.
He's got hundreds of everything.
It was like a battery plug inthe wall.
I think it was plugged in thewall, powered though, but it was
super lightweight and it wasall the drifts.
Grandpa's got a bit of landthere and the snow drifts up
against the house and youcouldn't go on the back patio,
(03:28):
you couldn't even go out theback door.
So I was down there justcutting it like hair and making
shelves like layers as I wasgoing down and it was chucking
the snow.
But it was like dry, airy, yeah, yeah, still like something.
These they're.
What do they call them powershovels?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
yeah, I don't fucking know I call them something I
don't need.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's got to be a tough product to advertise, like
you got to wait for just theright snow that it works on well
, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I mean, if you got after it, it would take care of
it, like if you lived in an areawhere it's not good for.
Here, though, we might get 17inches of heavy packing snow
overnight, one night Like maybenot that many, but and then
there's no way you bought enoughbatteries to make it through
that.
(04:22):
Well, I'll tell you, the old man, he's got the battery operated.
I forget I got the same easy goor whatever the green big
batteries.
He's got a whole bank ofbatteries.
It runs off a bank of batteries, my God.
And he's got the weed whacker,blower, snow blower.
The snow blower is mean dude.
(04:43):
It takes double battery, Ithink, and it runs like anything
battery, I think and it runslike it'll anything it works as
well as my uh menards brandaaron's snowblower, whatever the
menards brand is do that thing.
I haven't changed the spark plugin it, I haven't changed the
oil, I just put gas in it and itstarts four poles every every
(05:08):
time I got a, I got a toro thatdoes that.
You know I don't use it veryoften, it's only when my plow
lady's sick, I end up using mylike once every other year well,
it hasn't been snowing thatthat month.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Mine still tucked away.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I don't if I don't hear eight to ten inches, I'm
not bringing it out.
And even even that, if I'm nothome, I mean it's just going to
sit there.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You just let that shit melt.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I mean, yeah, got to get the sidewalk though but Just
one path.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That's all you're obligated to do.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, just enough to get your feet through Single
file, two for each wheel For thevehicle On the sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
No, I thought you meant the actual driveway.
But if I do fire that thing up,the whole block's getting their
shit done.
I do it all.
I'll run it until I'm out offuel.
Every time I start that thing,pretty much I'm running it till
it's out of fuel.
Here comes chris with thesnowblower up.
I going to go operate thesnowblower.
I'll load up like two podcasts.
Get the ears, get ready.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Backpack.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I'll get the corners both Cause I'm near a corner.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'll get the corner and then they do the same thing
when you're cutting in the grasstoo.
No, you're like I'll just startcutting, I'll start cutting
someone's lawn and likepartially cut it.
And like partially cut it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Now the house next to me, though it makes me look bad
.
Before it was another guy whojust kind of like yeah, take
care of a little bit of the snowfor us people to come around.
But now there's, they sold thehouse and someone else hasn't
moved in yet, which is flippingodd to me.
It's been like eight months, 10months, something like this,
but they haven't moved in yet.
Yeah, but there's always, oh,one weekend there's someone in
(06:46):
there tearing out.
This One weekend there'sanother guy in there doing this.
They have the other thing, butthey have landscapers, and so
every time it snows, those money, grubby snow guys are like, yep
, one inch down, yeah, we'll goplow you out.
They charge you so they comeout and they do a great job, but
they stop right at the plotline.
They don't go any further.
And then there's my stretchFascinating stuff.
(07:12):
This all came up because it'sgoing to snow.
This is a mini episode.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Why don't you stop it , so we can start a real podcast
?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, I just get a little banter on.
Just admit it You're afraid of snow.
So, if you prepare for snow,what do you do at your house, as
far as like if you just waitfor all the snow to come down
(00:23):
and then plow, shovel yourdriveway, or do you do it in
like?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
For the people at home, Jay.
Doesn't have a driveway, livesin a fucking apartment like a
teenager.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I don't need to cut my grass, I don't need to blow
my snow away.
I don't need to do anythingoutside.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't do any of that either oh yeah, you have
that's right.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
You have people that do it for you.
You got in-house livinggroundskeepers yeah,
groundskeepers that that takecare of your house and
surroundings.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I have someone who takes care of the snow for me
too yeah fucking mother natureyou ever heard of her gets warm
out soon you have like an icerink in your, in your driveway
for months it's always so badjust one path along your
sidewalk.
Dude it's so bad I get.
If I get the snowblower runningI'll clean it up real nice.
(01:20):
And then I make my drivewaylike wisconsin gigantic driveway
where half my side like becauseI'll plow the snow three foot
off each side.
Yeah, just make it bigger theworld's largest driveway you see
the news.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
The new plow thing is you can get like battery
powered.
Almost look like weed whackersare you watching infomercials
again?
I watch them all the time I'mnever gonna get it because they
don't have a driveway.
But have you seen those?
Do you think those actuallywork?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
For like drifting snow.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Until you get a real Wisconsin packy snow.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
So what I keep clean is the end of the driveway where
the fucking plow plows it inevery time, so the plow comes
through the street and then Igot the fucking plow plows it in
every time, so the plow comesthrough the street and then I
got the heaviest snow bank, theheaviest salt snow mix.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It won't go through the blower, so then I'm out
there with the fucking shoveldoes that turn into a giant
speed bump for you when you getdriving into your driveway?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
well, that's what that can also turn into a fence.
It's the ultimate.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It's the ultimate, I mean you have to make a decision
.
One thing that happens is Iknow my wife's gonna get home
before me if it snows likeduring the day and the plows
come through and I know that'sjust ramming speed.
She's just gonna ramming speedin there could tear off the rear
bumper.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Who knows what'll happen once you drive over it,
walk over it, whatever, then itturns to shit ice and you're
fucked.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, this is stuff.
At the end of the road it's alllike, yeah, then you're mixed
in with all the salt and it'slike a slush it won't go through
the snowblower.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
So you gotta like shovel it yeah, but your, your
24 volt broom you're trying tobuy would probably handle it
pretty good I've used one ofthose things.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Actually, let me guess Amy's got one At my
grandpa's house.
He's got hundreds of everything.
It was like a battery plug inthe wall.
I think it was plugged in thewall, powered though, but it was
super lightweight and it wasall the drifts.
Grandpa's got a bit of landthere and the snow drifts up
against the house and youcouldn't go on the back patio,
(03:28):
you couldn't even go out theback door.
So I was down there justcutting it like hair and making
shelves like layers as I wasgoing down and it was chucking
the snow.
But it was like dry, airy, yeah, yeah, still like something.
These they're.
What do they call them powershovels?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
yeah, I don't fucking know I call them something I
don't need.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's got to be a tough product to advertise, like
you got to wait for just theright snow that it works on well
, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
I mean, if you got after it, it would take care of
it, like if you lived in an areawhere it's not good for.
Here, though, we might get 17inches of heavy packing snow
overnight, one night Like maybenot that many, but and then
there's no way you bought enoughbatteries to make it through
that.
(04:22):
Well, I'll tell you, the old man, he's got the battery operated.
I forget I got the same easy goor whatever the green big
batteries.
He's got a whole bank ofbatteries.
It runs off a bank of batteries, my God.
And he's got the weed whacker,blower, snow blower.
The snow blower is mean dude.
(04:43):
It takes double battery, Ithink, and it runs like anything
battery, I think and it runslike it'll anything it works as
well as my uh menards brandaaron's snowblower, whatever the
menards brand is do that thing.
I haven't changed the spark plugin it, I haven't changed the
oil, I just put gas in it and itstarts four poles every every
(05:08):
time I got a, I got a toro thatdoes that.
You know I don't use it veryoften, it's only when my plow
lady's sick, I end up using mylike once every other year well,
it hasn't been snowing thatthat month.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Mine still tucked away.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I don't if I don't hear eight to ten inches, I'm
not bringing it out.
And even even that, if I'm nothome, I mean it's just going to
sit there.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
You just let that shit melt.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I mean, yeah, got to get the sidewalk though but Just
one path.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That's all you're obligated to do.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, just enough to get your feet through Single
file, two for each wheel For thevehicle On the sidewalk.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
No, I thought you meant the actual driveway.
But if I do fire that thing up,the whole block's getting their
shit done.
I do it all.
I'll run it until I'm out offuel.
Every time I start that thing,pretty much I'm running it till
it's out of fuel.
Here comes chris with thesnowblower up.
I going to go operate thesnowblower.
I'll load up like two podcasts.
Get the ears, get ready.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Backpack.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I'll get the corners both Cause I'm near a corner.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'll get the corner and then they do the same thing
when you're cutting in the grasstoo.
No, you're like I'll just startcutting, I'll start cutting
someone's lawn and likepartially cut it.
And like partially cut it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Now the house next to me, though it makes me look bad
.
Before it was another guy whojust kind of like yeah, take
care of a little bit of the snowfor us people to come around.
But now there's, they sold thehouse and someone else hasn't
moved in yet, which is flippingodd to me.
It's been like eight months, 10months, something like this,
but they haven't moved in yet.
Yeah, but there's always, oh,one weekend there's someone in
(06:46):
there tearing out.
This One weekend there'sanother guy in there doing this.
They have the other thing, butthey have landscapers, and so
every time it snows, those money, grubby snow guys are like, yep
, one inch down, yeah, we'll goplow you out.
They charge you so they comeout and they do a great job, but
they stop right at the plotline.
They don't go any further.
And then there's my stretchFascinating stuff.
(07:12):
This all came up because it'sgoing to snow.
This is a mini episode.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Why don't you stop it , so we can start a real podcast
?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, I just get a little banter on.
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