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Today’s Popcorn Moment: What kind of snow blowers should Hoosiers have for this storm? Pat Sullivan joins · Tony Katz | Popcorn Moment

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  Speaker 1: The popcorn moment. Let's go, let's go, let's not tell.
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  Speaker 1: If the story you need to hear to believe, then
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  Speaker 1: grab your popcorn. Because there's more. So we know that
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  Speaker 1: the storm is coming, we know we're gonna get nineteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred feet of snow, We're gonna have freezing cold temperatures.
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  Speaker 1: We of course had to postpone Trump. One year later,
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  Speaker 1: my events at the Higatt Regency rescheduled for February twenty eighth.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is still happening. But I'm serious. I now need
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  Speaker 1: I'm at the place where I need a snowblower, and
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what to get. I have no
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  Speaker 1: idea what two stage means. I have no idea on
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of how you handle the cold. So
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  Speaker 1: I call the expert. But Denny Smith was busy, So
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  Speaker 1: Pat Sullivan joins me right now from Sullivan Hardware and
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  Speaker 1: Gardensullivan Hardware dot Com. Now, if I understand it right,
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  Speaker 1: you don't do you sell snowblowers?
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  Speaker 2: You know we should know we do not.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's a that's a but you know about snowblowers.
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  Speaker 2: I do know about snowblowers, and I'm for you, Tony
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  Speaker 2: I would get a battery operated snowblower. I think for
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  Speaker 2: most homeowners in the technology and the batteries, like looking
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  Speaker 2: at an ego product that has batteries that you never
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  Speaker 2: have to worry. The problem with snowblowers and gas engines
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  Speaker 2: in general is sometimes us homeowners we forget to remove
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  Speaker 2: the gas over the winner and when we're done with
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  Speaker 2: them and all that stuff, so then they don't start
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  Speaker 2: the next time you need them. So with a battery
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  Speaker 2: for a homeowner, perfect fit, especially for you, Tony.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Wow, you're saying that I'm not capable of draining
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  Speaker 1: the gas and of maintaining a snowblower properly.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying about you. Now, I know you
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  Speaker 2: have people, so possibly you could assign that job to
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  Speaker 2: the pool boy at your place that you must also
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  Speaker 2: add that to his list of duties.
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  Speaker 1: First, I'm going to need a pool. But I think
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  Speaker 1: the question with the battery stuff versus like because there's
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  Speaker 1: a whole single stage, two stage conversation I'd love for
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  Speaker 1: you to go over with me about the gas snowblowers.
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  Speaker 1: Are the batteries strong enough to handle what snow? This
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be more powdery, so maybe it can.
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  Speaker 1: But can the battery actually handle the wet snow that
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  Speaker 1: we sometimes get.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they perform really well. The battery technology in
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  Speaker 2: the last ten years has just skyrocket. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: can buy a zero turned lawnmower fifty four inch that
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  Speaker 2: is battery and we'll will on one charge will do
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  Speaker 2: two acres. So I mean it's really not a stretch
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  Speaker 2: for the snowblower. A battery and the nice thing is
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  Speaker 2: battery goes down, you just pop in another one. You
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  Speaker 2: might have two or three batteries and you're charging them.
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  Speaker 2: You pop it in and you just keep on going.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the ease of maintenance is I think superior
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  Speaker 2: in the battery for I'm yeah, I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 2: you know, commercial guys. I'm talking about homeowners.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to Pat Sullivan, Solvent Hardware and Garden really quick.
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  Speaker 1: The single stage this is a two stage thing. I
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  Speaker 1: think I've got it. Break it down for me.
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  Speaker 2: You know what two stage would be. I would say,
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  Speaker 2: if you're in Buffalo, they'll probably only sell two stage snowblowers.
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  Speaker 2: But for us, that where we just don't get the amount. Now,
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  Speaker 2: obviously this is a big snow coming I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: that I would invest in a two stage just because
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  Speaker 2: of you know, once every five, five, seven years. But
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  Speaker 2: the two stage you'll get more lyft and you'll get
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  Speaker 2: more throw off of it. But generally for us as
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  Speaker 2: single stage is generally fine for most people.
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  Speaker 1: So the single stage is when you're collecting the snow,
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  Speaker 1: that's the power being used to correct throw it. The
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  Speaker 1: two stage has a separate system for basically blowing the
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  Speaker 1: snow out, So one is collecting and one is pointed
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  Speaker 1: out to set things, do things. The thing that we're
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  Speaker 1: not focusing on is the freezing temperatures. I mean we're
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  Speaker 1: at eleven degrees right now. This is the stuff where
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  Speaker 1: pipes freeze.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I had that happen to me pipes first when I
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  Speaker 1: was on vacation, and the damage was incredible. Came back
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  Speaker 1: to a flood water pouring out of the ceiling. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's a weekend, most people are going to be home
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  Speaker 1: and around, and heat's going to be running. The advice
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  Speaker 1: for how you handle pipes in weather this cold.
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  Speaker 2: Well, for example, we have a little pool house and
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  Speaker 2: I thought, well, I better go check the pool house,
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  Speaker 2: and sure enough, the heat had stopped and there was
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  Speaker 2: ice in the toilet, so I shut the water off.
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  Speaker 2: I opened the valves, drained them, and put a small
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  Speaker 2: heater in there, and that will be fine. So anybody
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  Speaker 2: that has pipes on the outside wall is the ones
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  Speaker 2: that are in danger. So on those you'll want to
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  Speaker 2: make sure you open up the cabinets, open up the
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  Speaker 2: vanity so you can allow heat to get in there.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't take much, but doing that little bitty thing
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  Speaker 2: generally will stop a freezing pipe situation.
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  Speaker 1: And do you drip?
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  Speaker 2: Are you?
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  Speaker 1: Are you a drip the faucet.
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  Speaker 2: Guy, I'm a dripper. I'm a dripper. If I can't
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  Speaker 2: get to the pipes when I open the cabinet, if
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  Speaker 2: the pipes have not been exposed inside the cabinet and
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  Speaker 2: they're actually in the outside wall, which is really dumb,
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  Speaker 2: then I'm a dripper.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the amount of people who forget to
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  Speaker 1: open the cabinets, which is just you're just making it
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  Speaker 1: easier for the heat to get there. That's that's all
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  Speaker 1: you have to do. The outside hose bids. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people already turn that stuff off when they get
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  Speaker 1: ready for winter. You may have things that can handle
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  Speaker 1: the frost et cetera. But when we're talking about temperatures
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  Speaker 1: that was we're in right now, we've had already where
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  Speaker 1: you're in the zero degree five degree range. Do you
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  Speaker 1: cover those things up? Do you wrap them up? Do
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  Speaker 1: you just be like, you know what, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: leave it, we'll deal with it in the spring.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do? The main thing is to disconnect
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  Speaker 2: the hose if you happen to have a hose still
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  Speaker 2: on there and then not really necessary. Most of them
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  Speaker 2: are now frostproof valves, so the valves are actually extending
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  Speaker 2: from the extra wall in about twelve inches into your home,
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  Speaker 2: so generally that that's where the water is so it
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  Speaker 2: will not freeze. But it can be a problem if
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  Speaker 2: you leave a hose on if you're in a really
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  Speaker 2: old house that has not been updated, then yes, those
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  Speaker 2: you should put a little styrofoam cup on them. And
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  Speaker 2: you can buy those at any hardware store.
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  Speaker 1: That is Pat Sullivan, Sullivan Hardware and Gardensullivan Hardware dot com.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a list of locations. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: know what they are, ask Allison Lemons. I'm not about
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  Speaker 1: to go through that list. I'm just I don't blame
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  Speaker 1: it way too way too way too busy. It's just
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  Speaker 1: so many locations, so little time. That's Pat Sullivan. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks man, I appreciate you being up summarily.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm on my way to pilates right now.
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  Speaker 1: Are you all right?
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  Speaker 2: That's good. It's good a man.
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  Speaker 1: You could use a good grain stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you very much. That's what I'm gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: Go get them battery snowblower.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you sold me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give it a go.
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  Speaker 2: We'll give it a go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm buying today. I'm buying today. Pat Salban, thank you, man,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.