Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade Co is a producer of engineered wood products (EWP) and plywood. The firm operates in two reportable segments, namely Wood Products and Building Materials Distribution. The Wood Products segment manufactures laminated veneer lumber (LVL), I-joists, and laminated beams. In addition, it manufactures structural, appearance, and industrial-grade plywood panels, and ponderosa pine lumber. The Building Materials Distribution segment is engaged in the distribution of various building materials, including oriented strand board (OSB), plywood, and lumber; general line items such as siding, composite decking, doors and millwork, metal products, roofing, and insulation; and EWP, among others. The company generates a majority of its revenue from the Building Material Distribution segment.www.bc.com
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Sep 30, 2026
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None other than Joe Biden says that he too once safely landed a passenger jet whose captain had been stabbed by the co-pilot.
Howie CarrHOST
[laughs] That was right after he was a, he was a truck driver for, uh, Boise Cascade or wherever he said he worked.
Howie CarrHOST
S- 407 says, "You know, Mumbles may have been a doofus, but at least he was an American and not a communist." Yes, that, that is, that is a fact, and I think he ran the city a lot better than, uh, than, than Michelle Wu.
Howie CarrHOST
I know the s- I know the economic, uh, circumstances have changed, but they were, they were never foreclosing on skyscrapers downtown when he was the mayor of Boston
Philip Anthony SchembraGUEST
So the things that made us successful as kids playing football or coaching for a year under Coach Horry, I applied that to business.
Philip Anthony SchembraGUEST
In fact, the very first year of my sales career for Boise Cascade, which was a huge corporation, I came in number three in the whole East Coast in closed sales.
Philip Anthony SchembraGUEST
And everybody kept saying, "Well, how in God's good name did you do that?" And it was a combination of preparation, get that out of football, positive mental attitude, that the product that I had, I believed in.
Philip Anthony SchembraGUEST
And I think in anything you do in life, if you don't believe in it, don't do it.
18 MINS LATER
Chris SchembraHOST
You also are engaged in other great activities that provide happiness, like your motivational publishing company, and you derive joy not just from selling but also from teaching and training and motivating and coaching people outside as well.
Chris SchembraHOST
And so I think that's a, a pretty cool thing, is that there's a lot of avenues in your life that, you know, that you're passionate about.
Chris SchembraHOST
So take us, you leave the Poconos, where you were number three at Boise Cascade, and someone comes to you with this, like, this property in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, that was essentially a mosquito-infested island with...
Chris SchembraHOST
The, the property had dirt roads, and it was a jungle, and there was lagoons and all these kind of things.
Lonnie ArmstrongHOST
So what they did, and this was on Chinese hardwood plywoods.
Lonnie ArmstrongHOST
right that were illegally shipped uh through secondary nations like malaysia uh to disguise the country of origin wow so uh you know reading on um the building products giant boise cascade actually pleaded guilty to federal felony violation of the lacey act and you might be thinking well what's the lacey act well i have it up here So the Lacey Act was enacted in the 1900s, and it's a law that bans trafficking of illegal wildlife, fish, and plants.
Lonnie ArmstrongHOST
Okay.
Lonnie ArmstrongHOST
So basically it's conservation of protected timbers and animals and things like that.
Jess LiottaGUEST
And that just evokes I mean, you just have to think about what this was like.
Jess LiottaGUEST
You know, another one from a Seattle Times story talking about how The timber company folks were afraid of these people and they did not want even though they weren't allowed on the land, they often took no action because they were getting shot at like this one guy from the Boise Cascade timber story in 1993. says uh he this this official hesitates to call the situation dangerous and his exact quote is no one shot at anybody they just shot over their heads and like i you know this is so different to how it is now it is not like this now but the 90s people were getting you know up to up to 95 a pound or more for these matsutake those were the valuable mushrooms those were the ones everybody really wanted to find um and they were defending their patches with literal deadly force um this has calmed down significantly um some of the japan started a big process of figuring out they opened a research institute for why is the production dropping and they found that you know some factors with the charcoal and production increased six-fold over the following years and so it really you know that has sort of become most of our matsutake are still commercially exported but the price is it's nowhere near what it was in the 90s.
Jess LiottaGUEST
And also people have gotten better at finding them.
Jess LiottaGUEST
So there are more places that they can be looked for.