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I know I’ve been trying to figure one out. I got, I got, I have ones that are making fun of guys working. I’m trying to, yeah, we can keep it PG, I guess. Um, no super good ones, but I did come up with a couple. I was going to tell, see if Chris Turner freeze again, anything you don’t mind Jr. If you’re not talking. Yes. Thank you very much. And then got anything, Chris. He said he might listen. So I don’t know if he’s busy and he’s just going to. I’ll start with, uh, one of my stories here. Hi, Chris, how you doing? Hey guys, doing good. Actually, I’m just sort of running around, getting groceries, get my boys, Eric. I’d do it, all that kind of stuff. So it’s one of these things where yeah, I’m going to be listing, but I don’t know whether or not we’re going to be participating too much. It’s all good. It’s all good. Well, you got, you got a quick, funny story you want to share with us? Not really. Don’t have too much. I just heard some weather chat and stuff like that. And yeah, I definitely could feel the cold issues, but we’re finally going to go into the positive of freezing. So. Well, no, because the following week it’s still going to get below freezing. So it’s one of the wonderful things that we have here. These Chinook winds come in, they’ll heat up the place of watch. Everything gets really sloppy and messy, and then we’ll freeze up again. So it’s, it’s all good stuff around here, but yeah, if, if there’s anything good that I am going to hop into it, I will definitely be participating. But yeah, my student would probably be offered the most of it until I sort of get a bit of time here right now. I got you. No worries. No worries. I’m the only, yes, sir. The only Chinook we know of down here in the south is the helicopter. Hello? The double rotor helicopters. They’re been all over the place, their workforce. Yep. But yeah, they, um, they come or that word comes from the warm winds from one of the Aboriginal languages. In Western Canada. So yeah. Yeah, that was out for a bit of trivia. You never know. You never know what we might be talking about on here. It wasn’t something that every day I try to learn. So from there you go, I learned something. Well, exactly. Yeah. You’re, you’re exactly right. And I think we’re all trying to learn every day. Anybody that wants to speak this request to speak and I’ll put you on and we’ll hear about a funny terse story. And while I’m waiting for y’all to, uh, say something, I’m gonna tell you a funny turf story. So it’s a Friday morning in the summertime and we had a pull behind Buffalo blower. You can probably already see where this is going and he’s coming down the hill on number 18 at about 9:00 AM, I guess. And the Buffalo blower comes on hook. And it rolls down the hill and it ends up in the pond in between nine and 18 green, which is right in front of the clubhouse and that nose down and the shoot was sticking up and it looked like a water feature and 18 lake on a Friday morning and the summertime are really busy. So that’s one funny terse story. I got anybody else got something. I see all these people in here. Nobody wanted to talk. I got a couple of them actually, now that you brought some things up and kind of hit. So I got one that, um, happened actually this year, probably, uh, around August. Um, we have these push cards that your members use, they’re electric and they have a remote and, uh, they can drive them with their. So we have issues with them going the remote coming undone or whatever. So this woman was driving them to the 16th, the 16th green, and she was driving. And all of a sudden it actually got away from her and right by the 16th, green is upon and it drove into the pond. And as it went into the pond, it went down and it actually rolled down the hill of the pond and all the way down. And usually you can grab them. So one of our guys jumped in and she tried to get the thing and they couldn’t. So it went all the way down and it went down 12 feet into the ground that 12 three. And I had to go home and get all my dive gear so I could pull it out because she left her keys and her phone and her wallet were in the bag. So I had to go retrieve it and pull it out and get it so we could, uh, get it. And then I, and then on top of it, I had to fix it and get it up and running again for, so she could go back out the next week. That would one of mine. That’s awesome. Is the cart owned by the member? Yes. These ones, the carts are owned. We don’t, we, we have regular pushcarts and it’s electric. The members decide that they want to buy these ones, but they don’t want to push it. This one has like a remote and you can rolls off the bat. Gabby, if you’ve seen the back caddies, that’s what it is. Okay. That’s awesome. That’s cool. So any new people that just joined, if you want to speak just a request to speak they’re on the bottom and we’re telling funny turf stories. I don’t know who’s going to, does Mike have one? No, I just, uh, requested just in case I did feel the urge to speak, which I’m sure we’ll, uh, come up here in a little bit, but no funny stories for me yet. Well, um, okay then I’m going to go with a number two and this isn’t that funny, but, um, are any, y’all familiar with a Toro seven gang pull behind real mower? If you are. We used to use those to mow plugs up after we air fight fairways. So hot summertime, we would put that out on the fairways and it would shoot cores over the front of the truck. So we would set up on the roll bar, a piece of plastic. So you didn’t get beat in the back of the head from all the plugs that it was going over to the tractor. And you can imagine what that did to the reels. Not, not a fun time, but it was pretty funny side. And I really wish we had pictures of it or video like we do nowadays. I think Ben beard just joined if he wants to tell us a funny turf story. Yeah. Uh, as I say that I, my, my middle one starts to cry. So bear with me for a second here. So we, uh, last course I was at did not drain very well. Um, but week before member guests, we, uh, had like six inches of rain. So we were doing everything we could to, uh, Um, de-water and, uh, we had a, uh, trailer that, a generator on it that we had a submersible electric submersible pump we could put on it. And then we also had a, um, two inch trash pump on that trailer store. We could, you know, basically go to our really bad areas and really pump it down well, being a week and four member, get some grinding, getting everything in the shop and it’s hectic. Cause we’re dealing with that. And I get a call across the radio and it says, Hey, um, we can’t get this, uh, pump to shut off. And I said, well, what do you mean? I said, yup, we’re hitting the kill switch and nothing’s happening. So I go out there or I, before I bought there, I said, all right, well, I’m busy. I can’t come out for something like that. Just shut the gas off. It’ll eventually run out of gas. Well, there they call me 20 minutes later. So this thing is still not ran out of gas. Okay. Well, me. And do that as well. So they choked it. And I said, whether it be in choked and no gas on it’s going to run out quick, they call me 10 minutes later. This thing is still running like a chance there’s. I said, okay. I said, I have no idea. I said, I can not come out there. I said, you might get a little bit of a tickle or reach in there and pull the spark plug wire off. I said, it can’t run with that. So five minutes later they said, uh, you’re not going to believe this. It’s still running. And I’m sitting there like there it’s impossible. And my, my shop was complete kitty corner from where they were at. So they couldn’t have been any farther. And I’m already upset cause it’s, you know, a lot of stress going on. I drive all the way out there and they had, the generator was the one that was running. Cause they’re sitting on the trailer side by side. So I walked over there, click the kill, switch on the generator. It shut off. And it was funny because I had the two assistants at the time. One of them was straight out of college. And the other one literally had been at that chorus, like 48 years. And those two both looked at each other. It wasn’t so funny at the time, but I got in my car, I got back by the time I got back to the shop, I just started laughing. That’s awesome. I don’t know. So this is a line I use at the shop all the time, if, uh, you know, because this happens all the time. Somebody brings in a hedge trimmer or, you know, a line tremor or whatever, or blower, and this won’t start, you know, whatever the piece of equipment is, it won’t start. I pulled it five bajillion times and it won’t start and you pull it one time and it starts. So the, my line I use is I’ll be here all day. Okay. So to go off of that, another, I guess a real, real quick one is, um, we had, uh, so the new course, we were doing some push Mowen and we had a group of, uh, young kids. In college, just, uh, just in college. So, you know, they’re 19, 20 years old and it was a really fun group. They were joking. And, uh, so we had a good time and these kids went out and they had a hard time starting this push mower. And I went out there and I they’re just like, well, we can’t figure it out. Like I said, did you guys kick it? They said, no, you gotta, I said, you gotta give it a good kick. And just by chance I kicked it. And one pole, it started, those guys looked at me like I was an absolute genius, you know, the rest of the summer, you know, they’d go get out there. And I watched, nobody was looking and it didn’t start. They would check it, those little areas. That was great. So it was this week, I don’t know. Yeah. So we had Brian and, uh, they pull out one of the three inch pumps that hadn’t been started and who knows how long? Probably. And he has it in the back of a Gator in the shop and he’s pulling on it and he’s pulling on it and he’s pulling on it. And he had to pull it at least 15 times while I was listening. So I walk over and I said, if you pull it 25 more times, it’ll probably start. And he just starts pulling, I don’t know these guys, they crack me up. I guess he trusted me. Who else has got a funny story? We got quite a few people in here. Just a, and if you don’t have a funny story and you just have something you want to say, like, I’m sure Mike, does this say something? I have another one. If you want bring it Jr. I guess this was like a four years ago. We had a, one of the assistants and it was a Sunday morning and it just rained and it was a wet and they were, we just, Billy bunkered some bunkers because we did a project and they put some doughy bunkers so that they were dropping sand into the Billy bunker. So they were driving, um, big top dresser, Toro, top dresser that hooks to the back of a tractor and they were driving it down and they were putting the sand in. And, uh, so I guess the assistant, he was big and bad and he was like, all right, I’m going to take this thing and I’m going to get it closer and try to get it closer. So he got it too close and the whole tractor and top dresser slid down the face and wound up into the bunker, broke the hitch off of the tractor and it was all in there. And then I got the phone call on my day off on a Sunday morning to come and get it out. And, uh, the superintendent and I both showed up and was like, oh, So, but yeah, we finally got it out, but it was one of those ones. Like everybody, there was like white, when we got there, you know, they were all totally white. They were, luckily nobody got hurt. And that was the biggest thing, but it was like, oh my God, it was, it was pretty funny once we got there and we figured it out and we got it out. But, uh, yeah, he, he learned his lesson on that one. It was a good several years ago. Our cart lady, uh, I don’t know why this is one of our pet peeves. She always starts on 18 and goes backwards. And she starts at 9:00 AM. And the first tee time is at eight. So you can imagine where golf is. You know, they hadn’t even finished the front nine, but anyhow, she starts on 18. And as, uh, you might know from the blower story, it’s a pretty steep hill. She’s going up the hill and she runs off the cart path on the right hand side and flips the BEP cart on this. And beers everywhere, liquors everywhere, all our snacks, and guess whose fault it was. That’s right. It was my fault because the steering was stiff and she’s going straight. So I don’t, I don’t know what magically made the car turn to the right, but, uh, anyway, we got it flipped back up, got all the beer back in the cart. We think she was texting and driving. That’s my assumption. I was gonna say, how does that happen anyways? Did they hit, you know, some kind of curve or something flips the wheel? Or, I mean, how does that even happen anyways? Well, this, I mean, it was a pretty steep and bank mint that she tried to, or, you know, she veered off of. So that’s how it flipped over on his side. I mean, those things are pretty top heavy T. Yeah. I had the same situation like that, where the beverage lady was just driving along the straight path. That’s lined with a retaining wall on one side and rocks on the other side to sort of prevent you from veering off, into a very steep grade in somehow the car wouldn’t move. It wouldn’t turn anywhere. And it’s like, all right, no problem. I’ll go out and take a look at it. And one wheel, the left side was going nice and straight. And the right wheel was turned 90 degrees going to the right, sitting on top of a rock. It is like, well, how far did you try driving without trying to turn the wheel to the left? When we do it all day, it is just like, um, no, you smash it gearing near where the steering gear needed to replace a Workman in a whole bunch of certain parts, but that’s only the equipment’s fault. It’s not my fault. Exactly. It’s always the equivalent sort of boils down to. We have a thin at work the new day every day. And, uh, I don’t know if everybody knows what my wife is a librarian for the school and that she has this book called the turtle. And I say, nobody ever listened to the turtle. That’s my saying at work, what do you ever listen to the turtle? But don’t forget. Turtles are very wise, but your creatures. So while we’re on, Bev’s co on Bev carts at east lake, and this was when David Flowers was the equipment manager there, the car girl brings down, uh, the Bev cart and it’s a club car and it’s a pedal start. And she said, this thing, this continually is turning overturning, overturning over. And David’s, you know, summertime he’s real busy. And he says, don’t you have another beverage card? And she’s like, yeah, I got another bag. Um, he said, well, just use that, you know, I’ll look at this one later. So she gets the other beverage cart and you know, they move all the stuff over all the coolers and all that. And she brings it down and said, this car it’s doing the same thing. What it was is she had a cooler on the pedal that was turning the engine over. So he slides the cooler back and says, I’ll be here all day since they’re on her way. So you can’t put a pedal on a pedal start machine. Can’t put a cooler on there. There’s a John have anything he wants to tell? Oh, well it wasn’t funny at the time, a lot of these stories aren’t so. So we’ve got 18 sides that are nine side number four. Our nine side is like down a hill and like right behind the grain goes back up a hill. So obviously water goes to the lowest point. So everybody knows don’t cut behind four because you’re going to get stuck. So our main rough cutter and a 4,300, the one day, right before lunch comes walking up, I got stuck where I’m a four I’m like, you know, not to go down there, I go down, drag him out, go start eating lunch. He comes walking back in, will not talk to me. It goes over the water, the other guys, and they both leave. I’m like, I know what’s going on here. 15 minutes. He was in the same hall getting stuck. And I’m like, everyone’s like, what were you doing? But it just, like I said, at the time I was, I was fuming because you take it as brand new machine somewhere you should. And like looking back on it, it’s pretty funny, but like we can, we Jack him a lot. He gets, he gets stuck in some bad spots. I’m sure. Uh, if we go back on my Twitter, you can see multiple pictures of 4,300 where it’s not supposed to be that it’s probably all the same operator. Uh, yes, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s pretty funny because our sales rep knows like who it was and why he does it. But it’s like getting that last blade of grass that you don’t really need to get. Like that machine was not even a month old and, uh, 18 side three T for some reason, he decided to cut behind like the T sign, which is like on the side of it. And we had to get a backhoe and tractor to pull that thing out of the hole. It was in, it was like a month old. I’m like, you have to be kidding me. Well, y’all always, always says someone yelled for I’m like, how could you hear that? There’s no way. There’s no way you can hear that. Oh, great. Well, I want to say it was you when I had you on the podcast and this is a comment that stuck with me. It’s amazing what people will do to get one more blade of grass. Yeah. And it’s just, like I said, I mean, I understand we’re all trying to, you know, do the best we can with what we got. But when you take a machine that’s way too wide in an area that’s way too narrow or like way too steep. I, I don’t understand, like we have other equipment to get it right. Or just like, say like behind for like, I mean, Just let it go, let it grow high. It’s going to be, you know, it’s, it’s not an area we need to cut, but I think every course has that guy. And I’ll tell a story on that. So I was, uh, volunteering at pine needles with Eric Duncanson and he’d just ground, you know, all the fairway mowers and it was a senior LPGA championship or something. I mean, you know, pretty big deal. And, uh, he has an operator where, you know, we get a call on the radio operator, hits him in the fairway. And I could tell just by Eric’s reaction that, I mean, he was obviously frustrated, but he was really frustrated at the operator. And so we’re taking it back to the shop and I asked him, I said, Is he your guy? He says, yes, he’s my guy. So I think we can all relate to that. We all, we all have those guys or gals, but most of the time the gals, they get it. Right. They don’t mess around. Who’s next, go ahead, John. Uh, we just seem to have a whole crew of those guys sometimes. Yeah, well that, that can be true too. Well. Ah, so we have a 32 80 grounds master. I think it’s about it is 32 80 trials, master products, 72 with whatever. And so like, you know, go out and cut. Tree lines. And you know, we have couple islands near the road or whatever, just stuff. You’re not going to take like a Sidewinder on, you know, just heavy, rough. And it’s kinda one of those jobs, just send the guys out on for something to do when you know, there’s nothing else we’re going to do. And this one guy, every time he gets on it, he’ll come back with a belt, just looking on the thing. I’m like, what are you doing? Like you came in like freaking out the one day it’s still running out there, just smoke and scream. And I don’t like it. He literally locked the clutch up on it. So it wouldn’t turn off. I was like, w w at what point, what was under the deck that like, you know, it had to just stop at the smoke, the belt, like, it wasn’t like they did it by itself, but every, every time it gets sent out, it comes black smoke. And I’m like, what are you doing? And it’s like, she wants to be cutting grass, not like tree stones, also the same. So he was on a Sidewinder and I get a phone call. Hey, you stuck go out on five. I’m like, what could it be stuck on five one. He literally had like a bucked up tree underneath a Sidewinder high sided beside winder, like a log I’m like, what were you trying to do? Oh, I was trying to push it out of the way. Why? Like you supposed to be cutting grass? Not a tree. Do you get Seth? All right. So it’s, it’s more like, uh, I like to play pranks. So at a, at a previous golf course, I don’t know. I was, when I was an assistant mechanic, uh, me and the head mechanic, we had a real, just a real spot laying in the shop. There was in the morning where I’m on fairways and I looked at him. I was like, Hey dude, let’s play brain. Now let’s get the assistant superintendent. And so we, we go, we take this real out and we lay it in the middle of the fairway that had just been pet. And we’re like, oh, let’s see what he let’s hope he finds it and see what he does. Well, the superintendent comes around the corner and finds it first and he starts freaking out 9 1, 1, you know, freak it out. And we’re just like dying, laughing, you know, he’s calling us on the radio, hurry up, get over here. And we’re just like dying. That’s a really good one. I’m on, I’m going to have to do that. We just changed that. So some reels and, uh, I’ll have to grab some of that said fiddle by, out on the course. Yeah. And that says, I can see both of you guys doing that too. So that, that doesn’t surprise me one bit. I, and there’s, there’s a lot of stories that go on, but I probably can’t tell 98% of them. Right. No, I understand that too. We’ll keep it. PG. Would you and Ben and Mike, like to talk about what this happened this week? All I remember is a Buffalo chicken sandwich. That was the best Buffalo chicken sandwich I ever had in my entire life. Yeah. I want to thank Mike. Um, he braved it and probably came up with, came up during the biggest storm we’ve had so far this year. Uh, Mike came up and did a great speed. Great, uh, talk MTF. Um, Mike’s probably about exactly what we need to, uh, our, the it’s, uh, to help grow, uh, get some good information it’s different. And he did a great job. Guys were, uh, a lot of good information and, uh, really appreciate it really good time. That’s going to be there. Like I said, a bunch of thanks for having me too. Uh, it was a ton of fun. I was unable to make it MTF. Um, I had a lot of stuff going on the shop and invited Mike to swing by, to, uh, check out the shop news in the area. It was a cool that he did and had a good time talking, talking for a while. Yeah, we’re hoping to get Mike up here in the, in the, uh, in the summertime and get, uh, get a tour up here in the mint and little hard to do it in the winter time. Usually either guys or it’s harder to get around and their shops are closed up or they’re just gone. Hopefully get them up here, get them up here and, uh, get a presence, a sip up here. Yeah, man, I’ll be back up there. Um, I’ll come back up. And like we were talking about what, like April, maybe may, uh, do a big trip. A bunch of the guys in the Ohio area were saying the same thing too, so I can do one big giant Midwest trip, even talking to Taylor over London, Hunton country club, maybe pop into that Western part of Ontario. Uh, make a quick run around over there and then pop back into Detroit and go on down. It’ll be a ton of. Well, this is way off topic, but Mike, would you be interested and me sending you a bunch of real turf tech stickers that you could hand out to all these people? Yeah. Send it, bro. I will literally hand these things out, like Skittles then me, all of them. Uh, and I will gladly hand them out. Obviously. I’m kidding. I’m not going to just hand them out to 90 year old ladies in the airport, but, um, I will gladly hand these things out. Every time I stopped somewhere. I obviously try to mention the podcast as much as I can. Ben can attest every time I get an opportunity I’m talking about EMCP the CTM I’m real turf texts, the podcast. And I mean, we were doing it in the group, um, in the conference room and sorry if my voice cracks up, still trying to recover from talking all daggum week. But, uh, we were talking about it in the chat or in the presentation room about, um, joining, trying to join the WhatsApp group, you know, get onto. Um, I remember listening to, oh, Justin left, but Justin King, um, his episode, I remember he came at the Carolina show, came up in the van. I think he’d already talked to you or maybe it was right before he, he heard your speech at the tact invention. And I was like, get on Twitter, you know, like get on Twitter, re you know, like everybody’s there, everybody’s sharing a ton of really great information. Um, and so he’s a great prime example of what, you know, the real turf techs community can do for somebody. Uh, perfect example. Right. So, um, I try to tell people as often as I can. Um, so yeah, gladly do, uh, you don’t even have, don’t even worry about sending them to me. I’ll just, I’ll steal a stack from you. Uh, when I see up there in Georgia soon. Okay. Um, I think I’m going to order some more, cause I got a day. Well, I’m on a, B, I’m going to, uh, not that y’all care, but I don’t know if anybody else getting great stories. So I’ll tell you what I’m up to this week. Um, I’m going by, and I think they’re in the chat here. I’m going to go buy JRM tomorrow at noon and do a little tap factory tour up there and meet those folks. Uh, I told them I want to do the same thing. Well, you go ahead and leave now and you can ride with me in the morning up to, uh, North Carolina. So anyway, I’m going there Monday, then I’m going to be, uh, mid south with Eric Duncanson and a steel class on Tuesday, and then I’m coming back to work. Unfortunately, I still gotta work. And then, uh, Monday I’m gonna give a presentation for the Alabama superintendents association and Prattville, which is just north of Montgomery. And then Mike’s going to be up on the 31st with John Patterson and David pre-con doing. Technician seminar for the Georgia golf course superintendents association. And then a lot of us will be in San Diego. Sorry, Jay, go ahead, dude. Sorry. Hey, with those stickers, I think we should, as you get them and hand them out, I think you should take a tweet with them. So you take a picture, hold it, picture the person and put them out and tweet it. I think it would be a cool thing and kind of share where, where you are when it’s like find Waldo, you know? Okay. Yeah. I think that’s a great idea, Jr. And I would hope anybody that gets one, we’ll take a picture of it and tweet it. So that’s your mark marching orders. Mike, give them a sticker. Tweet this please. No, seriously, thank you so much for everything you’re doing for our industry. And I mean, this has been incredible. You’re a great presence on Twitter and I don’t want to get too mushy, but I consider you a friend. Yeah, dude, same here. No. Yeah, for sure. I’m happy to do it. Um, I hope guys see, it’s genuine. Uh, I’ve said it before on the podcast. I just want to help out. Um, obviously the selfish thing is yeah, if you guys all do well, we do well, but um, genuinely loved the industry. Just want to see it continue to grow. So it’s comes, uh, what comes naturally. So, uh, having a ton of fun and I will gladly hand out real turf tech stickers, like they are Skittles. All right. Thank you, sir. Uh, I got to say one thing about Mike, like with my, uh, experience hanging out with them for whatever couple hours. Um, yeah, we didn’t get anything done. We lost track of time, right? But no, what I will say is, I don’t think I’ve ever had anyone in my shop as like a, a salesman, right. Who was not, um, you know, you worked for SAP or whatever, and we obviously don’t have this, I can grinders. Um, but you weren’t about that. And that you came across as, you know, someone who genuinely dislikes what you do and talking about reels and whatever else it may be. Um, which I thought was like super cool. So I just wanted to get that across and you know, how, how, uh, how you’re just stoked and doing what you’re doing. I appreciate it. Yeah. It’s generally just want to mess around with cutting units all the time. You can ask Ben. I even said it in the presentation, any other presentation I do, um, unless somebody wants to actually, and sip grinder demonstration or whatever, but, um, I’m not, I said I’m not even there to sell sip. I just want to talk about. Um, and try to help everybody find there. So, uh, yeah. Thanks for that, dude. That’s reassuring for sure. I appreciate it. JRM what’d you get, Hey guys, I’m surprised I’m a lady. Um, my name’s Laura Haffner, a work in inside sales tear, him and I get to meet Trent tomorrow, really looking forward to it. And Mike and everybody else is on here as welcome for a tour anytime. Um, we got a lot of things going on these days, so, um, we’re expanding and it’s exciting. So it’s a good town. Um, but I love what y’all do and all your stories. So it’s just great. So it was, it was kinda funny when I called up to a JRM I think it was Thursday and I talked to, I even wrote it. I wrote it. Yeah. Yeah. But is it like Nixon? Yes. Yes. Yes. That’s right. That’s right. Yes. I talked to Nixon. Thank you. And, uh, so, uh, you know, and I was doing my sales pitch to the next and then trying to figure out who I might need to talk to, to line up a tour. And, um, he said, and I was telling him about the podcast and all that stuff. And he says, do you think this would be, uh, good for me to listen to? I said, I think this would be perfect for you to listen to, because these are your customers. And, but he asked a lot of good questions about, you know, the demographic and, you know, what was happening with the industry was, you know, how, how old were the people in our industry or is there a lot of people coming into the industry? So, yeah. Yeah, good question. What is it of gas? He actually got his, uh, a degree in physics and he just happened upon JRM and we’re lucky to have him. He’s a smart, smart guy. He actually, uh, helped my five or my fifth grader with some, uh, homework tonight. And I was like, well, this right, we’re doing Newton’s law. And I was like, I got this answer is this right? And he was like, yeah, he’s my phone or friend, kid. But, um, yeah, he’s, he’s awesome. But yeah, uh, it’s hard for us. To stay savvy with everything that’s going on with you guys. And, and I’m kind of the person that, that tries to stay in the loop. So I would have known you if I woulda gotten that call, I pretty much know everybody. I sent Mike that a sticker and, and the word that was you. Yeah. AKA. And you thought it was supposed to go to your other guy, so absolutely love it. So, um, anyway, yeah, we’re just now on the sticker, trying to which I designed, and I’m just really looking forward to meeting Trent tomorrow. I say it’s good times. It’s a good community. Well, and I look very forward to meeting you and the other people up there at JRM. And it’s been one of those things on my list for quite a while that, cause I know you’re all over. Not that far. From Atlanta and I was wanting to get by and check it out one day. And this happened at the house. I won’t be driving up there Monday. Anyway. I could just leave a little bit earlier and, uh, stop. Not that it’s all my way, but it’s close enough. Right? Well, I hate our Chattahoochee guys are treating you well and giving you all the info you need. So, and, um, when I taught, is it Sandra that I taught with? Yeah, she’s our sales manager. She typically goes to the shows. I’ve been to some, but she typically, yeah. Heads all that up. Well, I was talking to Sandra and she said that y’all had some new equipment, like really high-end machines. Yeah. So that’s what I’m saying. We’re expanding tremendous in our production right now. So it’s been about three months in the making. We’ve expanded our, uh, upper building, um, where basically all the magic happens. So it’s been a huge undertaking and, um, had to expand our parking lot for that, for all these, uh, trailers and trucks to come in and stuff. So, um, it’s just been a lot of logistics and a lot of money out the door. And, um, I know all of, you know, that parts are hard to come by and, and same goes for our production. So, um, it’s, it’s held us up a little bit and we’ve had some hiccups, but we’re always trying to get parts out the door. Our quality control too, has been a little hard steel and all that. So it’s just a lot, lot on everybody’s plates right now, but I’m glad you, hopefully you can get really informed tomorrow on that tour and share it with everybody. Yeah, no, I’m, I’m really looking forward to it. I’m stoked as the supply chain got any better for you all. Um, yeah, we’ve actually, we’ve actually bought a abundance of steel. Um, so we’re sitting on a lot and, you know, just not knowing what’s going to happen later. Um, but it’s, it’s really, you know, manpower and hours and just trying to fill all the backwards that we have now and doing it quality that meets our standards. So, um, It’s always a challenge. Um, but yeah, we put out top quality and, and we won’t, you know, stop it any less. And when we, we always, we pretty much have good feedback. Um, but we always like to know what’s gone wrong. If there’s a lot that, you know, something’s a mishap, if something’s not holding up. So we, we love good and bad and we, we take it all and give it to the engineers and they re look at it and we get bad parts sent back. And, um, so yeah, like tomorrow you’ll be able to see our whole, um, you know, chain of command and how things go. I think it’ll be great. Yeah. That’s awesome. And I think we can relate to that. I know I can on the, the feedback and you know, some of this might be generating. That some of the younger people in the industry need a little more patent on the back. You know, my generation, we didn’t need a whole lot of patent on the back. And if I asked you how fairways look, I want to know how the fairways look, I don’t want you to just say, oh, they look great, which is fine if they do, but what else are you seeing out there? Is there anything I can do to make the cut better? Or, you know, what have you, right. So I appreciate y’all being open to negative feedback to absolutely 100%. We like to hear good, bad, all of it. And so, um, more, the better for everybody. Well, just my personal opinion, the bad feedback is what makes you better? Good feedback. Don’t make me any better. If you ask mark Kilgour that question. The sip, he’d say the exact same thing that some of the, the negative feedback, a quote unquote negative feedback is what’s given us our best designs too. So, um, yeah, on the factory side weekly, everybody, I think who’s successful in this industry in business, in general, it takes that negative feedback and spins it to the better side. So, uh, it’s really cool to hear that stuff. Mark, have you noticed any supply chain issues or anything on y’all’s end? No, man. Um, we’re good on the steel side it’s honestly, I mean, we make like 90% of our machines in house anyways. It’s that 10% is what hurts us, where it’s like a little bit of electronics here or there a little bit of pneumatics parts there that, you know, we have suppliers for that stuff gets a little odd. Um, but that’s, I mean, that’s why I marked for the 33 34 years has always made everything in house, uh, to try and avoid that. There’s only so far you could go. Um, but, uh, no, man, I mean, steel side has been good. It’s obviously the guys over at JRM know, uh, the steel’s been us six, but Gillian percent increase, but uh, still, uh, able to get it knock on wood. Absolutely. And we’ve really had a hard time. I know that we’ve had some price increases, but that’s only due to the steel. Um, we would never like Passover to our customers if we didn’t have to. So, um, Allen and, you know, having dealers and in all the states and even internationally, you know, we’ve got to give them a heads up. So, um, just staying in line with the pricing, we it’s, it’s just a difficult challenge right now, but we do have it. It’s just, uh, you know, The cost, the cost is going to be at the buyer. Unfortunately, the end-user well, and that’s happening. Industry-wide whether it be Toro or deer Jacobson, or a gallon of milk at your local, like Mike, like the 10% that we outsource, like the screws and stuff like that, like three Fasinol, um, you know, they’re, they’re having, uh, a slower return on getting those back to us. Um, and that’s pretty much it that we pretty much outsource is, is the screws. But, um, you know, and that’s, that’s pretty crappy because we want to ship everything complete, but yet we don’t have the screws to go with the bed knives that we make, you know, just so you know, ship everything out, you know, complete, but you know, what can you do? And most of our customers are very understanding and, and, uh, we absolutely try to do the best we can for everybody. Very good. Anybody got anything else? It’s kind of been a, a quiet room here. I got it. I got a question kind of off topic, but, um, what are you guys doing about ordering parts, like bed knives and screws to say for the upcoming season? I mean, are you going to put in a big order or just kind of hope that John Deere Toro have, or JRM have what you need? Orlando would have been the perfect guy. Cause I think he just spent and he just, he was in the group and then left the group, but he just spent like six bajillion dollars on knives for that exact question is like, I want to have him. I don’t want to have to have an issue trying to find. He spent a lot of money just buying everything that Toro had to try to get some stock going. I did the same thing. We would basically looked at it and Touro was saying that, you know, it’s going to be difficult. And I looked at the, what was left in my budget and they said, okay, let’s burn a bunch of it. And we just had a whole bunch of fairways and greens and knives, so we could be ready just in case. So yeah, it’s, it’s just a nightmare up here as well. Now we’re, we’re hearing a lot of issues about, yeah. Manufacturers are having issues and if you can get south, pick it up and yeah, I’m sure I’d probably have to help out the, the course down the road if they’re running Touro stuff, but hopefully it won’t come to that. Did you have a comment Jr? Or did you accidentally? I was just in everything. You know, like, I, I don’t know if you guys heard, but, uh, our dealership out here on the island told us that, um, we, for 2022 was done now they’re ordering for 2023 because there are a lot that’s gone. So, um, just, if you guys are thinking about getting a new equipment, you better check with your dealers because you might not get it for the following year or 2024, because Touro is putting out just not poor, but I think everybody, but is one of them is putting out. Um, they can only sell a certain amount of equipment from each dealership and that’s it. I don’t do you know how they do their allotment? I don’t know how that works, Trent. I, I, I mean, basically a store, a tractor out by us, they kind of. New Jersey, Connecticut, um, long island. And they basically, uh, all the 2000 cells, 2002 sales are done and they’re ordering for 2003 right now. So that’s crazy. I think what I think they go on, um, uh, sales history. So you were, they weren’t allowing anybody to over to or order over what they have in the past, because they think they started, we’re getting guys that saw this coming and then, you know, they did 10 merits that they, they did 20 million in sales a year. Then they, all of a sudden they’re ordering 30 or 40 million. Cause they’re just gonna, you know what I mean, dude, either transfer at a markup or whatever. So they were doing it off of, of a history. Gotcha. Yeah. Our sales guy was basically saying, yeah, order something. Um, if you change your mind and you don’t want it will, by all means we can definitely sell it to somebody else. Yeah. I’ve heard several people, I think say that same thing. And I mean, it’s just like the car industry too long. A buddy of mine bought a new Tahoe and it’s like three months old and the dealer called him and said they would give him a five grand if he brought it back to them. You know what I mean? It was crazy. If I would have known the first, uh, edition Bronco, worth a hundred thousand dollars right now, a little bought one. Yeah, exactly. Like this dealers dealership near me, they have one that someone supposedly bought and traded in with 55 miles on it. And they mark it up to $30,000 brand new I’m like, this is insane. Like how much could you want a Bronco to pay a higher, a thousand dollars for one someone will do it. Yeah on the equipment. Like I know like, like I said, we got word that they, our wishlist got approved. I’m like, well, that’s great. But they do realize, like, we’re probably not getting anything this year. And, uh, I mean, we knew that, but I don’t know what, how it’s going to trickle down to like with purchasing and stuff because of how we do like RPOs usually get closed out for the year. So like, come December, if something’s hanging on, we have to let them know like, Hey, it’s getting delivered, you know, say parts or whatever. It’s getting delivered in January. So they have to like move stuff over. So I don’t know what’s going to happen with like, like I said, like I said, it was close to like $800,000 in equipment that are gonna approve for as a cert this year. I was like, well, that’s probably gonna be like a million by the time price increases, like come across. So like, It’s going to be interesting, at least give you a time frame on when you might get the equipment. Well, it’s technically isn’t ordered yet because just, okay. So it would have been like October, maybe of last year. Like we get close like five times and I keep on asking for quotes. We send them quotes for down like our side and they sit around and figure out how much money they have. And then like I had to be last week, uh, last Uber comes out and goes, Hey, I got good news. Good. I got good news, great news. And you know, even greater news. I’m like, okay, hands me a piece of paper with all the stuff that you know, we talked about. And like, you know, in which order of importance it was to us and it’s all highlighted. I’m like, what is this? He’s like, they okay. Oh, well, I’d like, like, well, we screwed up because we should have asked her more. I was like, well, that’s good news, but it’s bad news because we both know like fairway units paying half of them, I guess just the, this is not happening this year. You know, we were doing, knew that going into end of last year. Um, our sales guy said, you know, he’s like, you’re probably not going to see your you’re fairway units that are up probably not coming next year. You’re looking at 20, 23. Wow. And, uh, but they ended up what was on top of that list was all of our lease equipment. So we had a five-year lease on like two T machines, fairway unit, um, 32 80 crowds master. I think that’s all we have at our course that was on lease. But they came back and said we’re buying all that stuff. So at least that kind of saves us there at all. So we’re not losing that equipment or having to pay like additional lease for this year while we can’t get anything to replace it. But so they okayed it, but they haven’t put the order in that I know of yet, like I said, I know like, just from talking to the sales guy, that the chances of us seeing like, especially like cutting units and stuff this year is slim, unless it’s just so happens to be like someone ordered it. And when that price comes out. Cause I think I’ve cameras. I think you said like the price is pretty much determined once it’s delivered, I think is what his words were. So I don’t know how that’s going to look. Yeah. That might be his words, but I’m calling BS on that one. Well, yeah, but I don’t know with us, cause even with us, we’re under a different like, so like, you know, usually if you buy a package deal, you get a better price. Right? Well, our price per unit doesn’t matter if we buy one thing or we bought it on. It wouldn’t change because it’s just as we’re on our government contract. Right. So we already have like a discount built in through cause like we, I guess all of our stuff, technically doesn’t go through our dealer. It go, it goes through some other dealer. It’s weird. It’s really weird because like our lease stuff, even though our, my salesman gets paid, the commission, obviously our distributor gets money for delivering it, but it goes through a different thing, like a different distributor, I guess, or like a, I can’t remember the name of the company. I know they changed names because our last lease has got kind of screwed up because of it. But like, it’s, it’s, like I said, it’s, everything is kind of weird because the government, which is, you know, it shouldn’t be any surprise to anybody, but I says it’s it’s between us and the other golf course. I said it was like 800,000. At the time of quotes, I’m like, well, you’re going to need to get all that stuff where he quoted, because I’m sure it’s going to change. Right. But I guess since they approved everything, uh, I mean the super we’re talking, like since we’re going to keep the one fairway unit like dropping one of the clickers, we were going get three new fairway units drop one of those fairway units off. And like, we were going to go with, uh, like 175 gallon sprayer. Now he’s talking about going with 5,800, the 300 gallon sprayer. So I don’t know. We’ll see what they do, but, well, I don’t from everything I’ve seen on Twitter, get ready to install some fans on your 5,800. Oh, I just pulled the, uh, pull the cover off, pull the government. I’ll tell you what, once I did that, it was smooth sailing. So is it a gas burner? You’re 5,800. Yes. Okay. Yup. It is weird because like, I haven’t told, cause I’m our north course just got there as delivered towards end of the season this year. Um, and I told the mechanic up there, I’m like, Hey, I’m going to tell you right now. It may not happen right now, but eventually you’re gonna get a high intake temperature code and this thing’s going to start beeping and you’ll have to flip the seats up. I was like, just take the cover off now. I was like, it doesn’t actually overheat. It’s just, it’s thrown up at intake temperature, high code from just from like pizza. And I was like, you take, take the front, cover off the right air there and just let it go. And you will have no problems now. It was weird. Well, I don’t Toros had an issue with that machine even when it had a, a diesel engine in it. And I think it was a 5,700, um, at the time. But I remember going to, uh, when I worked for Jerry Pate, they, uh, Augusta had. Uh, cab on theirs that was air conditioning, which was nice, but the air conditioning was not enough to overcome the heat of the engine. And, uh, I was out there with some Toro guys and they flew in and I was just there to assist or whatever. And that’s what we come up with, but all kinds of insulation and made some holes on the side, exhaust some of that heat that’s wow. Like, I don’t know. It’s like, if it’s partly the belly pans on him or what is I wrote, I can’t remember what our old sprayer was, but it was a diesel. I can’t remember what model it was, but like, it was like a tank. It just, you know, just went no problems, you know, other than, you know, I can’t, I’m knocking booms off it. Well, that’s, besides the point that’s going to happen. I mean, run a wise pump wise. No problem. And then, like I said, other than it throwing that code, it wasn’t like, it wasn’t even where it stopped us from Ryan. It, you just learned that when you pulled it in, if you’re idle and fill them back up, just leave the seat up. And then I finally, you know, got wind of like, you know, you pull this cover off or put a vent in it, you know, and it doesn’t do it anymore. And that’s right. Well, what else? Uh, anybody got anything else? We got two minutes last, the way to quiet the room. That’s right. Speak up or forever. Hold your peace. Well, thank you all so much for being here and hanging out. I don’t know what the count got up to, but, uh, that’s looking pretty good. I wasn’t good time. Yeah, no, it’s fun. I enjoy hanging out with y’all and chatting and telling stories. No matter what, what the story might be. And next Sunday, I will not be having a space, but if y’all want to do a space, knock yourself out. And if I have time I might join, but I will be away from my studio slash bedroom next week. Thanks for putting it on as always, dude. Yes. Um, I’ll try to get this. Let’s see, I got a request. Uh don’t know this person. So probably not going to approve that from anonymous cure. Yeah. Sorry. Um, yeah. And hopefully the next Sunday. Well, we’ll be back in action, but seriously, anybody do a space. You don’t, you don’t have to have anything else. And now yeah. Jesse Jones, right, right. As we’re wrapping this up good time. And buddy just invited him to speak. See if he wants to say something we’re talking about you, Jesse, I guess not. Let’s see. All right. Thank you everyone so much for being here and hope y’all have a good. And don’t forget to mentor. Everybody needs to be mentoring. This is national mentoring month. Hey guys, my phone didn’t mean a button, but I, uh, sorry, I missed it. My, uh, look forward to the next step, Trinity, to chat with you guys. So normally we do this, uh, every Sunday, but I won’t be here next Sunday. So the Sundin Sunday following and we try to do it at the same time, uh, six Eastern. So try to tune in, um, just a good group of guys and gals, and we’re just in here hanging out and having fun. I look forward to it. Good deal, man. Thanks.