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Hey, Tyler, how you doing today? Oh, you know, dying of heat down here in Texas right now. I don’t ever actually cooled down and the humidity was a little bit lower today in Georgia, so it wasn’t too bad. Hello. It was a very, very welcome break. Just hoping it does that this week for us. Yeah, hopefully. So we’ll see if we can get a, get a few more people on here. No. Uh, I’m assuming you probably won’t go ahead. You won’t do one next week being the 4th of July, right? um, I dunno, honestly, I don’t have a whole lot of, I don’t know. I shouldn’t say that I have a busy, busy life. I really don’t do that much. So I don’t know. Um, it’s possible to have one next week. Yeah, but I put this in the WhatsApp group, I don’t know, few hours ago. And there was a couple that said they were interested, so we’ll see what happens. Well, hopefully get some tonight. Yep. I know. It’s usually slow out of the gate for whatever reason. Yeah. People getting on and then people get sidetracked doing other things. Mm-hmm I agree with that. Yeah. I was on a phone call waiting. Talking about, uh, search and rescue stuff that I volunteer for, because I don’t have enough going on in my life. I volunteer right on the local search and rescue group and we have all these new recruits and we’re trying to do a new training document and yeah, it’s been fun. so I, I told them, I said, I gotta go. And then they talked for another 15 minutes, so I didn’t have any time to prepare for this, but that’s okay. We don’t need a lot of, a lot of preparation for this. Yeah. The topic tonight is what’s going on at our courses. Yeah. Um, and that’s thanks to Seth Shelton. Um, that’s what he said he wanted to talk about. So we’re gonna do it. Yeah. So nothing wrong with that. Yep. Um, you wanna start out the. Tell us what, what you working on what’s happening at your course? Oh, it seems like, uh, trying to keep with the heat. No rain in Dallas, uh, prepping. We got, uh, our summer airification stuff coming up on the, the week after the 4th of July. So the 11th, just, uh, corn air, corn fairways, ver cutting. And then, uh, using the planet air for our greens instead of vent times this year, for some reason. Okay. But nothing too, too pressing, but what, what do y’all Harper? Oh, okay. What model is that? Harper? We got the TV 60 TV, 60, and you’re gonna use it to process course. Process the cores and the bird cutting clean up. So we’ll see how it works should be pretty good, real, similar to the Raco vac, but it has a stronger vacuum than what the Raco vac does. Gotcha. And it’s also a ver cutter. Uh, we didn’t get the ver cutter attachment. We’re just, we’ll be running our, uh, the Weedman VC or whatever they are the triple vs. I’m like, I’m drawing a blank. I’m thinking of, you know, the good old, the first products VC one 60 and all that and forgetting I’ve got the Weedman here. gotcha. Too many numbers with equipment these days. Do you remember? ’em all yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s for sure. I gotta do that too. For, uh, Caleb he’s in our WhatsApp group. And the other day he asked for, uh, tech manual for, uh, 52 10, and somebody gave him a tech manual for a Toro 52, 10 fairway unit, not the tractor. Yeah. Not the tractor. And anyway, they sent him that manual and I said, I’m glad that he sent you that manual because I was thinking about the tractor and then come to find out he did need the one about the tractor and I still, still hadn’t got it for him. Yeah. I was, uh, looking for some parts for a, uh, for some forum groups for a, uh, 25 50 John Deere, you know, the B or they don’t even call it a B anymore. It’s just a diesel triplex and it comes up with their 25 50 tractor everywhere for any kinda forums. Oh, OK. I got one that’s. I got two of them that are a year and a half old with less than 400 hours on ’em. And, uh, one started knocking, sounded like a lifter spring okay. And they came and picked it up from deer and basically the engines jump and it’s like, well, it was full on the dip stick when it started doing that. So you tell me what’s going on with it, deer dying. How, and it was pretty new. Yeah. Wow. Uh, that one had 400 hours or like 400, two hours. And the other one’s got like 390 and it’s, it was it’s blue. They’re both, both losing oil, like they’re burning oil somehow, but yet there’s no, no, uh, indication of an oil leak, like a drain plug or around a filter, like, you’d think there’s nothing in the water. So it’s like, huh, where’s this oil going and burning from? I think Yamar had something screwed up on those to be honest. Gotcha. You know how that turn into a nightmare with warranty stuff, especially an engine. Oh yeah, for sure. Wow. Well, good evening guys. How you doing? Good. Good. How are you? Good, Chris. How you doing? Doing good. Doing good. I’m so glad you guys are back in doing these talks. It’s yeah, its it’s really busy around my end of the world. Yeah. And IM sure everybody elses too. I saw your post about incident. You had, uh, one of your tournaments with the volunteering is just like, wow. That would just been brutal to have to go through. Yeah. Um, I don’t know. However you want to look at it. Fortunately, I wasn’t there that’s the way I’m looking at it. Yeah. When it actually happened, um, I left mm-hmm, probably 30 minutes before it happened, so, um, geez. Yeah. But that’s so sad. Yeah, no, it is, it is terrible. Uh, the guy was 69 years old. He’d probably rode on a golf course on the back of a golf cart like that, you know, 500 million times mm-hmm and that was the one time he fell off and hit his head. Yeah. That’s sad. Yeah. No, it’s terrible. Sad that it happened. Yep. Terrible situation. Yeah. And then I don’t remember maybe two weeks ago. Um, I see a member riding on the back of a golf cart down the hill, you know, and this was like a week after that’s happened. So. Check your head. I don’t, you know, what do you do? Wow. Oh, I mean, uh, I I’ve taken a page or I’ve taken some insight from that incident and it’s like, yeah, I’m getting all my back shop guys. They’re having to sign all the training documentation. We’re getting the pro to get involved with it and he’s getting me watching them. It’s just like, I don’t wanna have to go through it. I don’t wanna have to tell anybody about it. And I don’t wanna have to tell the family because that’s just too unnerving and too upsetting to have to deal with that kind of stuff. Cuz we’re all there for fun. Everyone’s there for fun. And some of us even get a paycheck out of it too. keep the golf course. Nice and happy. yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yep. Yep. I’m glad you’re back back doing this. Hopefully it didn’t affect you too badly. No, no. I mean, you know, I’m bummed about it and it sucks and all that, but that’s, uh, that’s part of life. Mm-hmm yeah, that’s just part of it. So I can tell you about my course go for, well, I actually got out the indoor cat got out on the course. They got me actually helping out. We were doing some Aeron and because we, we had a really late start to our season. Um, some of our greens had some weak areas and we were trying to sort of coax them back into life and stuff like that. And then our super just basically said, no, forget it. We’ve got a nursery. Let’s slot it. So we took out a bunch of, so. Um, or sorry, we took out a bunch of the nursery, saw it and we transplanted all that and we were air raid and all that. And then it’s like, well, what do we do with the nursery? And I opened my big mouth and asked the question and they said, well, come on out, Chris, you get to hang out and see how we rebuild the nursery and stuff like that. So it was kind of interesting because I had no idea and I’m still learning. And, uh, yeah, we had what, two big dump trucks of sand come in with nutrients. We had to hold that out to the nursery area, throwing all the fertilizers and prep, everything forward and then receipt it. And now I go out there, we get other days to take a look and see how much growth we have. Mm-hmm and there’s nothing right now. I don’t shouldn’t there be something right now? Um, no, we, how long into it? Like four days. Oh, okay. Okay. Get close then. Oh close. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be happening really soon. But yeah, we we’ve just been sort of sitting in the stripped area and it’s like, well, I guess we should get that rebuilt. And it happened pretty quick. Awesome. Well, I don’t know if it’s quick, but all I know is that a bunch of stuff showed up in front of the shop. All right. What are we doing with all the sand? I thought we finished all. I just looked at all that sand and started crying for my blades. Yeah, we got sand for days and days and days really scary. I don’t, it’s really scary. It’s sad. I don’t know. I know it’s a necessary evil, but it’s gonna be fun. It’s gonna be a fun interesting, uh, seven weeks think. No, no, we’re less than that now. what’s happening at, at your in six weeks? Well, not in, um, we have, uh, six weeks to finish air. Fine, the entire course. Okay. Um, for Wawa and we want to do greens twice, but the greens we’re gonna use is the top changer. It’s the wet Jack machine. Okay. So it injects the sand into the green and we want do do that twice. Then AFI all the tees. Most of the tees have already been done. We got a, a few more, we had senior tournament, uh, inner club tournament today. So we’ll start, we’ll verify those tees starting tomorrow. I got both my core harvesters hooked up and put on if you’ve never used a core harvester. It takes two core harvesters to keep one running has been my experience with core harvesters and I’ve been running ’em since, uh, the mid nineties. And, uh, back then we only had one. So it did, it only run 50% of the time because it was down to other 50% as well. One of the worst pieces of equipment maintenance wise, uh, I’ve seen the core harvester. We’ve got one hanging from our Raptors in one of our sheds. And I look at it as like, when do you use that? I haven’t even seen nothing come off the chain in the past five years. so it’s like, yeah, we just find shuffles or a lot easier. it is. It really is. Um, they were so smart when they designed that, that the idler, if you will, for the elevator chain is a piece of wood. with, uh, eight inch piece of plastic on it. And that eight inch piece of plastic will last about eight hours of operation. Oh my. I mean, it’s just, it’s insane. how much, uh, wear and, you know, I mean, I know you’re picking up sand and all this abrasive stuff, but I’ve, uh, thought about redesigning it, but I really hope we just throw ’em away and get another machine that, that would be easier than a complete redesign. Now, would this be for harvesting off of fairways or is this just off of teasing off of greens? Well, normally, you know, tee boxes are so small. We’ll usually just blow those. And we have, uh, tall Ky rough that this time of year is waist high. So we just kind of blow it over into that. And that works fine. When we pulled cores on greens, we would use it on greens. And I mean, it works pretty good for that. The reason they want it on now is, uh, we’re gonna core harvest all the tie-in plugs and sand, all the tie-ins the plugs on the fairway will try to break up somehow. Um, yeah, we actually had some like quick, uh, running our 40 fives of mulching blades on it. Yeah. We’ve uh, we don’t have 45. We got 8,800 and we’ve used that before, uh, to chop ’em up. And then we got one of the sweeping fields that kind of busts them up some too. And then we have, uh, I think it’s agri metal vacuum and we’ll vacuum ’em up with, uh, the vacuum, but leave the gate of the vacuum open. So they fall back out so we can drag it around and kind of fill in the, the small spots. No, that actually sounds like a real cool idea because when we tried to do it with the vacuum, it was just started getting plugged up in the shoot. And, and I was looking at that going well, it’s really fine debris. And the screens were just getting filled full of the grass clip and stuff like that. So it’s like maybe running it around with the shoot open might be a way to sort of make it a little thinner. So to speak out on the fairs. yeah, it actually works pretty good because on that particular model it’s got, uh, uh, it’s not a brush really, but it’s got a piece that spins and to act like a brush, but the bristles of the brush is quarter inch hydraulic hose. That’s five inches long. I’ve got two of those things in my world. Yeah. Yeah. And it’s got a little hydraulic head. It goes up and down, right? Yep, yep, yep. Lift. Yep. We got two of those. Yeah. Was just getting all filled up. So it’s like maybe with the back door open. That could be an idea next year. Yeah. No, it works pretty good for busting them up and then that way you can, uh, redistribute some of the soil yeah. In your low places. Hmm. She did more than just a pretty page trend. You’re full of ideas. why do you think I have a podcast? I don’t. I have a face for radio That’s why I started a podcast instead of a YouTube channel. I don’t think I could do either. I don’t have enough of anything in my head. I got, I got enough hot air. I guess I can, uh, keep this going. Let’s hear from, uh, Seth, how you doing Seth? What’s going on guys? Not a whole lot. How you doing, man? Pretty good. How’s that? Just, uh, how’s that new baby? That’s what I wanna know about. Oh, he is good month old. Uh what’s today’s date 26th. Yep. 26th. Oh shit. That’s my brother’s birthday today. Oh, yep. He’s a month old today. Awesome. He’s doing he’s good. Congratulations. Doctor said he is perfect. Last checkup. So that’s good. Yep. Can’t beat that then the wife wife’s doing good. Daughter’s doing good. How old’s the daughter? She, she turned two, two weeks ago. Okay. You had, ’em had ’em close together then. Yeah, I had 202 for about a week. Wow, that’s crazy. Yeah, both my daughters were born in December, so. I didn’t plan that one out too well with Christmas and all but expensive. My, my wife is pissed because her and I share the same birthday May 21st. Okay. And then the 20, and then our son was born on the 26th of May. And then our daughter’s like a week later, June four. Oh yeah. Yep. Yep. And I’m all close. She’s like, yeah. She’s like, well, I guess we don’t have anything to look forward to the rest of the year. well, you still, you got, yeah. Yeah. Well she, Christmas, you know, you know, women are. Yeah, yeah. Unfortunately I do. She’s she’s pissed off because she has to share her birthday with me every year. So, well, she should have thought about that before she married. You yeah. Yeah. That’s what I said. That’s good. That was awesome. But yeah, now everything’s good. Weather’s been hot. Dry. Uh, just kind of in the groove right now. We’ve we got finally got, uh, 11 of our HTB guys showed up last week and we’re getting four more, I think, next week. Awesome. And did that, I mean, we’ve been running for 30 for 36 holes. We’ve been at like 30 guys. Wow. Which is super short staffed, but these 11 guys came in and it’s like, you know, you only get 11 of ’em, but you feel like you just got 30 of them. Oh yeah. Yeah. Cause they work. I mean, they’re, they’re all stud. Yeah. Yeah. That’s awesome. I don’t, what all do you gotta do to get that program started? Cause we, I have there some snags and some hold up with it and well, so last year, uh, and I’m not trying to bring politics into it, but it’s just the fact of the matter. Biden, I think last year, uh, he only allowed like 60,000 visas or something like that because there were so many jobs that were available. And so many Americans that were unemployed. He wanted the, uh, people, the Americans to go get jobs. Well, it’s hard to, it’s hard for them to go, want to go get jobs when you are paying them to stay home, but then you have all these visas, all these people that want to come into America to work because they get paid so well, comparatively where they’re from, you know, mm-hmm so last year was kind of a, was kind of a shit show with that. We got ’em late and we got ’em late this year. Um, but yeah, man, it’s, it’s, I’m not a hundred percent sure how you get into all that, but it’s awesome. I’ll tell you that. Yeah. Yeah. Now that it is awesome. And it’s the same 15 guys come back every year. I mean, one guy he’s been coming, he’s been working at Oakland hill since like 96, I think. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. So yeah, that is awesome, man. To get what’s that are these guys foreign workers that just come up for season? Yeah. They’re what was the acronym that you used for H H two, B H two B. Okay. Yep. And that’s just the type of visa it is, I guess. I don’t know. I, and when I used to work out in Colorado as for the ski resort, we used to get J J one visas, which is, I guess, maybe for a different period of the year. I don’t know. I don’t know all the acronyms for ’em, but, um, and I don’t know what the difference, you know, what the differences are, but, uh, but yeah, I mean, it’s like these, we, we were, we, we were running thin. At work and these guys come in and it’s like a nice, nice change of pace. I’m just looking it up. H two B is temporary non agriculture workers. so not, yeah. Non agriculture. well, it’s a golf course. Tr yeah, that’s right. It’s not afar. It’s a golf course. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t, I don’t know the ins and outs, like I said, but all I know is when they get here, I mean, it’s, it’s awesome. Oh, we went from H H two a is agriculture workers. Oh yeah. I don’t know. Maybe they are H two a, I don’t know. Everybody just says H two B That’s all I’ve ever heard too is H two B. So whatever. Yeah. I’m just glad that we can get people in this country that wanna oh yeah. Well, I mean, Yeah, I think that’s where a lot of clubs are gonna have to go towards is, you know, getting these visa workers over here because nobody wants to work. Nobody wants to do this kind of stuff. I mean, I was talking to one of the guys, you know, they’re all like the nicest people, these, all these, these guys that came over. I mean, they’re nicest, most like, uh, grateful people ever. Mm-hmm like when they got here, when they got here, my boss handed me the credit card. They got here on a Saturday at four 30 in the morning, on a Saturday. And my boss told me at like one o’clock, he said go over to the house. Cause we’ve got two houses on property and they’ll stay in the houses. He’s like go over to the house. Here’s my credit card take ’em down to the grocery store. We have a store up here in Michigan. It’s it’s called Myers and it’s, it’s basically Walmart on steroids, but they sell like nice stuff. Um, like Carhart and name, brand stuff. Right? Mm-hmm so he is like, take ’em down there and get ’em, whatever they need, like food or whatever, whatever they need. Just buy it for ’em so that’s awesome. I take three of ’em down there and I tell ’em and I’m like, get a whole list together of food, everything you need, clothes, whatever. I go to the bathroom and I come out we’re at the store and I find them and they’re like half a grocery cart full of, I mean, it was like a pack of tortillas, a pack of pork, a pack of, I mean, like 10 avocados, 10 jalapenos and I’m like, this is all you want you know? Yeah. I’m like, get whatever. I just started chucking stuff into their buggy. And they were just like, you know, they got pants and stuff, but it’s just, they don’t, I don’t know. It’s just strange. Is. Throw everything in here. Come on, see car on the plastic. It’s a whole different culture though. Oh yeah, it is. Yeah. So I was talking to one of them in last year and he’s like, you know, asking what he does in Mexico for a living. And he said drywall and I was like, dang, come over to my house. Right. I’ll I’ll pay you to finish my basement. and I was like, how much do you make in Mexico? He said, 20 bucks. I was like 20 bucks an hour. He said, no, 20 bucks a day’s. And I was just like, I told him, I was like, I’ll pay 30 bucks an hour. He’s like, seriously. Yeah. Yeah. They, no, man, these they’re great. And they take your operation to the next level, in my opinion. Mm-hmm especially when they care. Yeah. And a lot of them do care a lot more than, uh, some of the workers that we have. Oh yeah, absolutely. But other than that, I mean, summer’s, it’s. You know, we’ve just been kind of working on fine tuning everything and lowering Heights, fine, you know, working on texture over the south course and after our growing and stuff, and it’s been cool to see everything progress to where it’s at now. That’s awesome. Y’all doing any airification or anything like that? Um, yeah, we’re gonna go vent tees tomorrow with a five, eight solid time. Um, that’s a good breathing. Hu. Yeah, we, we vented our north course last week greens. Uh, but as far as like pulling a cord, now, we, we typically don’t pull any chords in the summer. Um, it’s pretty much April and October. Mm-hmm we do all that. Do you do fairways and everything? Oh yeah. We core air fry, 36 holes, fairways tees, greens approaches everything. Wow. But we do, uh, I mean, listening to you guys, talk about how, how you guys pick up your cores. We switch to the super 600 this year, and man, you wanna talk about night and day difference of what we were using before we were we were using a Toro pro sweep, which does a great job, but it’s the, has the holding capacity of like a core, maybe a quarter, an eight. I don’t know. It’s tiny compared to a Weedman super 600. So is, is the 600, just a vacuum. So you can, uh, you can use it as that. Uh, we run it with the verti blades on it as well. Um, yeah, so, so you can ver cut. Yeah. You can. It, yep. And we verti cut our natives with it. Okay. Just to kind of, you know, that pesky starts getting real fatty and stuff, so we like to get in deep and rip it out. Gotcha. Which becomes very expensive when you start replacing those things. I bet, I think it’s like $1,500 a machine for set of burger cut blades. Wow. that’s pricey have y’all uh, had any issues with parts or anything like that? Uh, no, not really been pretty good. Okay. That’s good. I, bed knives. I order, you know, I ordered like 200 bed knives at the beginning of the year and it. I was thinking that would be good for the year for bed, uh, greens, tees, you know, fairways, all that stuff. But, um, I was looking at my bed night stock for my green mowers, uh, this past week. And I was like, oh man, might need to order some more of these. So how often do you change reels in greens, mowers? Uh, reels pretty often. I, I know. I mean, I know you’re changing. ’em pretty often cuz you grind every single day. Is it once a year? Once every three. So once over three months. So I’ve got, I’ve got a rotation going right now where I dude, I’ve got we’ve been going down rabbit holes and all kinds of stuff for these new south greens that we’ve got. And they’re very undulated yada yada yada long story short. I’m going. So I I’ve got a rotation now where the north course reels. So the, the, sorry, let me back up here. The south course greens mower reels get replaced every year. So they’re brand new five inches. Okay. And the old ones, the, the used south course reels go to the north. Um, just because I like to have everything as much clearance as possible. Um, and that’s, that’s what I’ve found works best, uh, for our greens on the south. Mm-hmm uh, they’re pretty unique. We got a few unicorn greens that I don’t think any mower can Mo em, uh, without seeing some scrubbing mm-hmm so, and you’re yeah. Are you running 18 inch fixed heads or what? Uh, I’ve got 18 and 20 twos. Okay. I’ve got one 18 right now that John Deere dropped off. I don’t have you, uh, tried any of the floating heads? Yeah, they’re all the, the 180 E and two 20 S oh, okay. I got you. So is, I don’t have any, I’m pretty lucky. I don’t have any fixed head mowers on at the golf course. Okay. I gotcha. I know east lake, they run the 180 S the fixed head. Yep. And yeah, no, we’re all floating. You’ve been pretty happy with those units. I have. I mean, I know everyone’s the, the biggest complaint that I’ve heard of is, uh, John Deere metal’s too soft, but yeah, I I’ve, I don’t find that as a downfall. I mean, the people that wanna complain about that is because they gotta grind more often. Right. But what we get paid to grind. We get paid to have sharp reels. Um, yeah. I wanna argue with you a little bit. We get paid to have sharp reels. We don’t get paid to grind. We don’t get, do you think I get a grinding bonus in my paycheck? for how many? I don’t and if I did, maybe I would grind more, but I’m not getting any bonuses for grind that well, it it’s the territory, right? No, it is. Yep. But, uh, no, I, I don’t, I don’t know. I haven’t had really any problems with anything John Deere related, honestly. No, I, uh, I mean we have, uh, John Deere fairway units and they’re okay. I just, I don’t like the way they adjust. What are your, what are, are your ferry units? 7,500. Yeah. 7,500. Yeah. So QA five S and the QA five. I love the quick high to adjust thing. That’s great. Yeah. If you’re changing Heights very often, which we change Heights, I guess twice a year. Yeah. And that’s it. Well, even, even the daily height check of all of my mowers, I mean, if they’re th out or two th out, I’m changing it to where we’re at. And I like the ability to, you know, one revolution of that knob is a th a hundred th right, right, right. You’ve been hanging around Mike Rollins a lot. You’re saying th a lot. I can’t wait to you one day and you’re just gonna slap me for giving me such a hard time. No man. Uh, I won’t, I won’t slap you. We’re you know, we Georgia blood here. Okay. Yeah, that’s right. That’s right. but no, uh, I, I do like the, the height adjust on those better than the Toro. I mean, I found with the Toro, sometimes they can be a little finicky and when you go to snug that, that jam Nu yeah. Nut back down, and then it moves like two or 3000 and you’re just like, you know, shit. Now I gotta undo it. You know, they’re a little more finicky that way. Um, but no, I mean, I’ve been happy. I, I, I think the cutting unit on John Deere is, is really good. More aggressive that’s for sure. Yeah, no, it is it’s steep. I mean, we went, we had to raise our Heights. When we switched from Toro to John Deere, we were running the 54 tens on our fairways and we switched to the 8,000 a, which is a cutting unit versus the. What is the 5422 21, I think 21 inch. I think all the Torah units are 21 inch and Deeres are 20 twos standard. Yeah. But going from that, I mean, it was like night and day difference of how aggressive they were. Hmm. That’s interesting. We had to jump height. I think we had to go up to like 500 or something from 400, because not only are you, not only is your attitude, you have more attitude now, but you’ve got a, a shorter, uh, reel that’s getting into nooks and C crannies that’s never been owed before. So mm-hmm well, and even that’s pretty the difference from our Toro triplexes that we Mo tie ins with, to our John Deere fairway units to get ’em to match up. I set the Toros about 50,000 slower, really? Yeah. To get ’em to match up. Yeah. Yep. And this year they decided they wanted to go a hundred thousand lower. So our tie-ins would be a lot tighter. And I do have to say, they look really nice. The tie-ins what are you mowing your tie-in you talking about approaches? Yeah. Approaches. Yep. Yeah. Approaches. I don’t know why I’ve learned to say tie in is just what I guess Courtney young said when I was a kid. Yeah. So I’ve been calling it that, um, well, I mean, it makes sense, but it makes sense, right? Yeah. Yeah. Ty’s the fairway into the green that’s right. So the approach. Yeah. We’re mowing it at three 50 and it really good. And that’s four 19 Bermuda and you know how that stuff can be. Oh yeah. It ITT the most desirable grass, uh, to cut at that height, but it looks pretty dang. Good. Do you do a triplex pass around the entire green? Some greens? We. Um, gotcha. You know, it depends on features and stuff like, uh, one in 10 is a joint green and sorry for the listeners. This has turned into the Seth and Trent show here, but, uh, we’ll get somebody else on in a minute. Um, one in 10 is a joint green and it’s got a lake right in front, so we don’t triplex pass there. And then we got an old, uh, two 20 B Walker that the highest. They said set it to one inch. And I said, it won’t go to one inch. It went to nine 30 was as high as I could get it. So they call it the nine 30 mower And so we do, uh, one pass outside of our callers with the, the nine 30 mower. Gotcha. Yeah. That’s funny. Well, I, I sent Mike a picture of a prism on our approaches the other day and he, he was like, yeah, this is the best he was talking about the prism, you know, that I had. And he is like, oh, that’s the best prism to check greens. And I was like, no, I was like, that’s that’s approaches. That’s awesome. I think we’re bench bench. We are at 180 5 and they were like on the prism. They were at just below one 20. Yeah. No, that’s good. I don’t, that’s one thing I thinking that I don’t like, I mean, it’s tough on the prism. I would like something that gave you an actual measurement. Yes. But yep. Yeah. I don’t know how you would even design or create something like that. Yeah. That would give you a precise measurement. Well, I just go to the nearest. Line above the grass. Yeah. But it also, you know, how are you just letting the weight of the prism set there? Do you wiggle it in a little bit? The YouTube video I watched and said, just set it on the ground. Just set it on the ground. I don’t, you don’t get on Twitter a ton. Did you see, uh, my prism gauge pick for the rough. That. So, no, I didn’t. No. And it was for doing the C Tim. We had to, uh, submit a picture with a prism and a picture of whatever it was, rough approach greens, all that stuff. And our rough wouldn’t actively growing when I’d done it. So I, and we hadn’t mowed it. So I didn’t want to send in a picture of our rough. So kind of as a joke, I took a picture of our tall sq and I just threw my prism gauge into the tall sq. So it setting it like a 45 degree angle and, uh, so I took that picture and then I pulled, you know, the, at that time it was probably 12 inch tall, uh, leaf blades up through the prison gauge and took a, when was this that you did that? Uh, I don’t, it was end of March, maybe something like that. Gotcha to go back and look at that. Yeah. You had to go back through my Twitter feed it. It is in there. I got, I made myself laugh and uh, when I tell a joke or make a joke, as long as I make myself laugh, I’m happy. Yeah. Yeah. that’s awesome. That’s my requirements for jokes. Um, anybody else, uh, wanna hop in here and say anything? Uh, let’s see. We run, uh, Tyler off, I guess Matt or Scott. I invited both of them to speak and they turned me down. And then, uh, my assistant superintendent, Rob Andrews, he’s in the house here. He’s creeping on me, but if you wanna say something, Rob, come on. Seth’s the, a fellow agronomy guy. Hey, Rob, you got any good Trent stories? he’s probably got a bunch of bad Trent stories. I don’t know about good ones. Well, I, I he’d probably tell him cuz I don’t see the record button going. Yeah, I don’t know I was I’m recording this regardless. Uh, and I said it to record, I thought, but I don’t see the record button going either. What I’ve been doing is I recorded on my end here at the house. And if you record it on Twitter, you can play it back. Which was a good thing because I don’t remember. I had some, something mess up with my recorder here and luckily I’d recorded it on Twitter and I played it back and recorded it back on my P four device. See, or while I was sleeping, it worked out pretty good. Okay, Trent, how was the C T certification process going for it? How difficult was it to complete? it’s not really difficult. Uh, it’s really just a lot of work that has to be completed. Uh, and you know, most of it pertains to safety stuff. And I mean, far as, you know, my walkthrough, that was the most that I had to do was all the safety related stuff. And, and not that, I mean, we were pretty squared away and had a lot of the stuff, but we just had to have even more stuff. Okay. So basically just following the rubric would be fine. Yes. And just making sure that you can yep. Yes. I’ve got it. No, we don’t need that, but this is how it would be done kind of thing. Well, and that’s, that’s the good part, um, about, in my opinion, anyway, about the way we wrote the rubric is we didn’t want to give, we started out and we had all these things where we were giving people NAS, cuz it was not applicable to them. But then we said, that’s not really fair because you know, we’re grading to all these standards and then if somebody doesn’t have them had that and we give ’em an NA it’s kinda like giving ’em a bonus point and we didn’t think that was fair. So Kim Thane, she’s the psycho attrition that helped us write this. She, uh, Come up with ideas. She said, well, what if they just explain how it’s supposed to work? And we thought that was a great idea, because I mean, you can relate for sure, Chris, because you’re in a different country. Heck yeah. and we all do stuff a little bit different. And even, I mean, people here in the states could be in the same state and their local government requires something different. So there’s no way we could write a test and make, you know, it different for every single person that lived in a mm-hmm different geographical area. So I thought that was a pretty good day idea of just being able to explain how it would work. And you know, you don’t have to get a hundred, is the other thing you do have to get a pretty high score. And I don’t even know if I’m allowed to say what that number is and. I don’t remember what the number is, but I remember it’s upwards of 90% somewhere in there. So yeah, you don’t have to have every single thing. Well, I was reading through everything and there was a couple things that said show stoppers and it’s just like, all right, I guess those are bad. Make sure you’re not doing those. Yeah. And obviously any of the, the show stoppers, you do have to have that. And I mean, those are kind of silly things. Like if you bypass the locks on your equipment lift, that’s a show stopper. Mm-hmm and that’s something we should never do. No, um, bypassing safety switches on equipment. We shouldn’t be doing that. So that’s a show stopper. Yeah. And there’s quite a few show stoppers, stuff like that. Um, but I think rightfully so that’s and it keeps us all more honest, too. because anybody could cut corners here or there, but we shouldn’t be we, should we cutting grass? Yes. Cutting grass. Not cutting corners. I like that. That’s a good one. Steve. I got a question. Yeah. About the C the C Tim. So why I’ve seen people that on Twitter or whatever in WhatsApp, and they’re saying they gotta wait like eight more months to become certified or whatever, like a time period. Is there like a, a time period that you gotta wait from when you pass level one and level two? No. To become certified. Nope. Soon as you pass level two, you can put in your application. The reason they’re having to wait is you have to be in the equipment manager role for a minimum of three years or, or, and I guess, and. You have to be at your current position, I think for six months. So say, you know, you left Oakland Hills and went somewhere else. Um, you would have to wait six months before you, you could take the test. Gotcha. So that, that’s why. Yeah. I think that that’s why some of them are having to wait. Gotcha. Yeah. I think somebody who’s moving to Florida is definitely in the five month or the six month waiting period. well, yeah, she was saying that it worked out, so she’s gonna start there in August and she’s gonna have to wait until February. And we were joking about, uh, doing her, uh, testing during GIS week while we were down there. And you know what, if I get down there, I’ll just come by just a hangout for the testing oh yeah, yeah, no, be, be awesome. And for any of y’all that’s going, I’m definitely gonna. Try to go early and maybe even stay late. it should be, should be a fun time for sure. Now for the attesting, do we just call Diana up and just say, yeah, I wanna yep. Go for my ATEST and that’s it. And then that’s it. We pick a date and I will make sure my phone is all charged up. yep. Pretty much. That’s. Yeah. The only requirement, um, yeah, just run through the rubric and make sure you got over 90% of that stuff and call Diana. Now, did you actually, did you, did you get one of the guys to come out to the shop and, or, or was it just all virtual, all virtual the way we’re doing it now and you know, maybe it changes, honestly, I don’t think it will just because there’s, so few of us is you’ll have two ATT testers and it’ll be a zoom call. And mm-hmm we just walk you around your shop and asked you all the questions, you know, show me your fire extinguishers, show me this, show me that. And if I say, you know, show me this and you don’t have it, I’ll say, explain if you did have a fire suppression system, how would it work? Mm-hmm you know, and you gotta be able to, to answer those questions, but most of them for us is pretty obvious and easy questions to, to answer. Yeah. Cause I, I was talking with Jr about that at one point where I think their fuel cells or their fuel storage is underneath a roof and they have to have fire suppression. And it’s just like, just even under a roof. Wow. Okay. Honestly, it’s not under a roof. It is whatever county he’s at in long island in the Hamptons. You have to have fire suppression everywhere. It’s crazy. Even the convenience stations that sell fuel, they have fire suppression over their fuel pumps, which oh, okay. I’ve never seen that before either. and it’s very safe, but yeah. Well, I guess that’s a lot of safety, honestly. Yeah. How many fires? I mean, I know it can happen, but it’s not like it’s happening all the time. Not around here anyway. Let’s not happy to get to New York ever. right. Yeah. That’s that’s, that’s a good point. Well, it doesn’t prevent the fire from starting now, so you’re still probably ruining the same amount of equipment when the fire goes off. And then you gotta re up your, uh, fire suppression system. Yeah. I’d rather pay for a fire suppression system instead of a whole block of buildings. Well, well, yes. Yeah. I would agree with that too. So you got any other questions about CTM or anything? Um, no, I would, well, after I got, I was luckily enough to go to the, the task group and I, I went through it and I saw it and I got the rubric on the mail out and everything. So it’s like, oh, that’s, that’s pretty interesting. I’m definitely gonna be going forward. But now it’s just like, after talking with you and hearing, it’s a lot of work of getting all, I’m pretty sure it’s just signage and making sure that you have it and going through the list and checking off that we have this it’s like, I don’t have enough time in the day right now because we are sort of going and, and when equipment comes in, I’ve gotta do all my checks on the equipment first. And as my, as my super always says, we’re here for the greens, protect the greens, make sure the greens are nice and happy and mm-hmm. And the fairways, they could sort of deal with themselves and yeah, nobody’s gonna care about it dividend the, in the fairways, but make sure that the greens are happy. So we’re, we’re doing a lot more coursework right now instead of building and structural work, so, right. Yeah. I I’m I’m definitely come well, I don’t know. Maybe September, August. Yeah. I’m gonna start getting listed, going and give Tana call at it. I’m gonna do it. Let’s do it. Let’s do that. Why don’t so a buddy of mine, um, and I’ve kind of tried to do this, but my mind doesn’t work that way. So I really struggle with it. But what he started doing is he would allot 20 minutes a day to work on a certain task, whatever that task might be mm-hmm and he would do that every day and the task would get done. in a timely manner. Um, I don’t my mental capacity. I, I don’t have enough to do that. cause I, I could say I’m gonna work on it 20 minutes and then I get super focused and I work on it two hours and then I don’t touch it again for a month and that’s just kind of, you know, I can’t do the 20 minute thing, but oh, I know that if you could. I, and like he could, I think, uh, it worked really well for him. No, I, I think that might be a little bit of an idea just to sort of go through a section of the rubric and say, okay, let’s do this section. Alright, we’ve got that completed and I can put it away and all right. Maybe next week I’ll try that section so yeah, I, I think that that might be a plan of attack to sort of go through the whole thing, make sure it’s all done. And in that. In that quick 20 minutes of checking everything, if something needs attention or repair, well, then I’ve got the week to get it done because next week I’m onto another section. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you could, it out might be way to do it ways too. You might just do a section a week and then make a, to do list off of each section. And then yeah, after you get all that together, you know, however you want to do it. Um, but the one thing I would say for you, make sure you get your pictures while the turfs still growing. Yeah, I think that might be difficult for me. Well, when, when you’re talking about like throwing your prison out in March and throwing it into the roster you had in March, I’ll throw it into a snow bank and say, yep, we do nothing. well, right. Well, but that is my point. Um, I kinda got away with that, but most people will not be able to get away with that. I don’t think I, no, this is my fairway. This is the number one fairway we’re on the snow is that I could get to Well, and that was one thing we’d done. Uh, Kevin Henneger. Um, but we just done his shop because he couldn’t take turf pictures. So that was one reason he ended up not getting certified because we didn’t have his turf pictures. Okay. Okay. So yeah, cause yeah, Diana sent out that one with the prisms of how you should be taking the picture through the prism instead of yeah. Here’s the prism on top and you don’t see any cutting edges or any scaling or the height scale on it. Yep. So least I know that stops coming up. Do you have something you were gonna say, Seth? I seen, uh, Seth unmute his microphone for a minute. What’s up, man? Uh, I was, uh, are you talking, are you level one and two Chris? Yep. Yeah, I got it done. Uh, level two. Would’ve been a couple years ago. Gotcha. So I’ve kinda been sort of sitting around waiting. Okay. See, Tim’s coming. Out’s coming out. Tim’s coming out and it’s like all. I’ll keep my eye on the gcs.org or sorry, GCs aa.org. And it’s like, yeah. Check for the latest upgrades. No, nothing’s changed. Nothing’s changed. Nothing’s changed. And, and then when it did finally come out, it was like, oh cool. And yeah, I wanna have those letters behind my name. So other people can say, yeah, when I am talking about equipment, there is some validity behind it to support the ideas that I’m trying to sort of implement at work, because I still have guys who are, yeah, we’ve done it this way for the past 40 years. Well, to say this years, agronomic. Yeah. Yeah. I, I don’t, I, I have, is there automotive background? Don’t what’s in those tests to be, well, for me, it wasn’t bad because there was a lot of, they do electrical training on it. They have one for electricity and if you’ve never played with electricity yeah. You can look at that. Just go. I may as well just go clown my wrist and see whether or not I can get to the base camp. So, so there’s some things where yeah, if, if somebody said here, Chris, here’s a bag of seed, a whole bunch of fertilizer, you can either pick to grow it in this area, this area, or this area, what do you have to do with it? I just throw it up in the air and just hope for rain to come in. And, and it’s like, yeah, that’s my Everest that I have to look at and say, okay, how do I grow this stuff? But yet when it comes to a cutting device. Well, yeah, I know that you need to have a certain amount of relief. I know that you can’t have a flat land. I know that you need to have bearings. I know that you can’t put on a bearing with a hammer and, and use it like a swing press and like mark the hell. A lot of the bearings. There’s some things that we all have our expertise in and hopefully the deficiencies that you have can be supported by another team member. And, and that’s what I’m trying to provide. It’s my superintendent. It’s like, yeah. Yeah. I’m, I’m not gonna ask you to do a tune up on your truck. I’ll do that for you, please. Don’t make me go out there and cut a straight light down 400 yards of grass. yeah, you should do that though. well, I I’ve, I’ve tried and yeah, it’s. It’s it’s wiggly. It goes all over the place and they just laugh at me and just like, okay, fine. I’m gonna test you and we’re gonna do a tire rotation. See how quickly you can get that one done. And so it’s all done in good fun as Wells, a golf course. It’s nice. Yeah. I try to get my guys. I’ve got two assistants. I try to get them out on the golf course, as much as I can operating certain things. And, you know, especially guys for that, don’t have a golf course background that are trying to get into this industry. They need to, you know, they need to learn how everything operates. Oh yeah. Oh, I’m, I’m, I’m part of the training crew to operate the equipment. Right. But for me, I can, I can make things move up and down. I can turn things on and off and stuff like that, but, but I believe that to be a true operator of equipment, you need to have very good skills in it because yeah, I can turn it on. I can drive it at different speeds. I can set you up to do a U-turn on it. I can teach you a keyhole change, but don’t watch me because you’ll just sit there and laugh at me. cause it, it takes a skillset to be a good operator. And I firmly believe that. And my superintendent is basically just, he’s starting to sort of see that. Yeah, we all have skills and they’re all different. So get people that can support your weaknesses. We all need that now every day now and one now, and then, because I’m not gonna do a podcast, but I’ll definitely contribute to trans adventures out here. Whatever you go. You did a podcast already. Well, I know, I know you did one. You did it. It was fun. Yeah, it was great. No, it was, it was a lot of fun, but back to Seth and getting certified and taking those tests, I mean, it’s totally up to you. It’s not for everybody. And honestly, for me, I done it for the industry more than I did it for anyone else. That’s why I did. I mean, I don’t, I didn’t need to do it to get a raise or to keep my job or to get a better job or any of that stuff. Yeah. No, and I think it’s a, I think it’s a great thing of what the GCs a is doing for the EMS and stuff like that. But I was just, I was just curious. I mean, I haven’t, it’s always been in the back of my head of, of taking those tests and getting certified. But it’s kind of like lower on the totem pole right now. Cause I’m just trying to survive right, right. No, and I get that too day to day. Um, but one thing, uh, Michael said was, uh, it was a good confidence booster for him taking him, you know? Oh yeah. Cause you pass one. You’re like, well, dang. Maybe I do kind of know my stuff. Yeah. And I really think that anybody that’s been in the industry a couple years can pass all the exams without any issue. And right. If you’re Mike Rawlins that hadn’t been in the industry a year, you can pass all the, um, stuff so right. And nothing bad on Mike. I love Mike and I’m proud of him for passing them, but it does make me think maybe I should have made these tests a little harder. The. Oh, so he, he is level one and two level one and two, and never worked at a golf course, but I do kind of think he’s a, you know, anomaly or whatever. Yeah. He’s pretty smart. No, he is. I mean, he’s yeah. He’s extremely smart. I’m not trying to yeah. Say he is not. No, I know. Yeah. Yeah. But those, well, we, we gotta the program. The program is set up to be technical with a golf course lean. So I, I think Mike is the perfect candidate to, to actually show that yeah, anybody can do it because if you know a little bit about it, you can develop your knowledge about it and you can become very competent in it because there’s more than enough information in those books and the way that the tests are written. If you know how tests are written, you can definitely say that. Yeah. That one’s definitely wrong. That one’s right. No, there’s a trick question there. And, uh, maybe that could be, if there is a scenario, so out of the answers, you can determine whether or not you have a right one, a wrong one and maybe one that’s should I guess at it’s I, I haven’t taken ’em because I’m not confident that I could pass ’em I’m pretty confident I could pass em. It’s just a time, uh, having time to sit aside and take them, you know what I’m saying? And I, I know you can make time for anything you want to, but I’m already busy enough as it is. Well, well, I, I did mind during the winter of months and Europe, Michigan, aren’t you? Oh yeah. So same season as me. He does a lot. He does a lot of as fishing. I got lot’s the last thing I gotta get. Sounds. The last thing I wanna do in the take a bunch of tests. Yeah, exactly. It’s not even that though. It’s like, you take a book. If you just go read it. It’s like, okay, I’ve never been ice fishing, but I have been fishing and there’s a certain amount of time spent in between the chaos of really going in and oh, no setting cooks and stuff like that. Or is it just all sociable time? Because if it’s all sociable time, you should invite some more equipment managers out and start about it’s the. Honestly, that’s why I like bass fishing in the south because not that you’re catching fish all the time, but you’re actively making a cast. Oh yeah, yeah. All the time. Yeah. And that’s what I, that really gets me. And like my dad, he was huge. Still is loves to go hunting, deer, hunting, Turkey, hunting, all that stuff. ID care less about it. Cuz I don’t want to go set in one spot for hours waiting on something to walk by. one spot and don’t move. Yeah. Set in one spot and be as still as you can and be quiet. No, not me. And then you shoot something and then the work begins yeah. Yeah. And it’s like, eh, this ain’t even worth it. Yeah, I just, I just wasted, wasted a whole day and now I shot something right at dusk. And I’m gonna be out here till midnight. drag it, get the truck shot or you shot something and you can’t find it. Now you gotta go walk through the woods to go find it. Yep. Yep. At least when you’re fishing, you’re bringing it closer to you instead of having to go track it after you’ve shot it. that sounds a good point too. Uh, Matt, did you have something I finally just saw that you requested or you accepted to speak if you’re still listening? Hey Matt. Oh, okay. Yeah. I just, I just accepted. Yeah. How are you guys doing? Ah, we’re doing great. Good. We’re doing great. Yeah. I just got my, uh, study guides this week. Uh, C awesome. That’ll be nice. That’ll be good. So, yeah, but like Seth trying to find time to do something about it. Yeah. Tough. Yeah. Can be tough. But like Seth was saying, once you get your prior straight and decide, that’s what you want to do, you can do it. Yep. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Matt, where are you from? Um, I’m originally from England. Um, yeah, so from the Northwest of England, um, but then moved over to Colorado, like probably six or seven years ago now. So where you from in England? Cause I’m from Burnley. Uh, I’m from Blackpool. Blackpool. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I’ve been in Canada for the past 50 plus years. So I don’t accent anymore. Accent, not accent. True. I’ll take that. Was your parents, Chris, I guess it was your parents, Chris that got you to Canada. Yeah, my parents, um, they decided to immigrate with me and my brother. And what was it? 1969. And, and I was just a little we to grasshopper. I just came over and we landed in Calgary and, uh, been here ever since, basically born in England, raised in Canada. What’s the, I’m getting, hang up with you guys. That’s right. You with of us the Americans? No, no, no, no. I’m never gonna say anything bad about anyone. um, What’s the weather too Canadian. that is, that’s very true. And I know I’ve talked about this in a podcast before, and I mean, we’re pretty proud here in the south of being real hospitable and, you know, being nice and polite and all those things, but in Canada, y’all got the exact same thing going on. If not better. I mean, I’ve only been there once, obviously when I come up to, uh, speak at that conference that you were at Chris and yeah, everybody was just so nice. Everybody you met so nice. Well, I, I don’t think there’s a lot of ill wills that anybody wants to just is really skeptical and really afraid of everyone, but it’s just heck gets a lot easier being nicer instead of being grumpy all the time. Oh, yeah, it is for sure. And honestly, a lot of the people down here in the south that are rude, didn’t grow up down here. I’m just saying we got a lot of transplants. They’re just jerks, no matter where they’re from. yeah. Yeah. But that was one of the interesting things about, uh, being in the Northeast and being in New York where Jr is out in long island. Most of those people are pretty nice and there’s a bunch of rednecks out there that the other thing I’ve learned in my recent travels is there’s rednecks everywhere. It don’t matter where you go there’s rednecks. Well, I don’t know what actually constitutes being a redneck. I know I’ve seen a lot of Jeff Foxworthy but I know in Alberta we got a whole pile of redneck, but we just. Don’t speak the same. yeah, no, that that’s right. Yeah. We all might have different accents, but, uh, a lot of us are rednecks Hey, tr can you, can you tell the difference between the, the Southern dialect from all the different accents in the south? Uh, I don’t think I can. No. Can you, you know, there’s like, there’s like four or five accents in Georgia, four or five in Alabama. I could tell a, I could tell if somebody’s from Alabama. I could tell they’re from south Georgia. I could tell if they’re from north Georgia. Yeah, Tennessee, Tennessee. And, uh, like the Carolinas and it’s, it’s crazy. Bill Al does a good bid on that. I’ll have to check that one out. I have not. Oh yeah. Heard that one. Yeah. So, Hey, Matt, how about the accents over in England? you definitely know some weird ones out there. Yeah. yep. Accent. That’s uh, that’s a good one. So, yeah. And then from the Northeast as well. Yeah, there’s some pretty interesting ones. Definitely. I’ve got friends who are open now. Where was it? Um, new castle. Oh yeah. Yeah. They are very thick. yeah. Yeah. People here have, have a hard time understanding me sometimes, but it’s lot easier. Me Colorado are. Um, so I’m in, um, Thornton, just north of Denver currently. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I used to live out there. Oh, nice. Whereabouts did you live? Uh, Vale. Oh, okay. Nice. My dad used to live in NIWA, which is just Northeast of Boulder. Yeah. Yeah. I live in Greeley, which is like about an hour north of, and just north of what’s the weather like out there. It’s been pretty decent, really? Uh, the last, yeah, couple weeks we’ve had nineties and then it’s been pretty much in the eighties and today I think was the coolest we in the sixties. So yeah. It’s not been, not been too bad. It’s been, we’ve had a little bit of rain every now and again, which helps, but yep. So it should no, no snow. not as cold as Shelby has it and Utah, so yeah. It’s good. Yeah. I don’t Shelby really hates Utah. Yeah. She, well, yeah. does doesn’t she have a countdown app or something you took for leaving? Yeah, she does. I don’t. I think she’s down to like a, I believe the story I heard is when COVID hit, she was in Texas. And I don’t know, they shut down the course maybe that she was working at, so she didn’t have a job. And, um, I’m pretty sure she had a friend in Utah and she went to stay with the friend and found the job there, ATTs. Gotcha. It’s comical. How hates Utah? When I told her the other day that she’s not gonna have anything to complain about when she moves to Florida, There not many complaints. That’s what I told her said. I not sure shell she’ll find something. It’ll be too hot. no, she says she loves the hot, but I told her I better not hear the first complaint once she moves to Florida. I’m chatting. Yeah, no, you have to throw her off a bridge. There’s some bridge or something. I dunno which one its no, she’s fine. Now. I think we gotta get more people from the WhatsApp group coming in here. Why don’t I put it on the WhatsApp group, but the group was kinda dead today. I get it. People have life. Some people do, obviously me, Chris and Seth and Matt don’t but everybody else does. got something going on and I can’t believe that uh, Mikey Rollins ain’t in here, I figured he would be all over this. Uh, we’ll go on Twitter and shame him. I was texting with him earlier. All right. I was just scored. Oh, yes. Um, I was texting with him early he’s out in Missouri. Oh, okay. Yeah, he was on Twitter saying that he is taking some camera gear out there or something. So I really knows what he’s gonna produce next. Is he doing the thing with Clint McKee? Yeah. Okay, awesome. Awesome. Yep. So he is probably out doing something whining and dining, probably busy. Yeah. Gotcha. I gotcha. Why don’t if y’all ready to go ahead. Yeah. Is Clint the gentleman who’s with, um, with what horses? I think big. Yep. Big that’s what it is. Okay. That’ll be nice to see what mys. If that’s what he’s going to do. yes. That might just be a rumor that we’re stirring up here. Hey, you know how these rumor mails start? That’s somebody coming up with an idea and saying, yeah, you should do a podcast. Oh, is that not, not public knowledge? Well, I don’t, I don’t know. Honestly. if it’s public know it is now it’s gonna be all the wrong podcast, you know, D Wade is not that he’s not that subtle. He’s gonna do something silly. Yeah, that’s right. You’ll have to, you’ll have to postpone this podcast until that comes out. Well, so, uh, since I got a couple of my listeners here, do y’all want to have a podcast this week. If you do, it’s gonna be this Twitter space, Twitter it’s easy. When, when you came out and said, should we do it every week? It’s like, I, I thought about that and it’s just. That’s a crap load of work for you. no, it really is. Um, I I’m very impressed that you can do, but it’s like, it’s still having to line up everybody and then do the recording, then do the editing, then do the production to it. It’s like, holy geez, you are a trooper Trenton. Thank you for doing it. So I always say thank you. Well, thank you. I appreciate that for sure. I, that I enjoy listening to him well, and you know what? My son even recognizes your voice. That’s if I’ll have one of the S like I’ll be listening in the, and is that’s how many other Southern accents do you know? And he’s 13 that that’s the name of that’s y’all’s director, whatever. Over the superintendents group. Was it Ken something? Oh, Hang on. Um, let’s see if I can find her in here. Well, it really, it doesn’t matter. But, uh, when I came up there to speak, it’s just a, I thought it was a funny story. It made me laugh. Um, so I’m gonna tell, uh, everyone, but, uh, so anyway, I meet Kim and super nice lady and I’m talking, you know, with her and about what we’re doing and what I wanna speak about and all that stuff. And her mouth is almost open when I’m talking to her and I’m like, what? You know, do I look funny? Do I have something on my face? You know, trying to figure it out. She says, oh my God, your accent. I love it. And then, then, then she’s like, she says, hang on just a minute. And then she like goes against one of her friends and brings him over and she’s like, listen to this guy talk was I kick out? It’s nothing wrong with that. Took you backing off of that. My boss was down in Florida playing at a golf course and he met the superintendent and he’s talking to him. He goes, are you from Australia? He goes, no, I’m from south Georgia. Yeah. Wow. That’s really good. That’s a few miles off. Yeah, that’s hilarious. But, um, in all seriousness, um, I’m probably gonna take a couple weeks off. It looks like. Um, I just, well, it’s summer. Well, I’ve been dragging my feet, getting people lined up and, you know, I send people like Seth, an email and they say, oh yeah, I’ll be on. But then they never book it. And then oh, I think someone’s getting shaved. No, I I’m just I’m teasing. But honestly it has happened that way. I mean, a sponsorship, well, rank one, I’d be happy to take their money. um, but honestly I got probably, I don’t know, three or four, um, that said, yeah, yeah, I’m interested, but you know, and everybody’s busy and I get that. So I’m not shaming anybody or picking on anybody except Seth because he is here. Yeah. No, it’s all good. Oh, Seth, it it’s pretty tame. This guy calls you up. He may sound a little weird, but he’s got a whole bunch of questions. If, if you listen to some of the old podcasts, you can figure out what he is gonna ask yet. that’s right. well, I, I mean, Chris, I send you a list of questions. Ill send you the questions I wanna ask. If it, it it’s like cheating for a test or something. I gotta make it the easiest as I can. And then the other thing, when we’re in postproduction when we’re editing everything, we try to make everybody sound better than they really are. no, I mean, honestly, we do try to make everybody sound the best that they can. It, it, because I wanna shine a lot simple. All of y’all it’s simple. Well, dude, those sponsors don’t give you enough money to edit mine. Well, there’s a there’s software for that. Um, luckily um, now actually the software that we use, and this is like way off topic, but whatever, we’re just, this is a free for all tonight. Um, script, it will take out all the ums ifs, uh, who knows. Yeah. It can recognize the only problem with accents, which we all have some accents. Um, it doesn’t pick up everything and some of the stuff it picks up a little too much and anyway, but it will. Pick up a lot of that stuff and you can just delete it in one click, which is pretty amazing. But then I don’t really, that’s great. I don’t really like the way it sounds. And I mean, especially with my accent, a lot of times if I say, and it thinks, I said, um, uh, so stuff like that, you gotta work out. So is that why the text on, um, on the little, the preview? Yes. There’ll be written texts. They’re just like, no, that doesn’t work with that line, but, so, so there is a, a dictation app that you’re using to sort of decipher to transcribe everything. Yes. It’s uh, okay. That’s cool. Then the software’s called the script and you upload the audio and it transcribes it. And then the cool thing with the script is you can edit from the text instead of being, uh, sign wave, which is nice. So you, if there’s a sentence that you don’t want there, you just delete it. Or if there’s a sentence you want to move from there to somewhere else, you can do that or a whole paragraph or whatever. So it does make it a whole lot easier. Cause when I first started, I was using audacity, which is just, uh, audio editing, um, software mm-hmm and all it is ISS wave. But the part of that was cool is if you smack, I could look at a sign wave and tell you every smack it’s interesting, you know, the stuff that, uh, you learn editing and the other thing, a lot of people, and once you hear this, then you’re gonna start looking at people and listening to ’em when they’re talking to you. But a lot of people will, um, and then smack it’s like a combo. I go, um, And smack and I’ve never even thought about it or noticed it. And actually it was, I was listening to this guy talk about audacity and he’s the one that told me about it. So now when I’m just talking to somebody normal conversation, they’ll go, um, and then I’ll be like, okay, it’s to smack you know, it’s just funny, the little things you pick up doing stuff like this. No, I actually noticed that on a lot of, a lot of the hockey players, when they have to do their interviews in between period interviews and stuff like that. And they’re giving every analogy out there and in between everyone it’s like, um, um, and we decided to count. How many ums appeared in. It was probably about a minute and a half clip and there was over 15 of them and it just like, wow, that’s a lot of ums but we all take a little bit of time to be able to have our thoughts process. And that, um, is probably just the delay and get it from our head to her mouth. Hey, tr when I get on there, we’ll have a, uh, we’ll have a bet on how many ums I say. Well, um, um, there’s one. Yep. There’s one with, uh, what is it with the script? It’ll actually count those. So it’ll be easy for me to tell you. Yeah. How many I’ll do it? Like a, how many? Over, under of like 300. Okay. I’ll take you over. Well, and honestly, we do try to go through and get rid of most of the arms just because. A lot of us, including myself are not well spoken and we need a little cleaning up and polished around the edges and it cuts down on time. Yeah. So for the listener, so it might be whatever two minutes worth of ums in an hour or more. Yeah. So anyway, there’s a little behind the scenes. Yeah. A little learning about editing podcast. Yeah. That’s right. Once a little more educated now, one skill. I never thought I would require, but I got it. Now, are you ever gonna gonna do some YouTube clips or anything like that? Maybe behind the seeds with the real turf techs? Honestly, I wanna start a YouTube channel and the only reason I have not started a YouTube channel, well, not the only, I got a bunch of reasons. One is time. The second is I’m a perfectionist and I’m trying to recover from being a perfectionist, but it’s really a struggle. And I don’t want put out something that’s half ass. Yeah. But then you’re doing that. Won’t be able to do your podcast. Right. And that’s kinda, I mean, honestly, I’m old enough now to realize that I don’t need to put any more irons in the fire. I got enough in there right now. so maybe in another, I don’t know. I’m not gonna put a time limit on it. If somebody wants to take over this podcast, I will let them do that. And then I’ll start a YouTube channel, talk to Rollins and see if you’ll do a guest host or something. well, and that’s something I hadn’t really even thought about, but that is a, a great idea. Maybe I could find a co-host that would do interviews. Hmm. For me, I mean, that might be something cool to do and take a little pressure off of me. And that could be fine. I’m just trying to get the GCSA out and around in my world. So I won’t say no, but it’ll say definitely Lu we down the road. yeah. Yeah. Well, no, and that’s, I’m not putting anybody on the spot, but I’m just talking out loud. It’s the best way to brainstorm. Yeah. And I don’t, I don’t have many secrets or hide things from people and obviously the listeners I consider all y’all my friends. Sure. That back at you. Yeah, no it’s and I mean the whole community and the WhatsApp group and all that, I could just go on and on forever, how great that is and bringing those people together and giving people a voice. And I never dreamed this would be what it is. I thought I would start a podcast and hopefully have 10 listeners and maybe help two of them. but it, it is been a lot better than that. It’s been great. It has been, it’s definitely a funded venture. All right, boys. I’m gonna get outta here. Yep. I am too Seth. Um, that sounds like a good plan. Yeah, that sounds like a great plan. Nice talking with you guys. Yeah, no great. As always talking and you know, Seth, I wouldn’t pick on you if I didn’t like you. Um, I tell my kids all the time. That’s the way I show my love. That’s my, that’s my motto. Everybody at work hates me, but I. You know, I tell him it’s cuz I actually like him that I’m making fun of him. Oh yeah. Yeah. Know its weird how that works. But I understand, I say the moment, the moment I don’t talk bad about you or make fun of you. You better worry. Yes, that’s right. Yes mm-hmm yeah. I had a kid the other day. He thought I was picking on him and uh, so he went and told on me like kids do so anyway, they, we all go in the office and he’s a good kid. His dad actually worked for me, um, for a year and a half, two years and his brother works there. They live, uh, in the neighborhood just across the way from the course, a good family and all that stuff. And so anyway, we’re all sitting there in the office. And I told him, I said, the only reason I pick on you is I like you and you’re a good kid. You’re a good person. And we expect more out of you than what you’re giving us, you know, cuz he’d kind of been slacking off and all that kind of stuff. So I was laying it on a little extra thick and it hurt his feelings. So the, the stuff that, uh, I never had to worry about when I was a kid, cuz uh, you, you were gonna get your feelings hurt every day. That was just a common, the occurrence, you know, by somebody you gotta have thick skin when you’re working at a golf course. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, everybody on everybody and all that stuff, but yeah. Thank y’all. I really appreciate it. And uh, we’ll talk to you soon. All right.