Episode 132: Live From the 2024 Carolinas Conference

Join Chad Kintzer, Justin King, Jake Teeter, Bryan Epland, CTEM, Moe Rateb, and host Trent Manning as they recap the highlights of the 2024 Carolinas Conference and Tradeshow and TETAC annual education events. From the latest equipment advancements to top-notch education sessions, our guests share their takeaways, including insights on autonomous and remote-control mowing technology.

Learn how CTEM attesting prep can help your facility get ready for a voluntary OSHA mock inspection. Hear why regional shows like Myrtle Beach’s Carolinas Conference are a must-attend for networking, learning, and reconnecting with your newest old friends.

Get inspired to make the trip to a local, regional or national event for education, camaraderie, and fun!

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Transcript

Chad Kintzer 0:52

Over fucking yum yum

Trent Manning 0:53

sauce Yeah, I just hit record.

MIC2 0:56

hit record. Oh. That's

Trent Manning 0:59

That's why we got bleep bleep

MIC2 1:00

got bleep, bleep, bleep. I downloaded, I

Trent Manning 1:06

I downloaded the new ringtone. Er, not ringtone, but Audio clip of bleep. Just for this. Yeah. So we can,

Jake Teeter 1:17

Good job, Chad. Good job, Justin. It's

Trent Manning 1:19

so we can get rid of all this stuff.

Chad Kintzer 1:21

for you.

Trent Manning 1:22

All right. I think about what I'm gonna say. Yeah, this is normally what I do. I just sit here and say, Hmm, what am I gonna say?

Chad Kintzer 1:29

going to say now?

Trent Manning 1:30

What am I gonna say now?

Chad Kintzer 1:32

One thing is late.

MIC2 1:33

Better case.

Trent Manning 1:34

Mm hmm. Dedicated.

MIC2 1:36

Only 10. 30 Tuesday, November 19. Tuesday,

Trent Manning 1:41

What? November 19th. Yep.

MIC2 1:43

November 19.

Trent Manning 1:45

Tuesday, November 19th. And we're at the Dunes Golf Club with Chad Kinzer. And, Moe, how do you say your last name? Cause I know I'm gonna screw this up. Rat tip. Rat tip. Like rat tip. Like a rat tip.

MIC2 2:03

I never pronounced

Trent Manning 2:04

Sorry, sorry man.

MIC2 2:06

sorry, man. I would have

Trent Manning 2:07

Like a rat tip. Yeah, yeah, no, that's all good. And Jake Teeter. And Justin, your last name? Is it King? Is it really King? Man, I don't know why I was, I was thinking it was King. And then I was like, no, there's no way that's right. It's not Justin King. It's Justin something else. No, it's Justin King. And Brian Eplin. And yeah, anyway, we're here for the what is the official name? The Carolina?

Chad Kintzer 2:39

Show. Show?

Trent Manning 2:41

conference, conference and trade show, conference and trade show big t tag meeting of the minds. How many people do we have in class today? It was up there. How many did we have after lunch?

MIC2 2:56

Probably about 40.

Trent Manning 2:59

And then how How many did we have after the raffle

MIC2 3:03

Well, okay, so

Chad Kintzer 3:06

it was a little better after lunch. I think everybody was pretty much there still after lunch, but I'm pretty sure after the raffle,

Justin King 3:14

gone. We'll see how many people are there after Tuesday.

MIC1 3:18

Yeah. No,

Bryan Epland 3:22

is odd, because you think, I mean, with you having that new, new class, I

MIC1 3:26

care.

Bryan Epland 3:30

don't think that would draw a crowd. No

Trent Manning 3:31

I mean, honestly, it's the last day of the show is always the last day of show. And it doesn't matter if it's the Carolina show or the national show or whatever kind of show it is. The last day is the last day and people want to leave early. I don't I don't know what the deal is, but I'm all for staying to the end. But most people don't like to do that.

MIC1 3:53

I mean, you know, I came down here to go to

Bryan Epland 3:55

go to this to educate myself, so. Staying at the end just makes sense to me, but I suppose if you're a guy that's got to drive a certain distance, I mean, maybe not.

Chad Kintzer 4:04

Well, you're staying until Thursday

Justin King 4:05

anyway, so. Well, I mean, they do do the option for Tuesday only. Oh, I know. Yeah,

MIC2 4:13

how

Trent Manning 4:15

you get like a 10 break if you only take

MIC2 4:18

more than that. Well, you

Chad Kintzer 4:19

know, I think it's only for the show, though. That's for the show. Like, you can do the conference, you know, just one day. But just still the classes, I think it would be the full, both days, I don't know. I

Moe Rateb 4:31

don't know. I just clicked all the boxes and submitted the invoice.

Trent Manning 4:37

Yeah, that's the best way. Take it from Moe, you heard it here. Click all the boxes, send in the invoice.

MIC2 4:45

it. That's great.

Trent Manning 4:45

Just make sure you got a PO number to go with

MIC2 4:48

it. Jake. He's looking at the conference. Yeah, yeah. What

Trent Manning 4:52

What are you figuring out over

MIC2 4:53

there? Jake? I don't know how he can see it through the freaking earpieces. You

Justin King 4:58

should open the glasses up before you try to look. I wish we had video for that

Jake Teeter 5:01

one. Yeah, we don't. We need to get a video going. 95 for the full package. 195

Trent Manning 5:07

for the full

Jake Teeter 5:08

That's not too bad. Yeah. Tuesday only is

Trent Manning 5:12

So you

Jake Teeter 5:14

so you save 30

Trent Manning 5:15

30, 30, 30 saving,

MIC2 5:18

Tuesday's a long day though. Yeah. yeah.

Trent Manning 5:20

No, it is a long day.

MIC2 5:22

short day. Yep for sure

Trent Manning 5:25

What was the most interesting thing y'all seen? And we'll go one at, one at a time and we're going to start with Chad.

Chad Kintzer 5:30

Most interesting thing we've seen at the

MIC1 5:32

Yeah,

Trent Manning 5:33

yeah. Whatever. I don't, my face, whatever. I don't care.

Chad Kintzer 5:37

Most interesting thing. I really like the steel, the steel presentation was really good. I was out talking to them after we were all done. and the I like the zero turn electric zero turn. They have, that's pretty neat. We were out there checking it out. You can add, they have a blower attachment for the front of it and everything. And I'm interested in me because we try to blow off the parking lot with one of those big skag. Stand on blowers and that thing is so loud. We actually had the hotel across the swash call and complain. It was waking up hotel patrons and we're like, okay, so I mean that would be something I think would cut down on noise.

MIC1 6:18

So they had

Trent Manning 6:19

it here,

MIC2 6:19

Yeah, it was sitting

Chad Kintzer 6:20

out, it was sitting outside.

MIC1 6:21

Yeah. I

MIC2 6:22

it.

Chad Kintzer 6:22

Yeah, they had the zero turn and then they had the sit down one and they also had the one you stand on. They were both there and I was talking to them and I guess they do eight hours, but it depends on if you're just doing a maintenance cut or if you're doing like, you know, cutting a whole bunch of grass. Sorry. So if it's a whole bunch of grass, he said it would probably, you know, I mean, there's no set like how much it changes it, but he said that it will change the time that obviously the draw on it would be a lot more. So be less time.

Trent Manning 6:56

So if they were mowing a lot of grass. Yeah. It wouldn't

Chad Kintzer 7:00

run as well. He said it's 8 hours. 8 hours on like a maintenance cut. Hmm. I thought that was pretty good. We don't run ours ever for 8 hours in a day

Trent Manning 7:09

like that. Right. I know. Our operators don't operate for eight hours a day.

Chad Kintzer 7:15

sit down and watch them a lot.

Trent Manning 7:16

you know, they're on their phones for at least an hour a day in the woods somewhere.

Chad Kintzer 7:21

Yeah, that's one of the problems. One of our guys, he used to do that all the time. Picking up golf balls in the woods, he'd get all kinds of crap stuck underneath the blades. Yeah.

MIC1 7:29

What do you

Trent Manning 7:29

think Mo?

Moe Rateb 7:30

I like Kayla's presentation about CTM attesting. And it was a lot more than I thought it would be. Like, just the fire extinguisher part. Where the signs should go instead of just having them there to check a box again. But yeah, so that gives me like, you know, the next year or something to Work towards,'cause this year will be my second year. And then my third year will be following after that. So I'll be ready for that.

MIC1 8:03

You got your E. M. C. One and

MIC2 8:05

two.

Moe Rateb 8:06

I got the study guides and all that. Just need to sit down and do'em. Mm-Hmm. you know, you can do'em. They pay for two

Chad Kintzer 8:14

classes a year. What do you mean at ttac? If you can register to take classes, you can do two classes a year. They'll send you the books, and you can go take the test. Two of them a year they do. Oh, well you

Moe Rateb 8:26

can take them online. Right,

Chad Kintzer 8:28

sure you can, but you don't have to pay for them. The GCSA pays for them. The Carolinas. My city pays for them. Well sure, my work paid for ours

MIC2 8:36

too, but.

Trent Manning 8:37

But you moved off a t tac and got yours paid

MIC2 8:40

for it. Most of them.

Trent Manning 8:41

instead of getting your club to play for him. Yeah.

MIC1 8:43

Okay. Make

Moe Rateb 8:44

like six of them. Oh yeah. And the other thing R and R has that program still where they you get a credit basically of 115 bucks to pay your GCSA dues.

Trent Manning 8:57

hmm. Yeah, everybody know about

MIC2 9:00

that. Jake.

Trent Manning 9:04

Nope. Jake didn't know about that.

MIC2 9:05

know about that. Yeah. Jake pulls the flags out on the tri plane.

Chad Kintzer 9:08

Do you remember that?

MIC2 9:09

I

Trent Manning 9:11

think that was my

MIC2 9:11

first year. I was

Chad Kintzer 9:12

telling that story the other night. I don't know who I was telling that to, but it was so funny. We were just dying laughing. Remember that? We were all sitting around the table having a good time talking, you know, just whatever. And you're like, yeah, I was doing, I don't even remember what you were trying to do. And I'm trying to drive across the green and pull the flag out off the mower and we're all like, what? And I'm like,

MIC2 9:32

what?

Chad Kintzer 9:34

And you're like, what man, that's the way I was taught to do

Trent Manning 9:36

yeah. No, that's a big, big no, no. At most places.

MIC2 9:40

thanks.

Trent Manning 9:41

we do

MIC1 9:42

things. Doubling down.

Justin King 9:44

Double in doubt.

Trent Manning 9:46

down. He's

Justin King 9:47

He's not giving up.

MIC2 9:48

Did

Moe Rateb 9:52

you at least have your seatbelt on? He might even add flip flops

MIC2 9:56

along the way. Maybe Crocs.

Moe Rateb 10:01

Safety flops.

Chad Kintzer 10:04

Steel, steel bottom flops. With the bottle opener.

MIC2 10:07

When

Trent Manning 10:14

I worked for Jerry Pate, I was at Georgia, Georgia Southern University. And I don't remember.

MIC2 10:23

He was

Trent Manning 10:23

coach of some sort, and I don't remember what coach he was. But he got a brand new 3500,

MIC2 10:30

and I

Trent Manning 10:31

don't remember why I was out there. But I'm talking to the guy, and he said, The only problem I have with this mower is when

MIC2 10:42

I

Trent Manning 10:42

put my beer in the cup holder, grass gets in my

MIC2 10:46

beer.

Trent Manning 10:48

And yeah,

MIC2 10:49

is, I

Trent Manning 10:49

I just can't deal

MIC2 10:50

with it. So he

Trent Manning 10:52

he had come up with his own. I forgot about that from last

MIC2 10:57

here.

Trent Manning 10:58

No, no. Yeah. The refrigerator running or freezer or whatever it is.

MIC1 11:05

Yeah.

Moe Rateb 11:08

Does it have an alarm?

MIC2 11:11

That is the alarm. Well, it's good to see they got it fixed. Yeah, yeah. Hey, it's a brand new one.

Bryan Epland 11:18

Nah, compared to Okay.

Chad Kintzer 11:21

Sign language. No beeps for that one.

MIC2 11:25

video, we'd have to blur that out. It'd be a little blur.

Trent Manning 11:30

A little blur.

Jake Teeter 11:31

do you

Trent Manning 11:32

think, Jake? What would you like? What'd you enjoy?

Jake Teeter 11:35

The most amazing thing I saw was Justin King eating five plus sushi rolls.

MIC2 11:39

Hmm.

Trent Manning 11:40

Yeah, what was the count on that? What was the total

MIC2 11:43

count? Well, because

MIC1 11:44

it's the last.

Trent Manning 11:46

How many did you order? Let's

MIC2 11:47

start order three.

Trent Manning 11:48

He ordered three. He ate those

MIC2 11:50

in three

Trent Manning 11:51

minutes and 33 seconds. Fastest sushi eater I've ever seen.

Bryan Epland 11:56

then whatever else

Trent Manning 12:00

ring. And

Justin King 12:01

were partials so it's hard to tell now

MIC1 12:06

I

Justin King 12:07

to guess, it was somewhere between five and six rolls.

MIC2 12:10

okay,

Trent Manning 12:11

that's that's fair

MIC2 12:12

So

Trent Manning 12:14

you feeling? Right, right ready to go for a run.

MIC2 12:18

Ready to go, yeah.

Trent Manning 12:20

ready go for a

MIC1 12:21

run

Moe Rateb 12:30

Justin Yum Yum King. Okay.

Trent Manning 12:32

Yeah, I mean I'm down with that.

Moe Rateb 12:34

He

Bryan Epland 12:34

wanted to tell that story without the language. Not the weirdest nickname I've ever had.

MIC1 12:39

Yeah.

Trent Manning 12:40

Yum Yum. But yeah, y'all want to tell the story? Might as well. We're talking about

MIC2 12:45

it.

Chad Kintzer 12:52

So we're sitting there eating, of course. And, brian and I are just stupid for some reason. I don't know why. We always are. And he's like, look, he's like, there's some yum yum sauce over there. And for whatever reason, Justin had his back to us and we were acting like we were going to put it over there and say, here, the waiter put it over there for us. But I'm like, nah, I just hit him on the side. I just go, Hey man, I said, you want some yum yum sauce? And he goes, you interrupted my effing conversation for effing yum yum sauce. And he looked at me like I was, like it was my wife looking at me. He gave me the dirtiest look. He was so mad. I was like, I was defeated. I was like, I hung my head. I was like, but it's yum yum sauce. It was very funny. What about the, what about our waiter that looked

MIC1 13:45

like

Trent Manning 13:45

yeah, I don't, I don't think we should go

MIC2 13:47

there.

Trent Manning 13:47

Yeah. Yeah, I, I, I would like to release this episode. So I really, I really don't think, I really

MIC2 13:55

don't

Trent Manning 13:55

think we should

MIC2 13:56

we should get there. No. Okay. Yeah.

Trent Manning 13:58

I mean we could just for fun and then we'll I'll

MIC2 14:01

just edit

Trent Manning 14:02

all out if you want to but Yeah, that's not

MIC2 14:05

somehow.

Trent Manning 14:06

that's not something that we can air.

Jake Teeter 14:08

But on a serious note, I agree with Mo about Kayla's presentation. And a lot of it has to do with the fact that we've got an OSHA inspection coming up in December. And she raised a lot of good points about what we've got to get ready for.

MIC1 14:24

Yeah, how do you know

Trent Manning 14:25

you got an OSHA?

Jake Teeter 14:26

We scheduled it.

MIC1 14:27

it.

Trent Manning 14:27

Okay.

Jake Teeter 14:27

It's a free thing. OSHA will come out and inspect your shop, give you a list of what you've got to fix, and tell you how much time you've got to fix it, and figure out how much money you've got to spend to fix it.

Moe Rateb 14:40

Oh yeah, we had, we had that earlier this year. Yeah, it's not too bad.

Trent Manning 14:46

Yeah, I mean, that's a good service. Yeah, how would you set that service up?

Jake Teeter 14:52

You just contact OSHA and say we want your, I think they call it mock inspection. Okay. And they'll schedule when, and they want to come out in the middle of summer, which is a busy season.

MIC1 15:02

hmm.

Jake Teeter 15:03

Can you come in the winter? We get a chance to get everything kind of straight.

Trent Manning 15:07

yeah.

MIC2 15:08

So.

Trent Manning 15:09

And when did you say they're coming?

MIC2 15:11

December 10th, I think. Okay, So, December 11th, you'll be looking for a job.

Trent Manning 15:18

How about you, Justin? What, what did you enjoy

Justin King 15:20

I also enjoyed the steel class. I thought the, the battery stuff was interesting. Cause whether we like it or not, you know, it's gonna get there at some point. And that was the first I heard of the claim that their batteries can last 7 to 10 years. That's a bold claim. Yeah, I would agree with that. But if it's true, I mean, that's, it makes the upfront cost seem a little bit

Bryan Epland 15:41

better. It kind of offsets Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chris Eden, the territory manager where I'm at in Nebraska, he, he had a price chart that kind of compared it over, like, say it was like five years, and it was like apples to apples. By the time you do fuel and oil, you know, anything, you know, carbon air parts, air filters, things like that, so.

Chad Kintzer 15:57

Well, that's what he said when we were out there talking to him. He said five years, he said. Actually, I didn't even think he said it was that long. I mean, he said it was a couple years. Yeah, I mean, I was just throwing a number down. No, no, I could find the

Bryan Epland 16:08

document of it. Do

Chad Kintzer 16:10

you have it with

Bryan Epland 16:10

you? Yeah, I keep it in my back pocket. Thank you.

Justin King 16:12

I mean, it seems like things like the, again, like, that's true, longevity, they've kind of taken care of. Power, it seems like these battery tools have good power. I think the biggest thing will be weight for some of these tools. So, but it'll get there, I mean, but I thought that was interesting.

Trent Manning 16:31

definitely the the backpack and the

MIC2 16:33

weight I don't know. Yeah, yeah.

Trent Manning 16:37

something it's gonna be hard to we'll have a hand truck with a battery rolling it around for a backpack

Bryan Epland 16:42

I mean he did say that though, he said, you know, if we get these high amp power batteries then they do get a little heavy. So at least they know it and they're honest about it too.

MIC1 16:51

Now the freezer's on.

Trent Manning 16:52

It's great.

MIC2 16:52

Sorry.

Trent Manning 16:54

Just working poor Chad death here having him unplug everything in his break room. Yep.

Moe Rateb 17:01

And that water fountain might go off too.

MIC2 17:04

Yep,

Trent Manning 17:04

Might as well just go

MIC2 17:05

well unplug it while you're drinking. I need a drink first.

Jake Teeter 17:10

Oh, man. Is it time clock strike twelve? Yeah. As

Trent Manning 17:17

Nice. How about you, Brian? What, what did you

MIC2 17:21

enjoy?

Bryan Epland 17:22

Mine, mine was the Kohler one. It was, it was really interesting to see and I was talking, I think, to you about it afterwards. You know, that's the direction things are going outside. If it's not, if it's not battery powered, it's fuel injection. And you can't, you know, diagnose a fuel injection system with MAP sensors, crank sensors, all that stuff. It's not something you can just do on the fly. So, being able to see the tool, have, you know, have the, have it all explained, and how you went over the simple, the diagnosis that you can do without the tool, that was really nice to see. And you did a really good job doing that too, Mike.

MIC1 17:52

Yeah, I would love to,

Trent Manning 17:53

Get him back

MIC2 17:54

out in our local area and Have him back.

Trent Manning 17:58

watch that presentation again. Because, yeah, being able to view the live data and stuff. I mean, that's

Bryan Epland 18:03

was really nice. I mean, seeing that, seeing the barometric pressure and all that stuff, it was, I mean, it's all in that little Bluetooth deal. It's really neat. They gave us the app last year when they were here.

MIC1 18:13

We got the

Bryan Epland 18:13

app

MIC2 18:14

last year? That

Bryan Epland 18:15

was Club Car, wasn't it? No, it was Kohler.

Moe Rateb 18:19

Well, it's the Kohler app. I went to Club Car in August.

Bryan Epland 18:22

But it was Club Car that, right, that they were talking about here, wasn't it?

Moe Rateb 18:27

Well, there's a special club car engine for all the Kohlers, or all the club cars, there's a Kohler engine.

Bryan Epland 18:37

Yeah, I thought it was club cars as you were talking about that. But yeah, either way, it's a neat app, and all the live guys can get

Chad Kintzer 18:43

it. Yeah, So what

Trent Manning 18:43

the app

Chad Kintzer 18:44

do? Well, yeah, you need the thing to plug in in order to get it to read the diagnostics. But you can go in there, all the videos. They have all kinds of training videos.

Bryan Epland 18:54

Well that's the other thing, on their YouTube channel, I didn't know that. That they have what's it called? Kohler University on YouTube. And they've got all these videos to help you diagnose all this stuff too, so. It's nice that they're putting that information out there and not just keeping it, you know, you don't have to buy a 50 page service manual or

Moe Rateb 19:10

On the, the app, without it being hooked up to Bluetooth. It has the manual for that engine, like you scroll through to pick your engine, and then it has all kinds of icons, and the manual for it is right there. And it's got like, pin wiring and all that good stuff.

MIC1 19:28

Oh wow. That's awesome. Yeah, I mean, that's worth getting the app just for

Jake Teeter 19:32

that Yeah, it is. I got a tribute for you guys. What's the new name of Kohler?

MIC1 19:36

Yeah, it look, I

Trent Manning 19:37

don't know how you would

MIC2 19:38

pronounce it. Relco. Relco? Relco.

Trent Manning 19:41

Reko.

MIC2 19:41

Mm-Hmm.

Moe Rateb 19:42

R-E-H-L-K-O. And isn't it Kohler,

Jake Teeter 19:44

with just They jumbled the words. Yeah, they just scrambled the words up. Yeah, I guess they're trying to get away from the bathroom stuff. I. I

Trent Manning 19:51

thought it was pretty funny. The, the krieger. What do day?

MIC2 19:54

say? Yeah. He said he's got to go work on some toilets

Chad Kintzer 19:59

or something. Go work on some sinks, faucets. It was funny because as he said that, the guy was walking past me. He's like, I hear it all the time. All the time. He just kept walking. He didn't even miss a beat. He just kept going.

Trent Manning 20:15

yeah, I'm sure he gets tired of

Chad Kintzer 20:18

I didn't think he acted like he was tired of it. He's just,

Trent Manning 20:20

over and over

Chad Kintzer 20:21

again. Yeah, I hear it all the time. All the time. Old joke.

MIC1 20:25

It was a dad

Bryan Epland 20:27

Wasn't new to us, though.

MIC1 20:28

year. Every year.

Trent Manning 20:30

He's never missed a beat. Ever. He sells it. Well, you know what

MIC2 20:38

group. He's never missed a beat. Yeah. No. He's

Trent Manning 20:40

I mean, I

MIC2 20:42

he does it, you know what I mean? He sells it away. Well,

Chad Kintzer 20:46

you know, and the nice part is, like I said, now they can just walk right back past the parking lot where we were at this year. What did you guys think about the new place?

Bryan Epland 20:53

It was good. I think that you know, growing pains maybe, just with the microphone cutting in and out, and then maybe having monitors maybe or something closer for the back guys. Because I think that, I didn't sit in the back, I was in the front. I thought maybe it was hard to see from the back, but I did stand back there.

Chad Kintzer 21:11

We did get spoiled over at Market Common. 100%. Because there was like 10 screens in there that you could just set everything up on. And you know, most of the time that's enclosed. I mean, the area we're in now is so open, you can't really do it without the microphone. Right. But I thought it was nice. I liked it. I mean, I like the fact that we're right there at the convention center. I mean, that's, instead of having to drive all the way from Market Common over, you know, plus I think it'll be easier to find. I mean, that one at Market Common is kind of buried back in there a little bit.

Bryan Epland 21:44

I'm kind of going back to what Tim Krieger said there. He was talking about how special it is. I agree with them, you know, what you guys have here at TTAC, and, and, you know, how many people you get to attend all this, it's, it's all inspiring. I mean, I'm happy in our area if we get 40 guys or 30, it's awesome. But, the education that you guys are able to provide is great, and that's why I come down here every year. Yeah, it's awesome. When I first

Chad Kintzer 22:07

started going, we probably had about 40, 60 guys. I mean, it's double. You know, it's, it's good. I mean, I love it. I love it. It's My favorite time of the year right now, you know when everybody comes down and we can all have fun. Oh yeah, you know and you have the classes and stuff and I mean, it's a lot of work But I mean to me it's just it's just fun because you get to do all the work with all your friends and stuff

MIC2 22:35

When the, the sad thing is, how many people

Trent Manning 22:38

from Myrtle Beach are here?

Chad Kintzer 22:40

I Mean if I had a count, I would say there was probably 10, maybe, at the most 15, but I don't think it was that many. I think it was probably about 10.

MIC1 22:49

Yeah That's

Justin King 22:51

How many courses are in there? Oh, it's 100.

Chad Kintzer 22:54

Ridiculous. I mean, yeah, from, from North Carolina down to, say, Pawleys Island, I mean, there's gotta be 100 golf courses. Easy.

Bryan Epland 23:05

You've got education, you just walk out your back door and you're there pretty much in You got people traveling from a long ways away to come do it.

Chad Kintzer 23:12

Yeah, it's crazy. It just goes to show you, man. You can lead a horse to water and you can't make him drink. That's why I set up for the longest time I tried to get guys to come out and have a chapter here in Myrtle Beach. Because, I mean, with the amount of people that we have, we could do exactly what we do here every year. We could do, you know, we could spread it out over the year. Do, you know, how many classes? Five classes? I mean, anybody would come and do a class for that many people. We could do amazing things. And nobody wanted to. Nobody wanted to do it. I couldn't get anybody to come out. Hell, I invited like guys just to go to lunch. Nothing. I was the only one that showed up.

Jake Teeter 23:51

How about lunch? How about the two guys that came from South Jersey and Pennsylvania? He's helping all those guys. No, that's love those guys, man. Yeah,

Trent Manning 24:02

this

MIC1 24:03

But I

Moe Rateb 24:03

but I'll say from last year was my first meeting. Our conference to this year being my second one. What I learned from the conference and the trade show,

MIC1 24:15

about

Moe Rateb 24:16

being able to apply it throughout the year and adding onto it, I mean tenfold on what I've learned.

Chad Kintzer 24:24

It was just inspiring to go there and see all those people gathered together. With a common goal to be better at what our job is, I mean, that's what we're all trying to do is hone our profession and, you know, be as good as we can be. And I mean, when you see that amount of guys come out together at one time, I mean, even though they leave after the awards.

Justin King 24:45

Well, it's you can come down here and not go to a single class, and just the networking, you can go back to your course and you can learn a bunch just from talking to people. So, you know,

Chad Kintzer 24:56

that's why I never, I never, like for the golf, I say it every year. I don't ever put a team in like I'm friends with all a bunch of guys. I mean, I could get a whole bunch of the guys to play with, but I don't, I like to play and play with a different group each year. I mean, you know, you get to meet other people and just have a good time. I mean, that's the best place to really get to know somebody when you're not in like some type of, you know, Working environment or professional environment, you know, you're just out trying to have fun and that's why I enjoy it the golfing side of it anyway i'm terrible, but You're gonna stay a week over there. I'm not disagreeing with you It's nobody

MIC2 25:35

No, but i'm about

Trent Manning 25:36

to doze

MIC2 25:36

off

Trent Manning 25:38

here.

MIC2 25:39

I did now

Trent Manning 25:43

You'll put us right to sleep. Yeah. Mo. How did you find out about us?

Moe Rateb 25:49

So before me in my position, There were, my then assistant superintendent was the mechanic. And he went, because he's been in since high school, playing golf at that golf course. And My superintendent, Todd Baker. he's been like a member for like 40 years or something. And he told me about it. My assistant was like, Yeah, it's a great time. But when I came, I just came by myself. So like the network and everything, I met you. I discovered your podcast like a couple months before. So that got me in. And then The WhatsApp group after that, that, like, blew it open.

MIC1 26:39

The rest is history.

Moe Rateb 26:40

Yeah. What was your

MIC2 26:41

favorite part of the show? You've never

Trent Manning 26:43

you found the whatsapp group. I don't, that's a good question. I mean, I,

MIC2 26:48

your question.

Trent Manning 26:49

yeah, I always, yeah, of course it was a good question. I come

MIC2 26:52

up with it. Ha ha ha. Yeah. Don't hit the table.

Trent Manning 26:56

Yeah. I don't,

SOUND_PAD 26:58

Pshh!

Trent Manning 26:59

I got the sound effect right here. It's D I just got to remember. So yeah, y'all made the impersonation again of that. Still was really good. Still is always really good. Always enjoy that. I was surprised, though, that So many people raised their hand and said they grease the nasal needle bearing. Yeah. On the clutch drum of their chainsaws. And I'm sure some people do that, but I don't think there's a lot of people doing

MIC2 27:29

that. He

Justin King 27:30

called it out right there. I can't believe we have all these lines. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not ashamed to admit that I don't do it. Yeah. No, I've

Trent Manning 27:36

I've never done it. I didn't know it was a thing. I've replaced the needle

MIC2 27:39

bearings. Oh, sure. I didn't

Trent Manning 27:40

I didn't

Moe Rateb 27:41

on it but I put like

MIC1 27:43

he'd

Moe Rateb 27:44

PB Blaster or something on it, cause you know. But that chain guard thing, the chain catch. Where's the needle bearings? I didn't know that. In the clutch. In

Bryan Epland 27:53

the clutch. In the trunk. Take the drum off your needle bearings. He

Chad Kintzer 27:57

didn't even know where it was. I guess he's never greased it. I'm pretty sure I saw it with his hand up today too. No.

Jake Teeter 28:04

I was sleeping in it. No. I think I was in the shower. You said you were sleeping. Oh,

Chad Kintzer 28:08

that's probably when you were in the shower. I was in the shower then. Oh my God. Did you hear, did you hear about that one? No. So I come over late cause I had to go get blood work, you know, pull in, Jake's walking out through. I'm like, where are you going, man? He goes, man, my shower takes 20 minutes to warm up. He goes, I didn't have time to get a shower this morning because I'm going back home, back to the room to get a shower now. He goes, I'm just going to let it run until it gets hot. He goes, I took a cold shower yesterday. I'm not taking one.

MIC1 28:36

Yeah. I don't blame you there. I mean, life's

Trent Manning 28:38

too short to take a cold shower. No.

Moe Rateb 28:41

That's why I like hotels.

MIC1 28:42

hotel.

Moe Rateb 28:43

Another

Trent Manning 28:43

It's all good.

Moe Rateb 28:44

Unlimited hot showers.

Trent Manning 28:46

Mm.

Bryan Epland 28:48

He's got a hotel. Felt good today. Yeah, it's an unlimited hot shower if you let it warm up for 30 minutes. Yeah.

MIC2 28:55

Yeah.

Trent Manning 28:56

Well, we've only been going 30 minutes. We got a

Chad Kintzer 28:58

way to go Well, you know what you ought to do is tell a story about getting locked out of a room when he got here.

MIC1 29:04

Oh yeah. That's a

MIC2 29:05

good story. Yeah.

MIC1 29:05

Yeah. We can share that story.

Bryan Epland 29:07

Yeah so I got an Airbnb or something and me and Chad were hanging out in there. I got all my bags up there and then Jake gets a hold of them and says, Hey, let me ride with you. So we're like, well, shit. Sorry to curse him, but. So he said we gotta go down and get the golf bag. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna leave my phone up here in charge. So I'll text you my room code. So I wrote the code to the door. I text that to Chad. We go down there, come back up and the code won't work. And there's no way to get in. So, we try and try and try and get ourselves locked out any further than the keypad wouldn't work at that point. And so I'm like, alright, well I'll just go down to the lobby, surely she can get a hold of somebody. Because my phone's in the room, I can't get a hold of the owner. And so she says, well it's a private residence, we can't, we don't have their information, we have no way to get a hold of them. So, at this point, these guys leave. Oh, we did it.

Chad Kintzer 29:58

Don't you remember we were up there knocking on the door? Oh,

Bryan Epland 30:00

that's right, you tell that part of the story.

Chad Kintzer 30:03

So we're up there. We're knocking on doors. I said, well, I said, cause the balcony, you know, they're real close together. I said, well, maybe we can just, cause we, his balcony that locked it didn't work to lock the balcony. So they just put this little latch on it. Well, when we went out of the room, we left it unlatched for whatever reason. He's like, well, nobody's going to break in. So. So I'm like, I'm in my mind, I'm thinking, well, maybe I can just step across from one to the other. This is on the 14th

Bryan Epland 30:27

story.

Chad Kintzer 30:28

So I'm like, if it's not real far, I said, we can just step across. So we go back up to the room. I'm like, come on, let's go up. We're just going to knock on doors till somebody opens and we'll let us in. So the room to the right, there were no lights on the room to the left. There was lights on. So I'm standing there knocking on the door. All of a sudden the elevator opens up and these people come walking out, walk right to the door. I go, perfect. I was just knocking on your door. And they're all like, Oh my God, just, just let it go. And I'm like, I'm like, look, do you care if I come in your room? And I said, we were locked out of here. I said, can I come in your room and just go see how far it is from balcony to balcony? And the girl was like, Oh my God, no. And the dude's like, yeah, come on. So I go walking into Rome, go walking back through him. And I, he opens up the balcony. I go, look, I'm like, Oh, I said, there's no way I could do that. Cause it's so the, where the, you know, the wall's just real thin. But they have like a T, you know, so that you can't do exactly what I wanted to do. So I come walking back out and I go, yeah, I said, I don't think I could do it. Well, no, you're not doing it. Absolutely not. And then we leave.

Bryan Epland 31:33

Yeah, they left. And, and so then I ended up having to call Locksmith. Cause that's, I had to get in the room and I didn't have a choice. I couldn't get ahold of nobody. So I'm thinking he can just pick the lock and be in business. Well, he gets up there and he immediately goes, Oh, I'm in business. And I'm like, that can't be good. And he said, yeah, these things are new, and they're, like, he said, I can't get into this. I'm like, okay, well, I guess you have to drill it out. Like, what do you know when I gotta get in there? So, then there's these two lock boxes right below it for, like, the maids or whatever. I said, well, he starts drilling on the main lock, the expensive one. And I said, well, wait a minute, let's drill these, these out first. He's like, yeah, that's probably a good idea. I was like, I'm not the locksmith. Like, this is, you know, you should have thought of that before I did. So, he ends up drilling one open. We get it open. The key doesn't work. I'm like, oh, this is going great. 50 50 shot. We're already wrong. And so he gets the other one. It's a newer version, so it takes him like 10 minutes. He drills all over it. It won't open. Then he gets a pair of a screwdriver and breaks it open. And that key finally let me in. And it charged me like 250, 300, somewhere in there. But I'm gonna try to reimburse for it. We'll see. I mean Well, yeah.

MIC2 32:36

What about the, lock boxes?

Bryan Epland 32:39

They'll have to replace them. I got ahold of the owner once I got in there. And they were like, well why didn't you call us? I said, well I wish I could have, but my phone was in the room, locked up.

Chad Kintzer 32:48

Which was the funny part, because he was going to take it along.

MIC1 32:51

because he goes,

Chad Kintzer 32:51

So we were getting ready to leave, and he goes, well my phone needs charged. He goes, I'm really funny about making sure it's charged all the time. And I go, well, just leave it in here. Just text me the code. And I'm thinking in my mind, I have a terrible memory. If I look at a number and then I go to type it in again, I'll have to look back and forth like seven times. And even though it was only six numbers, I would have had to keep looking back and forth to get it. But he's just like, Oh, I got it. And he texted to me. And I'm thinking, man, that was awfully quick to know those six numbers. And I'm like, okay. So we go down and come back up and it wouldn't work. And the code wouldn't work. And I'm thinking. Are you sure you put, I know man, I looked right at him. I know I put them in right, but we blamed it on Jake. So it don't matter if you wouldn't arrive. I don't know how he thought he was going to fit into mini Cooper anyway. The clubs would barely fit in the back.

Bryan Epland 33:39

Yeah. So like after the locksmith and all that stuff, they, I get ahold of people finally, and they, they, so all they did was they reset the code. They took the old one out and put the new one in and it started working. And so we have no idea what happened. I, I don't know. And yeah, the lock boxes, they just said they'll have to replace them. I mean, it's not a big deal, but. But, I mean, that was the cheap alternative compared to that, I don't know, 400 touchpad lock thing they have. I don't know, but

Chad Kintzer 34:03

I tell you

Bryan Epland 34:04

what,

Chad Kintzer 34:04

he took

Bryan Epland 34:04

it

Chad Kintzer 34:05

way better than I would have. I was dying laughing, but it, because I wasn't in that situation. Probably if I'd have been in that situation. I don't think I would have handled

Bryan Epland 34:12

it as well as he did. I can't wait to tell Jordan Roth here just cause we had problems with my rental car down in Utah. So he had to rent it and he said, I tried to get him to come down here and he said, I'm not letting you rent a car. You, you, you're bad luck. So, I guess I'm

MIC1 34:25

bad. Yeah, it continues.

Chad Kintzer 34:26

was pretty funny.

Bryan Epland 34:27

It was. You took it like a champ

Chad Kintzer 34:30

though, man. Well, what was I gonna do? Get mad? Like, there was nothing to be mad about. I mean, I'm sure there was. You were locked out of your room. Your phone was in there. Jake made us a freaking video. Yeah, it's always my fault. I had my wallet. I was okay. I could

Bryan Epland 34:40

have went and gotten, like, dinner. You know, I'd have been alright. Yeah. Yeah, of all things to have, I had my wallet, not the thing I needed to get in the room.

Chad Kintzer 34:47

That was too much.

Bryan Epland 34:52

It was, it was a good time. So, basically, what we're saying, Jake, is you owe me 300 bucks.

MIC1 34:58

laughter take cash check or charge?

Jake Teeter 35:01

You take Bitcoin, I'll hook you up. Oh, sure, yeah.

Trent Manning 35:05

Bitcoin.

Jake Teeter 35:05

Jake

Moe Rateb 35:05

is our honorary that guy on the crew.

Trent Manning 35:09

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MIC2 35:48

was a little

Chad Kintzer 35:49

bigger, I think, this year than last year.

MIC2 35:51

Yeah, okay. I think there were a few more

Chad Kintzer 35:53

vendors. How about this?

Trent Manning 35:55

I'm waiting.

MIC1 35:55

Horry

Chad Kintzer 35:56

Georgetown. Yeah. Won the turf bowl again.

MIC2 35:58

Oh.

Chad Kintzer 35:59

Five years straight.

Trent Manning 36:01

think it's rigged.

Chad Kintzer 36:02

Don't think so. Those guys are pretty smart.

Trent Manning 36:04

Well, I mean, I'm

MIC2 36:05

saying they're not Since Charles

Chad Kintzer 36:06

Granger's been there. I think it's, what'd they say, 10 years or 11 years? He's won 10 of the 9 years they've won the turf bowl.

Trent Manning 36:15

and you don't think it's rigged.

Jake Teeter 36:17

It's in Burrell Beach. I'm not thinking we get an investigation.

Trent Manning 36:19

Yeah. Well, I don't know, you know,

Jake Teeter 36:23

question. You don't

Chad Kintzer 36:24

know what

Moe Rateb 36:24

the turf bowl is? I don't know what the

Jake Teeter 36:25

turf bowl

Moe Rateb 36:26

is. Quiz bowl. So all the colleges,

Chad Kintzer 36:29

they

MIC1 36:29

have

Chad Kintzer 36:30

like, competition for all the colleges. Like you saw NC State, Clemson. That's where all the kids are today. Yeah, they all have a competition and they ask them questions. And they have to answer the questions, and whoever answers the most correctly or whatever, they win the Turf Bowl. So what happens is, they have one at our level, so whoever wins this one gets to go to national, where they do at the national show. And that's where all the schools are that one. Cool. Yeah, so they've won five years in a row. Well, I guess they said they tied last year, but that's a win in my book. It's like the debate team of Yeah, I think there's like five or six of them on the team.

Jake Teeter 37:11

I've never heard of it before.

Chad Kintzer 37:12

Oh yeah, they do it every year.

Jake Teeter 37:14

Wow, I wonder where I was. Sleeping? Whose belly was that? Drinking. Is it yours? Yeah,

MIC2 37:21

it was

Chad Kintzer 37:23

mine. As soon as I heard it, I knew.

Trent Manning 37:25

Yeah. Had to be.

Chad Kintzer 37:27

Did that come up? I hope that came on the mic.

MIC1 37:29

It probably

Chad Kintzer 37:30

It was pretty loud, it was like, I don't

Jake Teeter 37:31

know. I don't think that was his belly.

Trent Manning 37:34

Ha, ha, ha,

Chad Kintzer 37:35

Bathroom's right there. Right in front of the wall.

Trent Manning 37:37

So, yeah.

Chad Kintzer 37:38

I thought the trade show was a little bigger. Last year, I don't remember them going all the way to the wall. Like, I thought they were. at least one row over from the wall. There was some empty space. On either side, I think it was. And, and last

MIC1 37:52

year,

Chad Kintzer 37:53

the, all of the dealers had

MIC1 37:55

a big,

Chad Kintzer 37:57

a large booth whereas Jacobson and Toro just have smaller booths this year. John Deere still has a pretty big one, but the other two only have a smaller booth. So small that Mike couldn't bring his van in.

Trent Manning 38:10

Is

Chad Kintzer 38:11

that really

Trent Manning 38:11

why he didn't bring

MIC2 38:12

it? No,

Chad Kintzer 38:13

he has it here. He just didn't park it in there. I think he has it here anyway. That's what he said. I

Bryan Epland 38:18

know he said it's in my driving car, but maybe that was him joking. No, he might have the van he might have drove the

Chad Kintzer 38:23

car But he couldn't he if he did it was because he couldn't put the van in there because the booth wasn't as big Because I said to him we were joking around when I was standing there Jake and I were standing there talking to him and I said, well, you should make a little golf

MIC1 38:34

cart

Chad Kintzer 38:36

Like a mini like he has a mini grinder. You can put the mini grinders into mini golf. Now, that would be

Bryan Epland 38:41

really cool Right.

MIC2 38:42

Yeah I would like that.

Chad Kintzer 38:44

That would

MIC1 38:44

be neat.

MIC2 38:45

Come on, they just said they're hiring for the market. I mean,

Trent Manning 38:48

a great idea.

Moe Rateb 38:49

I'm full of them, buddy.

Trent Manning 38:50

Yeah.

Moe Rateb 38:51

Okay, well.

Trent Manning 38:52

Yeah. Mike

MIC1 38:53

and

Moe Rateb 38:54

and Chad traveling the country. Oh

Chad Kintzer 38:56

boy. In Grindzilla. Mini Grindzilla. I'll drive Mini Grindzilla. Mark's, Mark's an R. M. P. I look like, I look like McGillicuddy.

Bryan Epland 39:04

sales tank and what's going on? I look like McGillicuddy

Chad Kintzer 39:07

driving the golf cart.

MIC2 39:08

Yeah. Yeah,

Trent Manning 39:12

did y'all see any new products on trade

MIC2 39:15

They

Moe Rateb 39:16

have a firefly there. Yeah, the Firefly was nice.

Trent Manning 39:19

Okay. Yeah, yeah. Let's talk about the Firefly. All right. Good

Chad Kintzer 39:24

talk. I didn't, see

Bryan Epland 39:27

it, so.

Chad Kintzer 39:27

Well, I didn't really talk to him, I just saw it was sitting there. I mean, I've seen videos of it and stuff. The thing looks amazing. I don't know what the Firefly is. Autonomous mower. But the big one.

Trent Manning 39:38

you know, it's not like a little

MIC1 39:40

Husqvarna.

Chad Kintzer 39:42

even notice what it was. Yeah, you know me,

Bryan Epland 39:46

if it's not green, I ain't looking at it.

Chad Kintzer 39:47

Well, it's just sitting there, it's like, it's, it's kinda, so what I saw was, it's all the way, if you walk in the front door where we walk in, it's in the back left corner. Yeah, I didn't make it

Bryan Epland 39:56

back there.

Chad Kintzer 39:56

Yeah, it's all the way in the back. There was a bunch of people around it when I walked past there. I mean, I didn't stop and talk to them, like I said, I've seen videos and stuff online, but I mean, it's, it's pretty cool.

Moe Rateb 40:09

It looked pretty nimble and quick

Chad Kintzer 40:11

in the video that they had. Yeah. Well, you know, and honestly, seeing it in person, like I haven't ever seen it in person, it looked a lot smaller than what it looks like on the videos. Like, it looks pretty big on the videos. And seeing it in

Moe Rateb 40:24

person, it looked fairly small. But it's like a totally different beast than the Cress or the Husqvarna or some of the other ones that they've had out there. The little vacuum cleaner looking mowers.

MIC1 40:38

I thought

Trent Manning 40:38

the reels were interesting.

MIC2 40:41

Yeah, I didn't even their adjustments. So

Trent Manning 40:43

it's, it's a, a fixed bed knife, but you know, kind of like a QA seven or some.

MIC2 40:51

I don't,

Trent Manning 40:51

Toro have any fixed bed knives now?

MIC2 40:54

Not that I'm aware of. I've never seen one. Yeah. Not that I know of.

Trent Manning 40:57

I want to say back in the day they had something that

MIC2 41:00

was fixed. I don't remember what it was. Well, yeah, I'm not sure. Sorry.

Trent Manning 41:04

But anyway,

MIC2 41:05

yeah,

Trent Manning 41:05

so fixed bed knife. So the reel adjusts to the bed knife and

MIC2 41:11

it was

Trent Manning 41:11

a click system.

MIC2 41:13

The guy said

Trent Manning 41:15

65 tenths.

MIC2 41:18

Per click, you know Toro's

Trent Manning 41:21

Seven tenths or whatever. So

MIC2 41:24

john deere's 5

Trent Manning 41:25

tenths.

MIC2 41:25

So they wanted a

Trent Manning 41:27

I guess

MIC2 41:27

I don't know

Chad Kintzer 41:28

surprisingly well worth it. Fixed bed knife. I wonder why they did that.

Trent Manning 41:31

I don't

MIC2 41:32

Was it a 7 inch cutting unit? Yeah. Well, i'd say

Trent Manning 41:36

that i'm pretty

MIC2 41:37

I mean, that's what John Deere is, what the rear one is. When the

Trent Manning 41:41

guy did say that

MIC2 41:45

So

Trent Manning 41:45

it had a JRM reel and a JRM bed knife,

MIC2 41:49

but it's Toro Dimensions. So he could you could put

Trent Manning 41:53

a Toro in

MIC2 41:54

it if you wanted to, Yeah,

Bryan Epland 41:55

a Toro would be

Trent Manning 41:55

bed knives.

Bryan Epland 41:57

Well, that's kind of nice, then you have, you can, you got a little bit of versatility to them. If you're an all Toro or something, then you could just transfer parts or

MIC1 42:05

Yeah, and

Trent Manning 42:05

then, yeah, I don't know, it's

MIC2 42:07

it's definitely a little different

Trent Manning 42:09

because

MIC2 42:11

it's more

Trent Manning 42:12

a QA7 because the front roller

MIC2 42:16

is

Trent Manning 42:16

adjustable, you know, with, you know,

MIC2 42:19

positions. But

Trent Manning 42:22

the height of cuts adjusted from the rear roller. Hmm. So, yeah, I don't know. A little, little different Yeah.

MIC2 42:30

know, like

Trent Manning 42:31

a, a combo between a Toro

Bryan Epland 42:32

and a Deere. One question that I've kind of had about these autonomous mowers is, you know, say you do come across like a ball marker or something, especially a real mower, I mean, is, you know, is that just something that's going to get hit? And I guess it'd be no different than, you know, the operator hitting something, but, you know. The operator might be able to see that on the next pass that, you know, is that, I've, I've not been around it so I guess I'm asking a question, but is that something that that mower can see or, or sense or?

Moe Rateb 42:58

Toro came out with a video on one of the emails for golf course industry. And they were talking about their next iteration of the Triplex having cameras and lasers or some kind of technology that would have a visual on stuff like that. Yeah, so it's on their mind at least.

Bryan Epland 43:22

That's good to hear.

MIC1 43:23

Yeah, it's like, is it

Trent Manning 43:24

LIDAR

MIC2 43:25

That does that probably. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah. Where

Trent Manning 43:28

like my 3D printer has got

MIC2 43:30

that lidar, so if

Trent Manning 43:32

you know something happens with the print,

MIC2 43:34

it'll stop itself. Oh yeah. Yeah. It has be something like that. The Same

Trent Manning 43:37

technology, I guess.

Moe Rateb 43:39

sprinkler heads.

Trent Manning 43:42

Yeah. Can it tell

MIC2 43:43

sprinkler heads up I hope so. right over it. Oh boy. That could be a mess. Yeah.

Trent Manning 43:47

be a mess.

Moe Rateb 43:47

But the one thing I did notice, there was no contact. And it was super easy to spin the reel

Trent Manning 43:55

Yeah, because electric motor

Moe Rateb 43:58

you

Trent Manning 43:58

know, no hydraulic

Moe Rateb 44:00

pressure because we use the 25 50 john dears and they're pretty easy, but this one was just I don't know if it was because it's brand new, but it was It felt nice to spin it Until you get your finger

MIC2 44:15

and I did it I asked the guy

Trent Manning 44:16

and they

MIC2 44:17

said a

Trent Manning 44:17

light contact,

MIC2 44:19

but I guess,

Trent Manning 44:20

you know, if it's based

MIC2 44:21

on a Toro cut maybe they didn't adjust it.

Bryan Epland 44:24

Well, for the show they probably don't have them. I mean, I would think they wouldn't have it adjusted to cut paper at the show.

Moe Rateb 44:30

We'll have to go back tomorrow with our little slips. Yeah. Yeah. Go down to the T TAC booth, there's plenty of them. That's a real test right

MIC2 44:37

there. Well,

Trent Manning 44:39

I did ask him if it would fit on a lift

MIC2 44:41

because it looks really wide,

Trent Manning 44:43

but he said it would.

MIC2 44:44

So how does that work? I wonder. How do you get it on the lift?

Trent Manning 44:48

That I don't

MIC2 44:49

I think there's a remote for it.

Trent Manning 44:51

Yeah, I don't know

MIC2 44:52

if it's a remote or if

Trent Manning 44:54

like stand on the

MIC2 44:54

back. It has a

Moe Rateb 44:57

Playstation controller. Yeah, okay. Interesting. No wait, that was another one. My bad, sorry. But it's either way.

MIC1 45:06

Yeah,

Trent Manning 45:10

I don't know that I got that. Nope. No,

MIC2 45:13

Darn it.

Trent Manning 45:14

not that one.

MIC2 45:15

That

Trent Manning 45:17

I have to get that sound

MIC2 45:18

effect

Trent Manning 45:18

and make sure I, I get it on

MIC2 45:20

here for 2025 There you go. New sound

Trent Manning 45:25

effect. It'll, it'll debut one year from today.

Moe Rateb 45:29

But yeah, I did see a plate motion controller for one of them. Where you had to move it from fairway to fairway or rough to rough between holes.

Trent Manning 45:40

I don't that was probably this one, wasn't it?

Moe Rateb 45:43

Cause no, it was I can't remember the name, but it was like a purple blue one that he said site one is going to be the distributor.

Trent Manning 45:51

the distributor

Justin King 45:52

You guys see that one? I don't even know what it was. I didn't get a chance to look at it closely, but the smaller one that was on tracks. What was that?

Moe Rateb 46:00

The

Justin King 46:00

rhino? Yeah.

Moe Rateb 46:02

Oh, it was a rough mower.

Justin King 46:03

Okay. That's what I figured, but people were around it and I wasn't. But it wasn't autonomous,

Moe Rateb 46:08

it was remote controlled. Yeah, it was remote

Bryan Epland 46:10

controlled, but that looked pretty cool. Yeah, because Mike Rollins was saying that I think,

MIC1 46:15

uh,

Bryan Epland 46:15

Femke at Big Cedar has one or something at the new course they've got there. What's the benefits of having? Well, because if you got real steep slopes, it's got the tracks to be able to go up and down it. Yeah, what's the

MIC2 46:26

difference if you have an operator or not? Well, if, safer. Yeah. Yeah, if it flips over and there's not an operator on it, it

Trent Manning 46:33

might be safer. Just a

MIC2 46:36

Well, no, I'm just saying though,

Chad Kintzer 46:37

I don't, I, I understand that. It might have an operator on it and they're like, hey, watch this. I don't know what the benefit would be of it, like, I mean, I would wait. Well, yeah, I mean. Other than that, other

MIC1 46:46

they're saying,

Chad Kintzer 46:47

you know. But I mean, that would be the only

MIC1 46:48

put anybody

Chad Kintzer 46:50

That would be the only application that you would think it would be useful with a remote. Well, right, that's, but I

Bryan Epland 46:55

think that's what it is. Or maybe even around ponds and stuff, you know. all. I guess. This is the guy that, you know, one of the cross balconies on the 14th story says safety. Yeah, right,

MIC2 47:05

Yeah.

Bryan Epland 47:07

All about

Chad Kintzer 47:08

safety. You know. Safety. That's right. Kayla and I were talking about that today. About safety and safety glasses. We were saying how I was telling her, she was telling me some stories and I was telling her some stories and I was like, I was like, yeah. I said, I've done a few stupid things and I, I used to work in a garage and I never wore safety glasses. I was just, you know, you know how you're, when you're young, you're just dumb. And we used to do exhaust. I know, I'm still young.

Trent Manning 47:34

I

Chad Kintzer 47:34

still wearing,

Trent Manning 47:35

safety glasses like I should.

Chad Kintzer 47:37

I just squint my eyes a little bit. I can see better that way. Safety squid. Yeah. So, I was cutting the exhaust off of this car and on the muffler clamp, you cut on either side of it, hit it with a hammer, and you know, it would break it.

MIC1 47:50

Right off and

Chad Kintzer 47:51

You can cut the pipe out or whatever. So I'm, it's dark, it's nighttime and I'm in there blowing, I don't have any safety glasses or nothing on. And I hit the air to, you know, blow the lava out. And I, all I see is this frigging molten lava coming right at my face. And luckily, you know, you have quick reactions when stuff's coming to your eye. And I closed my eye real quick and it landed. Literally across the opening in my eye with my eye closed I had a burn on the top and the bottom that burned my eyelashes and everything off and I said From that day forward I wear safety glasses no matter what I'm so big on safety glasses now I'm like if I guys come in the shop and help and they're doing something blowing or grinding or anything I'm like, hey, man, get your safety glasses on Oh,

Bryan Epland 48:37

I know

Chad Kintzer 48:38

and that was my that's Kayla said that was your one warning I said it was, and I took it I said, ever since then I said, I never did it again without safety glasses. I said, that was really close, really close. There was another one I told her too, but I don't remember that one. We're

MIC1 48:55

We're dying to know I don't remember.

Trent Manning 48:57

Yeah

Chad Kintzer 48:58

I'm old. I remember that one. Oh, I know what it was.'cause we started talking about the chainsaws'cause they were doing the steel thing and she was saying that her guys at her shop, there was an old guy that doesn't wear Chad. They finally talked him into wearing them. I said, well, one of my good friends, he has a tree business. And I said, I'd always help him and stuff, you know, you know, we always wore gloves and, you know, hard hat and safety glasses, but we never wore chaps or anything, you know, and he always climbed the trees and stuff. And I'm down there cutting a log or something up and I was undercutting it and it started to pinch the saw and I pulled it out real quick. And what I did, it came down and hit, at that time I wore blue jeans. Luckily, it hit my blue jeans, tore three holes in my blue jeans, but never got my

MIC1 49:43

leg

Chad Kintzer 49:45

I mean, it was so close. Yeah. Wow. They're

Bryan Epland 49:48

worth it, for sure.

Chad Kintzer 49:50

What's that? Blue jeans? Yeah, blue jeans, yeah. I mean, they were in style then. I washed them and the holes kept getting bigger.

MIC1 49:57

I should

Chad Kintzer 49:59

have kept them and sold them. People make good money for that. I could have got a couple hundred bucks for them now, at least.

MIC1 50:04

for

Chad Kintzer 50:05

with butts all worn out from sitting on them all the time.

Trent Manning 50:08

What else? Oh,

Moe Rateb 50:11

Look at the OSHA things that she was talking about. Their what was it, their incident reports. Oh yeah, I was actually

Bryan Epland 50:19

curious about that. How do you guys put those online? You know,

Chad Kintzer 50:21

she's really smart. Oh yeah, yeah. She is, just.

Bryan Epland 50:25

So, for people that weren't there since we're doing a podcast. During her class she was talking about, who's she? Caleb, Caleb, Caleb. Sorry. She was talking about how they were there. Yeah. Yeah. She's doing a podcast. Yeah. You know, you know, so she was, she was for her guys she goes on the OSHA website and gets the incidences that kind of are related to what they do at the golf course. And she puts one in the break room tables. I think is what she said periodically. Yeah. Which is, I think is an eye opener.

Chad Kintzer 50:52

That's kind of cool. So that's the stuff that she said. So that's the stuff that she tells them. She thinks they're not just telling them. For just to be a jerk so that they can see that that stuff really does happen.

MIC2 51:01

Well

MIC1 51:01

thought

Trent Manning 51:01

Mark was good showing the hamburger meat,

MIC2 51:05

you

Trent Manning 51:06

know, and really driving it home. Like, if you get a chainsaw cut, this is what it's going to

MIC2 51:10

look like. Yeah, he's really good. Yeah, there's

Trent Manning 51:13

there's not any sewing this back

MIC2 51:15

together Cause yeah, there's nothing

Trent Manning 51:18

Because yeah, there's nothing there to sew together

MIC2 51:21

not a clean

Trent Manning 51:22

out. Yeah These microphones are really sensitive. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

MIC2 51:27

How's my belly? It was growling.

Moe Rateb 51:29

Giggling. Hour of giggling. You awake over there,

Jake Teeter 51:33

buddy? barely Oh, I'm barely hanging on. What was your favorite part of the trade show, Jake? The hose reel. The hose cart.

Chad Kintzer 51:44

The 1,

Jake Teeter 51:45

700 hose cart? 1, 700 hose cart. 1, 700 hose cart. 1, 700 hose cart. Bulletproof.

Trent Manning 51:49

Bulletproof. Bulletproof.

Chad Kintzer 51:51

The hose or the cart? The whole assembly. Oh, he was so excited about that thing. He's like, look at that, man. Justin's like, I just made one, man. Yeah,

MIC2 52:00

I made one

Trent Manning 52:02

I bought the hose reel and I bought a trailer from Northern for 300

MIC2 52:07

That's what we got. And a piece of plywood.

Trent Manning 52:11

I didn't even do plywood. I just, Hose reel straight to the trailer

Jake Teeter 52:17

Fits straight on the frame?

Trent Manning 52:18

Mm hmm.

Jake Teeter 52:18

Okay. Well, when I started, all the wires were on plywood, which is all rotten now after 14 years. And the last one we did, we did with decking material that What do you call that?

Trent Manning 52:29

I

Jake Teeter 52:29

like treks Yeah treks. We used treks to put down the deck and then bolted it in. Is that working pretty good? Yeah, it works good. and I figured out that the frames break on the reels.

MIC2 52:42

Mm hmm.

Jake Teeter 52:43

Because there's no support for them. So I mounted a, a shelf bracket

MIC1 52:47

shell bracket to

Jake Teeter 52:48

to the deck and to the frame. And so no more flex, no more breaking the frames. Works great.

MIC2 52:54

Nice.

Trent Manning 52:56

Yeah, the northern trailers I got,

MIC2 52:58

an

Trent Manning 52:58

cut the axle in half and extended

MIC2 53:01

it

Trent Manning 53:01

so

MIC2 53:02

I can

Trent Manning 53:02

put golf cart tires

MIC2 53:03

on it. Huh. And other wider tires, Yeah, that's what this

Trent Manning 53:06

come with those super

Jake Teeter 53:07

skinny ones. Yeah, that's what this has. Those big wide tires. Yeah, yeah. I like that set up. But it had, where you hook the hose up, instead of being inside the frame of the reel, it actually has a curved section that comes out right to the edge so you can just screw your hose on and start wrapping it instead of having to feed it inside and hook it with the hull. Stupid hook that always comes undone.

Trent Manning 53:30

I saw it in the front

MIC2 53:33

Right

Chad Kintzer 53:33

inside the front door it was.

Jake Teeter 53:35

Yeah, they ask. H& H. H& H.

Trent Manning 53:38

H. Yeah,

MIC1 53:39

H

Jake Teeter 53:40

Yeah, H& H I think.

Trent Manning 53:41

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw

Jake Teeter 53:42

it. It says like right when you walk in the door. Yeah, right inside the front door. Fire engine red. Yeah. What do you guys use for hoses on your hose carts?

MIC2 53:51

I don't,

Trent Manning 53:51

I don't know

MIC2 53:53

I mean we keep

Trent Manning 53:54

buying hoses and they keep,

MIC2 53:55

they don't time at all. Don't matter what you get.

Jake Teeter 53:58

Red Underhill

MIC1 54:00

is

Jake Teeter 54:00

has lasted the best so far, but it's heavy. It's heavy, yeah. It's heavy, heavy, heavy. But it turns out, all of them, the clear one, the green, the blue, have a lifetime warranty.

Trent Manning 54:11

Really?

Jake Teeter 54:11

I didn't know, we'd already thrown a couple of them away before. Yeah.

MIC2 54:15

huh, I didn't know that.

Trent Manning 54:17

Yeah,

MIC2 54:17

that's good to know because yeah, I don't know how many we've thrown away. Thousands. Yeah, Definitely thousands of dollars worth. Oh yeah. Houses, because that stuff's

Trent Manning 54:27

take long. Most things are, yeah, expensive. Yeah, I'll check into that.

MIC2 54:33

Well, you

Trent Manning 54:33

heard it here first,

MIC2 54:34

people.

Trent Manning 54:34

Lifetime warranty on, on,

MIC2 54:36

Well, it was from Jake, so.

Trent Manning 54:38

hoses.

Chad Kintzer 54:39

He pulls the flags out as he's driving across. Let me fact check.

Trent Manning 54:43

Yeah, that's true.

Chad Kintzer 54:45

We better not just hold that to fact. Come on now. You may

Justin King 54:50

have heard it first.

Chad Kintzer 54:51

Well, you've definitely heard it first. You're never going to hear it

Moe Rateb 54:55

again.

MIC2 54:57

You've definitely heard

Moe Rateb 54:58

it. Guaranteed consumer tips

Chad Kintzer 55:01

from Jake. Thanks. So what what do you think about the tournament? The Eric Duncanson Memorial Tournament. You drove all the way from Georgia, all the way

Trent Manning 55:09

Oh, yeah, that was awesome. I mean, it was a lot of fun. I definitely like coming to

MIC2 55:15

support

Trent Manning 55:16

TTAC and

MIC2 55:17

Benevolence

Trent Manning 55:18

Fund. I mean, it's great.

MIC2 55:21

And, I mean,

Trent Manning 55:21

a bummer that

MIC2 55:23

Right, you know the weather and

Trent Manning 55:24

all that, the

MIC2 55:26

storms come

Trent Manning 55:27

through and I heard a lot of people couldn't make it because of that, which I totally understand.

MIC2 55:32

So

Trent Manning 55:32

hopefully next year have even better turnout.

MIC2 55:35

Yeah, was that good old jake's golf course? Yes, it was which was in

Jake Teeter 55:38

fantastic shape

Trent Manning 55:40

and it's

Jake Teeter 55:41

Justin's golf course next year. Yep. Yeah, not official yet, but we're working on it

Chad Kintzer 55:48

So here we go jake light again

MIC2 55:50

Hmm

Chad Kintzer 55:51

Yeah, I thought the golf course was great, I know it was just funny cuz he's like it's like oh man Everybody's gonna come up here and make fun of my crappy golf course. I'm like, I'm like who would do that? I said nobody's gonna make fun of your course. First of all, it's not even crappy. I said it's great I said I thought it was an awesome shape

Trent Manning 56:08

Yeah. The only thing we made fun of was the steak sandwich that Jack recommended.

MIC2 56:13

yeah, that was pretty bad.

Chad Kintzer 56:17

That was very bad Oh, the night before. Yeah. At the restaurant. Yeah. Everybody changed their mind and got the steak sandwich because he recommended it. I had something picked out. Yeah, we all did.

Jake Teeter 56:29

I know you guys asked me and I said, I don't know, just, everything's good. Yeah. you said everything was good. And then I went to the steak sandwich and everybody started ordering steak sandwich. I'm like, oh, shit.

MIC2 56:37

Yep,

Trent Manning 56:37

It was not good

Chad Kintzer 56:38

not good. So, it was made with real steak. And they sliced it, looked like with a knife, like maybe quarter inch strips, yeah? And it was the toughest. Oh, it was bad. Freaking gristliest. The gristliest. If you would bite into it, the whole piece of steak would come out of the bun. The whole, like, four inches long. It was so bad. It was terrible. I think it was liquid.

Trent Manning 57:02

was microwave. Yeah and I think the bun was three times

MIC2 57:04

bigger than the stand. Yeah, it was, it was

Trent Manning 57:06

And it wasn't like it was a big

MIC2 57:07

bond. It was bad. So we

Chad Kintzer 57:08

know, we should have known when Jake recommended it, had we known. Old Mr. Credibility himself. Yeah. Old Mr. Lifetime Hoses

MIC2 57:17

himself.

Bryan Epland 57:18

It's

Chad Kintzer 57:19

on the podcast now, you can't erase it.

Jake Teeter 57:24

Somebody call Uber, I gotta get out of here. You guys can have fun, make some money.

Chad Kintzer 57:28

Oh man, well that was the best part of the tournament. We were just having, me, it was me, Justin, Jake, and Lee Carmichael. And oh my god, we were just cutting up the whole entire time. It was so much fun. It was a blast.

MIC2 57:41

Yeah, I'm gonna

Trent Manning 57:41

to get golf clubs and

Chad Kintzer 57:43

Oh, it's just fun.

Trent Manning 57:44

I can do it one time.

Chad Kintzer 57:46

It's just fun cutting out, man. It's just, I just love just going and just, like, I'm not good. So it's, to me, it's funny when I talk smack to somebody else when they hit a bad shot because 9 chance out of 10, mine's gonna be worse, so. You, you can borrow mine if you need some clothes. Okay. You're not left handed, probably.

Trent Manning 58:03

I don't, I mean,

MIC2 58:03

I mean. If you've never golfed, I guess either way. Yeah.

Trent Manning 58:06

It, it really don't matter matter. I

MIC2 58:07

think you can always borrow mine, but

Chad Kintzer 58:09

add an extra set of down. I did too. Did Well, you get a, oh, there you go. When it's at his tournament, you can just come out

Jake Teeter 58:15

and you get Daniel Garing ability on number two. And I said, you, you and Laura drove up in the beverage cart and I said, you watch somebody hit this image right here and damn if I didn't, he hit it right where he said

Chad Kintzer 58:26

he was going to.

Justin King 58:28

Just about 10 yard shorter.

MIC1 58:30

Yeah.

Justin King 58:32

You can make it past the red tees. It was so fun. Yeah, that was funny. We had so much fun that day, Chad and his. This is Myrtle Beach Dinosaur Putt Putt Putter. He was making fun of

Chad Kintzer 58:43

my putter. It's a two ball putter. I don't know what he was making fun of. He just didn't like it had a regular, it didn't have one of the fat grips on it. It just has a regular little grip on it. It's almost the same as his putter. I don't know what he was talking about. It's just funny you make fun of you. It is funny.

Trent Manning 58:58

I mean, I like when guys talk about their putters, you know, and compare their

MIC2 59:03

putters with

Bryan Epland 59:05

each other. Yeah,

Trent Manning 59:08

Really

MIC2 59:09

good

Bryan Epland 59:09

Oh

Chad Kintzer 59:12

no, I got a small putter. Trust me. Listen, can I tell you the funniest thing? So before we started playing, Justin had never played golf before. And he's going, we're, you were there when we're at his shop. Remember, we're still walking around. He goes, man, he goes, I'm so excited to play golf. I've been watching YouTube videos for, for like weeks now. And I'm like, you've been watching videos? Yeah, man. And I was going to the range and we get out there. I'll tell you what, he was hitting a crap out of the ball. I was like, Holy crap. Yeah. He was

MIC1 59:43

to start watching some

Chad Kintzer 59:44

yeah, no lie. Cause he was hitting the ball 10 times better than I was. Yeah. He was smoking them. I mean he was hitting them out there really far. He was keeping up with Lee and Lee's like a four handicap or something. He's, Lee's really good. But clarify, just my drives. Right. Well, everything else. That's true. He must only watch dry videos. Yeah, I didn't watch any iron videos. Well how about Lee eagled the last hole himself? Yeah. And he was this far away from the longest drop. Yeah. Crazy, I mean, good boy. Yeah, he's funny. He was at the, he was at the J. R. M. night. He's always so funny. Him and his buddies, there's one guy, Rooster. That's what they call him out there. Every time they see me, it's always, they always laugh at each other. They're funny guys, good guys.

MIC2 1:00:31

I like, it's one of the great things about the industry. It's, you know, I mean, we have fun, you know? And how long have we known each other? I mean, not that long. Like, 30 years, maybe. I mean, like, we're in the Army together or something, you know, for four years or something, you know. But, yeah, just everybody you meet, you feel like you've known for a long time. Yeah, without a doubt. So, it's something special. I

Bryan Epland 1:00:57

was talking to Andrew today from Old Eleanor. And, him and I were joking back and forth. I mean, we met briefly in Phoenix, but we were just sitting next to each other joking back and forth. You know, it's funny, we're kept in the same cloth, even though we come from a lot of different backgrounds. It's good. You can't crack a joke or two as long as they're willing to listen.

MIC1 1:01:16

Yeah, I

Trent Manning 1:01:16

think, and I mean,

MIC2 1:01:18

there's always a few, I guess, but for the most part. As long as it doesn't involve yum yum sauce, it's okay. yeah, yeah. yeah. I mean, you know, you cross the line sometimes when you start talking about yum yum sauce and the guy's telling a story.

Trent Manning 1:01:33

What do you expect?

Justin King 1:01:36

His face was the best. He was like,

Chad Kintzer 1:01:40

You interrupted my conversation for effing yum yum sauce?

MIC1 1:01:44

He stared me

Chad Kintzer 1:01:47

down for like 30 seconds and I was like, I think the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. What hairs? If I had hairs.

MIC1 1:01:54

good point.

Chad Kintzer 1:01:57

The hairs that should be there were standing up.

Justin King 1:01:58

But even that, you know. You can't stay mad at Chad for too long.

Chad Kintzer 1:02:03

He's fat and stupid. You just gotta get over it. Oh man.

Bryan Epland 1:02:06

He's all about self positivity.

Trent Manning 1:02:08

Yes, yeah, yep.

Chad Kintzer 1:02:10

That's like, that's like, Steve, my boss, always yells at me. Cause I'm always my worst critic forever. And I'm sure we all are. But during the tournament, we had the PGA tournament here. And it was like a dream to have it. You know what I mean? To work at a golf course that hosted a tournament. And one of the team owners was out there and blew a hydraulic hose. And I was just like, I mean, we tore it apart, got it repaired, got it back going again. But I came back into the shop, man. I closed the door. I'm freaking, I'm in there. I'm half ball and it's just like, I'm like, Oh my God, I'm like, how could I go and let something so stupid happen? For something I mean it was and you could see the hose was warm like rusted I'm like, how could I miss that? you know, I'm going over this stuff for the three months, you know with a fine tooth comb and I missed this and you know, Tim Krieger and all of them were here and you know, I mean I get mad at myself, but I get over it You know what? I mean? It's not like I'm gonna quit my job or whatever It's just I'm very disappointed in myself at the time, you know, and they're all like, oh, it's alright, man Krieger told the story about when he had a leak course or whatever. And, you know, Steve, my boss pulled me aside. He's like, Hey man, he's like, you just got to let it go. He goes, you got to stop being so hard on yourself. And I'm like, I'm like, I said, I'm fine, Steve. I said, it's just, I'm disappointed in what happened. You know, I said, you know, I've been looking forward to this for how long, you know, and then something like that happens, which is like, for me, it's a cardinal sin, you know? And it's, he's like, Oh, he's like, man, this place looks as good as it does because of you. And he said, it's, you know, just let it go. I'm like, I'm good. I'm fine. You know, and Hour later, I was fine. After I just got stuck pouting and

Bryan Epland 1:03:52

whining. I mean, you know, self criticism is always the harshest form of criticism. You know, it's, we're all hard on ourselves. So, that's probably why we're in our positions. I guess. Maybe why, why we accelerate. The

Chad Kintzer 1:04:07

thing mine has to do for my dad yelling at me all the time. I figured if I yelled at myself and then maybe he wouldn't yell at me so much.

MIC1 1:04:13

Doesn't really work

Chad Kintzer 1:04:14

that way though. Does it? No, no.

Trent Manning 1:04:15

Yeah

Chad Kintzer 1:04:16

I like those memes, the stuff you see on Facebook, you know, with the kids. You can tell these days they never had to hold their flashlight for their dad. yeah, yeah. That's the truth.

MIC2 1:04:25

Woo! Yeah.

Trent Manning 1:04:26

I'll never

MIC2 1:04:27

forget those days. Oh

Chad Kintzer 1:04:28

Mike, you could never have that on the podcast. It would be just one long beep. My dad yelling at me with the flashlight. Over! And I'm not even going to say it.

MIC1 1:04:38

it.

MIC2 1:04:39

Hold it

Trent Manning 1:04:40

where I can

MIC2 1:04:40

see, boy, not where you can see.

Trent Manning 1:04:42

That's what I heard. I don't know how

Chad Kintzer 1:04:44

Well, you know, I think my problem was I would never pay attention. I'd stand there and hold the light. Oh wow, look at that. And the next thing you know, the light's over here. I remember one time we were driving down the road and my dad, we were backing out of something and he turned around like this to back up and my, one of my friends was in the car with us and he leaned like this to look in the middle and my dad reached back and smacked him in the back of the head and I go, you got smacked and it wasn't me this time.

Bryan Epland 1:05:09

I figured the next thing you were going to say was your dad turned around and smacked you too. So I probably, he probably did. He probably blocked that one out.

Chad Kintzer 1:05:15

For laughing at him. Days. We're ready

Trent Manning 1:05:17

to wrap it up?

Chad Kintzer 1:05:18

What time is it? I mean we could just go until tomorrow morning and pull in all night. Oh yeah, why not?

Trent Manning 1:05:23

no. We only got, yeah, 28 minutes, but.

MIC2 1:05:26

Yeah, I'm ready to go. Yeah, we're good.

Trent Manning 1:05:29

Yep, I'm good.

MIC2 1:05:30

Thanks for doing this buddy. no, thank you, Chad, Thanks for,

Trent Manning 1:05:33

yeah, having us

MIC2 1:05:34

Don't forget to plug for everybody else for,

Trent Manning 1:05:37

for being here, and. Yeah,

MIC2 1:05:38

Yeah, thanks for the invite.

MIC1 1:05:39

invite.

Trent Manning 1:05:39

Yeah, no, it's

MIC2 1:05:40

It's been fun.

Trent Manning 1:05:41

I mean, it's always

MIC2 1:05:42

fun,

Moe Rateb 1:05:42

I wonder how this is going to turn out. I Don't you know, it's

MIC2 1:05:45

the

Trent Manning 1:05:47

art of editing.

MIC2 1:05:48

amazing what you can do Oh man. podcast

Trent Manning 1:05:51

Well, we'll see what the one microphone does and

MIC2 1:06:02

And me

Trent Manning 1:06:03

hitting mute so we don't get Mike bleed as much

Chad Kintzer 1:06:07

Oh, is that what that button's for?

Trent Manning 1:06:09

yeah, yeah. That's why

MIC2 1:06:10

I hit that mutes this mic. Oh, okay.

Trent Manning 1:06:13

And that's the biggest problem about recording in a room like this is my bleed. And you basically have to manually go through and scrub each section.

MIC2 1:06:26

So

Trent Manning 1:06:27

it takes forever to edit one

MIC2 1:06:28

of these.

Chad Kintzer 1:06:30

You think there would be something like a program you could just go in and it would just go through and,

MIC2 1:06:33

whoop! Okay. So, Like the

Trent Manning 1:06:35

software I use, it says Mike bleed

MIC2 1:06:38

detected. Would you like to eliminate it? And you select yes, but it doesn't eliminate any of it. I don't understand

Trent Manning 1:06:45

why it even tells you. I mean, it's basically like telling you,

MIC2 1:06:50

you really screwed up and you're going to pay for this.

Trent Manning 1:06:53

click. Yes.

MIC2 1:06:55

To continue.

Justin King 1:06:56

Yeah. Yeah,

Trent Manning 1:06:58

Thank y'all.

Chad Kintzer 1:06:59

Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

Trent Manning 1:07:05

thank you so much for listening to the Reel turf techs podcast. I hope you learned something today. Don't forget to subscribe. If you have any topics you'd like to discuss, or you'd like to be a guest, find us on Twitter at Reel turf techs.