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Episode 143: Tyler Miget

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Today we’re talking with Tyler Miget, Equipment Manager at Harmony Club in Fort Collins, Colorado. An alumni of the GCSAA Melrose Equipment Management Experience and the Bernhard Academy’s Links to Success program, Tyler brings a unique path and thoughtful perspective to the role.

From turning wrenches with his grandfather to working in nonprofits and running his own handyman business, Tyler’s journey to the golf course shop has been anything but typical. Now overseeing a mostly Deere fleet (and transitioning to Toro), Tyler leads a small but mighty team of 0–2 techs depending on the season.

In this episode, we talk about leadership, the power of coaching, and how taking care of mental health, including finding the right therapist, has shaped his approach. Tyler shares what fuels his balance at home with his wife and two young kids, a tip for shop organization inspired by classic French cooking, and his biggest takeaways from two of the most respected professional development programs for turf equipment managers.



Trent Manning:

Welcome to the reel turf techs podcast for the technician that wants to get reel follow along. As we talk to industry professionals and address hot topics that we all face along the way we'll learn tips and tricks. I'm your host, Trent. Manning let's have some this episode are real turf techs on golf course industries Superintendent radio network is presented by Foley county a strong supporter of equipment technicians and golf course maintenance departments everywhere Foley county offers a proven solution for above and below the turf for turf professionals To learn more about Foley company's line of real grinders bed knife grinders and the air to G2 family of products or to find a distributor visit www dot Foley C o.com Foley Ready for play Welcome to The Real Turf Text Podcast, episode 1 43. Today we're talking to Tyler Maje, equipment Manager at Harmony Club in Fort Collins, Colorado. Harmony Club is a private 18 hole championship course. Tyler has zero to two techs in the shop, depending on the season. He's mostly John Deere, but is moving to Toro. He has Foley grinders. Let's talk to Tyler. welcome Tyler to the Real Turf Text podcast. It just got real, didn't it, Tyler?

Tyler Miget:

Hey, Dan. Yeah. What's up Trent? How are you, man?

Trent Manning:

Yeah, I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Thank you for scheduling this on verification day.

Tyler Miget:

Oh, man.

Trent Manning:

job pre-planning there.

Tyler Miget:

Could have did not, but you know what? I I'm really good at learning the hard way, so at least I'm good at learning

Trent Manning:

you but you checked your wife's schedule and that's the most important thing. We all know that.

Tyler Miget:

because I've learned the hard way.

Trent Manning:

Yeah. Okay, great. That's awesome. Yep. Good answer. Tell us how you got into the turf industry.

Tyler Miget:

Oh man. It's kind of a funny roundabout way. I well, let's see. So I don't know how much backstory you want, but I I got hired on at mute.

Trent Manning:

we got an hour here, so

Tyler Miget:

Alright, sweet. Cool. Perfect. Well, let's see. So I I kind of grew up, you know, turning wrenches and stuff. My grandfather worked for GM Truck and Coach for 35 years or so. And I mean, nearly every memory of like fixing something I was like by his side, you know, in the house or in a car you know, tearing down a three 50 Chevy and a boat in the front yard. Oh, yeah. I can't remember how old it was, but yeah he towed a boat back from Florida for my dad. And yeah, the they said the mechanic said the block was cracked and he didn't believe him, so we tore it down in the driveway. But sorry. No it wasn't, no. Yeah. Yeah man. So we I just started turning wrenches with him and then in high school I started busting fires, at a place from uncle. And after I went to college, I came back and you know, did didn't finish college but came back and, you know, started turning wrenches at his shop through pretty serendipitous, scenario where I got to learn from the a SC Master Tech and basically be an apprentice without, you know, a formal like program or anything. And really fell in love with it. Did that for, you know, a number of years and really fell in love with it. And also at that time I was volunteering for a nonprofit and an opportunity came along that I could go on staff with that nonprofit. So I did, and I wound up just kind of making space for myself in the nonprofit. And did that for probably 10 years. So we worked with middle schoolers and high schoolers in particular, and then college student students with disabilities and teen moms. It's pretty sweet. And then yeah, man.

Trent Manning:

you doing with them?

Tyler Miget:

Oh, well. So I worked my way up from a volunteer leader and you know, just had some opportunities and some relationships and I wound up planting I guess a couple franchises as the best way to, that you could think of them at a few different schools. And then, and then and then wound up planting several in another town Loveland, Colorado excuse me. And yeah, during that whole time I was coaching, football, wrestling, and track and field, the middle school level. So, I'll allude or I guess I'll mention it later, but my Instagram handle is Coach Mja. But yeah, that's just how, you know, hundreds and hundreds of people know me as Coach Mja and or coach mostly. But yeah. so anyways, when it, when, you know, when my wife and I felt that it was kind of time to hang that up. We I went off and started my own handyman business and did that for a few years. It was a side hustle first, and then it just, we made it the full-time gig. And, and then so Lauren and I go off on a kind of goals and vision retreat with each other every year. And one year we just decided that it was gonna make the most sense for our family, that I got a, went back and got a W2 job and you know, for some of the goals and stuff that we had. And honestly, Trent, I was just like, I was applying for random jobs. I had picked up golf a few years prior and found a my mom worked for, worked for the government for a long time. And so I was just looking on the government websites around where we lived and, the town just Southwest is Loveland. We live in Fort Collins. And that, you know, they had a a golf mechanic position that was open. So I applied for it and you know, I had no idea about, you know, grinding reels or bed knives. I remember, you know, filling out the application going like, why machine brake rotors? You know, like, how hard could this be?

Trent Manning:

Right, right.

Tyler Miget:

you know, and and yeah I remember talking with with the guy that hired me, my my boss there, Dennis just a legend. So he he took a gamble on me and I couldn't be more grateful to have fallen into this profession and it's so awesome. Like, who knew, you know, guidance counselors don't know about it, I'm sure, but yeah, it's. It's been a blast. So, that's how I got into it. And then was there for about three years. And it's called the Old course at Loveland. So we were an 18 hole facility, and then we had across the street a nine hole par three, like a true par three course, not just a pitch and putt called Cattail Creek that we took care of. And then a snag course, I don't know if you've heard of that, but it's called Starting New at Golf. So yeah, it's just, it's big oversized clubs. It's basically you could go from never having swung the club as a kid, you know, all the way through at the facility I was at all the way through to playing a championship course where you know, we would host some pretty sweet tournaments and then had an opportunity to move over here to Harmony Club and and I took it. So yeah, really? Yeah, really stoked.

Trent Manning:

I don't, yeah. What's like what really hooked you in to golf? What'd you enjoy most about working

Tyler Miget:

The sport or

Trent Manning:

No on golf equipment.

Tyler Miget:

oh, man. I think it's a real fun I think it's a real fun marriage between, you know, the big I don't know, what am I trying to say? There's enough kind of brute force, you know, busting the tractor tire by hand and, you know, kind of, having to do stuff like that. And like the fact that we can get so nerdy and precise on grinding bed bars within like a half 1,007 an inch to make sure that our bed knives, you know, like, I've got a tab open on my computer, you know, I'm reading the Holy Bible of Mike Rollins.

Trent Manning:

Oh, nice. Yep. Yep.

Tyler Miget:

Carolina, this gang I didn't get to make it to his class'cause we had some Melrose stuff at the, at at the CTS. But yeah I got to visit with him for a minute and and yeah, I'm just, you know, going through all that stuff and there's just, there's so much precision and so much you know, kind of under the surface that is it's just, it's so fascinating that you can never be perfect. But to strive for perfection, I think is it's just really exciting and enjoyable for me.

Trent Manning:

Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah. And I think, you know, most people say it's the variety that we're not doing the exact same thing every day. And I keep thinking about this friend of mine, he works at a Ford dealership he's constantly pulling engines on F1 fifties, you know, day after day. I mean, he's, you know, post picture on social media and he's got the whole body off of the chassis, you know,

Tyler Miget:

yeah. Yeah. One of those, what was that like 2013 to 2015 or something? They were like, yeah, just a couple connectors and just pull the cab off. Yeah, great idea.

Trent Manning:

that's, yep. That's what he's doing on those. And I mean, I'm sure that can be fun and challenging, but I think, you know, after you do one, you really wanna do three or four or 10 or 15

Tyler Miget:

yeah. Yeah. And there's, yeah, there's just so much, you know, kind of in our field that you get to solve a new problem every day. And you know, and I think the more we can, like, the more I've leaned in with kind of the leadership aspect of it with you know, kind of the culture stuff with our crew and our facility here at Harmony Club you know, better training. Gets better results. So I think, you know, I still get kind, I get to scratch that itch of being able to coach people up and, you know, kind help'em understand, you know, why we're doing what we're doing, you know, as the line coach,

Trent Manning:

Yeah. No, that's awesome. And I like using that term too. For employees coaching cause doing. you're coaching'em, you're not, you know, bossing them around or telling'em what to do. You're coaching them, you're trying to work with'em and make them better at what they're doing.

Tyler Miget:

yeah. No doubt

Trent Manning:

Yeah. So, yeah, I really like that term. What's your least favorite part of the job?

Tyler Miget:

man. It's being interrupted. I, I really love getting kind of into that like hyper focus groove. So where I'm at, we get like a winter season, so that's when I, you know, do all my big projects and stuff. And I always have like this acclimation period coming out, like in the springtime where I'm getting back into the rhythm of being interrupted, like mid project, you know, like, let me, lemme finish this you know, whatever I'm doing and then I'll come get right with you. Or, you know, dropping something when it's urgent. So yeah, that's,

Trent Manning:

Yeah,

Tyler Miget:

my wife is cracking up right now.

Trent Manning:

yeah. No, that's, I mean, it's a challenge. It really is. Because yeah, you put your head down, you start doing something, and then you get interrupted and you know, you come back an hour later or two hours later and you get focused again and you get interrupted Never gonna get this finished. But,

Tyler Miget:

yeah. I'm sure. I'm sure there's so many of us who are so, have also such an efficiency bent that we love, you know, optimizing our processes and stuff like that, that yeah. For probably for most of us to get pulled out of that.

Trent Manning:

yeah I don't know. I think for me, I almost enjoy it too.'cause it is, it. It like, works with my a DD like oh, over here. Got

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

Jr. A little bit of a squirrel sometimes

Tyler Miget:

Oh man. Yeah. Hey

Trent Manning:

I do think

Tyler Miget:

Trent?

Trent Manning:

Yeah. Go ahead.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. Do you know how many turf equipment technicians with a DD it takes to change a light bulb? Would

Trent Manning:

I do not.

Tyler Miget:

you like to see my bike?

Trent Manning:

Yes. Yeah. What kind of bike do you have? Mean, I can

Tyler Miget:

It's a, oh yeah.

Trent Manning:

a, Yeah.

Tyler Miget:

It's got pegs.

Trent Manning:

That's

Tyler Miget:

Oh man.

Trent Manning:

stuff. Yeah. Yeah. What's your favorite tool?

Tyler Miget:

Oh, it's gotta be the Milwaukee anything.

Trent Manning:

I love

Tyler Miget:

i'm such a hooch for that dude. Oh my gosh. Yeah, so I picked up the extended three eights ratchet and that thing is so handy. You can get in anywhere with it.

Trent Manning:

Yeah. With that being extended.

Tyler Miget:

yeah, you do. You can get in a little easier to some tighter spaces, you know, like, I don't know, like on a John Deere 8,700 or whatever, or one of those terrain cuts or whatever you're pulling the drive line out. It's, you know, it's really easy. You get enough leverage to break it off, and then enough. Enough juice to be able to screw'em out or something like that. So yeah, I really like, yeah, Milwaukee, anything. But yeah the extended three eights is pretty sweet, but also like, just what they have available on like the M 12 and M 18 platforms are it, they're so awesome. It's just such a wide variety of things that they can they can pump out. So yeah big fan of that stuff.

Trent Manning:

all the different things. And I mean, if anything has revolutionized mechanicing, I mean it has

Tyler Miget:

It's the batteries.

Trent Manning:

those tools, battery tools,

Tyler Miget:

It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. You're not dragging a airline around, man. That's pretty sweet, man.

Trent Manning:

I know I've told it on the podcast several times that it kind of cracks me up. I got a snap on half inch impact and we use that, you know, for everything, tires and all that stuff. And if it won't bust it loose, the guys was like, what am I gonna do? I'm like, we got a pneumatic one man, try it.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

if, you know, if I'm using the, you know, the electric on something, like when you gonna be done with that? I'm like, an electric one in the tool, or I mean, a pneumatic in the toolbox, you know?

Tyler Miget:

yeah. That's,

Trent Manning:

hose. You gotta take an arrow hose and hook to it. But

Tyler Miget:

oh man. Yeah. Yeah. That's one thing I, I do miss about just about my like, car shop tools that both of mine have bit the dust since then. But Snap-on used to have a gun that had like a clutch in it so you could like snap something free and then go with it. Do you know if Milwaukee has, you know, anything

Trent Manning:

I don't,

Tyler Miget:

or if anybody has that? I'm sure Snap-on does, but the snap-on trucks not come here.

Trent Manning:

like a heavy impact. On the little screw guns, you know, they have a clutch and I love that for like, Blowers or string trimmers or something like that. I use the

Tyler Miget:

Yeah, no doubt

Trent Manning:

When I'm putting it back together. And it's nice because you can break it loose with your hand and then hit the trigger and zip the

Tyler Miget:

for sure. Yeah. I miss that.

Trent Manning:

super handy.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah, clutch for sure.

Trent Manning:

What do you do to relax or find your balance?

Tyler Miget:

Oh, man, I well, I've been to therapy a lot, so

Trent Manning:

Well, let's talk about that.'cause that

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

important. I mean, serious.

Tyler Miget:

yeah,

Trent Manning:

yeah, I mean, I joke a little, but you know, and I wanna say the episode that's dropping tomorrow David Gummo, he we were talking about therapy and getting help and mental health and how important it

Tyler Miget:

I tell you what, man.

Trent Manning:

care how old you are or what you do or how you were brought up, it can't hurt

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. Yeah. I couldn't agree more. I, you know, I think there's a lot to be said for finding like, you know, a good therapist, somebody who's gonna fit your vibe. I actually I got connected with my therapist, just, you know, through some people that we knew. But the reason I picked the one that I have seen for years in particular, I keep of saying this the reason I picked him was because I thought if we got into a fist fight that he would hit me and it would hurt really bad. Like, you know, and then I had, he had one of my friends that we were running that nonprofit together. She asked me, she goes, do you think that, do you think that you want somebody who you could get physically violent with because you feel your emotions with such an intensity that if, you know, if they could handle the physical violence, perhaps they could handle the emotional violence as well. And I was like, just a, me just tears immediately. Just Oh, a mess. I was like, yeah, probably. I don't know, maybe, but oh man. Yeah I think the therapy, the self-knowledge, you know, like I always want to be a better version of me and I think, you know, just like, you know, having coached so much for a long time, it just made, it made sense for me to, you know, be able to have somebody outside of me and outside of like those immediate relationships and you know, and somebody with a, you know, an education and an expertise to. Be able to coach me up, like, Hey, you know, how can you, how can I be a better me? And, you know, we go and talk about that. And yeah, it's been, that's been great, you know, just as far as helping me be a balanced human being let alone a better husband and father. You know, like, I think the measure of us as men, and I think, you know, probably most of the people who would listen to this, but like, just between you and me, you know, I think the measure of us as men is the relationships and you know, that kind of stuff that we leave behind. You know, you could turn a rancher, you know, know what Toro part numbers are for everything. But, you know, that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. I, in my opinion. So, that's,

Trent Manning:

You're right about that.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah, as far as being balanced, you know, I think that's been super helpful for me. I, when I saw this question, I don't know, I think. I think work is in some, is satisfying for me in a way that, you know, I think re relaxation is really satisfying for a lot of people. you know, as A-D-A-D-D-A-D-H-D brain people there's a lot of stuff going on in there. So to have some of that be satiated by going and tinkering and doing whatever that is actually really satisfying for me. So I, we've got, you know, a few acres north of Fort Collins that we we bought, and I've fixed up the house and now we're working on kind of the property and the outside stuff. And so I just got on my little tractor and bush hogged like a few acres just for fun. And it was like cathartic and, you know, peaceful. And anytime I go out back now I'm like looking at'em like. Looks really good. I'm really happy. You know, I did that. And you know, the other, we got a, we raised meat chickens and and laying hands. So we've got like 60 something chickens in the garage right now. And you know, the other day I was like, man, I need to put up a new coop for them. And so I just went out and threw the box blade on the tractor and just prepped the land a little bit and you know, set up a foundation for it. So that, I mean, that stuff, it, maybe it's not relaxing, I suppose, but it is really satisfying for me, like satiates that, you know, that go thing. And but yeah, anytime I'm next to water, that is peaceful for me for sure. So, we've got some nice reservoirs and streams and stuff up here, but, you know, anytime going to the the ocean or lake Michigan actually, we went there for a vacation last year. And if you go on the. No, but it's almost exactly like it, dude. It like, so we stayed we stayed on the eastern coast of it you know, on this bluff that like overlooked the lake. Just our family, you know, we're a five minute walk to the beach around the bluffs and it's like, you know, a hundred yards or something out and it's like chest deep water at most. And we've, my Lauren and I's boys are four in one. So they, you know, obviously younger than and they were just able to just like, play in the water. It wasn't salty. It was, you know, gets in your eyes. It's just lake water, but it's like big sandy beaches. Gosh they might have won me over up there.

Trent Manning:

Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Tyler Miget:

I'll never befriend a ER though. Just kidding.

Trent Manning:

Yeah.

Tyler Miget:

I just always talk trash to ERs. I'm gonna try and say this carefully because I never wanna speak ill of anybody. And the situation I came into at Harmony Club was was it was really challenging. You know, I just think that, you know, probably for a couple iterations of superintendent and equipment manager, there was a lot of, you know, animosity and maybe not a lot of great lanes of communication. And I think a lot of stuff got overlooked for a long time. And so there's just been a lot of like backed up maintenance and. I've just like, I feel like I've been on, you know, kind of dialed up to 120% since I came here in July. You know, I think it was really hard feeling so behind and so, just like overwhelmed man you know, coming into having like, you know, seven inch John Deere reels and, you know, none of them have none of them have a relief grind just because, you know, somebody was in here that, you know, they just didn't know. And they were just trying to do the best they could with what they had. And so coming in on the heels of that was really, it was really challenging because, you know, like we talked about earlier, geez, you're trying to do that and you're trying to put a, you know, or a relief and a spin on something that's got 60 thou or more of cone in it. And then, you know, something breaks down out in the field and you gotta go, you know? Rescue somebody from a pond or, you know, change a tire or, you know, without a dedicated card or, you know, like tools, you know? So moving in and getting comfortable here has been a process. I will say that having the winter to kind of catch up has been really awesome. And our ownership and management they're really awesome and they're, you know, they're super supportive and they're helping out a ton. I've got a great superintendent that I work for. We've got a great team here. So, you know, the hard days are hard and that, you know, I'd rather be in a foxhole with people that, you know, I enjoy and have my bath than I. You know, feeling like I'm out on an island and, or, you know, like alone in my cave and nobody gives a crap. And so yeah, so, so it's been challenging, but, you know, we're green and up and we're looking good and I'm thrilled to kinda see some of the fruits of the labor, you know what I'm saying?

Trent Manning:

follow up with that. How important is that to have people that you work with, that you get along with, that you know they have your back and I mean, just like you said, you're in a foxhole together.

Tyler Miget:

yeah. I mean, I think one of the, I think one of the greatest things you can do as a person, for another person is just to be there you know, and bear something with another person and just have their back. So to be able to have that in a place. You know, where you're spending 40 or more hours of your awake time in a week, you know, it's so meaningful to be there for people. And it's so meaningful to have people who just like flat out show up for you. I had that at the old course as well. You know, my, my boss there he had our back. Like, for real. And I just, I don't think the importance of that can be overstated. You know, and I think it takes a lot, and people, and I think people have to be willing to show up for one another in that way. And but yeah, I mean it's, I don't know if I could overstate the importance of being available and being willing to just show up and you know, kind of. Bear it with the people that you're working with, you know? Yeah.

Trent Manning:

that's good stuff. Do you have a mentor in the industry?

Tyler Miget:

I had maybe one of the best of all time,

Trent Manning:

awesome.

Tyler Miget:

yeah, no I've listened to a few of the podcasts. Okay. Confession time. I didn't know that Real Turf Text was a podcast. I just thought it was like the WhatsApp community. I was talking to Justin Wilkerson at CPS and he was like, yeah, if you listen to any, the podcast, I was like, I'm an idiot. I'm sorry. There's a podcast. So,

Trent Manning:

man. It's all good.

Tyler Miget:

so I so I've listened to a few and where was I just talking? I just, I got totally sidetracked on Justin Wilkerson. What is the,

Trent Manning:

about mentors and

Tyler Miget:

oh, mentors. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. How can I forget? Yeah, are you sure you don't wanna see my bike?

Trent Manning:

Yeah.

Tyler Miget:

man, so, so the guy who the guy who was the mechanic at the old course at Loveland who I replaced, he had been there for 43 years and yeah, I mean, like he, he worked in the shop when it was an old farm shop that was original to the land. Gosh. And like, I think they opened the course in 59. And he, I mean, he got there like in the eighties, but, you know, seeing like his pictures and stuff was crazy. You know, of just how it had changed and all the stuff that they had done throughout the years. But he taught me, you know, all about like the real geometry and all of this stuff that he had, you know, I think he, I don't know if he was connected at all with like the cut line is king kind of stuff, but he still was able to explain all of the intricacies of like, you know, kind of the trigonometry and the relationships of the angles and stuff and, you know, kind of why you're setting what and how you're setting it. So I remember it was one of my first, it was like my first week on the job, and he had a, he, so he had a lifetime golf pass, so he was out there every morning, but I had adjusted reels on a Jacobson Greens King, four plus. And I had, I don't know what I did, but I, they were off. So I, so, you know, we had one side that was like, you know, cutting everything and one side that wasn't cutting anything. So, my units were all off and and it was very evident in the practice Green that it mowed. And Dale just walks over and yeah, he, he coached me up a little bit and was like, you know, you, something's not right. Let's take a look at it. So we got to the bottom of it. But yeah, I mean, I can't say enough good things about Dale. Just just one of those guys like slow and steady, calm and, you know, the stories I heard were that he had some fire, but he was always he was always so gracious with me and just made himself available. You know, he was like, you know, I would text him on a Monday. He was there on a Tuesday, and, you know, I could call him. He's since moved, but, you know, he's still he's still very available as a resource. So, yeah. Can't, I lucked out, so I remember, that's why I was talking to the other people about listening to the podcast. I have heard a lot of people who have had to kind of take a lot of the real geometry and stuff, you know, on the chin and, you know, kinda learn it all the hard way and, you know, figure out why it's scalping or figure out why it won't cut right. Or whatever. And, yeah, I was super duper fortunate to, to have a guy like Dale you know, kind of be there for me and coach me up and, you know, and the other guys who worked there had all been there for a long time. So, yeah, I was super fortunate to come into a place where a lot of people had my back while I was getting up to speed for sure. Yeah, man.

Trent Manning:

for sure. Do you have a technician you'd like to work with for a day?

Tyler Miget:

Oh, anybody but Mike Henderson. What a Gober. No, I'm teasing. No. So Mike's the mechanic at Pebble Beach. Yeah, we hung out a bunch during the Melrose, so I just, yeah, just man,

Trent Manning:

dude. Is he

Tyler Miget:

he is a good dude. Yeah. I loved hanging out with Mike. Yeah, we had a bunch of fun honestly.

Trent Manning:

Just time out at or pause after we went to the show and I drove up the coast and we stopped by and saw Michael

Tyler Miget:

Oh, heck yeah,

Trent Manning:

and man, it was awesome.

Tyler Miget:

dude. Yeah. That's so awesome. Did you drive the PCH up?

Trent Manning:

Yeah. Yeah.

Tyler Miget:

Oh man. How was that?

Trent Manning:

yeah, it was awesome. It was beautiful. Yeah. Big sur and yeah, all that stuff. Highly recommend it. If you ever get a chance to do it, just do it.

Tyler Miget:

Oh, that's a dream. Heck yeah.

Trent Manning:

it was awesome. Yeah. We went all the way up to San Francisco it,

Tyler Miget:

Nice.

Trent Manning:

flew back from San Francisco.

Tyler Miget:

Oh, that's a great idea.

Trent Manning:

yeah. Super, super good time. And but anyway, going to Pebble Beach, I mean, it's like no other, you'd like drive out on the course on, I think it's the 14th hole and you're right next to the ocean, and then you dip into the maintenance facility.

Tyler Miget:

Oh man. Yeah.

Trent Manning:

of the ocean from the maintenance facility is just incredible.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. That's so great.

Trent Manning:

sorry. I didn't mean to

Tyler Miget:

no, not that. Yeah. It does a nice looking bike. Trent.

Trent Manning:

Right.

Tyler Miget:

how many more times can I make that joke? Probably five. Man, honestly I would love to work with anybody, you know, anybody in that in that chat. I think, you know, going to just see how anybody's doing anything. I think they're, you know, wisdom is wisdom no matter where it's from and there's a ton of wisdom and it's evident in our, in our. Group, you know, our real turf tech group, but Al and also in the Tito Group there's a ton of guys in there. I tell you what, Phil Turner is the mechanic at Hoy Lake or Royal Liverpool. And we got to hang out during the Burnhard thing and he, it's awesome. Yeah, I, and just like, they had to like rip me out of the shop.'cause they were like, all right, we're gonna go on the bus, we're gonna go look at the course, you know, and blah, blah. I was like, I don't care. Like, let me hang out. Yeah. Being able to work with him or, you know, any of those other guys over there, gas is one. James, you know. Chris Mitten who after the after the after our chat in San Diego he texted me and was like, what the hell dude? Like Chris, who yeah, he gave me a hard time about it, but yeah, I was just like swimming in names and people and, you know, all that stuff. But

Trent Manning:

get to meet Matthew Axton when you were over there?

Tyler Miget:

don't do this to me. Trent, don't.

Trent Manning:

That's cool. That's cool. If you didn't, it's all good.

Tyler Miget:

Oh, man. I think Matt is one of the guys that I missed. I met James and Chris and I think Matthew was the third of those three who kind of organized Tito that I didn't get the chance to meet. But yeah, I mean.

Trent Manning:

at, yeah, I don't remember the name of that really nice course he was at, and then he went somewhere else, I think, just recently or within the last little bit. But

Tyler Miget:

Yeah, I'll tell you another one is yeah, Barry Drean he he's now teaching for the the Burnhart Academy over there. So he's doing a lot of their like mechanical classes and curricula over there. And so I took the grinding class over there during their continue to learn kind of BTME conference and just a day with him I was like, I was throwing just like random from left field questions at him about stuff I had heard about but didn't know about. And every time, like thoughtful answer. Just like on the spot, you know, knew what he was talking about. But I mean, honestly, anybody, like in our group too, like there's, you know, like you and like a bunch of the, other more seasoned veteran guys that like, I don't know if you have like the parts, catalog and stuff memorized, but like, if you could just throw out a, Hey, what's this part? And people are like responding back with, you know, whatever the the reference numbers are for it you know, that those people have had some some miles in the shop. So, yeah I think that would be, you know, just gonna see all of that stuff would be super rad.

Trent Manning:

Yeah. I mean, anytime you get the opportunity to go hang out with somebody else, I do it.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. Heck yeah.

Trent Manning:

I recommend that to anyone listening speaking of Gaz, I think he's gonna come over and hang out with me in September.

Tyler Miget:

Shut up.

Trent Manning:

Yeah. I'm so stoked. I'm like, are you sure you wanna come over here and hang out with me?

Tyler Miget:

Wow.

Trent Manning:

A lot of cool people over here, but

Tyler Miget:

Oh, that's awesome, dude.

Trent Manning:

yeah, I'm all about it. But I'm

Tyler Miget:

Oh, that'll be a hoot.

Trent Manning:

and I told him, you know, I mean, I'm fortunate here because I got John Patterson right down the road from me, which is another

Tyler Miget:

Oh, sweet. Yeah.

Trent Manning:

Corey Phillips, he's another legend. So we're gonna try to. Try to visit a couple other shops while he is in town and,

Tyler Miget:

Oh, that'll be awesome.

Trent Manning:

Yeah.

Tyler Miget:

Heck yeah, man.

Trent Manning:

cool. Very cool. Get ready for tips and tricks. Let's do some tips and tricks.

Tyler Miget:

Oh God.

Trent Manning:

tricks you got?

Tyler Miget:

Oh, Q, massive imposter syndrome.

Trent Manning:

that grandpa taught you.

Tyler Miget:

Oh man, I sh I should have more of this. Tips and tricks. Go to therapy.

Trent Manning:

Okay. Yep.

Tyler Miget:

let's see, another tip. Okay, this is gonna be super random Trent, but I've taken some cooking classes on here locally and when my wife and I travel, we try and, you know, get some cuisine in us. But the way really efficient kitchens run, I think is super helpful for people who do any like. Systems oriented stuff especially like physical, tactile stuff like what we're doing. So like rebuilding reels or, you know, even like breaking'em down and grinding them you know, or stuff that you're gonna have to do on repeat. So there's the French term port is meas and plus, it's basically just everything in its place. So to be able to have stuff kind of lined up, lined out, and being able to optimize your workflow for me that's been super helpful. So, in a cooking sense, you know, you're just, you're firing up dinner, but if you have everything chopped first, everything, you know, kind of cut up and all your seasonings out that you want and and all that stuff, it's a much smoother operation if you're not having to do knife work while you've got the, you know, the pan on the heat and the, you know, the chicken going or whatever. So, yeah, man, that's,

Trent Manning:

Yeah, no, I mean that's that's really, I mean, I think it's spot on and a really good point. I wasn't thinking about the French terms, when you started talking about that, immediately where I go is the Japanese terms, and I don't

Tyler Miget:

oh,

Trent Manning:

words, but it's lean manufacturing. If you just Google lean manufacturing and guy that, he wrote a book and it's a version of lean manufacturing, but it's two second lean.'cause he is trying to streamline it. it really started at Toyota and like the 1940s, and I can't remember the gentleman's name, he come up with this system and it started out as three s it's, you know, the three standards and it's sort, I'm putting myself on the spot here.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. Here we go.

Trent Manning:

yeah, sort straighten and what else? And clean or something like that. I know that doesn't start with a nest, but it is it's maybe it's sweep and then it goes to now they're at like seven s. But

Tyler Miget:

Oh, okay.

Trent Manning:

the two second lean guy talked about in these processes, everybody always wants to make it more complicated and do more,

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

really all you need is the three. Yes. so you learn the eight types of waste. So you got, you know, one of the big ones that we do all the time in the shop is movement. And movement is a ton of waste. If you're walking to the toolbox, you're walking to the lift or you're walking back and forth. And that's just a waste of time. So, I mean, you're making me think about Like get all the tools you need in the spot, you need them. it's something, I mean, I'm nowhere near the three s standard, but it's something I've been working on. So just say for instance, the vice that I changed bed knives in sin, I have a cabinet. So it is like a nut and bolt band basically. That I modified that I put all my greens bed knives in I got

Tyler Miget:

nice.

Trent Manning:

knife screws there. I got the bit for the bed knife screws. You know, I try to get everything I need right, right there in, in that spot

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

where before my bed knives were in the parts room. So that's, you know, whatever, a hundred steps to get the parts room.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

that's what,

Tyler Miget:

Oh

Trent Manning:

on for the last couple years. And your comment about the kitchen stuff made me think about that.

Tyler Miget:

yeah. That's awesome. I'll I'll have to send you a picture, but I this winter I did totally revamp because I think I'm on real number 43 or something that I'm rebuilding this winter. And I've got my whole bid and I set up right under the vice and all that little parts bit, so I'll have to send you a Of that. But yeah I mean, I think in a engineering class I took the one of the hallmarks that they're talking about or that, you know, this guy was teaching on for one day that has really stuck with me has been there's a lot more. Elegance in engineering that is focused on subtraction than addition. So making something more simple is more elegant than making something, you know, adding a bell or a whistle or making something unnecessarily more complex. So, that's really cool. I wrote down your, the lean manufacturing and the two second lien and and that stuff. So I'll have to check that out, brother.

Trent Manning:

it is. I had to look it up. Sort, systemize shine.

Tyler Miget:

Ooh,

Trent Manning:

Yeah, and that's like the most important ones in my opinion. From what I've learned about it, another really good read is the Toyota Way. And

Tyler Miget:

okay.

Trent Manning:

lean manufacturing and that kind of stuff. But

Tyler Miget:

Oh man, I love it.

Trent Manning:

it's a, yeah, it's a super short book also. Really good stuff. It's just it's a whole lot harder to get everybody else to buy into it.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. Thanks man. I appreciate that. Yeah. It's harder. Yeah. Yeah.

Trent Manning:

the challenge. but, you know, and it's, it goes back to everything has a place, everything, you know,

Tyler Miget:

A place where everything in its place. Yep.

Trent Manning:

Yep. All that. All that good stuff.

Tyler Miget:

Heck yeah.

Trent Manning:

so like I said, I'm nowhere near there, but we're working towards it.

Tyler Miget:

Heck yeah. That's what I'm,

Trent Manning:

let's talk about the Bernhardt. Was it Academy? Is that what they called it? Or what?

Tyler Miget:

man I wish I knew exactly what they would want it to be called. I've called it probably nine different things. So it.

Trent Manning:

Well just pick one, I mean,

Tyler Miget:

Yeah, so the Bernhard delegation I believe is what it's been for a long time. I think their partnership with the G-C-S-A-A, they branded it as the links to success when we go that way. And then when they come this way, it'll be the root to success. So, yeah, for whatever that was I'm not sure I was unclear, but yeah, I mean, what a awesome time. Some great people that I met. Some really fun connections that I hope remain connections for for a long time. You know, I've only recently found out that networking is is not just necessary, but it's one of the fun parts of kind of our industry and,

Trent Manning:

yeah, for sure.

Tyler Miget:

I just always thought of networking as like a sleazy thing where, you know, you're just, you want something from somebody who has something cool or whatever. But that, you know, I think being able to reframe it as something that it, you know, is mutually beneficial for for both people is really cool. So, yeah, man. So we got to visit four courses that are on the great Britain and United Kingdom top 100. And, so there was and then I think two of them are on the world top 100. So we went, so we like landed overnight flight, got off the plane, took a bus straight to a course called Motown which is where they hosted the first Ryder Cup on UK soil. And it's a Heathland golf course, which. I don't know if I totally understand what a huge land is, but there was a lot of heath and land, so I think I'm on my way.

Trent Manning:

I'll take your word

Tyler Miget:

but, no.

Trent Manning:

my head too.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah, I mean, it was like, it was kind of like a park land, but they had a ton of like peat so the undulations from day to day based on like the dryness of the soil or, you know, like whatever the ET was they can change a ton. You know, and it was it Alistair McKenzie's first course that he designed.

Trent Manning:

Yeah.

Tyler Miget:

yeah. So, there were some folks on that, on, on our delegation who were super like architecture nerds. So I just got to kind of like revel with them without understanding what they were so pumped about.

Trent Manning:

So how many of you were they?

Tyler Miget:

Yeah, so there were nine of us from North America. Carol Turner was the Lone Canadian. And then the rest of us were from the us. Yeah. And just a, just like such a wide array of like kinds of people. I was the only mechanic. There were two assistant supers and then the rest were superintendents. No, sorry. Brent Downs is a director of agronomy.'Cause he's fancy.

Trent Manning:

I mean, that's the superintendent in my book, so

Tyler Miget:

I don't know. Yeah, he's got two courses that he takes care of. But anyways really awesome. So we got to see Royal Liverpool. We got to see, dale where they'll host the open in two years. And then we gotta see Wallace which we got a presentation from from John McLaughlin you know, before we even went and saw the course. And I just can't say enough good things about him and the way he leads. He's such like an aspirational guy. And inspirational guy too, for sure. And then and then we also got to see we got to go visit with John, led Lewi, I believe is how you say his last name led. Who knows, I should I'm a bad person,

Trent Manning:

word for that one too. Yeah, sure.

Tyler Miget:

but he is the he's the head of grounds for Manchester City football club. And so he oversees like all of the pitches and it was really cool. We got to sit with him and some of the folks on his team and got to see how they do like different soil testing and like in the profiles of the soil and how they're like measuring like harness compaction, shear forces and stuff and how that affects the players throughout the course of a game or throughout the course of like their practices and stuff. And they're like they're working in conjunction with like the health team to, you know, kind of figure out some of that stuff. Some of it was over my head, but it was fascinating nonetheless that

Trent Manning:

how much goes into that?

Tyler Miget:

it is.

Trent Manning:

You know? Plus, you know, the whole sports field thing, you know? I mean, I thought there was a lot going on at golf. And you

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

those sports field guys, they only got an acre to take care of. But that acre, man

Tyler Miget:

Oh man. Yeah. Talk about smooth and true babe.

Trent Manning:

Yeah.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah, we, yeah. So yeah, getting a, you know, chop it up in Brent he is in Indiana. He also has a podcast. So, you know, we had all the the Bernhard delegates on kind of in, in two goes. And he just released his the part two yesterday.

Trent Manning:

No

Tyler Miget:

it's called the Low Downs Podcast. And it was just so fun to be able to kind of recall it and remember it with people who had their own perspectives and stuff. And one thing my friend Ryan. Franklin, who's at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. One thing that he said was like, his favorite part was like, the in-between time like the program stuff was all really awesome. The conference, the dinners, the courses, all, you know, the facilities were amazing. But, kind of like the stuff that happened in between those on the bus or, you know, having a beer after touring Wallace a or, just going around Liverpool, like, I think that's what kind of like solidified, what made us feel like a crew. And I mean, for instance so Matt Gole, the guy who he just won the President's award at CTS so he was on our delegation. And. I so I was asking him and Brent to help me understand like organic matter in soil profiles and stuff. And seriously, for one hour I just sat like shoulder to shoulder with Matt Gole and he just like explained this stuff to me and how we're working like sand through the profile black layer, like all of the organic matter stuff that's like, you know, like it can be overwhelming and very scientific. You know, my boss has a great cure for insomnia. like reading some articles about it. But but honestly like just to be able to have access and friendships with people who are number one willing and number two, able to explain stuff to a dumb like that is, it was just really cool, you know, to be able to come back with an understanding of like. Like, why are we pulling cores and doing deep trying to, you know, like different stuff like that at a deeper level. Yeah, it was really cool. Super grateful for it.

Trent Manning:

yeah. No, that is, yeah. is really awesome. And I wanted to back up a little bit, and you were talking about the networking thing and how important that is, you never know what that networking will lead to, lead to anything, I mean, just my personal experience, I've, I mean, this industry is filled with so many really good people.

Tyler Miget:

yeah. Just solid people. Yeah.

Trent Manning:

people people that bring enjoyment to my life on a daily basis that I've met in this industry. I've made some, you know, true friends in the industry. I mean, I got a ton of acquaintances, but I mean, I'm just thinking. So, Rob Renner, he's at National Golf Links of America I wanna keep the story pg, but he kind of cusses like a sailor. Super good dude. I mean, don't get me wrong, but he's from New York, long Island, right? So anyway he cusses a lot. And anyway, we just kinda hit it off and I mean, we text, you know, not every day, but a few times a month or whatever. And, I gonna try to plan a trip. He goes fishing like every day after work. I'm gonna try to plan a trip this fall and go fishing with this dude.

Tyler Miget:

Do it, dude.

Trent Manning:

It's just, you know,

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

things like that.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. How'd you guys get connected?

Trent Manning:

Well I met him so long story, but I was asked to speak at the New England Turfgrass conference in, when was this? Like, I don't remember. 21 Maybe. it was, no. Yeah, I think, anyway, and I drove up there I did that thing and then I caught the ferry, went over to Long Island and I was already friends with JR Wilson at noac JR. Set up basically a shop tour for me and Tyler Barrett that works for Foley. I. And he drove us around, JR did. And we went, I don't know, we went to like four or five golf courses in a day. And anyway, one of'em was Rob Renner. I mean, the other one was which is right across the road from Rob Shop is Shinnecock, which, you know, another, I mean, both of these are top one hundreds. I mean, they're probably like top twenties. I don't know exactly where the ranking is. So anyway, I met him there and texted him a few times after that, asked him some questions about John Deere stuff. Anyway, he's a big Jake guy. He's got all kind of Jacobson equipment, or maybe not equipment, but greens mowers. He's been

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

mowers for the last, whatever, 35 years. And I think he's gonna stay Jacobson Green Mowers until he retires, whenever

Tyler Miget:

Cool.

Trent Manning:

up. But anyway, just, you know, solid people in this industry.

Tyler Miget:

That's awesome. And you get go fishing with him.

Trent Manning:

well and

Tyler Miget:

better do.

Trent Manning:

for you. Yeah, no, I'm, I am I told him the last time we text, I'm like, when's the best time to come? And,

Tyler Miget:

yeah, man.

Trent Manning:

he's like, anytime we, we'll go fishing anytime,

Tyler Miget:

Oh, that's awesome.

Trent Manning:

you know, for me and work and all that stuff, I'm thinking fall will be a good time.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. Perfect.

Trent Manning:

yeah. And JR he's got a camper, you know, so he's like, we can set up the camper.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

just, everybody's just so nice and accommodating and we'll,

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

do anything for

Tyler Miget:

You could be living in a camper down by the river.

Trent Manning:

that down by the ocean on Long Island in the

Tyler Miget:

Come on, man. Yeah, that, yeah that's a little different than a van down by the river.

Trent Manning:

Yeah. That's that's

Tyler Miget:

oh, man. That rocks.

Trent Manning:

yeah, really good stuff. Well, let's quickly talk about Melrose a little bit.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

a Melrose recipient.

Tyler Miget:

Yes, I was. Yeah, Melrose was also really cool. I think getting to see some more of the behind the scenes stuff within the conference and just being able to brush shoulders and ask questions of the leadership of the GCs a was amazing. You know, I think getting to hear, so, you know, ta presented to us that, you know, you know, I don't think it was ever a doubt that, you know, he would be the president, but I know Matt Gole was gonna do as much as he could to mess with him, so, that was hilarious. Yeah. Matt stood up and like adjusted his pants or something,

Trent Manning:

Nice.

Tyler Miget:

At cts. But anyways yeah, getting to hear some of like the hopes and the vision for the association itself. It was really cool. And, understanding that, you know, they're just, they're people. The people who are running the thing are just people and and truly their heart is, centered around like, how do we best serve golf course superintendents, assistant superintendents, directors of agronomy, you know, like all the people involved in, in, and the fact that they're like taking a very clear interest in how to serve equipment managers and noticing that, there's not a ton of people who can do what we do, so how do we take care of the people who are doing it and grow the field and, you know, get people in the know about it. Like, I was just, I was floored honestly. You know, and then again, like the networking, the, You know, just, you know, being able to hang out and go to dinner, you know, go over to Kansas City Barbecue, which is where they filmed all the the bar scenes and Top Gun and stuff. So getting over to, you know, getting to share a basket of fries or whatever with, you know, whoever was in there for the night. And, you know, it was mostly the the golf course people. Yeah, it was really cool. And getting to getting to know Mishka who runs the foundation and just getting a brief understanding of all that she does was really cool, but it was also super impressive and to hear her desire and, you know, the fact that she like, knew Kim Melrose who was the CEO of Toro for a long time. It was really cool. And her son, Austin, he's at some place that's super awesome that I can't remember the name.

Trent Manning:

Hazel Team

Tyler Miget:

Hazel team.

Trent Manning:

Yep.

Tyler Miget:

I'm so bad with names. But yeah, like

Trent Manning:

it's all good.

Tyler Miget:

just getting a, like sit and visit with him at like a few different points and him and then the other Melrose recipients who the leadership and the equipment manager routes was really awesome. And it actually it's already opened up a few doors. I applied to teach at the GCSA conference next year. And and was talking with Ryan McClain and who's one of the honchos over at the Carolina's GCSA. And, he was like, you should come teach at Arthur. And I. I didn't know I could. So anyways I, yeah I reached out to him and yeah, and I mean, even just to like, reach out briefly and then just be able to chop it up and catch up for, you know, how are the kids, how's the wife, how's life, all that stuff. And you know, it's really cool, you know, and and the fact that, you know, that I've got some serious dirt on Mike Anderson enough to be able to play P Bull at some point.

Trent Manning:

Right.

Tyler Miget:

No. Yeah, just yeah, I mean, all those guys John, he's at I forget where he's at, but he's been at his course for I think 41 years or something. But again, just like a wealth of knowledge and a guy that I can just I did it the other day. I just texted him and. You know, say, Hey, how's it going? You know, congratulations on, you know, completing your EMCP one and two, and you know, and then just, yeah just really a bunch of guys, you know, that I really admire, honestly. So yeah, so,

Trent Manning:

is y'all's group still connected through like a WhatsApp or something like that? Do y'all have a little

Tyler Miget:

no, we're not. We probably should be,

Trent Manning:

I don't, I There's an idea for you.

Tyler Miget:

But Trent, look at you, man, not just pretty face, dude.

Trent Manning:

There's not really any original ideas. I don't think. There's very few. I'm pretty sure when John bozos got the Melrose, I think his group, they're still talking to each other or whatever

Tyler Miget:

Nice.

Trent Manning:

you know, they got a group chat of, and I don't know if it's in WhatsApp or whatever. It's but I do think it's kind of cool, you know, that they kind of stay together and, I mean, you could do that with the delegation too, or, you know,

Tyler Miget:

yeah, definitely.

Trent Manning:

cool to keep all those people together,

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. Keep them up. Yep.

Trent Manning:

Yeah, I mean, like you were saying before about being at a Fox sale together. I mean, not that it, the exact same thing

Tyler Miget:

yeah

Trent Manning:

you do something really special together with a bunch of other people. I think it's cool to in touch with them.

Tyler Miget:

yeah. Absolutely.

Trent Manning:

went on, like right after she graduated college. She went on the world race and it's a Christian retreat type thing, and you do a different country

Tyler Miget:

Oh wow.

Trent Manning:

for like 10 months or whatever. Anyway the other girls that she went with on, on the race, they still get together like once a quarter or something,

Tyler Miget:

Wow.

Trent Manning:

you know, and now they're, you know, they're grown ass women and with kids and lives and you know, everything else. But,

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

20 years old when they done that. So it's

Tyler Miget:

Yeah,

Trent Manning:

that, that they stay connected for, you know, all these years.'cause that was 20 years ago.

Tyler Miget:

that's great.

Trent Manning:

'cause we're all getting older every day. crazy. Yeah.

Tyler Miget:

No doubt.

Trent Manning:

out. You ready to do some rapid fire?

Tyler Miget:

Oh man. No, but yes.

Trent Manning:

All right, let's do it. What's your favorite movie?

Tyler Miget:

Oh, I've got so many a favorite comedy, Dumba Dumber, favorite cartoon? Probably Lion King or Hercules. And favorite kinda drama or whatever. Probably Tenet. I. It's a Christopher Nolan also. I could watch anything with him that he's done. It's super cool.

Trent Manning:

Gr Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff. What would be your last meal?

Tyler Miget:

Oh man. A Florentine steak with all the fixings. It's like 4 45 day dry age t-bone that they measure in kilos. And they they cook it over a chestnut fire I believe with some chestnuts too. Yeah. But my wife and I went to to Italy. One of our sauce was Florence, and they're known for their steak and they, and so, they cook, they always cook it pretty rare. And she was pregnant, so I got to eat like a, you know, like a one point something kilogram steak off myself. It was a fabulous time. Yeah, babe. Yeah, I think House had some bottles of wine. Yeah, it was great.

Trent Manning:

Yeah, that's I, yeah. I'm gonna go look that up after we get off,

Tyler Miget:

Do it. Yeah. So good.

Trent Manning:

What are you most proud of besides your family? I.

Tyler Miget:

man.

Trent Manning:

Time to get serious.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. Are you sure I can't save my family?

Trent Manning:

Now you, I mean,

Tyler Miget:

no.

Trent Manning:

ev I know you're proud of your family. We're all proud of our families and not to take anything away from our families.

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. Well, as someone who struggles mightily with imposter syndrome and also I don't wanna sound like I'm full of it ever or full of myself. Man I'm really proud of kind of the trajectory I. I've been on in this industry. you know, I've put in a lot of hard work and I've really made it a point to learn as much as I can. You know, there's probably a ton of guys, you know, even and and GS who could blow me out of the water mechanically you know, or leadership wise or whatever it is. And I think I, I've just kept persistent at trying to get better you know, mechanically or with the precision stuff or just even with how I engage people that I'm working with and people who I I'm in a leadership role to just always like really trying to thoughtfully and intentionally improve, i'm really proud of that. Yeah.

Trent Manning:

No that's awesome. And I mean, I was kind of picking up on that, you know, you're talking about. always trying to improve yourself and those things. And I mean, I think that's, you know, so, so important. And if you really work on improving yourself, everything else around you gets better. I believe

Tyler Miget:

Yeah. No doubt.

Trent Manning:

opinion. I'm no expert. I don't have a bunch of letters behind my name or anything.

Tyler Miget:

got four, babe. Come on.

Trent Manning:

four. I got four. But,

Tyler Miget:

I'm gonna try and get there with you this year, man. Yeah,

Trent Manning:

do it man.

Tyler Miget:

I

Trent Manning:

Anybody else interested in C Tim? Feel free to reach out to me or G-C-S-A-A or, I mean, definitely reach out to GCSA, but

Tyler Miget:

yeah.

Trent Manning:

some moral support, reach out to me or any other CAM that you know, and I mean, we're all willing to give you some moral support and some pointers I do think it's, you know, it is really nerve wracking. When you're getting your shop ready and going through the rubric, and I think you build up a lot of stuff. I mean, I'm guilty. I build up a lot of stuff in my head and I help, you know,

Tyler Miget:

You got it right here?

Trent Manning:

stuff. Yeah. You know,

Tyler Miget:

Yeah.

Trent Manning:

but I was still like, I'm not gonna pass this. It's easy to work it up in, in your mind and make it worse than what it is. It's really not that bad.

Tyler Miget:

Okay.

Trent Manning:

reach out to any other CTM and we'll be glad to help you out.

Tyler Miget:

Will do. No doubt.

Trent Manning:

tell the listeners how they may get in touch with you.

Tyler Miget:

What?

Trent Manning:

or an email or,

Tyler Miget:

yeah. You can catch me.

Trent Manning:

Number, whatever you

Tyler Miget:

Yeah, right. Here's my bank info. The zip code is 8 0 5. No, I'm teasing. You can so on, on XI am at Tyler je, M-I-G-E-T. On Instagram, I'm at coach mi, M-I-G-E-T. And then if you wanna email me, you can catch me at Tyler at Harmony Club Info

Trent Manning:

Oh info. Changing it up on us. All right. Awesome man. Thank you so much. This has been great, Tyler. I've really enjoyed it. I like your personality. I mean, fun, bubbly, you know, all those things. And, you know, it makes makes the conversation go a whole lot smoother sometimes. So I appreciate you

Tyler Miget:

right on. Well, man, thanks for having me on. Thanks for all that you do behind the scenes to, and, you know, even starting the group, you know, there's no new idea, but by God you made an action on a great idea and that our community is invaluable to us. So, thanks for doing all that and thanks for having us on and just, you know, aggregating and deploying resources for.

Trent Manning:

There you go. I like it. 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.