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The Sprinkler Nerd Show — 210 episodes

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#209 - Technology Is Not The Answer

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#208 - IrriVoyeurism

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#207 - Are You One Of Them?

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#206 - Be Real

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#205 - The Best Navigators

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#204 - Professionalism Is the Smartest Irrigation Tool

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#203 - Beyond Sprinkler Repair, Conserva Irrigation: Scott Bowen

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#202 - When The Lights Went Out

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#201 - Every Win Counts, with Olympian Doug Lewis

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#200 - Taking A Chance On Being Real

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#199 - If You Think It. You Can Build It.

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#198 - What This Show Has Really Given Me

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#197 - Can't Slow Down

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#196 - SLIDE App, Building in Public

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#195 - Straight Out Of NASA: What Irrigation Can Learn From Cellular IoT

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#194 - Hard on Process, Soft on People with Erik Dyba

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#193 - My Design Landscape Beta w/ Scott Allison

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#192 - Let The Grass Grow

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#191 - Where Is All The Water Going?

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#190 - Contractors Are The People Who Make Irrigation Work

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#189 - PART 3, Rain Bird Irrigation Pro Summit: Inside Rain Bird Innovation

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#188 - PART 2, Rain Bird Irrigation Pro Summit: The Modern Irrigation Contractor

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#187 - PART 1, Rain Bird Irrigation Pro Summit: 50 Years of Irrigation Innovation

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#186 - The Service Business is The People Business

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#185 - The Power of NOT Knowing

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#184 - FL ND NYC Amsterdam

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#183 - For Immediate Release, Patent US3808385

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#182 - Approachable 2-Wire with Rain Bird's Steve Barendt

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#181 - Ohio Goes Wireless

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#180 - Behind The Scenes - Making LoRaWAN Soil Moisture Sensors

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#179 - Project Harmony Advisory Team

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#178 - Bespoke or A.I.

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#177 - Canada & Project Harmony Update

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#176 - Let's Go Out To Dinner And See a Forecast

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#175 - Apple's Forgotten Founder: Ronald Wayne's Secret to Tomorrow's Money

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#174 - The Sandbox Adventure

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#173 - Field Capacity from Orlando Florida

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#172 - Eyes Wide Open

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#171 - Rethinking The Warranty Period

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#170 - Turn Water into Money (replay)

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#169 - Understanding Google's Algorithm and SEO Optimization with Spencer Haws

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#168 - Houston We Have A Pressure Problem

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#167 - HydroPixel with A.I. Andy

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#166 - The Championship Turf

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#165 - Split Open (the pulse)

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#163 - Irrigation System Vitals

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#162 - Context vs. Control, Lesson From Reed Hastings

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#161 - Would You Rather Have FLOW or PRESSURE?

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#160 - Zigging While Others Zag

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#159 - Experiment to Learn

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#158 - Bottleneck Management

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#157 - Don't Be Like Steve Ballmer - LIVE from Landscape Ontario

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#156 - Curiosity as a Catalyst

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#155 - Negotiation As A Problem Solving Process

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#154 - Water Wonder, Unleashing Curiosity in Irrigation Innovation

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#153 - Sprinkler Nerds Unite with A.I. Music Opportunity

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#152 - UNFUCKIT, 123123

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#151 - Inner Harmony - Journey to Self-Belief

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#150 - EPISODE #1, What Are You Afraid Of?

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#149 - THE ONLY SPRINKLER FITTING YOU WILL EVER NEED

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#148 - Is 30% Wet or Dry?

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#147 - Vision A.I. Sensor + 2023 IA National Convention

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#146 - The First Soil Moisture Sensor for Universal Access

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#145 - Trades RULE, and My Next BIG Thing

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#144 - Top 10 You Gotta Know This

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#143 - You Have NO Competition - Just Put Them An A Bucket

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#142 - The END of ET

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#141 - Straight Out of GIE (EQUIP)

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#140 - How I Got Out Of Jury Duty

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#139 - What We See Is All We See

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#138 - Technology Augments People

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#137 - All The Water on the 45°N Parallel

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#136 - 500 Million Gallons at Hickam AFB, Hawaii

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#135 - START Conditions with Baseline 3200 Platform

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#134 - IRRISketch Software Might Be The Next Disruptor

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#133 - Inside Andy's Mind

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#132 - You Know What You Know Because...

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#131 - Wonder and Think What Nobody Has Thought

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#130 - Connectivity Everywhere, Chris Baird, CEO of OptConnect

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#129 - ChatGPT & A.I. Expert - Kevin Williams

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#128 - Turning Water into Dollars $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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#127 - Retro Regulator™ with Praxxis CEO Kevin Miller

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#126 - Grasshole, 2-Year Business Update

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#125 - Green Infrastructure in NYC with Roland Triska

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#124 - Change The Plants, Change The Water

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#123 - Rain is Money, Andy's Interview on the Scaling Up H2O Podcast

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#122 - Position Your Value, Hold Your Price

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#121 - Revenue is Vanity, Profit is Sanity

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#120 - Using ChatGPT to Respond When You Are Triggered

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#119 - I Was Wrong? Don't Disrupt

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#118 - Keeping Dubai Green, with Fawzi Melhem, Radius

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#117 - SimpleSUB, What Are You Experimenting With?

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#116 - Field Capacity My Ass!

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#115 - Not Real, Andy's A.I. Doppelgänger, a ChatGPT Podcast

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#114 - Silicon Valley Brings Technology to the Backyard, with GeoDrops CEO, Lawrence Ying

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#113 - STOP The Leak! with Paul Bassett (ENVOCORE), and Ben Slick (HydroPoint)

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#112 - 50% of What You Know is Right

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#111 - EXIT Your Business to Private Equity, with Brad Krause of Service Professor

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#110 - SMART RAIN, Building a Different SmartController™ Business with Dan Hymas (President)

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#109 - Helium For Everyone, and Every THING

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#108 - You Are The Value

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#107 - Be The Table, Be The One Creating Opportunities

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#106 - Totally Nutballs & Perfectly Wet; Principals of a Soil Moisture Sensor

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#105 - Seeing The Future from The Past

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#104 - You Can Figure It Out

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#103 - Is SMART Overused? Are We "Smartwashing" New Technology?

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#102 - Create the Future by Making Fantasy a Reality

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#101 - CES 2023 - What Are You Optimizing For?

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#100 - You NEED This Tool; Inside the Mind of Sole Saver™ CEO, and Professional Irrigator, Sam Dahrouj

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#099 - Predictions for 2023

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#098 - Leadferno.com CEO Aaron Weiche - Closing Leads Faster with Text Messaging

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#097 - How Much Does It Cost To Water A Lawn

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#096 - Mail Me Patience

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#095 - Defining Quality - It's NOT What You Think

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#094 - Feed The Ones You Have

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#093 - Question The Hustle and F**k Busyness

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#092 - Start Your Own Podcast with Luis Diaz

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#091 - Becoming Your Future Self

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#090 - Should You Be A Pioneer?

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#089 - One Phone Call Away

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#088 - What You Think About

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#087 - Entrepreneurs Don't Complain About Problems

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#086 - The Candle Society

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#085 - Technology Adoption Life Cycle - Where Do You Land?

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#084 - Do You Talk To Your Customers?

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#083 - The Last Look Concept

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#082 - You Are An Entrepreneur

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#081 - Authentic Customer Experiments

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#080 - Be Persistent, Look For Alternatives

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#079 - Andy Jams on the Service Business Mastery Podcast

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#078 - Allset Founder & CEO, Justin Clegg, Lehi Utah

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#077 - Alternative Power Controllers with Mike Merlesena, DIG Corp

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#076 - The Best Contractors

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#075 - The Sprinkler Revolution, with Irrigreen CEO Shane Dyer

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#074 - Wireless Irrigation Automation with Alex Palin, CEO of IRRIOT

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#073 - Get Connected, Cellular Technology You Should Be Using

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#072 - Collegiate Landscape Leader - Alex Stanton, Kansas State University

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#071 - The Possibility Mindset

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#070 - Power to the People, Power to the Nerds

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#069 - Help Wanted - How to Hire Top Talent with Jody Underhill, Rapid Hire Pro

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#068 - People Are Not A Number, Advice from Dennis Roberts, Ford Franchise Owner

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#067 - LIVE from Anguilla, where water matters.

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#066 - Change Your Latitude - Change Your Attitude

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#065 - NEW Root Quencher™ Saves Trees!

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#064 - The Future of Commerce Is Here

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#063 - Irrigation Predictions for 2022

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#062 - The Grasshole System with Ken Kwiatkowski

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#061 - 6 New Products at The Irrigation Show

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#060 - We Don't Need Roads

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#059 - Differentiate Yourself

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#058 - Teflon™ Isn't a Thing…

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#057 - Think Smart Soil

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#056 - Trying or Dying (in 3/4 time)

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#055 - Scaling Your Business with Service Titan - Jeff Soch, GM of NAIAD Irrigation

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#054 - Conversational Text Messaging with Raj Suchak, CEO of Grid Seed

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#053 - Caller Feedback, Plants, Soil, Water = Value

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#052 - Being An Expert - What It Means

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#051 - Sprinkler Nerd Hotline, 231-383-6042

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#050 - Attitude of Gratitude

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#049 - Andy Sits in the Hot Seat, and Denny Asks the Questions

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#048 - The WiFi Evangelist, Kevin Battistoni of Hunter Industries

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#047 - How Chad Touchet lost $700k and Why He Pivoted into Manufacturing

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#046 - The Profitable Contractor Book, with Author Steve Dale

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#045 - OtO Lawn, Smart Home Sprinkler & Garden Treatment System with Ali Sabti

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#044 - Default Thinking Could Kill You

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#043 - Top 5 Hunter Products for 2021 with Kevin Lewis

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#042 - Technology Enables You, Truck Talk #3

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#041 - Water SaaS™ using Gallons Per Square Foot with Paul Bassett

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#040 - My First Ecommerce Business and How I turned $500 into $1 million

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#039 - Legal Advice for Contractors with Attorney John Di Giacomo

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#038 - Winter Watering with Smart Sensor Technology

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#037 - How I Automate SprinklerSupplyStore.com with Will Christensen of Data Automation

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#036 - Business, Health, Social - Truck Talk #2

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#035 - Predictions for 2021, The First Annual Episode

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#034 - Truck Talk, Getting Personal and Keeping The Show Alive

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#033 - Customer Obsessed, The 1hr Podcast Experiment

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#032 - My Favorite Meat Snacks, with Nick McCann Co-Founder of MissionMeats.co

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#031 - The Insider's Guide to Pumps with Justin McDaniel of Munro Pumps

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#030 - Acquiring a Sprinkler Business and Engineering Control Systems

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#029 - Soil Moisture Technology - How Does It Work? Wet or Dry, Automation and Data Collection

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#028 - Building Automation System using the BACnet Protocol with Todd Hustrulid

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#027 - Wireless 2-Wire, Consolidating Controllers and Managing Remote Devices using Baseline SubStation Technology

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#026 - Relationships Beat Algorithms, Out Care Your Competition, with George Bryant 2018 Keynote Replay

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#025 - Managing Secondary Water Sources, Domestic, Ponds, Rain Water Cisterns, Irrigation Canals, and more.

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#024 - Using a 3-Point Test Kit to Verify 2-Wire Ground Resistance at the Lighting Arrestor Locations

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#023 - Soil Sensors for Artificial Intelligence Watering with Chris Wright, VP of Sales, for Baseline Control Systems.

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#022 - Retrofitting Large Existing Sites - Baseline Tech-Talk Tuesday

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#021 - Tracy Shields, Transitioning To The Modern Age of Central Control for Municipalities and Public Agencies

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#020.5 - Using Pressure to Control Irrigation, Tanks/Cisterns, and Lake/Pond Level Control - Baseline Tech-Talk Tuesday

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#020 - Learn How To Control Athletic Field Lighting, Door Locks, Fountains, And More Using The BaseStation 3200 Control System - Baseline Tech-Talk Tuesday

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#019 - IrritechTraining.com with Chris Pine, Irrigation Trainer & Industry Expert

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#018 - Irrigation Controller Networking & Communication Options - Baseline Tech-Talk Tuesday

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#017 - Search Engine Optimization with Jeff Oxford of 180 Marketing

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#016 - Natural & Organic Lawn Care with Tom Kelly of BeeSafe Organic Lawn Care

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#015 - 2-Wire Troubleshooting - Baseline Tech-Talk Tuesday, Recorded Live on 3/24/20

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#014 - Green Roof Irrigation with Nate Griswold of Inhabitect - Part 2

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#013 - Green Roof Fundamentals with Nate Griswold of Inhabitect - Part 1

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#012 - Talking Flow Sensors with Norm Bartlett of Creative Sensor Technology

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#011 - Lawn Care Tips for Irrigators with Allyn Hane, the Lawn Care Nut

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#010 - How Nate Started GrowersHouse.com, One Of The Top Suppliers Of Cannabis Cultivation Equipment In The World.

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#009 - Your Website Is So Boring It Is Killing Your Sales, with Lianna Patch of PunchlineCopy.com

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#008 - Engineering A Large Irrigation Retrofit with Kyle Desmarais of H2O Irrigation

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#007 - Losing 100lbs in 9 months with Todd Hudgins of Bayside Irrigation

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#006 - From Irrigation Laborer to Water Conservation Leader - Paul Bassett Shares His Amazing Journey

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#005 - Starting a Drone Business with Kent Harris from Minnesota Sodding Company

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#004 - Learning to Estimate, Bid, and Sell for Success

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#003 - Customer Service Secrets with Denny Richards

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#002 - Working in Boston with Tommy of Cambridge Landscape

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#001 - The Marvels of Drip Irrigation with Art Elmers

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