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From studio three at buzz TV. It’s the Horse’s Mouth with Tom McManus. Hi. Welcome to another edition of The Horse’s Mouth here at Lynch’s Irish Pub in Jacksonville Beach, a great spot. We’ve been here over three months now and man, we love this as our home away from home. I hope you can come out and enjoy some great food, great libations and always some great music throughout the weekend. This show brought to you by all Dry services of Southeast Jacksonville. Coach Mark Duffner is here, my man. He’s coming here to hang out at the bar for a little bit. We’re going to talk a little barbecue. You’re gonna see it. You’re gonna maybe even smell it. It smells so darn good. Uh, talk a little AI. Gonna talk a little about helping the environment talk a little business, talk a little sports, talk a little life right here in the horse’s mouth. Let’s welcome in the panel, Coach Duff. How are you, my man? Great talk. Always good to see you. Pleasure to be there. They’re smart. Putting the barbecue, right? Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah, I was out. Out in the parking lot. That’s how good this is, no doubt. How you been, man? How you been doing? Great. You doing a lot of work. Uh, talking football man. Don’t you lie. Look, I know you love to coach, and you coached for a very long time, but to be able to stay within the game, talking about the game you love. It’s got to be awesome. Blessing. I’m very, very grateful and thankful for it because, again, it’s keeping me in the game. Something I did for fifty years. Yeah. Love it. What would you say? Like, you know, you’ve been a head coach, you’ve been a position coach as a head coach, like a CEO, right? You know you’re running the show. Sure. What do you say to businessmen like these three that we’re going to introduce? Like, as far as just like, running a good ship, you know, any, any like, thing that got you through where, like, you know, you always gotta be whatever. Well, I think you you you make yourself very, uh, upfront with your employees, you know, with your team, it’s all about team. And assemble the very best team that you possibly can. Because I don’t think anybody any successes in life are done individually. They’re generally done collectively, so assembling the best team that you can and then, you know, valuing them, uh, being, uh, recognizing them, thanking them for the great job that they do, trying to build, as I said, a group that, uh, is, you know, unbeatable in terms of what, the strength of your team. Yeah. And I know you believe this, and I do, too. Adulation and critique got to be on the same. Oh, yeah. Right. You gotta give them a good job and then you gotta dope. Because then they know, like they know the good jobs coming. Well, they want to be genuine, you know, but everybody lives loves recognition, whatever that form is. A hug, a first name, whatever the case may be. So positive. Uh, evaluation, positive recognition. That’s what I believe. Who started the coach rapping on the backside? Whoever started that anyway? Because it was before my time. That’s for an answer, but, uh. Yeah, but that was another way again, to connect. Great to have you, coach. Always, always. All right. Let’s talk a little I Carlton Leach here from Nirvana. Are you Nirvana fan. Is that how you got in there? Better chatbot we almost named Kurt. Is that right? Nice. Nice. Tell us about Nirvana, what you’re doing. So we’re helping, um, companies that are investing AI use the most performant and cheapest model AI model. Okay. Every time they run a job, how do they vary and how many different ones are there and how do they like? In a nutshell, not like specifically. There’s a bunch. Okay, Google has one. Anthropic has a big one. Um, OpenAI, which is ChatGPT. Okay. Those are just the big three. Okay. Meta has one, which is Facebook’s and Instagram’s, and there’s like one hundred more. Um, so our platform helps you automatically choose one that does the best job for XYZ. Okay. So let’s say anthropic is better at coding. Okay? OpenAI is better at like reading texts and summarizing it for you. Google may be better at some other analytical thing. So based on the context, we help your software pick the right one at the right time and the right price. So you’re matching the software to software for efficiency and for cost effectiveness, right? Yes. So instead of your engineers having to figure all that stuff out and design it in the program. Gotcha. All they have to do is go through our API. It figures it all out for you. Done. And it can. Do you connect? Is that how it works? Like, do you just connect it or just show them how to do it and then. Yeah. So literally it’s almost like a website like okay, their program would, would hit our site. Okay. So invisibly like you would have to go to a web page or whatever. And then they would get the information back from us. It would plug into their software and then it would go. Okay. Have you checked out or heard of snow yet for the music? No. So you take I just got introduced to this, so I wrote a couple new songs and I recorded, uh, like a, like from my phone. Like how I think it should go. You take that recording and drop it in the snow, and then it. And you give it prompts like, uh, country music, you know, guitar solo, whatever, whatever it is. And then it pops out like three or four different ideas, and then you’re like, yeah, I like that one. That sounds based on your lyrics and it writes it on. Yeah, but they don’t take your lyrics, they just take the audio recording and then they they get the lyrics from the audio recording. It’s really like chord progressions. Yeah. All of. Yeah, all of it. And you can, you can play with it like once even it’s done. Like you can do different things with the sound. But it’s amazing what’s happened with AI. Yeah. The problem is no one can sing as good as those AI voices. Anyway, great to have you on the show, man. Absolutely. All right, Tucker Carlson’s here from the late doctor’s. Tucker, how are you doing? Welcome back. How’s things? Things are good. Things are good. Um, how many lakes are we, uh, talking these days, man? Uh, two hundred twenty five employees. Around one hundred and eighty of those in the field. Any technician, depending on where they’re going to be, could manage anywhere from, you know, one big lake a day to, you know, twenty is probably a pretty high number. Exactly what we do is stormwater ponds. You know, in Florida, you build a building, dig a pond, a lot of ponds around. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And we’re doing everything, you know, a lot of what we do is managing invasives, uh, invasive species, you know, uh, water hyacinth, hydrilla and things like that. And the analogy. But I stock a lot of fish and never wants to catch trophy bass. And at eight and we’re here to help them and founds narration erosion. You kind of you got porn related. So I used to in PV we lived in on a like a retention pond. But I’ve been there for like thirty years I think massive bass in it. Oh yeah. I mean gigantic like the nutrients, you know, the, the littlest pond can have the biggest bass and some of your really big trophy bass ponds, you know, if they’re not managed, they get out of whack pretty quickly, you know, catch and release. Your nutrient load has a lot to do with it. So it’s it’s fun. You know, I grew up fishing, so I found myself kind of, you know, angling towards this as a career. And, you know, I think anyone in kindergarten raise their hand. Yeah. I want to kill algae when I get older. Yeah, yeah. You know, a lot of people, you know, want to get in marine biology, study manatees. They end up, you know, we do everything. Yes. Yeah. That’s fun. Did you like chemistry in high school? Like that started I think my interest in chemistry were a little bit more nefarious than they are now. But, uh, you know, certainly had fun. And, um, you know, I wanted to say, coach, you know, it really does strike me, um, you know, my position managing this business. You know, it’s a family business, right? And it’s it’s not treated like a you’re not necessarily a member of the family. You have those cliches where you know that that is true. And certainly, you know, family members can’t get benefits. But it really, to me is like managing a sports team got a roster of high performance individuals. And you have to if you want to win, you’ve got to churn that roster and really make, you know, the give the best people the best chance to succeed. Um, and if you just keep people, you know, cousin Jerry who’s not performing on that’s a family. And families can be very dysfunctional. I want a sports team that’s not dysfunctional, that’s championship. So I always appreciate kind of the coaching mentality. Um, as it relates to that, when we started showing twenty eighteen, the tagline was sports is business is life all the same, right? It’s how you build a team at home, how you build a team in business, how you build a team in sports. It’s all the same. Oh, yeah. You know, it’s amazing how it all. You know, it was all so great this week. Yeah. Yeah. All right, let’s welcome in. Uh, Ryan King from King’s Barbecue, my man. How are you, brother? Good to see you. This is, uh. I haven’t tried it yet. I’m going to after the show, but tell us what you brought us here. Tell us about King’s barbecue. So King’s barbecue is a, uh. I’m a local pitmaster. I’m born and raised here. I graduated from Mandarin High at. Yeah, bro. And, uh. Uh, just last weekend, King’s barbecue brought home, uh, the world championship from the deck with a thirty nine. The first team ever to do so. All right. So. And at that contest, uh, we, uh, the judges gave us a perfect, perfect. And I was like, I’ll just bring the boy some ribs. So these ribs. I get these from highly, uh, High Springs, Florida, over near Gainesville. Okay. Uh, sweet meat butcher shop They’re, uh. They call them competition ready or restaurant snacks. Okay. They’re thicker, more, more marbling, and they taste great. And those are the reds. And that’s the rest that we use the wins first place. Is it a fam? Congrats again man. Family recipe. Uh no no fam. This recipe came from failures and learning how to. Okay. Yeah. Uh, and, uh, we’ve been competing since twenty twenty. I’ve got about sixty contests underneath our belt. We got, uh, six, uh, grand championships, ten reserves and one world championship. Wow. Yeah, yeah. So how many ribs are we talking a week? Are you guys producing? So we’ll be at Baker County Fair next to post up all week long. Yeah, we’ll probably go through one hundred and fifty slabs okay. But then we’ll be at Lakeland Bake Fest in January. We have a truck. Like a food truck. Oh yeah, we got it all. You can go to King’s BBQ. Okay. Dot com. Yeah, check us out. I’m sure you cater parties and all that type of stuff. We cater parties. Uh, right now we’re not doing any pop ups. We’re just doing fairs, festival and catering. Okay. And, um, we’ll be at the Jimmy Jam game in Elkton, Florida. Okay. Yup. Saint Johns County Fairgrounds in January. And, uh, you can come get some of the best reviews I’ve ever had. Man, I can’t wait to try. You make me hungry. All right, let’s talk Jags real quick. They head over to London. They do. How you feeling about the team? Will they come back with the victory? I’ll start with you. I think they do. I think they win by two points. Late. Late field goal. Okay. I think, uh, Trevor’s going to have another, uh, late drive, and, uh, we’ll kick it through the uprights. I think that’s going to be twenty three, twenty one. Okay. Right there. That’s what they both been kind of scoring on average. I think Liam gets them back on track. I think I’m I’m betting last week was a bad game by that offensive line. I think it’s going to be they gotta come out and start smacking. They gotta smack him in the face. That’s right. Somebody needs a little bit, you know. You know it. I think they’ll bring it back. Yeah. It is. All right, how about you? What do you think? Yeah, I agree. I mean, I think it’s it comes down to, you know, coming out with some aggression. You know, I think, you know, you look at that post game speech where I saw a lot of accountability, right? There wasn’t a lot of, hey, I’ve got to do a better job. You know, whether it’s, you know, getting the offense a little bit momentum and, um, you know, defense being a little bit more hard nosed or avoiding penalties. But, you know, I’ve got a lot of confidence in the Jags. Um, you know London’s kind of our turf right. Yeah. We yeah. It’s basically a home game. We should rock Carlton. What do you think, Matt. Oh, I am super optimistic. Okay. But I’m always anxious the whole game. Yeah. Even as a much better team than the last few years, we are rarely better than a touchdown and a half ahead. Yeah, ever. The whole game. You’re just nervous. All it takes is three minutes and we’re done. Yeah. You know, I tell you what, though, uh, in years past, this team with the way they’ve played would be two and four, not four and two. And they’ll be fine. They probably would. I’m very optimistic that the minimum will get a wild card slot this year. Okay, good, I like it. Coach, what do you think, man? I mean, Seattle was a good team. Very good. LA is a good team. Yeah very similar. Yeah. Very similar. Yeah. Offensively and defensively. Uh, we came out of the Kansas City game I think maybe just a little too full of ourselves. Okay. And and that’s a normal situation for a team that’s kind of trying to learn how to win and coming out kind of strong. Yeah. And so I think we got intoxicated by that victory. But because the focus in the game against a very good Seattle team was not there. Right. The penalties to play the lines both sides of the ball. Special teams across the board. So I think that Liam really and I like everything everybody said here. He’s got this team. He’s pulling them together as they go over there. They’re staying at that drove that place they’re going to stay and work at. Yeah. To get their focus back right now and understand what we got to do. We’ve got to be able to go back to fundamentals. We got to have clean operation for the snaps right now and just put execution at the highest priority. Yeah, I guess a darn good job. That’s what it’s going to be. Be aggressive and the rest will fall into place. All right, fellas, thanks so much for being here. Thanks for the rave. Yeah. I’m gonna. I’m gonna kill him. In the meantime, you check out these guys. Great profiles. You see this conversation? 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