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I don't have a lot of hard and fast rules on Thunder and Lightning.

I really don't, you know, as far as the things I try to follow, if you if you win a national championship

you get to be on the podcast and we have got one that I got to thank my friends

at the Sicko's committee for pointing out that Mississippi State won a national

championship in irrigation troubleshooting. Now you're probably asking

yourself what is that? Believe me I'm asking the same questions we've got somebody

is going to answer him a member of that national championship winning team

Dylan rushing who just graduated from Mississippi state he's from

Tyler Town Mississippi graduated from MSU with a degree in landscape contracting and management for a minor in business.

And he is a national champion. Do you get a ring?

No, we don't get a ring.

I'm going to talk to Dr. Keenham about this. We need some, I mean,

jewelry needs to be handed out. You want a national title.

I absolutely agree. So, so let's let's start with what is the

competition of irrigation troubleshooting. Yeah absolutely So every year there is a competition. It's put on by the National Association of Landscape Professionals and Mississippi State has been kind of a big name in the competition for a while now.

There are tons of different categories of events to compete in.

Anything from IDing plants all the way to irrigation troubleshooting, assembly, design, things like that.

So that's pretty much kind of the bulk of the competition. There's a there's a

pest portion of the event which is called a

qualifying exam so you and your partner will take the qualifying exam and

then if you have a good enough score on that portion then you move on to the skills portion which is more of a kind of a

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