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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney, alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day, we bring

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. Mike Jackson, he's the

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Speaker 1: CEO of Auto Nation. Um, I'm not going to say

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest car dealers in the world. Is that?

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Speaker 1: Is that true globally? Mike? Are you guys one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest in the world. Well, if there's life on

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Speaker 1: other planets, we might not be being be the biggest

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Speaker 1: in the universe. But um, yeah, I think we are.

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Speaker 1: I think we are, and we arned to your point.

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. We did seven billion dollars

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Speaker 1: worth of revenue in the second quarter this year, and

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Speaker 1: the environment for vehicle sales is very good. You and

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Speaker 1: I talked about it a year ago where I said,

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Speaker 1: you know, with this pandemic and shelter in place, America

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Speaker 1: is reasserting sense of independence and they want to decide

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Speaker 1: and they want a personal vehicle. So demand is strong

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Speaker 1: and automation's performance within that environment is exceptional. Is it

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Speaker 1: difficult to get UM inventory? Well, on the new vehicle side,

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Speaker 1: there's no question that the manufacturers had a tremendous challenge

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Speaker 1: to them. And then earlier this year they really got

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Speaker 1: hit with the shortage on microchips. But I would point

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Speaker 1: out our shipments in the second quarter doubled from a

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Speaker 1: year ago, are only six to seven percent down from UM,

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Speaker 1: but demand is far far higher. So it's not that

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Speaker 1: the industry can't make anything. Uh, it's that this earlier

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Speaker 1: point that I made, that demand is very strong for

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Speaker 1: vehicles and that's both new and preoped. So give the center,

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Speaker 1: having you know, a little bit of a hindsight, are

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Speaker 1: you surprised that the O E M s had that

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Speaker 1: production difficulty still have that production difficulty, that that perhaps

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Speaker 1: this just in time inventory may not maybe too finely tuned,

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Speaker 1: that a chip shortage of all things can halt Detroit, Well,

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Speaker 1: it is halting the world. So yes, the entire just

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Speaker 1: in time production system is being rethought because the relative

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Speaker 1: tremendously out of whack, and they're having meetings right now

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Speaker 1: saying why shouldn't we have more of this, more of

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Speaker 1: these chips on hand. That you can't, you can't bring

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Speaker 1: the whole thing uh to such a disrupted state. So

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Speaker 1: that that is a fair point. UH. What no one

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Speaker 1: foresaw though, is that again going back to this god

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Speaker 1: reoriented parking book towards their home. They wanted more space,

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Speaker 1: larger space with more electronics, and they wanted personal vehicles,

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Speaker 1: both of which demand chips. So the demand for chips

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Speaker 1: went up in the housing electronics industry at the same

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Speaker 1: time one up in the avnable bull industry, and therefore

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Speaker 1: we have this chip shortage. You can't build these microchip

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Speaker 1: And that then also asked another whole strategic question, should

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Speaker 1: Southeast Adia? Is this really where we want to be

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Speaker 1: as a country. So all of that's being rethought and

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Speaker 1: rediscussed as a consequence of this pandemic. Well, and we're

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Speaker 1: national level. On a company level, you guys are just

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Speaker 1: killing it right now. And makes me, uh, you know

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Speaker 1: under in a buyer's market, you're just struggling and competing

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Speaker 1: good times for you. Are you taking advantage of that too?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you have the money now, so are you

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Speaker 1: Are you looking to change the business a little bit?

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Speaker 1: While while we're in the will, while you have the

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Speaker 1: the gravy train. But there's no question in the environment

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Speaker 1: is outperforming tremendously in that positive environment. And we've done

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Speaker 1: I would say that's grabbing the opportunity. Mike. I'd love

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Speaker 1: sure I have to. So the inflection point for the migration,

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Speaker 1: let's use that word. It's not a stampede, it's a migration. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I just need one more big V eight and then

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna switch switch over. But Mike, it's always great

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Speaker 1: that's on another level. But of course, your stocks at

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Speaker 1: an all time high. So you can do that, Michael Jackson.

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Speaker 1: There you see of Auto Nation stock trading right now

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Speaker 1: good folks at Federated Federator at Hermes. Now I would

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Speaker 1: tend to do it during a baseball or hockey season.

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Speaker 1: I can catch a game. R J. Galli, Senior portfolio manager,

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Speaker 1: I was an equity guy, r J. So I never

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