1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. All right, then 3 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you finish your point because you had 4 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: originally called in about a mailman. 5 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't seem important anymore, but at but you 6 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 2: know what, at the same time, I'm glad the guy 7 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 2: finally established that I had a yacht. So do you 8 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 2: admit it? 9 00:00:59,160 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 3: No? 10 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: Okay, maybe not Okay, you. 11 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: Don't even have any Well, you don't even have it anymore. 12 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 2: No, I said I had a yacht. 13 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: That was Yeah, but it's it's a moot point at 14 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: this at this point in the process. Fair, it's a 15 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: non existent moat. 16 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: Well it still exists. Well, you don't have to We're 17 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 2: going to argue on something else. No, I don't go ahead. 18 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 2: So I was calling in on the mail thing because 19 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 2: I thought it was a little funny story that you 20 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 2: would have appreciated when I was a kid, I was 21 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: probably about eighteen years older, so bright, about six foot tall, 22 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 2: and I used to mow the lawn for a mail carrier. 23 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 2: He would use his personal vehicle to go out and 24 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 2: do the mail, and so I would mow his lawn 25 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 2: free of charge because he was an elderly man, and I, 26 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 2: you know, I wanted to, you know, help him out, 27 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 2: and I would go in just to let him know 28 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 2: I was done. But when I would walk into his house, 29 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 2: it was like a hoarder's dream. You'd have to walk 30 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 2: down these little aisles for me to go to the 31 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 2: bathroom or something like that. And he had just stacks 32 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 2: of mail up to my waist, magazines, mail letters, whatever 33 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,679 Speaker 2: that he just never delivered. And he would take him home. 34 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 2: That was the reason why I called in. I thought it. 35 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: But there's nothing wrong with that. Don't worry that that's 36 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: a bad call. Kent with Little Yacht Sales dot Com. Yes, sir, 37 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: hold on, I got another are you did you put 38 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,239 Speaker 1: me on speakerphone. 39 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: Me? 40 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: No, okay, all right, hold on, let me take Travis's 41 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: call real quick. Travis, go ahead. 42 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 3: Hey, sorry to take you off speakerphone there. I just 43 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 3: come in mid conversation physical therapy. But I was going 44 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 3: to define a yacht for you, Okay, I'd say little 45 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 3: yacht thirty two feet the Bertram MAPI that came out 46 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 3: back in the seventies. To the commoner, that would look 47 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 3: like a yacht. But I would not classify that as 48 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 3: a yacht, I'd say you have to get started getting 49 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 3: the forties because you have a full sized state room 50 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,399 Speaker 3: in livable quarters. That thirty two foot boat gets real tight, 51 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 3: real quick. 52 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: Do you have a boat. 53 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 3: I do? 54 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: What do you have? 55 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 3: It's a Boston Whaler two seventy dauntless. 56 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: Where do you keep it? 57 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 3: It's kept up here on Lake Ray, Hubbard, but I'm 58 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 3: fixing to move it down to the coast where so well, 59 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 3: if you're going to run out of the Galvesty yacht 60 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 3: basin there, this boat would be the dream boat for you. 61 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 3: And let me tell you why. I've run this boat 62 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 3: from South Florida and up in New Hampshire. I didn't 63 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 3: run it from there to there, but I lived in 64 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 3: South Florida and I lived in New Hampson. I've had 65 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 3: this boat in really rough condition, six to eight foot 66 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 3: beam seas crossing from you know, going from West Palm 67 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 3: up to Boca. And it's a center console and it's 68 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 3: a hybrid. And the reason why there's such a perfect 69 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 3: boat for galveson Bay is because it whips up so quick. 70 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 3: You could run fifty miles off shore, catch snapper out 71 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 3: of this boat, or be up in the bay in 72 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 3: skinny water, you know a foot and a half because 73 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 3: it's got a real shallow draft catching trout, redfish, and flounder. 74 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 3: It's got a dive door, troll, the motor powerpole, it's 75 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 3: got twenty two hundred merks radar. It's fantastic, loaded to 76 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,119 Speaker 3: the gills. 77 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: How much you want for it. 78 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 3: I'll do one eighty just for you. 79 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 1: I'm not in the market, and I'm just curious. What 80 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: did you give for it? 81 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 3: I got one eighty four for it? 82 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: No, what did you give for it? 83 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 3: And I got it paid one eighty four and I 84 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 3: got a hell of a deal. 85 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: On can't What do you think. 86 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 4: To see the boat? 87 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: If I buy a boat. I got to buy it 88 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: from Little Yacht Sales because he's my boat expert. But 89 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: I was just curious what you thought. 90 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,600 Speaker 3: I'll look he can. He can take a fee off it. 91 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 3: If you get it for one, I'll let him take 92 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 3: his cut. You know, the two happiest days that you 93 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 3: have being a boat, you sell it? 94 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: Why are you getting rid of it? 95 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 3: That's right? Well, for what I want to do, it's 96 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 3: it's not practical anymore. It was perfect for for South Florida. 97 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 3: It was perfect for New Hampshire. But I'm a I'm 98 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 3: a marsh fisherman, and uh, it's just you know, it's 99 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 3: just a little I've got it on. It's like the 100 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 3: Catfish Cadillac right now, it's up here on late Ray Hubbard. 101 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 3: I look like an idiot, you know, I'm driving around 102 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 3: this this really fancy boat that's made for the coast, 103 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 3: the you know, the ocean, and it's just not It 104 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 3: just don't look good. 105 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 1: Do you think they look down on you? 106 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know. Maybe they they probably think 107 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 3: it's a really fine looking boat. 108 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: Do they put their pinky finger out when they're drinking 109 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: their Miller High Life as you go by, as their 110 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 1: way of saying, oh, mister fancy pants. 111 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's pretty fancy. It's pretty fancy. 112 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 3: But like I said, you can run fifty miles off 113 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 3: shore and if a storm kicks up, I mean it's 114 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 3: it's great. It's a battle wagon and it's not a 115 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 3: full size off shore boat. So for somebody that's new 116 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 3: to boats, it's a it's a great boat. This boat, 117 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 3: brand new, runs three hundred and twenty five thousand. It's 118 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 3: a it's a twenty twenty that I have babied, I've 119 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 3: had an indoor storage. I've owned a lot of boats. 120 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 3: I grew up around boats. I was driving boats when 121 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 3: I was six years old, putting them on an off 122 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 3: trailer and docking them. What do you do for a living, 123 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 3: So I'm gonna stay at. 124 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 2: Home, Dath? 125 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: What does mama do? 126 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 3: She works in telecommunications? 127 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: Well, she doesn't worked there. She's like a senior vice president. 128 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 3: She's pretty high up there. Yeah, yeah, she's pretty high 129 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 3: up there. 130 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 2: She has sugar Mama. 131 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: What did you do before you were stay at home Dad? 132 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 3: I did respiratory medical equipment sales and Katie and sugar Land. 133 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 3: And before that, I had a food truck, which you 134 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 3: actually have me on two segments of your show. 135 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: Was it Center Court? 136 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 2: What was it? 137 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: What was it called. 138 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 3: Breakfast Burritos? Anonymous? I had it there at Inversion Coffee House. 139 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 3: Actually I met Avy back in the day before he 140 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 3: was a you know, super big shot, and he hooked 141 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 3: me up with with some coffee equipment when we did 142 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 3: off site gigs. But they're at Inversion. His only deal 143 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 3: with me was just don't sell coffee. And I was like, 144 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 3: all right, you got it. 145 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: Man ozvy Katz has done. I am so proud of him. 146 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: He has done so incredibly well. And he's done it 147 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: by being very good at what he does. It's incredible coffee, 148 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: by being Houston focused, by being extraordinarily charitable philanthropy. He 149 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: does more for Camp Hope. He says he does as 150 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: much for Camp Hope. He's in the Russell Ebara category 151 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: of how much he does for Camp Hope. It's incredible 152 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,679 Speaker 1: what he has done at Cats Coffee. I mean, I'm 153 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 1: so proud that hold on Ken. I got a boat question. 154 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 2: For you. 155 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. If you're a Toto fan, they 156 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 1: are heavily featured in the Yacht Rock Professional. Wayne writes 157 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:52,079 Speaker 1: boat versus yacht tzar. Boat manufacturers have corrupted the term 158 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 1: yacht by listing it as a yacht. The terms center console, 159 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: cabin cruiser, also motor yacht. Those are typical flush deck 160 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: or multi deck with a very large stateroom. I've been 161 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: around boats since I was ten years old, captain many 162 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: of them, all the way up to eighty feet. I 163 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: don't think of anything less than fifty foot as a yacht, 164 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: only because I'm old school. The last boat we had 165 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: was a sixty foot sport fish. Most people would consider 166 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: it a yacht, but because it was a sport fishing 167 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: convertible configuration, I don't ever think of it that way. 168 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 1: We're decent boats, but they were very middle of the 169 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: road as far as quality wise. Ramon, do you have 170 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: anything to say on this. I'm not a boat expert. 171 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: It's like guns or cars, you can get outside of 172 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 1: the problem is we got listeners that have forgotten more 173 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: about this than I would ever learn with two years 174 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: of intense study. And I'm very well aware of that, 175 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: and they love to point out when you get something wrong. 176 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: But from my very limited knowledge, my own personal opinion 177 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,719 Speaker 1: is unless you have a state room, unless you can 178 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: go under and take a nap in the air conditioning 179 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: and pee, then it's not a yacht. Well I can 180 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: pee on any boat too, mister tough guy. But you 181 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:09,080 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You get the point right. Let 182 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: me see something here. Well, now I've managed to activate 183 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: the entire Bury boat Brigade. Everybody out there with the 184 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,839 Speaker 1: boat interest Kent, I have a question for you, Yes, 185 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: Sir Kent at Little Yachtsales dot com. So we rented 186 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: a boat, Ramon I haven't told you this in Maui 187 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: because my boys are never happier than we are. When 188 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: we were out on a boat, and I haven't bought 189 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: a boat because their expensive is held to maintain like 190 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: a horse. But we rented a boat while we're out 191 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: there with a captain, and we went out to see 192 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: this beautiful reef that is where they did Captain nemo. 193 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: And so I sent an email to Kent at Little 194 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: Yachtsales dot com and I said, Hey, this is the 195 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: boat we've got. It's a thirty five foot three point 196 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: fifty realm Boston Whaler. And I know that Boston Whaler 197 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: makes it cost a lot more than perhaps would be 198 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: absolutely necessary because it's kind of a Rolls Royce brand, 199 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: and and anyway, so he's I said, how much does 200 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,559 Speaker 1: that boat? How much would this boat be new? And 201 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: you know, you're not a boat guy. A million dollar boat? 202 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: And I thought, my god, man, do you know what 203 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: Like you look at a million dollar house, you go 204 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: you got a lot of stuff there. You look at 205 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: a million dollar boat, you go, well, well this is 206 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: this is a nice boat. It's not Is it just 207 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: a boat? It's not. It's not. Tilman's yacht or anything. 208 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: But anyway, Kent, what is the status of the boat 209 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: business right now? You and I were emailing about how 210 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: crazy it got during COVID, and I remember reading I 211 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: have a buddy named Lance Parks. He used to run 212 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: the Galveston Yacht basin. Do you know Lance? 213 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 4: I do know Lance. I know it's sadly too. 214 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, Lance and I would email a lot during COVID, 215 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: and he sent me a Boat Trader article in the 216 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: summer of twenty and it said it was the highest 217 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:10,559 Speaker 1: boat sails in American history that month. And then they 218 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: broke it the next month. And you said that sales 219 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: were up. You wrote it to me in an email 220 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: a couple of days ago that sales prices were up. 221 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: I may get you wrong fifty percent during that period 222 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: of time, So a six hundred thousand dollars boat would 223 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: be a nine hundred thousand dollars voat. I may be 224 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: wrong on that, so correct me. But where are we 225 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: in pricing and volume of boat sails right now? 226 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 4: Back in COVID, it wasn't that they had gone up 227 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 4: any highers, just the demand was very high, so thinks 228 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 4: were selling at retail with very little discount now that's 229 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 4: slowed down some, which was expected. And the biggest problem 230 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 4: is the inflation has caused cost for new boats to 231 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 4: go up quite a bit. So boats have had a 232 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 4: pretty big increase in the life last three years of 233 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 4: about ten percent a year, when normally they're about three 234 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 4: percent a year. But everything has gone up because of inflation. 235 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 4: I mean, you know, an F two to fifty truck 236 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 4: it's one hundred thousand dollars now as well. So, but 237 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 4: the state of the market's very good. We're busy, and 238 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 4: we're fortunate. We're here in Houston where we have a 239 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 4: year round season where it's not cold too terribly often, 240 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 4: and so people can vote year round here, which is fabulous. 241 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: Who's that coming and going sorry, I'm in one of. 242 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 4: My offices and the guys are actually working here. 243 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: Oh okay, So who is who is buying boats today 244 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: that didn't buy boats before? Because I know that like 245 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: with vacation properties. They saw this in Colorado, they saw 246 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: this in Hawaii during COVID people were buying properties that 247 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 1: never would have because they in the past, they would 248 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: have gone to the south of France or they would 249 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: have gone off the coast. Degrees and now because they 250 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: couldn't travel well, they bought houses in Aspen and Pebble Beach. 251 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: And who's buying boats now that didn't buy boats ten 252 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: years ago. 253 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 4: I would say we're starting to get younger and younger buyers, 254 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 4: people under the age of forty, whereas before it was 255 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 4: been the majority has been baby boomers have been the 256 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 4: majority of the buyers. But now that that market's gotten 257 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 4: better with the younger crowd. 258 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: And is this younger crowd did they grow up boating 259 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: or are they first time buyers. 260 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 4: We see a lot of people that have grown up 261 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 4: boating that eventually do buy their own boat, but some 262 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 4: of them are new boaters. And the one thing about 263 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 4: COVID is we thought we were going to have all 264 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 4: these boats on the market, you know, after COVID, after 265 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 4: everything wore off, But in reality we did not see that. 266 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:56,239 Speaker 4: I think people kept the boats, they enjoyed the lifestyle 267 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 4: and they kept the boat, or they actually got more 268 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 4: involved and bought something else. 269 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: That's interesting. I'm surprised somebody new to boating would come 270 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: in and buy a boat that big, because that's not 271 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: a to captain a boat like that if you have 272 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: no boating experience seems to me like that's a pretty 273 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: big undertakings. 274 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 4: It is, but it's like learning anything, once you learn, 275 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 4: and it's not very difficult, and usually we try to 276 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 4: help people get some captain and instruction if they need it, 277 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 4: if they're brand new, for sure. 278 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: You know, I guess my question would be, I didn't 279 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: grow up in a boating culture. My dad had a 280 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: boat when I was young, but he had to sell 281 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: it when he built our house. It was just a 282 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 1: little boat. He and his brother owned it together. And 283 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 1: bass fishing was big in Orange, So if you went 284 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: out on somebody's boat, you go out on a little boat, 285 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: little john boat, or just a little bass boat. But 286 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: then I came to Houston, and you know, you would 287 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: get invited with people to this what we would have 288 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: called a yacht because it did have a state room 289 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: and it was a you know, thirty forty thirty five 290 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: forty foot foot vote. But it strikes me that you 291 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: either everybody I knew either grew up around voting or 292 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: or never did it at all. And so I guess 293 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: I'm interested in who these people are who just decide, 294 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: never having been into voting culture, I'm gonna buy a 295 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: boat captain some ting wong. Well, something must be right. 296 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: You are listening to Michael Berry. 297 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 5: She looks looking out you. 298 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: So this song comes out. This is eighty two eighty three. 299 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: It's a good I would have been in six or seven, 300 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: eighty two or eighty three. This song comes out. And 301 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: I remember hearing this on Casey's EB. Ninety five out 302 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: of Bama, the top forty. It was because it was 303 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: top forty song. At that point you didn't, you know, 304 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: old songs you got to put into you know, a genre. 305 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: But at the time it's the top song. It's just 306 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: come out that sweets. And I guess because of the subject, 307 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 1: I mean, the sound, the references. I thought this song, 308 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: I thought they brought it back as an oldie, like 309 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: it felt like something that you know, it was Sinatra, 310 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: early Sinatra era. It was a new song that had 311 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: an old feel to it because it wasn't over produced. 312 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 1: Maybe this can turn it up, turned up. 313 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 3: We had. 314 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 2: Just like staying lately sure. 315 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 3: Seeing a way to key log. 316 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 2: He's looking at you. 317 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: I mean when you quote to e Largo in Casablanca 318 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 1: in a song with that kind of raspy voice and 319 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: you've got this over the top cheesy female backers past 320 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:22,360 Speaker 1: purpose should have Jenny Fricky do the background. But another day, 321 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: all right, see hint. 322 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 2: Yep sair. 323 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: So the voting business today right now, if you were 324 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: to tell me where that's going to be a year 325 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 1: from now, obviously twenty twenty we had this absolute boom. 326 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 1: May not see that again in our lifetime, right I 327 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 1: doubt it what you said that you expected at the 328 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: end of COVID that those properties, that those boats would 329 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: go on the market, and it didn't happen. So people 330 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: liked the voting lifestyle. But at some point it strikes 331 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:07,359 Speaker 1: me that you've affected the inventory in production, unless they're 332 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 1: just not making as many boats, because there's It just 333 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: strikes me that there's no way that all of a 334 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 1: sudden you had all these new boats bought and then 335 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: at some point those boats have to go back out 336 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: on the market to compete against the new boats. I'll 337 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: give you an example. So Tesla right now has a 338 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 1: real problem on their hands because for the last two 339 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: years they haven't sold enough cars and I think they're 340 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: making something like fifty more cars than they're selling. So 341 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: elon guts the market cuts the price slashes, the price 342 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: and tries to put a lot of other people out 343 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: of business, which he did. But the problem with that 344 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: is the used tesla market was destroyed. So there are 345 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: a lot of people that had a five year old 346 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: Tesla that can't get anything for that tesla because at 347 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 1: some point the supply and demand have to line up. 348 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: And when you when you make when demand goes massive 349 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: overnight and the supply doesn't change, at some point, there 350 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: has to be a true up, right, yes, So so 351 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,199 Speaker 1: do you foresee that happening. 352 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 4: I think it's already happened. Twenty twenty four was quite 353 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 4: a bit of a slowdown in the boat market in 354 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 4: just about every field you know, power sail, small boats, 355 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 4: large boats. But now the demand is starting to come 356 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 4: back because the supply is starting to dwindle some. And 357 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 4: the biggest issue is you know areas that you know, Fortunately, 358 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 4: where we are there's plenty of slips and there's plenty 359 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 4: of places to keep a boat large, you know, yacht 360 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 4: club style marinas, but in other parts of the country, 361 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 4: like Florida, there's huge shortages of slips. So people are 362 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 4: trying to buy a boat. Came and you know some 363 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 4: places fine place to put it, but I think a 364 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 4: year from now the demand will actually be higher. We've 365 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 4: been busy since the election and had the best November 366 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 4: and December we've had in probably five years. 367 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: What does that mean? How many boats do you sell 368 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: in November December to say that, Well, we. 369 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 4: Usually would do about one hundred and seventy five boats 370 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 4: a year, and we did about twenty in November and 371 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 4: December each combined ten boats a month. 372 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: And you normally do how many. 373 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 4: We've done about one hundred and seventy five, but in 374 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 4: twenty twenty four we were down quite a bit, probably 375 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 4: around one hundred, so it was quite a bit of 376 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 4: a drop thirty percent. 377 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: Just what's the top month for boat sails? April and 378 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 1: May because it's starting to get warm and people starting 379 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: to think about going out on the boat. 380 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 4: It is, but we've been as busy because of the 381 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 4: season here. Although it's pretty cold right now, you know, 382 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 4: in December it can be as nice as May or 383 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 4: June sometimes, so you know, we we can be as 384 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 4: busy in December. 385 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,400 Speaker 2: As we are in June. 386 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: Where do you keep your boats? 387 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 4: We're well, it got two offices, one at south Shore 388 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 4: Harbor in Leake City and one at Waterford Harbor in Kema, 389 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 4: which they're only a mile apart. 390 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: I used to do that boat club, Carefree boat Club, 391 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: and they were Yes, I think they were at south 392 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: Shore Harbor. 393 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:22,959 Speaker 6: Is that right? 394 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 4: I think they are at south Shore. 395 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 2: Still. 396 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 1: That was kind of a good for a guy like 397 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: me that just wanted a basic little boat and take 398 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: my kids out for the weekend. I think it was 399 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: four hundred bucks a month. That was a great deal 400 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: for me. 401 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 2: Yes, that wasn't. 402 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: I wasn't in the yacht business, although I did go 403 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: get my captain's training from the owner there. He was 404 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: a show sponsor. But that was I did it for 405 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 1: several years. I thought that was you know, you're in 406 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: and out. You didn't if you weren't, you know, because 407 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: to buy a boat's a kind of a big commitment. 408 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: But to see how much we were going to use it, 409 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: I thought that was fantastic. 410 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 411 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 4: I think those those clubs, care Free and Freedom both 412 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 4: we are both great. They introduce a lot of people 413 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 4: into the market, and of course a lot of those 414 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 4: people do eventually want to buy something and own it. 415 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 1: Well, I'm lazy keeping down in the water. If I 416 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: if I if I know that at the end of 417 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,640 Speaker 1: a day out with my kids, I've got to come 418 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 1: back and clean the boat. That I think about that 419 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 1: the whole It kind of takes a little bit of 420 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: the of the fun off for me. So are all 421 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: of those marinas booked up right now? 422 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 2: No, they're not. 423 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 4: There's vacancies. And I can tell you there's no lazier 424 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 4: boater than me. 425 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 2: I've got to you just call a. 426 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 4: Fellow and have him come clean the boat afterwards, just 427 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 4: write a check and be happy and go home. 428 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: So we we, uh, we've leased a house over the 429 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: years at Pirates, and so we would. I would always 430 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: lease a boat from from Lance Parks and then just 431 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: go over to Waterman's uh Marina and eat and come back, 432 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: just to have somewhere to go, right. It's like the 433 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: guys on the motorcycle or the airplane's going somewhere to go, 434 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: and you they they haven't had a slip available in 435 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,719 Speaker 1: I bet you ten years. It's not a big marina. 436 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: But that was kind of my you know, my barometer 437 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: of there's not a lot of space for boats. Kent, 438 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: thank you, buddy, that Kent. Little Licht Sales dot Com. 439 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: Damn it all right, this is Mark Chestnut enjoyed Bizaar 440 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: of Talk Radio. 441 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 6: To Little River, remember this and when we have a 442 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 6: custom that they cut for us. Oh here here we 443 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:48,719 Speaker 6: turned up. 444 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 2: Turn up. 445 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 5: Everybody and you' listening to the Michael Berry Show and reminiscy. 446 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're Australian. They surprised us with that. Were you 447 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: on the show yet? I think that was just me 448 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: and Chad Backer. You know you were because we had 449 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,959 Speaker 1: just gone on in Nashville when they live in Nashville. 450 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: Ken Paxton, along with the state Republican Party, has launched 451 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: a tour across the state to go into the state 452 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: districts for the state representatives who want Democrat committee chairman. 453 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,680 Speaker 1: We've got a battle for who's going to be the 454 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House. Well, Drunk Dad was driven from 455 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: office after they spent millions. The lobbyists spent millions. Drunk 456 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: daid had fought against everything we want as the base 457 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: and he put Democrats in committee chairmanships. So drunk Date 458 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 1: is out. After almost losing his seat, they had to 459 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 1: have Democrats come over over a thousand Democrats to vote 460 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: in the Republican primary for the first time ever to 461 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: help him win by a couple hundred votes. He lost 462 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 1: two of the three counties that make up that State 463 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,360 Speaker 1: Rep district. I know I'm from that county. I'm from 464 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: Orange and he's Jefferson County and there's Jasper County. So 465 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: Ken Paxton's going out and saying to voters, hey, guys, 466 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: the choice of the speaker. Remember, the Texas State House 467 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:32,360 Speaker 1: only meets every other year. It's a biennial session every 468 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: two years. So immediately after the election, you begin in 469 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: the spring a legislative session, and that's one hundred and 470 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: fifty days. That's when all the bills will be written. 471 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,680 Speaker 1: And the choice of who the speaker is is everything, 472 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: because that's who appoints the committee chairman. That's who puts 473 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 1: things on calendars, whether they're ever voted on it or not. 474 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 1: Appropriations everything, sun setting bills, all of it. And so 475 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: if you get Dustin Burrows in there, who was drunk 476 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 1: Daid's number two, I mean, you would think the fact 477 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: that drunk Dade had to step down with all this 478 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: money and was defeated in the first round of the 479 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: primary in his own district by a candidate with no money, 480 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: you would think Donald Trump got involved to defeat a 481 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: Republican Speaker of the House in Texas. Now, how bad 482 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 1: do you think he had to be for the President 483 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: of the United States to get involved in his state 484 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: rep race in Southeast Texas. That's how bad he is. 485 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: Mind you, our whole state held hostage by the lobbyist 486 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 1: in Austin who had this guy, and they want some 487 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: Democrats to be committee chairman, so get They don't want 488 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: your agenda to be passed, so they control some of 489 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: the Republicans. So he got one hundred and fifty members 490 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: who meet one hundred and fifty days every other year. Well, 491 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 1: if we don't get our speaker, who the majority of 492 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 1: the base wants, then you're gonna have Dustin Burroughs, his 493 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: planet's attorney out of Lubbock, whose own district is pissed 494 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: at him right now. You're gonna end up with him, 495 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 1: and he's gonna put Democrat party chairman, I mean Democrat 496 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: committee chairman. And we know this is going to happen. 497 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 1: So you got this guy, David Cook, and he's not perfect. 498 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: Let's be clear on that. He's not perfect, but he's 499 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 1: a much better choice. So you got drunk Dad's minion, 500 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: Dustin Burroughs so Ken Paxton is traveling the state with 501 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: a state party chairman and a lot of the grassroots 502 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: folks that help win elections because he's Republican state reps. 503 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: You got a guy named Jered Patterson out of Frisco, Texas. 504 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: He's a Republican, and he says that he is supporting 505 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: Dustin Burroughs, which is the mini me for drunk Dad, 506 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: Justin Burroughs. Dustin Burroughs is the poor man's drunk Day. 507 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: And he says he's supporting Chairman Boroughs because he believes 508 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: that every single member of the House is an elected 509 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: representative of the people and that their voice deserves to 510 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 1: be heard. Do you see what he's saying. He's saying, 511 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: we're going to team up with the Democrats to get 512 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: the majority of the votes. Remember, we've got eighty eight 513 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: Republicans and sixty two Democrats in the House of Representatives. 514 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 1: Because you worked hard to send Republicans to the House 515 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: and you beat the Democrats, you got seventy six or more. 516 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: He got eighty eight. Sixty two of the eighty eight 517 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: support David Cook, but twenty six are bought and paid 518 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: for out of Austin and they go, Hey, if we 519 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 1: take our twenty six and put it with the sixty 520 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: two Democrats, we'll have the majority. Now, we'll only have 521 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: fewer than a third of the Republicans, so we won't 522 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,719 Speaker 1: have the majority of Republicans, but we'll take us few Republicans, 523 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: team up with the other side that can't get to 524 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: fifty percent, and between the two of us, we'll share 525 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: power with the Democrats. As Republicans are doing this, this 526 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: is not what their base wants, and he's well, we 527 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: think the Democrats should have some choice in the speaker too. 528 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: That's not how it worked in Congress when the Democrats. 529 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: Democrats had controlled, Nancy Pelosi was the speaker and they 530 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: jammed things down our throat. In the state of Texas, 531 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: when Democrats controlled, they controlled. We've got Republicans in control, 532 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: and then this is happening, the story from nbc DFW. 533 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 5: Two factions within the Republican Party have been fighting for 534 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 5: power over the last year, and a key battle will 535 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 5: be over who becomes this Speaker of the House. Inside 536 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 5: the building, it's arguably the third most powerful position in 537 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 5: the state. Recently, he's sat atop a Republican led but 538 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 5: bipartisan coalition with Democrats. That's something this group in Terren 539 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 5: County Monday aims to change. 540 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 3: Until the Texas House is fixed, everything else is a 541 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 3: band aid. 542 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 5: Local and state parties are organizing bus tours down to 543 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 5: Austin next week to try to pressure Republican House members 544 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 5: to back Mansfield Lawmaker David Cook as Speaker of the House. 545 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,479 Speaker 5: He's the Republican caucus's choice, and has pledged to scrap 546 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 5: the bipartisan coalition. 547 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 4: From the Speaker from the lobby. 548 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,640 Speaker 5: In a rare public appearance since he defeated an impeachment attempt. 549 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 5: Attorney General Ken Paxton is putting his shoulder into the effort. 550 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 3: Whatever they do is going to be public, and it's 551 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 3: going to be transparent, and the voters then will ultimately 552 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 3: decide what happens, not me. 553 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 5: The other faction is supporting Lubbick Republican Dustin Burroughs, arguing 554 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 5: Democratic chairs should be put up to a vote in 555 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 5: the one hundred and fifty member Chamber. 556 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 4: Chairman Burroughs believes that every single member of the House 557 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 4: is an elected representative the people and that their voice 558 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 4: deserves to be heard. 559 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 5: Many of them supported incumbent Speaker Dade Feelin, who chose 560 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 5: not to seek the position again after a bruising campaign season. 561 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 5: They see themselves as defending the state constitution and a 562 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 5: Texas House that's a check on other statewide powers across Texas. 563 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 4: Our founders designed our systems to be independent from each 564 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 4: other the chambers, so if one chamber controls the other, 565 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 4: that's not the way it was intended to work. 566 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 5: So that vote for speaker happens next Tuesday, the first 567 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 5: day of the legislative session. 568 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: Down in Austin. You wonder why we win elections but 569 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: lose policy, because we've got people who claim to be 570 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: Republicans when they come home to their district. This happens 571 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: in Congress, it happens in the House representatives. Oh, they 572 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 1: show up and they love the Lord and Amica are 573 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 1: cunning our veterans and send me back. And then they 574 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: get up there and they team up with the Democrats 575 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,760 Speaker 1: and get drunk with a lobbyists and screw you over. 576 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,680 Speaker 1: That's paraphrasing of Molly Ivans quote Tramon