CARNY TO CONGRESS EP 9 - Julie Inman

Presented by Bay Water Boat Club.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the Carney to Congress podcast. I'm your host, Adam Botana, Bay Water Crusoe Boat Club. We've got a great crew here today. We've got my right and left hand, Julie Inman. She calls by Jules. I just call her Julie. She's very she's a lot, but she's good. She's good times. She's good times. Hi, Julie.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

Hello.

SPEAKER_01 0:22

Just talk to me normally. It's totally fine. And also we have Jake. Jake's got his own camera. And he's got the background behind him there, so it's looking good. Uh so welcome to the Carney Congress podcast brought to you by Baywater Exclusive Boat Club, the only family-owned operated boat club in Southwest Florida. I want to appreciate everybody that came out last week for the open house. It was successful. We had a good time. Jake, thank you for putting the commercial together. I did talk really fast, so we're going to have to adjust that, but it was good work. You know what I'm saying? So to bring it up early, I just want to bring it up now so we know. So it's all in their line there online. Julie did a good job. Julie did a good job this weekend hanging out. She was a little cranky towards the end, but that happens. That's it's always a good time. I I don't expect anybody to work 100% with me all the time without them getting cranky, because I will admit I am an ass at times. So Julie, welcome to the show.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Appreciate it. You can look right at me. You don't have to look at the podcast. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

I've never been on a podcast before.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

Oh, you you're on? There you go. That's very good. Do that all the time. Um, so we'll just dive right in. Julie is general manager at Baywater Swiss Boat Club. Like I said, my right and left hand. Um we met in a bar. Should we just start at the top?

SPEAKER_00 1:34

I knew you were gonna start there. I've been rehearsing it.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

The watcher of Nugget, the Nugget stepmom.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Yes. Nuggie.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Uh Nuggie, she'll she'll be in the in the show a little later. Uh, but yeah, so was at a bar down in uh Naples at uh Bay House, and was there with a club member sitting at the bar uh with a club member, and we started talking uh about silver oak wine. Your stepdad and my club member started talking, and Jake, this little blonde comes over in a red dress and is like, Hey, what do you do? And I'm like, I'm the head boat washer. She goes, I want to wash boats, and I said, Well, show up with a resume.

SPEAKER_05 2:16

Rest is history.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

9 a.m. Yeah. She was here, 9 a.m. with a resume. I was like, Dad, we're hiring her. And uh seemed like she was here for a year, but it was like four months. Um she ran the rentals down there at Baywater, she ran the rentals over there. She broke up a fight between a plumber and my dad, between Omar and a plumber. My dad, like Julia's like, this is a business. I'll I'll let her get into it. But uh yeah, so jump into it. What you got?

SPEAKER_00 2:42

Um, yeah, so I just like to clarify, I was not at a bar because I was 19. So I was sitting at the city. You're from Ohio, it's totally fine.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

It's totally fine.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Um, and to this day, Silver Oak is a running family between my family and Adam, so that's fun. But yeah, I had actually just gone deep sea fishing with my parents and was super interested in the boating aspect of things down in Florida because I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio, River River Cincinnati, Ohio originally, and you don't go boating on the river there because it's like polluted and catfish and sometimes dead bodies.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

Okay. Makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

So I was intrigued to hear of a person who worked with boats, and yeah, I did show up the next day with the resume not to wash boats. Primarily, I was just sitting at a desk taking reservations, and I got a little crazy with Excel at some point. But yeah, Omar was there one day because he was unsatisfied with the work of a plumber. I believe the plumber was asking for payment for a job he did poorly or didn't do at all. And I had a customer checking in. And for those of you who knew Omar, when he had something to say, like he said it and it was loud and boisterous and very cubic.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

Broken, broken, broken English for sure. Do you know? Do you know what I mean, man?

SPEAKER_00 3:58

And I said, excuse me, but customers checking in. Could you please take this elsewhere?

SPEAKER_01 4:03

Oh, that's that sounds it was sounds about like that. I remember I was here and he'd come around a corner here at this right over here by the office, and he just had a pissed-off look. He's like, Ah, come here. I was like, Oh, what the hell did I do now? Get this guy the hell away from me. And it was the plumber. So that it escalated down here. We got to figure it out after everything. Everything was satisfied. It was uh dad's way of being dad for sure. So, but uh yeah, so Julie worked at Baywater here for what, three, four months, pretty much?

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Yeah, three or four months. And then I actually got offered and hired as an arts and camp, arts and crafts director at a marine biology camp in the Florida Keys. So I went and did that for a summer at sea camp on Big Pine Island.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

So that was fun, which is just drive boats all day and kind of uh yeah, that's actually where I learned.

SPEAKER_00 4:48

I I got to learn here with Omar teaching me a lot about docking and stuff because I knew I was gonna need it down there. And then yeah, I drove boats down there. I got my lifeguard certification, I got my rescue diver certification, and I was the arts and crafts director, which is probably the most accurate thing to my personality.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

She's always got all kinds of arts going on here. There's there's there we got paintings that made it through the storm at all the houses. So yeah, there's a few there. Um, and it's funny, we kept in touch. Oh, there goes Captain Billy. Oh no, it's Nick. Uh our captain is going there. Um we uh we kept in touch and it was funny. Julie uh and I were it was it was a it was a fun relationship because she would always come in and she'd be reading books, and I'd be I would I'm not gonna say what book she was reading, but I'd just be like, what are you reading? And it would go back and forth, and it was very interesting. It's a good book, it's good books, you know. And uh we kept in touch just over over time, and and this is way before I got elected. This was a few years, you know, and then you went back to where what where'd you go to school?

SPEAKER_00 5:50

The Ohio State University, go buck eyes. Uh yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 5:54

So when were you there in Ohio State?

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Uh 2017 to 2021, but I took a leave of absence in the middle. So that's when I came down here was in 2019. So it was, yeah, right before you got involved with the the board for the clean water initiative and everything. And then yeah, Adam mentioned to me that he was thinking of running. And I will admit I did laugh. I did laugh in his face, and now he's the one laughing.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

He says, You you won? You you actually won? I was like, Yeah, yeah, I won. So went up to Tallahassee, uh, and then we chatted because I had a an a uh my legislative assistant. It was there for me a year, and then I think I called you and said, Hey, you know, you were trying to get into law school. You didn't get the you didn't get the school you wanted to. And it's like, well, why don't you come down here to Tallahassee and be my legislative aide for a year and see what happens? And uh it was kind of funny. You said, What? Huh? And it took what you took about, so you got a month to think about it.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

You gave me, I think, closer to three months.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

Yeah, because it was time. It was not realizing you got some time, and there were some phone calls back and forth, and she talked to her dad and their stepdad and their mom, and and she's like, I'll do it.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Like, all right, yeah, well, I talked to Riley too, and a couple people that were already in the job.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:16

And one thing that I thought was a really good piece of advice for anybody is I I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio, went to Ohio State. It's a little bit more liberal than it is down here in Florida. And I was really nervous about like the clashing of political parties, just because at the time I was definitely in that environment. And someone said, Well, you know, like you just have to come down here and you're not gonna want to work for someone who's gonna be prejudiced based on if you worked for a Republican or Democrat anyway. Like, you just need to work for someone who wants to have you there, regardless of what you're tied to politically. And that was something that I needed to hear, I think. So it was good being brought down here into a different environment. You learn a lot when you're around people different from yourself.

SPEAKER_04 7:55

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

Yeah, so Julie came in. We were in the tower of no power the first uh first year we're down, and uh it turned one year turned into three working in the legislature. Uh you learned a lot. We both learned a lot. I remember where there was there were votes that were uh very, very uh hard for Julie, but we always had conversations after and talked about them. So hey, this is what we're doing, this is what's going on. And it was it was good, it was good. And then you know, she she just uh she fell right into it and it was fun. I mean, being a legislative aid, what would what what is a day in the legislative aid from your aspect? And then we'll get into a day in let's you know, day here at Baywater. So what do you think was what was your biggest thing that you liked being a legislative aide and kind of tell the people what you did and all that?

SPEAKER_00 8:43

So sure. Yeah, so the the standard breakdown of the job is you're there to really help the elected official keep all of their priorities in line. Um, every member of the house gets seven bills and as many appropriations as they'd like, and as their legislative aide, you're there to make sure all the committees have the right documentation for whatever bill that they're presenting at the time. So you get to meet a lot of interesting people from your community as well, because Adam represents Bonita District 80, all of that good stuff. So don't I know why you're laughing. We'll get to the tattoos later.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Oh yeah, that's that's even a little larger there. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

Um, but yeah, so it's really just there to help the member. But in the process of doing that, you get to learn a lot about the community that you live in. Um, so I mean, you could be there as early as six o'clock, six thirty when there's an early committee meeting. Um, oftentimes, if you like your member, you'll help provide caffeine or uh breakfast from goodies. But it really is just like forming a partnership in order to get things done for the district that you represent because you're both ideally there for that reason. And yeah, there's a lot of paperwork, a lot of emails, a lot of meetings, a lot of computer work. Um, and then yeah, sometimes you can be there as late as midnight when it really is in the middle of session. Um, so that's like the boring aspect of it. But the fun part is the camaraderie that you get to experience with the other legislative aides. And there's people from all different ages and walks of life as a legislative aide. There's people, I mean, there's a young woman in her 70s, but I'll still refer to as a young woman because she would come out to birds with us, which is a karaoke joint. Um, so yeah, I mean, there's really great friendships and experiences and knowledge that you can pick up. And then there's always these really cool networking events that different associations or lobbying groups will throw. For example, like Miami Day Days is always a really popular one where the day delegation uh we'll just have paella and salsa dancing, and it's just something that you don't get to experience.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

I really like salsa dance, Jake. Jake is a salsa dancer too.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Really? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Yeah, he breaks the hip.

SPEAKER_05 10:47

Just a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 10:48

Hopefully, you're on camera doing that.

SPEAKER_05 10:50

They're doing this, doing this number?

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Yes, there you go. Perfect.

SPEAKER_05 10:52

I look like a crazy with the background.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

It's gonna throw up, you know, hang 10 as you do salsa dancing. Hang loose. Hang loose, that's right, that's right. Uh so yeah, okay, so that was fun. What was uh the most surprising thing is being a legislative aide in Tallahassee, don't you think?

SPEAKER_05 11:16

Well, be honest.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

Be honest, it's an honest hon hey, if it's that bad, we can cut it. So don't worry.

SPEAKER_00 11:25

Um yeah, well, the most surprising thing was to me at least, for someone who hadn't been in politics before, a lot of the bills or items being voted on, kind of the outcome was already determined prior to the meetings. So you could have the vote, you could have the public testimony, but I would say nine times out of ten, it was already kind of assumed or known how that was gonna go.

SPEAKER_01 11:49

Okay. So I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:51

That was just surprising to me because I just hadn't been that involved before.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Mm-hmm. So, and that's that's true. I mean, that's that's you know, when stuff comes up on an agenda, a bill comes up or something like that, there's a lot of stuff that happens on all those lines. You know, but that's why it's important to be there. You know, you must be present to win. It's definitely not a a job that's you know nine to five or eight to five. You gotta be there and be in the room and be present. You can't just go in there and just mail it in. Because there's a lot of things that make a difference that'll happen where you'll be like, oh, you know, uh, and all of a sudden that something happens. The biggest thing in politics, and pretty much in business and life, you must be present to win. Uh, like my dad said, You can't be an absentee boss. Oh, you always just get pissed. You know, because you can't you can't do it. And there's a there's a lot of stuff that comes there, and it's about being in there, you just gotta be in a room or be pretty close to it, you know, and it takes time in politics. Um, I will say with uh the house, I've got a lot of friends on both sides of the aisle. I don't think uh those 120 members could run this marina, but again, that's they're not supposed to run a marina there government, so that's yeah, again, it's the worst system in a it's one of the worst systems, but it's the best worst system in the world.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

I agree.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

You know, because a lot of good stuff does get done.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

A lot of good stuff did get done, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Yeah, so okay. So transitioning, you're with uh with me for three years in the house, and we had a we we went down, we got a little closer to the fourth floor, so we came down into house office building, we met uh we a suite mate. So tell me about the first time you meet Sam Antiga. Tell me about that.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Samantiga.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

Sam Antiga.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Yes, so Samantha Rosenberg is one of the most competent, intelligent, amazing young woman in the legislative process in Tallahassee. Goes on the record, I'll say that till the day I die. And yeah, no, the first time I saw this woman walk in the room, I was intimidated by her because she just carries herself with like poise and she takes herself very seriously because at the end of the day, you're in a position where you're helping people create laws for the great state of Florida. And I was just so impressed by her and a little bit intimidated. And then as soon as we got to know one another better, she's just the sweetest, goofiest person ever. But when it comes to her job, she takes it seriously and she does it very well. But she's wonderful and funny, and we became best friends.

SPEAKER_01 14:18

So this was a sweet mate. So she worked for Representative Oberdorf. Uh so we had an office that had two suites in there. It was a great office, great location. It was the hangout, and uh we had we had the hangout there. So we had the we had Sam and we had Julie and Jake a couple times. I mean, a couple pretty girls, right? You know, and I come out of my office, and there was a few guys around, and they're all just hanging out, sitting there, and uh, you know, we're we're coming out, and I have constituents in there, and these are other aides, and there's constituents coming there, and all these guys are sitting down, and my constituents are standing up. So nicely I told him to leave very politely, you know me very well. It was nice, like on your own time, get out. Um, but then uh yeah, so that was kind of the the hangout. But Julie had a really good idea. I mean, she had a great she she she can talk to anybody, I'll tell you that. You know, you have a great concept of how stuff gets done, it's right, it's relationships, it's all relationships in politics. But Julie did a great job with uh legislative staff and just members. Members like to always, you know, there was always come on in. I remember you come into uh, you know, uh Representative Garrison's office. You're like, come on in, no, come on in. You and you were doing stuff there. Um, so I seen that, and when we took over Bawater, this was a couple years ago, I said, I need somebody to be here with me. And uh she was tired with politics, couldn't do it no more out of out of that. So I can imagine it's a lot of work and the pay is not the best, and it gets kind of monotonous, you know, you get kind of fried after a while. Um, and you were too valuable to have as a legislative aid. So we brought her here to Bawater, and now you are the general manager. So how is it how is it feeling going from politics where nothing's really supposed to get done? Like things do get done, but it's not really to a business now where you actually fired somebody for the first time.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

I did, and I don't relish that experience, but I know it's important because it it and I I think of myself as a pretty empathetic person. I'm not necessarily um automatically gonna be business minded. That's not how I grew up, but I've grown to really appreciate that you do have to separate emotions from running a business and you have to do what's best for the business and not what's best for someone else's feelings. So I didn't like firing this person, but it wasn't really like a get out. It wasn't bad either.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

And most of the time, if you're a good manager, you know it's coming.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Yeah, exactly. Um, and I think they had an idea, but yeah, it's been a crazy transition, completely different, and I really enjoy it because I do feel like I'm learning a lot, and it's quite it's more challenging, I think, in my opinion, for me at least. Um But yeah, I really like it, and it's every day's different, and you're learning a lot of different skills that you know it like you said, it can be a little bit repetitive and monotonous up in the house. Um, but if you're someone that's passionate about politics, that's a great place to be. I just am not necessarily that person, but I love people, like you said, and yeah, love being on the water, and I'm learning a lot. I really am. I've learned things that I never wanted to know.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

So about these uh our uh when we were the first year we were in the legislature that Julie came out, we were in district 76, and then um, you know, we uh we had redistricting, so our I don't think Julie knew this, but we got redistrict and we got a new number, and I didn't know. I was like, oh, we're gonna get a new number as district 80. So Julie is she's uh she likes, she's very uh what's it, artistic. Oh no artist. I still don't see it. It's okay. So you're good. Never never know. You're good.

SPEAKER_03 17:57

I'm honest. Yeah, I'm not perfect.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

That's fine. Nobody has, nobody is. So um Julie decided to uh get a tattoo of the district number. Oh god. Show them the tattoo.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

Is this where they would say okay? So there's 76.

SPEAKER_01 18:19

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 18:19

And that was our first district number.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

Uh-huh. And I didn't know about this either.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

Yeah, no, I didn't tell him. Uh-uh. It happened after session. And Adam can attest to this. When you're in session, it's like nose to the grindstone for three months straight. You don't take your head up for air, and when you get out of it, it's like free fall. And I'm telling you, I got my hair wrapped, I got my nose pierced, I got a tattoo all within two weeks of being back for my first session. Because it's like a completely you just like open your eyes for the first time. But I did get this tattoo because I felt like me being able to get this job, move out of Ohio, come work somewhere I'd never really lived before, it just changed my whole life, and it was a very meaningful year for me. So I did get 76 for the district number. And I think part of me knew that the number was gonna change, but I didn't care because the first year meant a lot. Well, then, flash forward, two more years pass, and we had a lot of stuff that happened in the district. And we we did, we had Hurricane Ian.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

I mean, you were over the district. Yeah. After Ian, like, so yeah, was boots on the ground after Ian. Like, we had uh Mayor Allers on here, that's mayor of Fort Myers Beach. Yes, Murphy sucked. Uh, but you know, it's just way way better. Dan Allers, great. Um, but we were there hanging out after, and Julie, you were there at his his uh commissary for like how long? You were there volunteering for months.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

Yeah, yeah, definitely a couple months there doing toy drives. My my friend and I actually took up there's this initiative because we care about the area and the people, and yeah, we were getting we raised a couple thousand dollars just on our own initiative outside of the political sphere. Um, but I also had so many great connections from working with you, and so we were able to find out who really needed the help and where we could go. And yeah, we collected vinegar to help with the mold, we did muckouts, we got toys for the kids, we got sanitary kits.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

Um, and then yeah, we think Julie's out there with the rake, and yeah, Reagan Rocks one time to get out of the way. Yeah, you did what remember the Starlink's best Starlink?

SPEAKER_00 20:28

Starlink with partnership with Lee Health, getting those taken care of. I mean, yeah, it was it was a horrible situation, but it was a wonderful opportunity at the same time to really just like be helpful.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Um that was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

But yeah, I was at that food pantry, and I believe now it's officially a nonprofit. They broke ground on it, right? And yeah, Fort Myers Beach Rising or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

I believe so.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Um, so that was a wonderful thing that they were able to accomplish as well.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

And yeah, so yeah, Julie was up north in uh Ohio, I think. It's like do you want me to come down for the storm? You know, hurricane. I was like, No, no, no, just why don't you just stay up there? Yeah. Luckily you did.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

I did, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Yeah, it took you a year down a couple days later.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

Yeah, I had to fly to Tampa because RSW was closed.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Yeah, because it was that bad. Flew to Tampa and showed up here and it was just a whole nother another craziness. So then we hit we hit the ground running and and just ran around the whole district. And yeah, I mean, we remember we took the boat just to go to different spots because our our district has a lot of islands. You know, I mean, it's quicker for us to go by boat to check our whole district. I mean, for us to go out and around, to go all the way to Poca Kilia, Bo Kilia, Pine Island, and all the way around. So we did a lot of that. So it was it was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

I mean, you were out there the very next day taking pallets of water out to Sanibel, I think.

SPEAKER_01 21:53

We had Representative Daly and Representative Tuck with us then and all that good stuff. And Nugget was just chilling with uh Julie. So that's that's that's what happens. So uh Julie and Nugget are the same. Nugget and you dog beach all the time. So when the legislature's over, you know, when our legislature's over, you know, and Julie comes home and she talks about how being just busy and all of a sudden you stop and I'm like, hey, you gotta you gotta still do stuff, right? And he did a lot, you know, but you still gotta do stuff. So she would come in to work, hang out with James. James is our district secretary, uh, and he does an amazing job. So shout out to James Muller. If you call our office, he's there all the time. He knows a lot of stuff, he's taking care of a ton of people. But Julie could be there until about noon, you know, and it was, you know, uh, stuff going. And so then she would come pick up Nugget and head to Dog Beach. So talk about that. So the connection of you and Nugget, Dog Beach, and it was like the whole thing all the time. So just bring that up. You want to talk a little about Nugget and Dog Beach?

SPEAKER_00 22:52

Oh, I could talk about Nuggie forever. So my claim to fame with Nugget is that um, so the Natchief family actually, Mike Natchief and Felicia, his beautiful wife, they helped pick up Nugget when Adam got her. And when Mike brought her to Tallahassee, Adam was in a meeting. So I got to hold Nugget first. So I claim her.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Okay, well, maybe you're the robot. That's fine. That's fine.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

Um, but yeah, so she's just the most wonderful dog. She's so fun. She loves the merino, so she's very outdoorsy and scruffy. She does like getting picked up, so we'll see how well she does on the uh camera. But yeah, after session was over, the workload did slow down quite a bit as well. So it's not like there was stuff to do, unfortunately. Like I would do as much as I could, and then I'd run out of stuff to do. Um, but so yeah, then I I also moved here not really knowing anyone. I didn't really have many friends at the time. Oh, there's Nuggie.

SPEAKER_01 23:49

We got her. She jumped, she jumped up.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

And um, yeah, so I didn't really have a lot of friends, but I had Nugget and we would go to Dog Beach and we would just hang out, the two of us. And she really was like an emotional support dog in a way, but I eventually found some friends, but sounds really sad. However, quality over quantity, people and surround yourself with people you want to be. I don't feel bad about being very careful who I surround myself with because what is it, the five people you surround yourself with is a reflection of who you're gonna be. Yep. So hold true to that. But yeah, we had a great time at Dog Beach. We spent a lot of time there. Nugget likes to dig for seashells, okay. Um, but yeah, it was good.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

She just, I mean, she remember that one picture, she's just nothing but just hair. And she destroys Julie's Tesla all the time. I mean, there's there's hair everywhere, sand. I'm like, well, you could probably like, you know.

SPEAKER_05 24:46

You have the white interior?

SPEAKER_00 24:48

No, black. Yeah, just as bad.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

With with blonde, with a blonde ox. Yeah. It's all right, that's two blondes at the beach. But yeah. So, but yeah, Nugget is our community dog. So when I'm up north running around uh carnival business or whatever, Julie watches her, or we'll have mom watch her. We even have Larry. We should get Larry on the show here. That would be interesting.

SPEAKER_05 25:10

I figured Larry would be next.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

Yeah, that could be a good idea. That could be a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Larry hard pressed, but I bet he'd be hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Oh, he'd be talking about cars all day.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Oh, yeah, burger motorsports.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

You know, and he'll have to he'll have to have uh, I think uh two Lone Islands before he gets there, but it'll be good times. He loves it. He loves it.

SPEAKER_05 25:27

Well he's gonna walk, what, 12 feet? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

So it's good. It's good. So yeah, Nugget and Julie, pretty, pretty uh solid characters here at Baywater for sure. So um getting back, what is uh what's the best uh about Baywater? What do you like working at Baywater?

SPEAKER_00 25:45

Hmm. There's a lot to like about working at Baywater, even though at times I do pull my hair out. Um a couple things, because I don't think I can narrow it down to one. But one, it's absolutely beautiful. So the change of pace from working in a concrete tower with a desk and no windows to coming to a marina where you get to look at boats and palm trees and dolphins even swim by. I mean, it really is important to be to be in a good work environment, I think, just based on like your humid hormonal, like being in a non-stressful place, even though it can be stressful. It's really helpful. And then also I think just the members, because you get to meet so many different people and you get to meet their guests and their kids, and it's just like always something different, so there's always a change of pace there. But yeah, I think also I appreciate the freedom of sort of being my own boss at times, just because I I know that I care enough about this place to keep myself productive and busy, so I don't necessarily need to be told what to do, but I like the ability to not like in a way of like someone needs to make sure I'm doing something all the time because I like being here and doing stuff. So I don't I this is the one who likes who would rather sell cinnamon rolls, rather sell cinnamon rolls than you know, deal with boats.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

I mean, we're so so so Julie comes out, right? Because she's a control freak, right? She wants to control everything.

SPEAKER_03 27:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

And if you go out there and she goes, why don't we just do this more instead of the boats? I'm like, Are you have you lost your mind? Like it's easy, it's fun, you know, it's a good week. I think after like two weeks, because you did two weeks.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

I did two weeks, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

And that was a little, I was a little, you were kind of like, okay, this is too much. Yeah. Because Julie does come out and work on uh carnival business, too. So she's sold rolls, uh cinnamon rolls. She's worked, tore down, drove equipment, kind of run around, drove trucks. Yeah, she drove the 450 a couple times. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

And I didn't scratch it.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

Yes, you did drive, you did scratch my raptor a couple times.

SPEAKER_00 27:51

It's to the fault of the construction in Tallahassee. So that's not my fault.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

That happened. So compared to the carnival business, you like it too, but yeah, it's a little different.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Yeah, and I don't mean to say that I don't need supervision because I couldn't do this without Adam's guidance or Sherry's guidance or Omar's guidance. It's extremely important to have solid people in your life. But I like the ability to just like work on things that I see need to be worked on rather than like, hey, this bill needs to have X, Y, and Z to this person by this time. It's just yeah, it's just a very different way of getting things done.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

And we still have to deal with government with DEP, your favorite. We did have a nice challenge. We did have a good conversation today with the Department of Ag because we are opening Cherry Ship Store today, and that was a much better, you know, interaction because we just threw Julie to the wolves. Yes, you know, there was uh yes, so we have some or more stuff, and we've had some some docks that need to be uh adjusted on a permit, and you know, things happen, right? There's a business and there's growing things, and so I was like, Oh, Julie, you'll figure it out, you know, go over there. And she had a she had I think she has a little PTSD from it.

SPEAKER_02 29:04

100%.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

But you're much better now. So I came back and she's like, What are we? I'm like, it's okay. It's okay, we'll figure it out. But we're getting there, we're we're that much closer to getting everything done.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

So it's gonna put us in a better position for the future.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

So it's just part of business, yeah. Figure it out. So what do you think, Jake? What do you think of Julie? She's done all right. I mean, she's she's kept you in in your toes. I mean, you've you've talked to her, you've you know, had to do some stuff.

SPEAKER_05 29:30

In my experience, yes, Julie is very, very fun to work with. We've done uh what we did two events. Yeah, you guys worked. We did boat shows together. I think I'm pretty good with the rates. You know, it's decent. Decent wasn't the best.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

But yeah, you don't you don't do it every day, but you did a great job for that day. I tried.

SPEAKER_05 29:47

I tried. But in my experience, yeah, you're lucky. You're lucky because most people our age unfortunately don't care.

SPEAKER_00 29:57

How old are you? I'm 26 and a half.

SPEAKER_05 29:59

Oh wow, okay. I'm much older than her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

I'm 32. Whatever. 42 over here. Nuggets.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

She's she's four and a half.

SPEAKER_01 30:09

So she's, you know. Well, the the vet says she's about time for her to switch to light beer.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

Yeah. She's doing better.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

I thought it was funny. He goes, Yeah, she's doing good. About time to switch to light beer, though. You know, I was like, damn. Damn, Nugget. I mean, we're gonna get some walks in, get our steps in. But she's she's doing pretty good, though. Like a tinder. She's yeah, more like a tender for sure. Uh um, let me think here for a second. I I had a brain freeze, usually I could just keep going. Julie, uh leaving Cincinnati, coming down here, and just kind of feeling it out, figuring it out where you've come into Benita now. Because I remember when you first moved down here, you're like, this place sucks. This is horrible. This is not this place is there's nothing to do. And now I think it's changed quite a bit. You have like you've really kind of embraced it. And I tell that to everybody, you gotta you gotta be here for a couple years.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

For young people, for us. I mean, I'm 42, 32, not young, middle-aged, a lot of gray hair, a lot of gray hair. At least I got hair, right? At least I got hair. Yes, um, a lot of hair. Um 20, 26, 27, I want to say, 26, 26. Uh it takes a while to kind of get in used to it. And then once you do, imagine everybody, this is like we live in Florida, it's a great state. We got this weather, you know, 12 months out of the year. You're outside, you're you're in the sun, you're on the water. This is where everybody comes to die. Everybody retires here.

SPEAKER_03 31:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

Everybody retires here to Southwest Florida. There's fish, a couple fish. Um, people come down here, and this is as far south as you can get while still being in the country. This you you know, where I say that mean it by meaning of that, I mean, you know, you're in Naples, you're in Benita Springs, you're in Marco Island, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Estero. You got weather that's amazing. Where if you go to Miami, it's a little bit of a hustle bustle, which it's fun for young people that like they want to go over there and party and all that. The keys are amazing for a week, though, but it's an island. And the hospital system is good, but it's not great. Here, I would say you can have a heart attack and you can walk off the street to McDonald's after. You get everything you want, you're still in the States while being here. So it really is once you kind of get over here, and and I even mess up times, you know. I'm like, oh, busy, I'm running around, it's a job. But then you go out there in a boat and you gotta go pick up somebody, or you have to go rescue a boat or boat dogs going to dog beach right there. Now it's all I'm ready to go, crooked tail, you know. Um but you get out there and you run across the bay and you're like, man, this is nice. Or like today I was doing an orientation, the water's just like crystal clear. It's like, ah, it's a good time to go out. But it's just some of the best area we've ever had. You know, I think we've I've done a lot of traveling around all around the country, and uh just this is the great greatest area. I mean, Jake's done that. I mean, you're from Cincinnati, you lived in you're outside of Chicago too with your your dad. Uh comparative, I mean, how do you feel about it now? Compared just from your first time coming down here to now. What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 33:24

Yeah, I mean, I'd have to agree with everything you said.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

Nuggets chase and something.

SPEAKER_00 33:29

When you take a step back and really appreciate where we live, it's absolutely beautiful. The weather's spectacular, and it is intimidating and a little bit difficult for someone that's younger to integrate into the community. Myself, I didn't go to FGCU or any of the local schools here. So, and that's a great way to get a foot in the door and have a community. But when you're just moving here younger without having that, it is difficult because, like you said, it's a retirement state. Retirement. Yeah. Um, but yeah, once you, like you said, spend some time, do the work, be a little bit more independent, a little bit more outgoing, and get to like just see different places and try and go to the more local spots and not be afraid to maybe put yourself out there a little bit. There's so many things to do. And I think also like there's been progress as more people are moving into the area. Like downtown Benita is really becoming a really cool spot.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

I actually gotta go later tonight, Sugar Shack downtown tonight. So battle the bands again. Yeah, totally messed that up as a judge, too. Totally messed it up. I was like, Yeah, I think the young guys were we're not done yet. We still have two more sets. I'm like, oh I pretty much made up my mind. I don't know if to tell you guys. Sorry, sugar shack. I was like, the kids beat the dads totally. So, but we didn't we didn't really get the guidance of what we were supposed to do. We had a paper and go from there.

SPEAKER_00 34:48

Are you judging tonight too?

SPEAKER_01 34:49

No, I'm just gonna go partake. Partake. Just kind of hang out. Support my buddy Greg DeWitt. He's over there, he's a fire chief, so he's uh he's the uh judge tonight, so I'm gonna give him some crap for sure. So, you know, it's what I do. That's what I do.

SPEAKER_00 35:05

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 35:06

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

Can I ask you a question?

SPEAKER_01 35:10

Sure. Ask away. I usually I you say I talk too much, so I'm just trying. She'll always tell me I talk too much.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:16

And she just said, You I can't believe that. All right, ask away.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

What is one of your favorite memories from us working together in the legislature?

SPEAKER_01 35:24

One of the favorite memories working together in the legislature. Ooh. Good ones, good ones. There uh birds. Uh my uh my birthday. You did a lot. You did a ton for my birthday at Birds.

SPEAKER_00 35:42

No, that wasn't me.

SPEAKER_01 35:44

Oh, that was you. There was a lot, there was a lot. You did a lot.

SPEAKER_00 35:49

I did a lot for your 40th birthday.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

Well, yeah, the 40th birthday, but we did a lot at Birds. You did a lot there. I think okay, well, it's a someone did and it was awesome. Yes. Uh, you know, as far as being in the legislature, I always liked this bouncing ideas off you and kind of getting your input, right? Because I I do talk a lot. I will give you that. But I like to listen to and just like put it out there and say, hey, what do you think of this? What's going on with that? I think um, well remember I remember was it was your first year, and you come in and you're like, hey Adam, do you want to meet with the NAACP? And I said, you're gonna bring that off. Absolutely. I would love to meet with them. And Julie's face is like, I are you sure? I'm like, yeah, of course. I I can't wait. You know, I want to I want to meet. And um we had them come up, and there was there was probably 16 people in our little office, and it was it was a great college age student. Yeah, college age students. Great, great meeting. It was a lot of fun. Julie was a little nervous.

SPEAKER_00 36:52

She was a little nervous about and I'd like to like give some background. Okay, well, I I feel like the reason that I had phrased the question or proposed the meeting that way is just because one, I I think I can probably admit now that I wouldn't have admitted then. I probably had some prejudice about Southern people coming from Ohio again. I will admit, very liberal upbringing. And however you feel about the world, please do. But I think I just had like a misunderstanding of just automatically assuming, okay, well, he's from the South, and like there were things going on at the time external to that. So I wasn't, I just want to be clear. I just felt from my experience, it wasn't a meeting that he was going to do.

SPEAKER_01 37:38

You should have seen her. It was so funny. She was, she was, she was a little nervous. She was a little nervous.

SPEAKER_05 37:43

You know, I've had that exact same thing happen to me at work before. Uh, when I first moved back here, I had an accent, it was thick. And I remember this girl, um, she was black, and she came to me and she was like, I just want to apologize to you. And I'm like, what are you apologizing for? She's like, I just assumed you'd be racist because of your accent. And you know, I was like, Well, you know, I'm glad that you're not.

SPEAKER_04 38:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:06

I'm glad that you don't think that. So, and that's another thing that I want to ask you, okay? So, since you've gotten so so you learned about politics more in the state of Florida than you probably were groomed in the state of Ohio. So, when you go back to the state of Ohio, what do we do differently that they should do there? And I mean like anything, roads, trash on the ground. Because every time I go up to Columbus, that's where I grew up. You grew up in Columbus.

SPEAKER_00 38:33

Yeah, no, and I spent there as well, yeah. So we can bond over that. Yeah, and there's definitely certain areas of Columbus that are I mean, outside of the campus area, it's kind of like you mentioned, a little bit down. And yeah, there's um Cincinnati is though, too.

SPEAKER_05 38:48

In some in some places.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

I know, and I actually I had to talk to you.

SPEAKER_01 38:51

She's from Covington, seeing you from Cincinnati.

SPEAKER_00 38:53

No, I'm not from Covington, Kentucky. I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio. You should have just sounded like you were. I can do a little hex in every here and there. But um, no, I was gonna say, I just went home to Cincinnati a couple May 2nd for my aunt's fifth wedding. And um I had to discuss with my friends like where can I go? Yeah, what's it?

SPEAKER_05 39:14

We're gonna just jump over that.

SPEAKER_00 39:15

That's for another podcast. Okay. Um that's called um job security.

SPEAKER_04 39:23

I'll be back.

SPEAKER_00 39:24

But um, I just had to ask like where I could go out after. Do I need to touch on the fifth wedding afterwards?

SPEAKER_01 39:33

No, we'll we'll come back to it. We'll circle back.

SPEAKER_00 39:35

But yeah, like you can't go to downtown anymore. You can't go to Over the Rhine. And like, and people had tried to like put businesses in those areas, and unfortunately, just like crime is retaken because it was there and then it went away and then it came back. And I guess it's just something with cities and downtown areas. But I don't know. I think Florida does I have I have a difficult I like I mentioned earlier, I do think I'm more empathetic than some people, and I have a difficult time just kind of brushing off any issues with homelessness. But I do think, I mean, it you're hard pressed to find a homeless person in this area. And now if that means that they're being rehomed or being put into like a better situation, like with Matthew House, Matthew's House, is that what you're about to say? Matthew's House, like that's a wonderful organization, that's a great program. And I think that's just an issue that Cincinnati and even Columbus has issues with, and there's other ways that I think Florida handles that in terms of like mental health centers, right? Like the David David Lawrence Center, David Lawrence Center that helps with that. So I think that's pretty pretty pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 40:41

What about cultural differences?

SPEAKER_00 40:45

Cultural differences. I think it's difficult to answer that because when I was growing up in Ohio, I was growing up, and so you're not really fully formed in your like your brain literally isn't fully formed. You're still taking on everything from your environment, and it's hard to form your own opinion of things. I left there when I was 21 years old, which again I would argue I was still pretty naive and not really. So I don't know. The cultural differences I feel like is hard to answer, but I think maybe at least I don't know. I think it's full of okay, because I could think about it like this, right?

SPEAKER_05 41:27

So after a hurricane, the community here gets together, right? It's very, very uncommon for you to wave at a neighbor in Ohio. I mean, at least in the parts where I was from, it's just not as friendly, as inviting. And I feel like the biggest difference between the state of Florida and in almost any other state is we practice working together in times of struggle. Like we we come together and we work together. And unfortunately, I feel like in a lot of other states that don't have that repeated practice, you know, and unfortunately, you know, a lot of people lose stuff, we lose homes, we lose cars, you know, some of them.

SPEAKER_01 42:07

A lot of natural disasters lately.

SPEAKER_05 42:09

But the idea is that they don't go through those same things that we go through, and it's like we all bind together whenever these things happened. And you know, just for example, the only thing that they really have to worry about weather-wise is like a tornado. Yeah, even in those circumstances, or a blizzard, I don't I don't see them getting together the same way we do culturally. Like it doesn't matter who you are, what your background is, we're gonna help regardless. It doesn't matter, you know. Like I I love Chris. Well, he was my neighbor, but after the hurricane, the first thing we did was gonna make sure Chris was alright. And he's always yelling at me to cut my grass and the whole nine, and you know, he's definitely not on the same side politically that I'm on, but I still made sure that he was good. And in some cases, I feel like in other states, I don't think that they would do that. That's just my personal opinion on my experience living there. But you know, I think we might have lived in very different areas.

SPEAKER_00 43:00

I do think I think we did a little bit. I grew up in Western Hills, uh Cincinnati, Ohio. So if you're familiar with Cincinnati, there's the east side and the west side, and they're very different. I would say the east side sounds more similar to what you're describing, but the west side's notoriously a very small town feel. So I I do think we had a little bit more of that camaraderie. But again, Cincinnati in terms of the west side is very different from Columbus and all of their neighborhoods and suburbs as well.

SPEAKER_05 43:27

It's the opposite. Actually, Columbus was the west side, it was the more run-down part of the area, and the east side was the more like uppity.

SPEAKER_00 43:35

Oh, I didn't say the west side was nice. The east side was way nicer. Maybe it's because we had a little bit of a struggle in us that we were bonded a little bit more.

SPEAKER_01 43:44

So I know about Cincinnati, there's 75 girls from Cincinnati, and there's this like hill coming into Cincinnati. Cutting the hill, yeah. Yeah, and that thing is steep. And we used to pull equipment, and that was like always a big hill that we were worried about because brakes go out and stuff. Stuff happens, but that's that's wonderful.

SPEAKER_05 44:01

I will say though that whenever you come around that bin in Cincinnati, because it's like you're driving through the mountains forever, and then you finally get through the mountains, you come around that bin in Cincinnati, it just opens up. Yeah, and it's like one of the pu most beautiful. I still remember it as a kid when we moved to Columbus. I was like, This is where we're gonna live. They're like, now we're about two hours out. I'm like, oh well, it's gonna be like this, right? No.

SPEAKER_00 44:20

I mean, Columbus has a nice skyline and they do have a river that goes through it, but it's not the same.

SPEAKER_05 44:26

Nah, it's it's it's poopy.

SPEAKER_01 44:29

Going back to uh Julie's we're we're not we're not gonna touch on the ant with fifth marriage here just yet. But uh going back to Julie's question, what did we do besides my birthday? I have to say, probably a thing that we did was the Lee Health bill.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:46

I think that was I uh like Julie was like completely invested in this bill. Um because Julie always had like a background, she always wanted to get like help out with people. You can tell you can tell Julie's very helpful, she wants to help people all the time, right? Medical, whatever it is, healthcare. And we get we did a bill for Lee Health, and that was uh a bill to make them a a uh a a public private moving from a uh public entity to a public private entity and getting them off a tax roll and you know they they were hand hand stringed, they were had one hand tied behind their back that could only operate in Lee County. And this was a bill that came up took a couple years to get done. And that was fun. Yeah, and that was just grit pretty much that got it done, and that was you know as much my job as Julie's, and she was there all the way. And I always know I remember um we have a couple friends, Charlie Dudley and Michael Natechef, and Julie was like in every committee meeting with the hair ready to go and just talking a lot like Nugget is you know, when you want a year is over, but the hair was spiked, but she was dedicated, so that was probably another thing. But there was a lot of nights at birds that were fun too. So there's there's a ton of that. Remember, we went out with Toby and Eli that one time to the Oh my goodness, the moon. To the moon, and uh we did that.

SPEAKER_00 46:08

I don't know if Anna can dance.

SPEAKER_01 46:10

I I I got some moves. I was I was I was spinning, I'm spinning. And then uh there's the other we did the we did the black and tan event.

SPEAKER_00 46:16

We remember where there that was at the same venue, but they have different like musical genres.

SPEAKER_01 46:22

And what was that what was that dance I was doing with uh swag and surf swag and surf Jake? I've done a lot I've done I've done a lot of things, but I had uh Representative Driscoll and Representative Chambliss, and we're I don't know if there's any pictures, but we're doing this this dance, and they're like, all right, you just you just gotta lock in. I was like, okay. It's workout. Yeah, like they were everybody was just you know a swag and sway for sure. What what is it called?

SPEAKER_04 46:48

Swag and surf.

SPEAKER_01 46:49

Swag and surf, yes. Might have to Google that. But that was good. That was a good time. That was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_04 46:55

Jake, what do you think about that?

SPEAKER_05 46:57

Uh not surprised at all. Not surprised at all. Swag and surf and Mr. Adam Botana boat man. Just just nothing less.

SPEAKER_01 47:03

Just going to it. It was fun. It was fun. Like, remember French was like, get right here. And now she's she is the minority leader for the House and went to went to Yale, uh, went to Georgetown, smart. She's she's actually running for the Senate. Great, great, great lady. Um, we've worked together on stuff. We don't always agree. We agree on 80% of the stuff, 20% we don't. Uh, but she's she's great. We had a we had a good time. Yeah, a swag and surf. That was a good time. That was a good time. So going back to your aunt.

SPEAKER_03 47:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:34

Do you want do you want to touch on that? I mean, fifth marriage is is best that's that's yes, that's a lot.

SPEAKER_00 47:41

Aunt Susie, I'm so sorry if you ever see this, but I doubt you will.

SPEAKER_01 47:45

Um definitely sending it to your mom.

SPEAKER_00 47:48

I mean, she knows she was there for all of them. Um, yeah, so my auntie, no, all things considered, she's a wonderful person. She is so sweet and funny and kind and generous, and she has a son, my cousin Taylor, and she's done a wonderful job of raising him. Like, quite frankly, she raised him by herself for most of his life. But no, good.

SPEAKER_01 48:10

Okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 48:11

Sorry, I'm getting some signals. No. And uh, yeah, so her first marriage was to Tommy, Taylor's dad. And then perhaps he was involved in some illicit activity that took him in incarceration.

SPEAKER_03 48:28

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 48:28

Uh when my cousin was very young. And then, as I mentioned, my aunt really did a great job of raising my cousin predominantly on her own for a while.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

Jake's melting over here, I think.

SPEAKER_05 48:39

No, I'm keeping my head out of the shadow.

SPEAKER_00 48:42

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 48:44

Oh, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:45

Second marriage uh was to a guy named Steve Grace. He's dead now, and I'm not afraid to say that because he was not a nice person. The third was to I don't remember his name. There's another one, or maybe no. Tommy, another one, Steve, and then back to Tommy because he got out of jail.

SPEAKER_01 49:16

So then your aunt married him again?

SPEAKER_00 49:19

Yes, because they were true loves. Um, they were true loves. My dad smells food, and that's why she's trying to go to the and then he passed away, um, unfortunately, right after my cousin and I graduated high school. Um, and then this is her fifth marriage now to a guy named Jerry, and he's wonderful.

SPEAKER_05 49:37

Um shout out Larry.

SPEAKER_00 49:41

There goes his Genesis with Burger Motorsports.

SPEAKER_01 49:45

His Genesis. He's got like backflops little backfires and stuff. So yeah, so five, okay. Whoops, yeah, I mean, I met her, she's a sweet lady.

SPEAKER_00 49:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:56

Yeah.

unknown 49:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:58

And her your mom's a good time too. She's fun. She got some margaritas. Yes. She can cut a rug. She can.

SPEAKER_00 50:05

She's a good time. I'll tell you what. I want to be like her when I'm her age.

SPEAKER_01 50:08

Her and Steve. Steve, you know, crusty. Um, yeah, so okay. All right. So you've had some experiences. Um, we're we're getting towards the end of the show here. I want to say uh, you know, we've we've had a lot of fun with this, and Julie's you've done a great job and on the podcast. Is there anything you want to other questions you want to ask me? Because I, you know, I was kind of taken back because that many people ask me questions. Usually I'm the one asking.

SPEAKER_00 50:35

Right. Well, you know by now I have some control issues. So I like to get my word in there.

SPEAKER_01 50:41

Any any other questions? We got we got a you got it. One more question. If you anything you want to know.

SPEAKER_00 50:45

One more question.

SPEAKER_01 50:47

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 50:48

Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 50:51

Nope. Nothing.

SPEAKER_00 50:53

No, I can do this. I just have to make sure it's a good one.

unknown 50:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 50:56

Where do you see yourself in five years?

SPEAKER_01 50:59

Five years washing boats.

SPEAKER_00 51:01

You're gonna wash the boats.

SPEAKER_01 51:03

I wash the boats now. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_05 51:09

I didn't switch the camera fast enough, I'd say it.

SPEAKER_01 51:15

Uh five years, you know. Five years of blinking an eye, right? You know, I remember a friend said one time it takes ten years to be an overnight success. We've been here 20 now with the club. Uh could have done it without family, couldn't have done it without my dad. Can't do it without you now. I mean, this is a lot. There's a lot going on here.

SPEAKER_02 51:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:35

Um, got two more years left in the legislature. Who knows what happens after that? But the main thing right now is to work, right? And you've gotta build this up and get there. So we'll, you know, we'll see. Five years from now could be could be uh could be interesting. Don't quite know, have an idea, but we'll say that's uh yet to to be determined.

SPEAKER_00 51:58

If you were an animal, what animal do you think best suits?

SPEAKER_01 52:03

I would be I would be nugget. You are I'm nugget if I was an animal, what's the best suits my personality? I would go, ooh, that doesn't sound good. If I was an animal, I don't know, Jay. I don't I was gonna say bear, but that doesn't sound well because that's just not what say.

SPEAKER_00 52:26

I have another question. Okay. If you could only have one thing for breakfast for the rest of your life, what would it be?

SPEAKER_05 52:31

Bacon, egg, and cheese.

SPEAKER_00 52:33

I didn't ask.

SPEAKER_01 52:35

Uh, you know, I would say if I had to have one thing for the rest of my life. Uh mom's key lime pie. Mom's key lime pie. I was gonna say mom, mom, mom was not really bad. I would say dad's pancakes, dad's pancakes with butter, and we didn't put syrup on it. We put a lot of butter because it's gonna say cracker barrel mix pancakes, and we put just straight raw sugar on it.

SPEAKER_00 53:02

Oh my lord.

SPEAKER_01 53:04

Straight, just it's like a crepe. I guess they do that with crepes or whatever. They do powdered sugar, powdered sugar, but yeah, we would just put like raw sugar and butter. Uh, right on this is regular sugar on a pancake. I would say that's probably what I'd probably have no teeth left and be 500 pounds, but that's what I definitely do. And occasional cinnamon roll, maybe, but you know, it's I've dealt with those all my life.

SPEAKER_00 53:26

Down down to Midland.

SPEAKER_01 53:27

Yes. What about you, Jake? What's uh what's uh if you had to have bacon, egg, cheese? Bacon, egg, and cheese, biscuit, uh McDonald's or just like uh enough.

SPEAKER_05 53:38

Yeah, probably. I mean, what's the gut bomb, man?

SPEAKER_01 53:42

The gut bomb, the gut bomb. Waffle House. Say Waffle House too.

SPEAKER_05 53:46

I mean, Waffle House is that when I go to Waffle House, it's literally what I get. I tell them I want bacon, egg, and cheese, biscuit, just give me everything and I'll build it on my plate with a like a waffle or some pancakes.

SPEAKER_01 53:54

What about you, Julie?

SPEAKER_00 53:57

Sorry, I was just thinking about how I've never been to Waffle House between like breakfast time and dinner. It's always 11 to 3, like PM to AM.

SPEAKER_01 54:06

Like Julie came back one time, like when he came to the city. Oh my lord, yes, I do. Like just bloody.

SPEAKER_00 54:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:12

And it's a Waffle House incident. I mean, everybody has to have one of those. Yeah. Well, folks, we're getting to the end of the show here. Uh, thank you for tuning in on Fox News. Uh, this is on a podcast. This is the Carney to Congress podcast presented by Baywater Exclusive Boat Club. And uh, we thank you for uh for tuning in. We're on here every Saturday Sunday morning from 6 to 7 a.m. And then Jake, if you want to to plug the podcast, if you if you don't want to get up at 6 a.m. on a Sunday, Carney to Congress.com.

SPEAKER_05 54:43

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SPEAKER_01 55:10

That's right. Good job, Jake. So Julie, thank you for coming in. Thanks for doing this. And uh, we're gonna have to do this again. We're gonna get Larry maybe next. Uh, next week we're gonna have uh an interesting uh city councilman. It's got a little backstory there, so that'll be fun. And we'll just keep doing this. So folks, thanks for tuning in. We'll see you here next week. Baywater Sister Boat Club, the exclusive club of Southwest Florida, that brings you Carney to Congress podcast.