CARNY TO CONGRESS EP 12 - The Crew

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the Carney to Congress podcast, brought to you by Baywater Exclusive Boat Club. My name is Adam Botana, and we are at the great location of Baywater Exclusive Boat Club, along with my great co-host, Jake the Millennial.

SPEAKER_02 0:12

Hey, everybody.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

What's up, Jake? How are you doing? Good morning, sir. Good morning. Thank you for being on here. Thank you for doing all you do always. It's fun. We're going to talk a lot of stuff this week. We got primaries coming up. A lot of fun stuff. I heard some stories. There was a primary out in East Lee County, Rotary Republican Club that was a little interesting. We had Byron Donald's down on uh down in Naples. That's some craziness there with a little fish stick. Um so there's a lot a lot of stuff going on, man. This guy's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

He's a loon, man. He's he's uh he's a little bit out there. He's he's definitely, it seems to me like enticing I don't want to say violence, but that's what it seems like.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

You know, it's unfortunate, right? Because you see, you know, some of these folks are there, and and and I love the passion, and I and I I hear you, you know, I understand. Uh, but some of these people just get so mad and they think there's like this conspiracy theory to push people down, and and uh it's not. I mean, you can think whatever you want to think. I mean, Jake Jake and I have had these conversations about stuff that happens, and you're just like, whoa, you know, um, there's a lot of good out there. Uh, there's a lot of a lot of a lot of interesting folks too. So they're you know, a little bit of a little bit of each, a little bit of each. So you just gotta kind of you know weed it out, but uh don't condone any kind of violence or any kind of thing along those lines, but that video uh was not good of what I seen. No. You know, I mean what do you think about it, Jake? I mean, you you go down the rabbit hole. I mean, you're not doing the the show every morning now with Drew like it used to be, and then Mike Pelka and a few others. So you kind of taking a step back. I think you're more, I think you're a little bit mentally a little bit better.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

Yeah, it's not definitely not as stressful because yeah, yeah, I won't get too into the weeds of like producing the show and stuff, but as for the fishback situation, uh-huh in what I've been seeing online is the majority of support he's getting is coming from outside of the state. A lot of people were like, oh, if I was in the state, I'd vote for them, and they're it's coming from clearly like far left keyboard commandos, keyboard commandos. People that are literally just trying to stir the pot. But, you know, he's going for more of like the viral live stream effect. I mean, uh probably not a whole lot of our listeners are into the whole live stream scene, but a lot of it is just what they call rage baiting, just trying to get somebody to react. Yeah. And he's that's his whole playbook, is what it seems like to me.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

I mean, you can see him, you know, a little smug sitting there in that in that uh in that scene that we was at. And uh again, this was Byron's talk to the his constituents. It was set up that way at that Republican club. There's plenty of other Republican clubs that go out there, but just trying to you know to incite that. And it's it's unfortunate, right? And we're talking about a primary, a Republican primary. Like when I had a race, I uh were down here in district, was then 76, now 80. Uh, it's prominently Republican. Uh, so you have a primary, and then you win the primary, you pretty much win the election. So I was running against uh an attorney out of Sanibel. And um, you know, let's let's just dive into that a little bit, you know. Yeah, let's just dive into that a little bit. Um I actually have a good relationship. I would say I have a relationship with my opponent from back then. Um, and he was from Sanibel, he was a councilman and attorney, uh Irish, Irish, he put in the Irish accent. He was pretty good at it, you know, and and it was impressive. And I I would compare it if you gotta watch a movie, The Campaign, all right, with Will Farrell. And, you know, when you get in close and you're like you're talking real close. I mean, there's trash talk going on. Like you're you'll you'll do that. And I was worried because I was just boatwasher, family business kind of thing going on. This is an attorney. I was kind of concerned, but man, you get me in close, I'm gonna get you, you know. And we had I had some fun with that, you know, just for meetings, and he would just talk crap, you know, and just all the time. And I'm like, really, man, are we really gonna go down that line? And um, so what I would do, it's like, all right, you want to do that? Uh I'm just gonna go knock on your house. Let's go right to your house. So I went right to his house in Sanibel. The first house I knocked on was my opponent's door. Talked to his wife. You know, just knocked on a door and just like right to it. I hit every house on the street. I didn't care who it was. I wanted to make sure that every one of his neighbors knew that I was knocking in his neighborhood, and it's a mind game, right? It's you know, and it rattled him. And I remember we were at a next a week later, we were in an event, and he was mad. Like he was physically angry about this. And that's it's about getting into the mine. Um, so there's there's games that happen when you're you're running a campaign. It's about getting into mine. So a lot of social media, the only people are really watching that is your opponent. Right. I mean, you do have some stuff out there. I mean, what I would do when I was running my campaign, we just we did grassroots, right? We went down to the doors, went right to the people. We raised money. That's the main street, that's talking to the businesses and rotary clubs and chambers and stuff like that. We we win to the people. Uh, and you can do that when you have a a uh a state representative race because there's about 180,000 people. So you can go right to the people. You can go out there, you go out and knock on 10,000 doors, you're gonna get a good chunk. You're gonna get a good chunk. Because usually it's 50-50, right? But if you can beat that, you know, you just cancel everything out to get there. He goes on TV, we go on TV. He sends mailers, we send mailers, you know. Um he knocks on doors, I did, he didn't. That's why I beat him at 19 and a half points. Uh, but yeah, I went right out there, and then it was constant a game, and you know, he underestimated what it was. He laughed. Oh, he's a head boat washer, what is that? And uh yeah, it worked out. And then even when we're we're doing signs, like you see signs up, folks. I mean, signs are impressive and that's good, but it's just it it doesn't move the needle. Um, but I mean when we went out to Sanibel and we're rather we we hit it at night, you know, and we hit every business that we could, and then uh went to my opponent's house, and he was right on a corner of between uh uh between Captiva and and Sanibel, and I legit put 20 signs, like right, because I knew he was going to come out that morning, you know, on the way to work. I put 20 signs right there. So he can, I just, you know, I mean, that's the kind of mindset it was, you know. And I thought to myself, you know, what would what would send me over the edge, you know, if in this and we're out here in this big beautiful bay. And I thought of like, um, I remember there was a show I watched Sopranos and he was trying to sell a house and a guy was giving him crap, so he parked a boat off the house and played Lau's music all day and would just think, well, if somebody parked a boat in my bay with their sign on it, I would piss you off. So I just went to Sanibel and I parked a boat off his island because I couldn't park it where he was at because it was too, it wasn't a good spot. So I just parked a boat off of Sanibel, and when he went to work every day, he seen me. He seen that boat. So I mean those are the little things. So I think what Fishback is trying to do, and is he's getting out there and he's just trying to poke, uh, trying to get tweets, trying to get likes, trying to get, you know, a video of him doing that, and that just goes out there into the ether. It's not good.

SPEAKER_02 7:48

He linked his cell phone number.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

Oh, Byron's cell phone number? Yeah. Yeah. That's that's that's outrageous, you know. I remember, and even when my race was towards the end, and we you know, you do polling and you have an idea, and it was so it was so, I mean, we had a we were so ahead of him. We were way beyond the margin of error. Like we were 20 points ahead a month out. So we knew, like, okay, we got it. But we just kept our foot on the gas. But he started doing stuff that was crazy. He remembered he sent out a mailer and it had me like in a little uh captain's hat with a boat, and like uh, you know, running my daddy's business and you know, daddy's boy, and you know, just all this stuff. And it was horrible, it was not good. I had people call me, and the moms were just pissed. They were just aggravated. And I had people come to me, it's like, you know, when he ran that, I was, you know, I just made me vote for you more. So fishback doing this is just driving more people to Byron. Because Fishback wants to just become some something or whatever he is, you know.

SPEAKER_02 8:58

An analyst for a news network, as soon as it seems to be.

SPEAKER_01 9:01

I wouldn't, yeah, I hope not. You know, well, fish fish stick is what we kind of call him, you know. But but he's just uh it's not good, but it's hey, it's people, it's politics, it's people, man. You know, it's it's craziness. Politics, uh, like we always say, it's show business for ugly people. It's uh it's interesting. I heard that from um God, what's his name? Roger Stone. He did a special, you get a chance, watch it on uh YouTube, and it kind of goes into it and our Amazon Prime, there'll be a couple there, but just kind of interesting to see. But yeah, he says uh politics is is show business for other people. It it's true, right? Because you do get, you know, you do get the fame and you do get some stuff, but nobody knows who I am on a plane, nobody knows. Um, you know, if I wear my shirt, whatever, I go to public people say something, thank you, or you know, you need to come out, need to fix me to be trowed. Some along those lines. But yeah, yeah, not a not a good look, not a good look for the party, not a good look for anything, don't condone it. Um, but it is what it is, it happens. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

I have a very, I guess you call it an off-the-cuff question. So, due to the fact that you based a lot of the door knocking off of data, right? And you're still helping other people door knock as of now.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

Yeah, Susan France, I was out with. Um great, great gal. She's I think she'll be good. I know she's got a primary. I like Susan, she's a business person, business woman. Uh it's good. But anyways, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

But with that data, have you seen any difference from let's say with what you were doing for her and the data that you had originally about six years ago? Like basically how have you s noticed a decrease in Republicans?

SPEAKER_01 10:54

No. No. If anything, I've seen an increase. Um, you know, people always said when we were running six years ago, don't know York, my Florida, right? Uh, that was the big push. But again, again, folks, that's clickbait. That gets people going. I was amazed that I was out in East Bonita, because that would be the most east part of my district at that time, was East Bonita, and it's new development. And these were super Republicans I were knocking on. I went a super Republican, and I know Trey's talked about this in the morning. You got four by fours and two by fours when it comes to Republicans. Now, it doesn't tell me who you voted for, it tells me who you're registered as and how many times you go to the polls. So a four by four is a Republican who goes to every primary and every general election. A two by four is where they go to mostly all the primaries, but every general. So those are people who are guaranteed they're gonna go to the poll. So if I gotta go out and knock on 10,000 doors, I want to talk to those people. And when you get to the doors, you know, you got a list, and this is all public record, it'll be like, oh, Adam Botana, you know, lives here, or it'll be like Leland lives here, his wife, Sammy's here, and um, you know, Sammy is an independent and Leland's a Republican, conservative. You know, then there'll be a darker red or or green. So if I knock on the door and Sammy comes to the door, like, hey, I'm Adam Otana running for state representative. The seat is term limited, Ray Rodriguez termed out. That's who's my predecessor. Is Leland around? I would love to give him a flyer and just talk to him. And sometimes, you know, oh, you know, you know, he's at work, or you know, yeah, I'll take the flyer. And that's how you know, right? You have an idea, you can kind of estimate it. I mean, I've been to Santa Bell, and Sanibel can be pretty liberal some places. Like, I remember I was out there one time and my phone wasn't acting quite right, and I knew the door, and I go up there and it was like Leslie, you know, and I couldn't see the name or anything because the foot the knock on the door and the kid comes in the door. And I'm like, hey, I'm a Republican Adam Botana running first day rap. Pico Spider should get a gun and fit shooting yourself in the head in the head. I was like, damn. Like, good morning, sir. I mean, this is this is like 11 o'clock in the morning on a Tuesday. Um, he's like, Yeah, kill yourself. You're horrible. And like, slant and I'm like, wow, that's a lot of anger. Well, of course, I get back to my truck and that happens, right? And I get back to my truck and I look and my phone uh populates, right? Whatever's going on. And I showed like Michael Smith, 28, you know, blue blue, and then it said, like, uh Lorraine Smith, and you can see the ages. Obviously, his mom was red. So of course his mom's at work on a Tuesday, and the kid on a Tuesday is probably playing video games at home, just angry, you know, living on Santa Bible, which is a beautiful island, with his mom. I digress. You know, it is what it is. So usually you have an idea, but I think we've we've grown and we keep growing. I mean, I was talking to some friends, I had dinner uh with a buddy of mine from Indianapolis last night, and uh you come down here, everything's always changing, Jake. I mean, always everything like always beachroads, always something's new's coming up, some new restaurants. You go to Indianapolis, you go to uh Muskegon, Michigan, or Watervallete, Michigan, or stuff in Indiana, don't change. You know, I mean, stuff stays the same. Like, oh, we got a McDonald's. And that's it, you know. Uh stuff doesn't change down here. Stuff's changing all the time because it's just the amount of people coming in here, coming down here, and just people going out, enjoying themselves, you know. So a lot of things, a lot of Republicans, when I was knocking on those doors, and those people were from New Jersey, uh, Pennsylvania, they're Republicans are like, my kids graduated, I had to get out. I was done. I was tired of paying taxes 40, 50% of my paycheck to taxes. That's when I came down here. And that's why we we keep doing better in Florida. Um, that's why we're trying to get rid of property taxes or at least, you know, give you a better incentive to homestead. You know, $250,000, that's gonna save everybody about $2,000. Uh, that's pretty big. It's a pretty big deal. So something pretty wild.

SPEAKER_02 15:15

Well, I guess this is a very odd question. What happens in 20 years when that kid inherits that house on Sanibel? Then what do we do? Because I have a strong feeling that if this area even goes purple, what will that do to the state of Florida?

unknown 15:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:33

It it won't happen. Uh, I always go to this saying, I always say uh Churchill said it best. If you're not a liberal when you're a teenager, you don't have a heart. If you're not a conservative when you're 40, you don't have a brain. So it happens, right? People change. I mean, look at Julie. We talked about it when she was on the show. Jules. Um, that's Julie. But she's working for me at the Marina now. She's been with me for a long time. And I mean, she was my aide, and she was very liberal. You know, I mean, she's a a 22-year-old girl, uh House Day grad, smart, you know, smart, like sharp, like knows, but you're 22, you know, and you have an idea. And I remember there's a lot of votes that we took, and she was really distraught and just upset. You know, I'm like physically upset. I say, let's go to my office and talk about it. And I tell her, like, hey, this is this is what my district wants, you know, because I'm pushing that button, is not saying that's it's what my d I represent my district. My district wants this. That's why I do this. I vote for this. Pro gun, pro Trump, pro life, you know. But it's changed. Now she's 20, 26, 27. And it she's, you know, and now she's getting dealing with business and just seeing stuff. She's like, people suck. I'm like, yeah. You know, but you go back five, six years ago, oh, everything is puppies and rainbows. Well, yeah, it is. It's you know, you hate to crush that that that hope, you know, but sometimes life is what it is, you know. And now she's changed and people change. I'm sure that kid'll change, you know, it takes time. All right, maybe he doesn't. It is what it is, you know, and it's just what happens, you know. Um but you know, it's it's we all agree about 80% of the stuff, but sometimes there's a 20% that we just fringe, yeah. Swagos. Yeah. Well, I don't think I don't think this place will turn purple anytime soon.

SPEAKER_02 17:31

I sure hope not. But the my idea, I seen this video the other day, and I think you might have brought it up to me. It was a guy who was liberal, and it was a Charlie Kirk video, and he talked the whole time, like the first five minutes, well, not the first like two minutes, two and a half minutes, he was kind of like speaking out against him, and then he went on a tirade about how he decided to watch the videos and like try and understand him. And then by the end of it, he literally just asked the question Have you watched any of his videos? And it terrifies me that on one hand, there's a guy who's telling you to kill yourself at the front door just based off of an R by your name, and then Jules, which I'm not trying to compare her to the extreme left, but the idea is that she grew up, she matured. And it's like with someone like that who's clearly living at home with mom, like you said, mom's probably at work on a Tuesday. You gotta stop coddling the kids. And it's like when you stop, then they start to rely on other people for influence, things like that. They go to college, even school, they're indoctrinated. And I don't know, I just fear You know, I think it's all free speech, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:46

I mean, if you're gonna go to a college, I mean, the thing is, is you know, tough times make hard men, hasty times make weak men. Um I believe that, you know. But you look at every revolution, you look at everything that happens, you know, you've got to study. You know, again, it it's this like it's like a family business. First one starts it, second one grows it, third one blows it. You can just write that off right there. You know, first one starts it, second one grows it, third one blows it. But realistically, when you dig into it, by that third generation, those kids are going to college because they're getting educated and they're going to be doctors or lawyers or something along. They're getting out of the family business because usually the parents are like, you don't want to do this. You know, you're you're over. So it's not just blows it, you know, but that does happen. I mean, wealth transfers, right? You'll have somebody, uh buddy of mine's like he sold his business and he's like, my grandkids are taken care of. And the first thing you think about is like, well, hopefully they do it the right way. Hopefully they don't just because you show me uh uh you show me give it a trust fund, I'll show you a problem mental health issues. Because there's no, there's no drive. There's no, there's nothing, you know, and I I mean I had this conversation with Julie. I remember, you know, because she she has the opportunity, she has family that are really good. And I said, hey, you gotta either do it, you know, and she would constantly like like dress down and and just you know, just go to the opposite extreme. And it's just, you know, it's it's her just trying to figure it out. And I'm like, hey, you either gotta, you gotta get a real job because this job working for me as a uh uh uh led study of us, like there's long hours and it's stuff, but it's not real life. It's not real life. You're busy for two, three months, and then once you get back here at home, you know, I had a hype with all my aides is because you come home, you're going from this go, go, go, go, go, boom, extreme, to just nothing, and then they start spiraling. Like you gotta have, oh, I'm just gonna go to the beach today. Like, and that works for like three days. Then you gotta have purpose. Like you need to go into the shop, you need to be in the office by nine. And if you're done by one, you're done by one. You've done your job, you go, you know, but you need to do your things. We go around town, like represent me at chamber functions or meetings or whatever it is. And they spiral. But the thing is, you start learning. I told her, hey, you gotta you either gotta embrace what you are and just own it. It's about getting comfortable in your skin, right? Like that's the thing. Embrace who you are, embrace what you have, the ability, and be grateful for it. Or you need to go out and get a job and figure it out and grind it out. And what she's doing here is, I mean, she's she's got responsibilities. You know, she had to had to fire somebody. That's a big thing. She cried about it after. But that's I mean, but that's Yeah, and if you if you're doing it the right way, I'm not saying like you're fired. You know, it's you know, like, hey. I mean, I I think in all the times I've been around, I don't think I've ever told any one of my people that I let go that you're fired. It's usually it's usually they know it's coming, right? If you're not a good boss, they don't they'll know it's like, hey, you know what, unfortunately. This ain't gonna work out. Business is going a different way. And if they start going, what happened? You're on your phone too much. Okay. You know, you gotta just it's disrespectful to the rest of the employees. It's not fair to the rest of the team. I gotta let you go. And that's pretty much what happens, right? Gotta let you go. Um and it you know, it it's just the way it is. People come in and you know, uh usually a pretty good judge of character, and you can pretty much feel somebody out, but stuff happens, right? They might have and then you try to give people chances. Like my dad was my dad was tough, you know, Omar, right? He was I mean, he'd walk in here and but I the amount of grace that guy had for a uh an employee that had a family at home, like he felt bad for him. Like he would give them extra chances, extra, extra. Well, he's got a wife and kid to take care of. And I'm like, dad, it ain't gonna work out. Oh, let's give him another chance. And I I mean I got into it and I was like, this guy's not good. He don't show up, give him another chance, give him another chance. And then all of a sudden it ends happening. Get up, you know, you're fire. But you you hate to get to that point. But you know, he's trying to help out the wife and kid. It happens, you know. It's unfortunate. You hate you hate to let somebody go. It's not a not a great thing, but you know there's plenty of jobs out here. Hey, if you're born in this country, you're in the top four percent of the world, so go get a job. I don't want to hear how bad you got. You know, so if you're born in this country, you're top four percent.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

If you're making more than thirty-two thousand dollars a year, you're in the top one percent of the world.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Of the world. World.

SPEAKER_02 23:38

Of the world. You're in the one percent that everyone complains about. Oh, yeah, they just go get a job at McDonald's.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, no, absolutely. Jake, you know, you worked, I mean, you taught yourself a lot of yourself. I mean, a lot of stuff we've done, family taught, you know, that website you did for us, great. I mean, just and you just self-taught. You didn't go to school for that. You're just playing with it and figuring it out, you know, business. Um you know, you just you just learn learn people, know people, try to figure it out.

SPEAKER_02 24:06

I actually had a uh a good conversation the other day and um it's not personal, it's a business decision. I don't dislike you as a person.

SPEAKER_04 24:17

There's nothing.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

I ain't gonna hang around with you. Right. Well, there's that. You know, but the whole idea is that like it's not a personal decision, it's just a business decision. And it's like if you can be responsible and mature enough to like kind of look back and be like, okay, well, I messed up here. And it's until you start to decide to kind of like reprimand yourself because a lot of people don't have so it any kind of responsibility.

SPEAKER_01 24:47

What's the word I'm looking for? Accountability. Accountability, yeah. Accountability, holding accountable. You know, I mean, what's crazy is uh one of my club members, and you have a lot of good members, right? A lot of people in a business, and and when you work hard, people that work hard want to help you. It's like religion, right? It's like rotary, right? So I explained this to Rotary Club. Like Julie, I put her in Rotary Club. I put all my managers go to Rotary Club. The guy who works for my James Mullen, he's in Rotary. You show up three times people start like you go to Rotary. Rotary's an old club, it's been around for a while, it's a men's club, well, it's women's club too, everything. Started in 1905. Uh, it's you know, it's lunch. The breakfast clubs are the ones you go to. You're the breakfast club, so that's the movers and shakers. If you got time for lunch, you're probably an attorney or a banker. You know, you know, breakfast, go to breakfast, you do it on a Friday, it's great. You know, you it makes your week look good. It's gonna be fun. Um but I showed up three times, and you have retired ex CEOs of these big companies, and they just want to talk to you. Like, hey, how's the business call? How can I help you? And these guys have been through the shit, right? They've been through stuff. They don't why reinvent the wheel? Just two years when I'm out, listen. You know, but you you just show up and people you start people start coming. And I think that happens with business too, and people like see here working hard and the failing business growing, all that. And I had a member tell me about um the 36 hour rule. You know, anybody, and I've told this to Julie, anybody is replaceable. I hate to say that, but anybody's replaceable. Hell, I'm replaceable here. I mean, anybody's replaceable. And you know, everybody's replaceable. Everybody, all your employees, I mean, you like them, they're good, you reward them, they do a good job, but everybody's replaceable. And the problem is you you start getting that mindset, like, oh, I can't, I can't get rid of this person. And I have to say it's different with family business because you have a family and it works. I dealt with this. 36 hour rule. Okay. You make a first, you know, you let that person go, you let them go, and you you pick up their slack, and after that 36 hours, you get like a like a bre like it like a weight is lifted. You're like, oh it's so much nicer now dealing with that person's drama in here. That person's come on, Leland. We get you on the show, bro. Come on, dude. Come on, come on, come over here. Come on, I got a camera sitting right here. Come on.

SPEAKER_03 27:08

Celebrity guest appearance.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

Yeah, come on, stay right over here, brother. Get on that camera. Hey, this is Adam O'Tana. Thanks for tuning in to the Carnity to Congress podcast brought to you by Baywater Exclusive Boat Club, the only family-owned and operated boat club in Southwest Florida. We have over 60 boats down here in Bonita Springs. You want access to pontoons, deck boats, water slides, bar boats. We got it at Baywater. Come on down and see us. We're two miles west of 41, right on Bonita Beach Road, exit 116 Alpha 75. Give us a call at 239-495-0455. Again, that's 239-495-0455. Or look us up online, or just Google BW Boat Club. BW Boat Club. BW Boat Club.com. Uh, but we're just talking about just uh just employees and people working here. And Leland started as Leland, you came with how did you end up here? Leland's been with us, what, seven years? Uh ten. Ten years.

SPEAKER_03 28:07

It'll be ten in November. Oh wow. Wow. November 19th, right back down.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

November 19th, 10 years.

SPEAKER_03 28:12

Yes. Uh I just hope that.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

Well, how'd you how'd you show it?

SPEAKER_03 28:15

Just I walked in. I met Omar right there. And he said, Can you wash a boat? I'm like, I think so. So can you clean, uh, can you drive a boat? I said, I know I can drive a boat. You're hired. So uh there you go.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

That was it. No, no, in no application.

SPEAKER_01 28:31

Did you just walk in or wait?

SPEAKER_03 28:33

Was there somebody in the I knew a guy that was washing boats here and he said Who was it? Which one was it? James. I know you remember James.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

Oh, I remember James.

SPEAKER_03 28:43

Yeah. Yeah, we could, but who let him go? Was it me? I think I did. I think I let him go. There was some issues. There was an altercation on the dock, and he just wasn't a good fit.

SPEAKER_01 28:55

Yeah, no, it was it didn't work out. Then he went over to 7-Eleven, got like booze, and started drinking down at the property.

SPEAKER_03 29:00

Well, he had his hair down at the bus ramp, and some some guys were whist whistling at him, and they thought he was a woman, and he uh it's the last time we saw him.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Yeah, it was it was yeah, that was pretty rough. We got we got we got we got Leland on. So, but yeah. Now peeling in for Larry, yeah. Yeah, yeah. We tried to get Larry, but we got Leland on there. So Leland, what uh you've been here with us 10 years, which is crazy. Time flies. Time flies. Time flies. So Leland is uh is our manager of Reynolds down there. Um he's here on the docks, running around all the time. Where are you from? Just kind of the little southwest.

SPEAKER_03 29:39

Born in Naples. Okay, born in the estates.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

Uh we've got three crackers right here, which is crazy.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

We moved to Estero in 2004. And been here ever since.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Yeah. I mean, got two great little girls.

SPEAKER_03 29:53

Twins, twin daughters. I got a beautiful wife. Uh great job. Yeah. Cyber farms to you. Yeah. Just no reason to leave yet.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

What's what's the best part of Baywater? What I mean, when you take a boat out, how about that? When you take a boat out, what do you like doing? Because you take, I know you have your own boat. Well, it used to be fishing.

SPEAKER_03 30:11

It used to be all about fishing. Now it's going to the beach, taking the babies there. It's all about sand castles and just enjoying the water.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

Yeah. So well, it's like Leland has his own boat and he takes out uh rental boats or club boats.

SPEAKER_03 30:27

Yeah, I got a little fishing boat, but uh can't fit the whole family on that thing. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

But uh yeah, just get on the water, go to the beach there. So like Leland is the kind of kid, like we were here hanging out, and he caught on to uh a tarpon and Jake. He's legit screaming. Like he's shaking catching this fish. Oh, yeah. Like it's great stuff. Like he would he would lose his mind. You hooked, you hooked some good tarpon.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

There's some big fish in here. Yeah, we got 60, 80 pound tarpon hanging out under these docks. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

Some big snook, some massive snooks.

SPEAKER_03 31:01

A big 40 plus inch snook. Don't let anyone know. Larry's out here with us with a gun. We got security. We got security. But uh yeah, very healthy ecosystem under these docks, surprisingly.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

Yeah. As much fuel as we fill here and boats that move, but they're much traffic, but they they they learn after five o'clock that's feeding time.

SPEAKER_03 31:21

They don't want to eat during during the day because they know there's too many people here.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

All right, so we got a little fishing insight. If uh we haven't really talked about it on the show since we're at Carnegie Congress now. If you're gonna do fishing here, what would you what would you suggest? Like, what are you gonna kind of do like to get out here if you're novice to like if you're talking to a club member here the first time, what would you tell them to do?

SPEAKER_03 31:43

I would say stay out of the mud. That's where all the catfish are. Uh-huh. Uh I would start with popping corks and shrimp. Really can't go wrong with that. Uh-huh. Look for structure, mangroves, docks, moving water.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

So you'd say probably 90% of the fish, 10% of the water.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

10% of the fish are in 10% of the water, and don't hang out for too long. If you're not hooking anything, move. Just keep keep bouncing around and don't always trust the same spot. It'll be good at one time, and the next day you'll go and there's nothing there.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

So you've got to change always changing.

SPEAKER_03 32:15

Keep moving. So if you don't catch anything, it's not you. It's just fishing can be hard sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

So I hear you've been hanging out underneath the bridge in Sanibel uh with one of our other employees. We've been any any luck? What are you doing out there? We've been taking tarping at night.

SPEAKER_03 32:31

Uh we've we've hooked them, but we haven't brought any to the boat yet. Okay. Uh we've got about nine solid hookups, but as soon as you hook up, they go straight for the bridge, and you gotta be quick.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

So is it just a solid bones?

SPEAKER_03 32:46

The big bony mouth. Uh right now they're migrating, so you're getting the big ones, like 150 plus pounders, and it's that's bigger than you and Julie. Yes, huge fish. And we did take a little break because you know we've spent probably 60 hours under that bridge the past month.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Uh-huh. You're gonna go back out this uh this week and see what happens?

SPEAKER_03 33:09

Uh maybe this Sunday. We'll see.

SPEAKER_01 33:11

Maybe this Sunday. We'll see. We'll see. Well, it's nice at night, right? It's cool, a little chilly. It'll totally different atmosphere. Nice, and it's just the bugs aren't bad.

SPEAKER_03 33:19

No, not at night. As long as you're not near the mangroves. You're in open water, no, no bugs.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

Yeah, you're pretty good out there. And it's nice and cool. Some cool sh see out there at night. What's the craziest thing you think you've seen just out here now, with just the boat club and rentals and just everything? What pops?

SPEAKER_03 33:35

You see it all, honestly. I mean, I've had a jet ski hit a piling at like 60 miles an hour trying to tell me to slow down when I was doing five miles an hour, stuff like that. Um I've seen it all. Yeah. A lot of a lot of alcohol.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

Uh-huh. Yeah. So don't don't don't condone that.

SPEAKER_03 33:55

A lot of uh prop scarring. Uh you see, you see it all.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

So no, but what do you think of the water quality? What do you think of our bay here? Just seeing what you've seen now.

SPEAKER_03 34:05

Um be honest. It's when I was younger, I was skeptical, but uh, you kind of realize that it's always gonna fix itself. We've had really bad rough uh, you know, red tides and huge fish kills, and it always comes back. I mean, the fishing now is probably better than it was in 2017. So I think it's picked up a lot. You know, I think the fish just gets stronger with the more things they go through. So it's good, man.

SPEAKER_01 34:36

It's good. Yes. So yeah, Jake's from Pond Island. We got Naples, Bonita, Asteros, yeah, some four crackers. We gotta get Jake fish in some time. He doesn't I don't think he fish much, do you, Jake? We'll take them out with Billy.

SPEAKER_03 34:50

I gotta poll.

SPEAKER_01 34:52

We got out with Billy. Yeah, no, no. So, but uh Leland was working on GPS's today, constantly, always always fixing stuff here at the brain of the Boyoga. Boyoga, yeah. Yeah. So Leland, so Larry was this size when he started, right? So Larry's got a little bit bigger, but uh trying to get in the I mean, hey, I mean you got no no uh no ribs left changing out, just uh bilge pumps or whatever is yeah, it's remember uh he would be inside the boat, like under the hole.

SPEAKER_03 35:27

Just see ankles, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:29

Trying to get stuff done. But I mean it's boats, right? It's tough, it's stuff working on them, but our our crew does a great job here, keeps everything running. Members want to see the the depth finder, they want to see the rearview mirror of 2.1 feet, like it always says, you know. Oh it does it, it doesn't seem that, but yeah, so I don't think depth finders work very good here.

SPEAKER_03 35:47

Well, they do until you break it, you know. But it's that's a daily thing.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

Uh-huh. I like it. I like it. Well, thanks, Lena. Anything else you want to add? No. Um join a boat club. That's it. Pay the bills. I like it. Thanks, buddy. Thanks for watching. Let's get your mic there.

SPEAKER_03 36:06

That doesn't come with the show.

SPEAKER_01 36:08

Yes. I like it. Thanks, buddy. Appreciate it. It stood in for Larry. We're blasting it everywhere. Julie's running now. She had her hair all done. She had her hair like she. She went in, put her hair out, changed it up. Uh uh. It's funny.

unknown 36:25

It's funny.

SPEAKER_02 36:26

Yeah, this episode can be Baywater and Crew.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Baywater and Crew. Uh-huh. Hey, this is Adam Otana. Thanks for tuning in to the Carnity to Congress podcast brought to you by Bawater Exclusive Boat Club, the only family-owned and operated boat club in Southwest Florida. We have over 60 boats down here in Bonita Springs. You want access to pontoons, deck boats, water slides, bar boats. We got it at Baywater. Come on down and see us. We're two miles west of 41, right on Bonita Beach Road. Exit 116 off of 75. Give us a call at 239-495-0455. Again, that's 239-495-0455. Or look us up online or just Google BW Boat Club. BW Boat Club. BW Boat Club.com. Well, welcome. We've got Julie Inman back here, general manager. We had Leland on. We got uh we had to we had to cut some some some segments there. Okay. A little bit, a little bit. Ooh, I gotta do pauses too for the for the commercial too, didn't we? No, we'll do that. Oh, okay. So welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back. Yes. So um we got Julie on here back at it. We had tried to get Larry, but uh Larry wouldn't do it. We had Leland camera shy. Can't figure that out. We got we got Julie on. So Julian, uh, you like the podcast. A lot of a lot of people were excited. He had a lot of people asking questions, and you got about 2,000 views on yours, so it's not not as good as Nigel's, but it was okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:52

You know, Nigel's pretty interesting. He's a character.

SPEAKER_01 37:54

I had to talk about Cat P again. You know, talk about Cat P. We got like 30,000 views on that one, which was crazy.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

Door knocking. That's all you, man.

SPEAKER_01 38:02

I was talking, I was talking to, you know, Mike Gottlieb, right?

SPEAKER_00 38:05

Yes, love Mike Gottlieb.

SPEAKER_01 38:06

Yes, he was a representative from Broward County. He's like, bro, bro, you can't talk about Cat P. They're gonna just they're just gonna get angry at like Mike. No, they just go for it.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

It's reality.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

He he's uh he's uh fascinated. His daughter is fascinated with the amount of views that we got from the cinnamon rolls, the 200 million. He's just like his I'll just send him videos of me doing it, and I get like 20,000, 50,000 to send it to his daughter. Just pisses her off. You know, it's like, hey, 200 million views, no boobs. That's you know, it's a hook. I don't need a hook. This is my face. Cinnamon rolls, dough. That was not a hook. So 200 million views, no no boobs. So that's what I'm just thinking when. Uh, so what's going on this week of Bay Water? It's out of season. What's going on? Tell me.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

Yep, out of season. Um, our current big project is switching over to our new online reservation system, which is gonna be a really awesome thing for our club members, but the back end of it is a lot of work for myself and the other managers. So very grateful to have a good support team, but it is a pain in the rear. Uh lots of voicemails being left.

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Ship store. We have the ship store coming up.

SPEAKER_00 39:14

Ship store. We went to the coffee today. Good coffee.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

Good coffee.

SPEAKER_00 39:18

It's really hot out. Heat index of 110 today.

SPEAKER_01 39:23

So a little warm, a little warm.

SPEAKER_00 39:25

Being on a boat, you get the AC the breeze at the marina, not so much. I'm currently getting eaten by no see. I'm standing here.

SPEAKER_01 39:32

Oh, yeah, here. Yeah. So you're in the you're in the bugs. Horrible. All right, come over here. What's it up? Uh so yeah, so Julie.

SPEAKER_00 39:40

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 39:41

Uh, one time, I'm I'm immune to them. Julie, one time. Is this Jake? We were we were over in uh Sanibel, this was doing legislative stuff, and Julie decided to show up in the morning at 6 a.m. Okay, for a uh little sun, sunrise service. And this was a year after Hurricane Ian. Yeah. And uh so Julie showed up in a skirt, and it was sunrise on Sanibel, and the noceums were horrible. Like, like they're whole like clouds. Clouds. So now like I get like a little like a little red dot. Julie looked like a leopard.

SPEAKER_00 40:21

Yeah, like bubble wrap.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

But it was just so bad. And she was out there like she should have gone to the car. She just stood there and just took it like a champ. But just like her legs were you wore jeans for like a good three years.

SPEAKER_00 40:35

Yeah, it was horrible. It was a nice skirt though. It was a white pencil skirt. I looked very professional, but at what cost?

SPEAKER_01 40:41

At the beach at sunrise in San Abel, a little rough. Yeah. Um, but yeah, so I mean you're getting better with them now with the no seams. You're not as bad, you're not getting wilted. And they I guess they just like they're they're they're little bastards. They have teeth. Like they're this big, but their teeth are like this, right? Like a chihuahua. I think they just spit on you, but the it's not as as bad. You don't have the welts like you did.

SPEAKER_00 41:03

No. And coming from Cincinnati, it was different. I think up there you have the mosquitoes or like the bugs that are in the grass up there. But down here, yeah, I came down here and at first I just want to say fleas, maybe? No, they have a name, but I'm not gonna say them.

SPEAKER_01 41:19

Oh, Chiggers?

SPEAKER_00 41:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:21

Oh, Chiggers, yeah. Okay, those in North Carolina.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

Yeah, I don't know. I just didn't acclimate very quickly to the bugs. And especially like down on the docks in the evening during the summertime, it's just no good.

SPEAKER_01 41:34

Yeah, Julie showed up in boots, like cowboy boots, to work on the dock. I'm like, Julie, what do you what are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 41:39

Well, I look cute though.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

It's not cowboy boot wear. It's not that.

SPEAKER_00 41:46

Had to be the new sheriff in town. Yeah, the word new town. New sheriff in town.

SPEAKER_01 41:50

So, but uh no. So, what else is going on? What's uh what's going on? We got the riverfest. You want to talk about that coming up in August?

SPEAKER_00 41:57

Yeah, so August 1st, the Bonito Springs Downtown Alliance is hosting the Riverfest. I believe there's canoe races and some sort of rubber duck races as well, but it's also just a big community event on the river in downtown Bonita. I don't know all the ins and outs of it, but Bay Water is going to be the music sponsor, so we'll be there. Um, I've got some fun game ideas for people to interact with us and learn about the boat club. But yeah, I think it's just an exciting opportunity to get out and meet other people in the community and just add some vibrance and youthful energy.

SPEAKER_01 42:28

Youthful energy. We need a lot of youthful energy.

SPEAKER_00 42:31

We're targeting the younger audience.

SPEAKER_01 42:33

All youthful energy. We were down for 4th of July, took mom down to uh downtown.

SPEAKER_00 42:38

I got to dunk Adam in a dunk tank and Nigel, actually.

SPEAKER_01 42:41

Yes, so we did that. Uh was a dunk tank for Bert for uh Benito Estero Rail Trails, which is big. That's gonna come up here pretty soon on your vote in August. Uh, but 4th of July was crazy. Went over to Sugar Shack, had some food, it was great. We got a table, walked right in. It was a good time. Um, you know, uh was down for the fireworks and uh drone show. Uh we had a uh special guest, Byron Donald, showed up, which was pretty cool. Uh had him talk to mom, talk to you, and all that. Pretty normal guy, pretty down to earth. Uh gave him some crap. I was like, Are you uh you on the shot? You're losing some weight, bro? Says, no, it's all natural, all natural. No, no, no. I go, You want no Zimpic? He goes, No, no, this is all natural. So uh, but he's gonna be great. It'd be a great governor, it'd be great for us in Southwest Florida down here too. Um, but yeah, great drone show. Fourth of July around all around was awesome. Uh, really had a good time and uh look forward to it. I mean, we uh sugar sacks this is I mean, everything was great down there. It was fun. Your mom and dad came out, you know. Your mom dunked me.

SPEAKER_00 43:43

Yeah, no, I brought the whole family. When we found out Adam was gonna be in the dunk tank, it was like what time and where? We will be there in numbers. It's it was fun. It was fun.

SPEAKER_01 43:53

We should do, you know, we should do that for the open house, put Larry in the dunk tank.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

That's exactly what I said.

SPEAKER_01 43:58

You know, the members get out, we'll do it for a Charity. I think we should do that. Larry in a dunk tank? That would be amazing. I'm dry. High and dry. High and dry. I'm dry.

SPEAKER_00 44:07

I don't know. Larry in a wet t-shirt kind of.

SPEAKER_01 44:09

He's always in a wet t-shirt with us. He's always in a wet t-shirt.

SPEAKER_00 44:14

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 44:14

Look at him. I can see him right there. Oh, the boat camp.

SPEAKER_00 44:18

One day we'll get him on.

SPEAKER_01 44:19

He'll come on. He just wants to be, he wants to be talked to. You gotta boo him. Look at you, look at that shirt, man. Look at it. I think the collar starts at his shoulder prints. But he's doing good. He's doing good.

SPEAKER_00 44:35

So hey, he's going on 11 or 12 years of working here.

SPEAKER_01 44:38

I think 12, yeah. 12.

SPEAKER_00 44:40

Dedicated.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

12, yeah. He's here. He's always here. He's doing it. He's done it. He's always working.

SPEAKER_00 44:46

Even on his off days.

SPEAKER_01 44:47

Mm-hmm. He does a good job. Yeah. Does a good job. And I remember when Larry came in and uh my dad hired him. Just like just like Leland. Wash boats, you drive, you're hired. You know? And they came in and I was like, Dad, who'd you hire this old guy? You know, what it this old but man, he got right in there and it's done good. He just showed up, showed up for a job, and made it work out. So kind of like Julie. Met her at a bar. It's like, can you wash a boat? Can you drive a boat? You want to wash a boat? Come on, show up. Here you are. You know? Crazy.

SPEAKER_00 45:16

Well, you know, right place, right time.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

Yeah. And also, she's gonna go to school now. Shh, Jake, she got in. She got into I think we talked about that last time. We might have. Yeah, we did. FGCU, she's gonna be an eagle. So we see how that goes. We'll have some fun.

SPEAKER_00 45:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:31

Maybe I'll get a doctorate before her. So we'll see. No. We'll see. We'll see what happens.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

I don't even want a doctorate, but I will get one just despite him. Thousand person.

SPEAKER_01 45:39

We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. But uh, Jake, what else, man? I think we're getting close to the end, aren't we? I think we're we're kind of getting there. Ah, three minutes. Okay, perfect. Uh, let's see. Three minutes. What can we talk about for three minutes? Oh, Baywater Boat Club. Um we got a lot of maintenance going on right now. So, folks, come on down and see us here in Baywater, the only family-owned and operated boat club. You can see the boats behind us here. Uh, we've got a great selection, great time. Uh, membership right now to get in the club is $8,000 to get in. So $79.99 to get in. It's a one-time fee. And then $425 a month in dues gives you unlimited access to all our club boats. About 70% of our membership is here four or five months out of the year. So if you're local and you're listening to us this Sunday on 925, the grade station, come on down, join the club. It's an easy way. There's fish out here, like Joey say. Uh, we got pontoons, we got center consoles, we got deck boats, we got uh twin engines, we got catamarans, kid on any kind of boat you want. We have the largest fleet in the area, smallest amount of membership. We own the land, the docks, and marina, we're not going anywhere. We've been here 20 years now. Uh we got our ship store opening, so we're gonna have ice cream for the kids one day, soon. Uh, we got beer and wine here for our members, and we're actually thinking about doing a bar. We are actually gonna do a bar, it's Omar's tiki bar. Uh we're gonna get that going by this winter. So that's another thing, fun thing we're gonna have for uh Julie to just tweak out a little bit. So you're tweaking out. Uh so we got a lot of good stuff. Um, but come down and see us down here at Bay Water Seuza Boat Club. We're two miles west of 41, right on the right-hand side on uh Bonita Beach Road and exit 116 office 75. We've got 14 restaurants and four beaches that you can get to uh without uh going into golf right here. We've got some of the best boating in Southwest Florida right out here at Bonita Springs. So come on down and see us. Bay Water Sousa Boat Club, the exclusive club of Southwest Florida. Thank you for tuning in to the Baywater. Thank you for tuning in to Carnity to Congress, brought to you by Baywater Exclusive Boat Club. Hey, this is Adam Otana. Thanks for tuning in to the Carnity to Congress podcast brought to you by Baywater Exclusive Boat Club, the only family owned and operated boat club in Southwest Florida. We have over 60 boats down here in Bonita Springs. You want access to pontoons, deck boats, water slides, bar boats, we got it at Baywater. Come on down and see us. We're two miles west of 41, right on Bonita Beach Road, exit 116 Alpha 75. Give us a call at 239-495-0455. Again, that's 239-495-0455, or look us up online or just Google BW Boat Club, BW Boat Club, BW Boat Club.com.