Controversy Around the Veto of the Kelly Tractor Project | Chris Kelly
About This Episode
Chris Kelly breaks down the veto situation, zoning concerns, infrastructure challenges, and what the new development could mean for South Florida. We also discuss hiring, tradesman job creation, and the broader relationship between business and local government.
An inside look at one of the region’s most established family businesses.
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0:00 Intro
1:00 Origins of the Business
3:50 Issue with Moving Their HQ
6:07 Why Is It Getting Vetoed?
11:18 Sewer Plant on Their Property
14:44 How Long Will the Transition Take?
16:58 What Will They Build on the New Property
17:52 Creating Tradesman Jobs
19:15 Kelly Tractor Services
23:31 Hiring
26:07 Message to People and Commissioners
27:21 Top 3 Restaurants
28:45 Outro
Transcript
Auto-generatedWe're rolling. We had to have this one to your point. You love to be in the current events. He calls me every morning. He goes, "Hey, just so you guys know, I got a call every morning around 6:30. This was going on. We got to talk about this. We want to talk about this." And this is one of those moments where we had to bring them in to talk about this.
Absolutely. Abs. I mean, it's it's it's not that it's a hot issue. It's it's an issue and it's something that I I truly don't understand why there's an issue. But you know, but anyway, we're here and
it's going to continue most likely being an issue taking this stance.
Let's introduce our guest. Sure. Who do we have?
We got Chris Kelly here from Caddy Tractor, a company that I used to play with little tractor toys when I was little and stuff, you know. So,
listen, I I'm just going to tell you, we have a part of history here. Yeah.
And that's why, you know, yesterday we're doing history and we continue with the whole history thing. You know what I'm saying? We had good, you know, longtime developers. Y
this is a family that has been in I want to say South You can say the story because I don't want to mess it up. How long has your family been in South Florida?
Well, first of all, I want to thank you guys.
Oh, God. Please. A pleasure.
Uh our family our business started in 1933.
Wow.
And a long time man to be
I don't know 100 years.
Yeah. Almost 100 years.
How many generations?
Wow.
Uh I'm fourth generation.
Wow. Congratulations.
Thank you. That's beautiful. That's really nice. That is
we've been headquartered in Miami Day County since the early 1960s.
Man,
still wasn't born.
Uh yeah. And our current headquarters, it's up on 58th Street in not in technically in Dorado, but in the Dorado area. We've been there since 1971. And our family employs uh almost 700 people and about 400 years.
I mean, you guys employ here almost 700 people. Well, in Miami Day County about 400, but we're
still
we're uh our core business is all South Florida, Miami date up to uh Fort Pierce and over to Fort Myers.
Well, brother, let me tell you ju just I I don't you know, first and foremost,
thank you because the fact for you, your company, your family to be here for so many years and be employing and feeding so 400, that's that's that's big. when you've had so many other corporations and company disappear and leave Miami Dade for, you know, for whatever reasons. I mean, they've left for. So, for you guys to be here and and and be sticking that out, that's that's that's that's an award.
Um, okay. So this is your great great-grandfather.
Uh great uncle
great great uncle
grandfather's uncle and then grandfather uh was a Navy captain World War II came home and bought him out and uh then moved the headquarters down to Miami date county in the early 1960s.
How did the idea come about? I guess
dynasty would just say, "Hey, we're going to start doing heavy machinery. Get into it." uh great uncle was uh worked for Caterpillar back then and moved down here and they gave him a dealership.
Wow. Yeah. And then from there branched out to his own brand.
Mhm.
How difficult is it to make these machines?
Oh, it's it's a very capital intensive business. Um it's getting harder and harder every day. We're the last family-owned heavy equipment dealership in South Florida.
Wow. All of our competition is either owned uh public companies or private equity or, you know, corporately owned. Um, we're the last family-owned
and you I'm sure you guys have been getting a couple offers.
Well, that's, you know, we're committed to staying uh in the industry.
Thank you, bro. I appreciate that. Nobody does that. Yeah, as soon as you go those corporate, they're that's even why a reason why we love this guy because in the sense to keep it here and knowing that you got all the Fortune 500s coming and want to buy you out and saying, "Listen, I'm sticking to thing. I love my family business. We're going to keep on employing 400 people." That says a lot for this family and for that company.
Thank you.
What What's Chris, talk to me. What's going on? What's What's this all ruckus? Because that I know of. I mean, I I just heard about this whole thing. Oh, Kelly tractors. Cali Cali Cali that I know of you just guys wanted to move from one site to another site.
Yes.
Why don't you give our listeners a profile of of what it's going on? What what what was what are the intentions of you guys?
Well, so we've been at our current headquarters uh just north border Dorado uh since the early '7s.
Okay.
The neighborhoods changed dramatically. We're stones throw from downtown Dorado.
We know that. Yeah. Uh there's high-rise condos going up and progress is good. I want to say condos going up, mixeduse development, all the rest. Um and just the density has increased dramatically in the last 10 years. And if this continues for another 10 years, we're not going to fit the neighborhood anymore. We've got 18 wheelers bringing in heavy equipment and all that. So
no one in the condos want to have that around the area either, you know. So think about it. If I live there, I don't want that. as my from my balcony view.
Yep.
Yeah.
No. And the rout's growing a lot. That's what I'm saying. So,
yeah.
So, our family's own this tree farm on 137th Avenue and 836 uh since 1984 and it's in a great location. Our neighbors there in that neighborhood are very intense uses such as 100 acre warehouse uh distribution warehouse that's going up right now. Uh the sek cement plant is there.
Yeah. No. Oh, sure.
The uh Tammy ME137 uh truck terminal and parking uh was just approved a couple years ago. So,
and they're going to start Do you know when they're going to break ground there or
Oh, I'm not sure.
Um but Prololog has definitely broken ground and they're they're going to be building those warehouses.
So, then what's what's what's the plan with you guys? You guys want to move your your your the whole plant, the headquarters over there to the to that farm now?
Well, it'll be a transition process obviously. um you know we haven't really got there yet with all that all all those details but um the idea the big idea is yes to eventually have everything out there. Okay.
So again, I want to know I want to understand what's the commotion? What's what's what's the ruckus with this? I mean, so in order for you to do this, you have to change something. You have to change the zoning. You have to change something.
We have to change the master plan.
Okay.
Um, which there's a lot of uses outside the urban development boundary such as the cement plant, such as the truck uh terminal that was approved and other uses. Um,
so parallel to your property, there's already these other companies operating. Yes.
Okay. So, you're right in the middle.
We're almost the hole in the donut.
Okay. All right. Almost.
And then you you move forward and then what they you you had some type of a like um favor. I know JC Bermuda is within your
Yes, he's helped us shepherd it through. He's been great. Uh we've been in this process for almost three years. We've been working diligently with the county, with the state. Um we we got our two votes through the board of county commissioners and the last day of the uh mayor's veto period, she called us up and told us she was vetoing us.
Wow.
Okay. Uh do we know a reason why?
Well, she mentioned I mean if you look on X, she has a whole video that's kind of the same explanation she gave us,
right?
Said it's a very critical wetlands um for our county and um so
but are you guys in the Everlanes?
No. No, far from it.
And and they've been building right next to him the whole time,
right? So I don't I don't
That's the idea that makes sense to me,
right? I mean those that's the you know, so what does what does the commissioner of the area say?
Uh uh Commissioner Bermudez has been supportive and he's been shephering it through,
you know, and I saw some videos of it too. It's like a tree farm.
It's a tree farm.
Not like a lot of because I know there was a videos online that people were showing birds and things that I mean there could be birds in there. Maybe. But
you go to my backyard and I don't have a
but like swamp land.
Well, but you know this isn't the cameras. You know how this works.
So I mean there's opposition out there.
What I don't understand is that there's already se there and there's other properties already operating and then now they're blocking you. You're trying to move something out of Dorado that would benefit the DA community. Push it there which I think makes more sense at the edge of like kind of like you know our county. Yes.
Um and then provide more jobs etc. So then they say no to you.
They veto.
The mayor veto. The mayor veto. So then now what is the next step?
We're up for a override of the veto. The vote. Hopefully the county commission uh overrides her veto on Wednesday, February 18th.
Well, I mean, listen, I mean, again, um those that's up to the now the county commissioners to, you know, to take a look at the whole situation. Absolutely. I mean, I you know,
that's that's what they're there for. I I am a I am a true believer and and I come from that world that if you have your you know the whatever whoever represents that area has to know what they're doing. You know what I'm saying? And and they've studied this.
Yes.
So I'm you know and I'm sure that if that commissioner from that area uh thought that there was going to be something harming his area or something they wouldn't have been you know in in in this problem. Unfortunately, sometimes, you know, yes, politics plays into all these uh, you know, endeavors, which is the part that I really, you know, I I hate because again, I always say I I I come from that experience. I know how that works.
When you know, it's something good for the county that I mean, to Eddie's point, I mean, what is the difference? You're going to a place where you have a a CX cment plant. You already have what is it? The truck uh what truck stop the truck stop that just got approved.
Yes. Yeah. You know, and what's going to be now that truck stop? It's going to be like all 18 wheelers or something like that going to be.
There's a terminal building and then trucks that I guess will back up to the terminal, unload and load and a lot of what they call transloading.
Correct.
Uh is my understanding.
Right. And you guys
got the highway right there.
You guys are parallel to this.
Yep.
All right. So I mean
all in the same kind of
Yeah.
You know,
so these are the things that you know here goes to the many things that make you think that go h you know it's like why why is this happening? Why is this happening to you guys? You know, I I don't understand that. And I I don't care. You know, people tell me, "Oh, no, because of the Some people will bring in this whole thing of uh all the environment, the I" And sometimes it doesn't happen. Listen, I went through this with an area that I lived that you know in in biking areas and and you're talking about my backyard and then people are telling me that
Well, the trail.
Yeah. And then all of a sudden you have people from other places that bike in in Kibiscane saying what should happen somewhere else. Yeah.
You know it should be the people that live in that area that are affected with something. You know how how are you going to tell me what's happening in my backyard that you live in in Kiscane, you know, in the key over there. So I I just don't understand that. And and to tell you the truth,
here's a company that has been established, a company that employs 400 people and you're going to be employing more people over there. I mean, here we go again. Here's Manny's, you know, Spanish saying that this should just, you know, I mean, if I don't see why anybody wouldn't vote to override her veto, tell you the truth.
I hope you're right.
Well, I mean, and then what's I wanted to talk to you about, you told me earlier that at one point um they were going to eminent domain your property.
Yes.
And they were going to build what? A sewer plant.
Yes. Less than talk about that process.
This one, this one now. This same exact property that the mayor is going nuts about.
The county less than 10 years ago said they wanted to build a massive sewer plant out there.
It's kind of smelly, huh?
The mayor voted in favor of this when she was a county commissioner and now she's saying we can't develop it for much less intrusive use than a sewer plant.
Yeah, I know. A sewer plant is a sewer plant. That's that's you know that's nasty. I probably I think that the community in that area would
No, I mean, who would have,
you know? That's pretty much Kendall. As far as Kendall, that's my that's my area. Like, I go 13 on the way down, you know?
Yeah. Yeah.
But I'm I'm just saying I I think I'll take a a tractor.
Yeah.
20 times more than having a sewer.
So then why do you do you ever know why that So they voted yes on that to do a sewer pan in that same exact property. Yeah. They would have built over it regardless. Yeah.
Um they didn't eminent domain you.
No.
So do you know why it fell apart or anything or just
I don't know. We we had a lawsuit with them and you know don't want to bore you with the details and you know it kind of I guess fizzled out at some point but I don't know they you look in the uh budgets and stuff like that and they still mentioned the West District wastewater treatment plant. So you got to wonder if maybe that's you know on the further horizon to put a sewer plant there and that's why she's doing this.
Yeah. So they don't so they don't want to approve this because they want to have that done down the line.
Ah yes I don't know maybe We're on to something speculation, but it lines up. You know, it does light up.
This is our spectacle soul
segment.
Listen, but that's the beauty honestly about our our our show. I love We love bringing this stuff to the public. Like a lot of people listen, everyone has a job, a family to feed, the kids, the school, and there maybe don't have the time to understand and talk to people like you or the opportunity to do it. So, we love to bring that to the community cuz you guys have been a long established family, a family business here. Most people probably don't even know that. You know, they probably think you're some big corporate company coming in taking the land and just building what whatever it is you want to build, but that's not definitely the case. To add to Edd's point, you know, that's one of the things and and I always say we we wanted to shed that light. You know, a day in Miami is all about what's happening in Miami. Yes.
So then, you know, because listen, you can have news channels. You can have you
listen, I again I say I came from that world. I know how that works. So there's a one news, you know, news channel can just have a a 30 secondond bit. Oh, this was veto because uh ABC and then they put the worst thing of it because they put the clips.
Yeah.
Nobody come and interview the person. Ask me. Let me explain to you. There's two sides to every story. That's that's what I say. So what we do, we invite people over here. So everybody gives her side. I mean, we've had here, we've had Mayor Cava, which we love. She comes and she gives her explanation and you you know, we ask her the questions. What's going on with this? What's going on with that? And then we let our viewers judge. Listen, I don't think this is right. I think this is Goodwill. Invite then the other person and ask them the questions.
It's open for so at the end of the day, you know, it's it's important because when everybody's on the news, people, you know, can't don't have a chance to explain anything. So that's why it was important when we called you and said, "Chris, could you come and
yeah,
you know, explain this to us." So give me a little bit more about the fact of, you know, what you know, the transition time. So if if this gets voted, how long do you think it takes from, you know, leaving Dorado to the new place?
Could take a long time. I mean, this could take another 10 years. You got to go through zoning, platting, permitting.
Oh, you fall into that category.
And there's a lot of safeguards along the the regulatory framework. There's a lot of safeguards to the environment along the way.
Correct.
And it just seems like they're trying to frontload and put the cart before the horse with a lot of this stuff. Okay.
And we want to be good stewards of the environment. I was born and raised in Miami Day County. I resp quite a bit. We don't want to trash the treasure or whatever pave paradise, whatever the tagline's been, we want to really do this responsibly and have something that's there that serves all of us.
So even though if you guys get approved, you still have to go through everything else with DURM and everybody else. So if they have a problem with anything, you guys still have to rectify whatever has to be done.
Oh yes.
So it's not like you get approved already and that's it. start building this or stuff like that. So
there's a lot of safeguards.
Yeah.
So then that that extends a project. It could be a 10ear project.
Absolutely. But it makes sense and I like that because at the same time then our departments from Miami date county which kudos to them you know we'll go ahead and protect that as well. So then if they feel you know with I guess with your plans or whatever it's doing listen I don't know you can't build this here. You got to change this up. You got to change it. So it's not it's it's not a slam dunk. you guys just, you know, getting approved. That's it. You're going to start building. You still got have to go through everything else,
right? Okay. Wow. But you know what? Like, it's I mean, I don't want to sound dumb.
No, no, but don't. It's never a dumb question. when you look at the county from above and if I had the opportunity to move things around, you know, like let's say I'm building my own little city, that would be a piece I would want to move to that area and kind of, you know, maybe we can build apartments or or housing or a bar, whatever it is we want to do with this land in the center of a city that's grown a lot that wasn't like that when you had, you know, the property that and I would shift your operation here, you know, to to the area that you guys want to do. It actually makes sense from like a master plan perspective.
Yes. Um, what I was going to ask you was tell the people what exactly is that's going to be happening if you guys do get approved and you move forward. What is it that's going to be built on the property?
Well, we will have basically what we have in Dorado but bigger. Um, we have a large service shop um with a lot of skilled technicians um a lot of good paying jobs. We train a lot of these uh young people to get certified to be a diesel technician. We work with Miami Dade uh county public schools with apprenticeship programs and just provide a lot of good paying skilled jobs for working families that area which honestly that area needs to have.
And not only that, but I just wanted to tell you this.
Everybody knows out there and especially we have listen our our our viewers are I love them. They're fantastic. I mean, we got some bad comments every once, but we take them in strip.
Yeah, it's okay.
But there's a lot of people out there that are looking for good tradesman, you know, positions.
And I always say sometimes it's not just about, you know, the college and the university, you know, uh, degrees,
you know, we need AC mechanics, we need good plumbers, we need, you know, contractors, you know, this, what would this fall under? in in you know for to getting a job in in in the trades world
that would engineer
for the mechanics
technicians technician for for the tractors right
yes diesel technicians we also work on generators at hospitals all these Baptist hospitals have uh their standby is diesel
what's what's what's a good what's a good let's say entry level you know salary for one of these one of these people
I'd say in uh you know definitely more than $20 an hour and after they've been there for a few years you're getting in the 30s. The journeyman level you're getting in the 40s.
I mean
it's good paying jobs.
Can I go get one of these certificates? I mean I mean
it's hard work but it's a good paying job but honest work.
But I'm just but I'm just saying I mean this is these are opportunity and you guys are going to have now even more opportunities for us.
Absolutely. We're it looks like we can maybe create a thousand jobs out of this.
All right, that's it. We're done.
But wait, quick question. Um, just to be uh sure cuz you've mentioned generators and I, you know, I wanted to think about this and ask you um
what exactly are the services or what what do you what does Kelly tractor provide? Cuz if I see the name and I see what you guys done, you provide heavy machinery, but you think more beyond that.
Yes. Uh we also have we're in the power and energy business and um generators at you see at hospitals uh marine engines.
You you guys develop those and manufacturers as well. Oh, I know that. um industrial. We do a lot of stuff with Everglades Restoration. We do a lot of stuff with Miami Dade Water and Sewer. Um a lot of power and energy uh demands, heavy equipment.
What do you do exactly with them? Like
um like the pump stations. You ever go have lunch at Garcia's next door? There's a huge pump station. You go in there, there's it's full of cat generators pumping that water.
Yeah.
Because if the grid goes down, you don't want the water to stop being pumped, if you know what I mean.
Yeah.
We need We need Kelly Tractor. So you guys are very invested in the into the infrastructure of the of the county.
Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. And um
we're supporting a lot of the Everglades restoration jobs, a lot of big earth moving jobs. We also do a lot of the flood uh control systems out there that are based on a diesel engine pump. But if you drive down um like you're going up to Kiston um you see those pump stations with the smoke stacks, those are cat generators in there.
Wow.
Running. Yeah. See, these are these are those things that people don't understand that goes out there.
It's hard, you know, county,
but but not only the county, but it's a sentence that I always say it's so impressive when you really these things that you overlook in everyday life that you're saying, "What is that? I don't know what that is." You know, and then when you look at it to say right next to Garcia, how many people don't know what that is?
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying? They think, "What the hell is that?"
What other work? I'm curious. What other work do you guys do that's interesting like that that you know would be cool for people?
I mean, any any uh like actively like anything that you do that you know it would be interesting if people know that you do in Miami.
I mean you go to any job site and hopefully you see some some of our equipment out there.
Uh we're also very big in the rental business. We do we rent a lot of equipment.
That's what I always thought. I thought you guys just rented equipment and you know I mean but I mean to his point you have like you know big contractors no GCs and and doing okay let's take something for the stadium.
You know what I'm saying? I mean the new stadium is being built. I'm sure that you know the general contractors are using equipment.
Absolutely. Absolutely. That's a good friend of mine, Down Red Engineering. He's out there doing all the site work.
There you go. Which is doing a hell of a job. Great job. Great job.
There's We got to go talk to people because the highways haven't been built that fast. The underline, the Lul Trail, all these things that are just like up in the air, the bridge.
And these guys at the stadium built that in how long? Like 12 months.
Oh yeah.
That was the the airport has taken decades. And these guys built that.
Well, shout out to to
I guess mast, right?
It's incredible how they've done that so fast. And everyone texting and sending pictures about of it, too.
Oh, yeah. It's going up fast.
So, again, my my biggest I guess my biggest question and I and I just want to reiterate it again again is like what's the problem? I don't you know, I still don't understand what the veto was. I mean, I wish I knew that beforehand when we had the mayor because I would have asked her. You know what I'm saying? But I just I don't understand it. I mean, especially, you know, all the other county commissioners see that's it's it's a great opportunity, a great, you know, thing to to to go through. I mean, um, I'm not I'm not the biggest, uh, person to really, you know, analyze or calculate, but this just out of in in in common sense, you know, especially that you're not the only people going out there by yourselves that, you know, you're going to this territory now that you're make I mean, you have everybody everybody there already. And
I would say a little bit more
a little bit more,
you know, complex cement plant that whole trucking, you know, station that's going to be I mean, you guys are going to be there with your with your trucks and your and your offices. I I I don't I don't understand it. And especially bringing more jobs to that area and even adding a thousand jobs. I mean, I'm sure a lot of my our viewers are going to say, uh, let me know where I can sign up in the future for higher. Absolutely. We're always hiring.
Well, I would love that. Before we leave, we will we would love to put your tag there. So, we always
What positions are you usually always hiring for?
Um, we h are always always hiring for some technicians. Um, we hire in our parts department. We hire in our product support group, um, sales, you name it. Uh, accounting, finance,
we have we have a lot we have a very complex um, business.
And you said something very important. You work a lot with Miami Dade.
Miami we're a big vendor to Miami date county.
Okay. But you have a program. Did you say something?
Miami Day public schools.
Miami Day Public Schools. Okay, perfect. My bad.
We have apprentices that come into our shops. Okay.
Um, one of our former service managers is the the head of the diesel program and he sends us apprentices and they work in our shops and they get
their uh vocational training and then they can work with us full-time. And
have you had a lot of conversions of people because Absolutely. That's a great story.
Amazing. Amazing.
That's awesome.
Yeah. I mean there listen when we are whenever we talk about job opportunities it does really you know a lot of people are interested. Well, listen. I know our log again.
Wait, wait, John, what benefits do you have? You have a health.
We have We have health 401k. We have a profit sharing. We
No way.
That's it. You got me a profit.
I'm going to have to talk to my boss, man.
We have 10 paid, you know, we pay all the 10 paid holidays. Um, vacation. We have a
We have a good uh benefit package.
And you have good culture. Good culture.
Absolutely. We have a lot of um you know, kids that go work there, their parents work there. Wow, man. That must be nice. Listen, the fact of being married couples that work there, people's, you know,
you guys can just make a reality show. I'm sure you've I'm sure you've had married couples. People have met a job with kids.
We do. I just went to a wedding uh last year for a couple that met uh
in the workplace.
That's awesome. What a great story. and uh you know a lot of get get some of our best employees because they're someone's nephew or someone's son or daughter or
are are are you like a good president? Like are do you bring down the hammer?
I don't know. I hope I hope so. I try to be as nice as I can. Right.
We got to bring in some of the employees in into the show. Well, Chris, again, um I would love for you to keep us, you know, and and keep our viewers, you know, tuned to what's going on.
Thank you.
You know what I'm saying? I think it's important. Yeah. Very important,
you know. So, this is important because you're you're going to the commission next week.
Yes. Next week.
Next week. Next week. So, listen. I'm sure that you know all the the the right commissioners know to do the right thing because I mean it's just
if you had like a message for the commissioners or for the people, what what would that message be?
This is a responsible project. Uh we've met all the environmental safeguards. The state of Florida reviewed it. FWC, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, they've all reviewed it. They didn't have a problem with it. Uh this same site, uh the county wanted to put a sewer plant there. They did a study in 2017, reviewed 17 different sites throughout the county, found that this one would have the least negative impacts on the environment. And we certainly don't want to track, you know, pave over the uh paradise or whatever it is. This project makes sense. it fits the area and we hope the uh trust that the leaders in our community will make the right decision.
That's it. I mean,
you put a lot of work into you can tell this is not easy to do. For those people who are out there, you're playing in the big leagues right now. You're playing the big leagues,
you know, but [snorts] good luck to you.
Thank you.
And again, I want you to I want you to call us and come back so we can post something in the sense I want to know how the vote is,
you know. I want to know who who who likes or who doesn't like it. You know, our viewers want to know. Last question. This is your hardest question.
This is your hardest question. You going to have this question. Okay, everybody gets this one.
Yeah,
you got to tell us. I'm interested to know actually.
Uhhuh.
Your top three restaurants.
Okay.
Okay. Starting with number three. Go.
Number three, Bombay Darbar in Coconut Grove.
I I've heard that one a lot. I haven't been there. What do you like about it?
Well, just the kids love going there. Uh like to have the Indian food once in a while. Like the spice. They say it's
I did go there actually. I went for my friend's birthday. Oh, okay. It was really nice. I've not been, but I've heard great things about it.
It's fun. Has great.
Another place we have to go to. Number two.
Number two, I have to say Christies. Just drove by.
It's a classic.
It's a classic.
I've never been there either.
It's a But they're closed for lunch. Are they open for lunch?
No, they're closed for lunch during the holidays. Close to Christmas. They open for But that's a I mean, one of my favorites. That's a staple. You can't go wrong.
They've been there for a long time.
Oh, god. Yeah.
And you're number one. Number one.
Lina de Lechon. Wow. That that has to be in there
on 58th Street. It's right next door to our head current headquarters. It's almost like our company cafeteria.
Oh, that's amazing. Chris, I don't know. But you had a little Cuban accent there right now, brother. When you say you're Cuban?
No.
But uh
I guess honorary, right?
Yeah. Honorary Cuban a thousand%. If you if you've been married this long, since when?
Since 1930.
1933. That was before the Cubans came.
I mean, for the love. Anyway, Chris, this is a real pleasure. What a pleasure, brother. And and and and thank you again. And thank you to the family. Keep on, you know, that tradition as well, I'm not going to put on songs because then they're gonna they're gonna they're going to say there were infringement with songs, but continue with that good good tradition. Appreciate it, brother.
Thank you. We'll try to keep it.
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