on your patch. the canal boat trips have always been run here in bruges by five families, though now that s about to change as soon, the waterways will be opened up to outsiders. and that includes ghent. michiel. hey. good morning. how are you? so i m actually the fourth generation that is doing this type of work. michiel s great grandmother actually started the business when his great grandfather was a soldier. he wasn t allowed to do business aside from being in the army. so his wife took on this business at that time and then later on, passed it over to my grandfather, went to my father, and now i m here. now, the future looks like it s going to change things. can you explain to me what that situation is? well, i m not much of a fortune teller, so i don t know. but, um.yeah,
by five families, though now that s about to change as soon, the waterways will be opened up to outsiders. and that includes ghent. michiel. hey. good morning. how are you? so i m actually the fourth generation that is doing this type of work. michiel s great grandmother actually started the business when his great grandfather was a soldier. he wasn t allowed to do business aside from being in the army. so his wife took on this business at that time and then later on, passed it over to my grandfather, went to my father, and now i m here. now, the future looks like it s going to change things. can you explain to me what that situation is? well, i m not much of a fortune teller, so i don t know. but, um.yeah, in 2028, they re going to open up the market.
here in bruges by five families, though now that s about to change as soon, the waterways will be opened up to outsiders. and that includes ghent. michiel. hey. good morning. how are you? so i m actually the fourth generation that is doing this type of work. michiel s great grandmother actually started the business when his great grandfather was a soldier. he wasn t allowed to do business aside from being in the army. so his wife took on this business at that time and then later on, passed it over to my grandfather, went to my father, and now i m here. now, the future looks like it s going to change things. can you explain to me what that situation is? well, i m not much of a fortune teller, so i don t know. but, um.yeah, in 2028, they re going to open up the market. bruges is beautiful because it is contained.
so i don t know. but, um.yeah, in 2028, they re going to open up the market. bruges is beautiful because it is contained. and if you open it up, like amsterdam or venice, that would kill the charm. as part of the changes coming in, all the boats operating on the bruges canal will need to become electric. we ve been investing in electrical boats, which costs about, i don t know, about 300,000 euros a boat. so we have to invest in two more. we already have two. i don t know any people who would invest, we ll call iti million euros, and not being sure that you ll be able to still do the job. i mean, we re proud of what we ve achieved and what we re doing here as a job. so i m trusting that the city sees that and wouldn t kick us aside. you can see some blood splatters towards the end, if you look. have you ever had any accidents?
documents sent them some wall street journal articles and then they read it and got back to her, and we re you know that they were i mean, i don t want to say gobsmacked, but they were. they had to read through the documents, and it gave them pause. and now they ve had a few days to marinate on it and talk to us about respect them for doing that for coming on talking to you. um yeah, and i think look, it s always good when you re willing to open your mind and read other things, and you know, it s all it s all there, and i think at the heart of it, and you ve talked about this so much we know that they re not going to have to apologize. the hosts or correction, or correct or correct falsehoods, but they they i lied to their viewers just truly lied, which is what these people think. everybody lies. that s the key takeaway, and we re out of time. if you take a look at polls from gallup from pew that trust and media is at an all time low. my biggest takeaway is what can we do as a journali