Yachts! Are they the Last True Way To Show Wealth? Do they Give the Wealthy and Powerful Too Much Privacy? Should One Retrieve the Basketballs that Bounce Off Their Yacht? IMAX & Skiing on Yachts?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: In any case, an airplane is just transportation. A big ship is a floating manse, with a hierarchy written right into the nomenclature. If it has a crew working aboard, it’s a yacht. If it’s more than ninety-eight feet, it’s a superyacht. After that, definitions are debated, but people generally agree that anything more than two hundred and thirty feet is a megayacht, and more than two hundred and ninety-five is a gigayacht. The world contains about fifty-four hundred superyachts, and about a hundred gigayachts. For the moment, a gigayacht is the most expensive item that our species has figured out how to own. This paragraph comes from the New Yorker.  the article is titled: "The Haves and Have-Yachts."  The article is written by Evan Osnos.  You can read the full article here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-the-have-yachts Zac and Don discuss the world of yachts and the rich who own them.  They discuss why the yacht seems to make sense as something for the rich to own.  They also wonder what it must be like to have a yacht and deal with the issues that come with owning one.   The following Wall Street Journal article about collecting basketballs for Larry Ellison's yacht is also discussed: https://www.wsj.com/articles/larry-ellisons-overboard-basketball-retriever-tells-all-1398985562 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bestparagraph/message