t the 1995 GTS, Bill Beer finished off the hilarious narration of his film with the following words of encouragement…

You’re evangelists. You’re taking the world down into that temple of ours, and you’re not destroying it. And someday the world’s gonna recognize you for what you are. But I want you to know that right now, I do…
And I see that you have problems—I live in a parallel world. I run a boat through a national park, and I have the Coast Guard on my back all the time. And they’re good guys, these bureaucrats, every one of ‘em. And some of ‘em are pretty smart and all that sort of thing.
But they’re bureaucrats. And you know, dogs bark, and bureaucracies grow. [laughter]
And so we down there, who sail boats in salt water, we’re like you in many respects. We came there to be independent—we don’t want to @#*! with all that stuff. Now I’ve heard many of my colleagues and friends say, “I didn’t come down here to fight these battles. I didn’t want to be a politician. I don’t want to be a civic activist. I just want to sail my boat. And screw these guys. If I don’t like ‘em I’m going to sail off to another island.” And a lot of ‘em have.
But still in all, we still have to face some of the same problems as you do. We’re not nearly as organized as you, we’re not nearly the group that you are. But we succeeded—by our coconut telegraph we communicate with, we don’t even have an organization—and we succeeded to some extent in winning some of our battles. Recently… we got a law passed by congress—that ain’t easy. But we don’t have the tools you guys have got. You’ve got a tremendous organization with a tremendous group of people. And I don’t think the world recognizes what you are. I don’t even think you recognize what you are.

I think if you want to, you can sail off over the horizon and I wouldn’t blame you at all for doing it. But if you want to, you’ve got the resources—and I can say this with a little experience because I made a pretty good living for a while as a political PR specialist, and I used to do a lot of stuff like that—and I see a lot of power and a lot of clout here.
Use your congressmen, use your passengers if you choose to do so, and you can win any battle you want. The fact that you’ve got a four-striper and a three-striper and a superintendent and a lot of these kind of people here—is incredible. They don’t just come for anybody, you know. Congressional committees and you guys. [laughter and applause] So I would say this only—I want to leave you with this soapbox thing—
Respect yourselves. You’ve got a lot of trouble coming, I want to tell you this. I predict this…
There’s no organization like this—no national park in any country has an organization with the, the efficiency and the, the intelligence that you guys have. I’m astounded at the quality of people here.
And I say to you—if you don’t want to use it, that’s up to you—but don’t underestimate yourselves.
That’s the soapbox.