July 14, 2025 • 34 mins
NOW the sky is falling, with what's happening to tomato costs and a local Mexican restaurant?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vords.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's start here, because I think that everything else falls
into place if you recognize what's happening. What's happening is
the same people who have told you for several months now,
well since Trump was re elected in November, the same
people who've told you the entire time well that the
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sky was falling now admit, which is amazing and big
of them, that they were wrong about the sky falling
at the time that they said it was going to fall.
But you know, there's always a big butt in there,
and their big butt is yeah, okay, So we said
that the sky was falling, we were wrong about the
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timing of it. But we feel confident in telling you
the sky is falling. Now what sky?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
How?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, First the economy. President Trump is threatening or issuing tariffs,
and that's going to cost the goods of everything the skyrocket.
Inflation is going to go through the roof. People aren't
going to be able to afford anything. And the Wall
Street Journal comes out and says, well, I know that
we all said that, but turns out the economy is
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pretty resilient and a lot of these skyrocketing prices that
we had predicted didn't come to pass of what they are.
Now it's going to happen now, Oh yeah, what? CNN
has a screaming loud headline that says tomato prices could
jump this week amid tariff turmoil. First of all, let's
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work backward on the headline turmoil. What turmoil? Other countries
issue tariffs against US at a rate higher in many
instances than what President Trump is retaliating with. What does
he want? He wants all the tariffs to come down.
And the more he does this, the more he's negotiating
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deals with these countries. Is that nuance there in the
CNN article. No, And then you got the modifier could,
because they've been among the media outlets who have been
wrong time and time again about all this stuff about
the sky falling. So it's tomato prices could jump this week.
Well how much? Well they say it's about a twenty
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one percent tariff on most tomatoes imported from Mexico. All right,
now we've got some nuance in that one. Let's say
the President says, all right, even though and this is
a real thing, didn't know this. Since nineteen ninety six,
they've had an agreement in place with Mexico called the
Tomato Suspension Agreement, meaning tomato imports are off limit when
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it comes to tariffs. That's the Tomato Suspension Agreement. It
sounds like a book title and Oprah's most Reads. Have
you read the Tomato Suspension Agreement? Oh my gosh, it's fantastic.
So President Trump is thinking about going back on the
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vaunted and historic tomato suspension agreement twenty one percent tariff
on most Mexican tomato imports. What even does that mean?
I don't know, but and of course Seeannanna saying, well,
next time you go buy a tomato, it could be
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twenty one percent more expensive. Next time you go and
get tomato sauce, tomato paste, tomato juice, pico digayo, salsa,
it could all be more expensive. The next time you
go buy just a bag of tomatoes just to chuck
at some bad comedian, it could be more expensive, could
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be or a couple other things. Here, Mexico's not the
only place we get tomatoes. Turns out everyone in America
can grow tomatoes except my wife. My wife is where
tomato plants go to die. Me too, you too, Lucy.
So wait a second. If for some reason, you go
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to the store and go. I can't believe the rising
cost of tomatoes. This is absolutely incredible. What are your options?
You buy some seeds, you put them in the ground,
and you basically don't do a whole heck of a
lot with them.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You water them.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's good, and the plants grow and then the tomatoes
are right there on the vine. It's amazing. You can
grow them right there in your backyard. You can grow
them in your front yard. You can grow them in
your gutters, grow, you can grow them inside. You put
a lamp on there, water them up. Tomatoes, Bam.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
They don't taste the same when you do that inside.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Now you got to have them out there or they're
fighting with worms and pesticides and all the rest of
the study. Yeah, okay, we'll put bring the bees inside.
Do I have to think of everything? So it's possible
to grow tomatoes in America every place but my backyard.
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My wife, I think has a stated purpose to kill tomatoes.
Every single year she comes out and she says like,
look look at this, I've got a tomato growing here. Like,
we'll never eat that tomato. It will get destroyed. Something
will happen.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Do you think there's something wrong? With it because it's
the only one that's right.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, I haven't been able to have a tomato grown
in my yard for my entire life. That's just how
it works. So all right, it's possible to grow tomatoes
in America. It's possible to import tomatoes from other places.
But let's also look at let's say, all right, all listen,
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when we get a lot of tomatoes from Mexico. I'm
not going to doubt that we do. A twenty one
percent tariff on a tomato import is not a twenty
one percent tariff on everything that goes into getting you
your tomato. It's on the tomato itself, not the packaging,
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not the labor for the tomato, not the the processing,
not the transportation. All those things go into the cost
of a tomato tomato. So if we're talking about just
the tariff of that which actually brings it into the country,
that's that's twenty one percent on a relatively small cost
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for this particular tomato. All the labor, the packaging, the processing,
that which we need at the grocery store. But we've
got to staff the grocery store, we got to keep
the lights on at the grocery store. Even though it's
a summer. We don't need the air conditioning running at
fifty eight degrees in the grocery store, but apparently we
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gotta have the grocery store be cold. My wife walks
in there, I'm cold. I'm going back to my car
to get a jacket. Like, we're only in here for
a tomato, you know, So all of the things that
go into the cost of that tomato are not subject
to a twenty one percent tariff. It's a small part
of here's the last thing here. I went to the
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store last night and I bought a tomato because I
was grilling cheeseburgers for the family. And my wife said,
can you get a tomato? I said, don't we have
a whole backyard. She said, don't start like Okay, So
I bought a tomato. Do you have any idea how
expensive that tomato is? I don't, and I just bought
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one last night. I know it was not cost prohibitive.
I got that, got a couple of pounds of eighty
five percent ground beef, I got buns. I also bought
some hamburger buns. Is it it did? When I rang
it up, I wasn't like, oh, my guy, are you
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kidding me of that's because it's not subject to the
tariff yet tomatoes. Like, if you're going broke buying tomatoes,
then I don't know that the tomato tariff.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Is really your problem.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So this is just the latest in things where the
media is like, all right, we told you the sky
was falling. We were wrong about that, but we're really
sure it's about to happen. And now what are the
next dominoes? Sky dominoes? I'll try and keep the same
metaphor going here, What are the next sky dominoes about
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to fall? Well, there's Russia and Ukraine. You know they're
still fighting each other.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well there's a labor Oh yeah, let's talk about labor.
Let's talk about an Omaha restaurant group that now says, look,
I we didn't know that we had people working here illegally,
but the Department of Homeland Security did a little check
on our employees. It turns out we might have a problem.
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I'll tell you who's saying what what that means? In
just a couple of minutes, Scott Goes Scooter email Scott
at kfab dot com says you cannot grow very good
tomatoes using the same soil twice. That's the main mistake
people make. The soil has to be new soil pretty
much eats each season. You're welcome. How am I gonna
find soil that's never had tomatoes grown in it? New soil?
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I don't know how to make new soil.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
With molts? Okay, with all of your scrapped food.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, that's not mulch, that's.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Well, you've got to mix it all up.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Gross.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
What do you call that posting? Yeah, you need to
make your own. I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The only composting that's really done in and around my
house seems to be in my teenage son's bedroom.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Ah, there you go, it's just get it from his room.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Don't go in there.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, I'm composting or throw everything in there.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm looking in the cupboards, I'm looking in the dishwasher, Like,
how can we have no plates or cups?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I know where they are in the compost pile that
is my teenage son's bedroom. Casey emails and says, Scott,
I love hearing all of the money that's been collected
from the tariffs. Do we know where all that collected
money is going? What is it being put against? Is
it the debt or something else. I've not heard exactly
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where all that money is being put Thanks man, You're welcome. Casey,
thank you for the email. Much of it really hasn't
even been collected yet. A lot of these tariffs are
threatened tariffs. I'm gonna slap a thirty five percent tariff
on all this stuff, and then it kind of gets
put off. Or for the ones that have been negotiated
and are in effect, some of those don't take effect
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for several months. I don't know whether there are any
tariffs that have already been put in place and have
already happened. But what the economists say here is, well,
we got to start preparing for when these tariffs take effect.
Now some of them probably have. I mean, it seems
to me that there have been some where Trump's like,
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all right, all the copper we get from Canada, thirty
percent tariff for whatever that number is. Bam, it's in fact,
it's in effect. It's happening right now, and then it
ends up being negotiated in all the rest of this stuff.
So of that which has been collected, yeah, it goes
into the national call. So we can pay for the
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big beautiful bill, the no tax on tips up to
twenty five thousand dollars or whatever. It was, no tax
on overtime, you know, some of the continuation of the
Trump tax cuts, that kind of thing. So yeah, it's
it's paying for all that stuff. I don't think that
it's like, yeah, Trump got a new pair of shoes today,
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thanks Mexico for that tomato tariff. I don't think it
works like that. We had a local business that just
put us a sign in the windows of both of
their Omaha restaurants, and that restaurant is Fernando's.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Is that is that Ama?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's sort of.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Uh, Fernando's Restaurant says, well, we had no idea and
we don't know why the Department of Homeland Security targeted
us particularly for this. There was no raid, no ice
operation or anything like that. But Department of Homeland Security
sent us a subpoena asking for employees documentation. When we
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provided it, it came back that some of our employees,
not all of them, some of our employees are not
working legally in this country, and due to the law,
we had to terminate those employees. That's not a lot
of them, but it is going to impact our ability
to fully staff operations and will temporarily affect our hours
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in service. The website lists both of the Fernando's locations.
You got the one a one hundred and fourteenth in
Dodge and then seventy fifth in Pacific that I admit
I didn't know existed. Has that been there for a while?
You say Fernando's. I think one hundred fourteenth in Dodge.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Right by the interlude?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Why didn't Yeah, there's there's a Fernando's there by the interlude. Yeah,
Now I'm in the interlude all the time.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I thought so.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But see that's the problem. I always going through the
back door.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Okay, okay, when I come out.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Right, who want to come out? I am schnockered. So
I don't even hardly know that's at seventy fifth and Pacific.
Don't you know what town I'm in? So, yeah, I
guess it sounds familiar now that you're mentioning it's in
that strip mall there on the south side of the street.
How about that or close to the strip mall or
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a standalone building by they?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I think so, but I don't know. You can always
buy their SLSA in the store.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Though, Okay, I haven't been in there. I've been to
one hundred and fourteenth at Dodge. I like Fernando's. It's
been a while, but I guess it's Saturday. Well, I
guess you can't go in there today because both locations
are listed as temporarily closed. And according to the owner
of the place, he says, look, we cooperated with the
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government on this, had to terminate some valued staff members.
But you know it wasn't a lot, but we uh
because we had to fire these individuals. We don't have
enough people to staff the restaurants. Now, I'm not a
restaurant owner operator. I don't work in a restaurant. I
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eat in a lot of restaurants. If you've got two
restaurants and you want to keep some money coming in
and keep your current employees happy, can't you close one
of the restaurants and focus the attention at the other one.
Do the people that work at seventy fifth and Pacific,
where they have no idea how to make the food
at the one hundred and fourteenth and Dodge location, like
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this is completely different.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I don't even have so.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I mean, I would think that we were just like,
all right, we're not going to have no money coming
in for the restaurant in our employees. We're going full
boar at both locations, and we got enough staff left
to have at least dinner operations at both locations, certainly
through the weekend, and I imagine by this weekend they
will I presume that they know what they're doing, more
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than some blowhard on the radio saying, well, I don't
know why these guys can't get their act together. I
also don't know how many employees were impacted. And I
also don't know why Fernando's was, whether it was just Fernando's,
or whether it was several Omaha area businesses that got
a similar subpoena from the US Department of Homeland Security.
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And this particular restaurant group is the only one that
said anything about it, because, and I feel comfortable in
saying this, I don't think these two Fernando's restaurant locations
are the only ones in town where you might have
a handful of employees in there or who have some
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might have some questions about their employment or immigration status.
So is this just a warning shot across Omaha businesses?
Bow whether that's restaurants, that's hospitality. We already saw what
happened at a food processing plant here just a matter
of weeks ago. I don't know why this particular restaurant.
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I don't know how many employees were out of there.
I don't know if suddenly Homeland Security says, all right,
we just subpoened all these restaurants. Are all of them
going to close? Is this really what's happening here? Like,
we can't hire anyone who's in the country legally, and
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when you've got some of these employees who get bounced
because of their illegal immigration status, we can't have any
of the media except eleven ten kfab report that it's
illegal immigrants who've been fired. The rest of these news
organizations are like, oh, immigrants have been fired. That's right,
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thank you local media. It's all just immigrants. The Department
of Homeland Security contacted the restaurant and said, you do
have any people who are of legal immigration status working
in there, who are maybe not first generation born and
raised Americans. Why, yes, we have a German fellow who
just get him out of there. We don't want any
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immigrants in there. Yes, it's just immigrants. The Trump's Department
of Homeland Security and ICE. They're just going around saying,
all right, anyone in here not look American, fire them,
as other people are rallied calling them all immigrants. There's
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a word missing there. That's why they aren't working today.
Immigrants also is a term that's applied to child laborers
at marijuana farms in southern California, which is where the melee,
the riot, the ICE operation took place. Just the other
day in southern California, they found an illegal child, unaccompanied miners,
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you know, the ones that people have been saying for
a while, These gang members, these drug traffickers, they're human
traffickers as well. They came into the country and Biden's
America with minor children because they knew they'd be allowed
into the country if they could show, well, i've got
a thirteen year old in my care, all right, you
guys come on in, and that thirteen year old is
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not at all even related to the guy that brought
the kid in. And then they get dumped off like
all right, I got what I wanted, I got entry
into America. Good luck, kid. Kids end up working in
this marijuana farm. I don't know when the last time
they saw their parents was I don't know if their
parents are even alive or what's going on there. And
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we're trying to repair lives in this instance, and people
are out there throwing bottles and rocks, chucking stuff at
immigration and customs workers, border patrol agents. It's amazing what's
happening in this country right now. And then you've got
a restaurant group saying, yeah, we had no idea that
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we and I just like in the food processing plant situation,
I give them the benefit of the doubt because he
verifies such a ridiculous system to try and navigate and
it's all, it's all a problem. And so this restaurant
group says, yeah, we hired these people and then it
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turns out that some of them aren't eligible to work here,
and so we got to close down for a while.
Is this what we're looking at in the weeks and
months ahead, where restaurants and businesses have to close because
they don't have a full staff of legal workers. And
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whose fault is that? If that ends up happening, I'll
tell you.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Next Scott Bodies, where you're going News Radio eleven to
ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
A restaurant that has two locations here in Omaha, Fernandos,
and I got some people emailing going it seems rather
racist that the Trump administration targeted a Mexican restaurant or
two in this one. Again, I don't know why the
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US Department of Homeland Security issued a subpoena to these
two restaurants, the Fernandos Omaha restaurants at one hundred and
fourteenth and Dodge and seventy fifth and Pacific where the
seventy fifth and Pacific location. Because people are chastising me
for only having a vague recollection of its existence, I'm
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gonna switch up and say go there all the time,
disappointed I can't be there today. That's right next to
McKenna's Booze Blues and Barbecue, where I was just in
there last night, listen to some live music and it's
some barbecue. And if you're thinking, Scott, that place hadn't
been opening years, then you just keep that to yourself.
What else used to be over there? Seventy fifth and
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Pacific Ish.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Arthur Treach is fish that's going yeah, way bad.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It's a reference. I don't know. That's Lucy. I'm Scott.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And Fernando's is closed for temporarily. I don't know why
the US Department of Homeland Security issued a subpoena to
this restaurant group. I imagine it's the same reason that
they were looking at that food processing plant. We did,
we ran the numbers, we took a look at the documentation.
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Flags started popping up, and it wasn't just because it's
Nebraska with red flags go be red forty five days
to'll kick off?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Is that where we are?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So there were flags that came up, and if you
have businesses with more flags, then there are a couple
of different options. Apparently you can either go in there
with a team from ICE and just start rounding everyone up,
and or you have this situation, you tell the business
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owner you've got a problem there, and then they run
everything up. They find it out that there are some
people who aren't working there legally. They're not in the
country legally, and so these employees have to be terminated.
So I don't know why this restaurant how many employees
were there, Apparently enough that they have to close both
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locations for a bit, and they say, until we're able
to fully staff, we may temporarily affect hours in service.
I don't know how many employees that is. I don't
know why this restaurant was particularly chosen. I don't know
what happens to those employees. I mean, if two days
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ago you had a job at a restaurant and now
you don't, and you're like, oh, President Trump knows, I'm
in the country illegally. All right, the jig is up.
Time to go home to Nicaragua. Of course I never
lived there, and my parents brought me here when I
was a little kid. I don't even know where Nicaragua is. No,
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it's south. I imagine I'll just start heading south and they
just start walking. What happens to these employees now, do
they self deport? Is that offer still on the table
where you can, I don't know, you go? Is it
like the safe Haven baby thing where you can drop
off a baby at any fire station or Blockbuster Video
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and they just take Hey, no questions asked. Thanks, Can
you go to any fire station or Blockbuster Video or
Arthur's Treaches Fish House And they're like, all right, no
questions asked. You say, you're in the country illegally. We
got some pocket money and either a bus ticket or
a plane ticket. How would you like to travel they
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work like travel agents and they just get you up
and out.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You don't have to.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
You know, you don't have to go home, but you
can't stay in this country if he.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Just takes a thousand dollars and then you don't leave.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I'm willing to try that.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I'm gonna go down there and go, yes, I'm in
the country illegally from the Netherlands. Yes, And where do
you want to go? I've always wanted to see Spain, like,
get out of here. So I don't know what happens
with these employees. They're now in the country illegal and
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they don't have a job. Don't know. But what about
other employers right now? If you own restaurants and you're
looking at your crew going, look, I don't know. I
don't ask a lot of questions here, but if I
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had to venture a guess, that might be some people
working for me that maybe don't have the most solid
immigration status.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
All right, So.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
How are you supposed to proceed right now? You just
go up to anyone who has so much as a
decent tan and go, hey, are you in the country legally?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Here?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
You're like, that's the most offensive thing I ever heard.
I'm not but still you can't say that. So what
are they supposed to do. Did they contact the Department
of Homeland Security and say, I just want to run
all these employees stats through.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I mean, how.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Are other owners, like restaurant owners, hospitality owners, food processing
plant owners, agg producers. I don't want to be completely
stereotypical radio hosts, surgeons. Are other employers looking at their
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staff and being proactive because at some point Department of
Homeland Security, the Trump administration, They're gonna come for you.
They're gonna take a look at your number of employees,
how many are in the country illegally? So would you
rather be caught off guard later and go, yeah, boy,
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you got to me faster? And I thought maybe, I
thought it maybe be a few more months. But here
we are, and now I'm just out in the staff.
Are you going to be proactive here? How do you
go about doing that? And by being proactive, I don't
mean just firing people. I mean there are options you
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tell these employees and say, look, I'm not asking questions,
that's not my job here. But if you know your
immigration status is fuzzy, I have resources available here that
I'll pay for for you to be able to talk
with these immigration attorneys and find out what it would
take to have the proper status to be able to
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work in this country. You're you're all valued employees. That's
why you're still employed here. There's gonna be some penalty,
there's gonna be some questions, They're gonna do some background checks.
But this is all something that we can handle, and
I'm willing to step up, stick my neck out there
and be there for these employees. We might have to
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pay a couple thousand dollars to immigration attorneys so you
can work here. And then the you know, the all
American in the back says, do I get a couple
thousand dollars for being born and raised here and working
here and following the rules and all the rest of us? No, Gary,
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you don't get a couple thousand dollars. Shut up.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
It's not fair.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I know it's not fair. Shut up. What are these
owners doing? And if, indeed the Trump administration says, all right,
thirty percent of your workforce is in the country illegally,
get them out. Are you then now hiring good workers?
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Are you hiring the kind of workers who actually show up,
They do their work, they take pride in it, they
look customers in the eye and address their concerns. There
was a story here recently about the gen z stare.
These are young workers who when you walk into a place,
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they just look at you. They don't say hey, welcome in,
how can I help you? They just stare at you
because they don't know how to talk to people. They
call it the gen z stare, which is not as
much fun as the care bear stare.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I think I've encountered it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I know I have.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
I didn't really think about it.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I know I've actually called it out. I depending on
my mood, and I think if you listen to this
radio show from time to time, you know I can
get in a mood I will do the talking for them.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I'll just go in.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I'll just have some employee just stare at me, and
I'll look at them and say, Hi, welcome to name
of business, Thanks a lot for coming in. How can
I help you? That's what you're supposed to say, how
is the service?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
After that?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I'm just tired of I'm tired of going into businesses
where and I know the business owners are like easy
for you to say, Scott, do you have any idea
what like to hire right now. Yes, as a matter
of fact, yes I do, and I talk to other
business owners HR directors. I've told you before about the
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HR director who was in tears when I encountered her.
It was late on a Friday afternoon, and she was
going to be putting in another seventy to eighty hour
work week next week because she keeps trying to hire people.
They don't even show up for the meeting to see
about getting the job, or they'll actually hire people, and
then they don't show up for work and she's back
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at square one and she was in tears. I can't
do this anymore. So I know it's very difficult to
hire good workers, but we now need to demand it.
And because right now it's more of a market for
those hiring than those looking, they are demanding it. They're like,
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look this idea about flex time, you can forget about that.
These are the hours that we need you to work,
and when you're here, these are the things we need
you to do. Employers are now able to actually demand
that their workers work because the American people, the American
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people who are more inclined to just order stuff and
have it shipped to our front door and then stolen
by a porch pirate. We do this because we're tired
of bad service. We're tired of no inventory. We're tired
of businesses having to shut down anytime immigration comes poking around, like, oh,
(32:36):
I didn't know how many of my workers were in
here illegally. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't, and we're
just we're tired of it. We go in there and
some of that stuff looks like bombs have gone off.
They're just giant piles of.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Clothes.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And then you're looking through like is anyone going to
put any of the stuff back on the racks. We
don't have the staff. You know, you show up during
the hours they're supposed to be open, they're not open.
We didn't have the staff that day. People didn't show up.
At some point. You know, you keep trying to keep
people from coming into your business, they stop coming in.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
I don't understand not wanting to work. I mean, I
understand not wanting to do some jobs, of course, but
not wanting to do something I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Well, that's because someone else is paying for them, either
mom or dad or Uncle Sam. Someone's paying for them
to subsist Like that, I needed money all day I
needed money. My dad wasn't gonna give me any. I
got a job, saying, I mean that this is not hard,
But here we are Scott boys. Randy email says, as
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far as these chicken littles, saying, the sky is falling.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I know we told you that for months, but it
hadn't happened. But it's really gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Now with the costs and wars and everything else Trump
is leading us into. Randy says, when you get your
butt kicked in an election and you're wrong on every
side of every issue, and you have moronic candidates for
office in your party, I guess the only thing you
have to promote is wholesale fear and panic. Good strategy
as from Randy and Jeff and others want me to
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play the Fernando's hideaway thing, Well, then it is better.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
To local than to film. Good nine my friends and
your mouth. There we go.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Now we've completed your eighties SNL reference for this segment
of the radio program. Thank you, Billy Crystal.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Scott Byes mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vords.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's start here, because I think that everything else falls
into place if you recognize what's happening. What's happening is
the same people who have told you for several months now,
well since Trump was re elected in November, the same
people who've told you the entire time well that the
(00:24):
sky was falling now admit, which is amazing and big
of them, that they were wrong about the sky falling
at the time that they said it was going to fall.
But you know, there's always a big butt in there,
and their big butt is yeah, okay, So we said
that the sky was falling, we were wrong about the
(00:46):
timing of it. But we feel confident in telling you
the sky is falling. Now what sky?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
How?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, First the economy. President Trump is threatening or issuing tariffs,
and that's going to cost the goods of everything the skyrocket.
Inflation is going to go through the roof. People aren't
going to be able to afford anything. And the Wall
Street Journal comes out and says, well, I know that
we all said that, but turns out the economy is
(01:15):
pretty resilient and a lot of these skyrocketing prices that
we had predicted didn't come to pass of what they are.
Now it's going to happen now, Oh yeah, what? CNN
has a screaming loud headline that says tomato prices could
jump this week amid tariff turmoil. First of all, let's
(01:39):
work backward on the headline turmoil. What turmoil? Other countries
issue tariffs against US at a rate higher in many
instances than what President Trump is retaliating with. What does
he want? He wants all the tariffs to come down.
And the more he does this, the more he's negotiating
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deals with these countries. Is that nuance there in the
CNN article. No, And then you got the modifier could,
because they've been among the media outlets who have been
wrong time and time again about all this stuff about
the sky falling. So it's tomato prices could jump this week.
Well how much? Well they say it's about a twenty
(02:25):
one percent tariff on most tomatoes imported from Mexico. All right,
now we've got some nuance in that one. Let's say
the President says, all right, even though and this is
a real thing, didn't know this. Since nineteen ninety six,
they've had an agreement in place with Mexico called the
Tomato Suspension Agreement, meaning tomato imports are off limit when
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it comes to tariffs. That's the Tomato Suspension Agreement. It
sounds like a book title and Oprah's most Reads. Have
you read the Tomato Suspension Agreement? Oh my gosh, it's fantastic.
So President Trump is thinking about going back on the
(03:14):
vaunted and historic tomato suspension agreement twenty one percent tariff
on most Mexican tomato imports. What even does that mean?
I don't know, but and of course Seeannanna saying, well,
next time you go buy a tomato, it could be
(03:35):
twenty one percent more expensive. Next time you go and
get tomato sauce, tomato paste, tomato juice, pico digayo, salsa,
it could all be more expensive. The next time you
go buy just a bag of tomatoes just to chuck
at some bad comedian, it could be more expensive, could
(03:55):
be or a couple other things. Here, Mexico's not the
only place we get tomatoes. Turns out everyone in America
can grow tomatoes except my wife. My wife is where
tomato plants go to die. Me too, you too, Lucy.
So wait a second. If for some reason, you go
(04:20):
to the store and go. I can't believe the rising
cost of tomatoes. This is absolutely incredible. What are your options?
You buy some seeds, you put them in the ground,
and you basically don't do a whole heck of a
lot with them.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You water them.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's good, and the plants grow and then the tomatoes
are right there on the vine. It's amazing. You can
grow them right there in your backyard. You can grow
them in your front yard. You can grow them in
your gutters, grow, you can grow them inside. You put
a lamp on there, water them up. Tomatoes, Bam.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
They don't taste the same when you do that inside.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Now you got to have them out there or they're
fighting with worms and pesticides and all the rest of
the study. Yeah, okay, we'll put bring the bees inside.
Do I have to think of everything? So it's possible
to grow tomatoes in America every place but my backyard.
(05:20):
My wife, I think has a stated purpose to kill tomatoes.
Every single year she comes out and she says like,
look look at this, I've got a tomato growing here. Like,
we'll never eat that tomato. It will get destroyed. Something
will happen.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Do you think there's something wrong? With it because it's
the only one that's right.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, I haven't been able to have a tomato grown
in my yard for my entire life. That's just how
it works. So all right, it's possible to grow tomatoes
in America. It's possible to import tomatoes from other places.
But let's also look at let's say, all right, all listen,
(06:04):
when we get a lot of tomatoes from Mexico. I'm
not going to doubt that we do. A twenty one
percent tariff on a tomato import is not a twenty
one percent tariff on everything that goes into getting you
your tomato. It's on the tomato itself, not the packaging,
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not the labor for the tomato, not the the processing,
not the transportation. All those things go into the cost
of a tomato tomato. So if we're talking about just
the tariff of that which actually brings it into the country,
that's that's twenty one percent on a relatively small cost
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for this particular tomato. All the labor, the packaging, the processing,
that which we need at the grocery store. But we've
got to staff the grocery store, we got to keep
the lights on at the grocery store. Even though it's
a summer. We don't need the air conditioning running at
fifty eight degrees in the grocery store, but apparently we
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gotta have the grocery store be cold. My wife walks
in there, I'm cold. I'm going back to my car
to get a jacket. Like, we're only in here for
a tomato, you know, So all of the things that
go into the cost of that tomato are not subject
to a twenty one percent tariff. It's a small part
of here's the last thing here. I went to the
(07:32):
store last night and I bought a tomato because I
was grilling cheeseburgers for the family. And my wife said,
can you get a tomato? I said, don't we have
a whole backyard. She said, don't start like Okay, So
I bought a tomato. Do you have any idea how
expensive that tomato is? I don't, and I just bought
(07:55):
one last night. I know it was not cost prohibitive.
I got that, got a couple of pounds of eighty
five percent ground beef, I got buns. I also bought
some hamburger buns. Is it it did? When I rang
it up, I wasn't like, oh, my guy, are you
(08:18):
kidding me of that's because it's not subject to the
tariff yet tomatoes. Like, if you're going broke buying tomatoes,
then I don't know that the tomato tariff.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Is really your problem.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So this is just the latest in things where the
media is like, all right, we told you the sky
was falling. We were wrong about that, but we're really
sure it's about to happen. And now what are the
next dominoes? Sky dominoes? I'll try and keep the same
metaphor going here, What are the next sky dominoes about
(08:55):
to fall? Well, there's Russia and Ukraine. You know they're
still fighting each other.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Well there's a labor Oh yeah, let's talk about labor.
Let's talk about an Omaha restaurant group that now says, look,
I we didn't know that we had people working here illegally,
but the Department of Homeland Security did a little check
on our employees. It turns out we might have a problem.
(09:25):
I'll tell you who's saying what what that means? In
just a couple of minutes, Scott Goes Scooter email Scott
at kfab dot com says you cannot grow very good
tomatoes using the same soil twice. That's the main mistake
people make. The soil has to be new soil pretty
much eats each season. You're welcome. How am I gonna
find soil that's never had tomatoes grown in it? New soil?
(09:49):
I don't know how to make new soil.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
With molts? Okay, with all of your scrapped food.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, that's not mulch, that's.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Well, you've got to mix it all up.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Gross.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
What do you call that posting? Yeah, you need to
make your own. I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The only composting that's really done in and around my
house seems to be in my teenage son's bedroom.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Ah, there you go, it's just get it from his room.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Don't go in there.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, I'm composting or throw everything in there.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm looking in the cupboards, I'm looking in the dishwasher, Like,
how can we have no plates or cups?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I know where they are in the compost pile that
is my teenage son's bedroom. Casey emails and says, Scott,
I love hearing all of the money that's been collected
from the tariffs. Do we know where all that collected
money is going? What is it being put against? Is
it the debt or something else. I've not heard exactly
(10:56):
where all that money is being put Thanks man, You're welcome. Casey,
thank you for the email. Much of it really hasn't
even been collected yet. A lot of these tariffs are
threatened tariffs. I'm gonna slap a thirty five percent tariff
on all this stuff, and then it kind of gets
put off. Or for the ones that have been negotiated
and are in effect, some of those don't take effect
(11:19):
for several months. I don't know whether there are any
tariffs that have already been put in place and have
already happened. But what the economists say here is, well,
we got to start preparing for when these tariffs take effect.
Now some of them probably have. I mean, it seems
to me that there have been some where Trump's like,
(11:40):
all right, all the copper we get from Canada, thirty
percent tariff for whatever that number is. Bam, it's in fact,
it's in effect. It's happening right now, and then it
ends up being negotiated in all the rest of this stuff.
So of that which has been collected, yeah, it goes
into the national call. So we can pay for the
(12:02):
big beautiful bill, the no tax on tips up to
twenty five thousand dollars or whatever. It was, no tax
on overtime, you know, some of the continuation of the
Trump tax cuts, that kind of thing. So yeah, it's
it's paying for all that stuff. I don't think that
it's like, yeah, Trump got a new pair of shoes today,
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thanks Mexico for that tomato tariff. I don't think it
works like that. We had a local business that just
put us a sign in the windows of both of
their Omaha restaurants, and that restaurant is Fernando's.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Is that is that Ama?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's sort of.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Uh, Fernando's Restaurant says, well, we had no idea and
we don't know why the Department of Homeland Security targeted
us particularly for this. There was no raid, no ice
operation or anything like that. But Department of Homeland Security
sent us a subpoena asking for employees documentation. When we
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provided it, it came back that some of our employees,
not all of them, some of our employees are not
working legally in this country, and due to the law,
we had to terminate those employees. That's not a lot
of them, but it is going to impact our ability
to fully staff operations and will temporarily affect our hours
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in service. The website lists both of the Fernando's locations.
You got the one a one hundred and fourteenth in
Dodge and then seventy fifth in Pacific that I admit
I didn't know existed. Has that been there for a while?
You say Fernando's. I think one hundred fourteenth in Dodge.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Right by the interlude?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Why didn't Yeah, there's there's a Fernando's there by the interlude. Yeah,
Now I'm in the interlude all the time.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I thought so.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But see that's the problem. I always going through the
back door.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Okay, okay, when I come out.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Right, who want to come out? I am schnockered. So
I don't even hardly know that's at seventy fifth and Pacific.
Don't you know what town I'm in? So, yeah, I
guess it sounds familiar now that you're mentioning it's in
that strip mall there on the south side of the street.
How about that or close to the strip mall or
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a standalone building by they?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I think so, but I don't know. You can always
buy their SLSA in the store.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Though, Okay, I haven't been in there. I've been to
one hundred and fourteenth at Dodge. I like Fernando's. It's
been a while, but I guess it's Saturday. Well, I
guess you can't go in there today because both locations
are listed as temporarily closed. And according to the owner
of the place, he says, look, we cooperated with the
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government on this, had to terminate some valued staff members.
But you know it wasn't a lot, but we uh
because we had to fire these individuals. We don't have
enough people to staff the restaurants. Now, I'm not a
restaurant owner operator. I don't work in a restaurant. I
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eat in a lot of restaurants. If you've got two
restaurants and you want to keep some money coming in
and keep your current employees happy, can't you close one
of the restaurants and focus the attention at the other one.
Do the people that work at seventy fifth and Pacific,
where they have no idea how to make the food
at the one hundred and fourteenth and Dodge location, like
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this is completely different.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I don't even have so.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I mean, I would think that we were just like,
all right, we're not going to have no money coming
in for the restaurant in our employees. We're going full
boar at both locations, and we got enough staff left
to have at least dinner operations at both locations, certainly
through the weekend, and I imagine by this weekend they
will I presume that they know what they're doing, more
(16:17):
than some blowhard on the radio saying, well, I don't
know why these guys can't get their act together. I
also don't know how many employees were impacted. And I
also don't know why Fernando's was, whether it was just Fernando's,
or whether it was several Omaha area businesses that got
a similar subpoena from the US Department of Homeland Security.
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And this particular restaurant group is the only one that
said anything about it, because, and I feel comfortable in
saying this, I don't think these two Fernando's restaurant locations
are the only ones in town where you might have
a handful of employees in there or who have some
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might have some questions about their employment or immigration status.
So is this just a warning shot across Omaha businesses?
Bow whether that's restaurants, that's hospitality. We already saw what
happened at a food processing plant here just a matter
of weeks ago. I don't know why this particular restaurant.
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I don't know how many employees were out of there.
I don't know if suddenly Homeland Security says, all right,
we just subpoened all these restaurants. Are all of them
going to close? Is this really what's happening here? Like,
we can't hire anyone who's in the country legally, and
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when you've got some of these employees who get bounced
because of their illegal immigration status, we can't have any
of the media except eleven ten kfab report that it's
illegal immigrants who've been fired. The rest of these news
organizations are like, oh, immigrants have been fired. That's right,
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thank you local media. It's all just immigrants. The Department
of Homeland Security contacted the restaurant and said, you do
have any people who are of legal immigration status working
in there, who are maybe not first generation born and
raised Americans. Why, yes, we have a German fellow who
just get him out of there. We don't want any
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immigrants in there. Yes, it's just immigrants. The Trump's Department
of Homeland Security and ICE. They're just going around saying,
all right, anyone in here not look American, fire them,
as other people are rallied calling them all immigrants. There's
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a word missing there. That's why they aren't working today.
Immigrants also is a term that's applied to child laborers
at marijuana farms in southern California, which is where the melee,
the riot, the ICE operation took place. Just the other
day in southern California, they found an illegal child, unaccompanied miners,
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you know, the ones that people have been saying for
a while, These gang members, these drug traffickers, they're human
traffickers as well. They came into the country and Biden's
America with minor children because they knew they'd be allowed
into the country if they could show, well, i've got
a thirteen year old in my care, all right, you
guys come on in, and that thirteen year old is
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not at all even related to the guy that brought
the kid in. And then they get dumped off like
all right, I got what I wanted, I got entry
into America. Good luck, kid. Kids end up working in
this marijuana farm. I don't know when the last time
they saw their parents was I don't know if their
parents are even alive or what's going on there. And
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we're trying to repair lives in this instance, and people
are out there throwing bottles and rocks, chucking stuff at
immigration and customs workers, border patrol agents. It's amazing what's
happening in this country right now. And then you've got
a restaurant group saying, yeah, we had no idea that
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we and I just like in the food processing plant situation,
I give them the benefit of the doubt because he
verifies such a ridiculous system to try and navigate and
it's all, it's all a problem. And so this restaurant
group says, yeah, we hired these people and then it
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turns out that some of them aren't eligible to work here,
and so we got to close down for a while.
Is this what we're looking at in the weeks and
months ahead, where restaurants and businesses have to close because
they don't have a full staff of legal workers. And
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whose fault is that? If that ends up happening, I'll
tell you.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Next Scott Bodies, where you're going News Radio eleven to
ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
A restaurant that has two locations here in Omaha, Fernandos,
and I got some people emailing going it seems rather
racist that the Trump administration targeted a Mexican restaurant or
two in this one. Again, I don't know why the
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US Department of Homeland Security issued a subpoena to these
two restaurants, the Fernandos Omaha restaurants at one hundred and
fourteenth and Dodge and seventy fifth and Pacific where the
seventy fifth and Pacific location. Because people are chastising me
for only having a vague recollection of its existence, I'm
(22:01):
gonna switch up and say go there all the time,
disappointed I can't be there today. That's right next to
McKenna's Booze Blues and Barbecue, where I was just in
there last night, listen to some live music and it's
some barbecue. And if you're thinking, Scott, that place hadn't
been opening years, then you just keep that to yourself.
What else used to be over there? Seventy fifth and
(22:25):
Pacific Ish.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Arthur Treach is fish that's going yeah, way bad.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
It's a reference. I don't know. That's Lucy. I'm Scott.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
And Fernando's is closed for temporarily. I don't know why
the US Department of Homeland Security issued a subpoena to
this restaurant group. I imagine it's the same reason that
they were looking at that food processing plant. We did,
we ran the numbers, we took a look at the documentation.
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Flags started popping up, and it wasn't just because it's
Nebraska with red flags go be red forty five days
to'll kick off?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Is that where we are?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
So there were flags that came up, and if you
have businesses with more flags, then there are a couple
of different options. Apparently you can either go in there
with a team from ICE and just start rounding everyone up,
and or you have this situation, you tell the business
(23:34):
owner you've got a problem there, and then they run
everything up. They find it out that there are some
people who aren't working there legally. They're not in the
country legally, and so these employees have to be terminated.
So I don't know why this restaurant how many employees
were there, Apparently enough that they have to close both
(23:55):
locations for a bit, and they say, until we're able
to fully staff, we may temporarily affect hours in service.
I don't know how many employees that is. I don't
know why this restaurant was particularly chosen. I don't know
what happens to those employees. I mean, if two days
(24:17):
ago you had a job at a restaurant and now
you don't, and you're like, oh, President Trump knows, I'm
in the country illegally. All right, the jig is up.
Time to go home to Nicaragua. Of course I never
lived there, and my parents brought me here when I
was a little kid. I don't even know where Nicaragua is. No,
(24:40):
it's south. I imagine I'll just start heading south and they
just start walking. What happens to these employees now, do
they self deport? Is that offer still on the table
where you can, I don't know, you go? Is it
like the safe Haven baby thing where you can drop
off a baby at any fire station or Blockbuster Video
(25:03):
and they just take Hey, no questions asked. Thanks, Can
you go to any fire station or Blockbuster Video or
Arthur's Treaches Fish House And they're like, all right, no
questions asked. You say, you're in the country illegally. We
got some pocket money and either a bus ticket or
a plane ticket. How would you like to travel they
(25:25):
work like travel agents and they just get you up
and out.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You don't have to.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
You know, you don't have to go home, but you
can't stay in this country if he.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Just takes a thousand dollars and then you don't leave.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I'm willing to try that.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I'm gonna go down there and go, yes, I'm in
the country illegally from the Netherlands. Yes, And where do
you want to go? I've always wanted to see Spain, like,
get out of here. So I don't know what happens
with these employees. They're now in the country illegal and
(26:00):
they don't have a job. Don't know. But what about
other employers right now? If you own restaurants and you're
looking at your crew going, look, I don't know. I
don't ask a lot of questions here, but if I
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had to venture a guess, that might be some people
working for me that maybe don't have the most solid
immigration status.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
All right, So.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
How are you supposed to proceed right now? You just
go up to anyone who has so much as a
decent tan and go, hey, are you in the country legally?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Here?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
You're like, that's the most offensive thing I ever heard.
I'm not but still you can't say that. So what
are they supposed to do. Did they contact the Department
of Homeland Security and say, I just want to run
all these employees stats through.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I mean, how.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Are other owners, like restaurant owners, hospitality owners, food processing
plant owners, agg producers. I don't want to be completely
stereotypical radio hosts, surgeons. Are other employers looking at their
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staff and being proactive because at some point Department of
Homeland Security, the Trump administration, They're gonna come for you.
They're gonna take a look at your number of employees,
how many are in the country illegally? So would you
rather be caught off guard later and go, yeah, boy,
(27:47):
you got to me faster? And I thought maybe, I
thought it maybe be a few more months. But here
we are, and now I'm just out in the staff.
Are you going to be proactive here? How do you
go about doing that? And by being proactive, I don't
mean just firing people. I mean there are options you
(28:10):
tell these employees and say, look, I'm not asking questions,
that's not my job here. But if you know your
immigration status is fuzzy, I have resources available here that
I'll pay for for you to be able to talk
with these immigration attorneys and find out what it would
take to have the proper status to be able to
(28:32):
work in this country. You're you're all valued employees. That's
why you're still employed here. There's gonna be some penalty,
there's gonna be some questions, They're gonna do some background checks.
But this is all something that we can handle, and
I'm willing to step up, stick my neck out there
and be there for these employees. We might have to
(28:52):
pay a couple thousand dollars to immigration attorneys so you
can work here. And then the you know, the all
American in the back says, do I get a couple
thousand dollars for being born and raised here and working
here and following the rules and all the rest of us? No, Gary,
(29:12):
you don't get a couple thousand dollars. Shut up.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
It's not fair.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
I know it's not fair. Shut up. What are these
owners doing? And if, indeed the Trump administration says, all right,
thirty percent of your workforce is in the country illegally,
get them out. Are you then now hiring good workers?
(29:36):
Are you hiring the kind of workers who actually show up,
They do their work, they take pride in it, they
look customers in the eye and address their concerns. There
was a story here recently about the gen z stare.
These are young workers who when you walk into a place,
(29:58):
they just look at you. They don't say hey, welcome in,
how can I help you? They just stare at you
because they don't know how to talk to people. They
call it the gen z stare, which is not as
much fun as the care bear stare.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I think I've encountered it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I know I have.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
I didn't really think about it.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I know I've actually called it out. I depending on
my mood, and I think if you listen to this
radio show from time to time, you know I can
get in a mood I will do the talking for them.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I'll just go in.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I'll just have some employee just stare at me, and
I'll look at them and say, Hi, welcome to name
of business, Thanks a lot for coming in. How can
I help you? That's what you're supposed to say, how
is the service?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
After that?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
I'm just tired of I'm tired of going into businesses
where and I know the business owners are like easy
for you to say, Scott, do you have any idea
what like to hire right now. Yes, as a matter
of fact, yes I do, and I talk to other
business owners HR directors. I've told you before about the
(31:11):
HR director who was in tears when I encountered her.
It was late on a Friday afternoon, and she was
going to be putting in another seventy to eighty hour
work week next week because she keeps trying to hire people.
They don't even show up for the meeting to see
about getting the job, or they'll actually hire people, and
then they don't show up for work and she's back
(31:33):
at square one and she was in tears. I can't
do this anymore. So I know it's very difficult to
hire good workers, but we now need to demand it.
And because right now it's more of a market for
those hiring than those looking, they are demanding it. They're like,
(31:55):
look this idea about flex time, you can forget about that.
These are the hours that we need you to work,
and when you're here, these are the things we need
you to do. Employers are now able to actually demand
that their workers work because the American people, the American
(32:15):
people who are more inclined to just order stuff and
have it shipped to our front door and then stolen
by a porch pirate. We do this because we're tired
of bad service. We're tired of no inventory. We're tired
of businesses having to shut down anytime immigration comes poking around, like, oh,
(32:36):
I didn't know how many of my workers were in
here illegally. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't, and we're
just we're tired of it. We go in there and
some of that stuff looks like bombs have gone off.
They're just giant piles of.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Clothes.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And then you're looking through like is anyone going to
put any of the stuff back on the racks. We
don't have the staff. You know, you show up during
the hours they're supposed to be open, they're not open.
We didn't have the staff that day. People didn't show up.
At some point. You know, you keep trying to keep
people from coming into your business, they stop coming in.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
I don't understand not wanting to work. I mean, I
understand not wanting to do some jobs, of course, but
not wanting to do something I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Well, that's because someone else is paying for them, either
mom or dad or Uncle Sam. Someone's paying for them
to subsist Like that, I needed money all day I
needed money. My dad wasn't gonna give me any. I
got a job, saying, I mean that this is not hard,
But here we are Scott boys. Randy email says, as
(33:48):
far as these chicken littles, saying, the sky is falling.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I know we told you that for months, but it
hadn't happened. But it's really gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Now with the costs and wars and everything else Trump
is leading us into. Randy says, when you get your
butt kicked in an election and you're wrong on every
side of every issue, and you have moronic candidates for
office in your party, I guess the only thing you
have to promote is wholesale fear and panic. Good strategy
as from Randy and Jeff and others want me to
(34:17):
play the Fernando's hideaway thing, Well, then it is better.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
To local than to film. Good nine my friends and
your mouth. There we go.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Now we've completed your eighties SNL reference for this segment
of the radio program. Thank you, Billy Crystal.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
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