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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Varie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
As a guy who spent thirty four years deporting illegal aliens,
I got a message to the mans of the illegal
aliens that Joe Biden's released in our country and violation
of federal law.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You better start packing now. You're damn right because you
are going home.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
We have seen one estimate that says it would cost
eighty eight billion dollars to deport a million people a year.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I don't know if it's happened or not.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Is that what American taxpayers should expect?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
What price you put on a national security? Is that
worth it?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Is there a way to carry out deportation without separating families?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Of course, families can be deported together.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And I want to send a message to everybody who's
in this country illegally. While you've heard from Kamala Harris
that she's going to give you free Medicare benefits and
free healthcare benefits, She's going to give you free housing
benefits paid for by American taxpayers. Donald Trump's gonna win
the White House. We all believe that, right. So our
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message to illegal aliens who are in this country without
the consent of the American people. Is you got four
months pack your bags because you're going home.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I'm not a Piers Morgan fan, never had them.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I think he's slimy, and I think what's happened to
him is kind of like what happened to Chris Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And to some extent, this is what Bill Maher has done.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Is these people have figured out that the winds have
changed and they're trying to kind of recreate themselves and
weasel back in, you know, because here's Morgan was once
a powerful man in British and then American television. There's
no doubt about that, and then he was shown the door.
And now he tries to kind of have it both ways,
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but occasionally he'll say something that you go, yeah, that's
pretty good. So he was on Fox News and he
said Joe Biden wasn't fit for office six months into
his tenure. So all these people now who are telling
you this, this is all revisionism. And the reason I
say this is he was at events where Biden was.
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He knows the people who were reporting this. That gives
it an extra degree of credibility that they all knew.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
We spend about a week every two months in this country,
and yet, oddly, from London, I was able to tell
for three years that Joe Biden was gaging. I actually
have the receipts because I was doing a weekly column
for the New York Post and I kept saying this
in my columns. You do realize your commander in chief
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is non compassmentis the lights have gone out. There is
nobody at home. And I kept writing this and people
were like, nah. I kept turning on the mainstream TV
news here and they'd be like, we've never seen him, sharper,
He's the He's the sharpest I've ever said. He's so
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sharp he's literally knifing things with his hand, with bare hands.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And it was all a complete fraud.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
And the truth is Joe Biden was basically, I would say,
unfit for office from about six months into his tenure.
And what's happening now is the great revisionist thing. Will
they all come along and they're all trying to make up. Well,
i'm you, but everybody else was lying to me really
really well, how could you be around him?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Any of you?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Clooney Obama, Carmela, the White House staff, any Democrat, any
liberal How could any of you with a straight face
say that you watch that guy falling over, stumbling over
his words, incoherently reinventing American policy which had to be
rolled back immediately. Yeah, how could you watch all this
on a daily basis and not conclude what I did
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from London English?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's true. You know what it was for me?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
It was when they sent the Easter Bunny to interrupt
him at the egg roll.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Watch this clip. I have a revelation.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Just give me a second of this clip.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Watch this, watch him react.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Okay, you see, Oh my god, Peers, Peers, tell me,
tell me he doesn't look like a man who believes
he met a talking body.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
He does, he does.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
He's like he does.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Jill, Jill, but give me this.
Speaker 10 (05:46):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
When you hear the backstory that Obama actually wanted to
stage a primary and muscle out Kamala because he didn't
believe she could win, does it give you a little
more respect for him or still none? Because he should
have spoke up earlier about Biden.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Let's be clear about Obama and the George Cloonies and
the others. A month before that terrible debate where the
world saw Joe Biden laid bare in a most embarrassing manner.
They all had a fundraiser in Los Angeles. They raised
millions and millions and millions for a guy that they
all knew. Obama had to lead him off the stage.
They all knew that he was unfit for office, but
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they were prepared to perpetrate this lie on the American people.
So I have zero sympathy for any of them. And
then what they're trying to do now is they're all
trying to position themselves as the one who shouldn't be blamed. Right,
Clooney's like, but I blew the whistle, and other people
are likelyse Obama told you to.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
And to be clear, Obama only told them to after
the check's cleared, exactly.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I remember reading the three weeks ago I was with
President Biden.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He wasn't the same guy.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I mean, he literally led him off the stage. You
remember that video.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
I do.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We grabbed them by the hand. They told us it
was a cheap fake.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yes, and anyone who questioned this was being unbelievably unfair
to be brilliant minded guy of the top of his game.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That was the briefing from the White House. Breath room,
how dare you?
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
You know what the craziest part of the whole story is,
if you look out at the field, Biden's actually the
Democrats best option in twenty.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Twenty, dead or alife.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
It really is we lived through something that we're going
to look back on, and when we explain it to people,
they're gonna think we exaggerated. You know, for people who
went into the wrestling ring with Andre the Giant and
they tell you how big he was, thank god, they're
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photos you can't understand. But when they tell you the
exploits of after the evening when you would repair to
the hotel room, how much alcohol he would consume, and
the stories are consistent across the country because they traveled
every night, and people who met him one time would
talk about how much food and alcohol he consumed.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And if you were in the middle of it, you're.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Just sort of going, well, I guess this is normal,
And later you tell about it and it's so out
there that you can't believe that it's actually true.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
We had a president who was.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
The worst resident of an old folks home, a senior
living facility, had no idea where he was, and we
were told no it's not true.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Your eyes deceive you, but it was true. It did happen,
and it can happen again.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Tim wall was on CNN with Jake Tapper, and Jake
Tapper asked if it was a mistake for the Democrats.
You know, let's do the post mortem on where you
guys went wrong in November.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Was it a.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Mistake for the Democrats to pretend that Biden was capable
of a second term? And let's see what Governor Tim
Wallas had to say about that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Suer mistake.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
But he made that decision, I know, but you all
went along with He was up for it and he wasn't.
Everybody saw it and the country rejected it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (09:02):
Well, look, history will tell us to go back on that.
That very well could be the case, Jake. What I'm
concerned about is learning from those lessons. I would hope
we would never do it again, make a mistake, make
sure we go through and get someone.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
But I don't know where it helps us going forward.
Speaker 12 (09:17):
I certainly am deeply concerned that Donald Trump is going
to lead us down horrific Look, thank god it's tariffs
that he said. Donald Trump listens to no one, Remember,
Donald Trump has statements about I don't think nuclear war
would be that bad. I guess we're lucky that he
went after tariffs instead of that route. We have an
issue in this country that's going to impact us. And
if there is not a loyal opposition, if there's not
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some soul searching on our side, if there's not reaching
out to those folks who are in the streets they're
leading right now.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
That is.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
That's interesting right there. Yeah, we're in grave danger. Yeah,
it's Donald Trump is very dangerous because you know, remember
one time he said nuclear war is in danger. He
has closed the borders. He has caused countries to take
tariffs off that they had against our products. He has
found billions, if not trillions, in waste and fraud in
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our government. He has replaced the nut jobs in the
cabinet with qualified people. Yes, he's leading us down a
path to destruction. Temp on Tim, he really is. And
everyone saw what Jake Tapper did. Everyone saw that Joe
Biden was in decline. That's what Jake Tapper said. Everyone
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saw Joe Biden was in decline. So why did he
treat Laura Trump the way he did when she mentioned
Joe Biden's cognitive decline, because now he claims that it
was there and it should have been seen, and he
saw it and everyone saw it, but at the time
he was denying it.
Speaker 13 (10:51):
Every time he comes on stage or they turned to him,
I'm like, Joe, can.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You get it out? Let's get the words out. Do
you kind of feel bad for him?
Speaker 11 (10:58):
How do you think it makes little kids with stuffs
feel when they see you make a comment like that.
Speaker 13 (11:03):
First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden
ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see
on stage with Joe Biden Jake is very clearly a
cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
You are.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I think it's so amazing.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
It's so amazing to me that.
Speaker 13 (11:21):
Try and figure out an.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Answer cognitive decline.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
You're trying to.
Speaker 13 (11:24):
Tell me that what I was suggesting was I think.
Speaker 11 (11:27):
That you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you
were mocking his stutter. And I think you have absolutely
no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. I would think
that somebody in the Pump family would be more sensitive
to people who do do not have medical licenses diagnosing
your politicians from Afar. Plenty of people have diagnosed your
father from Afar, and I'm sure it defends you. Your
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father in law from a farm. I'm sure it defends you.
You don't have any standing to.
Speaker 13 (11:53):
Say noticing what I'm saying, just talking about a cognitive
decline that Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I have one last question for you. Are you can't?
Speaker 13 (12:00):
I am is on stage and it's very concerning to
a lot of people that this could be the leader
of the free world. That is all I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I genuinely are.
Speaker 13 (12:08):
Sorry for Joe.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Tapper likes to pretend he's not a leftist. He likes
to pretend he's a solid guy, middle of the road.
I'm a Philadelphia Eagles fan.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I'll just do.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Anything for my Eagles. Solid guy, mister solid Jake Tapper.
But he's an awful human being in a powerful position
that he abuses. Western Letterman is a site that put
together this montage. This is Jake Tapper trying desperately to
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convince all of us that he is a reasonable, middle
of the road guy who should be trusted and not
some left wing sell out to their ideological interests. But
of course we know that he is, and for that
he must never be trusted. If he tells you this
guy's blue, you better go check. Because nothing he says
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is honest, Nothing he says is truthful. He's a very
very bad human being. And I hope he goes bankrupt,
and I hope he is. I hope his career continues
to falter, and I hope that wherever he goes, he
is dogged by the guilt of the evil that he
has done. Everyone, especially on your side, on the left,
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is freaking not.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
On the left.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
Is it possible that the Republican Party is now the
party of deranged biggots? Do you think it's racist to
vote for President Trump? In twenty twenty, a Republican from
Florida lost his legs by the way fighting for democracy abroad.
Although I don't know what is I don't know about
his commitment to it here in the United States. We
go through this every single time Republicans control the House.
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You guys can't pass legislation, you can't govern. I we'll
see how much congressional Republicans are willing to meet President
of like Biden and Vice presidential of Harris on this
field of decency and normalcy. It's not just President Trump
that has been a roaded norms of decency and.
Speaker 10 (14:11):
A lot of help.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
I hope you don't take this personally, but do you
guys have any idea how clown isss you look?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
So?
Speaker 11 (14:16):
Republicans obviously seizing on this horrific tragedy at the University
of Georgia. This girl, this nursing student killed buy an
undocumented Venezuela and migrant, and they're seizing it on this
as an example of Biden's failure to protect the American people.
Just it seems like so much about politicians address these
issues is about demonizing the other side.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
On critical race theory, on trans students.
Speaker 11 (14:41):
I see a lot of people in the Republican Party
doing that. There is no evidence of any wrongdoing by
either Joe or hunter By. The dehumanizing rhetoric of Adolph
Hitler is once again alive and well on a national
political stage.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
This time, of course, in the.
Speaker 11 (14:57):
United States, President Trump has gone to quote extraordinary length
to keep specifics about his meetings with Russian President Vladimir
putin secret, even keeping them from top members of.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
His own administration.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Take a listen to how President Trump responded Saturday night
when asked directly if he has ever worked for Russia.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I think it's the most insulting thing I've ever been asked.
I think it's the most insulting article I've ever had written.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
The President did not directly answer the question. It's a
stunning turn of events. Do you think the President of
the United States ever worked on behalf of the Russians
against American interests? Though the original protests are about race,
and the protesters were almost entirely black, and the team
owners whom the President was calling upon to fire or
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suspend those players are almost entirely white, and the President
chose to launch this campaign in front of an almost
all white crowd in Alabama. Despite all that, the President
insisted that this has nothing to do with race.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
There's nothing to do with race. I've never said any
thing about race.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
This has nothing to do with race or anything else.
Speaker 11 (16:04):
It is one hundred percent true that the President never
said anything about race.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
He did not have to.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
This entire discussion is about black men protesting racial injustice.
One of course, wonders why, in the President's view, a
black man protesting racial injustice by kneeling during the anthem,
is the son of a bitch? While White's marching alongside
Nazis and the clan to protest the removal of the
statue of a Confederate general is a quote very fine person,
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but I digress.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
A nercus nation that can be defined in a single word.
I was gonna put him number nine.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
Not only was it authentic frontier jibbory, it expressed their
courage of the data.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
The Michael Barry Show, Donald Trump and go to prison.
They're going to take all his properties. They kept dragging
him to court. He's an awful person. They tried to
kill him. He's the same people and for some reason,
for some reason, reasonable people still do the Charlie Brown
getting duped by Lucy's football because there may be a
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chance they'll kick the football, so they just keep believing.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Well.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Fox News, to their credit, has had of late real people.
We played you the audio.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Of the.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Beef cattle, the cattle raisers talking about Australian beef being
allowed into this country and they want but they have
terrofts on our stuff. I'm tired of it. I want
my people first. And if you're not a person who
wants to put Americans before people in other countries. That's fine,
but I have no patience for you, and we do
not share the values of countrymen. Because I'm willing to
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protect you, you're not willing to protect me. And that's
not mutually beneficial. But Fox News, to their credit, has
had people on the air in different fields that these
terroriffs are going to help immediately. And so we got
a message from an old friend of mine in the
radio business named John Mounts, and he runs our station
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in Birmingham, Alabama, and he's a super great guy, and
he's an old fashioned news guy. He's not that old,
but he's been in this business since he was a kid.
And he said, Zara, not sure if you already have
your show planned out for this afternoon or not, but
I found this guest for our morning show here in Birmingham.
She was on Fox News. She's a third generation shrimperman.
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I guess that's like a fisherman but for shrimp. That's
a term she used out of Bayou Labatory, Alabama. Who
explains why she supports Trump's terrorists because she says that
overseas shrimping has flooded the US market and made it
almost impossible for families like hers who live on the
bayou to stay afloat pun intended. I think you'll really
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enjoy having her. Her name is Tammy Hall and her
business is Sea Harvest Fresh Shrimp. Tammy, Do I have
to call you a shrimperman or can I just call
you a sh shrimper?
Speaker 9 (19:02):
So I am the shrimperman's wife.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh okay, Well that sounds like a perfume style or
some sort of a package somebody would get every month,
you know, like the farmer's table for the dogs or
farmer's dog or whatever. Like the shrimperman's wife would be
the term that you would you get a package every
month of certain goods.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
That would be you'd be a subscription model.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
I have helped him in the past. I have shrimp
with my husband in the past. But I think he
referred to me as a third generational fisherman because my
grandfather fished, My father fish and my husband fishes all
of it.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
And by labattery, yes, sir, it says sea harvest rash
shrimp on your website.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We sell to the public. You know.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I'll tell you that there's a fellow here in Galveston,
south of Houston, and his daughter in law is an
absolute saint, she's an angel.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
He's in his nineties.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
She goes out with him every day so that he
can still go out and shrimp, because he's shrimp since
he was five years old, and he can't go by himself.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
He's too old and fragile and feeble. But he's the
sweetest fellow you ever want to meet. And she takes
him out.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And she calls herself the shrimp Diva because she has
perfectly manicured nails, she has her face made up perfectly.
She dresses stylishly although shorts and a T shirt when
she goes out with him. And she's a society lady.
And her husband has a job in downtown Houston making
a lot of money. Asn't exactly with the company, but
her love of her husband extends to her love of
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her father in law in his nineties, mind you, And
she takes him out on that boat every day so
that he gets to shrimp. She's been on my show
multiple times. People love her. Shrimp Diva's her name. You
could find that she's online. She's got a huge online following,
mostly because she's cute, as all get out, and she
tells me that they cannot sell their shrimp into the
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retail market. They have to sell their shrimp to bait shop.
And the reason is because the Asian market has flooded
our market with these cheap shrimp. And she's got all
sorts of things to say about whether they're good for
your health and all that, and it has made it
so that local fishermen cannot or shrimpers cannot shrimp and
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still make money. The best they can do is the
shrimp that they pull out of there they sell to
the bait shop. Is that your experience, That's.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Not our exact experience, but yes, what she's saying is true.
So over ninety percent of the shrimp concerned in the
United States comes from overseas, and that's not something that
has is built up over time. The product is so
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cheap that a lot of the restaurants will go for
whatever is cheaper. And I hate to say it that
even local restaurants.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
Do the same.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
We have not had to sell to a bake shop,
you know, as you're talking about Trump Viva did. But
what we did is all our lives. My husband in
our fifties, we sold to the factory. So when COVID hit,
the factory stopped buying shrimp because none of the restaurants
are the few restaurants that they were supplying in our
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grocery stores. I'm not sure, but I won't say the
restaurants have quit buying anyway, they cut us off, and
I told my husband Oslick, Now people.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
Still have to eat.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
So we started selling directly to the public, just bypass
the factory. That was the best thing we ever did.
It was just a god moment for sure. That actually
has helped save us, and I feel like kept us
around and in the business because times have been so hard,
especially these past few years. It's gotten really tough. I've
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seen there's so many boats that are just tied up
and couldn't work. But this import thing has been going
on for years, and what it's doing is and I
heard of South Carolina shrimpers say this the other day
on the news, and I thought, that's so good. He said,
it's broken down our infrastructure. And my husband and I
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were talking yesterday. You know, when we were kids, there's
shipbuilders all.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Here in town.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Of course, now they're building tug boats and.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Different other boats. But back in the day when we
were children.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Every shipyard had a shrimp boat on it. But I
cannot tell you the last new shrimp boat that was
built here. It's been years since we've had a new
shrimp boat built. And saying that, so what happens. We've
got all these cheap imports dumped on us.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
We're having to compete with them.
Speaker 9 (23:52):
So therefore our price has not changed much over the
years at all, even back from when my grandfather was shrimping.
I have some of his voices from where he shrimped
and the price differences and that.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Was like some of them go back to the fifties.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
But I was looking the other day one from nineteen
sixty eight and seventy there was not a big price
difference at all.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
It was like a couple dollars a pound.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
That it's changed over the years. But what it's done
to us is it's put us under such a hardship
that our boats need repairing. You know, we can't hol
our boats up. We can't if the engine breaks. If
something happens with our engine or a winch or something,
we have to pretty much fix it ourselfs.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Tammy Hall figure out had to fix old right there.
Her name is Tammy Hall See Harvest Fresh Shrimp dot net.
They're in Bayou La Battery, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Tammy Hall is our guest.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
She was contacted on our behalf by our affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama,
and the Great John Mounts there who runs that station,
and he said, you're going to love this lady. She
can talk knowledgeably, knowledgeably about the shrimping business. They're in
Byula Battery, Alabama. And this is who the tariffs will help,
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these kinds of people, family owned businesses like this.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Tammy, you were talking.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I had to interrupt you. Your company is Seaharvest Fresh
Shrimp dot com and use of dot net Sea Harvest
Fresh Shrimp dot net. You made the statement that it
was a god thing for you, that it changed for
you when you stopped selling to the wholesalers who were
buying the cheap Asian stuff that's coming in here and
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you started selling directly to the public. What does that
process look like? I see that on your website. It
says you're selling on the weekends in the season. Do
people walk up and buy a bag? Where do they
walk up? What does that look like?
Speaker 9 (25:53):
Okay, so we're located right next to the drawbridge in
the middle of Bay Labattery. You can't miss us. We're
right on main stretch. We just have a boat and
a dock and my husband and my son and my uncle.
There's a couple other fishermen who work with us, because
we try to help out everybody that we can. But
they go out, they fish, you know, two or three,
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four nights, four night smacks. Because we're a nice boat.
We never freeze. Everything's preserved with just sice and water.
But they go out, they catch the strength they come in.
Sometimes we have some bycatch, which will be crabs, fish,
not a lot, but sometimes we do. We sell those
as well, and we just pull up to the dock
and sell straight to the public. Now our customers can
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usually place an order that way, it secures that the shrimp.
Speaker 10 (26:40):
Are going to be there when they get there.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
But you know, they call their texts and place an
order and we tell them what time to be there
and pick up.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
They just bring their cooler.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
If you want to buy one pound, we'll sell you
one pound, we've got bags for it. Or if you
want to buy fifty pounds, bring you cooler.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
And how much does one pound costs?
Speaker 9 (27:02):
So last week we had sixteen twenties, which means sixteen
to twenty shrimp, and a pound that's our large. They
were four dollars a pound.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Head on, and if I bought fifty pounds, same price,
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Interesting.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
And when you take shrimp home yourself, how many days
a week do you think y'all eat shrimp at home?
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Oh my goodness, wee could, honestly. And my customers tell me,
they say, you must get tired of eating shrimp. We
never get tired of eating shrimp. But I'd say probably
once or twice a week we eat shrimp.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
And what's your favorite way to prepare shrimp?
Speaker 9 (27:41):
I think all of my family's favorite way, of course
we're from deep South, is to fry them.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Oh yes, lord, yes, my way makes the best bride shrimp,
and she does. We'll do parties. And she does it
straight out of the cast iron skillet that my grandmother
when she passed my wife inherited, and she will put
it on the stovetop on, and she will have that
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thing boiling hot, and that oil is popping everywhere so
much so that she won't let you come over there
because you'll get popped. And she takes it straight out
of that oil and straight onto the plate. And Tilman Fetita,
who owns who's the largest independent restaurant owner in the country,
is now the ambassador to Italy, but he owns landries
in all these different places, and he'll come over for
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parties and he will stand right there next to her,
and as it comes out, he will eat it when
it's so hot it burns the roof of your mouth.
But she always starts with the catfish because she says,
if I start with the shrimp, they'll fill up on
shrimp won't eat the catfish. But if you start with
the catfish, you have the catfish first and then you
eat the shrimp. Now, I don't know if you eat catfish,
but I'm going to hear from listeners in the northeast
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and northwest and do north of this country who are
going to email me and tell me that catfish is
a bottom feeder and it's a trash fish.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
And I'm going to respond to you, yes, but I
like it.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
You can tell our executive producer Chad Nakanishi that spam
is of this, and it's that, and it's this, and
he'll say, I grew up in Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I loved it, So we like what we like. Do
you eat catfish?
Speaker 10 (29:13):
Sometimes not a whole lot.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
What you got to remember, I'm a fisherman's life, so
I'm spoiled whenever it comes to fish. But our favorite
fish and my husband's by far, and he's been a
fisherman his whole life. His favorite fish is a flounder,
which is a local fish here. Yeah, we like snapper
and ground low it.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
That's our top three choices.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
There's a fellow named Timothy Ferris. He wrote a book
called The Four Hour work Week, and he wrote another
book called The four Hour Body. And he's a life
hack and one of the things he teaches people is
how to develop habits, good habits instead of bad habits.
You break a habit, you build a habit. And one
of the things he says is that we like what
we eat. And so if if you grow up eating
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black beans, that's the only thing you eat, then as
you get older, you tend to crave black beans. It's,
as the phrase goes, mother's milk and so so much
of that.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
We didn't eat flounder when I was growing up.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
It wasn't an easy fish to get to Now I've
had it, and you can catch it and roll over
pass near come near where I grew up. My brother
used to go over and catch them. But by and
large it wasn't a real common one. But catfish in
the fresh waters here was a big, big deal. And
I think it's you know, it's as much about the
memories as anything else. Whatever you grow up on is
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what you remember. You know, your whole family being gathered
together and eating and enjoying. So let's go back to
these terraces for a moment. If if this happens, where's
the shrimp that's being brought in to replace your local fish?
Your local shrimp. They got to bring that shrimp a
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long way, so they got to freeze it, whereas yours
is fresh. They got to freeze it in a long distance.
And all the things that go to that, the fuel
and all that to get here instead of fresh fish.
But the wholesaler has decided cheap is best. We're just
going to do whatever's cheap, because that's what people don't
care about value, about quality. They just want cheap. But
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where is that coming from? It's coming from Vietnam, is
it coming from Asia? Where is it coming from?
Speaker 9 (31:24):
I think Ecuador is one of the biggest countries that
it's coming from. Then you've got Indonesia, Vietnam, India, but
I want to say Ecuador is probably the biggest supplier.
Speaker 10 (31:37):
Now, this was something that is a.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
Real shocker as well that a lot of people probably
don't know.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
But have you heard of the Save Our Shrimpers Act?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (31:50):
Okay, so you have already get familiar with that.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I know that there is an effort, and I've heard
mentioned there are several efforts like this regarding agricultural and
fisheries and beef and livestock that are intended to bolster
our local, family run businesses, particularly not big agra.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
They don't need to help.
Speaker 9 (32:18):
So to say, Our Shrimpers Act was actually it's been
reintroduced into Congress as an effort to stop federal funding
from going to international banks or financial institutions, because our
tax dollars have been going to these banks and then
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they're taking the money and giving it to the shrimping
aquaculture over there, which is, in other words, they have
been paid. We have been paying for these shrimp farmers
and for these shrimp farms. Then they ship them back
up here at a cheap price, and we have to
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try to compete with that. Are you familiar with them?
Speaker 10 (33:06):
Yeah? Have you been talking about that?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yes, Hold on just a moment.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Timmy Hall see Harvest Fresh Shrimp dot net more talk
on tariffs and shrimp.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Ramon, the King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
These are the kind of guy you'd like to smacking
as
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The Michael Varie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
As a guy who spent thirty four years deporting illegal aliens,
I got a message to the mans of the illegal
aliens that Joe Biden's released in our country and violation
of federal law.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You better start packing now. You're damn right because you
are going home.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
We have seen one estimate that says it would cost
eighty eight billion dollars to deport a million people a year.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I don't know if it's happened or not.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Is that what American taxpayers should expect?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
What price you put on a national security? Is that
worth it?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Is there a way to carry out deportation without separating families?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Of course, families can be deported together.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And I want to send a message to everybody who's
in this country illegally. While you've heard from Kamala Harris
that she's going to give you free Medicare benefits and
free healthcare benefits, She's going to give you free housing
benefits paid for by American taxpayers. Donald Trump's gonna win
the White House. We all believe that, right. So our
(01:40):
message to illegal aliens who are in this country without
the consent of the American people. Is you got four
months pack your bags because you're going home.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I'm not a Piers Morgan fan, never had them.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I think he's slimy, and I think what's happened to
him is kind of like what happened to Chris Cuomo.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And to some extent, this is what Bill Maher has done.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Is these people have figured out that the winds have
changed and they're trying to kind of recreate themselves and
weasel back in, you know, because here's Morgan was once
a powerful man in British and then American television. There's
no doubt about that, and then he was shown the door.
And now he tries to kind of have it both ways,
(03:02):
but occasionally he'll say something that you go, yeah, that's
pretty good. So he was on Fox News and he
said Joe Biden wasn't fit for office six months into
his tenure. So all these people now who are telling
you this, this is all revisionism. And the reason I
say this is he was at events where Biden was.
(03:26):
He knows the people who were reporting this. That gives
it an extra degree of credibility that they all knew.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
We spend about a week every two months in this country,
and yet, oddly, from London, I was able to tell
for three years that Joe Biden was gaging. I actually
have the receipts because I was doing a weekly column
for the New York Post and I kept saying this
in my columns. You do realize your commander in chief
(03:56):
is non compassmentis the lights have gone out. There is
nobody at home. And I kept writing this and people
were like, nah. I kept turning on the mainstream TV
news here and they'd be like, we've never seen him, sharper,
He's the He's the sharpest I've ever said. He's so
(04:17):
sharp he's literally knifing things with his hand, with bare hands.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And it was all a complete fraud.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
And the truth is Joe Biden was basically, I would say,
unfit for office from about six months into his tenure.
And what's happening now is the great revisionist thing. Will
they all come along and they're all trying to make up. Well,
i'm you, but everybody else was lying to me really
really well, how could you be around him?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Any of you?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Clooney Obama, Carmela, the White House staff, any Democrat, any
liberal How could any of you with a straight face
say that you watch that guy falling over, stumbling over
his words, incoherently reinventing American policy which had to be
rolled back immediately. Yeah, how could you watch all this
on a daily basis and not conclude what I did
(05:10):
from London English?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
That's true. You know what it was for me?
Speaker 7 (05:13):
It was when they sent the Easter Bunny to interrupt
him at the egg roll.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Watch this clip. I have a revelation.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Just give me a second of this clip.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Watch this, watch him react.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Okay, you see, Oh my god, Peers, Peers, tell me,
tell me he doesn't look like a man who believes
he met a talking body.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
He does, he does.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
He's like he does.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Jill, Jill, but give me this.
Speaker 10 (05:46):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
When you hear the backstory that Obama actually wanted to
stage a primary and muscle out Kamala because he didn't
believe she could win, does it give you a little
more respect for him or still none? Because he should
have spoke up earlier about Biden.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Let's be clear about Obama and the George Cloonies and
the others. A month before that terrible debate where the
world saw Joe Biden laid bare in a most embarrassing manner.
They all had a fundraiser in Los Angeles. They raised
millions and millions and millions for a guy that they
all knew. Obama had to lead him off the stage.
They all knew that he was unfit for office, but
(06:21):
they were prepared to perpetrate this lie on the American people.
So I have zero sympathy for any of them. And
then what they're trying to do now is they're all
trying to position themselves as the one who shouldn't be blamed. Right,
Clooney's like, but I blew the whistle, and other people
are likelyse Obama told you to.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
And to be clear, Obama only told them to after
the check's cleared, exactly.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I remember reading the three weeks ago I was with
President Biden.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He wasn't the same guy.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I mean, he literally led him off the stage. You
remember that video.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
I do.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We grabbed them by the hand. They told us it
was a cheap fake.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
Yes, and anyone who questioned this was being unbelievably unfair
to be brilliant minded guy of the top of his game.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That was the briefing from the White House. Breath room,
how dare you?
Speaker 9 (07:06):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
You know what the craziest part of the whole story is,
if you look out at the field, Biden's actually the
Democrats best option in twenty.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Twenty, dead or alife.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
It really is we lived through something that we're going
to look back on, and when we explain it to people,
they're gonna think we exaggerated. You know, for people who
went into the wrestling ring with Andre the Giant and
they tell you how big he was, thank god, they're
(07:40):
photos you can't understand. But when they tell you the
exploits of after the evening when you would repair to
the hotel room, how much alcohol he would consume, and
the stories are consistent across the country because they traveled
every night, and people who met him one time would
talk about how much food and alcohol he consumed.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And if you were in the middle of it, you're.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Just sort of going, well, I guess this is normal,
And later you tell about it and it's so out
there that you can't believe that it's actually true.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
We had a president who was.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
The worst resident of an old folks home, a senior
living facility, had no idea where he was, and we
were told no it's not true.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Your eyes deceive you, but it was true. It did happen,
and it can happen again.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Tim wall was on CNN with Jake Tapper, and Jake
Tapper asked if it was a mistake for the Democrats.
You know, let's do the post mortem on where you
guys went wrong in November.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Was it a.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Mistake for the Democrats to pretend that Biden was capable
of a second term? And let's see what Governor Tim
Wallas had to say about that.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Suer mistake.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
But he made that decision, I know, but you all
went along with He was up for it and he wasn't.
Everybody saw it and the country rejected it.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (09:02):
Well, look, history will tell us to go back on that.
That very well could be the case, Jake. What I'm
concerned about is learning from those lessons. I would hope
we would never do it again, make a mistake, make
sure we go through and get someone.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
But I don't know where it helps us going forward.
Speaker 12 (09:17):
I certainly am deeply concerned that Donald Trump is going
to lead us down horrific Look, thank god it's tariffs
that he said. Donald Trump listens to no one, Remember,
Donald Trump has statements about I don't think nuclear war
would be that bad. I guess we're lucky that he
went after tariffs instead of that route. We have an
issue in this country that's going to impact us. And
if there is not a loyal opposition, if there's not
(09:38):
some soul searching on our side, if there's not reaching
out to those folks who are in the streets they're
leading right now.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
That is.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
That's interesting right there. Yeah, we're in grave danger. Yeah,
it's Donald Trump is very dangerous because you know, remember
one time he said nuclear war is in danger. He
has closed the borders. He has caused countries to take
tariffs off that they had against our products. He has
found billions, if not trillions, in waste and fraud in
(10:10):
our government. He has replaced the nut jobs in the
cabinet with qualified people. Yes, he's leading us down a
path to destruction. Temp on Tim, he really is. And
everyone saw what Jake Tapper did. Everyone saw that Joe
Biden was in decline. That's what Jake Tapper said. Everyone
(10:35):
saw Joe Biden was in decline. So why did he
treat Laura Trump the way he did when she mentioned
Joe Biden's cognitive decline, because now he claims that it
was there and it should have been seen, and he
saw it and everyone saw it, but at the time
he was denying it.
Speaker 13 (10:51):
Every time he comes on stage or they turned to him,
I'm like, Joe, can.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You get it out? Let's get the words out. Do
you kind of feel bad for him?
Speaker 11 (10:58):
How do you think it makes little kids with stuffs
feel when they see you make a comment like that.
Speaker 13 (11:03):
First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden
ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see
on stage with Joe Biden Jake is very clearly a
cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
You are.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I think it's so amazing.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
It's so amazing to me that.
Speaker 13 (11:21):
Try and figure out an.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Answer cognitive decline.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
You're trying to.
Speaker 13 (11:24):
Tell me that what I was suggesting was I think.
Speaker 11 (11:27):
That you were mocking his stutter. Yeah, I think you
were mocking his stutter. And I think you have absolutely
no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. I would think
that somebody in the Pump family would be more sensitive
to people who do do not have medical licenses diagnosing
your politicians from Afar. Plenty of people have diagnosed your
father from Afar, and I'm sure it defends you. Your
(11:49):
father in law from a farm. I'm sure it defends you.
You don't have any standing to.
Speaker 13 (11:53):
Say noticing what I'm saying, just talking about a cognitive
decline that Joe Biden.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I have one last question for you. Are you can't?
Speaker 13 (12:00):
I am is on stage and it's very concerning to
a lot of people that this could be the leader
of the free world. That is all I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I genuinely are.
Speaker 13 (12:08):
Sorry for Joe.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Tapper likes to pretend he's not a leftist. He likes
to pretend he's a solid guy, middle of the road.
I'm a Philadelphia Eagles fan.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I'll just do.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Anything for my Eagles. Solid guy, mister solid Jake Tapper.
But he's an awful human being in a powerful position
that he abuses. Western Letterman is a site that put
together this montage. This is Jake Tapper trying desperately to
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convince all of us that he is a reasonable, middle
of the road guy who should be trusted and not
some left wing sell out to their ideological interests. But
of course we know that he is, and for that
he must never be trusted. If he tells you this
guy's blue, you better go check. Because nothing he says
(13:05):
is honest, Nothing he says is truthful. He's a very
very bad human being. And I hope he goes bankrupt,
and I hope he is. I hope his career continues
to falter, and I hope that wherever he goes, he
is dogged by the guilt of the evil that he
has done. Everyone, especially on your side, on the left,
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is freaking not.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
On the left.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
Is it possible that the Republican Party is now the
party of deranged biggots? Do you think it's racist to
vote for President Trump? In twenty twenty, a Republican from
Florida lost his legs by the way fighting for democracy abroad.
Although I don't know what is I don't know about
his commitment to it here in the United States. We
go through this every single time Republicans control the House.
(13:50):
You guys can't pass legislation, you can't govern. I we'll
see how much congressional Republicans are willing to meet President
of like Biden and Vice presidential of Harris on this
field of decency and normalcy. It's not just President Trump
that has been a roaded norms of decency and.
Speaker 10 (14:11):
A lot of help.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
I hope you don't take this personally, but do you
guys have any idea how clown isss you look?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
So?
Speaker 11 (14:16):
Republicans obviously seizing on this horrific tragedy at the University
of Georgia. This girl, this nursing student killed buy an
undocumented Venezuela and migrant, and they're seizing it on this
as an example of Biden's failure to protect the American people.
Just it seems like so much about politicians address these
issues is about demonizing the other side.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
On critical race theory, on trans students.
Speaker 11 (14:41):
I see a lot of people in the Republican Party
doing that. There is no evidence of any wrongdoing by
either Joe or hunter By. The dehumanizing rhetoric of Adolph
Hitler is once again alive and well on a national
political stage.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
This time, of course, in the.
Speaker 11 (14:57):
United States, President Trump has gone to quote extraordinary length
to keep specifics about his meetings with Russian President Vladimir
putin secret, even keeping them from top members of.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
His own administration.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Take a listen to how President Trump responded Saturday night
when asked directly if he has ever worked for Russia.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I think it's the most insulting thing I've ever been asked.
I think it's the most insulting article I've ever had written.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
The President did not directly answer the question. It's a
stunning turn of events. Do you think the President of
the United States ever worked on behalf of the Russians
against American interests? Though the original protests are about race,
and the protesters were almost entirely black, and the team
owners whom the President was calling upon to fire or
(15:43):
suspend those players are almost entirely white, and the President
chose to launch this campaign in front of an almost
all white crowd in Alabama. Despite all that, the President
insisted that this has nothing to do with race.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
There's nothing to do with race. I've never said any
thing about race.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
This has nothing to do with race or anything else.
Speaker 11 (16:04):
It is one hundred percent true that the President never
said anything about race.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
He did not have to.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
This entire discussion is about black men protesting racial injustice.
One of course, wonders why, in the President's view, a
black man protesting racial injustice by kneeling during the anthem,
is the son of a bitch? While White's marching alongside
Nazis and the clan to protest the removal of the
statue of a Confederate general is a quote very fine person,
(16:31):
but I digress.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
A nercus nation that can be defined in a single word.
I was gonna put him number nine.
Speaker 12 (16:38):
Not only was it authentic frontier jibbory, it expressed their
courage of the data.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
The Michael Barry Show, Donald Trump and go to prison.
They're going to take all his properties. They kept dragging
him to court. He's an awful person. They tried to
kill him. He's the same people and for some reason,
for some reason, reasonable people still do the Charlie Brown
getting duped by Lucy's football because there may be a
(17:05):
chance they'll kick the football, so they just keep believing.
Speaker 10 (17:09):
Well.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Fox News, to their credit, has had of late real people.
We played you the audio.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Of the.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Beef cattle, the cattle raisers talking about Australian beef being
allowed into this country and they want but they have
terrofts on our stuff. I'm tired of it. I want
my people first. And if you're not a person who
wants to put Americans before people in other countries. That's fine,
but I have no patience for you, and we do
not share the values of countrymen. Because I'm willing to
(17:44):
protect you, you're not willing to protect me. And that's
not mutually beneficial. But Fox News, to their credit, has
had people on the air in different fields that these
terroriffs are going to help immediately. And so we got
a message from an old friend of mine in the
radio business named John Mounts, and he runs our station
(18:05):
in Birmingham, Alabama, and he's a super great guy, and
he's an old fashioned news guy. He's not that old,
but he's been in this business since he was a kid.
And he said, Zara, not sure if you already have
your show planned out for this afternoon or not, but
I found this guest for our morning show here in Birmingham.
She was on Fox News. She's a third generation shrimperman.
(18:28):
I guess that's like a fisherman but for shrimp. That's
a term she used out of Bayou Labatory, Alabama. Who
explains why she supports Trump's terrorists because she says that
overseas shrimping has flooded the US market and made it
almost impossible for families like hers who live on the
bayou to stay afloat pun intended. I think you'll really
(18:50):
enjoy having her. Her name is Tammy Hall and her
business is Sea Harvest Fresh Shrimp. Tammy, Do I have
to call you a shrimperman or can I just call
you a sh shrimper?
Speaker 9 (19:02):
So I am the shrimperman's wife.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh okay, Well that sounds like a perfume style or
some sort of a package somebody would get every month,
you know, like the farmer's table for the dogs or
farmer's dog or whatever. Like the shrimperman's wife would be
the term that you would you get a package every
month of certain goods.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
That would be you'd be a subscription model.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
I have helped him in the past. I have shrimp
with my husband in the past. But I think he
referred to me as a third generational fisherman because my
grandfather fished, My father fish and my husband fishes all
of it.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
And by labattery, yes, sir, it says sea harvest rash
shrimp on your website.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We sell to the public. You know.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I'll tell you that there's a fellow here in Galveston,
south of Houston, and his daughter in law is an
absolute saint, she's an angel.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
He's in his nineties.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
She goes out with him every day so that he
can still go out and shrimp, because he's shrimp since
he was five years old, and he can't go by himself.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
He's too old and fragile and feeble. But he's the
sweetest fellow you ever want to meet. And she takes
him out.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And she calls herself the shrimp Diva because she has
perfectly manicured nails, she has her face made up perfectly.
She dresses stylishly although shorts and a T shirt when
she goes out with him. And she's a society lady.
And her husband has a job in downtown Houston making
a lot of money. Asn't exactly with the company, but
her love of her husband extends to her love of
(20:34):
her father in law in his nineties, mind you, And
she takes him out on that boat every day so
that he gets to shrimp. She's been on my show
multiple times. People love her. Shrimp Diva's her name. You
could find that she's online. She's got a huge online following,
mostly because she's cute, as all get out, and she
tells me that they cannot sell their shrimp into the
(20:55):
retail market. They have to sell their shrimp to bait shop.
And the reason is because the Asian market has flooded
our market with these cheap shrimp. And she's got all
sorts of things to say about whether they're good for
your health and all that, and it has made it
so that local fishermen cannot or shrimpers cannot shrimp and
(21:18):
still make money. The best they can do is the
shrimp that they pull out of there they sell to
the bait shop. Is that your experience, That's.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Not our exact experience, but yes, what she's saying is true.
So over ninety percent of the shrimp concerned in the
United States comes from overseas, and that's not something that
has is built up over time. The product is so
(21:50):
cheap that a lot of the restaurants will go for
whatever is cheaper. And I hate to say it that
even local restaurants.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
Do the same.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
We have not had to sell to a bake shop,
you know, as you're talking about Trump Viva did. But
what we did is all our lives. My husband in
our fifties, we sold to the factory. So when COVID hit,
the factory stopped buying shrimp because none of the restaurants
are the few restaurants that they were supplying in our
(22:22):
grocery stores. I'm not sure, but I won't say the
restaurants have quit buying anyway, they cut us off, and
I told my husband Oslick, Now people.
Speaker 10 (22:30):
Still have to eat.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
So we started selling directly to the public, just bypass
the factory. That was the best thing we ever did.
It was just a god moment for sure. That actually
has helped save us, and I feel like kept us
around and in the business because times have been so hard,
especially these past few years. It's gotten really tough. I've
(22:56):
seen there's so many boats that are just tied up
and couldn't work. But this import thing has been going
on for years, and what it's doing is and I
heard of South Carolina shrimpers say this the other day
on the news, and I thought, that's so good. He said,
it's broken down our infrastructure. And my husband and I
(23:18):
were talking yesterday. You know, when we were kids, there's
shipbuilders all.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Here in town.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Of course, now they're building tug boats and.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Different other boats. But back in the day when we
were children.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Every shipyard had a shrimp boat on it. But I
cannot tell you the last new shrimp boat that was
built here. It's been years since we've had a new
shrimp boat built. And saying that, so what happens. We've
got all these cheap imports dumped on us.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
We're having to compete with them.
Speaker 9 (23:52):
So therefore our price has not changed much over the
years at all, even back from when my grandfather was shrimping.
I have some of his voices from where he shrimped
and the price differences and that.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Was like some of them go back to the fifties.
Speaker 9 (24:07):
But I was looking the other day one from nineteen
sixty eight and seventy there was not a big price
difference at all.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
It was like a couple dollars a pound.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
That it's changed over the years. But what it's done
to us is it's put us under such a hardship
that our boats need repairing. You know, we can't hol
our boats up. We can't if the engine breaks. If
something happens with our engine or a winch or something,
we have to pretty much fix it ourselfs.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Tammy Hall figure out had to fix old right there.
Her name is Tammy Hall See Harvest Fresh Shrimp dot net.
They're in Bayou La Battery, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Tammy Hall is our guest.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
She was contacted on our behalf by our affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama,
and the Great John Mounts there who runs that station,
and he said, you're going to love this lady. She
can talk knowledgeably, knowledgeably about the shrimping business. They're in
Byula Battery, Alabama. And this is who the tariffs will help,
(25:08):
these kinds of people, family owned businesses like this.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Tammy, you were talking.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I had to interrupt you. Your company is Seaharvest Fresh
Shrimp dot com and use of dot net Sea Harvest
Fresh Shrimp dot net. You made the statement that it
was a god thing for you, that it changed for
you when you stopped selling to the wholesalers who were
buying the cheap Asian stuff that's coming in here and
(25:37):
you started selling directly to the public. What does that
process look like? I see that on your website. It
says you're selling on the weekends in the season. Do
people walk up and buy a bag? Where do they
walk up? What does that look like?
Speaker 9 (25:53):
Okay, so we're located right next to the drawbridge in
the middle of Bay Labattery. You can't miss us. We're
right on main stretch. We just have a boat and
a dock and my husband and my son and my uncle.
There's a couple other fishermen who work with us, because
we try to help out everybody that we can. But
they go out, they fish, you know, two or three,
(26:15):
four nights, four night smacks. Because we're a nice boat.
We never freeze. Everything's preserved with just sice and water.
But they go out, they catch the strength they come in.
Sometimes we have some bycatch, which will be crabs, fish,
not a lot, but sometimes we do. We sell those
as well, and we just pull up to the dock
and sell straight to the public. Now our customers can
(26:38):
usually place an order that way, it secures that the shrimp.
Speaker 10 (26:40):
Are going to be there when they get there.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
But you know, they call their texts and place an
order and we tell them what time to be there
and pick up.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
They just bring their cooler.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
If you want to buy one pound, we'll sell you
one pound, we've got bags for it. Or if you
want to buy fifty pounds, bring you cooler.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
And how much does one pound costs?
Speaker 9 (27:02):
So last week we had sixteen twenties, which means sixteen
to twenty shrimp, and a pound that's our large. They
were four dollars a pound.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Head on, and if I bought fifty pounds, same price,
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Interesting.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
And when you take shrimp home yourself, how many days
a week do you think y'all eat shrimp at home?
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Oh my goodness, wee could, honestly. And my customers tell me,
they say, you must get tired of eating shrimp. We
never get tired of eating shrimp. But I'd say probably
once or twice a week we eat shrimp.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
And what's your favorite way to prepare shrimp?
Speaker 9 (27:41):
I think all of my family's favorite way, of course
we're from deep South, is to fry them.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Oh yes, lord, yes, my way makes the best bride shrimp,
and she does. We'll do parties. And she does it
straight out of the cast iron skillet that my grandmother
when she passed my wife inherited, and she will put
it on the stovetop on, and she will have that
(28:08):
thing boiling hot, and that oil is popping everywhere so
much so that she won't let you come over there
because you'll get popped. And she takes it straight out
of that oil and straight onto the plate. And Tilman Fetita,
who owns who's the largest independent restaurant owner in the country,
is now the ambassador to Italy, but he owns landries
in all these different places, and he'll come over for
(28:29):
parties and he will stand right there next to her,
and as it comes out, he will eat it when
it's so hot it burns the roof of your mouth.
But she always starts with the catfish because she says,
if I start with the shrimp, they'll fill up on
shrimp won't eat the catfish. But if you start with
the catfish, you have the catfish first and then you
eat the shrimp. Now, I don't know if you eat catfish,
but I'm going to hear from listeners in the northeast
(28:50):
and northwest and do north of this country who are
going to email me and tell me that catfish is
a bottom feeder and it's a trash fish.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
And I'm going to respond to you, yes, but I
like it.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
You can tell our executive producer Chad Nakanishi that spam
is of this, and it's that, and it's this, and
he'll say, I grew up in Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
I loved it, So we like what we like. Do
you eat catfish?
Speaker 10 (29:13):
Sometimes not a whole lot.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
What you got to remember, I'm a fisherman's life, so
I'm spoiled whenever it comes to fish. But our favorite
fish and my husband's by far, and he's been a
fisherman his whole life. His favorite fish is a flounder,
which is a local fish here. Yeah, we like snapper
and ground low it.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
That's our top three choices.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
There's a fellow named Timothy Ferris. He wrote a book
called The Four Hour work Week, and he wrote another
book called The four Hour Body. And he's a life
hack and one of the things he teaches people is
how to develop habits, good habits instead of bad habits.
You break a habit, you build a habit. And one
of the things he says is that we like what
we eat. And so if if you grow up eating
(30:02):
black beans, that's the only thing you eat, then as
you get older, you tend to crave black beans. It's,
as the phrase goes, mother's milk and so so much
of that.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
We didn't eat flounder when I was growing up.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
It wasn't an easy fish to get to Now I've
had it, and you can catch it and roll over
pass near come near where I grew up. My brother
used to go over and catch them. But by and
large it wasn't a real common one. But catfish in
the fresh waters here was a big, big deal. And
I think it's you know, it's as much about the
memories as anything else. Whatever you grow up on is
(30:35):
what you remember. You know, your whole family being gathered
together and eating and enjoying. So let's go back to
these terraces for a moment. If if this happens, where's
the shrimp that's being brought in to replace your local fish?
Your local shrimp. They got to bring that shrimp a
(30:55):
long way, so they got to freeze it, whereas yours
is fresh. They got to freeze it in a long distance.
And all the things that go to that, the fuel
and all that to get here instead of fresh fish.
But the wholesaler has decided cheap is best. We're just
going to do whatever's cheap, because that's what people don't
care about value, about quality. They just want cheap. But
(31:17):
where is that coming from? It's coming from Vietnam, is
it coming from Asia? Where is it coming from?
Speaker 9 (31:24):
I think Ecuador is one of the biggest countries that
it's coming from. Then you've got Indonesia, Vietnam, India, but
I want to say Ecuador is probably the biggest supplier.
Speaker 10 (31:37):
Now, this was something that is a.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
Real shocker as well that a lot of people probably
don't know.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
But have you heard of the Save Our Shrimpers Act?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (31:50):
Okay, so you have already get familiar with that.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
I know that there is an effort, and I've heard
mentioned there are several efforts like this regarding agricultural and
fisheries and beef and livestock that are intended to bolster
our local, family run businesses, particularly not big agra.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
They don't need to help.
Speaker 9 (32:18):
So to say, Our Shrimpers Act was actually it's been
reintroduced into Congress as an effort to stop federal funding
from going to international banks or financial institutions, because our
tax dollars have been going to these banks and then
(32:39):
they're taking the money and giving it to the shrimping
aquaculture over there, which is, in other words, they have
been paid. We have been paying for these shrimp farmers
and for these shrimp farms. Then they ship them back
up here at a cheap price, and we have to
(33:02):
try to compete with that. Are you familiar with them?
Speaker 10 (33:06):
Yeah? Have you been talking about that?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yes, Hold on just a moment.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Timmy Hall see Harvest Fresh Shrimp dot net more talk
on tariffs and shrimp.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Ramon, the King of Ding and this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
These are the kind of guy you'd like to smacking
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