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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Berry Show. No, we've had so much to
talk about that there's so many things we don't get to.
Jim Mutt, our creative director, had sent me a story
about the seventeen percent tax, sorry tariff on tomatoes imported
from Mexico, and so as a result it has it

(00:23):
has caused American tomatoes domestic production. They're increasing in production
and increasing sales because people are getting prepared for now.
I don't know what the tariff is today. Trump changes
them every day somebody does something he doesn't like, he
just says, up, I'm gonna increase your tariff. Oh no, no, no.
This is sort of like I don't know if you've

(00:44):
ever done this to your kids, but I do you
sort of like you know, they don't do what you want. Okay,
I'll take your phone away. Oh no, no, no, I'll do it.
That's kind of what Trump. Trump has every country on
a short leash. He's got them by the short hairs up,
I'll increase in tariffs. Well, you gotta figure that this
would piss off a Mexican tomato farmer, right. Your biggest market,

(01:05):
by far is the Americans, especially our friend Rojaleo, who
took the time to air his displeasure with the American
tomato on his Mexican podcast called Hit Tomato.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
You know, we can talk a tomato all the time,
every time that you want to. But you know, it's
like the Mexican tomato ow shines the American tomato so easy.
I mean, you guys have this tomato that you say, oh,
look at my big heatle for tomato in America. I
want to put this big tarraff on a Mexican tomato
to beat bad Mexican tomato. Really, you're just jealous. Cat

(01:39):
Me tell you why, because Americans, what do you do
with your tomato? Huh what do you do?

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
You take this tomato and you do Oh look at me.
I'm a Jeff. Look at me, Cheff. I'm behind you, Jet,
I'm in front of you, Chef. I'm besides you. Jeff.
Is that when you came up with the name Jeff?
This is things that keep me up at night? Well,
here I am thinking, what are you going to do
with your tomato? And you slice the tomato just right
up and down and then you put it in a

(02:07):
little turkey sandwich with the brown bread, and you say, oh,
look at me, look at what I do with my tomato. Ridiculous,
Borring snarfast. But you say, oh no, Rhelio, Just wait
a minute, Just wait a minute. What we do gonna
do with the tomato? Now we're gonna take a tomato.
We're gona slides it the exact same way. We're going

(02:28):
to put it between two pieces of bread and a
piece of cow. All this suff like another sandwich to me, Borring,
where is my seapep? You ever noticed? Now Mexico for seabaps,
it's only the white man, big white man. Anyway, then
the white man say, wait a minute. You ain't gonna
believe this one you do. I'm going to take the tomato.

(02:51):
I'm going to slice it exact same way that I
did it the other time for the sandwich. Or I
am burder and I'm going to do this same thing,
but this time I'm going to get a really gringle
with it. I want to put it on a plate
with some salt. I mean us a a a appetizer.
What did the world is this? I don't even know

(03:12):
what where we're talking about. Listen, man and mehe kind
of the mato is a work of all.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Let me remind you of my little friend called Nko
de Guayo. You may be remember him from Sinco de Mayo.
When you had four margaritas and passed out in a
dairy queen parking lot. You got a tomato, You got
the onion hall a paene a salon and a.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Little peter a squeez Quez Quez Quez queeze lime. So
always remember America. Your pathetic tomato.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
It is nothing more than a soggy apple compared to
the great Mexicamo.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
To my day, I received an email from alistener named
Brandon that went as follows. This is an example of
a typical email from a listener Czar, I can't sleep.

(04:13):
I had a red eye flight back to San Anton
last night and I had a debate with strangers. I
sat in the middle. The man on my left asked
the other two of us in our row, what's the
best Mexican restaurant in San Anton. The man to my
right gave his favorite in Rio Medina, where he's from.
I said, my favorite is probably El Chaparral in Bernie,

(04:36):
where I live, but that doesn't mean it's the best.
Their stiff competition. I wanted to ponder a bit the
man who originally asked the question then said, flat Lee,
the best is Torchies. I told him that's not even
a Mexican place, much less the best. It's a taco joint.
It's not even the best taco joint in San Antonio.

(04:59):
Fuego by UTSA UTSA is University of Texas at San Antonio.
Is I can't get cheese in Gilades, rice and beans,
or fajitas or complimentary chips and salsa at Torches. Therefore
it's not a Mexican restaurant. Also, San Antone is, to
text Max, what New York is to Italian food. They

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are culturally intertwined and there are so many amazing places
to pick from. I like Torches. They make tasty tacos.
But I'm still awake trying to understand a textan that
is of the opinion that Torches is a Mexican rest
that a Torches is a Mexican restaurant, and b that
the best Mexican restaurant in San Antonio is Torches. I

(05:41):
needed to vent so hopefully I can get to sleep. Also,
my son turned to today. He got a t ball
set and a new Astros cap. Here's him batting with
two of his sisters helping. Yes, I'm a proud papa.
Now you might think to yourself, well, that's a goofy
email to get, poor Michael. I'd hate to get those

(06:03):
kind of emails. You'd be wrong. I loved this email.
These are the kind of things I think about at length.
How could some guy think that Torchi's Tacos is a
text Mex restaurant? And even if it were, it's not,
but we'll stipulate for the sake of argument that it is.
It's certainly not the best Textmex restaurant in San Antone.

(06:28):
What is the best Text Mex restaurant where you live
or that you've ever eaten? Drop me an email, but
please give me the context. You may hear this. Three
days from now. You go to Michael Berryshow dot com.
You send me an email and you put in Chris
Madrid's or Mithiera or whatever that is. I don't care

(06:51):
your choice. I don't mean to affect it. Gringo's Text Mex,
whatever your choice is you sent. But if you don't
tell me, Hey, you asked for our favorite choice of
a textmax restaurant and you just put that in, then
I have no context. And I'm reading all these emails
and I haven't just finished a segment, even though you

(07:12):
just finished it, it's days ago for me, and I'm
reading that and I end up losing my mind and
sending you a snarky email. You can always reach me
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(07:34):
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