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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very Show is on the air. Probably then Jack place
and I've him back. I hate two.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
The President of Columbia refused to accept a flight of migrants.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
He said he wouldn't take them.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Donald Trump said, We're going to enter the f around
and find out portion of this conversation. Within an hour
of making that threat, the President of Columbia said, whoa.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Whoa, I'll send my own plane to pick these people up.
Two zero nin er you are clear for takeoff? Roger, huh,
departure frequently one two three point.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Nine er Roger time request factor over.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But flight two zero niner clear for a victor at
three two.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Four we have Clarence Clarrence, Roger Roger.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
What's our victor victory?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But opening up to anyone who's in the country illegally
and going into schools and grabbing them to that kids.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Don't message needs to be clear. This consequences enter a
country legally.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
If we don't show those consequences, you never go fick
the border process.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right. But we are a country of laws.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary
to make distinctions between those.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Who obey the law and those who violate it. Therefore,
we disagree with those who would label.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Any effort to control illegal immigration as somehow inherently and immigrants.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Unlawful immigration is not excepted.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
They've committed a crime, deport them, no questions asked. They're gone,
if they if they've been working, and our law abiding
we should say, here are the conditions for you staying.
You have to pay a stiff fine because you came
here illegally. You have to pay back taxes, and you
have to try to learn English, and you have to
wait in line.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
To go in with some mesitation. You know that you.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Probably noticed, but in case you didn't identify every voice there.
That was a montage of some prominent Democrats talking about
how we have to secure our border, deport the illegals,
and keep them from coming here, including Barbara Jordan, a
long time, not that long actually, black woman congressman from Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Sadly she had MS.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
She had multiple sclerosis that she contracted or became aware
of in nineteen seventy three, her first year as a congressman.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And she didn't get to serve very long as a congressman.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
And I say that because she was very well respected
as this black woman Democrat in seventy three and through
the seventies, in fact, all the way into the eighties,
she retired and taught at the University of Texas School
of Government.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
There because she spoke.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
In this very regal manner in which an highly educated
black woman or man of that time would, And part
of that was.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
These were the first This was the first.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Era of the black intellectual on the mass scene. This
wasn't at an HBCU where they're teaching to students. These
were black intellectuals speaking on the national and international stage
as Americans, and they wanted to a very august appearance.
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Clarence Thomas still does that, and they did not relax.
It was always very serious, very image conscious.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And she was so well.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Respected was Barbara Jordan that in nineteen seventy six she
was chosen to give the keynote address at the convention
where Jimmy Carter would speak. Now, mind you, Nixon wins
in sixty eight. Nixon wins in seventy two. Democrats haven't
won a presidential election since going back to sixty four,
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which they win twelve years earlier, which they win. Really,
Johnson doesn't win that so much as they guilt the
nation into it. Because JFK has been assassinated. They marginalized
Goldwater as some sort of a nut job.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
He wasn't.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
In fact, Goldwater was a far more moderate Republican by
today's standards than you would believe, especially on social policy.
But they made him out to be a guy that
just wanted to drop bombs, much as they did of
Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Turned out not to be true.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So it's seventy six and the keynote address is delivered
by Barbara Jordan, this black woman from the South who's
relatively conservative for a Democrat, and certainly for a Black
Democrat and a woman. This is the era of the
Shirley Chisholms. A little after Shirley Chisholm, but this is
the era. This is a very different black woman national
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stature leader than her later successor, Sheila Jackson Lee, who
tried to constantly cloak herself in the eighteenth Congressional District representative.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But she was no Barbara Jordan. She tried to be.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Maxine Waters, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Now, these black women you know today.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Are are the there's a certain category of them there's
certainly not true of all of them, who are just
loud mouthed race baiting.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And they're dumb. They're dumb dumbs.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And I know you're not supposed to say that if
somebody's black, but if it's true, truth is a defense
to libel defamation, and what I say on the air,
they're dumb dumbs. Maxine Waters is a dum dumb. Sheila
Jackson Lee was a dumb dumb Eddie, Bernice Johnson dumb dumb.
Now they are also three of them very corrupt. But
in any case, Barbara Jordan speaks in seventy six to
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represent a new South, a more conservative South. She was
a black woman Democrat who could be presented to white
labor and say, hey, the new Democrats, even the Black Democrats,
are not radical. You can reason with them. They share
your values. So there is Barbara Jordan explaining things like,
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you're not a nation unless you enforce your borders. If
you come to this country illegally, you must be removed
and deported for the good of our people and for
those standing in line.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
This was a Democrat saying this.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Imagine that today Barbara Jordan was so well regarded that
seventy six.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
She's this star congressman.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Now she's in the throes of multiple scroses at the time,
so her fingers are closing, they're becoming gnarled. Her gait
was unsteady, starts walking with a cane and she's struggling.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And yet she's still so well respected.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
She was so well respected even into in the eighties.
As she steps down from Congress because her health couldn't
hold up, she goes to the University of Texas, where
she's teaching at the School Government. Nineteen ninety two, sixteen
years later, she hadn't been a congressman for years. Bill
Clinton has her give the speech there, kind of rekindling
the Carter seventy six of you know, a southern white
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male who's a new Democrat and when you and then
she chaired the committee, the Commission on Immigration. Go look
up what she said about security on a border. She
sounds like Trump today.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Die.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I will die for disclast Michael Barry, Joe, He's the.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Big honor to be living in the United States.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Scott Jennings has done such a wonderful job at CNN.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
A lot of people want him plucked from CNN.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Put into the White House Press team, and I think
when Carolyn Levitt is done, he would be on the
short list of people. But I have to tell you
he is so useful in his so influential in his
role at CNN. Now their ratings have absolutely cratered. But
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what Jennings is able to do is be a voice
of reason in a sea of insanity on CNN and
a lot of people who would never be exposed to
the type of thought that is expressed every day on
talk radio through some of the guests and hosts on
Fox News, people are exposed to what is what are
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very reasoned arguments by someone who's not on the payroll
of big government, big arms, big Military industrial complex, big pharma,
big immigration, the way the Catholic Church has been sold
out to.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Illegal immigration, which we'll get to.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
If you're a Catholic, you don't need to send me
an email that you're offended because you're a Catholic. And
I called for accountability among the Catholic Church receiving money,
the Catholic charities receiving money from the government for resettlement,
which has become a big industry.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You don't need to do that because all I'm going
to do is tell you.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Need to be holding the Catholic Church accountable, not me.
I'm not a parishioner. I'm not paying their bills. But
I'm going to call it out because guess what, I
love my country more than I love your church, and
I don't believe it's the one true church. Just so
you know, Southern Baptist here. One week into his second term,
President Trump already achieved legend status. Scott Jennings tells the
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CNN Panel how the President of Columbia learned the hard way.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Number one, the reason Donald Trump had to resort to
these tariffs and sanctions and punishments today is because the
president of Columbia refused to accept a flight of migrants.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He said he wouldn't take them.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Donald Trump said, We're going to enter the f around
and find out portion of this conversation, and he hit
him with sanctions and tariffs. And now tonight the Speaker
of the House, Mike Johnson says Congress is going to
back him up on that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
He's putting Columbia, He's putting.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The rest of this hemisphere on notice that you are
not dealing with the same president that you were. You're
dealing with someone who is taking illegal immigration seriously. Now,
within an hour of making that threat, the president of
Columbia said, whoaa woa, I'll send my own plane to
pick these people up. So obviously he got their attention.
I don't think there's actually going to be any terror
for between the United States and Columbia, because as long
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as they come get their people, I doubt Donald Trump's
can end up tariffing them, and they won't tariff US,
and they'll have learned a valuable lesson that Donald Trump
is taking immigration illegal immigration seriously. This is real leadership,
but it sends a message to everybody else in the hemisphere,
do not test us. This is not Biden and Harris.
This is Trump Advance. We mean business. And you know
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it happened under Barack Obama. Actually he deported millions upon
millions of people. And I don't have any recollection of
the US economy collapsing and no Republican and I don't
think most Americans are taking seriously the argument that the
US economy is underpinned by violent, criminal illegal immigrants. I mean,
if our entire economy is underpinned by people who are
rapists and murders, and commit other violent acts.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Then you know, we got a whole other set of issues.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Going on in the economy we ought to talk about today.
I mean, people people just aren't. People just aren't buying
that argument. So the populations that they are starting with
are violent, criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Then they also have a million and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
People who have existing fully adjudicated in orders. And beyond that,
I would just point out that if you came to
this country illegally, you're already a criminal illegal immigrant. You've
already broken our laws, even if you haven't been arrested
yet or charged with it.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
If you're here illegally, if you broke our laws, then
you're going to be targeted.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Now, maybe you're not going to be a top priority
today because there's other more dangerous people here. But we
cannot send a message that, well, some illegal immigration is okay.
And that's been the problem of the last four years.
Basically Biden and Harris were like, Eh, just get here
and it'll probably work out for you. That is no
longer the communication strategy of the US government.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
The strategy is don't try us.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Whether you're the president of Columbia or somebody who just.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Walked across the border illegally. Do not try us. It
is not going to work out for you, period.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
And a Navarro is a woman who used her Hispanic
woman status to climb the social stature social ladder in
Republican politics, much as Michael Steele.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Did as a black man in Maryland.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Because if you're a minority and you call yourself a Republican,
it doesn't matter whether you share the values or aren't.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You just say I'm a.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Minority, I'm a Republican, I'm real loud, and you'll be elevated.
It's a problem we have in the Republican Party because
white Republicans are so scared of being called a racist
that if they find a minority who says I'm for
George H. W. Bush or I'm for George W. Bush,
then they get so excited. They're like, well, let's put
you in charge. You should run for president. We did
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this with Colin Powell, remember, and then I had people
telling me as late as two thousand and six that
Colin Powell should.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Be our nominee after George W.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Bush and O eight, and I said, you don't know
what he stands for on anything. He just looks good
in a uniform, and he's black, and he doesn't spout
power to the people with a clinched fist, and you think, oh,
let's make him president. And then in two thousand and eight,
you know who ended up supporting Barack Obama. Now, anybody
that could support Barack Obama for president wasn't a guy
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you wanted to be president. Can we agree with that?
Anna Navarro was a was the toast of the town
or monst Republicans. Now she's on the view and she
made the statement that if we put tariffs on Colombian products,
our coffee's gonna cost too much. Fine, We'll buy our
coffee from Indonesia and Ethiopia. There are plenty of places
to get coffee in the world. And by the way,
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they they're more hungry for our coffee. Anyway, we drink
Ethiopian coffee. Ramon likes Indonesian coll It doesn't matter. The
point is we hate illegal immigration and the violence on
our people more than we love your coffee.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
So whoever wants a Columbian coffee can pay.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
More for it because they're going to be subsidizing the
illegal aliens at Columbia won't take back.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But Annavarrow made the.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Point, your coffee's gonna cost and guess what Valentine's Day
is going to come up, and all your flowers come
from Columbia.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
You know that's true. And do you know why? Because
under George H. W.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Bush, in nineteen ninety one, the Andian.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Eliminated or devastated the cut flower industry in California. Do
you know that over two thirds of the flowers you
bought for Valentine's Day in this country came from California
until nineteen ninety one when that act was passed.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You know what we did.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
We allowed them to dump their product on our market
on very favorable terms, and within ten years, our cut
flower industry, a four billion dollars a year industry, was devastated.
You take a drive from Pescadero in Monterey, California, and
you will see what was a once very proud regional
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economy that is now dilapidated.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Greenhouses and and.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
And fields that are now fallow that were once a
thriving industry, The lands worth less, there's no jobs, all
of it because Bush's quote unquote free trade gave that
industry to Columbia.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Let's bring it back. What you say, Maddy Kuris and
Mamede too, Godmasul.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Main Go, Betty Show, Super.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Need Well Weather, Lee Majors. Is Heath Barkley to you
from Big Valley? Or Steve Austin from The six Million
Dollar Man? Or Colt Sievers on The Fall Guy? Depends
a lot on when you were born and when you
hit the age where that was. Of course, he was
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in a number of other movies as well, and something
of a legend. Qout some of them. He's a legend,
and he's also a dear friend of mine. He lives
in Houston. If he doesn't get a dang, I don't
know who does remote? Oh you doing something else? Oh?
Ramone got himself carried away watching the opening of six
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Million Dollars Man. Hey, you know what that can happen.
I'm not mad at you. He got distracted. That's an
easy thing to do.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
He will be my guest tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Most of you know, I do a morning show of
three hours long that is not nationally syndicated.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It's a Houston show.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That also picks up some South Texas stations Lubbutt and
some other stations. And then this our Evening Show is
a nationally syndicated show.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
They're different shows, and occasionally I do.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Something in the morning that I think I want to
share on the evening show. I don't do it often
because some folks listen to all five hours Live and
then our podcast listeners typically listen to Morning and the
Evening Show and they get aggravated that we've repeated something.
So I'm warning you that tomorrow evening there will be
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a segment or two from the morning show that I
will play on this the evening Show. And the reason
I'm telling you this is I have a specific reason.
He's our guest tomorrow. But if there is a question
you've always wanted me to ask Lee Majors, the six
million Dollar Man, if you email it to me tonight,
I will put it in my stack of questions for
him from listeners and he enjoys answering those questions. And remember,
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you can always email me through our website, which is
Michael Berryshow dot com Michael m my C H A
E L B E R R Y Michael Berryshow dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You can email me there.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I will read those and use them to prep for tomorrow,
and you'll hear that tomorrow on the Evening Show. So
you're gonna hear, including from some Republicans, Conservatives, economists, people
that you think are on our side, that we cannot
use the tariffs.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Tariffs are gonna hurt us.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
And let me tell you why that is faulty logic
because I am not necessarily a huge fan of governmental
intervention in trade, but I am also something of a realist.
While I have the idealism of free trade, when you
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understand that you operate in a world where there is
not free trade and you're engaged in free trade, but
the other side is not. Once you understand that and
you're trying to get people to tear down barriers to
our products, then you have to operate in a different world,
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all the while hoping to achieve the idealism. You can't
let the grape be the enemy of the good, and
you can't give up hope that you can achieve a
world where American manufacturing, American industry competes on level playing
field with other countries. But too often our political leadership
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has allowed our industries. I told you the story about
the California flower industry. The industry is referred to as
cut flower because these are flowers that are literally cut
and presented. So if you go to the flower market
and fellas I know a lot of you are, in
the next couple of weeks, you're going to go to
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buy roses or you know whatever, you're my wife's an
orchid girl. But if whether you're roses or whatever, that
might be ponees or whatever else. All of that over
two thirds of it was raised in California. Well, probably
the biggest national florist is a family out of California
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that are very, very politically connected that now they're coming
under quite a bit of attack because they own Fiji,
They own a number of agricultural interests. They dominate the
pistachio market.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
All of which you see.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
The reason Californians didn't protest when they lost their competitive
advantage in agriculture is because the Left was being funded
by foreign interests to push against agriculture.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Because guess what, it takes one point one gallons.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Per per day to raise one pistachio, that's what I read.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I didn't know that for a fact.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I read that, and it takes even more than that
for a number of other crops that we use.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And that sounds horrible.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
So what happens is these foreign interests who want our business.
They want to supply us bananas, or they want to
supply us all these number of different products. They hire
former congressmen who and they leave office, they got access
to all their buddies. They chase the same girls, They
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sit in the same hot tubs with the same prostitutes
every night.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
They fly on the same junkets.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Now they have a card where they can take them
to nice steakhouses and sit on the front row of
the baseball game, and they go, hey, let's shut down
American ag in California and we'll win you some votes
from the Liberals, from the greeny whenies well. As a
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result of that, that gives a competitive advantage to foreign
interest to supply us things like avocados from Mexico or
cut flowers from Colombia. America's loss of the ability to manufacture,
to create, to build, it's not entirely because we're lazy
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or our wages are too high. It is in many
cases so convoluted, so complicated. What our government did to
sell us out, and what all of these nonprofits whose
CEO is making millions, what they did to create these
distractions so that the people of California would say, yes,
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stop using water for agriculture, you're destroying the earth. They
actually require more water to raise those flowers in Colombia.
And if you're a citizen of the Earth, which is
what the global green movement's all about, what do you
care if it's California water or Colombian water that's raising
the flower. And by the way, what do you think
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is more efficient to have flowers raised in California that
we use.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Across the country to present to our girl for Valentine's.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Day or to have flowers raised in Colombia that then
have to be shipped, flown trucked here.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And that's what happened. We are fart hard for the
freedom to vote that Michael varies show what's the point
about the tariffs. We have had.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Tariff and quota and subsidy discussions throughout the course of
American history, government picking winners and losers, and many times
government intervention in an industry are related to a country
and them exporting to us, which they're export is our import.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I know I'm speaking down to you, but I want
to make.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Sure we all understand a tariff is the imposition of
a fine on a product coming in from an industry
or a country. In this case, it is tariffs on
Colombian goods coming into the United States as a punishment
for Columbia REFU using to take back their citizens who
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were here illegally. When we deposit them back to their
rightful place, which is in Colombia, Well, they don't want
them because.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
They're murderers and rapists.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Last thing they need is more murderers and rapists on
Colombian soil. They were glad to get rid of them.
They don't want them back. These people cost you a
lot of money. They cost you crimes, they cost you
loss of life, and then if you eventually catch them
and imprison them, they cost you to feed them every day.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I mean, it's a mess.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
So for Trump to say We're going to impose a
tariff of twenty five percent on Colombian goods coming here, well,
the big items coming here are as I told you,
cut flowers, coffee. A big Colombian good to the United
States is oil. Well, I'll leave that conversation because I'm
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about to go off on a tangent on that, and
I don't want to do that. People will tell you, well,
if you impose a tariff of twenty five percent and
then fifty percent after a week, which was a threat,
he won't have to make good on it now because
the Columbian president saw the light, shall we say? And
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people will say, well, that's just a tax that Americans
are going to pay. That's inflation twenty five percent. Products
that we were buying are just going to cost twenty
five percent more.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's just going to be passed on to the consumer.
And that is true.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
However, there isn't what economists will tell you, there is
an elastic demand for products based on their price. If
I told you I'll sell you this ribbi for one dollar,
this twelve ounce beautiful ribbi for cooked for one dollar,
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you'd buy as much as you could get. You might
buy the whole, your whole neighborhood one of them. If
I told you I'd sell you the same ribb I cooked,
delivered onto your plate delicious, for four hundred dollars, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Have any takers. Price is how we communicate.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
At one dollar, you tell me I really want it
at one dollar. The stake doesn't change the price changes.
We communicate as buyers and sellers as to the price.
We communicate without vocalizing, based on our behavior. So you
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can go write a Yelp review and all that. The
greatest thing you can do to help a business is
buy from them. The best way you can tell a
business what they're doing is wrong is to refuse to
go there. That's how the market speaks, That's how the
buyer com unicates with the seller. So with that twenty
five percent increase, if you say, well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Know what the cost of cost of coffee beans.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Is right now, I've got a show sponsor in Houston
called Cat's Coffee Katz Cat's Coffee, Abby catches his name,
and he gets beans from all over the world and
he rows them in Houston and he provides these gourmet,
you know, incredible blends for restaurants, churches, corporations. He does
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one for PTSD Foundation, which is Camp Hope, which is
for veterans with PTSD, and we raise a lot of
money for them.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I guess I could call him.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
I should have called him before the show and asked
him what the price of coffee beans.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
The market for certain beans is and it depends on
where it's from. You know, the.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Java that the beans from Indonesia and the beans from
Ethiopia and the beans from Columbia have different prices and
different you know, levels of you know, price points and
brag factor and all that. But if you increase the
price of Colombian coffee beans twenty five percent, the price
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elasticity may be so much that that would cost them
ninety percent of their business.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
It might.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Because people might be so price conscious that they would say,
I'm not going to pay another twenty five percent for
a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And in that case, these beans, I don't know how
long it takes, but.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
If you think about how long it takes to plant
the crop, harvest it, ship it, that would mean that
in very short order they would be left with a
lot of beans.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And I don't know how long out the bean is purchased.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I don't want to go too deep into this, but
that would be in pretty short order they'd be stuck
with a lot of beans in an economy that can't
afford the loss, and a big portion of their economy
that would hurt. And if twenty five percent went to
fifty percent, it wouldn't take long till people would change
what they eat.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
So whether you.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Love Waterburger or McDonald's or whatever your fast food restaurant is.
If you spend eight dollars on your burger, fries and coke,
and that eight dollars went to ten twenty five percent increase,
you may say, I'm not gonna do that anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
And that's true of everything.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
There comes a point where the elasticity related to the
price is so much.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
In luxury goods, you don't see it like that.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
A Rolls Royce that costs three hundred thousand dollars, they
could go up to three twenty five. That buyer's probably
not going to flinch because they want the status of
the Rolls Royce and the fact that it goes higher.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Gives them more status.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
But in commoditized products, products that can be replaced toilet paper, socks, coffee,
and Trump understands this. So for the Wall Street Journal
to be screaming and hollering, oh my god, not terriffs,
not tariffs. He's never gonna have to impose the tariff.
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For your entire life. You've been told we can't fix
this problem. We can't fix this problem. They're too entrenched,
it's too complicated. We can't solve the border crisis. We
can't fix the legal immigration and whatever you suggest.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah we can. We'll build a wall. We won't let
them in. Oh, that won't matter. People need them here
as laborers.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Okay, well, we won't allow companies to hire people without
social security. Well that won't matter because there's too many
people here that it becomes a moving target.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
It's too bit.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
We got to have an omnibus bill and then we
never get approval on that. Trump is showing you don't
need commissions, you don't need blue ribbon committees, you don't
need to study it, you don't need the shuttle diplomacy,
you don't need to go back and forth in the media.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
You punch them in the face and.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
They go, you know what, you're right, we'll solve this problem.
Bring illegals in here. Yeah, yeah, give us all our
Columbias back, because otherwise you crush their economy. And Trump
understands that what you're seeing is a businessman who says
it can be done in a bureaucracy that says, well,
if we ever solved the problem, we've got to planned
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obsolescence here. We don't ever want to solve the problem.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
We're the government. We're here for life.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Why would we want to fix the problem, then what
would do y'all might ask us to fix another problem.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Helps has little, Thank you and good night.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. Michael
Very Show is on the air. Probably then Jack place
and I've him back. I hate two.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
The President of Columbia refused to accept a flight of migrants.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
He said he wouldn't take them.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Donald Trump said, We're going to enter the f around
and find out portion of this conversation. Within an hour
of making that threat, the President of Columbia said, whoa.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Whoa, I'll send my own plane to pick these people up.
Two zero nin er you are clear for takeoff? Roger, huh,
departure frequently one two three point.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Nine er Roger time request factor over.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But flight two zero niner clear for a victor at
three two.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Four we have Clarence Clarrence, Roger Roger.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
What's our victor victory?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But opening up to anyone who's in the country illegally
and going into schools and grabbing them to that kids.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Don't message needs to be clear. This consequences enter a
country legally.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
If we don't show those consequences, you never go fick
the border process.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right. But we are a country of laws.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary
to make distinctions between those.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Who obey the law and those who violate it. Therefore,
we disagree with those who would label.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Any effort to control illegal immigration as somehow inherently and immigrants.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Unlawful immigration is not excepted.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
They've committed a crime, deport them, no questions asked. They're gone,
if they if they've been working, and our law abiding
we should say, here are the conditions for you staying.
You have to pay a stiff fine because you came
here illegally. You have to pay back taxes, and you
have to try to learn English, and you have to
wait in line.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
To go in with some mesitation. You know that you.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Probably noticed, but in case you didn't identify every voice there.
That was a montage of some prominent Democrats talking about
how we have to secure our border, deport the illegals,
and keep them from coming here, including Barbara Jordan, a
long time, not that long actually, black woman congressman from Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Sadly she had MS.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
She had multiple sclerosis that she contracted or became aware
of in nineteen seventy three, her first year as a congressman.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
And she didn't get to serve very long as a congressman.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
And I say that because she was very well respected
as this black woman Democrat in seventy three and through
the seventies, in fact, all the way into the eighties,
she retired and taught at the University of Texas School
of Government.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
There because she spoke.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
In this very regal manner in which an highly educated
black woman or man of that time would, And part
of that was.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
These were the first This was the first.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Era of the black intellectual on the mass scene. This
wasn't at an HBCU where they're teaching to students. These
were black intellectuals speaking on the national and international stage
as Americans, and they wanted to a very august appearance.
(04:05):
Clarence Thomas still does that, and they did not relax.
It was always very serious, very image conscious.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And she was so well.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Respected was Barbara Jordan that in nineteen seventy six she
was chosen to give the keynote address at the convention
where Jimmy Carter would speak. Now, mind you, Nixon wins
in sixty eight. Nixon wins in seventy two. Democrats haven't
won a presidential election since going back to sixty four,
(04:40):
which they win twelve years earlier, which they win. Really,
Johnson doesn't win that so much as they guilt the
nation into it. Because JFK has been assassinated. They marginalized
Goldwater as some sort of a nut job.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
He wasn't.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
In fact, Goldwater was a far more moderate Republican by
today's standards than you would believe, especially on social policy.
But they made him out to be a guy that
just wanted to drop bombs, much as they did of
Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Turned out not to be true.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So it's seventy six and the keynote address is delivered
by Barbara Jordan, this black woman from the South who's
relatively conservative for a Democrat, and certainly for a Black
Democrat and a woman. This is the era of the
Shirley Chisholms. A little after Shirley Chisholm, but this is
the era. This is a very different black woman national
(05:35):
stature leader than her later successor, Sheila Jackson Lee, who
tried to constantly cloak herself in the eighteenth Congressional District representative.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
But she was no Barbara Jordan. She tried to be.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Maxine Waters, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Now, these black women you know today.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Are are the there's a certain category of them there's
certainly not true of all of them, who are just
loud mouthed race baiting.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
And they're dumb. They're dumb dumbs.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And I know you're not supposed to say that if
somebody's black, but if it's true, truth is a defense
to libel defamation, and what I say on the air,
they're dumb dumbs. Maxine Waters is a dum dumb. Sheila
Jackson Lee was a dumb dumb Eddie, Bernice Johnson dumb dumb.
Now they are also three of them very corrupt. But
in any case, Barbara Jordan speaks in seventy six to
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represent a new South, a more conservative South. She was
a black woman Democrat who could be presented to white
labor and say, hey, the new Democrats, even the Black Democrats,
are not radical. You can reason with them. They share
your values. So there is Barbara Jordan explaining things like,
(06:58):
you're not a nation unless you enforce your borders. If
you come to this country illegally, you must be removed
and deported for the good of our people and for
those standing in line.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
This was a Democrat saying this.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Imagine that today Barbara Jordan was so well regarded that
seventy six.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
She's this star congressman.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Now she's in the throes of multiple scroses at the time,
so her fingers are closing, they're becoming gnarled. Her gait
was unsteady, starts walking with a cane and she's struggling.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
And yet she's still so well respected.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
She was so well respected even into in the eighties.
As she steps down from Congress because her health couldn't
hold up, she goes to the University of Texas, where
she's teaching at the School Government. Nineteen ninety two, sixteen
years later, she hadn't been a congressman for years. Bill
Clinton has her give the speech there, kind of rekindling
the Carter seventy six of you know, a southern white
(08:06):
male who's a new Democrat and when you and then
she chaired the committee, the Commission on Immigration. Go look
up what she said about security on a border. She
sounds like Trump today.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Die.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I will die for disclast Michael Barry, Joe, He's the.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Big honor to be living in the United States.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Scott Jennings has done such a wonderful job at CNN.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
A lot of people want him plucked from CNN.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Put into the White House Press team, and I think
when Carolyn Levitt is done, he would be on the
short list of people. But I have to tell you
he is so useful in his so influential in his
role at CNN. Now their ratings have absolutely cratered. But
(08:54):
what Jennings is able to do is be a voice
of reason in a sea of insanity on CNN and
a lot of people who would never be exposed to
the type of thought that is expressed every day on
talk radio through some of the guests and hosts on
Fox News, people are exposed to what is what are
(09:19):
very reasoned arguments by someone who's not on the payroll
of big government, big arms, big Military industrial complex, big pharma,
big immigration, the way the Catholic Church has been sold
out to.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Illegal immigration, which we'll get to.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
If you're a Catholic, you don't need to send me
an email that you're offended because you're a Catholic. And
I called for accountability among the Catholic Church receiving money,
the Catholic charities receiving money from the government for resettlement,
which has become a big industry.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You don't need to do that because all I'm going
to do is tell you.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Need to be holding the Catholic Church accountable, not me.
I'm not a parishioner. I'm not paying their bills. But
I'm going to call it out because guess what, I
love my country more than I love your church, and
I don't believe it's the one true church. Just so
you know, Southern Baptist here. One week into his second term,
President Trump already achieved legend status. Scott Jennings tells the
(10:16):
CNN Panel how the President of Columbia learned the hard way.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Well.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Number one, the reason Donald Trump had to resort to
these tariffs and sanctions and punishments today is because the
president of Columbia refused to accept a flight of migrants.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He said he wouldn't take them.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Donald Trump said, We're going to enter the f around
and find out portion of this conversation, and he hit
him with sanctions and tariffs. And now tonight the Speaker
of the House, Mike Johnson says Congress is going to
back him up on that.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
He's putting Columbia, He's putting.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
The rest of this hemisphere on notice that you are
not dealing with the same president that you were. You're
dealing with someone who is taking illegal immigration seriously. Now,
within an hour of making that threat, the president of
Columbia said, whoaa woa, I'll send my own plane to
pick these people up. So obviously he got their attention.
I don't think there's actually going to be any terror
for between the United States and Columbia, because as long
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as they come get their people, I doubt Donald Trump's
can end up tariffing them, and they won't tariff US,
and they'll have learned a valuable lesson that Donald Trump
is taking immigration illegal immigration seriously. This is real leadership,
but it sends a message to everybody else in the hemisphere,
do not test us. This is not Biden and Harris.
This is Trump Advance. We mean business. And you know
(11:29):
it happened under Barack Obama. Actually he deported millions upon
millions of people. And I don't have any recollection of
the US economy collapsing and no Republican and I don't
think most Americans are taking seriously the argument that the
US economy is underpinned by violent, criminal illegal immigrants. I mean,
if our entire economy is underpinned by people who are
rapists and murders, and commit other violent acts.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Then you know, we got a whole other set of issues.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Going on in the economy we ought to talk about today.
I mean, people people just aren't. People just aren't buying
that argument. So the populations that they are starting with
are violent, criminal illegal aliens.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Then they also have a million and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
People who have existing fully adjudicated in orders. And beyond that,
I would just point out that if you came to
this country illegally, you're already a criminal illegal immigrant. You've
already broken our laws, even if you haven't been arrested
yet or charged with it.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
If you're here illegally, if you broke our laws, then
you're going to be targeted.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Now, maybe you're not going to be a top priority
today because there's other more dangerous people here. But we
cannot send a message that, well, some illegal immigration is okay.
And that's been the problem of the last four years.
Basically Biden and Harris were like, Eh, just get here
and it'll probably work out for you. That is no
longer the communication strategy of the US government.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
The strategy is don't try us.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Whether you're the president of Columbia or somebody who just.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Walked across the border illegally. Do not try us. It
is not going to work out for you, period.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
And a Navarro is a woman who used her Hispanic
woman status to climb the social stature social ladder in
Republican politics, much as Michael Steele.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Did as a black man in Maryland.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Because if you're a minority and you call yourself a Republican,
it doesn't matter whether you share the values or aren't.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You just say I'm a.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Minority, I'm a Republican, I'm real loud, and you'll be elevated.
It's a problem we have in the Republican Party because
white Republicans are so scared of being called a racist
that if they find a minority who says I'm for
George H. W. Bush or I'm for George W. Bush,
then they get so excited. They're like, well, let's put
you in charge. You should run for president. We did
(13:41):
this with Colin Powell, remember, and then I had people
telling me as late as two thousand and six that
Colin Powell should.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Be our nominee after George W.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Bush and O eight, and I said, you don't know
what he stands for on anything. He just looks good
in a uniform, and he's black, and he doesn't spout
power to the people with a clinched fist, and you think, oh,
let's make him president. And then in two thousand and eight,
you know who ended up supporting Barack Obama. Now, anybody
that could support Barack Obama for president wasn't a guy
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you wanted to be president. Can we agree with that?
Anna Navarro was a was the toast of the town
or monst Republicans. Now she's on the view and she
made the statement that if we put tariffs on Colombian products,
our coffee's gonna cost too much. Fine, We'll buy our
coffee from Indonesia and Ethiopia. There are plenty of places
to get coffee in the world. And by the way,
(14:35):
they they're more hungry for our coffee. Anyway, we drink
Ethiopian coffee. Ramon likes Indonesian coll It doesn't matter. The
point is we hate illegal immigration and the violence on
our people more than we love your coffee.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
So whoever wants a Columbian coffee can pay.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
More for it because they're going to be subsidizing the
illegal aliens at Columbia won't take back.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But Annavarrow made the.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Point, your coffee's gonna cost and guess what Valentine's Day
is going to come up, and all your flowers come
from Columbia.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
You know that's true. And do you know why? Because
under George H. W.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Bush, in nineteen ninety one, the Andian.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Eliminated or devastated the cut flower industry in California. Do
you know that over two thirds of the flowers you
bought for Valentine's Day in this country came from California
until nineteen ninety one when that act was passed.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You know what we did.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
We allowed them to dump their product on our market
on very favorable terms, and within ten years, our cut
flower industry, a four billion dollars a year industry, was devastated.
You take a drive from Pescadero in Monterey, California, and
you will see what was a once very proud regional
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economy that is now dilapidated.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Greenhouses and and.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
And fields that are now fallow that were once a
thriving industry, The lands worth less, there's no jobs, all
of it because Bush's quote unquote free trade gave that
industry to Columbia.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Let's bring it back. What you say, Maddy Kuris and
Mamede too, Godmasul.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Main Go, Betty Show, Super.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Need Well Weather, Lee Majors. Is Heath Barkley to you
from Big Valley? Or Steve Austin from The six Million
Dollar Man? Or Colt Sievers on The Fall Guy? Depends
a lot on when you were born and when you
hit the age where that was. Of course, he was
(16:53):
in a number of other movies as well, and something
of a legend. Qout some of them. He's a legend,
and he's also a dear friend of mine. He lives
in Houston. If he doesn't get a dang, I don't
know who does remote? Oh you doing something else? Oh?
Ramone got himself carried away watching the opening of six
(17:13):
Million Dollars Man. Hey, you know what that can happen.
I'm not mad at you. He got distracted. That's an
easy thing to do.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
He will be my guest tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Most of you know, I do a morning show of
three hours long that is not nationally syndicated.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It's a Houston show.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That also picks up some South Texas stations Lubbutt and
some other stations. And then this our Evening Show is
a nationally syndicated show.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
They're different shows, and occasionally I do.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Something in the morning that I think I want to
share on the evening show. I don't do it often
because some folks listen to all five hours Live and
then our podcast listeners typically listen to Morning and the
Evening Show and they get aggravated that we've repeated something.
So I'm warning you that tomorrow evening there will be
(18:03):
a segment or two from the morning show that I
will play on this the evening Show. And the reason
I'm telling you this is I have a specific reason.
He's our guest tomorrow. But if there is a question
you've always wanted me to ask Lee Majors, the six
million Dollar Man, if you email it to me tonight,
I will put it in my stack of questions for
him from listeners and he enjoys answering those questions. And remember,
(18:26):
you can always email me through our website, which is
Michael Berryshow dot com Michael m my C H A
E L B E R R Y Michael Berryshow dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
You can email me there.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I will read those and use them to prep for tomorrow,
and you'll hear that tomorrow on the Evening Show. So
you're gonna hear, including from some Republicans, Conservatives, economists, people
that you think are on our side, that we cannot
use the tariffs.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Tariffs are gonna hurt us.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
And let me tell you why that is faulty logic
because I am not necessarily a huge fan of governmental
intervention in trade, but I am also something of a realist.
While I have the idealism of free trade, when you
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understand that you operate in a world where there is
not free trade and you're engaged in free trade, but
the other side is not. Once you understand that and
you're trying to get people to tear down barriers to
our products, then you have to operate in a different world,
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all the while hoping to achieve the idealism. You can't
let the grape be the enemy of the good, and
you can't give up hope that you can achieve a
world where American manufacturing, American industry competes on level playing
field with other countries. But too often our political leadership
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has allowed our industries. I told you the story about
the California flower industry. The industry is referred to as
cut flower because these are flowers that are literally cut
and presented. So if you go to the flower market
and fellas I know a lot of you are, in
the next couple of weeks, you're going to go to
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buy roses or you know whatever, you're my wife's an
orchid girl. But if whether you're roses or whatever, that
might be ponees or whatever else. All of that over
two thirds of it was raised in California. Well, probably
the biggest national florist is a family out of California
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that are very, very politically connected that now they're coming
under quite a bit of attack because they own Fiji,
They own a number of agricultural interests. They dominate the
pistachio market.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
All of which you see.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
The reason Californians didn't protest when they lost their competitive
advantage in agriculture is because the Left was being funded
by foreign interests to push against agriculture.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Because guess what, it takes one point one gallons.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Per per day to raise one pistachio, that's what I read.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
I didn't know that for a fact.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I read that, and it takes even more than that
for a number of other crops that we use.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And that sounds horrible.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
So what happens is these foreign interests who want our business.
They want to supply us bananas, or they want to
supply us all these number of different products. They hire
former congressmen who and they leave office, they got access
to all their buddies. They chase the same girls, They
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sit in the same hot tubs with the same prostitutes
every night.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
They fly on the same junkets.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Now they have a card where they can take them
to nice steakhouses and sit on the front row of
the baseball game, and they go, hey, let's shut down
American ag in California and we'll win you some votes
from the Liberals, from the greeny whenies well. As a
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result of that, that gives a competitive advantage to foreign
interest to supply us things like avocados from Mexico or
cut flowers from Colombia. America's loss of the ability to manufacture,
to create, to build, it's not entirely because we're lazy
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or our wages are too high. It is in many
cases so convoluted, so complicated. What our government did to
sell us out, and what all of these nonprofits whose
CEO is making millions, what they did to create these
distractions so that the people of California would say, yes,
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stop using water for agriculture, you're destroying the earth. They
actually require more water to raise those flowers in Colombia.
And if you're a citizen of the Earth, which is
what the global green movement's all about, what do you
care if it's California water or Colombian water that's raising
the flower. And by the way, what do you think
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is more efficient to have flowers raised in California that
we use.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Across the country to present to our girl for Valentine's.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Day or to have flowers raised in Colombia that then
have to be shipped, flown trucked here.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And that's what happened. We are fart hard for the
freedom to vote that Michael varies show what's the point
about the tariffs. We have had.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Tariff and quota and subsidy discussions throughout the course of
American history, government picking winners and losers, and many times
government intervention in an industry are related to a country
and them exporting to us, which they're export is our import.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I know I'm speaking down to you, but I want
to make.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Sure we all understand a tariff is the imposition of
a fine on a product coming in from an industry
or a country. In this case, it is tariffs on
Colombian goods coming into the United States as a punishment
for Columbia REFU using to take back their citizens who
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were here illegally. When we deposit them back to their
rightful place, which is in Colombia, Well, they don't want
them because.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
They're murderers and rapists.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Last thing they need is more murderers and rapists on
Colombian soil. They were glad to get rid of them.
They don't want them back. These people cost you a
lot of money. They cost you crimes, they cost you
loss of life, and then if you eventually catch them
and imprison them, they cost you to feed them every day.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I mean, it's a mess.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
So for Trump to say We're going to impose a
tariff of twenty five percent on Colombian goods coming here, well,
the big items coming here are as I told you,
cut flowers, coffee. A big Colombian good to the United
States is oil. Well, I'll leave that conversation because I'm
(26:00):
about to go off on a tangent on that, and
I don't want to do that. People will tell you, well,
if you impose a tariff of twenty five percent and
then fifty percent after a week, which was a threat,
he won't have to make good on it now because
the Columbian president saw the light, shall we say? And
(26:22):
people will say, well, that's just a tax that Americans
are going to pay. That's inflation twenty five percent. Products
that we were buying are just going to cost twenty
five percent more.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's just going to be passed on to the consumer.
And that is true.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
However, there isn't what economists will tell you, there is
an elastic demand for products based on their price. If
I told you I'll sell you this ribbi for one dollar,
this twelve ounce beautiful ribbi for cooked for one dollar,
(27:03):
you'd buy as much as you could get. You might
buy the whole, your whole neighborhood one of them. If
I told you I'd sell you the same ribb I cooked,
delivered onto your plate delicious, for four hundred dollars, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Have any takers. Price is how we communicate.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
At one dollar, you tell me I really want it
at one dollar. The stake doesn't change the price changes.
We communicate as buyers and sellers as to the price.
We communicate without vocalizing, based on our behavior. So you
(27:46):
can go write a Yelp review and all that. The
greatest thing you can do to help a business is
buy from them. The best way you can tell a
business what they're doing is wrong is to refuse to
go there. That's how the market speaks, That's how the
buyer com unicates with the seller. So with that twenty
five percent increase, if you say, well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Know what the cost of cost of coffee beans.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Is right now, I've got a show sponsor in Houston
called Cat's Coffee Katz Cat's Coffee, Abby catches his name,
and he gets beans from all over the world and
he rows them in Houston and he provides these gourmet,
you know, incredible blends for restaurants, churches, corporations. He does
(28:31):
one for PTSD Foundation, which is Camp Hope, which is
for veterans with PTSD, and we raise a lot of
money for them.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I guess I could call him.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
I should have called him before the show and asked
him what the price of coffee beans.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
The market for certain beans is and it depends on
where it's from. You know, the.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Java that the beans from Indonesia and the beans from
Ethiopia and the beans from Columbia have different prices and
different you know, levels of you know, price points and
brag factor and all that. But if you increase the
price of Colombian coffee beans twenty five percent, the price
(29:08):
elasticity may be so much that that would cost them
ninety percent of their business.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
It might.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Because people might be so price conscious that they would say,
I'm not going to pay another twenty five percent for
a cup of coffee.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
And in that case, these beans, I don't know how
long it takes, but.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
If you think about how long it takes to plant
the crop, harvest it, ship it, that would mean that
in very short order they would be left with a
lot of beans.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
And I don't know how long out the bean is purchased.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I don't want to go too deep into this, but
that would be in pretty short order they'd be stuck
with a lot of beans in an economy that can't
afford the loss, and a big portion of their economy
that would hurt. And if twenty five percent went to
fifty percent, it wouldn't take long till people would change
what they eat.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
So whether you.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Love Waterburger or McDonald's or whatever your fast food restaurant is.
If you spend eight dollars on your burger, fries and coke,
and that eight dollars went to ten twenty five percent increase,
you may say, I'm not gonna do that anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
And that's true of everything.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
There comes a point where the elasticity related to the
price is so much.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
In luxury goods, you don't see it like that.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
A Rolls Royce that costs three hundred thousand dollars, they
could go up to three twenty five. That buyer's probably
not going to flinch because they want the status of
the Rolls Royce and the fact that it goes higher.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Gives them more status.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
But in commoditized products, products that can be replaced toilet paper, socks, coffee,
and Trump understands this. So for the Wall Street Journal
to be screaming and hollering, oh my god, not terriffs,
not tariffs. He's never gonna have to impose the tariff.
(31:20):
For your entire life. You've been told we can't fix
this problem. We can't fix this problem. They're too entrenched,
it's too complicated. We can't solve the border crisis. We
can't fix the legal immigration and whatever you suggest.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah we can. We'll build a wall. We won't let
them in. Oh, that won't matter. People need them here
as laborers.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Okay, well, we won't allow companies to hire people without
social security. Well that won't matter because there's too many
people here that it becomes a moving target.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
It's too bit.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
We got to have an omnibus bill and then we
never get approval on that. Trump is showing you don't
need commissions, you don't need blue ribbon committees, you don't
need to study it, you don't need the shuttle diplomacy,
you don't need to go back and forth in the media.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
You punch them in the face and.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
They go, you know what, you're right, we'll solve this problem.
Bring illegals in here. Yeah, yeah, give us all our
Columbias back, because otherwise you crush their economy. And Trump
understands that what you're seeing is a businessman who says
it can be done in a bureaucracy that says, well,
if we ever solved the problem, we've got to planned
(32:29):
obsolescence here. We don't ever want to solve the problem.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
We're the government. We're here for life.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Why would we want to fix the problem, then what
would do y'all might ask us to fix another problem.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Helps has little, Thank you and good night.
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