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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Luck and look.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
For Michael Verie show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
John Mount runs High Intivation in Birmingham, Alabama, and he's responsible.
I think we have seven affiliates now in Alabama, and
he's responsible for getting us an incredible number of listeners
in Alabama. And it's one of my favorite places to
visit when I visit stations because the people of Alabama.
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My wife laughs, because we go to events there. People
will bring a pie from that they've made at home
and bring it for us. They'll bring things that their
family barbecue that their family makes because they're very proud
of their barbecue, and they're just such gracious people. They
are truly the kindest people in the world. And I
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know that there is in the national media that all
comes out of New York. There is this idea that,
you know, people from New York are very New York City.
I like to upstate New Yorkers, don't get me wrong,
but New York City. That there is the idea that
these are the sophisticated people, and these are the best people,
and they're smarter than everyone else, and that people in
Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana and Texas. They're not very
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smart Georgia, but I got to tell you, they're the kindest, sweetest,
most ingenious people. And if you want to see pure
brain power, let me tell you something. These redneck rocket scientists.
I had them on the air, These guys in Huntsville
with NASA. These guys have multiple PhDs in quantum physics.
They're just brilliant. But I love the people of Alabama
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and it's some of my favorite people. I get emails
every day from people listening in Alabama, and there's some
of the most wonderful people in the world. And I
feel like I should lead the charge Ramon or Alabama appreciation.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Across the Yes. Now, I will tell you I'm being
completely honest.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I also feel that way about Arkansas, in Kentucky and Tennessee,
but we're focused on by Ulabatry Alabama.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You were talking about banks lending money to these foreign fisheries,
American banks that are funded and backed up by American taxpayers,
and they give this money to these foreign operations to
then bring their product back and compete against you cheaper
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because the labor is cheaper, and people are selling out
their fellow Americans, and they'll say things like, well, it's
only business. Business is business is a tough decisions? No,
these are decisions you make that you have to live
with and you should be called to account to have
to live with them because there are real consequences. You've
chosen to do X instead of why because it helped you,
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because you didn't really believe in what was right. Doing
the right thing is harder than doing what is immediately advantageous,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And that's what people have to remember. Tammy Hall is our.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Guest Seaharvestfreshshrimp dot Net. She is a multi generation shrip
industry family fishing and shrimp. Do you get the sense
that with these tariffs that there is a market? Do
you have bandwidth? Do you have capacity to bring in
more shrimp? Could that be something so you don't have
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to just be limited to sell retail. You could sell
to wholesalers and really expand your operation.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I think I know we could. I know that, and
we're the secret Valuelabtry is the seafood capital of Alabama. So,
going back to what I was saying earlier, it's been
a breakdown over the years, and I know it's hard
to explain it, but these imports have been dumped into
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our country year after year after year, and over those years,
let's just say in my lifetime. Okay, let's go back
to what let's say the seventies, all right, the shrimp
boats were being built. The shrimp and industry was good.
We and when I say we, I mean the Gulf
Coast shrimpers. I know you've got the East Coast and
everything as well, but we on the Gulf Coast were thriving.
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We were a thriving community. But over the years, these
foreign shrips have been coming in. Okay, it's affected our
market big time. And by that I have seen so
many people have to get out of the business. They
didn't have a choice. The mayor. I was speaking with
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the mayor last year. We were talking about the shront
boats right here in the Vyu and how many were
here when I was a child versus how many are
here today? And I think he said, there's like a
hundred boats in the Vyue now. There were so many
back whenever I was a child. So this is how
the imports and what's been going on has been affecting
us over the years, and it's gotten to the point
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now to where my husband and I we have an
ice boat, which is fresh. We never freeze. You know,
most of the bigger boats they have freezers and they
freeze offshore. They freeze their kitch before they get in.
There's probably less than ten ice boats working today. And
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the crushing. I just wish that everybody could understand the
crushing that we have been under. And that's what I
use that word because that's literally what it is. We
feel crushed and this is what we love to do,
honestly feel this is what God's called us to do.
But the hardship has just been unreal. The price of
fuel has gone up. We have to have fuel on
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our boats, we have to have ice, we have to groceries,
not to mention nets and all this equipment. Just our nets,
just two of our nets cost ten thousand dollars. I
see my husband go out last year and he hit
a hang, you know, which is just something in the
water that you know. It could be something that I
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don't knows, sorry to explain. It could be like an
old sunk boat. It could be anything. A hang could
you know, and could have moved like with storms and stuff.
But anyway, he hit a hang and lost both of
our nets, ten thousand dollars worth of nets, just like
that in an hour. So we're already not making any
money because we're having to sell our front for such
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a cheap price. Because like I said, we've got all
these imports just being dumped in the country and there's
just no profit. I mean, we're just getting by, and
we're barely getting by. I really don't know how much
more people can hang on. And when I say that,
I'm not just speaking for our community. I mean we
have friends all the way down to Louisiana, down to Venice,
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you know, and they're in the same shape. Some of
those guys are in worse shape than what we are
because there is more shirt boats there, you know, it's
more competitive there, and we're doing everything we can do
to survive. So, yes, we are excited about the tariffs.
To say that that's going to solve all our problems overnight,
I don't think so. I think it is definitely a
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step in the right direction. And as a fisherman, you know,
and we love supplying a good product to our customers.
Our customers love it. They appreciate us so much. God
has blessed us with some great customers. If it wouldn't
be for them, Like I said, I don't know that
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we would still even be able to be in the
business today, and many have gotten out of it. But
going back to supply, I honestly feel like the Gulf
Coast we could supply so much more shrimp if we
could help. If the government, instead of taking tax dollars
and sending it overseas to work against us, if they
would take those tax dollars and put them right back
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here into the fishing industry and help us to re
build our boats, help us to build new boats and
support our fishermen. I feel like we have not been
supported by the government. In other words, we've just been
having more and more stuff put on. It's more and
more regulation. And if you don't mind, I'd love to
put this out.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
There right there, pulling right there. Hemmy Hall Sea Harvest
Fresh Shrimp dot Net.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Coming up listening to the Michael Berry Show podcast is
Sexy be Sexy.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Hemmy Hall is our guest.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
She is in the Shrimping Capital of America by U Labattery, Alabama,
third generation in the fishing and shrimping industry. Her husband
is what they call a shrimperman. We just called them shrimpers,
but they've kind of elevated shrimpermen.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I like this from Mom.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
That's probably a TikTok move or something. They probably have
a TikTok account. It's called Sea Harvest Freshshrimp dot net.
And these are the types of family run businesses that
would be affected by TIFFs. This would be when you
stop allowing other country tries to dump cheap products into
your market and you start allowing American run, family run
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businesses to provide typically a higher quality.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Product.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Now, how do other countries dump cheap products into your market.
They don't have the labor standards, they don't have the EPA,
they don't have OSHA, they can't get sued. They're often
backed by the government because they're a jobs program. So
our businesses are left on the open market to compete
and we can't sell our product into their market because
they put tariffs, but they can dump their product here,
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and it's very frustrating for American small business owners. You know,
Tammy made the statement earlier, she said, Look, the teriffs
are not going to make life easy for us tomorrow.
The it's just going to give us a fighting chance.
And I kind of have the impression, amone, if you're
a multi generation shrimping family, suffering is kind of in
your bones, right you are like mother Teresa. You suffering
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is going to be in your There's never going to
be an easy day. These are people with cuts and
scabs and scratches and stuffs getting hung up. What you say,
you got to hang on a schooner that was left
out there or an oyster reef or whatever. These are
people who suffer, and they do it quietly, and they
it's like coal miners. This is just tough work. But
it just feels like this is the right thing to
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do to protect American businesses the way other countries protect
their people. Anyway, Tammy, you were starting into something and
I interrupted you, So go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
So I just wanted to touch on, you know, with
all the hardships that we face as fishermen, the licenses
that we are required to have, tons of licenses. It's unreal.
We are my husband says, were licensed to death. So
we've got all these licenses, we've got all these regulations
on us. And this was when I wanted to touch
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on my customers come to us all the time. They
know we sell trampt you know, they were like, we
want fish, we cannot go anywhere and buy good fish.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
And this is what I tell them, and that's the truth.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Our federal government makes us put these devices in our nets.
It's called a fish excluder device. It lets all the fish,
all the good fish go. You know, we may catch
some trash fish. But the sad thing is we have
to put this device in our nets that let's all
the good fish go that we could sell to our customers.
But yet you go sit down at a restaurant, I
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guarantee you almost every restaurant has fish on the menu.
And it's important. Now that's another example. That's a whole
nother story, but just one of the things we have
to face. Not only do we have these fish excluder
devices in our nets, we have a tad excluder device
which lets turtles go. Well, excuse me, not only does
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it let turtles go, it lets a lot of our
catch go. Now, going back backing up to what I
was talking about earlier in this segment about my grandfather
and the shrint price is not changing much since he
shrimped back then, they didn't have as many regulations as
what we have. They didn't have heads and the phish
excluder devices that they had to put in their nets.
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So there's just a lot of challenges that we have
to go through. But when it comes down to where
the rubber meets the road, the truth and the fact
says there is no comparison with our product and an
import whatsoever. They these imports are loaded with antibiotics that
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are banned. And I said this the other day on
the Mounts Show whenever hen I were talking, I told him,
I said, I would like for people to go and
google for themselves and.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Go and google it.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
There's videos out there on how they collect these shrimp.
And like you said, not to mention, you know by
the time they get here, but people need to know
what they're eating. I would never eat one, as a
matter of if. I don't even eat seafood at many
restaurants at all, just because I know the imports. And
like I said, the numbers say over ninety percent of
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the shrimp consumed in the United States is imported.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It's crazy, and I think it is. And by the way,
but by the way, we're not a landlocked nation. We
are a nation surrounded by excellent fishing, but we have
created a situation where nobody wants to fish our waters.
We have to import things from around the world because
we've subsidized that, and it's.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Being frozen for how long to come here?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Speaking of which I was going to ask you earlier, Timm,
I didn't want to interrupt you.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You said that.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Y'all have one of only about ten boats that's an
ice boat, and I mean, obviously I have a sense
of what that is.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Why is that important? What does that allow you to do?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So the difference and ice boat in the freezer boat.
You know, of course they freeze their catch, like I said,
while they're offshore. They have freezers on the actual boat.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Us.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
You know, we just get a lot of ice and
as we catch the shrimp, you know, we catch them,
we sort them out, wash them really well, and.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Then we ice them.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
We just put them in ice and water pretty much
until we get back to the dock and we sail
straight to the public. So ice foakes is just pretty
much saying a fresh catch that's never frozen.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That's not intuitive to the term. That is very very interesting.
Let me ask you a question while I have you
if you were telling people how to you know, they
buy their fish head on and they divein it and
all that. Are there any particular tricks you have or
how to prepare a shrimp, how to store a shrimp?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Present? Are there any because you know more about this anybody,
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I would say there are some things. There's a little
shrimp devenor that you can buy us a little plastic
shrimp diveinor I know they've got these high dollar ones
out there, and I'm not knocking those either. They're good,
but I just still like the old fashioned little plastic one.
You know, you just pop the head off and then
you take the little dibiner and go down his back.
And my daughter in law, we've been wanting to do
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a video, so we'll probably do a video on that
and put it on our Facebook page. But also we
have a great recipe on our Facebook page. You may
have to scroll down. I all ready share it, just
to make sure it's on there, but fried shrimp that
way your customers, if anybody wants.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
To try it.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
We've got a good old Southern recipe for fried shrimp
on there. It's our favorite.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Just make sure that.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It is golf shrimp. And even if I would like
to say this as well, if you're going out to
buy your shrimp, pay attention because even though the packaging
may say golf shrimp, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is.
Flip it over read the fine print. I'm hoping and
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praying that one day soon we'll be able to things
will pick up, you know, and we'll be able to
ship shrimp. I've had several people called wanting to know
for Douce ship. You know, that is something that we're
working on.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I know that, Tammy, I'm up against the break, sweetheart.
I wish I could continue on our website is see
Harvestfresh Shrimp dot net.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's a fellow.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
American company, small business, third generation, trying to make it.
This is what the tariffs are intended to protect. Support
your fellow Americans.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Americans, a nation that can be defined in a single word,
was going number nine. Not only a frontier. Gibbery expressed
their courage.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Scene of this day.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And Michael berri show.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
This human being creature was at an independent school district
called Red Oak ISD.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And listen, well just just listen to it. Right, I'm
over talking this thing.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
These past seven months, reddig was my sanctuary.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
If you asked Rosalind Sandry where she'd be sitting right
now a month ago, she'd tell you Red Oak High School.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I used to joke around with them that being a
teacher's all I've ever wanted to do since I was
five years old.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
But the reason she's not tiny is why we're sitting
down with her today.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
When I resigned and signed that resignation, I felt like
I was signing away my ability to teach in the
state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I don't know that another school will touch me now.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Sandre says she felt like she had no choice but
to resign from Red Oak Ist after the amount of
hatred she received from this video she posted on her
TikTok I'm Rosie, Texas English teacher, expressing herself about the
reception she got from students.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
When I told them I had changed my pronouns, jumped
right into it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
They call me ma'am.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That was until the video was reposted on X.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
They pinned it to the top of their X account
for five days.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
The video posted on the libs on TikTok x account
now has more than three million views. She says that's
when she started getting death threats and others and askedy emails.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
In my school email, I got a notice that told me.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
To eat a bullet.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
It also got the attention of state Representative Brian Harrison,
who posted this on his ex account, calling for Sandry's resignation.
The district confirmed with WFAA they accepted Sandry's resignation effective
immediately on Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I felt for my.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Safety and the safety of the school.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's all I could do. The schools are for education,
not for indoctrination.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I spoke with Representative Harrison over zoom on Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Teaching children, minors, young children that boys can become girls
and girls can become boys is at odds with objective reality,
and the biological reality is that there are two sexes.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Sandry says her dream was stripped away from her.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
That's all I want is to need back in the classroom.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And now she can only hope that'll happen again one day.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The Left has been so effective.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I am in deep admiration for how effective they are
at what they do. In the same way that I
am in deep admiration for people on our side who
stand up, who say things that they know will upset
people that they know will potentially cost them their job,
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that they know will cause them and their families to
suffer because they believe in it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
But let's go back to the left.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Somewhere along the way, you have a grown man who
says I'm a woman. Now, kids, you will now call
me a woman. You're not a woman. You're not a woman.
Whether it's Donald Trump or Matt Walsh, we can define
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what a woman is, but a woman cannot be what
you are because you're born with a sex and you
cannot change it. You can cut off your toe, you
can cut off your finger and cut off your ear
van goo. You can even cut off your wiener. Doesn't
make you a woman. A woman is not just a
wienerless creature.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You can't just decide I'm a woman. You can't just
decide I'm an Nigerian. You can't just decide I'm Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
You can't do it. Now.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
If you do do it, that's your issue. But we're
not going to subscribe to that. The kids are not
going to tell you that you're twelve feet tall because
you say, y'all have to tell me I'm twelve feet
tall and you're not going to convince them that they
have to, because that is dishonest.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Seeking the truth is what learning is all about.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's what life and the scientific method and science itself.
Seeking the truth is what reading the Bible is about.
To someone taught at a lecture, seeking the truth, that's
what we do.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
You are a proponent of dishonesty.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
You are not a man a woman, and for people
to say that you are to keep from hurting your
feelings means that you're not capable of being a teacher.
If you want to be clinger in mash and dressed
as a woman to make the military think you're crazy
so you can get kicked out because you don't want
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to be at war, fine, do it, but understand that
that was what he was doing, because that was the
way he was showing the military. I'm crazy, kick me out. Remember, well,
we don't believe you. Yeah, I'm crazy. I'm really nutting.
You got to kick me out. We don't believe you.
How about this, I'm dressed as a woman. Okay, hey
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you are. They're not going to let you out, but
we do think you're crazy now, but we don't think
you're really crazy. You're just pretending that you're crazy. We
don't think that you really think that you're a woman.
If we believe that, then you'd be crazy and then
would kick you out. That's how that works, right, See
how that works? Well, what are we to think now?
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What are we to think now? But where the left
one where they did so well was the idea if
you know that a man is not a woman, even
if he says he is. By the way, he said,
it was a man yesterday. So it's not like you're
going up and going I'm not sure you don't look
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sufficiently womanly. You know, he was a man. His name
was Bob, and now he's Barbara. Call me a woman.
I'm a woman.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
No, you're a man.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yesterday we believed you. I don't need to check what's
on to the hood. You're a man. You're still a
man dressed as a woman.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It happens.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
It's either Halloween or you're a free Okay, Fine, it's
your business, do it at home.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
The point at which the Left made parents feel uncomfortable
about having influence over what their child is taught is
the moment, in my opinion, that they have exercised the
ultimate power move.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I admire them for that. Our side is not strong
enough to do that.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Generations past were Generations past would have fired that guy.
Get out here, you're crazy, get out. But today we're
more progressive, and even the most conservative person will say,
I'm not a racist, I'm a good person.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I'm not being hateful. Who said you were? Methinks? Thou
dost protest too much?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Technically it's thou dost protest too much, methinks, But in
any case, why would.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You say that you're not a bad person.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
We're stating something we all know to be true because
they've taught you that you should be ashamed of yourself,
and so you still do it. You still stand up
for it, but you're still kind of ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Right. That's either arrest me or take me to Texas.
So haven't anything gets.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Out of this state?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I think Michael Berry Robs or Michael Very show, I
like you.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I played some of the audio from the quote unquote
protests over the weekend, and you know it's it's so
funny because ninety nine percent of Americans never go to protests.
They don't care about the protests means nothing to them.
They're raising kids, taking care of their elderly parents. You know,
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so much of our lives is consumed with caring for
the young and the old. You've got the whole pregnancy process,
then you've got the early stages.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Then you've got the education.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Then you've got the whole industry of the colleges and
the universities, which become its own evil industry. It's a massive,
massive business. Some people still think of it as what's important,
You're going to grow into a special person. You've been
around a campush, do you know? Do you know what
a campus is? A campus is a bunch of kids
because there's still kids trying to decide what party they're
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going to go to that night. And yeah, yeah, pretty
much that's it. And it's not some you know, you
had this idea the University of Virginia, how's ay study?
Or the only people doing any work are the professors.
The students aren't doing anything. Then they get their degree.
You put in your time, you pay your money, you
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get your degree, and then people hire you and bring
you in and train you, or they don't, and you
go fold clothes at abercomm and Fitch. And that's the
way it is. It's so overrated, so incredibly overrated. But
that's the reality. Nobody wants to tell you that, but
that's the reality. So you got the guy punching a
clock at the at the plant and he's saving up
his money to try to send his kid off to
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college because he wants his kid to not have to
work in the plant because he lost his hearing already
and it's.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Awful and terrible.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
But he doesn't realize that all that money you're going
to save up and spend isn't making a difference.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
It's what the kid makes of life.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Well, I'll tell you that in a minute. I'll tell
because it's something I want to get to.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
This is a male protester at one of the Hands
off rallies to protest who is a big fan of
Pete Buddy, gig go get them.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
Way too much to this, but I wanted to be
here to be a part of history and see if
we can find a way to change things.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
And tell me about inside here holding what is it?
Af you read it for me?
Speaker 9 (26:55):
It's sure in a world full of Pete, he sense
be a Pete puta chante. Pete Seth is the worst
Department of Defense secretary we've ever seen, and the Buddha
judge was our secretary of transportation. Fantastic. He should run
for president. He's an amazing guy.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
And the only policy changes to be some that has
put in the place which both have the more you
post and turned it out and potentially as an effective you.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Know, well, affecting me is pretty much everything, but due
process is the biggest one. We've got people that are
being put in jail, sent to other countries that haven't
been before a judge. Therefore, we've got a lot of
mistakes happening, and therefore it's, as far as I'm concerned,
due process is the biggest. We need people to be
rightfully detained, if so, then put before a judge and
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then found in a center guilty.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And let's make sure we get this.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
In this segment, a young lady posted to social media
how she was paid to protest and what she had
to do to collect her money. See, these aren't people
who were upset with what's going on, not that it
would matter. Oh you're upset, okay, Well you being upset
doesn't matter unless you go stand in a crowd and chant,
(28:09):
who cares. We're all upset. We all have a problem
you go on with life right and you cast a vote.
Stop this already, But anyway, here's how she was paid
to protest and how.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
What she had to do to collect her money.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
I was one of the paid protesters at the April
fifth Liberal protests, and so I just wanted to come
on and talk about my experience, what I had to
do to get paid, and how much are that paid.
So there were two kind of parts to it. The
first was obviously just showing up. They gave me like
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a time and a place and told me to look
for a girl with blue hair and a nosering, which,
like I thought be really hard because I thought like
everyone was good like that, But luckily she was the
only one that was really easy to find her.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So yeah, that was good. I checked in.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
I told you that you couldn't wear anything maga. They
also asked you not to wear red, so I just
wore a black T shirt and jeans, and yeah, I
checked it. And then they said, just like go on
the march and then at the end there would be
like a questionnaire to answer.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (29:20):
And then the other thing is they said they would
pay extra if you brought a sign, so I did
bring a sign again, same thing, like couldn't be MAGA
had to like be in line with like the liberal agenda.
So my sign said everyone deserves a good education, which
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like I don't necessarily personally agree with like bringing me
a server like a mechanic, like you don't really need
an education, But I wanted to fit in. I wanted
the money, and I didn't want to like draw attention
to myself, so that's what I went with. So anyways,
I went on the march and then at the end
I had to check back in and that's when they
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gave me the questionnaire. And Okay, the interesting thing is
like you had to answer the questionnaire as if you
were a liberal, and there were right and wrong answers,
like it wasn't just like whatever you thought, like you
could get the questions wrong and you had to get
them right in order to get paid. This one, I
invested like two hours of my time, so I wanted
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the money, you know. So the first question, for example,
was why do Republicans want more women to stay home
and not work and not have jobs? And again I
just kind of had to put myself in like their mindset.
So I wrote basically like if women don't have jobs
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or job experiences, and they have to rely on men financially,
and that gives men a lot more control over their lives.
For example, like you know, if like she's in an
abusive situation or whatever, she can't really leave, especially if
she just kids, she doesn't really have the means to
take care of them, and she doesn't have the experience
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to get a job that could like afford to take
care of them. So it just gives like the men
a lot more control to kind of do what they
want her to do.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Basically.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
So that was my answer for the first one, and
I got that right, But there were some that I
just like didn't really know what they would consider our
right answer, you know.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
So I just asked he was like, what do I do?
Speaker 10 (31:30):
I don't know how to answer this, and she said,
just like do your best and then come talk to
her at the end. So, for example, there was wanting
it and really not to say it was like what
is critical race theory and.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Why should it be taught? And like what's an example
of like something that.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
You can learn from it?
Speaker 10 (31:50):
And I didn't know what they wanted the answer to me,
you know, so I just asked her about that one
and the answer that she gave is basically, they just
want people to under stand the lasting effects and impact
of segregation discrimination. And the example she gave what she
called she kind of like generational wealth. And she explained
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that during slavery and during Jim Crow and like even
after that, in some places, like black families have been
essentially barred from owning homes, where like white families could
own a home and then like pass that down and
their family can either like live in that home and
not have to pay for a mortgage, or they could
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sell that and then use that money towards like other opportunities.
But because black families weren't able to own homes, they
weren't able to accumulate that wealth in the same way,
and they had to like spend more of their income
on rent, and they weren't getting that back when you
get back, you know, when you buy a house.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So she said that I was just like one.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
Example, but yeah, that was like kind of her answer
to that question.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So I wrote that down, and yeah, I got paid.
Speaker 10 (32:59):
I got paid one hundred dollars for going to the protest,
and then I got paid an extra ten dollars for.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Bringing the sign.
Speaker 10 (33:07):
And like overall, it's a pretty good experience.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Reason I know it was nice for thank you and
good night.
It's that time time time time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Luck and look.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
For Michael Verie show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
John Mount runs High Intivation in Birmingham, Alabama, and he's responsible.
I think we have seven affiliates now in Alabama, and
he's responsible for getting us an incredible number of listeners
in Alabama. And it's one of my favorite places to
visit when I visit stations because the people of Alabama.
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My wife laughs, because we go to events there. People
will bring a pie from that they've made at home
and bring it for us. They'll bring things that their
family barbecue that their family makes because they're very proud
of their barbecue, and they're just such gracious people. They
are truly the kindest people in the world. And I
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know that there is in the national media that all
comes out of New York. There is this idea that,
you know, people from New York are very New York City.
I like to upstate New Yorkers, don't get me wrong,
but New York City. That there is the idea that
these are the sophisticated people, and these are the best people,
and they're smarter than everyone else, and that people in
Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana and Texas. They're not very
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smart Georgia, but I got to tell you, they're the kindest, sweetest,
most ingenious people. And if you want to see pure
brain power, let me tell you something. These redneck rocket scientists.
I had them on the air, These guys in Huntsville
with NASA. These guys have multiple PhDs in quantum physics.
They're just brilliant. But I love the people of Alabama
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and it's some of my favorite people. I get emails
every day from people listening in Alabama, and there's some
of the most wonderful people in the world. And I
feel like I should lead the charge Ramon or Alabama appreciation.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Across the Yes. Now, I will tell you I'm being
completely honest.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I also feel that way about Arkansas, in Kentucky and Tennessee,
but we're focused on by Ulabatry Alabama.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You were talking about banks lending money to these foreign fisheries,
American banks that are funded and backed up by American taxpayers,
and they give this money to these foreign operations to
then bring their product back and compete against you cheaper
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because the labor is cheaper, and people are selling out
their fellow Americans, and they'll say things like, well, it's
only business. Business is business is a tough decisions? No,
these are decisions you make that you have to live
with and you should be called to account to have
to live with them because there are real consequences. You've
chosen to do X instead of why because it helped you,
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because you didn't really believe in what was right. Doing
the right thing is harder than doing what is immediately advantageous,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And that's what people have to remember. Tammy Hall is our.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Guest Seaharvestfreshshrimp dot Net. She is a multi generation shrip
industry family fishing and shrimp. Do you get the sense
that with these tariffs that there is a market? Do
you have bandwidth? Do you have capacity to bring in
more shrimp? Could that be something so you don't have
(03:26):
to just be limited to sell retail. You could sell
to wholesalers and really expand your operation.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I think I know we could. I know that, and
we're the secret Valuelabtry is the seafood capital of Alabama. So,
going back to what I was saying earlier, it's been
a breakdown over the years, and I know it's hard
to explain it, but these imports have been dumped into
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our country year after year after year, and over those years,
let's just say in my lifetime. Okay, let's go back
to what let's say the seventies, all right, the shrimp
boats were being built. The shrimp and industry was good.
We and when I say we, I mean the Gulf
Coast shrimpers. I know you've got the East Coast and
everything as well, but we on the Gulf Coast were thriving.
(04:20):
We were a thriving community. But over the years, these
foreign shrips have been coming in. Okay, it's affected our
market big time. And by that I have seen so
many people have to get out of the business. They
didn't have a choice. The mayor. I was speaking with
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the mayor last year. We were talking about the shront
boats right here in the Vyu and how many were
here when I was a child versus how many are
here today? And I think he said, there's like a
hundred boats in the Vyue now. There were so many
back whenever I was a child. So this is how
the imports and what's been going on has been affecting
us over the years, and it's gotten to the point
(05:06):
now to where my husband and I we have an
ice boat, which is fresh. We never freeze. You know,
most of the bigger boats they have freezers and they
freeze offshore. They freeze their kitch before they get in.
There's probably less than ten ice boats working today. And
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the crushing. I just wish that everybody could understand the
crushing that we have been under. And that's what I
use that word because that's literally what it is. We
feel crushed and this is what we love to do,
honestly feel this is what God's called us to do.
But the hardship has just been unreal. The price of
fuel has gone up. We have to have fuel on
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our boats, we have to have ice, we have to groceries,
not to mention nets and all this equipment. Just our nets,
just two of our nets cost ten thousand dollars. I
see my husband go out last year and he hit
a hang, you know, which is just something in the
water that you know. It could be something that I
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don't knows, sorry to explain. It could be like an
old sunk boat. It could be anything. A hang could
you know, and could have moved like with storms and stuff.
But anyway, he hit a hang and lost both of
our nets, ten thousand dollars worth of nets, just like
that in an hour. So we're already not making any
money because we're having to sell our front for such
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a cheap price. Because like I said, we've got all
these imports just being dumped in the country and there's
just no profit. I mean, we're just getting by, and
we're barely getting by. I really don't know how much
more people can hang on. And when I say that,
I'm not just speaking for our community. I mean we
have friends all the way down to Louisiana, down to Venice,
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you know, and they're in the same shape. Some of
those guys are in worse shape than what we are
because there is more shirt boats there, you know, it's
more competitive there, and we're doing everything we can do
to survive. So, yes, we are excited about the tariffs.
To say that that's going to solve all our problems overnight,
I don't think so. I think it is definitely a
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step in the right direction. And as a fisherman, you know,
and we love supplying a good product to our customers.
Our customers love it. They appreciate us so much. God
has blessed us with some great customers. If it wouldn't
be for them, Like I said, I don't know that
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we would still even be able to be in the
business today, and many have gotten out of it. But
going back to supply, I honestly feel like the Gulf
Coast we could supply so much more shrimp if we
could help. If the government, instead of taking tax dollars
and sending it overseas to work against us, if they
would take those tax dollars and put them right back
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here into the fishing industry and help us to re
build our boats, help us to build new boats and
support our fishermen. I feel like we have not been
supported by the government. In other words, we've just been
having more and more stuff put on. It's more and
more regulation. And if you don't mind, I'd love to
put this out.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
There right there, pulling right there. Hemmy Hall Sea Harvest
Fresh Shrimp dot Net.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Coming up listening to the Michael Berry Show podcast is
Sexy be Sexy.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Hemmy Hall is our guest.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
She is in the Shrimping Capital of America by U Labattery, Alabama,
third generation in the fishing and shrimping industry. Her husband
is what they call a shrimperman. We just called them shrimpers,
but they've kind of elevated shrimpermen.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I like this from Mom.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
That's probably a TikTok move or something. They probably have
a TikTok account. It's called Sea Harvest Freshshrimp dot net.
And these are the types of family run businesses that
would be affected by TIFFs. This would be when you
stop allowing other country tries to dump cheap products into
your market and you start allowing American run, family run
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businesses to provide typically a higher quality.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Product.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Now, how do other countries dump cheap products into your market.
They don't have the labor standards, they don't have the EPA,
they don't have OSHA, they can't get sued. They're often
backed by the government because they're a jobs program. So
our businesses are left on the open market to compete
and we can't sell our product into their market because
they put tariffs, but they can dump their product here,
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and it's very frustrating for American small business owners. You know,
Tammy made the statement earlier, she said, Look, the teriffs
are not going to make life easy for us tomorrow.
The it's just going to give us a fighting chance.
And I kind of have the impression, amone, if you're
a multi generation shrimping family, suffering is kind of in
your bones, right you are like mother Teresa. You suffering
(09:56):
is going to be in your There's never going to
be an easy day. These are people with cuts and
scabs and scratches and stuffs getting hung up. What you say,
you got to hang on a schooner that was left
out there or an oyster reef or whatever. These are
people who suffer, and they do it quietly, and they
it's like coal miners. This is just tough work. But
it just feels like this is the right thing to
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do to protect American businesses the way other countries protect
their people. Anyway, Tammy, you were starting into something and
I interrupted you, So go ahead, sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
So I just wanted to touch on, you know, with
all the hardships that we face as fishermen, the licenses
that we are required to have, tons of licenses. It's unreal.
We are my husband says, were licensed to death. So
we've got all these licenses, we've got all these regulations
on us. And this was when I wanted to touch
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on my customers come to us all the time. They
know we sell trampt you know, they were like, we
want fish, we cannot go anywhere and buy good fish.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
And this is what I tell them, and that's the truth.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Our federal government makes us put these devices in our nets.
It's called a fish excluder device. It lets all the fish,
all the good fish go. You know, we may catch
some trash fish. But the sad thing is we have
to put this device in our nets that let's all
the good fish go that we could sell to our customers.
But yet you go sit down at a restaurant, I
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guarantee you almost every restaurant has fish on the menu.
And it's important. Now that's another example. That's a whole
nother story, but just one of the things we have
to face. Not only do we have these fish excluder
devices in our nets, we have a tad excluder device
which lets turtles go. Well, excuse me, not only does
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it let turtles go, it lets a lot of our
catch go. Now, going back backing up to what I
was talking about earlier in this segment about my grandfather
and the shrint price is not changing much since he
shrimped back then, they didn't have as many regulations as
what we have. They didn't have heads and the phish
excluder devices that they had to put in their nets.
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So there's just a lot of challenges that we have
to go through. But when it comes down to where
the rubber meets the road, the truth and the fact
says there is no comparison with our product and an
import whatsoever. They these imports are loaded with antibiotics that
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are banned. And I said this the other day on
the Mounts Show whenever hen I were talking, I told him,
I said, I would like for people to go and
google for themselves and.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Go and google it.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
There's videos out there on how they collect these shrimp.
And like you said, not to mention, you know by
the time they get here, but people need to know
what they're eating. I would never eat one, as a
matter of if. I don't even eat seafood at many
restaurants at all, just because I know the imports. And
like I said, the numbers say over ninety percent of
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the shrimp consumed in the United States is imported.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
It's crazy, and I think it is. And by the way,
but by the way, we're not a landlocked nation. We
are a nation surrounded by excellent fishing, but we have
created a situation where nobody wants to fish our waters.
We have to import things from around the world because
we've subsidized that, and it's.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Being frozen for how long to come here?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Speaking of which I was going to ask you earlier, Timm,
I didn't want to interrupt you.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You said that.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Y'all have one of only about ten boats that's an
ice boat, and I mean, obviously I have a sense
of what that is.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Why is that important? What does that allow you to do?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So the difference and ice boat in the freezer boat.
You know, of course they freeze their catch, like I said,
while they're offshore. They have freezers on the actual boat.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Us.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
You know, we just get a lot of ice and
as we catch the shrimp, you know, we catch them,
we sort them out, wash them really well, and.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Then we ice them.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
We just put them in ice and water pretty much
until we get back to the dock and we sail
straight to the public. So ice foakes is just pretty
much saying a fresh catch that's never frozen.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
That's not intuitive to the term. That is very very interesting.
Let me ask you a question while I have you
if you were telling people how to you know, they
buy their fish head on and they divein it and
all that. Are there any particular tricks you have or
how to prepare a shrimp, how to store a shrimp?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Present? Are there any because you know more about this anybody,
So yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I would say there are some things. There's a little
shrimp devenor that you can buy us a little plastic
shrimp diveinor I know they've got these high dollar ones
out there, and I'm not knocking those either. They're good,
but I just still like the old fashioned little plastic one.
You know, you just pop the head off and then
you take the little dibiner and go down his back.
And my daughter in law, we've been wanting to do
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a video, so we'll probably do a video on that
and put it on our Facebook page. But also we
have a great recipe on our Facebook page. You may
have to scroll down. I all ready share it, just
to make sure it's on there, but fried shrimp that
way your customers, if anybody wants.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
To try it.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
We've got a good old Southern recipe for fried shrimp
on there. It's our favorite.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Just make sure that.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
It is golf shrimp. And even if I would like
to say this as well, if you're going out to
buy your shrimp, pay attention because even though the packaging
may say golf shrimp, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is.
Flip it over read the fine print. I'm hoping and
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praying that one day soon we'll be able to things
will pick up, you know, and we'll be able to
ship shrimp. I've had several people called wanting to know
for Douce ship. You know, that is something that we're
working on.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I know that, Tammy, I'm up against the break, sweetheart.
I wish I could continue on our website is see
Harvestfresh Shrimp dot net.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's a fellow.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
American company, small business, third generation, trying to make it.
This is what the tariffs are intended to protect. Support
your fellow Americans.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Americans, a nation that can be defined in a single word,
was going number nine. Not only a frontier. Gibbery expressed
their courage.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Scene of this day.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And Michael berri show.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
This human being creature was at an independent school district
called Red Oak ISD.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And listen, well just just listen to it. Right, I'm
over talking this thing.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
These past seven months, reddig was my sanctuary.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
If you asked Rosalind Sandry where she'd be sitting right
now a month ago, she'd tell you Red Oak High School.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I used to joke around with them that being a
teacher's all I've ever wanted to do since I was
five years old.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
But the reason she's not tiny is why we're sitting
down with her today.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
When I resigned and signed that resignation, I felt like
I was signing away my ability to teach in the
state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I don't know that another school will touch me now.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Sandre says she felt like she had no choice but
to resign from Red Oak Ist after the amount of
hatred she received from this video she posted on her
TikTok I'm Rosie, Texas English teacher, expressing herself about the
reception she got from students.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
When I told them I had changed my pronouns, jumped
right into it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
They call me ma'am.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
That was until the video was reposted on X.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
They pinned it to the top of their X account
for five days.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
The video posted on the libs on TikTok x account
now has more than three million views. She says that's
when she started getting death threats and others and askedy emails.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
In my school email, I got a notice that told me.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
To eat a bullet.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
It also got the attention of state Representative Brian Harrison,
who posted this on his ex account, calling for Sandry's resignation.
The district confirmed with WFAA they accepted Sandry's resignation effective
immediately on Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I felt for my.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Safety and the safety of the school.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It's all I could do. The schools are for education,
not for indoctrination.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I spoke with Representative Harrison over zoom on Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Teaching children, minors, young children that boys can become girls
and girls can become boys is at odds with objective reality,
and the biological reality is that there are two sexes.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Sandry says her dream was stripped away from her.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
That's all I want is to need back in the classroom.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And now she can only hope that'll happen again one day.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
The Left has been so effective.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I am in deep admiration for how effective they are
at what they do. In the same way that I
am in deep admiration for people on our side who
stand up, who say things that they know will upset
people that they know will potentially cost them their job,
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that they know will cause them and their families to
suffer because they believe in it.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
But let's go back to the left.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Somewhere along the way, you have a grown man who
says I'm a woman. Now, kids, you will now call
me a woman. You're not a woman. You're not a woman.
Whether it's Donald Trump or Matt Walsh, we can define
(19:50):
what a woman is, but a woman cannot be what
you are because you're born with a sex and you
cannot change it. You can cut off your toe, you
can cut off your finger and cut off your ear
van goo. You can even cut off your wiener. Doesn't
make you a woman. A woman is not just a
wienerless creature.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You can't just decide I'm a woman. You can't just
decide I'm an Nigerian. You can't just decide I'm Elon Musk.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
You can't do it. Now.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
If you do do it, that's your issue. But we're
not going to subscribe to that. The kids are not
going to tell you that you're twelve feet tall because
you say, y'all have to tell me I'm twelve feet
tall and you're not going to convince them that they
have to, because that is dishonest.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Seeking the truth is what learning is all about.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It's what life and the scientific method and science itself.
Seeking the truth is what reading the Bible is about.
To someone taught at a lecture, seeking the truth, that's
what we do.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
You are a proponent of dishonesty.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
You are not a man a woman, and for people
to say that you are to keep from hurting your
feelings means that you're not capable of being a teacher.
If you want to be clinger in mash and dressed
as a woman to make the military think you're crazy
so you can get kicked out because you don't want
(21:32):
to be at war, fine, do it, but understand that
that was what he was doing, because that was the
way he was showing the military. I'm crazy, kick me out. Remember, well,
we don't believe you. Yeah, I'm crazy. I'm really nutting.
You got to kick me out. We don't believe you.
How about this, I'm dressed as a woman. Okay, hey
(21:54):
you are. They're not going to let you out, but
we do think you're crazy now, but we don't think
you're really crazy. You're just pretending that you're crazy. We
don't think that you really think that you're a woman.
If we believe that, then you'd be crazy and then
would kick you out. That's how that works, right, See
how that works? Well, what are we to think now?
(22:17):
What are we to think now? But where the left
one where they did so well was the idea if
you know that a man is not a woman, even
if he says he is. By the way, he said,
it was a man yesterday. So it's not like you're
going up and going I'm not sure you don't look
(22:37):
sufficiently womanly. You know, he was a man. His name
was Bob, and now he's Barbara. Call me a woman.
I'm a woman.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
No, you're a man.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yesterday we believed you. I don't need to check what's
on to the hood. You're a man. You're still a
man dressed as a woman.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It happens.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
It's either Halloween or you're a free Okay, Fine, it's
your business, do it at home.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
The point at which the Left made parents feel uncomfortable
about having influence over what their child is taught is
the moment, in my opinion, that they have exercised the
ultimate power move.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
I admire them for that. Our side is not strong
enough to do that.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Generations past were Generations past would have fired that guy.
Get out here, you're crazy, get out. But today we're
more progressive, and even the most conservative person will say,
I'm not a racist, I'm a good person.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I'm not being hateful. Who said you were? Methinks? Thou
dost protest too much?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Technically it's thou dost protest too much, methinks, But in
any case, why would.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You say that you're not a bad person.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
We're stating something we all know to be true because
they've taught you that you should be ashamed of yourself,
and so you still do it. You still stand up
for it, but you're still kind of ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Right. That's either arrest me or take me to Texas.
So haven't anything gets.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Out of this state?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I think Michael Berry Robs or Michael Very show, I
like you.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I played some of the audio from the quote unquote
protests over the weekend, and you know it's it's so
funny because ninety nine percent of Americans never go to protests.
They don't care about the protests means nothing to them.
They're raising kids, taking care of their elderly parents. You know,
(24:54):
so much of our lives is consumed with caring for
the young and the old. You've got the whole pregnancy process,
then you've got the early stages.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Then you've got the education.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Then you've got the whole industry of the colleges and
the universities, which become its own evil industry. It's a massive,
massive business. Some people still think of it as what's important,
You're going to grow into a special person. You've been
around a campush, do you know? Do you know what
a campus is? A campus is a bunch of kids
because there's still kids trying to decide what party they're
(25:35):
going to go to that night. And yeah, yeah, pretty
much that's it. And it's not some you know, you
had this idea the University of Virginia, how's ay study?
Or the only people doing any work are the professors.
The students aren't doing anything. Then they get their degree.
You put in your time, you pay your money, you
(25:56):
get your degree, and then people hire you and bring
you in and train you, or they don't, and you
go fold clothes at abercomm and Fitch. And that's the
way it is. It's so overrated, so incredibly overrated. But
that's the reality. Nobody wants to tell you that, but
that's the reality. So you got the guy punching a
clock at the at the plant and he's saving up
his money to try to send his kid off to
(26:17):
college because he wants his kid to not have to
work in the plant because he lost his hearing already
and it's.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Awful and terrible.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
But he doesn't realize that all that money you're going
to save up and spend isn't making a difference.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
It's what the kid makes of life.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Well, I'll tell you that in a minute. I'll tell
because it's something I want to get to.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
This is a male protester at one of the Hands
off rallies to protest who is a big fan of
Pete Buddy, gig go get them.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
Way too much to this, but I wanted to be
here to be a part of history and see if
we can find a way to change things.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
And tell me about inside here holding what is it?
Af you read it for me?
Speaker 9 (26:55):
It's sure in a world full of Pete, he sense
be a Pete puta chante. Pete Seth is the worst
Department of Defense secretary we've ever seen, and the Buddha
judge was our secretary of transportation. Fantastic. He should run
for president. He's an amazing guy.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
And the only policy changes to be some that has
put in the place which both have the more you
post and turned it out and potentially as an effective you.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Know, well, affecting me is pretty much everything, but due
process is the biggest one. We've got people that are
being put in jail, sent to other countries that haven't
been before a judge. Therefore, we've got a lot of
mistakes happening, and therefore it's, as far as I'm concerned,
due process is the biggest. We need people to be
rightfully detained, if so, then put before a judge and
(27:41):
then found in a center guilty.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
And let's make sure we get this.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
In this segment, a young lady posted to social media
how she was paid to protest and what she had
to do to collect her money. See, these aren't people
who were upset with what's going on, not that it
would matter. Oh you're upset, okay, Well you being upset
doesn't matter unless you go stand in a crowd and chant,
(28:09):
who cares. We're all upset. We all have a problem
you go on with life right and you cast a vote.
Stop this already, But anyway, here's how she was paid
to protest and how.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
What she had to do to collect her money.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
I was one of the paid protesters at the April
fifth Liberal protests, and so I just wanted to come
on and talk about my experience, what I had to
do to get paid, and how much are that paid.
So there were two kind of parts to it. The
first was obviously just showing up. They gave me like
(28:42):
a time and a place and told me to look
for a girl with blue hair and a nosering, which,
like I thought be really hard because I thought like
everyone was good like that, But luckily she was the
only one that was really easy to find her.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So yeah, that was good. I checked in.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
I told you that you couldn't wear anything maga. They
also asked you not to wear red, so I just
wore a black T shirt and jeans, and yeah, I
checked it. And then they said, just like go on
the march and then at the end there would be
like a questionnaire to answer.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Oh.
Speaker 10 (29:20):
And then the other thing is they said they would
pay extra if you brought a sign, so I did
bring a sign again, same thing, like couldn't be MAGA
had to like be in line with like the liberal agenda.
So my sign said everyone deserves a good education, which
(29:40):
like I don't necessarily personally agree with like bringing me
a server like a mechanic, like you don't really need
an education, But I wanted to fit in. I wanted
the money, and I didn't want to like draw attention
to myself, so that's what I went with. So anyways,
I went on the march and then at the end
I had to check back in and that's when they
(30:01):
gave me the questionnaire. And Okay, the interesting thing is
like you had to answer the questionnaire as if you
were a liberal, and there were right and wrong answers,
like it wasn't just like whatever you thought, like you
could get the questions wrong and you had to get
them right in order to get paid. This one, I
invested like two hours of my time, so I wanted
(30:24):
the money, you know. So the first question, for example,
was why do Republicans want more women to stay home
and not work and not have jobs? And again I
just kind of had to put myself in like their mindset.
So I wrote basically like if women don't have jobs
(30:48):
or job experiences, and they have to rely on men financially,
and that gives men a lot more control over their lives.
For example, like you know, if like she's in an
abusive situation or whatever, she can't really leave, especially if
she just kids, she doesn't really have the means to
take care of them, and she doesn't have the experience
(31:09):
to get a job that could like afford to take
care of them. So it just gives like the men
a lot more control to kind of do what they
want her to do.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Basically.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
So that was my answer for the first one, and
I got that right, But there were some that I
just like didn't really know what they would consider our
right answer, you know.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
So I just asked he was like, what do I do?
Speaker 10 (31:30):
I don't know how to answer this, and she said,
just like do your best and then come talk to
her at the end. So, for example, there was wanting
it and really not to say it was like what
is critical race theory and.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Why should it be taught? And like what's an example
of like something that.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
You can learn from it?
Speaker 10 (31:50):
And I didn't know what they wanted the answer to me,
you know, so I just asked her about that one
and the answer that she gave is basically, they just
want people to under stand the lasting effects and impact
of segregation discrimination. And the example she gave what she
called she kind of like generational wealth. And she explained
(32:11):
that during slavery and during Jim Crow and like even
after that, in some places, like black families have been
essentially barred from owning homes, where like white families could
own a home and then like pass that down and
their family can either like live in that home and
not have to pay for a mortgage, or they could
(32:31):
sell that and then use that money towards like other opportunities.
But because black families weren't able to own homes, they
weren't able to accumulate that wealth in the same way,
and they had to like spend more of their income
on rent, and they weren't getting that back when you
get back, you know, when you buy a house.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So she said that I was just like one.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
Example, but yeah, that was like kind of her answer
to that question.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So I wrote that down, and yeah, I got paid.
Speaker 10 (32:59):
I got paid one hundred dollars for going to the protest,
and then I got paid an extra ten dollars for.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Bringing the sign.
Speaker 10 (33:07):
And like overall, it's a pretty good experience.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Reason I know it was nice for thank you and
good night.
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