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July 7, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (706): 100+ Dead, Dozens Missing in Texas Flood as Desperate Search Continues
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Good evening.
This is Rudy Giuliani and this is America's Mayor Live, live from New Hampshire.
And we're going to go right away to Texas.
We have with us someone who can bring us up to date on what things are like right now and then we'll take you back to last Thursday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and the days that led up to it.
This is Commander Furman.
We're getting him on the line, Mayor.
He's live on scene.
He's connecting with us.
So we'll have him in just about a minute or so.
So as you know, we probably don't know, or maybe do, the death toll is now over 100.
You knew that.
You knew that was going to happen from the time they released the original death toll because they only had a small picture of the damage done along the Guadalupe River, which runs for quite a distance.
It's still probably going to turn out that in Kerrville and near the camp, the single biggest devastation was done and loss of life because there was just an unexpectedly large surge that was three times as high as the one surrounding it.
So it was like a real flood, and it happened to be right next to a camp that was divided into several parts.
And one part was a dormitory for the younger children, which was on the lowland.
And that lowland was just completely wiped out.
Flash flood.
And the children had no chance really to save themselves.
There's quite a bit of discussion about the system, the warning system.
And should there have been a siren?
It had been argued for a decade or so ago and voted down.
Should there have been more sophisticated equipment that is available but not used?
And given the history of the place, which is flood prone, should there have been more of a modern warning system?
Secretary Noam seems to feel that there should be, and she's probably right.
On the other hand, as I look at this, and I think about the sophisticated systems that would be available, and I look at the strange way in which this happened, which was this exceptional surge so far beyond any other along the route of the storm, I wonder how much good it would have done.
What would have done good is if they had evacuated the place the night before.
But it doesn't appear as if at least they felt there was enough danger to do that.
I think it came as quite a surprise that it hit this level.
Now that in the coolness of when you calm down and you take a look at this, would be the question to ask, should the decision have been made the night before to evacuate?
Now you'd make that decision if you thought that something maybe not even as bad as this would happen, but something similar to it would happen.
So that's something we're going to have to look at.
So with the available tech.
He's coming on in just a minute.
Okay.
All right.
In the meantime, we're showing footage of the yep.
We're showing footage here.
He should be back in just a moment.
So over 100 confirmed dead, 104 confirmed dead, dozen still missing.
What we have there is actually it shows you the incoming wall of water.
That's the river.
And you see there the wall of water coming down.
You definitely would need some sort of early warning system that can pick that up and notify people immediately.
I mean, you have seconds to spare minutes in some cases you can see and look at we're not seeing what happened at the camp.
That is very, very bad.
Look at this.
That could create flooding and death here and there.
But what happened was a very, very large surge.
Think of a large surge of water that went and just kind of took over the entire right side and made it part of the river.
And it was lowland without all the trees.
And that's the section where the children's camp was.
So you see how those waves are coming up.
So envision a wave that comes up maybe 10 times higher than that and floods over onto the land.
And now for a while, what you see is an extension of the river, not land.
It looks like it, you know, some of that is happening in the bottom right, but I don't know exactly what area of the Guadalupe River this is.
And it happened in the southern section.
The river right at this point divides and it continues, it continues to go.
It's a river that flows originally from south to northwest.
And around here, it turns and it begins to flow more west.
The upper part of the river continues to flow directly west through the rest of Texas.
The southern part of the river goes rather decidedly south and heads down that way.
It's that part of the river where the, let's call it the explosion took place, where after a short while of making that turn, a very large, first a smaller surge, another smaller surge, and then a gigantic surge took place that took over the southern bank of the river.
And on the southern bank of the river were the camp facilities, including the dormitory for the children, young children.
We may be looking there at land that was taken over by the river now.
Well, is he ready, Ted?
As you can imagine, service is very difficult.
Yeah, it probably is very difficult.
So he's working on it now as we speak, but we're just getting you to the latest.
I'm going to have some maps here shortly.
I'm, you know, just got to get the maps up.
It's just going to take a second.
It looks like we have them on now.
So we will be connecting with him here momentarily.
So this is Commander Furman.
We're going to let him see if we can have him set up here.
We're going to come to him now.
Here we are.
We have Commander Furman on the line.
Commander?
Can you hear me?
Yeah, we should be able to hear him momentarily.
There we go.
Hello, Commander.
How are you?
Loud and clear.
How me, sir?
And how are you?
I'm good.
Thank you.
And where are you?
Exactly.
I'm in Ingram, Texas, downstream of the epicenter, Hunt, Texas.
A lot of the surge effort is happening here.
You can see I'm at a volunteer fire department.
We brought them up a bunch of I can hear you.
Fine.
Oh, yeah.
It's coming.
Okay, great.
And so, I mean, the surge of support for this catastrophe is overwhelming from the federal government Homeland Security all the way down.
People are bringing everything they can.
I just give you a scale of this.
There are trucks and heavy equipment from everybody that can lift a helping hand down here doing this horrific work.
I'm standing right above where the water line was.
You can see where it drops off behind me.
Behind me there is the Guadalupe River.
We'll walk down there and there's a bluff I'm about to walk off of, but the water was all the way up here, incredibly so.
And that's now where we've surged rescue and search and other support logistics.
It's incredible.
Texans know how to help out Texans.
But I'll walk us down here, see how far they let me go.
But I don't know how past already.
Go ahead.
How far south of Camp Mystic are you?
So Camp Mystic is in Hunt, Texas.
So we're downstream from there a couple couple miles.
And this is where all that flowed into, if you will.
And is this the south fork of the river?
Yes.
Yeah.
So we are.
Okay.
No, I can see where you are now.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, Mayor, go ahead.
So you're a few miles below Camp Mystic.
And that whole area, Camp Mystic and below it, was overwhelmed with water.
Completely overwhelmed.
We had, in an hour, we had over 30 feet of water rise.
It's a 500-year phenomenon.
It's not just a 100-year flood.
We've had drought in Texas, perpetual drought for decades now.
And the water just flows on top of that hard-packed land here in Texas.
And there's no stopping it.
So that wall of water that came down several times kept, you know, made everybody, I think it just broke their imagination of how bad it could be.
They got a three-hour warning before it happened, but no one imagined this.
If you look behind me, that bluff, the water was up there.
And you can see some debris and trucks pushed into trees.
I'll walk us up along the line here and you'll see the absolute devastation.
So where you are walking now and pointing us toward, that was river.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
We were underwater here.
That had become part of the river as a result of a very large surge.
And that, of course, if there's anybody there, well, then, of course, they're going to be drowned.
And that's what happened to the camp or to the city.
They couldn't evacuate fast enough.
That's right.
It's tragic.
There's still 11 missing from that camp.
And the search is ongoing.
They're rotating teams in.
People are on boats.
People are in tractors.
People are helicopters and drones.
And they have dogs.
It's a virtual army, official and volunteer, pulling together to recover folks.
Folks have been recovered.
They were recovered as late as Sunday.
People found alive.
We still are hoping for the best here.
But, you know, we're up to 91 deceased recovered.
27 from that camp altogether made a tragic 91 figure.
This is the biggest tragedy to kids in probably 100 years.
But let me look, let me turn this camera around real quick and let you look at this.
It uprooted trees, Mayor.
Completely uprooted trees.
It was basically an avalanche of water that came down this river and caused this horrific situation.
What's amazing to me, Commander, is it's all receded now.
How quickly did it recede and go back to grassland?
Yeah, I lost you, Mayor.
Go ahead.
So a couple of days, two days ago, that was a river.
When did it go back to the state it's in now?
How long did that take?
Oh, it, well, we've had waves of rain, and they're still even forecast significant rain coming.
This storm was unlike I've seen in my lifetime here.
I've lived in Texas, central Texas, South Texas, and I've never seen a weather system just linger.
It was severe weather lingering over this area for 72 hours.
It wouldn't go away.
And now, you know, they're predicting maybe another wave of that coming through.
It really doesn't defies typical meteorology.
Yeah, yeah.
I think we're looking at video right now of several days ago where the water is surging through the trees and taking over.
And there, you kind of, all of a sudden, the boundaries of the river are completely obscured, and the river, the entire area becomes river.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
It was an ocean of water here, and there was no stopping this tidal wave.
You had to be clear of it.
You know, people all the time get pulled into water crossings with low water river levels that they think they can cross and ends up not being so.
Well, this was nobody could escape this.
I just, it is, it feels apocalyptic down here, Mayor.
It's truly crazy.
What is, though, encouraging is the human spirit, the Texas spirit of coming together with the federal government.
Our state resources have been abounding here, and really people are filling in every gap they can.
It's truly a testament of the resilience.
Yes, sir.
How'd you get people there so fast?
They just came.
You had to keep them away at some points.
Yeah, everybody wants to help, but in a way, managing them becomes an issue all in and of itself.
No, it is that.
Social media has been very helpful, keep people informed and actually locating folks and survivors.
Tremendous.
A lot of citizen journalists have really aided in that, providing real-time updates, people on the ground where news crews couldn't get.
Can't put this one.
Go ahead, sir.
Go ahead.
Yeah, I'm with you.
I'm putting a big red mark about where we think you are on the map so people realize it.
Right below the camp.
That whole area was destroyed.
That whole area around the camp and south of it, right?
I didn't hear that.
Repeat your last, please.
I said that whole area was destroyed.
It was.
Now, there were several other camps in the area.
Do you know if they were seriously damaged?
So there wasn't.
Go ahead, Camp which one?
Camp La Junta, Camp Waldemar.
Right.
I don't know the name.
Seriously damaged.
Most people got their people out.
You know, there were about 500 people at Camp Mystic.
And, you know, it's remarkable they got out as many as they could.
Truly, truly amazing.
You know, you don't just, you don't have buses sitting around for 500 people, but they got out the majority of the folks.
And incredible the evacuation effort here.
You know, people did the best they can.
The camp director of Camp Miskett met his demise trying to rescue his charges.
Yes, of course.
Isn't that amazing?
Truly heartbreaking.
But it just goes to show you that even the hardest, most dismal times, there's hope that people will do what they can.
If you can look now, Mayor, you can see across the riverbanks here how high you'll see where the green, I don't know if you can see through my camera here, the green is ripped off above half of these very, very tall old trees.
And just, you know, I would be 30 feet underwater right now.
Insane.
Normally it's about two feet water height, right, in this part of the Guadalupe River.
And yeah, so, you know, the takeaway here is it's a tragedy.
You know, whether it can be avoided or not, we'll have to determine that to prevent the next one, of course.
But my read on this is everybody did what they could given the circumstances.
And it's truly amazing.
I know that we surged weather resources in New Bronvilles.
That's in my area.
And actually staffed up folks to help watch this weather system.
They're still staffed up looking at this next thing that might come.
So these are really weird phenomenons.
Tell me about that, the next thing that might come.
Well, the way this thing developed, and I'm not a weather guy, but you had two colliding weather events up in more of the North Panhandle area of Texas.
And when they collided, they caused this, they spun off this weather phenomenon that just dwelled like a hurricane.
If you just watched it, it just couldn't get relief.
It wasn't moving through.
It was just lingering on top of this area.
You know, from Austin, from Kerrville to Austin to north of San Antonio, it was just sitting on top of it, it seemed, and it was all severe weather.
So we're watching the next thing coming through.
You know, we've got this much heat and moisture hits that all of a sudden.
You know, Mother Nature reminds us that we are still very small on this planet.
You're quite correct about that, Commander.
And you made a very, very good point earlier.
It's hard to know, let's assume everything was done to perfection, how many people you might have saved.
Some of this was inevitable.
With the speed with which it became a massive, massive storm, and having happened in the middle of the night, and just looking at the river right now, I mean, there's no way you're not going to have tremendous casualties no matter what you do.
No, sir.
People camp along here in the summer all summer long.
It is truly one of the most popular, enjoyed spots.
We lament at the low water level.
So we've put 30 feet on Lake Travis.
It's a decades-long drought.
It's incredible what's happened here.
I don't, you know, people have a lot of discussions online, but I think the focus needs to be prayer for these families, the recovery effort to recover every soul missing and whatever the outcome.
And I can tell you we have all of the manpower doing that.
There are Ingram hunt was clobbered by all kinds of people helping.
Good news story there.
And then, you know, and then downriver where everybody ended up.
These are really the focal points right now.
And they're still focusing.
They're not going to let up until this is done.
We just wheeled in massive amounts of barbecue to refuel these guys and get them back out.
And everybody's just doing what they can.
Yeah, you're doing it.
I appreciate you guys checking in.
Well, I have to tell you, having been through several horrible emergencies, I knew right away with the numbers that you were saving and the conditions you were in, whatever the criticism, this was going to be one of the best and one of the greatest rescue efforts.
I mean, the day before and yesterday, you should not have been pulling out the number of people you were pulling out unless people were way above and beyond the call of duty.
So God bless you.
And all your fellow Texans.
You know you're special, right?
You're Texans.
We'll tell you if you don't know it.
I know.
Some of my best friends are Texans, and they tell me all the time.
And I love them.
That's right.
And before we leave you.
New Yorkers are very similar.
Isn't that funny?
I give that speech sometimes.
We're very arrogant, but it makes us great.
Now, we love you.
The rest of this country loves Texas.
You're our great big state, and you do everything big, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, you get a big tragedy, but you also get a big response.
And real quick, where's the, and we'll look it up, Commander, but where's the best place to donate?
You know, viewers that are at home, you know, can't be there to help in person, want to support.
What would you recommend?
There's always a plethora of places to donate.
There's a lot of Samaritan's purse here.
Samaritan's Purse.
Oh, a lot of Samaritan's Purse.
They've set up.
Love that ministry.
They are on top of this.
That would be my first go-to.
I know those dollars are going to be used well.
Great choice, Committee.
Yes, sir.
So Samaritan's Purse, you can go on their website and they've got a link that you can hit for this.
So please check it out.
You know, you never know until this is all over and you do the accounting how costly this is.
The estimates are mind-boggling even to conceive.
And so they're going to need a lot here for sure.
But everybody's pitching in what they can.
I can't tell you how many people are just filling in the gaps and doing what Americans do.
So God bless you guys for keeping up on the story.
New York's done some of the best reporting on this.
And truly, we come together as a country in this.
We need to come together and unite in these moments.
Absolutely.
God bless you.
And anything you need, if they're not doing anything right, you can come on my show anytime and we'll make sure it gets to the right people.
And I think the president was on top of this moment one.
He's going to be down here Friday.
Yeah.
So, you know, Christian Noam is down here this weekend.
He's going to be down here on Friday to book in that.
Absolutely.
The resources they flowed into this area have just been the hurricanes in North Carolina.
You can't have an more opposite situation.
That's what I guess I'm channeling.
And I'm just floored by the federal, the state, and the local volunteer level of resources and people doing work, not just patting people on the back.
And I tell you what, it is completely opposite what we had in the last administration.
I want to make this political, but people need to know that they had all the FEMA resources in the last administration.
Little be known, they're actually using that to house illegal aliens and they diverted that.
Actually, the guy running against for Congress, Henry Queyar, authored that to divert all of those emergency relief funds that really visible disparity.
This is the opposite.
So if you think what's happening, if you remember that story, everybody, this is the exact opposite.
It is a massive tragedy, but the response has been incredible from top to bottom.
Well, God bless you and you be safe now.
And we'll get back to you to see how things are going, particularly if there's going to be some other weather condition.
I hope that's mild.
I hope so.
Well, we will pray very, very, very intently for all of you.
God bless you.
Thank you, sir.
And you're displaying the American spirit to the whole world.
You know, you can take a horrible tragedy and you can turn it into a great victory for courage and for a display of courage and for a sense of what a country is like.
And you put something like this in the hands of Texans and it's going to come out where America looks, well, like the Texans are, not afraid of a damn thing and willing to take on anything that nature has to offer.
Well, let me get this story in quickly because you need to know it.
So The negotiations and discussions between the president and Bibi, which are probably ongoing right now, have a new wrinkle to it.
It's a Palestinian, a Palestinian sheikh who would be a Palestinian nobleman, right, of a great family, who has made his own offer of peace.
And he's joined by four other very influential sheiks who run tribes in the Hebron area of the Palestinian Authority.
That's closer to the West Bank.
It's not part of Gaza.
Has been the more peaceful of the two, and is governed by Fatah rather than by Hamas.
Fatah was a revolutionary and terrorist group.
It was the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
But it changed so that it could concentrate on Arafat's second career, which was stealing money from his people.
And it is a horribly corrupt organization.
So they get a choice between a group of corrupt terrorists and then just a group that's completely corrupt.
And then the people get no money and they starve.
So these sheiks run their own families and stay independent of them.
And they're run pretty much the way Saudi Arabia is run, you know, in a paternalistic way.
So he wants to bring together, or he has brought together a group of at least four of these ancient tribes, really.
And he wants to set up an emirate called the Emirate of Hebron.
And he wants to, number one, recognize the eternal existence of the state of Israel as a home for the Jewish people.
Now, that's the big barrier for the Palestinians.
They will not recognize that.
So he wants to jump that barrier and recognize it.
He wants to be independent, but he wants to build up over a period of time a working relationship with Israel.
And Israel will start by taking 5,000 workers, and then eventually it'll be 50 to 60,000 workers.
And then they're going to work out some sort of inter-relationship.
You know, like they'll be an independent country, but their foreign policy will be associated with Israel, or they'll be helped by Israel, and they will be friends, and they will sign an Abraham Accord.
And so this would take a significant number of Palestinians with a tremendous amount of influence and ones that have had long-term claims to the land, which is why it was granted to them by the Israelis.
And it would, oh, let me not leave out the most important part, which has been the thing that has killed this for 30 years, because I don't know if our presidents doing this were stupid or perverse, but they will unequivocally forego terrorism and will turn in all terrorists and will not encourage terrorism, the opposite.
They will punish and execute terrorists.
They don't want terrorists among them and they don't want terrorists among the Israelis.
That's what Israel had to hear.
And I know Hebron, and it seems to me, although this, of course, has got to be checked out very carefully, but this is worth pursuing.
This is sufficiently different than what we've heard for 30 years, that this could be a prototype for a peaceful relationship between these people.
It can take a while, something like this, to spread to Gaza.
And there you've got an issue of what do we do with Gaza and how do we keep it safe?
The Israelis want a period of time of occupation, because after all, they don't want people from Gaza coming in and killing them.
You wouldn't either.
At the same time, the Arab side wants normalization as fast as possible.
And the president's going to have to work his way through that.
There's some talk that maybe the Egyptians would take over the policing of Gaza.
You'd say, well, why?
They're anti-Israel.
No, they're not.
The Egyptians are one of the first to make peace with Israel.
Remember?
And they have their own issues with the Palestinians.
Remember, the Palestinians were part of the Muslim Brotherhood that overthrew their government, took over, and then Sisi had to fight to get it back.
And as far as the Muslim Brotherhood is concerned, Sisi's a dead man.
So he's got his own realistic view of Hamas and would keep them out of any kind of a Gaza reunited, reorganized state.
So there are some interesting possibilities that are provided by Sheikh Wadi al-Jabbari, otherwise known as Abu Sanad, who made this speech.
I would have loved to have been there from his ceremonial tent in Hebron.
This ceremonial tent probably looks, I don't know if you've ever seen a ceremonial tent, but it probably looks like a palace tent.
So shall we take a break now?
And when we come back, we're going to have Darren with us, and we're going to make it a surprise.
That sound good?
Sounds good.
All right, so we'll take a break right now.
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Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
It's not like a factory.
It's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep green, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they'd like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know all Arabica beans.
No Robusto.
All Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at these.
my goodness They're going to want to specially order these.
This is what goes into Rudy's coffee.
Maybe I just...
We're back.
And you are, I have to my right, and you just, imagine this is the real Don Pablo.
We went to dinner last night, and I was really, and his wife walked in first, and, you know, she announced the reservation.
She said, reservations for Don Pablo.
So that's how I'm going to introduce Darren.
This is Don Pablo.
I don't even know if I'm going to tell you his name is Darren Burke, but.
Thanks, Rudy.
It's great to be here.
It's always an honor to be in your company.
Well, Darren, Darren is a man of many, many talents, but I'm going to tell you this, and it's not just because he makes my coffee and handles all of the everything with it.
It's the best dark coffee I've ever had.
Maybe I like it because it has my name on it, but I just don't drink any of the coffee anymore.
Yeah, well, there's a couple of reasons, and they go hand in hand.
And one of them is that we make it with love.
And that's real.
No, it is.
From the first time I talk to you, this is.
But explain why.
Explain.
It's organic.
It's not.
Number one, a lot of people don't realize this, but there's two species of commercially viable coffee.
One's Robusta and one's Arabica.
Right.
And all the big companies are using Robusta and it trades at half the price.
And that's why they do it.
But it's very acidic.
It's bitter.
It has double the caffeine.
It just doesn't taste good.
So the coffee we use is not only Arabica, which grows higher in the mountain.
It's got a deeper, richer, fuller flavor.
It's smoother.
It's got a cleaner finish.
It's got half the caffeine.
It represents only 2% of the world's total output.
Whoa.
So these big giant companies that you see in the supermarkets, we call them supermarket brands, they don't even have the access to those.
They wouldn't be able to fill up all the supermarkets.
It's just a much smaller amount of coffee that we have to work with.
And so you have that level of quality and then we roast it to order.
Doesn't matter if one of your individual customers is ordering or one of the big retailers is ordering.
We'll roast that coffee, stamp the PO right on the bag and ship it out to them.
And we do this in small batch roasters.
Other companies our size will have one great big roaster or maybe two and they're constantly pushing out the coffee.
But we're doing it to order in these small batches.
It's all air-cooled and it's just a much better thing.
It's done very carefully.
I mean, when you said with love, it is done with love.
The people who do it seem to enjoy what they're doing.
Absolutely.
I mean, they're very, and then they're pulling things out all the time.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, first of all, even before that, when we buy the green unroasted coffee, we're making sure that we do it from people that we know, that we've met, that we've been to their farms.
What does the Arabica coffee look like and the Robusto before you start cooking it?
Yeah, I mean, they call it green coffee because it's green in color.
And that's the other thing.
Both green?
Both are green.
Both begin green.
Both begin green.
They're very similar in shape and color.
There's just a little bit of a difference.
The Robusto is a little bit rounder.
It actually takes somebody who knows what they're looking at to understand the difference between the two.
But they are grown in different elevations.
Isn't that right?
Yeah, absolutely.
And the higher the elevation, the longer it takes for the bean to mature.
So it's denser and there's a lot of flavor in that density.
So a lot of countries and a lot of companies who want to get a lower quality coffee or actually a lesser expensive coffee will get a lower grown coffee.
And also defects, a number of defects.
There's a lot Of defects in those coffees, and then they can buy them less expensively.
A lot of defects in the supermarket brands.
And are they all Robusto or do they have some?
They're a blend usually.
So it's either 100% or a blend.
And it's funny, one of the big ones, it's been about 15 years now, but they came out with a smoother coffee.
They called it, I'll just say it's silk, right?
Big company call it silk.
Sorry.
A company that rhymes with Folgers.
But anyway, yeah.
So what they did was they mixed a little bit more Arabica in with the Robusa to make it a little bit less acidic.
Right.
But ours is 100%.
Yours is 100% Arabica and very smooth.
So this is, we have three bags.
We have bold, and that's this one here.
Bold.
That's dark roast, 100% Arabica.
Then we have morning coffee, which is somewhat less bold.
And then we have a decaffeinated coffee.
But talk about that for a moment because that's much healthier for you than the decaffeinated coffee that other people, the people drink.
So 95% of all the decaf out there on the market is done with a harmful solvent called methylene chloride.
The one that we use for your coffee is 100% pure water.
It's called the Swiss water process method.
It's actually a brand, Swiss water, and we use that exclusively.
No harmful solvents.
And you have to watch out because some decaf that you'll buy, it will say naturally decaffeinated, but it's actually done with ethyl acetate, which comes from sugar cane.
But if you drank a cup of ethyl acetate, you would have serious problems.
You don't want to do that.
So it's done by a natural process.
So you don't end up with any extraneous chemicals or no byproducts, nothing.
They just use water, pure water to leach out the caffeine.
You know, all these recently, I'm going to say five years or so, maybe more, there have been a whole rethinking on coffee.
But there's a way in which you can drink coffee that can be very healthy for you.
It was always thought that coffee was either neutral or it wasn't going to help you very much unless you needed some energy or whatever.
Now the thought is that taking it, using it the right way can actually have very, very positive health benefits.
Well, yeah, that's a very good point.
And the reason that is, is because this country, our country has used the Robusta coffee for decades early on.
Great big manufacturers, and they're looking to squeeze as much margin out of the product as they could.
So they use the lower quality coffee.
And because it's so acidic, it will cause health problems.
It caused cause digestive problems, GERD, acid indigestion, all these types of things.
And it's got double the caffeine, which is not good for you either.
So introduce Arabica coffee, and it's a better quality, less harmful coffee.
I used to sometimes, if I had heartburn, I would stay away from coffee.
Yeah.
Now I don't.
Yeah, you don't have to because.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah.
And also the other thing that you told me right at the very beginning, I used to use sometimes some milk, sometimes some sugar, sometimes some sweetener.
I never liked it.
I always wanted, I like coffee very much and I very much wanted to taste it, but I needed to.
From the day I started drinking your coffee and then the coffee you made for me, I don't even think about it.
Yeah.
I would get annoyed.
If you put milk in my coffee now, I would probably throw it out and get another cup.
Honestly, I mean, I've learned to try not to judge, at least not openly in public, but it's such a good taste experience without any additives at all, no cream and sugar.
If you have good quality and you make it just right, it's rich.
It's chocolate.
It's smooth.
It's got a very, very clean finish and a cocoa overtone.
Well, it's quite a, here they are.
This is the morning coffee.
We'll put it right here.
There's the morning coffee.
And this is the bold coffee.
And they're both, I mean, I mean, I prefer the bold, but that's the way I am, you know.
And then I make it in the grind of bold.
Yeah.
I put on the bold part.
You know, that's for Maria and for Ted, I have to sometimes dial it back.
Right, Ted?
That's right.
They get annoyed with me when I make it too bold.
Yeah, everybody has all like the bold.
Yeah, it's very good.
They're both very good.
It's just a level of roast.
Like the bold is roasted a little bit darker.
It's a full caramelization of the natural sugars in the bean.
Now, the medium dark is actually our bestseller.
And it's a slight caramelization of those natural sugars.
Would this have less caffeine in it?
Actually, the bold has less caffeine.
It's counterintuitive, but you were actually roasting the coffee on the night.
It is counterintuitive.
I always thought at night, like, this is the morning coffee.
This is the night.
But I always thought, well, maybe you should have the morning coffee at night because it has less caffeine in it.
Yeah.
That's not so.
The bold one has a stronger flavor, but it's actually got less caffeine.
So if you want a little bang to wake up, you're going to get a little bit more in the morning.
Yeah.
And, you know, don't forget the preparation.
Like, if you're going to make an espresso, you're going to get more caffeine out of it.
Or if you're going to do a French press and you let it steep for three or four minutes, more caffeine.
Now, can these be used for espresso?
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
There's no such thing as an espresso bean.
The classic Italian style is they use a lot of Robusto over there and they always have.
And one of the reasons is it automatically makes a great crema.
Without the Robusta in it, you have to really work to get that grind just right to get a good crema.
But it's going to be a lot smoother.
It's going to be a lot less acidic.
But you are going to get a lot more caffeine out of espresso preparation.
Why is that?
It's, you know, it uses steam forced through the coffee.
So it's a very full extraction.
So all that caffeine comes with all that flavor.
You get a lot of flavor too.
So where do all these beans come from?
Yours come from Honduras, which is actually my favorite origin in the world.
I've been to 39 countries.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Wow.
Been to 39 countries and tried the coffee everywhere.
And when I found the Honduran coffee, I was just really blown away.
You got the right altitude in there.
You've got shade grown.
They now have a need for the best cigars.
Yeah.
And it used to be, it used to be Dominican Republic.
Then sort of Nicaragua kind of was ahead of them.
And now Honduras is right up there.
Yeah.
Some people think better.
For many years, they've been known as sort of a filler bean.
But that was a long time ago.
And they've been working very hard through their foundations and the National Coffee Institute that they have over there to improve the infrastructure for coffee.
And they've done a really amazing job.
Now, those countries can get...
Yeah, all of Central America.
They all have great coffee too.
But really what makes the difference in Honduras and Guatemala and Nicaragua, those three countries specifically, it's all shade grown, a lot of volcanic soil.
Coffee plants love sulfur and there's a lot of sulfur in volcanic soil.
And they don't prune the trees.
Like in other countries like Colombia, they'll prune the trees regularly.
They get more yields, but the quality is a little bit less.
And how those countries are having, well, for a while, some of them settled down a little, but they've been having some really big crime problems.
I mean, how do you function in there, in and out and with the business?
Well, that's a great question.
And, you know, of course, as we opened our borders, a lot of the people that used to pick coffee for a living would come up here.
And it would be a problem for the farmers to get workers to come and help do the harvests.
So that's been a problem.
Crime's a problem.
They steal coffee.
Coffee went to record levels at the price over the last few years, actually four times the average, the normal average.
And so it becomes like gold and people steal it.
So yeah, crime is a problem at origin for sure.
So now, what has happened with the price of coffee?
Has it regularized a little?
It's coming down now.
Thank God.
It's been a really tough year.
Honestly, no.
Well, was that, you told me that was a bit of a...
There was a lot of manipulation.
And that's a long story.
And it's not a difficult fix, but I don't know if there's any willingness to really look at that system right now.
But I know somebody that's got some good contacts in the Trump administration.
So maybe you could put in a good word for us.
Well, you have great coffee, that's for sure.
And this is cold brew.
So, I mean, this is something I was actually very surprised when Darren said they could make this because I think of iced coffee as you take the, you take this coffee and you put ice in it.
Yeah, well, you can do that or you can do it like this.
It's a lot easier and convenient.
And it's two ingredients, coffee and water.
There's no harmful preservatives or any other chemicals.
And would you say it has a different taste as a result of that?
Well, you know, it's going to have a different taste.
You know, we had to choose the formula that's going to make it just rich enough and not too strong and not too mild.
But you like it, though, don't you?
I do.
I do too.
I love it.
Yeah, and it's different.
It's different than that.
Sometime I'm going to do, I love doing comparisons with coffee and cigars and wine.
Yeah, you know, it's really, thank you.
It's really good for like if you're traveling.
So you can't brew coffee when you're driving.
So you just pop it.
If you're on the road and you have three or four of them, you want to stay awake.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And you don't feel like having a hot coffee because it's warm out.
Yeah, I love it.
It has a very distinct taste.
It has a very distinct taste.
There's a bit of an acidic twang in there, which is from how it's processed and in this big tank and stuff like that.
It has an aftertaste too.
A little bit, but it's pleasant, right?
Nice aftertaste.
Yeah, yeah.
I like it too.
Well, congratulations.
I mean, this is really unbelievable change.
You know, coffee has become looked upon so differently that it's important to make sure that the health effects aren't compromised by other problems.
Now, if Robusta was only 2%, how are we going to have enough Robusta?
Not Robusto or Rabbit.
Yeah, yeah.
It's 2%.
How are we going to have enough?
Well, you know, I mean, you can always plant.
It literally grows on trees.
So you can plant more, right?
There's a lot of sort of hype around climate change.
And, you know, from what I've witnessed, it's not true.
And there's been some very strong harvests over the last four or five years when they're saying there's not.
You got to really be concerned about the media and what narratives they're pushing around coffee.
So do you do you know of any places in America that make coffee?
Yeah, they're growing in California now, and it's actually pretty good.
It's not at the level where you're going to.
But can they do the Arabica and Robusto in California?
I mean, they can't do a lot of it.
It's sort of an experiment at this point.
So what are they doing?
Mostly Robusto?
No, they can do Arabica, but it's just a very limited area where it can be done, and it's very difficult.
Hawaii also and the territory of Puerto Rico, they can grow a lot of coffee.
You need a warm climate, I guess, is that it?
Yeah, temperate climate, not a lot of rain.
Coffee is very particular about what it likes, and it does like the volcanic soil also.
So that's important.
So where in California do they do it?
Southern?
Northern, actually.
Wine?
Where they do wine?
Yeah, it's, you know, you can grow them in the same areas.
Altitude is important for coffee.
Right.
So it's not exactly the same areas, but, you know, California's got that jet stream that comes down, which, you know, makes it sort of temperate in the winter.
Well, thank you very much.
He's a great man, I'll tell you.
A lot of experiences, too.
So we're going to take a short break and then we're going to come back and we're going to have a quick wrap-up because I want all of you en masse to go to go.
Tell them where they should go, Ted.
You should be the one to announce this.
Christy, I'll listen to you.
Lindell TV.
Now, is it only on Lindell TV?
I believe exclusive on Lindell.
So at 9 o'clock, Lindell TV, and Dr. Maria is going to follow Up on the stories about the terrible tragedy in Texas.
And I was very concerned when the commander told us that there might be another bit of weather coming.
You know, it wouldn't take much on top of what you saw there for those rivers to overflow again.
You realize he was walking long distance on land that two days ago was probably six, seven feet of water, drowning people.
It's amazing.
If you've never seen a flash flood, even on film, you should.
You should take, there are plenty of, on YouTube and elsewhere.
There are plenty of videos that you can see now about how a flash flood operates.
And you'll have a better sense of what happened with this flood.
It's like at certain points, it explodes.
So it'll be going along, it'll be doing a certain amount of damage, but then at a particular point, and it's hard to know exactly when, where, and how, it explodes into a tremendous amount of water.
It's a bit like when you look at a tornado or a hurricane.
I mean, I've been through many of these and you walk down one side of the street and the other buildings are ruined.
You go on the other side of the streets and the buildings are perfect because that's the way the wind came.
Same thing is true here.
One side of the river, completely overtaken by the water, everything ruined.
Other side of the river, relatively little damage.
And more here, it's in sections.
So you're going to get the flash flooding all over, but the flash flooding can be mild.
The flash flooding can be in between.
The flash flooding can be catastrophic.
And in certain areas, including unfortunately where these children were, it was catastrophic.
And now, you know, over the next several days, we'll take you through all of the what should have been done.
That's challenging going over the bridge.
I don't know.
We'll have to check and see if along the way that happened to some of these bridges.
It often does.
I mean, that car is taking a bit of a chance, right?
Look at that.
Wow.
Well, let me catch you up with this.
Looks like somebody has a white flag there.
Let me catch you up with what's going on with Israel and Hamas and to some extent Hezbollah.
Hezbollah has put its nose in this by saying that it's not going to reach, whatever happens, it's not going to reach an agreement with Israel until Israel withdraws from Lebanon.
Well, I can't imagine why Israel would even negotiate with Hezbollah.
They haven't been around for about three months.
I mean, Israel took a couple of shots at them and they went and I don't know where they ran to, Russia or something.
They turned out to be the most overrated terrorist group in the history of the world.
I think even the French could defeat them, which is saying something.
But they're threatening to continue the war, all five of them.
And I don't think Israel should pay much attention.
They're trying to actually interfere with the negotiations.
The biggest problem is going to be the president is going to want him to end it now, really because the president wants to move on to these Abraham Accords, which makes sense long term, and this offer by the Sheik of Hebron to develop an emirate of Hebron within Israel,
within the Palestinian Authority, which would have in it all the things that we should have been negotiating for 30 years ago when we had incompetent presidents.
From the very beginning, and I'm saying this like from the very beginning, I can show you articles and statements that I made.
The burden for developing two states has to be on the terrorists.
They have to set up a program that assures us that they're not going to be terrorists and that they are going to respect the right of Israel to exist.
And then there should be a waiting period to make sure that's for real.
That would be a realistic way to peace.
And instead, we had Billy Boy who was sucking Arafat to the point where Arafat made a total fool out of him.
And now Arafat's wife has billions, is living in the south of France, and the people of Palestine have nothing.
Very much like the way Billy Boy screwed the people of Haiti.
That's what's so horrible about these liberals who take care of the poor.
But if they actually had taken care of the poor, a lot of the poor wouldn't exist anymore.
Can you imagine if all the money that was intended for Harlem ever got there over the last 40 years, except into the pockets of many of the African-American politicians I ran against?
I mean, they walked out with the money.
I don't know how you can have such contempt for your people that you steal their money, but that's the reason it's in the condition that it's in.
So let's hope that this new proposal put on the table becomes a prototype around which a sensible agreement can be reached.
Now, you have to overcome something that frightens the hell out of me, and you're going to have to show me a lot to overcome that.
I get very nervous about Palestinians because I know starting at about the age of two, certainly by four, they are taught in school, they're brainwashed, they're taught to hate Americans and to hate Jews.
And they are, many of them are taught to kill us.
And they're given all the religious justification for it.
And that's true of all Palestine.
So that's going to have to be eliminated, of course.
And the worst part of this is that's in the textbooks that were printed by the UN.
So that has to end.
And also Proposals and statements made by them have to be seen in that light.
So, we didn't have a chance tonight to go over the New York mayor's race.
We will tomorrow night.
We have some, you know, two developments actually that came up.
There was a statement found a few years ago in which the communist, and looks like a man who is extremely sympathetic to Islamic extremism, was very upset about the way Anwar al-Awaki was dealt with.
Now, I would remind you that Anwar al-Awaki was a confederate of the 19 people who carried out the attack on the city that this communist terrorist sympathizer wants to be mayor of.
He was an associate of theirs.
He helped plan with them.
He then went on and planned bombings of his own.
He planned the bombing in Detroit that went bad.
Then he planned two successful ones.
And he was murdered by none other than Obama in a highly controversial takeout because he was an American citizen who we assassinated in a foreign land without a trial on the authority of President Obama saying that he had conducted many, many terrorist attacks on Americans, killed us, and had planned others.
So back then, and I imagine now, because we have evident to the contrary, the man who is a communist that would like to be mayor of New York was very sympathetic with the guy who helped to kill all of us.
Are we crazy?
Are you nuts?
Democrats, are you nuts?
He also wants to provide state-owned grocery stores and supermarkets, free transportation, money just given to you.
He wants to develop a fund of about $10 billion to fix all these problems.
And he is going to acquire that money by taxing the rich who already pay some inordinate percentage of the tax in New York, maybe 70%, and are damn tired of it, which is why the rich are leaving New York more than any other city or state.
So if he does this effectively, he will have a city of paupers who don't work, who are dependent, who have lost a work ethic, and spend all their time demonstrating for Hamas, for terrorist groups that want to kill Jews and Americans,
and the once great city of New York that used to be thought of as, oh, one of the great Jewish cities will be a city which will have anti-Semitism that will match Berlin during the Nazi era.
Now, this is all happening because you Democrats don't pay attention to what the hell you're doing.
You vote like a bunch of automatons.
I mean, you voted for DeBasio.
DeBasio had, DeBasio was thought of as not being that dangerous.
He was definitely a communist.
He wasn't dangerous because he didn't have any brains and he was lazy.
And you could get him off the subject by just giving him a marijuana cigarette.
And he'd stick it in his nose.
You voted for him twice.
Even after he turned out to be a failure in four years, you voted and re-elected him.
Like a 12% turnout.
Please, my former fellow citizens, New Yorkers, who I gave my life to, will you please save our city?
We'll be talking about the candidates, Curtis Lewis and Eric Adams.
I take it Cuomo is out and how we're going to negotiate that very soon.
But please, this guy's got to go.
This is what Karl Marx was dreaming of, you know, in the mid two centuries ago.
And he's very, very close to getting there.
So I want you now to go over and see Dr. Maria right now, even before I sign off.
If you don't, I'll make funny phases.
No, I won't make funny phases because he might stay on to want to watch them.
I don't know.
But remember, pray for the people of Israel.
Pray for the people of, please, pray for the people of Ukraine.
Pray for the people of Iran that they're delivered from the horrible conditions they live in.
And pray, pray for the people of America, particularly New York, so they don't elect the first communist Islamic extremist sympathizer to office and ruin the greatest city in the world.
And pray for our president.
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