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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

5/2/25 Bill Pepin on How Tariffs Are Threatening Your Morning Coffee

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8902 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Scott is joined by Bill Pepin, the owner and roaster of Moon Does Artisan Coffee, for a look at how Trump’s tariffs are throwing the global coffee market into chaos. Pepin explains that the continental US cannot physically grow the coffee Americans demand and runs through how new trade barriers are cutting off supply lines that do not have alternatives.    Discussed on the show: Scott Horton Supreme Breakfast Blend Bill Pepin is the owner and artisan roaster Moon Does Artisan Coffee This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated; Moon Does Artisan Coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, it's been steadily growing.

0:03.0

We transitioned from being a coffee house slash roastery, and we decided for economic reasons

0:10.6

around Lake Livingston to just focus on the roasting part of the business.

0:16.5

So we shut that part of the business down, and now we're totally a national online coffee

0:21.9

roastery and we're in we're definitely getting help from your show to be that national

0:28.2

coffee oh great well that's definitely great to hear so moon doze artisan coffees is a little

0:35.8

bit of a mouthful what if i was a little bit slow and didn't get the joke?

0:40.7

Would you please explain?

0:43.2

Well, I'll make it super brief.

0:47.1

Originally, I had a coffee house down in Mack Allen, Texas, along the border.

0:51.9

And I didn't roast coffee, so when I was going to open the shop up, I went hunting for coffees.

0:59.1

And back in those days, it was just when the Internet was starting.

1:02.3

So you'd go down the library and look up industries.

1:05.5

And I happened to find this company I never heard of called Starbucks.

1:09.4

And I called them, and they were rude.

1:11.8

The lady was very rude and she says, well, we only supply our own outlets.

1:16.5

We do not sell to the public even though they were listed under coffee roasters.

1:21.2

So that kind of stuck in my mind and I went ahead and started my coffee house.

1:25.7

And then when I, we decided to sell it because we were having kids and we wanted to focus on the family.

1:33.6

And I told my wife, if we ever get back in the business, we're going to, I want to roast my own coffee and will be the anti-starbucks and we'll call ourselves Moondos.

1:47.2

It was just a joke.

1:48.4

I just joked with my, but she loved the name.

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