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The Rich Zeoli Show

What do Jeffrey Epstein, Jimmy Hoffa and tomatoes have in common? Today's Red Meat

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today we bring you a law and order episode of Red Meat focused on how much the Jeffrey Epstein case is suddenly costing Donald Trump in support, plus we hear from a guy who's charging people to find out what happened to Jimmy Hoffa and we discover the true cost of the tariff on Mexican tomatoes.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Red Meat, a collection of the tastiest tidbits from Odyssey's conservative news talk radio stations across the country, a place where we're not afraid to dig in.

0:10.6

We've got an episode for you that's heavy on crime and punishment, or lack thereof, as we dive into the Epstein files, or the alleged files, we should say.

0:20.7

We'll also talk to a guy who claims he's about to reveal

0:23.4

who killed Jimmy Hoffa, and you can judge for yourself if you believe him. But before we get to that,

0:29.8

we're talking tomatoes. You say tomatoes, I say to machoos. Either way, President Donald Trump

0:36.9

just dent tariff on the ones that come out of Mexico.

0:40.0

And here's WWJ's Luke Sloan talking to farmers about what that means.

0:45.1

Favorite burger topping you're talking about, Jackie, would be a tomato. The news comes after

0:50.0

the Trump administration imposed a 17% tariff on tomatoes from Mexico going into effect this week.

0:56.2

Now, some sellers that we're talking to here at Eastern Market this morning say this could

1:00.0

increase prices. Others say that it will help U.S. tomato growers. There are very few of them.

1:05.1

Carmen Spaca owns H&S. produce here in Eastern Market and says he's not too concerned about it,

1:09.8

noting that there aren't very many Michigan tomato growers anymore. No, we're not. I mean, we haven't seen it.

1:16.6

You know, we haven't seen any, you know, they were dirt cheap. I mean, far too cheap. And now they

1:23.7

bumped up a little bit, but still cheaper than what normally would be.

1:28.4

Now, even though Spocka's not that concerned about price increases for tomatoes, some sellers here are,

1:33.6

and that's the reason why is the U.S. gets 70% of its tomatoes from Mexico.

1:37.6

That's according to federal data, approximately $3 billion a year.

1:42.3

The 50th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance is coming up this month, and Scott Bernstein,

1:48.7

a mob historian, author, podcaster, and documentarian, is producing a live event where he says

1:55.5

he'll reveal once and for all what happened to the Teamster.

1:59.3

We have a lot of questions, as we're sure you do,

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