. >> three stems of lilac. lilac is $60 a bunch. >> so we'll call it $3 for this discussion?d, yeah. >> so we're at $81 in cost. so if you're selling this for $85, you know what, good job. we just made $4. pricing at jacob maarse hasn't changed in years. the cost of materials has gone up, but they haven't raised the price to the retail consumer at the same time. so if you look at a simple arrangement, and the cost used to be $75, and now the cost is $85, you can't price it at $85. you have to move the numbers up appropriately. these margins aren't acceptable. we can't make money that way. can you grab this with me? we're all working to get this warehouse cleaned up. and i want all hands on deck to get ready for this re-grand opening. is raul here today? >> he was asleep. he kind of forgot. he's coming right now. >> employee tardiness costs business thousands of dollars each year. not only is it bad business, it's not gonna happen on my watch. i talked to erick about raul... >> mm-hmm. >> who's not here. >> right. >> people can kind of not show up, and they would just kind of

and the song of the mexican war, "green grow the lilacs all sparking with dew." a love song.alled "gringos" in mexico, from that song. and, of course, the civil war, several good songs, not just "battle hymn of the republic," but a batch of them. the spanish-american war, oscar brown taught me this song. american soldiers in the philippines, they were singing, "damn, damn, damn the filipinos. cross-eyed kakiack ladrones. and beneath the starry flag, civilize them with a crag, and go back to our own beloved home." i didn't sing that. but along come modern times. i sang "waste deep in the big muddy," and this time only a station in detroit cut it out. but the rest of the country heard it, so seven million people heard it. who knows? later that month, in late february, lyndon johnson decided not to run for re-election. the song would be probably just one more thing. i honestly believe that the future is going to be millions of little things saving us. i imagine a big seesaw, and at one end of this seesaw is on the ground with a basket half-full of big rocks in it. the other end