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March 21, 2025 44 mins

After weeks of crafting, President Trump has finally revealed his executive order aimed at eliminating the Department of Education. Jesse Kelly gives his thoughts on that and moves on to the recent attacks on Teslas across the country. While Street Communists target Teslas, cowards in their bunkers are swatting conservative media. Jesse is joined by Owen Shroyer, who was recently swatted himself. You'll also hear from John Carney on the Fed's decision to hold rates steady. Plus, Jesse unveils the Dip Defenders movement and discusses with Chef Andrew Gruel.

I'm Right with Jesse Kelly | 3-20-25

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Trump made a big move with the Department of Education today.
We're going to discuss education in this country. Owen Schwarrior
got swatted. The stuff is continuing. We're going to talk
about the violent left, chef rule, all that and more
coming up on I'm right, okay. Donald Trump did something

(00:28):
wonderful today. Really enjoying this presidency so far. He declared
essentially an end to the Department of Education, and we're
going to get to the violence of the left and
how that directly ties to it in just a moment.
I do have to just put this little word out there.
I'm sure you already know by now. We cannot eliminate

(00:49):
the Department of Education by executive order. What Trump did
is good, It is right. It will help pair things down.
Of course, you can fire half the staff or do
the budget and the things like that, but if you actually
want to eliminate it, it's going to involve Congress, which
means it's going to involve you and me winning more elections,
getting involved in primaries, voting in people who will actually

(01:11):
do the things we want to do.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
But that's another story. It's a good thing he did today.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Scott Perry joined US member previously and just said obviously
we still have more steps to take.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
At some point, if Congress doesn't act, the next Democrat
in charge is just going to revive at all. Now,
the problem's going to be even if we can get
the votes in the House, and there's you know, look,
there are Republicans that probably won't want to vote for that,
I'm just saying, but there are going to be Democrats
that absolutely will not ever vote for something like that,
and of course some of those reside in the Senate.

(01:43):
So the only way you're going to be able to
get that is to attach it to something that Democrats
are desperately wanting, let's say like California disaster relief or
something like that, where they desperately want it, and you've
got to put them in a bad position to have
to vote for this to get that, which is what
Democrats always do to Republicans, but Republicans never do to Democrats.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, so something good happened. It's a step, a big
step in the right direction. Applaud Donald Trump for doing
the right thing here, doing something other Republican presidents have
talked about but nobody has followed up on.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Good for him, But we're not there yet.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
It's a good step, though, so let's let's applaud that,
and let's discuss the education system while we're on these lines.
Have you been shocked at the violence of the left
in recent years? Because they are a nasty, nasty bunch,
aren't they. I remember reading an article, I think it
was a Brightbart article years ago during Donald Trump's first presidency,

(02:43):
where they outlined in detail three hundred and ninety five
incidents of communist violence against people on the right. You,
of course, remember the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh. You
remember the attempted assassination two times of Donald Trump. Lootings, burnings, murder, looting, burning, murder.
I remember that guy in Portland who got shot in

(03:05):
the head for wearing a Trump hat. Communists are violent,
as we've talked about many times before. It's not what
they do, it's who they are. It's woven into their
sick religion. It's not something where they sit around wringing hands.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I'm not really sure.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
It's part of being a communist, it's part of being
on the left. You understand that violence is part of it.
Have you seen what's been happening to Tesla's across the country.
I'm sure you've seen quite a bit of this. The
communist left is aware of what Elon Musk is doing
in the government cutting out the gravy train, and so
instead of loudly campaigning against it, just letting their voices

(03:48):
be heard. We have incident after incident, multiple arrests now
across the country, of people setting Tesla's on fire, of
people keying tesla's, vandalizing them in different ways. One gentleman
just got caught on camera wiping poop on one. It
would be his own. I'm glad, I'm not going to
bring you that video. But violence, violence, over and over
and over and over and over again. But we're gonna

(04:09):
set them aside for a moment because maybe you're sitting
there saying to yourself, Okay, well, that's not all of them, right,
It's a few people here, a few people there, even
if it's twenty or thirty. No, you don't understand how
these people think. Have you ever lived in a Democrat area,
been in a gathering with all Democrats? I have.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
I actually lived in Washington, d C. For a year.
Was horrible. I don't recommend it, but I lived in Washington,
d C.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
For a year, and there is something that you will
notice if you are ever in one of these situations,
and if you work or live in this area, you
will know exactly what I'm talking about. The casual way
Democrats when they gather in a group, the casual way,
they discuss acts of violence against you or terrible things.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Happening against you.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'm not just talking about Antifa street animals either. I'm
talking about run of the mill demo. You could be
discussing a bus full of conservatives and they will in
play conversation, somebody will say, wish that thing go off
a cliff, and you won't get any Come on, Bob,

(05:15):
you can't say that. Universally you will.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Get Yeah, no, doubt right. It's who they are. It's
baked into the cake.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Years and years and years of indoctrination has baked it
into the cake. The street animals know they they are
to commit acts of violence. Nor may democrats understand they're
to talk about acts of violence against you as if
it's just kind of something they do. Elected democrats like
Jasmine Crockett will use all kinds of coded language that

(05:48):
the insane street animals will then use.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
And take as permission to hurt you politicians.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
So I'll make sure that I keep it short. But
I am truly here for very selfish reasons, starting with
on March twenty ninth, It's my birthday, and all I
want to see happen on my birthday is for ELI
to be taken down. Yes, listen, I have learned as
I serve on the DOGE Oversight Committee, that there is

(06:17):
only one language that the people that are in charge
understand right now, and that language is money. And so
I've been so proud to see us organized behind a case.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Teslas are being lit on fire and key people's money.
Do you think all these people having their tesla's damaged
or rich? I saw one lovely gentleman walk past somebody's tesla,
grab his suitcase, bashed it into the side as hard
as humanly possible, reportedly three thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
In damage like that.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
And yet let me ask you something, how many Democrat
elected representatives, how many Democrats in the media have you
come out and seen them say anything along the lines
of stop stop doing this, stop committing the acts of violence,
stop committing the vandalism. I will tell you I have

(07:18):
this TV show I'm Right, which I love. I have
a radio show, the Jesse Kelly Show. If I've found
out Jesse Kelly's show I'm Right viewers listeners were hurting
anybody or anything, keying the cars that I had Joe
Biden bumper sticker on it. I will tell you I
would open the show that night pleading with you to stop.
Stay on the right side of the law, don't damage

(07:40):
people's property, don't hurt anybody. I would feel obligated to
tell you that. Why doesn't any Democrat feel that obligation?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
None?

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Why doesn't any member of the media feel that obligation
because they want it to happen to you.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Look at the late night shows, Jim.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
They're taking to the streets or the parking lots.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
Should I be FBI and ATF now investigating multiple cases
of possible arson targeting Tesla's and cyber trucks.

Speaker 7 (08:10):
This dramatic video shows multiple cars and flames. Police say
the attacker used molotov cocktails. It's the latest in more
than a dozen instances of arson and vandalism targeting Tesla.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
The same suspect shot more Teslas with a gun. Tesla
cyber trucks were set on fire in Kansas City, and
earlier this month, shots fired at a Tesla dealership in Oregon,
cyber trucks on fire in Seattle.

Speaker 8 (08:33):
Wow, you guys like pettiacs of domestic terrorism. Tesla owners
are facing backlash everywhere they go. Recently, somebody stole the
wheels from every single Tesla and the Texas parking lot.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Whoever did it?

Speaker 8 (08:48):
I do not condone this, but I do appreciate your
tireless efforts.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Forget the hosts themselves.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Think I was kidding when I talked about Democrats and
how they talk about you when they're gathered together.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Did you hear the crowd will have vandalism?

Speaker 5 (09:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (09:08):
Hurt him.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
It's woven into the communist. The communists cannot remove violence
from himself any more than you can take your hands,
stick it into your chest and remove your own heart.
Violence is what the communist does. And this is why
you must be so firm with these people, because they

(09:31):
don't understand anything else. And all this comes back to
where did they learn to act like this? America's university
system has been the finishing school for violent American communists.
That's why they keep snatching up hamas and Hesbelah professors
on college campuses. We have professors who love Hamas and

(09:56):
Hesbelah teaching Aiden, Jaden and Brayden on college and you're
paying for it. How many times have I told you
about the weather underground terrorists. They're not all rotting in
prison today today as we speak, as you're watching this show,
they're on college campuses teaching the next generation how to loot, burn,

(10:16):
and tear down America. That's what we're up against. Don't
think one election somehow cured this. If anything, they made
these people more desperate. I was happy to see Trump
and Pam BONDI are planning on tackling it.

Speaker 10 (10:31):
Do you consider this an act of domestic care?

Speaker 2 (10:34):
I think s why.

Speaker 11 (10:35):
I think that if and when they catch the people,
and I hope they do. The good thing is they
have a lot of cameras in those places, and they've
caught some already having to do with it. I think
that you will find out that they're paid by people
that are very highly political on the left.

Speaker 10 (10:49):
They are targeting Tesla dealerships, the stations where you charge
at Tesla. They're vandalizing cars. I have already directed an investigation.
Be open to see how how is this being funded?
Who is behind this doing this? We have people we're
locking up on that. We have someone in jail right
now from one of the dealerships. They threw a Molotov

(11:09):
cocktail through a dealership. They're looking it up to twenty
years in prison. So if you're going to touch a tesla,
go to a dealership, do anything, you better watch out
because we're coming after you. Damn well, if you're funding this,
we're coming after you. We're going to find out who
you are.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Good. It must be dealt with in that way. There's
no other way to deal with them. Fear and pain,
send them to a cage for twenty years. All that
may have made you uncomfortable, but I am right now
on top of the tesla's They're trying to have people
on the right murdered, using the cops to do so.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Swatting is what it's called. We have a victim of that.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Owen Schroyer joins me in just a moment before he does,
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Do you know how much of this stuff they have funded?
How many times have we had that conversation on the show,
How much of your money goes to these street animals.

(12:08):
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Do you have them now? Have you ever looked at
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Speaker 2 (12:46):
We'll be back. Can I just record this.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
All right?

Speaker 12 (13:02):
I assure you this is a This is a non.

Speaker 11 (13:05):
Starter, gentleman, of your shirt from the fat Yeah, I
got tough, sag leap.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
You show up like that and rotate flow take get
on your knees.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
So you guys know I'm over alone.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
This is a Boston crawling back towards fun.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
My boy, I hate those situations. All it takes is
one freaking idiot squeeze off a trigger and we don't
have Owen anymore.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Freaking Owen.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
He's been jail, he's getting swatted. This poor guy joining
me now, Owen Schroyer, host of War Room, wonderful show
by the way, with Owen Schroyer. Okay, Owen, well, congrats
on getting out of jail, and now they're trying to
kill you.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
What happened?

Speaker 12 (13:48):
Yeah, well I appreciate that. And by the way, I
don't know if I told you this last time I
was on with you, but when I got access to
my radio in prison, I actually got access to your show,
and so that was sometimes some enjoyable listening in my cell.
I will tell you it helped past some nights, some
lonely nights. Yeah. So it's a really unfortunate situation. I'm
one of I think we're over a dozen victims. In

(14:11):
the recent days of this false police report swatting. Somebody
called in a fake police report to the Austin Police.
They said I had shot and killed somebody in my home.
I was home alone, and they showed up as a
team of at least a dozen men. They had my
house surrounded. At that point in time, I realized something
was going on because flashlights were signing shining all in

(14:31):
my house. I looked outside, I saw what was going on.
I was like, is this for me? They're like yeah,
and they pointed me, said come out with your hands up,
so I said, okay. I was well aware of what
was going on at that time because somebody also that
works at Info Wars had been swatted, Chase Geyser and
some others as well that just don't want to report
it yet. So I knew it was going on. I
was prepared for it, and yeah, I just filed up

(14:54):
a recording on my phone. I also had security footage
going as well. There's another image that's the most chilling
one that was shot from my neighbor's perspective. Luckily, my
neighbors are all my friends and they know what's up
to where you can actually see the guns being pointed
at me because in the one shot that you open
the show with, the lights are all shining, so it's

(15:14):
hard to really see what's going on. But from my
neighbor's perspective, you can see their laser lights on my head,
my back, and my chest. And like you said, one
slip of the finger, one hot head, one misunderstanding, miscommunication,
and that's it. It's game over. And that's the intention
of these false police reports and swattings. It is attempted murder.
It is terrorism. It needs to be treated that way.

(15:36):
And you know, unfortunately I'm stuck in the same position
after I got sentenced to prison of having to warn
people it's gonna happen again until something is done. And
I said, they will arrest other journalists. If they arrest
and send me to prison for January sixth and reporting
on it, then they're gonna come for journalists after that,
And then they did. They went after Steve Baker and others.
And so I'm now issuing the same warning, different subject,

(16:01):
same warning. If people aren't arrested, if this isn't stopped,
there will be others.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
How much faith do you have that it will be stopped. Look,
there are a lot of people I like, you know,
the bon Dan Bongino. I've got all the faith in
the world. This is something he wants to dig into.
But we have Pam Bondy and Owen. I'm a wait
and see man on Pam Bondy. It sounds good right now,
we're treating it like domestic terrorism. How do you feel
about it. You're the one that's had guns stuck in

(16:29):
her face.

Speaker 12 (16:31):
Well, I appreciate that because it's a lot different when
you've had that situation and you haven't let me kind
of let me kind of just give you the whole
layout of this on Pam Bondy. I'm at a zero faith.
I have to tell you, I'm at a zero faith.
She has completely just destroyed a reputation with the Epstein

(16:54):
file and the binder Gate debacle. She has plenty of
time to go on Fox News. I think that really
that's what she all she cares about now is getting
a job at Fox News whenever she's done as Attorney General,
might be before the end of the year. And she's
prioritizing things that quite frankly, don't need to be prioritized,
like college campus protests. And I know it's a hot
button issue. I don't care how you feel about it.

(17:16):
That is way down the priority list, or it should be.
Instead of people having these attempted murders, attempt everything that's
going on with the Tesla dealerships in the Tesla, you
know that should be top priority, not stopping these college protests,
no matter you know how how personal that might be
to you, with that hot button issue, it shouldn't be
a top priority. So so Bondie to me, unfortunately, I

(17:37):
have no faith and just for the record, I've met Pamboni.
She seems like a very sweet person, very nice person.
I don't think she's corrupt, she just doesn't think. She
just doesn't seem to be in the right place right now.
I would anticipate Trump has a new attorney general by
next year. Now, Bongino and Patel, I don't know how
we can do much better than that. I mean, maybe
if it was maybe, if it was you and me,

(18:00):
But other than that, I don't know how much better
you can do than Bongino and Patel. But here's I
think this is where the rubber meets the road. And
why whether it's me that actually has had the guns
pointed in my face or it's you somebody in the
media reporting on it, we know they have these capabilities.
Just look at what they did with the January sixth protesters.

(18:20):
They were able to find somebody off of a picture
of an ear lobe. They were able to identify people
with just a picture of a keyfob in their pocket.
They were able to have all the means and mechanisms
apps on your phones, geolocation, everything else. If they have
the will, there is a way. If they have the will,
there is a way So this whole game of pushing

(18:41):
it off, I just don't buy. And I will also
tell you I've had off the record conversations with, you know,
people that are involved in investigations of this or would
like to be. They're frustrated. They're frustrated at the lack
of answers that they're getting. They're frustrated at the lack
of action that they're getting. So I don't really know
what's going on. A lot of frustration is being voiced

(19:03):
at me. Hey, putting out a statement on X is fine,
but it's not enough. We really need to be seeing
a rest. We need to really be hearing about what
a priority this is. But I think if you're going
to do a strong statement, at least do it in
a joint press conference with the DOJ, the FBI, the
DHS and say we are considering this terrorism and when

(19:26):
we catch you, you're going to jail for at least
twenty five years minimum. I mean that, if you're going
to do a strong statement thing, then that's how it
needs to be done. A post on X doesn't do
it for me. Like you said, I don't know how
much better you do than Dan Bongino. But when I
see that post, like he posts every day. He says
it's March twentieth and it's a bad day to be
a bad guy in America. Well that kind of hurts

(19:47):
a little bit because I'm not a bad guy. I'm
a good guy and I just had guns pointed in
my face a centimeter away from my life. So I
like Bongino and Patel, it's about as good as you
can do. But things need to start moving fast, and
not on a college campus over a protest over domestic
terrorism happening all over the country.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
No, it's not the first time I've heard this frustration.
Oh and before I let you go, I hesitant to
even say his name. You are welcome to just out
of respect for his family, because I can't imagine what
his family's going through. But a colleague of yours was
just gonned down. Also in Austin, I saw Alex Jones
talking about publicly. People talked about it. I know you're grieving.

(20:30):
It's freaking horrible. If you wanted to say something about it,
you're welcome too. I just don't feel like it's my place.

Speaker 12 (20:37):
I appreciate that Jamie White was a great American. He
was a great person, but he was a great writer
and reporter for InfoWars dot com. And it really appears
he was just murdered in cold blood. It was a
robbery gone wrong. It appears that somebody was trying to
rob his car. It had already happened before, so I
think he kind of already had a little personal situation
because his car had already been robbed. So it looks

(20:58):
like his car was in the process of being robbed.
And it's a bad area in Austin. Austin is down
bad right now. The Democrats have turned the city of
into a violent, crime infested hellhole, unfortunately, which even when
I moved here ten years ago, was nowhere near this bad.
But it's bad now, so it's unfortunately very common. But
it does look like he was trying to stop a robbery.
They shot him, they killed him. But I have to say,

(21:20):
you know, he was on a hit list. He was
on a Ukrainian hit list, and now some of these
false pizza orders are putting his name on it. A
false pizza order that came to my house was from
a pizza joint at the intersection right where he was murdered.
So you can't help but wonder now, was there something
else involved in this? Even though it appears it was

(21:41):
just a robbery gone wrong, you can't help but have
your mind gravitate towards Was this something else? Was this
something even more diabolical than just that? But you know what,
aside from the tragedy, Jamie White was a great person.
He's greatly missed at Info Wars, and I'm just glad
that people are recognizing him. Some of the great work
that he did over the years is kind of getting

(22:02):
a lot more attention now. It's unfortunate that's the case,
but yeah, that's what it's like. Our colleague get shot
and killed last week. This week I get guns pointed
in my face. I mean, good lord, what's next?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Jesse?

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Well, prayers for you and all the Info Wars crew.
My brother, I know you guys are going through. Appreciate
you very much. Horrible man, sad do that of family.
All right, let's talk about the economy. Let's get let's
get out of that. Talk about the economy for a
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Speaker 2 (23:23):
Be back, okay.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
So I don't know whether to celebrate or cry. Interest
rates are unchanged now. I am my father's son, so
I watch interest rates like a hawk, and.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I want them lower. I'm sure you want them lower.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
I talk to people and they're paying seven eight percent
for a house. It makes me cry, although I admittedly
paid seven point twenty five percent at one point time
in my life.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
It was an ugly time.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Joining me now our favorite here on the show, John Carney,
Breitbart News Finance and economics editor. Okay, John, rates are
the same. What am I supposed to take from this
that the FED.

Speaker 9 (24:07):
Is worried that inflation is still running higher than they
wanted it to. They were really convinced at the end
of last year that inflation was going away. Remember they
cut interest rates three times in September, November, and December,
but they really underestimated the strength of inflation. Inflation actually
ran a lot hotter than they thought it would, and

(24:29):
it showed some heat in the beginning of this year.
It actually cooled off a little in February. But they're
still worried about it, and so they're going to keep
rates where they are at least till June, probably later
than that.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Okay, John.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Trump seems to be It's not that leaning on the
Fed is a new thing for him, but Trump seems
to be very very keen on getting a rate cut
before all this tariff stuff kicks in. I don't understand
the connection. I'm one hundred percent positive you do. What's
the connection?

Speaker 9 (25:01):
Yeah, So, what Trump is saying is that he thinks
that lower rates would ease the transition as we enter
what might be a terriff fight. Look, Trump is saying
it's going to put reciprocal tariffs, meaning we match what
other countries put on us, and other countries may react
to that by raising their own tariffs. A tariff war

(25:24):
would not be good for the economy. There would be
a slowdown if everybody is in sort of this race
to the top with tariffs. I'm not sure that will happen.
In fact, what we've seen with Canada and Mexico, as
we threaten tariffs, they actually agreed to comply with what
we want. A rational country, let's say your Germany would say, okay,

(25:44):
look we will lower our tariffs and so you'll lower yours.
That's one response, but the FED doesn't see it that way.
The FED actually, Jerome Powill said that they're calculating in
the idea that there will be full reciprocation, full retaliation
from other countries. So if we raise tariffs, they'll raise tariffs,

(26:05):
which means we'll raise it. So the FED is worried
about what that means for growth, and they are. They're
also worried, on the other hand, that we could get
higher inflation from terriffs. I think both of those might
be wrong. But that's where the feed is right now.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Okay, John, we're going to have a little tariff talk
here because there are a couple of things that I
want you to clarify for me when it comes to
Mexico and Canada. We'll focus on them right now. What
is going on with it? And I say it in
this way. I know that's a terrible way to ask
a question. But one day we wake up and there's
going to be a tariff, and then the next day
we wake up and they're backing off and there's no tariff,

(26:42):
and then the next day there's going to be another tariff,
and then the next day they're backing up.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Is it? Is it going to be this for four years?
What is the game being played here? Do we have them?
Do we not have them? What are we going to
have them?

Speaker 1 (26:53):
What?

Speaker 9 (26:54):
Yeah? I have to I agree that this is not
an ideal situation. You really want to be a to
give businesses, consumers a steady hand, a guide to what
is happening. This back and forth isn't helpful. But the
thing to remember about the Canada and Mexico tariffs is
they are they're doing. They're really serving two functions. One

(27:14):
it's more of a diplomacy function than a trade function.
The reciprocal tariffs that Trump is going to announce on
April second, those will be the real trade tariffs, the
tariffs where we're reacting to other countries on fair trade policies.
This is what I'd call a diplomacy tariff, where Trump says, look,
we have other problems that we need your help solving.

(27:36):
Number one, fentanyl. Number two illegal aliens crossing the border.
We want you to help us out Canada, Mexico. And
if you agree to help us, the tariffs won't be
the twenty five percent that we said they would be.
And if you try to fight back against a terriff
pike instead of agreeing to help us, the tariffs.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Will go even higher.

Speaker 9 (27:58):
So that's why we have this back and forth. I
don't think that's a great way for I do think
there's an economic cost to the uncertainty that creates, and
frankly a psychological costs. As you said, you know, they're on,
they're off, they're on, they're off. That's not great. I
do hope that will come to a resolution on those

(28:20):
probably around April, when they recipherable tariffs are going on
What Trump is concerned about is that if we do
get in this teriff war and it slows down the economy,
that the FED actually should be cutting. If the economy
is slowing down them there's a threat to employment. The
Fed's mandate says cut. It also says they have to

(28:42):
work about inflation, but if tariffs aren't very inflationary, the
FED should absolutely be cutting in this situation. That's why
Trump is, i would say, fighting with the FED. Trump
really believes that he is allowed to have opinions about
monetary policy and he's allowed to express them. He's not
like sicking Elon Musk on the FED and saying, you know,

(29:05):
you must do what I tell you to do with
interest rates. He's saying, I think you should cut. Go ahead,
you know, please do the right thing. But he's not saying,
you know, I hereby order you to cut, which you know.
Those are two different things, but the legacy media tends
to obscure that.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
John.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
My second part of the tariff question is you mentioned
if we raise our tariffs on somebody to match theirs,
but they would raise theirs. So let's just make it
about Germany, because that's a country you brought up That
doesn't make sense to me, because that sounds like a
loser for Germany. I don't understand why a country that
is smaller, weaker, and less financially sound than us would

(29:49):
play that game with us.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Why would they play that game.

Speaker 9 (29:53):
It's a little bit like a game of cards. They
want to check to see if we're bluffing. If we
say we're going to impose tariffs on you at the
same rate that you impose us on us one I'll
just say. They say, well, that's not fair. We've been
allowed to impose higher tariffs on you for forty years.
Why are you suddenly changing the deal. Donald Trump is saying,

(30:14):
that's what we're doing. We are changing the deal, the
uneven playing field that we put in place, frankly to
win the Cold War, to make sure that our allies
in Europe and Asia were more prosperous than the allies
of the Soviet Union. We allowed them to have a
better deal. Well that's over now they're fully developed countries,

(30:36):
they have powerful economies on their own. They don't need
the unleveled playing field anymore. Trump is say we're going
to get a level one. They are I would not
be surprised if at least some of them try to say,
we don't think you can do it. We think we're
going to respond with higher tariffs on you, and we'll
see who caves first. You know, a game of chicken,

(30:57):
I guess, but I hopefully rational heads prevail over in
Europe because you shouldn't play that game with Donald Trump.
Maybe you could get away with it with Joe Biden.
You're not going to win it against Donald.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Trump, Okay, And that brings me to what it means
for me, you everybody watching this show. Let's do a
little worst case scenario here. Let's say it gets bad
and they do jack up theres and we jackars a
jack up ours, and we have ourselves a good old.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Fashioned trade war. We don't generally understand.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
I know you do, John, but idiots like me don't
generally understand how that's going to impact me.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
What do we get from where? I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
I'm reasonably sure we get some avocados from Mexico, but
those are gross anyway, So nobody cares how's this going
to affect me?

Speaker 9 (31:48):
So it actually will affect the US a lot less
than people think, because we import and export frankly far
lower percentage of our economy than most other countries. We
are a very large economy, We have a huge free
market within the US. We are much less dependent on

(32:08):
getting stuff from abroad. You know, if you think about
the difference between the environment of Maine and the environment
of Hawaii and Alaska and Florida. We can grow oranges
and we can catch salmon right like, very few other
countries in the world have as much economic geographic diversity

(32:31):
and therefore economic diversity as the US, so it'll impact
us a lot less. The tariffs themselves are unlikely to
cause very much inflation. Actually, the fed's oone projections released
this week showed very little increase in inflation that they
expect over the coming year from what they expected before
Trump was elected, so they're not really that worried about inflation.

(32:55):
I don't think people should be a bigger threat. Maybe
if other countries raise theirs a lot, that could lower
demand for some US goods and services. That could then
have a negative drag on the US economy, But again,
not as much as the headlines would have you believe,
because we have a very large and independent economy. Even

(33:21):
if the rest of the world decides to throw a
fit because Donald Trump is trying to make them play fair.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
I cannot let you go without playing you This little
clip from Elon Musk about magic money things.

Speaker 13 (33:36):
Here he was, I call a magic computer and computer
which can just make money out of thin air.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Best magic money.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
So how does that work?

Speaker 13 (33:43):
It just issues payments.

Speaker 12 (33:46):
And you said something like eleven of these computers of
treasury that are that are sending out trillions in payments.

Speaker 13 (33:51):
They're mostly a treasury, Some are with the sum at HHS,
some at there's one as one of two its states
at DoD. I think we found out fourteen magic money
computers with the gene. Okay, they just send money out
of nothing.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
What Yeah, this is true.

Speaker 9 (34:15):
This is what how the federal government right makes payments.
It doesn't. You know, when you and I want to
pay somebody something, we either reach into our wallet or
bank account or a credit card. The federal government doesn't
have to do any of those. It actually just sends
out the checks and figures out whether it had enough
money that it had borrowed or tax later on. That's

(34:39):
actually officially, it's not really supposed to do it that way.
The GEO says, they're supposed to check to see if
they have the funds. What Elon Musk is telling us,
and I knew this going way back, is that they
don't do that. They actually just send the checks out.
They assume the money is there, that we've borrowed enough

(35:01):
or we've taxed enough, and they just set it out.
It is a magic money machine they You know, we
always talk about like the government printing money, but they
don't really even print the money. I mean, yes, they
print some dollars, but that's a small portion of the
total money that's out there. They create money by literally
telling a computer to increase other people's bank accounts. That's
how the federal government creates money. They do this without

(35:25):
looking first to see if they have the money. And
it's so One way of putting it is it's like
the FED has its own overdraft or the federal government
has its own overdraft facility. They just write the checks
and then figure out if they can pay for it later,
and if they can't, the check's still clear.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Jeez, what a world, John, Thank you brother, as always,
I appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
All right.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
As you know, I've been hot on dips lately, not
getting my dip from restaurants when I order my when
I asked for.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Ranch, I need my ranch.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
So we have chef Andrew Gorule joining us. Next, we're
going to talk to him about what am I missing. Next.
Have you been denied a side of sauce at a
restaurant that the waitress promise you your ranch but left

(36:27):
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(37:23):
for you. I bet Chef gru will join me. Joining
me now our very own the great Chef Andrew Gruel, chef,
owner of the Wonderful Calico Fish House.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Chef.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
I need you to explain to me where the disconnect is?

Speaker 5 (37:37):
My man?

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Every time I ask, every time, they don't bring it.
They don't bring it with the meal. I even watch
the waitress write it down, it never comes. And then
when I ask for it, it's another fifteen minutes while
my food gets cold. Where's the disconnect? What do I
need to do?

Speaker 2 (37:52):
All right?

Speaker 5 (37:52):
Well, let me start by letting you know that when
I started my first restaurant, our tagline internally with our
staff is Sauce's boss. We actually wrote our sauce recipees
in our sauce list before I wrote the full menu.
So I'm with you on this, and I like sauce Defenders.
It's gonna be Kelly Gruel sauceman LLP. I can see

(38:14):
the billboards right now, the disconnect. Okay, there's two things
happening here. Number One, it's laziness, all right, So I'm
just gonna be honest with you. It's it's pure laziness.
And if you do not specifically instruct your staff to
be vigilant about the sauces, your restaurant has a much
higher failure rate or the potential to fail. Number two China,

(38:36):
China's got us. And let me tell you why. All
of these little sauce ramikins that you just showed there,
they're the two out sauce ramikins. They come in a
case of five hundred. You have to buy another case
of the lids specifically. So there's many situations now where
restaurant and all of this is coming from China, and
the price of these products have gone up, like especially

(38:57):
since COVID probably five almost ten, So it's a money thing.

Speaker 7 (39:01):
You know.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
You talk about how they're infiltrating us and they're taking
us over, and they're playing the long game through like education,
higher education, elementary school, and that's how the communists win. Well,
this is the way China wins. They know what they're
doing with the sauce cups. They know that they're really
baring us down. And the last thing is that these
little lids they're hard to put on, so restaurant workers

(39:24):
hate doing it because they never connect China always makes
it so they're a little bit off. We got to
bring the sauce container's production back to the United States.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
I never see this.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Is exactly why I always have to bring you on, Chef.
I never even made the connection that the little stupid
plastic cup that I don't think about it goes on
the of course it would go on the restaurant's bottom line.
If that price goes up, everything gets screwed up.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Gosh, I learned something new. Every day, Chef.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Everybody knows about your food, well pretty much everybody.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Everyone drools over all of it.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Tell me about some sauces at the Calico Fish House,
because when I sit down, when I order for I
something like that, I'll go over the whole menu looking
on a sauce hunt, trying to figure out which is
the money one that I want to dip my fries in.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
I bet you've got some good stuff.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
The good news is when you come to Caliko, you're
not gonna have to search because we actually list our
sauces right on the menu, so you're gonna have it
right there. And we even have a boot set up
for you right now with like we got balloons, We've
got we've got small animals. You're gonna love it. We're
waiting for you. We're ready. So I've got the way
I break this down, because I'm a sauce guy myself,
is that you want your creamy sauce, right, So you

(40:30):
want kind of your basic ranch like sauce. I call
ours a creamy lemon herb, so it's just it's like
a ranch, but it's better. And then you want your spicy,
creamy sauce. Most places use like a Chipotle sauce, right,
but we do a much crazier one we call the
Awesome Sauce or the Everything sauce, and it's like goshu
jeong and smoke chili's in there, and it's the creamy one.
But then you want a nerve sauce that doesn't have

(40:51):
a mayo base, because not everybody loves mayo. I don't
know what's wrong with people, but they don't, right, So
we do like a chimney cherry, but we blend it
and then we lace in a little bit of soy
sauce in there give you that extra oom. We've also
got You got to have a vinagrette type sauce on
the menu that can be like a red pepper vinegrette.
But then you've got to emulsify it so it almost
takes on that creamy look. It's not broken, but it's

(41:11):
still a vinegar based sauce. And then you got to
have a nice chunky sauce, almost like a dip. It
can be a charter sauce, or it can be more
of like a kind of a chunky veggie aoli. That's
an essential sauce right there. So those are the ones
I think you're gonna like when you come to our restaurant.
You also got to have a hot sauce too, right,
so hold on, let me just take a sip here.
There we go. So you got to have a nice

(41:32):
hot sauce on the menu. I like to drink it
at home myself, and that hot sauce is essential. You
got to make it in house. We're ready for you.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Oh I'm so freaking hungry now. I can't wait to
come see you. Okay, I can't let you go without
actually congratulating you one and tell you how much I
respect the fact do politician now, chef, No.

Speaker 5 (41:52):
I'm still just a chef. But I'm out here now,
you know. I cut waiste in my kitchen, and now
they're going to move me to the government, local government
to continue cutting waste. There run a band of pirates,
so it's true. Yeah, I'm on city council. I'm a
city councilman, the greatest city in California. Seven zero city council.
We've been fighting the state, fighting them with lawsuits on

(42:12):
sanctuary cities, voter id status. I mean, talk about standing
up for everything that's right in a little town in California.
Who knew that the most patriotic city in America would
be Huntington Beach, California. So it's an honor to serve
on the city council and I look forward to bringing
some craziness to the dies.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Good for you, my brother, seriously proud of you. Good
for you. Respect the heck out of it. Jef, you're
the man. All right, we have light in the mood.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Remember, if you want to sign up to be a
dip defender, you have to go to dipdefenders dot com.
All right, we'll be back. All right, it is time
to lighten the mood. And you remember Christopher's Christopher Steel.

(43:00):
Why can't I say that word? That dirt ball who
created the Steele dossier, take down Donald Trump, all that stuff. Well,
frequent guest to the show, friend of the show, Natalie
Winters went on with Peers Morgan and freaking destroyed him.

Speaker 14 (43:13):
Well, I know, Christopher Steele probably wanted to go down
in history as someone that colluded with the Clinton campaign
to take down President Donald J. Trump, But I really
think that you represent probably the ultimate grifter in the
American political space for you to even come on here.
Obviously you're trying to sabotage what President Trump is doing
when it comes to Russia and Ukraine. But to sit here,

(43:33):
what is it, nearly a decade after you tried to
smear President Trump as a Russian asset, to then say, well,
I think he's a Russian asset. But even though I'm
really good at my job and create all these intelligence reports,
it's just sort of a feeling that I have. I'm sorry,
what stones do you even have left to turn over
to try to corroborate your claim that President Trump is
a Russian asset? You weaponized FISA courts, surveillance warrants, not

(43:56):
just domestic spy agencies, international spy agencies, to the entire
DNC apparatus, a bunch of political operatives and registered foreign
agents here in the United States. The American people would
really appreciate it if you would stop injecting your efforts
to curtail and totally tank the America First Movement by
smearing anyone who doesn't want to get involved in Forever

(44:18):
warse or continue the needless and ceaseless dying of in
Ukraine and in Russia just so you can sit there
from your nice perch and just continue to defend the
globalist world order by continuing to fan the flames of
conflict in Russia and Ukraine. You're a complete political hack
and grifter, and I wish the American political scene didn't

(44:38):
have your voice in it.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
I'm uncomfortable. I see the mole
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