Beyond Political Theater: Build Power In Your Vote and Life While Leaders Play To The Camera
Congress skirts rules while voters face the consequences. Jerremy Alexander Newsome, Dave Conley, and Tyler Todt challenge you to reclaim voting power and personal responsibility—building daily leverage through mindset, habits, and positive contagion in your community. If the political stage is rigged, step off, vote smart, and act.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) Personal power vs. the show
- (10:46) Corruption, consequences, and double standards
- (15:26) Turning anger into voting agency
- (17:13) What we’re taking forward
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Transcript
Dave spots the pattern—representatives enter
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:worth millions, exit worth
hundreds of millions, yet audit
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:themselves exempt from IRS scrutiny.
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:Tyler's outrage builds as he exposes
the rigged game where Martha Stewart
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:gets prison but Congress gets RICHER...
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
I think you make the, probably the
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:best point of this whole podcast so
far is that the president is maybe
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:gonna change your life a percentage
or two if you're in the high end.
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:Who's the president
for the average person.
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:Now, I'm not saying if maybe you're a
fringe person out here and they made
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:a law that shuts down your business.
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:I'm not saying that never happens, right?
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:For 98% of us that are in the United
States, of the 360 million people, your
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:daily actions and habits and your mindset
and what you do every day is gonna affect
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:your life more than whoever sits in the
Oval Office, whoever represents you,
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:Jerremy: Come on.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah,
man if Kamala Harris is president right
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:now, you know what I'd be doing right now?
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:Jerremy: Thing you're doing.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
the same thing with Brandon.
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:It, it really is man.
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:And maybe certain policies
might shift this way.
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:Might be paying a little more
taxes over here, or maybe I'd be
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:doing a little better over here.
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:I don't know.
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:Who knows the domino
effect of all this stuff.
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:But I think it's important to
say and to tell my daughter
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:and to even tell yourself.
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:It doesn't matter.
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:At the end of the day, you should go
vote because you have that, right.
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:People have fought in blood for
that, but at the end of the day, also
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:you should root for whoever wins.
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:I think this is like a sickness
and a really weird thing, man.
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:And it happens on both sides.
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:Like I, I don't wanna, we don't need to
get in the weeds, but I think everybody
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:saw Joe Biden wasn't really with it
towards the end, and man, I mean there
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:was people just saying hope the guy dies.
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:I hope his son dies.
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:I hope, and then you see with Trump, like
he almost gets shot in the face and people
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:are like, oh, I wish he just didn't miss.
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:And it's man, I feel like if you're
coming from that spot in your heart,
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:where you're gonna operate from every
day, I don't care who the president
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:is, you're not gonna be successful.
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:You're gonna, you're poisoned.
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:if you let politics capture you in
that way where you're like wishing
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:harm to other human beings and you
hate 'em so much that you'll again.
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:That's my test.
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:If you're smart, if you hate Trump,
but you can't admit he did a couple
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:things Well, or you hate Biden, but
you can't admit he did a couple things.
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:You're just not that smart.
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:And if he's driving the ship, I'm
not rooting for the ship to sink
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:'cause we're all on the ship,
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:Jerremy: we're all on the ship.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
But it seems like we have a, at least
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:a quarter, a third of the population.
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:It's like that now.
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:And I think if you're in that camp and
you're listening to that, I would just
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:challenge you to peel that back and say
maybe you don't like Trump as a person,
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:maybe I don't certainly agree with
a lot of the things he says or does.
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:It's like he'll attack Rosie
O'Donnell at 3:00 AM on Twitter.
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:I just, I don't know why, like you're
the most powerful guy in the world.
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:Like I probably wouldn't choose to do that
or some of the policies or things he says.
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:But at the same time, man, how does
that really affect my life today?
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:I can still go to the gym,
I can still work hard.
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:I can still love my kids.
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:I can still do all those things.
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:You have to acknowledge that your
life is a sum of your decisions.
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:That's the number one thing.
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:Whoever's in office, they're
gonna do what they're gonna do.
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:And I'm not saying to just completely
ignore it, but I am saying to your
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:point too, Jerremy, if you just sit
there and focus on everything Trump
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:does and how much you hate it, dude,
you're not gonna live a good life.
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:to be honest, we've never had a time
where:
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:there's endless resources to learn.
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:Gain knowledge and gain money and gain,
like it's, if you would've told somebody
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:a couple hundred years ago, you could just
have access to the smartest people in the
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:world for free, and you can learn from it.
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:But yet many people will spend a few
hours a day complaining about politics
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:or whining about this or that when they
could just a hundred x of their life by
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:just learning new skill sets and going
and implementing those from smart people
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:and their health and fixing some of
their relationships and things like that.
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:And so that's a harder thing to do.
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:It's much easier to just whine
about if only this person was
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:president, my life would be better.
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:But where does that get you?
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:And I
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:Jerremy: Right.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
comes back to that personal
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:responsibility and ownership of your life.
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:It doesn't matter who the president is
for me, my family's gonna be successful.
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:I would guarantee both of
you men are in the same boat.
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:Doesn't really matter, man,
whoever gets, if it's JD Vance,
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:Gavin Newsom, name, a name.
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:We will all find a way to be healthy,
wealthy, thriving, doing well, because
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:that's who we're, that's what, that's
the decisions we're gonna make, right?
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:And I think if more people
approach life like that would
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:actually be the best thing ever.
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:For families, for economies,
for, like, how can I be the
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:best husband, the best dad?
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:How can I make more money?
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:How can I be healthier?
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:How can I impact my community?
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:How can I do these if I put a
lot of, that's why I put 99%
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:of my energy into those things.
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:Then sure, I'll put a percent or two
into who I'm gonna vote for with the
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:acknowledgement that it's probably
not gonna change my life that much.
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:Dave: So given your large community,
hundreds of thousands of people
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:have sought you out and have
changed their lives, and they're
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:affecting millions of people.
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:How do we help people that are in
those dark places of rooting for
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:somebody else to fail of rooting
for the death of other people?
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:That's a really dark place.
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:How do we help them?
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
that's a great question.
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:I hate to say it, but some
people I'm not sure you can.
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:I think you can ask questions and
you can be kind you can be loving.
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:I'm a real big, like personal
choice and personal ownership and.
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:person's gonna make their decisions.
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:I even tell my kids this, man I
want my kids to be so successful
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:more than anything in the world.
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:I would root for my kids, but I tell 'em
all the time, it's gonna be your choices.
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:Dad can't be there every minute of
the day to make sure you're getting
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:up and thinking the right thing,
putting the right things in your
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:mind and doing these things right?
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:And yeah, we can show a better way.
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:And it's like that old saying,
you can lead a horse to water.
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:You can't make 'em drink.
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:had people who have literally come
on my Twitter page and trolled me
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:for three or four years straight,
literally you're an idiot.
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:You're a this or that.
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:And then after something clicked in
'em four years later where they're
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:like, man, I just wanted to say sorry.
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:And thanks.
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:I'm really starting to do this
gratitude stuff and I see it
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:makes a, or this or that, right?
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:And so I go back to the guy that
I follow, man who was killed
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:a couple thousand years ago.
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:Jesus.
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:one of my favorite stories of him is he
finds this rich, young ruler and the guy
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:says to him, how do I have eternal life?
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:And Jesus says, it's real easy, man.
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:You're doing all the right things.
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:Just go sell your stuff
and come follow me.
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:And it says, the guy was really sad
because he had a lot of stuff, he
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:didn't wanna sell it, what I see from
that is Jesus said, okay, he went
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:on his way, he went on his mission.
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:It was like the next one.
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:He was gonna preach
the gospel to the next.
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:What he didn't do is tell the
guy all the reasons he was wrong.
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:Follow him for months and yell
at him and tell him he was
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:stupid and try and convince him.
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:He just presented, he showed a better
way and he kept on his mission.
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:And what I look at when I, see
even knowing a guy like Jerremy.
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:Your mission is so evident, man.
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:You impact so many people,
you make their lives better.
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:man there's gonna be people that see you
and probably, oh, that guy's a scammer.
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:That guy's a, I'm sure you get it.
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:I get it.
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:I got called a grifter 'cause
I tried to get people to walk.
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:I'm like, how am I making money
off telling you to hit a certain
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:amount of steps every day?
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:But there's some people that
are just stuck in this mindset.
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:And I think, again, you lend a hand.
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:You offer to show them a better way.
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:You relentlessly be kind and positive,
but it's an acknowledgement that
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:every single person has to take agency
and ownership of their life until
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:some people are ready to do that.
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:I hate to say it, but
you cannot help them.
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:Jerremy: And what's interesting, man,
is I think, again, my ultimate belief,
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:one of my ultimate perspectives.
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:This message, the one that you
are sharing, you just shared,
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:we are kinda sharing today.
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:is the one that we need from the top down.
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:That's the message that we need to
hear in the media Often and as much
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:as Tony Robbins has tried and Marm
Williamson has tried, and Alan Watts
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:and Earl Nightingale, Les Brown, Rene
Brown, Leslie Nichols, as much of these
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:individuals have tried, we haven't
had anyone in that very prominent seat
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:and the prominent power in government.
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:To really say those words, and that's
probably one of my biggest dreams
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man
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:Jerremy: to be that mouthpiece or
to be in a position where we can get
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:individuals together and we can just
pour light into them and pour awareness
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:and these tiny little mental shifts
where we can collaborate together and
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:simply say, this is where we're going.
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:This seems like the best idea overall.
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:We did go to the moon in the late sixties
'cause Kennedy was like, Hey, guess what
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:we're doing guys, the whole country?
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:Guess what we're doing?
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:Stop playing baseball.
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:what we're doing.
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:Almost right.
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:Just really a massive singular focus if we
got this country singularly focused from
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:the top down on health, on vitality, on
positive mindset, on an abundance mindset,
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:on a helping and collaboration mindset.
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:We would not only change the entire
legacy of the country, but we would
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:start shifting the entire approach of
the world because obviously I think
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:America is that beacon for so many other
individuals, other countries, other
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:places, that's how we can create an
absolute spark of hope and joy and peace.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
Man that, that fires me up even thinking
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:about it, like how refreshing would
that be if you just had leaders like
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:instead of tweeting every day, like
Gavin Newsom's Scum, and then Gavin
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:Newsom tweeting, Trump is an idiot.
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:How great would it be if like our
leaders were just like uplifting people?
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:Jerremy: Yep.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
Oh and just like promoting
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:that kind of positivity.
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:You mentioned JFK Man, and I recently
read a pretty good book called
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:Profiles Encouraged by JFK and yeah,
man he's the last one I looked to.
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:He admitted he was wrong with Bay of Pigs.
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:And he was in my mind, and maybe I'm
wrong here, but one of the last leaders
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:to do a lot of those things you were
saying, and, see what happened to him.
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:Some people
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:Jerremy: Yeah.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
that and where
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:Jerremy: Yep.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
that was going.
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:And pretty dark if you
think of it from that lens.
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:I thought the other day like.
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:If a politician was to come and
preach on personal responsibility
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:now, they'd just be laughed out.
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:Laughed.
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:Like JFK was like, it's not what your
country can do for you, it's what you can
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:do for your, like that kind of message.
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:And he was a Democrat.
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:Imagine if a guy from the left
came in saying that right now.
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:What can you do for your country?
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:Let's pick yourself up and let's
work hard and let's, dude they
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:wouldn't even get to the, there's
no way they'd even be considered.
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:but it's yeah, I feel like we do
need a shift in that kind of energy.
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:Jerremy: We do, man.
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:We definitely do.
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:All right how about this?
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:Let's just lightning round potentially.
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:What's one rule the American government
currently that just baffles you?
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:Like how is this even.
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:Old Eagle.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
I mean that we don't investigate,
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:representatives for coming into office 2.1
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:million and exiting worth
440,000,014 years later.
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:And where does the money come from?
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:You shouldn't be able to
inside or trade and do it.
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:I get arrested Jerremy if me and
the CEO of a company and he tips
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:us off that they're gonna go public
in this certain time, or there's
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:gonna be a stock splitter and we buy
the stock and we make $10 million.
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:We are gonna go to prison
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:Jerremy: Yeah.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
Martha Stewart Prison where you
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:just play yoga, you're gonna go to
prison and guys like us probably
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:wouldn't farewell there, and
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:Jerremy: Yep.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:
there's a massive incentive for us.
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:To not steal and cheat and
insider trade and do those things.
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:There's no incentive for
these people to not do this.
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:There's none.
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:The one that baffled my mind that got
passed a few years ago was they added
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:a bunch of IRS agents and then Congress
made it exempt for them to be audited.
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:So they added like 70,000 IRS agents.
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:And you can check this, but this
was like, think four or five years
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:ago, and then they made it exempt.
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:So you could, they cannot be audited.
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:House of Representatives are congressmen,
and I'm like, you're basically just
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:telling everybody we're super corrupt,
we're stealing, we insider trade, we
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:steep, we cheat, we steal, but also you
can't look at us that just blows my mind.
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:That's like a thing.
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:And that we, the people
are just like cool with it.
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:I guess that's fine.
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:Like that's pretty,
that blows my mind, man.
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:Jerremy: Yeah, that one's a big one.
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:That one's a big one.
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:That would be, it doesn't, it's not voting
specifically related, but if I had a
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:magic wand, that's certainly one aspect of
senators, representatives, congresspeople.
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:Like you can't buy individual stocks.
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:That's obviously the most illegal thing.
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:You are working directly with not only
the laws that create more wealth or less
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:wealth for individual companies, but
you're talking to the CEOs and making
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:what's either gonna make that company
more viable or less viable, and they are
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:getting shares and opportunities, right?
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:Nancy's it's not me.
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:I'm not making the trades.
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:My husband is doing it.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah
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:Jerremy: so n now that I'm not
saying they can't invest, right?
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:Absolutely.
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:Investments a broader market.
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:ETFs, you can do that all day,
but your mind to the Fs and P
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:500, we don't want anyone to go
broke, but into individual names.
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:Yeah, that one is just almost a, it's
not almost, it's a head scratcher.
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:Huge head scratcher.
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:Dave: Or three words, conflict of inter.
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:Do all of your shenanigans.
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:Like fine.
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:There's gonna be that,
but you can't vote on it.
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:You can't accept money on it.
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:If you accept money from somebody, then
you don't get to vote on those things.
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:That seems really basic.
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:When it gets down to it,
it doesn't feel fair.
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:And like you guys have kids, and I'm sure
you've heard it, for years and years.
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:That's not fair.
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:But there is a basic fairness
in the American spirit.
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:That is if it doesn't matter for you, but
it matters for me, then that's just wrong.
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:Like you don't get to have your own
special courts or your own special rules.
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:It's the Epstein stuff, like you might
get wrapped around the axle about it
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:specifically, but that's not the point.
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:The point is it feels like that there's
this whole group of people where the
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:rules don't matter, the laws don't
matter, and it's if you're leading,
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:we want you to be super citizens.
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:Like you should have extra
laws, not fewer laws.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah.
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:When it's rules for the, not
rules for me, the not for me.
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:I think that's a big problem.
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:And I think that was really
highlighted during COVID too, right?
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:Where you would see these people
flying in their private jets to
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:have parties with their elite people
while telling you're a grandma
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:killer and you can't see your family.
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:And like that was just crazy.
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:I do think that, the more they
squeeze and the more people see that.
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:Which we are, the more pushback there is.
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:And I just wonder when that
point will happen, when people
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:are like, enough's enough.
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:Like enough is enough.
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:Like we've got to do something about this.
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:'cause it is really wild, man, that when
you see the money that some, and it's
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:on both sides, like Nancy Pelosi's kind
of poster child for it, but man, you
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:can look at both sides of Republican
Democrat and that's why I think one
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:and the same almost in a lot of ways.
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:us fighting over these social
issues all the time, while all of
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:them just continue to make tens of
hundreds of millions of dollars.
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:as long as we're all down here
fighting over these social issues,
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:And to me, that might be the point,
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:Keep what?
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:What's the the emperor circus?
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:Just keep everyone looking away.
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:Keep 'em distracted.
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:Keep 'em uninformed.
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:Unaware.
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:Tyler, this has been so refreshing, man.
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:Energetic, exciting, useful For our
listeners, I just wanna say thanks,
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:man, for waking up at 5:00 AM West
Coast time getting prepped for this.
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:Dave, thanks for spending.
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:17 hours a day outta your 24
hours a day to make sure that
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:this show runs super smoothly.
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:Man, it's been an honor.
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:I am 100% confident.
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:Many of your listeners, your followers
will have gained only some knowledge,
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:but some insight on not only how you
think, but how we can just tweak, how
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:we can adjust, how we can think more
clearly, how we can pray and ponder.
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:How we can make better
decisions, how we can decide.
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:You said gain wisdom.
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:Wisdom generally is gained from asking
and from opening up and from receiving
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:and from knowing that we don't have all
the answers and that someone can give
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:us enlightenment, someone can give us
help, someone can give us assistance.
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:It doesn't always have to be us.
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:So thank you, Matt, for being here
and for doing that for so many.
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:Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man.
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:Thank you.
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:It's an honor.
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:You guys are awesome, man.
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:It's really cool to come on here
and listen to you guys already.
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:And I can't wait to share this one.
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:And what you said too, man, is like
the last point I'd make is that.
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:If you don't agree with me on
something or I don't agree with you,
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:that doesn't make us enemies, right?
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:Maybe we voted a different way, but maybe
I've learned some things since then.
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:Maybe you have, maybe we can discuss
those ideas respectfully and kindly,
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:and that's how we all grow and learn.
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:We're in a hyper political climate
now where I think some people might
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:listen and just, oh, he thinks this.
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:I hate him.
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:He's my enemy.
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:I'm not your enemy.
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:I'm nobody's enemy in this stuff.
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:We shouldn't be thinking like that.
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:And so I love that you guys can bring
ideas together where we can just
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:talk about things in a respectful
environment and share ideas and.
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:Maybe if we did this again in five
years, I'd have a completely different
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:take on something I would've learned
something that would've changed.
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:But I think that's the
point of life is we have
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:Just try and learn and grow.
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:So I appreciate you guys
providing a space for that.
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:It's awesome.
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:Jerremy: got it my man.
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:Thank you Tyler for being here.
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:Appreciate you, bro.
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:Doing content with Dave Conley.
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:Top five favorite things of my life.
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:what'd you learn in
that episode with Tyler?
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:Dave: I'm gonna tell you
what I didn't learn first,
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:Jerremy: Didn't learn.
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:shoot.
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:Okay.
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:Flipping it.
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:Dave: didn't learn anything
new about the problem.
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:Didn't learn anything
new about the solutions.
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:What I love about that is that what
stood out for me, what I did learn, what
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:really changed my day to day, because
it's still early in the morning, is that.
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:Unrelenting positivity is how we're
going to change the most, and we
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:see none of that in our leaders.
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:We see none of it in our politicians.
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:There is nobody out there that is
just incredibly positive about stuff.
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:there's actually one politician
that I listen to that I get.
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:Which is Massey on the Republican side.
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:The congressman from, I think Kentucky.
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:He's pretty positive dude, when I hear
him and it's such a refreshing thing yeah,
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:you might not be able to help everybody.
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:In fact, that's probably not
what people want to hear of.
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