Your Feed Isn’t The Truth: Cutting Through Algorithmic Noise for Smarter Choices

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Jerremy presses Tyler on sorting fact from algorithmic spin as social

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feeds show completely different

realities to different people.

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The stakes sharpen—if Citizens United lets

corporations buy politicians wholesale,

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what chance do voters really have?

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Jerremy: Tyler how do you approach

gathering information before voting?

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Because it also does sound

like number one, you care.

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Duh.

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Awesome.

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Thanks for being a great American citizen.

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Number two, my boy over

here is paying income tax.

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You're paying fuels tax sales tax.

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When you buy groceries, you're

paying all kinds of cool taxes.

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Awesome job.

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How are you getting your information?

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man

it sucks nowadays, and I think this is

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Jerremy: Information?

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I,

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Jerremy: dude says it sucked and it

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Sucked.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

crazy though, man.

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You can watch the news and just so

clearly see how much they lie to you.

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I think anybody watching like Fox News,

C-N-N-M-S-N-B-C, like you should just

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know these are entertainment shows.

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These are not news shows.

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They don't just go out, gather

information and report it so that

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you can think what you think.

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They are owned by a certain

segment of people push narratives.

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They will only report on those narratives.

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and they'll find the news that

they want a really I can give you

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a thousand examples of this, right?

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But we probably all see 'em if

you're a thinking human being.

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So that becomes really hard.

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If I can't get my news from there,

and I think it was different back in

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the day when Walter Cronkite came out,

you hear some of these people relive,

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then he just presented what happened

and you got to make your own choice.

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Of how you saw it.

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I don't think that's the

way the news works anymore.

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So then you go to social media

and you go to some of these other,

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people, but you have to understand

that they have incentives as well.

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what's the incentive?

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In today's world, it's clicks, man.

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I've got a quarter million followers

on x, I could have 250 million if

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I probably just tweeted nonsense.

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Like some of these other

accounts breaking news.

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And you make things up, and then you'll

see a couple hours later a community

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note, oh, that's actually not true.

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But by then the guy's gone viral

and he's gotten all the money in the

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clicks and we've incentivized some

kind of to be first instead of Right.

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And we've incentivized for

this hyper political of like.

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All you really have to do to grow on

social media now is just attack one side.

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If I really wanted to grow on social

media, I could either say Trump is

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the greatest thing in the world.

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Trump is the most evil thing in the world.

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And just find narratives every

day, which you could to just go

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a hundred miles an hour at that.

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And that's where we fall.

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And it's crazy because even if you

look at my feed versus my wife's

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feed, our social media stuff,

it's completely different news.

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A

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Dave: Yeah.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

hundred percent completely.

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They filter news to a female.

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hundred percent, man.

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They filter news to a female different

than they're gonna filter it to a male.

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It's a really challenging thing, man.

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I have a couple people that I probably

just trust and think that they

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really try and do the right thing by

putting the right information out.

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But a lot of this man, it is

getting really hard to tell

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what's real, what's not.

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I tend to take a few days

when any story comes out.

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isn't really like super news, but did

you guys see like the Phillies game where

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that lady ran over and stole the ball?

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Jerremy: Yes, and I loved

your take on it too.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

but I didn't comment for three days.

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'cause I'm like, okay, number

one, did this really happen?

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Is this right now?

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I always give things a couple days

to make sure that it's like real,

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and I think, man, that's only

gonna get worse as AI gets better.

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Dave: Yeah.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

That's gonna be tough.

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So I think you gotta find

a couple trusted sources.

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That are usually on Substack

or X or something like

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that's not traditional media.

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They're not owned by certain people.

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

Go on both sides too, because it's,

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Jerremy: yeah.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

everything that Trump does is great.

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I don't trust them.

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Somebody who says everything, Trump,

if you can't name, I, that's my test.

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I always ask people when

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Jerremy: Good call.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

political.

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I'm like, if they hate Trump, I'm

like can you tell me a couple things?

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He is done well, and if they can't, I'm

like I disregard everything you think.

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Everything.

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And for the people that are all in

Trump, I'm like can you name a couple

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things that you think he doesn't do well?

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And if they can't I'm done with them.

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They're completely like anything

they say is gonna be skewed.

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And so I want people that fall in the

middle that are looking for truth,

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that are just presenting facts.

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But that's getting harder

to find, to be honest.

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Dave: How.

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How much does your own moral

compass play into this?

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If things are getting harder to discern?

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And I totally agree with that, right?

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The people that I'm starting to listen

to more and more are the ones that

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say, oh, I got this wrong, right?

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They're willing to be like, uhoh, I got

taken, or, this was not the right take.

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Tell me about your moral

compass and how that plays into

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how you discern information.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

I think that's such a great point

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and I respect people so much that can

admit, when new information comes in,

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it's okay to say I had this one wrong.

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Those are the people I

think we should all follow.

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And I think that's a great

point for my moral compass.

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The first thing I'll say

is I think that too often.

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If people are like, oh man, you voted

for Trump in: 2024

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and then they list all the things that

I probably don't like that he does,

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or he said, or he, it's no, like I

just picked the lesser of two evils.

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So it's understanding that for me

if someone voted for Kamala, maybe

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they just thought she was gonna do

a better job in a couple areas that

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they cared about more than I did.

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I might have voted the other way

'cause I just thought a couple.

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It doesn't mean you align with everything

they've ever done, everything they've ever

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said and we're, we get in these camps now

where it's oh, you have to either be over

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here or over there when I believe most of

us are like in this, 90% in the middle.

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We're not in these fringe 10 percents.

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So I

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

an understanding of that now if

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I peel back the moral compass.

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The thing it's really hard.

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'cause again, I don't probably feel like.

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candidates represent me.

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I'm a Christian Guy.

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Faith leads my life.

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wouldn't leave my kids alone with the nine

of the last 10 presidents or presidential

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candidates, if I'm really honest.

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I don't think I would, and so do

morally, I think that, they're

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gonna align with everything.

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I think probably not.

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And I think you just have to

have an acknowledgement of that.

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And again, pick the best

of your choice, but.

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I'll even say this to, to probably

get to those levels where you

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think, imagine how craz this is.

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I just Jerremy, you're one of

the smartest guys I've ever met.

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I bet you're too smart to say,

dude, I have all the answers

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and I could run the world and I

could do a perfect job and I'll

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Jerremy: I can't say that.

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Yeah, can't say that.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

really think about it, that's

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what the candidates are saying.

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Nobody's better to run the world.

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Make these decisions than me.

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You've gotta have a really crazy ego,

even to think that I think you're probably

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not gonna align with most normal people.

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'cause if you ask me,

do you want this job?

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I'm like, no, I don't want the stress.

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No, I don't think I could do it.

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No.

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I, like I would just need to pray

constantly to try and ask for wisdom and

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discern I don't think I'd be qualified.

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And I think 99% of the normal

people probably think that.

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Then when you get a Trump or a

Kamala or a Clinton or a Bush or

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whoever these people are, they're

like, yes, I have all the answers.

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I can do it.

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Like you probably need to have some

acknowledgement that they're not gonna

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be thinking like most rational, normal

people to even get to those levels.

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And I think you can see that in

any industry, not just politics.

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Jordan, greatest basketball player ever.

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Sorry, LeBron.

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But man, that dude, his roommate

beat him in checkers in college.

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He didn't talk to him for two weeks.

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There's legendary stories, like to be the

best, you gotta be a little bit crazy.

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Steve Jobs look at him.

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He thought he could beat cancer by

mental toughness and eating fruit.

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He just had.

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This different kind of mindset

and I think to get to the very 1

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0 0 0 1%, you have to have that.

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So I think we gotta peel that back

and acknowledge that just 'cause you

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vote a certain way doesn't mean you

align with everything they think.

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You just have to have a moral

framework and say, what's

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the best option for me here?

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Jerremy: Yep.

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Agreed man.

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At some point really what you're

describing, I would label as

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the majority of individuals.

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'Cause you're talking about

like that massive center.

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And it is interesting that we can't

truly, or at least we haven't in

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a very long time, to my current

knowledge, had a president, to your

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point that was like, Hey I'm just

trying to figure all this stuff out.

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Don't really know the answers.

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Not entirely sure.

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So I'm just gonna have

a really good cabinet.

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I'm gonna have some great advisors.

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I'm gonna have some

great people on my team.

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I'm gonna have a lot of individuals help

me and just discuss and allow everything

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to work out for my best benefit.

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Let's do this together.

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Let's figure this stuff out together.

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It seems like we should.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Bro.

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How refreshing would that be,

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Jerremy: Yeah, it'd be nice.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

I'm, I've been waiting for a

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candidate to literally come up

and say exactly what you said.

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I don't have the like to even ask

some crazy question about some.

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Complex issue and just be

like, here's my initial take.

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But I would really need to study this more

and find people that are smarter than me.

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And, I probably I've changed

the way I think about things.

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All smart people do.

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So what's crazy to me is like they'll

bring something up from 15 years ago

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and say why did you vote this way?

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And they entrench.

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Even though all the data might show

that it was wrong and it like the

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Iraq war, like it's probably okay

at this point to say, yeah, I voted

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for it back then because I believed

they had weapons of mass destruction.

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But now if I could go back with

the information I had, I was wrong.

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Here's what I've learned from this.

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Here's what

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

about it.

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I would

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

person a hundred percent of the time.

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That's my biggest problem probably with

politics today, is that nobody will,

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I don't see anybody doing that and

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A pretty frustrating thing.

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Dave: Yeah, it was Kennedy in this

ast round and Sanders back in: 2016

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Those were the only two

politicians I have ever heard.

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Say, oh, I got that wrong

and I've changed my mind.

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That was it.

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I'm down with what you're saying,

which is like humility is a

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part that is missing for us.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

You respect that a lot.

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And I probably don't agree with a lot

of the Bernie Sanders policies, but I

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will say I've heard him in long form on

Rogan a couple times and I do agree, I

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think he's a pretty good human who might

actually believe in some of the things

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he is saying and has admitted he's wrong.

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And I do respect that a lot, man.

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I think a guy like that I would be more

inclined to vote for than again, just a.

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Fill in the blank from a lot of the

last people we've had who've never

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made a mistake in their entire life.

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And if you try and tell them

they have, they'll just attack

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you to full nuclear till no end.

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Dave: Yeah.

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Jerremy: Yeah hey man, again, being

a dad, a great dad by the way.

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I'll throw it out there.

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I,

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

one man.

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Jerremy: yeah, bro you do extremely well.

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Great dad, great husband, great mentor

to so many other people out there.

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Picture an ideal voting system

for a moment for your kids,

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grandkids, the whole squad, right?

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would it look and feel

different from today?

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

That's a great question.

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I've thought about this a little bit, man.

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So number one, I think we nailed it and

they should listen to us and they should

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change national policy and we should have

november 8th should be just a holiday.

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It's a Tuesday.

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are open at 6:00 AM They don't close

till 8:00 PM and it's a national holiday.

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There's no school, families have

cookouts and picnics, and it's just

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a, Hey, we're electing leaders today.

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That's what we do.

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So I think that's number one.

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Jerremy: Right on.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

I think every candidate should have a

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budget and it should be the same budget.

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So you shouldn't just get to be a

billionaire and be able to outspend it.

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I read in non presidential races.

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So we're talking about that one.

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I think you can get

away with spending less.

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'cause you get so much media coverage,

especially if you're like a Trump

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and you can get free media coverage.

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'cause you're, you just say

things, you know how to do that.

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But in the local races and not the

presidential, it's who spends more money

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wins something like 92% of the time.

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So you're just looking at it's just money.

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And so we've gotta even that playing

field and just say, you shouldn't just

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be able to buy a seat in congress.

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And then go in and you see these people

that go in that they're worth $6 million

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and then they come out of Congress 10

years later, they've made 170,000 a year,

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but they're somehow worth $237 million.

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Yeah.

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Really weird.

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And so we've

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Jerremy: They're great at poker.

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They're very good at poker.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

maybe they're just great man.

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I don't know.

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They never make a bad bet.

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But I think you gotta get money out.

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And so I think in today's day and

age, this would be such an easy fix to

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say every candidate gets will cap it.

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For a Senate race, you get $2 million

to spend everyone, for a house.

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You get 2 million.

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For local, you get a hundred thousand.

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What we could do is every candidate

then could have their own website and

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everybody could have access to this,

and they could show their voting record.

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just very clearly lay out what

their plans are for the future.

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They could do some long form podcasts

where they get in depth about what they

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want to do to fix it, and that's it.

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every citizen can go on and say,

okay, here's my choices in this.

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It's not just whose name I've

heard or who's on the most

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billboards or who, I don't know

how people pick, but I go to vote.

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I didn't even vote for certain people.

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I've never heard of them.

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Even when I try and do some

research, it's so confusing.

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But it's I think this could be so well

laid out that if you're a candidate,

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you just have your own website.

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Maybe they're all on a, on the same

government website, so everybody

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has access to it and everybody

has a capped amount you can spend.

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So you cannot just spend, what did the

Kamala Harris campaign spend this year?

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Wasn't it a billion?

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Dave: Hundred.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

It's like the craziest amount, and that's

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Dave: Yeah.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

Say that Trump probably didn't spend

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a crazy amount too, but it's like, not

fix the infrastructure and the veterans'

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rights and the homelessness and that?

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Like why not put some of that

money towards actual things

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that'll help the citizens,

healthcare and these things, right?

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Mental health instead of.

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We're spending billions of dollars

every year for people campaigning.

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That just seems ludicrous to me in

today's day and age where we, 99% of

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us have access to the internet and they

could just show, here's how I voted.

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Here's what I plan to do.

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Here's my marketing pitch to you.

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Here's the other candidate you decide.

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It seems like it could be that easy.

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Jerremy: That's, yeah, makes sense.

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You said really, you said let's

get money out of the system.

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That's what I heard you say in the sense

of we've gotta do a better job of that.

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The challenge is that people that are

currently in the system and entrenched

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aren't, that's how they're making

all their money from insider trading.

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And so they really don't

want that to happen.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

Yeah, you're gonna have a hard

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time convincing them that's not a

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It's, if you really go back again it's

that law that got passed, citizens

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United, where it said any corporation

can act as an individual and donate

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unlimited amounts to politicians.

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This is where everything changed.

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Jerremy: Yeah.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

if I'm just the CEO of the

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largest bank in the US right?

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I say to a politician,

man, I'll get you elected.

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So here's $50 million.

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But when you get in, you have to

vote this certain way in my interest.

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And by the way, we'll give your

son a board seat at my bank and

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he'll make $6 million a year

to show up to four meetings.

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And by the way, when you retire from

this spot, we got a board seat for you.

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And by the way, we'll let you

know when our stock's gonna, when

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we're gonna do a stock split.

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So you can, and then most of these

people that might even go in with

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good intentions wanting to help.

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Now all of a sudden, man, maybe it's

a very immoral thing they need to vote

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for, that's really gonna oppress people.

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Dude, it's $50 million in board

seats and all, like most of those

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people just make that choice.

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And if you don't get that out, I

think you're just gonna see this

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cycle of maybe people go in with

good intentions, maybe people do.

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But man, when you're presented with

that kind of stuff, the average

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person is just gonna take the

money and justify it in their head.

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Jerremy: Yeah, so here's a good one, man.

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Drawing from your coaching on mindset

shifts, 'cause you would classify

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yourself definitely as a mindset coach.

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What are.

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Habit changes that could

help everyday people engage

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more effectively with voting.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

The biggest one I that I haven't brought

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up yet, and this is how I think you

just stay sane in our world today,

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is I did it right before I hopped on.

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I take three or four minutes

every morning and I journal out

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a few things I'm grateful for.

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And look, we've talked

about some negative stuff.

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There's too much money in politics.

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Some taxes are high, some of these things.

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But if we're really honest and

we peel it back, we live in an

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amazing country, in an amazing time.

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The average US citizen, even who

lives at the mean lives better than

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kings and queens did, for all of human

history, basically, like we're so

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fricking blessed to live where we are.

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Can it be better and should

we strive for better?

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Of course.

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But man, if all of us listening here, just

take a couple minutes today and think.

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How blessed am I?

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Dude, I can go in a shower

and I, it's climate controlled

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and I just have ample food.

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I don't have warring tribes that are

coming to invade my home generally,

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and it hasn't been as easy as it's

been throughout all of human history

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up until, the end of World War ii.

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We've lived in relative

peace if you're in America.

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And so we've had a couple generations

of just prosperity in good times

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and that if you look back at human

history, that's not the case usually.

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So I think coming at it

with a frame of gratitude.

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say gratitude.

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You cannot be grumpy and

grateful at the same time, and

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so it's easy to be grumpy, man.

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If I spend 30 minutes reading about

political scandals and corruption

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and all that, I can be pretty grumpy.

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My tax dollars are going for this, right?

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I can get in that mindset.

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And I think the antidote to that is

just by practicing gratitude every day.

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do this with, by myself.

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I do this with my kids.

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What are we grateful for today?

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School sucked, dad.

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Okay.

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Tell me the best thing about it, right?

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Let's shift that mind from what we

might lack to what we're blessed by.

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And so I think that's probably

the ultimate hack I have.

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I think today is like 2,358 day

in a row or something like this,

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that I've practiced gratitude

every morning without fail.

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writing a few things down I'm grateful

for, and praying over and thinking about

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those things just sets my mind on that.

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So that, man, I'm not

just stuck in traffic.

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And this sucks.

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I'm blessed, I have a car I can turn

on a cool podcast and listen to you

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guys, and like there's always blessings

and always good things you can find.

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So I think coming at it from

that frame is very important.

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Jerremy: Yeah, man, because that's

a mindset shift for the listeners,

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my knowledge, to my experience,

or to my recollection, you have.

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Something that you focus on and what

you focus on is what's gonna bring

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the most energy towards your life.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yes.

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Jerremy: So if you do focus more

of your energy and bandwidth

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on negative things, negative

feelings, outcomes, I'm in traffic.

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Traffic sucks.

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I hate traffic, I hate this.

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This is awful.

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You're going to have more

negativity in your life 'cause

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you're focusing on negativity more.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

That's right.

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Jerremy: And those negative

aspects can be anything.

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It can be bank accounts, it can be.

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Sicknesses.

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It can be family

disturbances, it can be there.

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There's, it can trickle down into a

wild amount daily meteorites mentally

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that continue to pummel you because

you're always focusing on negative.

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But to your point, you start

switching over to gratitude.

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I can hear you say this, even if you

voted for someone and they did not win.

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You would be very in that camp of,

Hey, I, I still have a great house.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: yeah.

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Jerremy: a great family.

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I have a great body.

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I love that person.

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Even though I might not agree with

all their beliefs, you could still

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have gratitude towards a president

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

Absolutely

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Jerremy: entirely different

camp than you as well.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242:

hundred percent.

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Man, this is such a great point.

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I'm glad you bring it up.

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My daughter is in fifth grade this

year, but when the election was going

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on, they were doing mock elections,

I think, to teach the kids, how

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the voting system works and all.

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And so my daughter came to me and said

dad what's gonna happen if Trump wins

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or what's gonna happen if Kamala wins?

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I don't think she expected the answer.

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My answer was, we're still

gonna go to church every week.

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We're still going to eat

healthy and be healthy.

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We're still gonna make money

and be wealthy and prosperous.

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We're still gonna have a loving home.

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Your mom and I are gonna be madly in love.

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We're gonna love you guys.

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Like absolutely nothing is

gonna change in your life.

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Alex: Next up, Dave challenges

Tyler on helping those trapped

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in darkness, but Tyler pivots to

radical ownership—your daily actions

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matter MORE than any president.

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Still, one government loophole makes

Tyler's blood boil beyond his zen...