Episode 155

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1st Jan 2026

Obama Voter Turns on System After Drone Lies (Full)

Tyler Todt – husband, dad of three, Christ follower, and certified trainer who’s built a 250k+ community coaching people to live with real purpose – once voted Obama buzzing with hope. Then the Nobel Peace Prize guy dropped more drone strikes than every previous president combined. That gut punch shattered the illusion. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley go deep with him on how donor cash buries the voter’s voice, why promises are pre-broken, Citizens United’s damage, and whether personal responsibility can outrun a rigged system. Zero fluff, pure fire.

Timestamps:

  • (00:00) Voting 3 With Tyler Todt – episode kicks off
  • (00:46) Introduction – what we’re unpacking today
  • (01:08) Tyler Todt Enters – from Obama hope to total disillusionment
  • (03:01) Personal Voting Stories – the moments that broke us
  • (04:37) Political Promises = Lies – every cycle, same script
  • (08:35) Voter ID Fight – security or suppression?
  • (16:35) Finding Truth Is Impossible – info war exhaustion
  • (20:26) Moral Compass vs Party – who actually uses one?
  • (26:37) Dream Voting System – what would actually work
  • (27:21) Money Owns Everything – donors > voters, proven
  • (30:18) Citizens United Fallout – the decision that ended democracy
  • (31:30) Mindset & Gratitude – staying sane in the mess
  • (35:55) Personal Responsibility – stop waiting for saviors
  • (46:27) Government Corruption Deep Dive – it’s worse than you think
  • (51:07) Final Reflections – where the hell do we go now
  • (52:54) What We Learned – closing truths

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Transcript
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Solving America’s Problems — Jerremy and Dave just sat down with Tyler Todt,

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who dropped a stat that stops the room cold: President Obama, the guy who

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won the Nobel Peace Prize, ended up drone-striking and killing more people

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than every previous president combined.

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[thoughtful] Tyler was all-in on that hope-and-change wave back in college,

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cast his first real vote fired up… then watched the promises collapse into

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corruption, donor cash, and policies that hit exactly the opposite of what was sold.

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He hasn’t voted for a major-party candidate since.

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[exhales sharply] Turns out the system that once felt like freedom now looks

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to him — and millions of others — like a rigged game where the men in suits

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write the script no matter who wins…

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Dave Conley.

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What we chatting about today, my brother.

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In this week's episode of Solving America's Problems, we dive into how

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political promises often shatter into disillusionment, leaving voters picking

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the lesser of two evils, while money from big donors owns the candidates.

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It's a system where hope turns to hype and personal responsibility

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becomes the real path forward.

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Joining us is Tyler Tote, a dedicated husband and father who's

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transformed lives as a health coach for leaders and high achievers.

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Building a dedicated online community through uplifting

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guidance on mindset and vitality.

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His own journey from early political excitement to seeing

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through the corruption mirrors what so many face today.

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And that's this week on solving America's problems from Obama.

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Hope to voter dissolution, breaking the cycle of broken promises with Tyler tote.

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Voting in America right that's become a frustrating maze

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of gerrymandered districts felony disenfranchisement, hitting millions,

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and technology vulnerabilities like deep fakes eroding trust.

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With turnout, lagging, and institutions facing record low confidence, we're

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left asking how did the ballot box turn into a battleground?

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And what bold fixes can turn apathy into action.

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My name is Jerremy Alexander Newsom.

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My co-host Conley, and this.

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Is solving America's problems.

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Joining us is my dog, Tyler Tote, a dedicated husband and father who's

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transformed lives as a health coach to leaders and high achievers,

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building a dedicated following of more than a quarter million on X 66,000

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YouTube subscribers through uplift.

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infused guidance on mindset and vitality.

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His personal arc from Obama era hope to discontent.

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broken promises and media spin mirrors, millions of voters showing why personal

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responsibility out shines political hype.

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unpack and elevate.

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Tyler, welcome to the show.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Ah, thanks so much Jerremy and Dave.

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It's an honor to be here, man.

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Can't wait to chop it up with you guys and it should be a lot of fun.

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So honored to be on man.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Tyler, what's your earliest memory of voting or maybe watching someone that

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you love walk into a voting booth?

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, so I can pretty vividly

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remember a couple things.

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One, I was in fifth grade, I believe, and my grandfather gave

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me a couple of Bill Clinton tags.

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And so I took him to school and I sold them for a couple bucks and said, if

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you want to be in the Clinton Club with me, I was always an entrepreneur, right?

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I didn't even know who Bill Clinton was or who he was running against, but

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that was probably my earliest memory.

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But then if you really fast forward to college.

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I never followed politics or anything, and then I bought into the

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whole Obama hope and change thing.

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And I'd been disillusioned up till that point by seeing that.

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I don't know, a lot of people might come in and say they're gonna do these things.

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Lot doesn't seem to happen.

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Then there was this new guy that came in who looked a little different, who spoke

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a little different and who said, yeah, it's not gonna be business as usual.

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There's not gonna maybe be as much corruption.

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There's not gonna maybe be as much as some of these other things.

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And so I was actually pretty on board for that.

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That was the first time I voted.

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And I really cared.

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And at that time for better or worse, I was a professional

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poker player in college.

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And I had heard Obama loves poker.

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He's all for freedom, all this stuff too.

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So there was a lot of reasons pushing me towards that.

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But that was the first time I was pretty amped about it.

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Yeah.

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Whoa.

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It makes sense.

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It's also an age thing too, right?

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As we get older, we start to.

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Tuning in and checking in and getting in there.

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go back to the most recent vote that you had.

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So we had a huge longest presidential vote not that long ago.

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And when you were stepping into that polling place, what emotions

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came up for you personally and have they shifted over time?

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, so you know, again, if I were

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to go back to that 20 years ago or 15 years or whatever, when Obama was in.

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become pretty disillusioned.

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Then after I saw some of the, the guy wins the Nobel Peace Prize and, but

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he's drone struck and killed more people than every other president combined.

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So I started seeing some of this.

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Oh, Obama loves poker.

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Poker became illegal during his tender.

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Like you could go play poker legally in Iraq.

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You could not in the United States of America.

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And that was because of a very corrupt called the Port Security Bill, where they

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tack on a gambling thing because one of his biggest donors, Sheldon Anderson,

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and I could really get into that.

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But then I just became very disillusioned.

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So to be honest, I didn't vote for a main candidate after that.

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This year, I voted for third party people.

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I was really into man, the two parties are one and the same.

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I believe since Citizens United, that was the biggest turning point where

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just money can now, individual people or corporations can donate a hundred

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million, 200 million, 400 to one candidate and they just own the candidate.

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So the candidate really has to do whatever they say.

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I don't know.

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It seemed you're picking, you're always picking the lesser of two evils.

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Like when is the last time that you went to the ballot box and you're fired up?

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And you're like, man, this guy's gonna do it.

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Maybe some people feel that way about Trump.

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I think most people overreact to Trump.

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They either think he's like Hitler and Satan, or they think

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he's the second coming of Jesus.

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I tend to think he just falls somewhere in between.

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He does some good things.

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He does some really dumb things that, that's most people without

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offending too many people.

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I have testosterone in my body, so I couldn't vote for the left.

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This time I felt like there's been an attack on men and masculinity and a

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lot of those things from that side.

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and so I, in good conscience, just couldn't vote for that.

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But again I felt like I was picking the lesser two evils when

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I walked in, and made my decision.

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Yeah.

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I've heard that so many times when it comes to voting for the

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president of the US very frequently.

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I get, or I'll hear something to the extent of.

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There's not many choices.

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These are the only best two we can get.

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This is it.

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In their

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all the people out there, these are the two.

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I hear that often.

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Yeah, it your story rings true, I think with, I'm sure with so many other people.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I think Jerremy, you and I went

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on a hike with a really cool other guy, so there was three of us.

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And

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Yep.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I would guess that any one of

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us three you could probably put in, we'd be more morally sound.

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I just think you could, I don't know how we get stuck with these candidates,

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man, but maybe that's the point.

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I don't know, because we saw like a very rigged primary, right?

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Where Trump would've never won, to be honest, in 2016, Bernie

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Sanders was probably gonna beat him for better or worse.

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And then all of a sudden you just saw the Hillary Clinton, that machine come in,

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Bernie sells out, gets his third mansion.

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And you just see all this corruption, right?

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And so I don't know, maybe the whole thing is corrupt and that disillusions me.

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I think that disillusions a lot of people.

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That's why, big part of my message is yes, I do vote.

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I think it's important you wanna honor the people who fought for in the

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past, and that you have the freedom.

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it can feel almost like a, an illusion

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Mm-hmm.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: of freedom, like no matter who you pick.

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Putin had a pretty famous saying.

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He said, I've been president through five of your presidents.

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And trust me when I say the men in suits tell them what to do, no

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matter who they are, the men in suits come and tell them what to do.

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They campaign on all these promises.

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They don't really get a choice, though.

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the older I get, the more I tend to think he, there might be a lot

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of truth in that, to be honest.

Jerremy:

That's fascinating, ma'am.

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Yeah, I think what you said a moment ago about.

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Hey, people fought and died for this.

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This ability this privilege.

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And even though we might not necessarily be making a choice

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that we know is gonna have a true impact, the fact that we should vote.

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probably should just try it, a situation, right?

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So it's like an apathy, almost more of an excitement where this is an

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opportunity for me to really do something.

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What's your general take, man on a day-to-day reality?

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So voter ID requirements you big thing.

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Like we should show voter id, should we be mailing in ballots?

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Is there something better out there?

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, this seems like really easy to me, man.

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It seems really funny that I don't know.

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I go back to have you ever seen that YouTube clip of like, where that one dude

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goes down in the hood and he asks a bunch of black people like, do you have an id?

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Because there's this really weird narrative that it's racist to show an

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ID to vote and all of 150 black people and are like, yeah, of course I'll

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have an ID man, like I'm a citizen.

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I don't know, like you, you to fly on an airplane, you need an

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ID to get a driver's license.

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You need an ID to go buy a firearm.

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You need an id.

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It would just make sense that you would need an ID to vote.

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I've never really understood any I've never heard one

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good reason why that's not.

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A thing I've I know many black people and I've yet to meet one that says, man, it's

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just, I go to the DMV and every time they tell me I'm black, I can't get an id.

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Like I've never heard that in America.

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Until I do, I just think it's a pretty simple thing.

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We should have fair elections.

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People should have confidence around it.

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I don't think a lot of people did after 2020.

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and I just, don't understand why that wouldn't be a thing.

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I think we should have a national holiday, it should be that Tuesday.

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Everybody should be off the same way we have Veterans Day, Memorial Day, whatever.

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It should be, a national holiday, no school.

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Because I do think there probably are some very nefarious

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things where in certain areas.

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Um, If people work and then they close the polls at six, maybe you're gonna get

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a certain demographic that might vote a different way that can't get down there.

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So we should

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Holiday.

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Everybody should have a chance to go vote.

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But yeah, man you need to show an ID like that.

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That just seems very common sense and very logical.

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We've brought this up now three times, like when we first started this and

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I. It does seem like really basic, have an id and yet the data keeps on coming back.

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Like millions of people don't have an ID and I'm like, who are

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these people we've come around to?

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So I get the whole disenfranchise thing.

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And I get how some people might not have an id.

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Maybe they were born someplace where they don't have some source documentation.

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They don't have, social security cards.

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Maybe they don't, maybe they're homeless, right?

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And they don't have these regular things.

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And to everybody's point, it's to function in today's society, you do need an id.

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We've landed on this.

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It's not a voting problem, it's an ID problem.

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We need to really push, like making sure everybody has an id, everybody can, get

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a driver's license or something that says, Hey, like I'm in this this place.

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Because even if things require an, ID say getting social security benefits

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or getting any kind of help, you need an id and if you can show that

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you have a utility bill, then okay that's a step in the right direction.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, I'd be all for any kind of program

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that if there are millions of people that cannot get an id, again, I don't know

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how you function in life without one.

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Yeah I'm cool for making that.

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I hate the word free 'cause nothing's free.

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It's gonna be our tax dollars.

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Funding it.

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But I'm okay with our tax dollars funding, helping and ensuring that every US citizen

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has an ID or some form of documentation.

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That seems, again basic and easy to do.

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I'm just, I've met.

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Tens of thousands of people in my life and I'm yet to meet

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one who just can't get an id.

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So I don't know where that comes from.

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I'd really, I'd love to interview those people and learn and understand

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why they can't, and then maybe if we understood why we could brainstorm

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some solutions on how to, not

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Yeah.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: that.

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But again, I'm yet to meet anyone

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It's a lot of young people too.

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So in the data, it's like a bunch of 18 year olds, a bunch of 19

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year olds, they don't have IDs.

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And I'm like, oh man, I couldn't wait to start driving.

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So it doesn't jive with me.

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But I hear you.

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It seems pretty basic to me.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: and maybe that, I don't know.

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I'd bring up a point on that and say if you're 19 just too lazy to go get

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one, but you have all the means to get it, maybe you don't get to vote then.

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Because if you're too lazy to drive down to the BMV to get an id, then I

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don't really feel like you probably are contributing a lot to society.

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There's a couple arguments to be made where.

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If you're not paying taxes, if you're not a landowner or a homeowner or

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whatever, which I think that goes too far, but I could almost say if

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you're not paying any taxes and you don't have any skin in the game,

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should you really get to cast a vote?

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And I don't know.

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When I think about it from that term, I'm like we're voting because

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look the government takes about 50% of my income every year.

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If you added up income, property, fuel, inheritance, capital gains, all the taxes,

Jerremy:

lot.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Oh, it's a lot.

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It's a ton, right?

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And I don't think they use all those necessarily very wisely, as we've seen

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with Doge and some of these things, right?

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But I do think if you're paying nothing and you have no skin in the game

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at all, then becomes a big problem where you're just gonna vote for

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whoever promises you the most stuff.

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I'm gonna give you a free cell phone and free housing and free this, and

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free that, which really isn't free.

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It's coming from the people that are paying.

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then I think you get into a big problem where, one side kind of

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promising all this free stuff, free college, free this, free that.

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then you just have a whole segment of people who don't really pay into

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the system but are getting a lot out.

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And now they're just basically, they're always gonna vote this same way 'cause

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they're promised a bunch of free stuff.

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And I think that becomes a pretty big problem too.

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The two things I love and I think it's a very fun discussion.

Jerremy:

I think Dave would, it might have been you,

Dave:

Oh.

Jerremy:

it was okay, but I'm pretty sure it was you where you're like,

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Hey, national Holiday, love that take

Dave:

Yeah.

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it should be,

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

Jerremy:

That's really fun.

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That's a great idea.

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Seems really easy.

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Yes.

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To that one for sure.

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And I believe.

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The paying taxes let's dive into that for just a quick hot second.

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'cause that's fun.

Jerremy:

What type of taxes, just off the top of your head, would you say could

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qualify someone for the ability to vote?

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Off the top of my head,

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any kind of income tax.

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But I suppose if you're functioning in society, you're already paying sales tax.

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You're already paying fuel tax, you're already paying a lot of

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these taxes, so that probably, qualifies like 90% of people.

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I guess the problem, and I don't know maybe this isn't that big of

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a problem, but the problem I see right now is you do have maybe

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not even that large of a segment, but a segment that's just promised

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you get to go to college for free.

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You get a cell phone for free, we'll give you free housing, we'll give you

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free food, don't ever work or anything.

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And like I've personally known.

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A couple like single moms who are stuck, but they're trying so hard to fight and

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work and get their way out of this, and then all of a sudden they learn that if

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they do take that second job and work a little harder, now they don't get the

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food benefits and the housing benefits.

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So they're dis-incentivized to actually work harder to improve their situation,

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but then they feel like I gotta vote this certain way, or I do lose

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all these quote unquote free things and I feel like you're just stuck.

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I wish we had a better system that just rewarded people for working hard.

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And again I don't, that's probably way too complex for me to figure out

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here, or any of us to figure out in a 30 minute, segment or whatever.

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But it just seems to me like a lot of people are stuck in that.

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Like you almost can't earn above a little level or you lose all that free stuff,

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but then you have to keep voting that way 'cause you get that free stuff.

Jerremy:

Yeah.

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yeah, there.

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There's something inherently wrong with handouts.

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One of my mentors always said we should be giving hand ups not handouts.

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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: That's

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to, to your point, like some type of level metric, right?

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Where it's like, Hey, do this, accomplish this, have this.

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But yeah, you, when you start making too much money and then you get

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punched in the face essentially where now it's like a negative, like

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a net negative to make more, you have everything taken away from you.

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That's the problem for in the beginning.

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And so Dave, for us, I think at some point, one thing we haven't really

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gone down yet is like that Medicare, medicaid, government benefits

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essentially discussion on the podcast.

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I think that'd be really fun to just chit chat about that one.

Jerremy:

Tyler how do you approach gathering information before voting?

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Because it also does sound like number one, you care.

Jerremy:

Duh.

Jerremy:

Awesome.

Jerremy:

Thanks for being a great American citizen.

Jerremy:

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.

Jerremy:

Awesome job.

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How are you getting your information?

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man it sucks nowadays, and I think this is

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Information?

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I,

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dude says it sucked and it

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Sucked.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: crazy though, man.

Jerremy:

You can watch the news and just so clearly see how much they lie to you.

Jerremy:

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,

Jerremy:

then he just presented what happened and you got to make your own choice.

Jerremy:

Of how you saw it.

Jerremy:

I don't think that's the way the news works anymore.

Jerremy:

So then you go to social media and you go to some of these other,

Jerremy:

people, but you have to understand that they have incentives as well.

Jerremy:

what's the incentive?

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

I've got a quarter million followers on x, I could have 250 million if

Jerremy:

I probably just tweeted nonsense.

Jerremy:

Like some of these other accounts breaking news.

Jerremy:

And you make things up, and then you'll see a couple hours later a community

Jerremy:

note, oh, that's actually not true.

Jerremy:

But by then the guy's gone viral and he's gotten all the money in the

Jerremy:

clicks and we've incentivized some kind of to be first instead of Right.

Jerremy:

And we've incentivized for this hyper political of like.

Jerremy:

All you really have to do to grow on social media now is just attack one side.

Jerremy:

If I really wanted to grow on social media, I could either say Trump is

Jerremy:

the greatest thing in the world.

Jerremy:

Trump is the most evil thing in the world.

Jerremy:

And just find narratives every day, which you could to just go

Jerremy:

a hundred miles an hour at that.

Jerremy:

And that's where we fall.

Jerremy:

And it's crazy because even if you look at my feed versus my wife's

Jerremy:

feed, our social media stuff, it's completely different news.

Jerremy:

A

Dave:

Yeah.

Dave:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: hundred percent completely.

Dave:

They filter news to a female.

Dave:

hundred percent, man.

Dave:

They filter news to a female different than they're gonna filter it to a male.

Dave:

It's a really challenging thing, man.

Dave:

I have a couple people that I probably just trust and think that they

Dave:

really try and do the right thing by putting the right information out.

Dave:

But a lot of this man, it is getting really hard to tell

Dave:

what's real, what's not.

Dave:

I tend to take a few days when any story comes out.

Dave:

isn't really like super news, but did you guys see like the Phillies game where

Dave:

that lady ran over and stole the ball?

Jerremy:

Yes, and I loved your take on it too.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: but I didn't comment for three days.

Jerremy:

'cause I'm like, okay, number one, did this really happen?

Jerremy:

Is this right now?

Jerremy:

I always give things a couple days to make sure that it's like real,

Jerremy:

and I think, man, that's only gonna get worse as AI gets better.

Dave:

Yeah.

Dave:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: That's gonna be tough.

Dave:

So I think you gotta find a couple trusted sources.

Dave:

That are usually on Substack or X or something like

Dave:

that's not traditional media.

Dave:

They're not owned by certain people.

Jerremy:

Yeah.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Go on both sides too, because it's,

Jerremy:

yeah.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: everything that Trump does is great.

Jerremy:

I don't trust them.

Jerremy:

Somebody who says everything, Trump, if you can't name, I, that's my test.

Jerremy:

I always ask people when

Jerremy:

Good call.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: political.

Jerremy:

I'm like, if they hate Trump, I'm like can you tell me a couple things?

Jerremy:

He is done well, and if they can't, I'm like I disregard everything you think.

Jerremy:

Everything.

Jerremy:

And for the people that are all in Trump, I'm like can you name a couple

Jerremy:

things that you think he doesn't do well?

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

They're completely like anything they say is gonna be skewed.

Jerremy:

And so I want people that fall in the middle that are looking for truth,

Jerremy:

that are just presenting facts.

Jerremy:

But that's getting harder to find, to be honest.

Dave:

How.

Dave:

How much does your own moral compass play into this?

Dave:

If things are getting harder to discern?

Dave:

And I totally agree with that, right?

Dave:

The people that I'm starting to listen to more and more are the ones that

Dave:

say, oh, I got this wrong, right?

Dave:

They're willing to be like, uhoh, I got taken, or, this was not the right take.

Dave:

Tell me about your moral compass and how that plays into

Dave:

how you discern information.

Dave:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I think that's such a great point

Dave:

and I respect people so much that can admit, when new information comes in,

Dave:

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

Dave:

Those are the people I think we should all follow.

Dave:

And I think that's a great point for my moral compass.

Dave:

The first thing I'll say is I think that too often.

Dave:

If people are like, oh man, you voted for Trump in 2024, so you agree with,

Dave:

and then they list all the things that I probably don't like that he does,

Dave:

or he said, or he, it's no, like I just picked the lesser of two evils.

Dave:

So it's understanding that for me if someone voted for Kamala, maybe

Dave:

they just thought she was gonna do a better job in a couple areas that

Dave:

they cared about more than I did.

Dave:

I might have voted the other way 'cause I just thought a couple.

Dave:

It doesn't mean you align with everything they've ever done, everything they've ever

Dave:

said and we're, we get in these camps now where it's oh, you have to either be over

Dave:

here or over there when I believe most of us are like in this, 90% in the middle.

Dave:

We're not in these fringe 10 percents.

Dave:

So I

Jerremy:

Yeah.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: an understanding of that now if

Jerremy:

I peel back the moral compass.

Jerremy:

The thing it's really hard.

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

candidates represent me.

Jerremy:

I'm a Christian Guy.

Jerremy:

Faith leads my life.

Jerremy:

wouldn't leave my kids alone with the nine of the last 10 presidents or presidential

Jerremy:

candidates, if I'm really honest.

Jerremy:

I don't think I would, and so do morally, I think that, they're

Jerremy:

gonna align with everything.

Jerremy:

I think probably not.

Jerremy:

And I think you just have to have an acknowledgement of that.

Jerremy:

And again, pick the best of your choice, but.

Jerremy:

I'll even say this to, to probably get to those levels where you

Jerremy:

think, imagine how craz this is.

Jerremy:

I just Jerremy, you're one of the smartest guys I've ever met.

Jerremy:

I bet you're too smart to say, dude, I have all the answers

Jerremy:

and I could run the world and I could do a perfect job and I'll

Jerremy:

I can't say that.

Jerremy:

Yeah, can't say that.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: really think about it, that's

Jerremy:

what the candidates are saying.

Jerremy:

Nobody's better to run the world.

Jerremy:

Make these decisions than me.

Jerremy:

You've gotta have a really crazy ego, even to think that I think you're probably

Jerremy:

not gonna align with most normal people.

Jerremy:

'cause if you ask me, do you want this job?

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

No.

Jerremy:

I, like I would just need to pray constantly to try and ask for wisdom and

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

And I think 99% of the normal people probably think that.

Jerremy:

Then when you get a Trump or a Kamala or a Clinton or a Bush or

Jerremy:

whoever these people are, they're like, yes, I have all the answers.

Jerremy:

I can do it.

Jerremy:

Like you probably need to have some acknowledgement that they're not gonna

Jerremy:

be thinking like most rational, normal people to even get to those levels.

Jerremy:

And I think you can see that in any industry, not just politics.

Jerremy:

Jordan, greatest basketball player ever.

Jerremy:

Sorry, LeBron.

Jerremy:

But man, that dude, his roommate beat him in checkers in college.

Jerremy:

He didn't talk to him for two weeks.

Jerremy:

There's legendary stories, like to be the best, you gotta be a little bit crazy.

Jerremy:

Steve Jobs look at him.

Jerremy:

He thought he could beat cancer by mental toughness and eating fruit.

Jerremy:

He just had.

Jerremy:

This different kind of mindset and I think to get to the very 1

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

So I think we gotta peel that back and acknowledge that just 'cause you

Jerremy:

vote a certain way doesn't mean you align with everything they think.

Jerremy:

You just have to have a moral framework and say, what's

Jerremy:

the best option for me here?

Jerremy:

Yep.

Jerremy:

Agreed man.

Jerremy:

At some point really what you're describing, I would label as

Jerremy:

the majority of individuals.

Jerremy:

'Cause you're talking about like that massive center.

Jerremy:

And it is interesting that we can't truly, or at least we haven't in

Jerremy:

a very long time, to my current knowledge, had a president, to your

Jerremy:

point that was like, Hey I'm just trying to figure all this stuff out.

Jerremy:

Don't really know the answers.

Jerremy:

Not entirely sure.

Jerremy:

So I'm just gonna have a really good cabinet.

Jerremy:

I'm gonna have some great advisors.

Jerremy:

I'm gonna have some great people on my team.

Jerremy:

I'm gonna have a lot of individuals help me and just discuss and allow everything

Jerremy:

to work out for my best benefit.

Jerremy:

Let's do this together.

Jerremy:

Let's figure this stuff out together.

Jerremy:

It seems like we should.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Bro.

Jerremy:

How refreshing would that be,

Jerremy:

Yeah, it'd be nice.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I'm, I've been waiting for a

Jerremy:

candidate to literally come up and say exactly what you said.

Jerremy:

I don't have the like to even ask some crazy question about some.

Jerremy:

Complex issue and just be like, here's my initial take.

Jerremy:

But I would really need to study this more and find people that are smarter than me.

Jerremy:

And, I probably I've changed the way I think about things.

Jerremy:

All smart people do.

Jerremy:

So what's crazy to me is like they'll bring something up from 15 years ago

Jerremy:

and say why did you vote this way?

Jerremy:

And they entrench.

Jerremy:

Even though all the data might show that it was wrong and it like the

Jerremy:

Iraq war, like it's probably okay at this point to say, yeah, I voted

Jerremy:

for it back then because I believed they had weapons of mass destruction.

Jerremy:

But now if I could go back with the information I had, I was wrong.

Jerremy:

Here's what I've learned from this.

Jerremy:

Here's what

Jerremy:

Yeah.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: about it.

Jerremy:

I would

Jerremy:

Yeah.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: person a hundred percent of the time.

Jerremy:

That's my biggest problem probably with politics today, is that nobody will,

Jerremy:

I don't see anybody doing that and

Jerremy:

A pretty frustrating thing.

Dave:

Yeah, it was Kennedy in this last round and Sanders back in 2016.

Dave:

Those were the only two politicians I have ever heard.

Dave:

Say, oh, I got that wrong and I've changed my mind.

Dave:

That was it.

Dave:

I'm down with what you're saying, which is like humility is a

Dave:

part that is missing for us.

Dave:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: You respect that a lot.

Dave:

And I probably don't agree with a lot of the Bernie Sanders policies, but I

Dave:

will say I've heard him in long form on Rogan a couple times and I do agree, I

Dave:

think he's a pretty good human who might actually believe in some of the things

Dave:

he is saying and has admitted he's wrong.

Dave:

And I do respect that a lot, man.

Dave:

I think a guy like that I would be more inclined to vote for than again,

Dave:

just a. Fill in the blank from a lot of the last people we've had who've never

Dave:

made a mistake in their entire life.

Dave:

And if you try and tell them they have, they'll just attack

Dave:

you to full nuclear till no end.

Dave:

Yeah.

Jerremy:

Yeah hey man, again, being a dad, a great dad by the way.

Jerremy:

I'll throw it out there.

Jerremy:

I,

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: one man.

Jerremy:

yeah, bro you do extremely well.

Jerremy:

Great dad, great husband, great mentor to so many other people out there.

Jerremy:

Picture an ideal voting system for a moment for your kids,

Jerremy:

grandkids, the whole squad, right?

Jerremy:

would it look and feel different from today?

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: That's a great question.

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

So number one, I think we nailed it and they should listen to us and they should

Jerremy:

change national policy and we should have november 8th should be just a holiday.

Jerremy:

It's a Tuesday.

Jerremy:

are open at 6:00 AM They don't close till 8:00 PM and it's a national holiday.

Jerremy:

There's no school, families have cookouts and picnics, and it's just

Jerremy:

a, Hey, we're electing leaders today.

Jerremy:

That's what we do.

Jerremy:

So I think that's number one.

Jerremy:

Right on.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I think every candidate should have a

Jerremy:

budget and it should be the same budget.

Jerremy:

So you shouldn't just get to be a billionaire and be able to outspend it.

Jerremy:

I read in non presidential races.

Jerremy:

So we're talking about that one.

Jerremy:

I think you can get away with spending less.

Jerremy:

'cause you get so much media coverage, especially if you're like a Trump

Jerremy:

and you can get free media coverage.

Jerremy:

'cause you're, you just say things, you know how to do that.

Jerremy:

But in the local races and not the presidential, it's who spends more money

Jerremy:

wins something like 92% of the time.

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

And so we've gotta even that playing field and just say, you shouldn't just

Jerremy:

be able to buy a seat in congress.

Jerremy:

And then go in and you see these people that go in that they're worth $6 million

Jerremy:

and then they come out of Congress 10 years later, they've made 170,000 a year,

Jerremy:

but they're somehow worth $237 million.

Jerremy:

Yeah.

Jerremy:

Really weird.

Jerremy:

And so we've

Jerremy:

They're great at poker.

Jerremy:

They're very good at poker.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: maybe they're just great man.

Jerremy:

I don't know.

Jerremy:

They never make a bad bet.

Jerremy:

But I think you gotta get money out.

Jerremy:

And so I think in today's day and age, this would be such an easy fix to

Jerremy:

say every candidate gets will cap it.

Jerremy:

For a Senate race, you get $2 million to spend everyone, for a house.

Jerremy:

You get 2 million.

Jerremy:

For local, you get a hundred thousand.

Jerremy:

What we could do is every candidate then could have their own website and

Jerremy:

everybody could have access to this, and they could show their voting record.

Jerremy:

just very clearly lay out what their plans are for the future.

Jerremy:

They could do some long form podcasts where they get in depth about what they

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

every citizen can go on and say, okay, here's my choices in this.

Jerremy:

It's not just whose name I've heard or who's on the most

Jerremy:

billboards or who, I don't know how people pick, but I go to vote.

Jerremy:

I didn't even vote for certain people.

Jerremy:

I've never heard of them.

Jerremy:

Even when I try and do some research, it's so confusing.

Jerremy:

But it's I think this could be so well laid out that if you're a candidate,

Jerremy:

you just have your own website.

Jerremy:

Maybe they're all on a, on the same government website, so everybody

Jerremy:

has access to it and everybody has a capped amount you can spend.

Jerremy:

So you cannot just spend, what did the Kamala Harris campaign spend this year?

Jerremy:

Wasn't it a billion?

Dave:

Hundred.

Dave:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: It's like the craziest amount, and that's

Dave:

Yeah.

Dave:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Say that Trump probably didn't spend

Dave:

a crazy amount too, but it's like, not fix the infrastructure and the veterans'

Dave:

rights and the homelessness and that?

Dave:

Like why not put some of that money towards actual things

Dave:

that'll help the citizens, healthcare and these things, right?

Dave:

Mental health instead of.

Dave:

We're spending billions of dollars every year for people campaigning.

Dave:

That just seems ludicrous to me in today's day and age where we, 99% of

Dave:

us have access to the internet and they could just show, here's how I voted.

Dave:

Here's what I plan to do.

Dave:

Here's my marketing pitch to you.

Dave:

Here's the other candidate you decide.

Dave:

It seems like it could be that easy.

Jerremy:

That's, yeah, makes sense.

Jerremy:

You said really, you said let's get money out of the system.

Jerremy:

That's what I heard you say in the sense of we've gotta do a better job of that.

Jerremy:

The challenge is that people that are currently in the system and entrenched

Jerremy:

aren't, that's how they're making all their money from insider trading.

Jerremy:

And so they really don't want that to happen.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, you're gonna have a hard

Jerremy:

time convincing them that's not a

Jerremy:

It's, if you really go back again it's that law that got passed, citizens

Jerremy:

United, where it said any corporation can act as an individual and donate

Jerremy:

unlimited amounts to politicians.

Jerremy:

This is where everything changed.

Jerremy:

Yeah.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: if I'm just the CEO of the

Jerremy:

largest bank in the US right?

Jerremy:

I say to a politician, man, I'll get you elected.

Jerremy:

So here's $50 million.

Jerremy:

But when you get in, you have to vote this certain way in my interest.

Jerremy:

And by the way, we'll give your son a board seat at my bank and

Jerremy:

he'll make $6 million a year to show up to four meetings.

Jerremy:

And by the way, when you retire from this spot, we got a board seat for you.

Jerremy:

And by the way, we'll let you know when our stock's gonna, when

Jerremy:

we're gonna do a stock split.

Jerremy:

So you can, and then most of these people that might even go in with

Jerremy:

good intentions wanting to help.

Jerremy:

Now all of a sudden, man, maybe it's a very immoral thing they need to vote

Jerremy:

for, that's really gonna oppress people.

Jerremy:

Dude, it's $50 million in board seats and all, like most of those

Jerremy:

people just make that choice.

Jerremy:

And if you don't get that out, I think you're just gonna see this

Jerremy:

cycle of maybe people go in with good intentions, maybe people do.

Jerremy:

But man, when you're presented with that kind of stuff, the average

Jerremy:

person is just gonna take the money and justify it in their head.

Jerremy:

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

Jerremy:

Drawing from your coaching on mindset shifts, 'cause you would classify

Jerremy:

yourself definitely as a mindset coach.

Jerremy:

What are.

Jerremy:

Habit changes that could help everyday people engage

Jerremy:

more effectively with voting.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: The biggest one I that I haven't brought

Jerremy:

up yet, and this is how I think you just stay sane in our world today,

Jerremy:

is I did it right before I hopped on.

Jerremy:

I take three or four minutes every morning and I journal out

Jerremy:

a few things I'm grateful for.

Jerremy:

And look, we've talked about some negative stuff.

Jerremy:

There's too much money in politics.

Jerremy:

Some taxes are high, some of these things.

Jerremy:

But if we're really honest and we peel it back, we live in an

Jerremy:

amazing country, in an amazing time.

Jerremy:

The average US citizen, even who lives at the mean lives better than

Jerremy:

kings and queens did, for all of human history, basically, like we're so

Jerremy:

fricking blessed to live where we are.

Jerremy:

Can it be better and should we strive for better?

Jerremy:

Of course.

Jerremy:

But man, if all of us listening here, just take a couple minutes today and think.

Jerremy:

How blessed am I?

Jerremy:

Dude, I can go in a shower and I, it's climate controlled

Jerremy:

and I just have ample food.

Jerremy:

I don't have warring tribes that are coming to invade my home generally,

Jerremy:

and it hasn't been as easy as it's been throughout all of human history

Jerremy:

up until, the end of World War ii.

Jerremy:

We've lived in relative peace if you're in America.

Jerremy:

And so we've had a couple generations of just prosperity in good times

Jerremy:

and that if you look back at human history, that's not the case usually.

Jerremy:

So I think coming at it with a frame of gratitude.

Jerremy:

say gratitude.

Jerremy:

You cannot be grumpy and grateful at the same time, and

Jerremy:

so it's easy to be grumpy, man.

Jerremy:

If I spend 30 minutes reading about political scandals and corruption

Jerremy:

and all that, I can be pretty grumpy.

Jerremy:

My tax dollars are going for this, right?

Jerremy:

I can get in that mindset.

Jerremy:

And I think the antidote to that is just by practicing gratitude every day.

Jerremy:

do this with, by myself.

Jerremy:

I do this with my kids.

Jerremy:

What are we grateful for today?

Jerremy:

School sucked, dad.

Jerremy:

Okay.

Jerremy:

Tell me the best thing about it, right?

Jerremy:

Let's shift that mind from what we might lack to what we're blessed by.

Jerremy:

And so I think that's probably the ultimate hack I have.

Jerremy:

I think today is like 2,358 day in a row or something like this,

Jerremy:

that I've practiced gratitude every morning without fail.

Jerremy:

writing a few things down I'm grateful for, and praying over and thinking about

Jerremy:

those things just sets my mind on that.

Jerremy:

So that, man, I'm not just stuck in traffic.

Jerremy:

And this sucks.

Jerremy:

I'm blessed, I have a car I can turn on a cool podcast and listen to you

Jerremy:

guys, and like there's always blessings and always good things you can find.

Jerremy:

So I think coming at it from that frame is very important.

Jerremy:

Yeah, man, because that's a mindset shift for the listeners,

Jerremy:

my knowledge, to my experience, or to my recollection, you have.

Jerremy:

Something that you focus on and what you focus on is what's gonna bring

Jerremy:

the most energy towards your life.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yes.

Jerremy:

So if you do focus more of your energy and bandwidth

Jerremy:

on negative things, negative feelings, outcomes, I'm in traffic.

Jerremy:

Traffic sucks.

Jerremy:

I hate traffic, I hate this.

Jerremy:

This is awful.

Jerremy:

You're going to have more negativity in your life 'cause

Jerremy:

you're focusing on negativity more.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: That's right.

Jerremy:

And those negative aspects can be anything.

Jerremy:

It can be bank accounts, it can be.

Jerremy:

Sicknesses.

Jerremy:

It can be family disturbances, it can be there.

Jerremy:

There's, it can trickle down into a wild amount daily meteorites mentally

Jerremy:

that continue to pummel you because you're always focusing on negative.

Jerremy:

But to your point, you start switching over to gratitude.

Jerremy:

I can hear you say this, even if you voted for someone and they did not win.

Jerremy:

You would be very in that camp of, Hey, I, I still have a great house.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: yeah.

Jerremy:

a great family.

Jerremy:

I have a great body.

Jerremy:

I love that person.

Jerremy:

Even though I might not agree with all their beliefs, you could still

Jerremy:

have gratitude towards a president

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Absolutely

Jerremy:

entirely different camp than you as well.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: hundred percent.

Jerremy:

Man, this is such a great point.

Jerremy:

I'm glad you bring it up.

Jerremy:

My daughter is in fifth grade this year, but when the election was going

Jerremy:

on, they were doing mock elections, I think, to teach the kids, how

Jerremy:

the voting system works and all.

Jerremy:

And so my daughter came to me and said dad what's gonna happen if Trump wins

Jerremy:

or what's gonna happen if Kamala wins?

Jerremy:

I don't think she expected the answer.

Jerremy:

My answer was, we're still gonna go to church every week.

Jerremy:

We're still going to eat healthy and be healthy.

Jerremy:

We're still gonna make money and be wealthy and prosperous.

Jerremy:

We're still gonna have a loving home.

Jerremy:

Your mom and I are gonna be madly in love.

Jerremy:

We're gonna love you guys.

Jerremy:

Like absolutely nothing is gonna change in your life.

Jerremy:

You need to understand that, and I always say this, and I think you make the,

Jerremy:

probably the best point of this whole podcast so far is that the president is

Jerremy:

maybe gonna change your life a percentage or two if you're in the high end.

Jerremy:

Who's the president for the average person.

Jerremy:

Now, I'm not saying if maybe you're a fringe person out here and they made

Jerremy:

a law that shuts down your business.

Jerremy:

I'm not saying that never happens, right?

Jerremy:

For 98% of us that are in the United States, of the 360 million people, your

Jerremy:

daily actions and habits and your mindset and what you do every day is gonna affect

Jerremy:

your life more than whoever sits in the Oval Office, whoever represents you,

Jerremy:

Come on.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, man if Kamala Harris is president right

Jerremy:

now, you know what I'd be doing right now?

Jerremy:

Thing you're doing.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: the same thing with Brandon.

Jerremy:

It, it really is man.

Jerremy:

And maybe certain policies might shift this way.

Jerremy:

Might be paying a little more taxes over here, or maybe I'd be

Jerremy:

doing a little better over here.

Jerremy:

I don't know.

Jerremy:

Who knows the domino effect of all this stuff.

Jerremy:

But I think it's important to say and to tell my daughter

Jerremy:

and to even tell yourself.

Jerremy:

It doesn't matter.

Jerremy:

At the end of the day, you should go vote because you have that, right.

Jerremy:

People have fought in blood for that, but at the end of the day, also

Jerremy:

you should root for whoever wins.

Jerremy:

I think this is like a sickness and a really weird thing, man.

Jerremy:

And it happens on both sides.

Jerremy:

Like I, I don't wanna, we don't need to get in the weeds, but I think everybody

Jerremy:

saw Joe Biden wasn't really with it towards the end, and man, I mean there

Jerremy:

was people just saying hope the guy dies.

Jerremy:

I hope his son dies.

Jerremy:

I hope, and then you see with Trump, like he almost gets shot in the face and people

Jerremy:

are like, oh, I wish he just didn't miss.

Jerremy:

And it's man, I feel like if you're coming from that spot in your heart,

Jerremy:

where you're gonna operate from every day, I don't care who the president

Jerremy:

is, you're not gonna be successful.

Jerremy:

You're gonna, you're poisoned.

Jerremy:

if you let politics capture you in that way where you're like wishing

Jerremy:

harm to other human beings and you hate 'em so much that you'll again.

Jerremy:

That's my test.

Jerremy:

If you're smart, if you hate Trump, but you can't admit he did a couple

Jerremy:

things Well, or you hate Biden, but you can't admit he did a couple things.

Jerremy:

You're just not that smart.

Jerremy:

And if he's driving the ship, I'm not rooting for the ship to sink

Jerremy:

'cause we're all on the ship,

Jerremy:

we're all on the ship.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: But it seems like we have a, at least

Jerremy:

a quarter, a third of the population.

Jerremy:

It's like that now.

Jerremy:

And I think if you're in that camp and you're listening to that, I would just

Jerremy:

challenge you to peel that back and say maybe you don't like Trump as a person,

Jerremy:

maybe I don't certainly agree with a lot of the things he says or does.

Jerremy:

It's like he'll attack Rosie O'Donnell at 3:00 AM on Twitter.

Jerremy:

I just, I don't know why, like you're the most powerful guy in the world.

Jerremy:

Like I probably wouldn't choose to do that or some of the policies or things he says.

Jerremy:

But at the same time, man, how does that really affect my life today?

Jerremy:

I can still go to the gym, I can still work hard.

Jerremy:

I can still love my kids.

Jerremy:

I can still do all those things.

Jerremy:

You have to acknowledge that your life is a sum of your decisions.

Jerremy:

That's the number one thing.

Jerremy:

Whoever's in office, they're gonna do what they're gonna do.

Jerremy:

And I'm not saying to just completely ignore it, but I am saying to your

Jerremy:

point too, Jerremy, if you just sit there and focus on everything Trump

Jerremy:

does and how much you hate it, dude, you're not gonna live a good life.

Jerremy:

to be honest, we've never had a time where 2025, almost 2026 now, where

Jerremy:

there's endless resources to learn.

Jerremy:

Gain knowledge and gain money and gain, like it's, if you would've told somebody

Jerremy:

a couple hundred years ago, you could just have access to the smartest people in the

Jerremy:

world for free, and you can learn from it.

Jerremy:

But yet many people will spend a few hours a day complaining about politics

Jerremy:

or whining about this or that when they could just a hundred x of their life by

Jerremy:

just learning new skill sets and going and implementing those from smart people

Jerremy:

and their health and fixing some of their relationships and things like that.

Jerremy:

And so that's a harder thing to do.

Jerremy:

It's much easier to just whine about if only this person was

Jerremy:

president, my life would be better.

Jerremy:

But where does that get you?

Jerremy:

And I

Jerremy:

Right.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: comes back to that personal

Jerremy:

responsibility and ownership of your life.

Jerremy:

It doesn't matter who the president is for me, my family's gonna be successful.

Jerremy:

I would guarantee both of you men are in the same boat.

Jerremy:

Doesn't really matter, man, whoever gets, if it's JD Vance,

Jerremy:

Gavin Newsom, name, a name.

Jerremy:

We will all find a way to be healthy, wealthy, thriving, doing well, because

Jerremy:

that's who we're, that's what, that's the decisions we're gonna make, right?

Jerremy:

And I think if more people approach life like that would

Jerremy:

actually be the best thing ever.

Jerremy:

For families, for economies, for, like, how can I be the

Jerremy:

best husband, the best dad?

Jerremy:

How can I make more money?

Jerremy:

How can I be healthier?

Jerremy:

How can I impact my community?

Jerremy:

How can I do these if I put a lot of, that's why I put 99%

Jerremy:

of my energy into those things.

Jerremy:

Then sure, I'll put a percent or two into who I'm gonna vote for with the

Jerremy:

acknowledgement that it's probably not gonna change my life that much.

Dave:

So given your large community, hundreds of thousands of people

Dave:

have sought you out and have changed their lives, and they're

Dave:

affecting millions of people.

Dave:

How do we help people that are in those dark places of rooting for

Dave:

somebody else to fail of rooting for the death of other people?

Dave:

That's a really dark place.

Dave:

How do we help them?

Dave:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: that's a great question.

Dave:

I hate to say it, but some people I'm not sure you can.

Dave:

I think you can ask questions and you can be kind you can be loving.

Dave:

I'm a real big, like personal choice and personal ownership and.

Dave:

person's gonna make their decisions.

Dave:

I even tell my kids this, man I want my kids to be so successful

Dave:

more than anything in the world.

Dave:

I would root for my kids, but I tell 'em all the time, it's gonna be your choices.

Dave:

Dad can't be there every minute of the day to make sure you're getting

Dave:

up and thinking the right thing, putting the right things in your

Dave:

mind and doing these things right?

Dave:

And yeah, we can show a better way.

Dave:

And it's like that old saying, you can lead a horse to water.

Dave:

You can't make 'em drink.

Dave:

had people who have literally come on my Twitter page and trolled me

Dave:

for three or four years straight, literally you're an idiot.

Dave:

You're a this or that.

Dave:

And then after something clicked in 'em four years later where they're

Dave:

like, man, I just wanted to say sorry.

Dave:

And thanks.

Dave:

I'm really starting to do this gratitude stuff and I see it

Dave:

makes a, or this or that, right?

Dave:

And so I go back to the guy that I follow, man who was killed

Dave:

a couple thousand years ago.

Dave:

Jesus.

Dave:

one of my favorite stories of him is he finds this rich, young ruler and the guy

Dave:

says to him, how do I have eternal life?

Dave:

And Jesus says, it's real easy, man.

Dave:

You're doing all the right things.

Dave:

Just go sell your stuff and come follow me.

Dave:

And it says, the guy was really sad because he had a lot of stuff, he

Dave:

didn't wanna sell it, what I see from that is Jesus said, okay, he went

Dave:

on his way, he went on his mission.

Dave:

It was like the next one.

Dave:

He was gonna preach the gospel to the next.

Dave:

What he didn't do is tell the guy all the reasons he was wrong.

Dave:

Follow him for months and yell at him and tell him he was

Dave:

stupid and try and convince him.

Dave:

He just presented, he showed a better way and he kept on his mission.

Dave:

And what I look at when I, see even knowing a guy like Jerremy.

Dave:

Your mission is so evident, man.

Dave:

You impact so many people, you make their lives better.

Dave:

man there's gonna be people that see you and probably, oh, that guy's a scammer.

Dave:

That guy's a, I'm sure you get it.

Dave:

I get it.

Dave:

I got called a grifter 'cause I tried to get people to walk.

Dave:

I'm like, how am I making money off telling you to hit a certain

Dave:

amount of steps every day?

Dave:

But there's some people that are just stuck in this mindset.

Dave:

And I think, again, you lend a hand.

Dave:

You offer to show them a better way.

Dave:

You relentlessly be kind and positive, but it's an acknowledgement that

Dave:

every single person has to take agency and ownership of their life until

Dave:

some people are ready to do that.

Dave:

I hate to say it, but you cannot help them.

Jerremy:

And what's interesting, man, is I think, again, my ultimate belief,

Jerremy:

one of my ultimate perspectives.

Jerremy:

This message, the one that you are sharing, you just shared,

Jerremy:

we are kinda sharing today.

Jerremy:

is the one that we need from the top down.

Jerremy:

That's the message that we need to hear in the media Often and as much

Jerremy:

as Tony Robbins has tried and Marm Williamson has tried, and Alan Watts

Jerremy:

and Earl Nightingale, Les Brown, Rene Brown, Leslie Nichols, as much of these

Jerremy:

individuals have tried, we haven't had anyone in that very prominent seat

Jerremy:

and the prominent power in government.

Jerremy:

To really say those words, and that's probably one of my biggest dreams

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man

Jerremy:

to be that mouthpiece or to be in a position where we can get

Jerremy:

individuals together and we can just pour light into them and pour awareness

Jerremy:

and these tiny little mental shifts where we can collaborate together and

Jerremy:

simply say, this is where we're going.

Jerremy:

This seems like the best idea overall.

Jerremy:

We did go to the moon in the late sixties 'cause Kennedy was like, Hey, guess what

Jerremy:

we're doing guys, the whole country?

Jerremy:

Guess what we're doing?

Jerremy:

Stop playing baseball.

Jerremy:

what we're doing.

Jerremy:

Almost right.

Jerremy:

Just really a massive singular focus if we got this country singularly focused from

Jerremy:

the top down on health, on vitality, on positive mindset, on an abundance mindset,

Jerremy:

on a helping and collaboration mindset.

Jerremy:

We would not only change the entire legacy of the country, but we would

Jerremy:

start shifting the entire approach of the world because obviously I think

Jerremy:

America is that beacon for so many other individuals, other countries, other

Jerremy:

places, that's how we can create an absolute spark of hope and joy and peace.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man that, that fires me up even thinking

Jerremy:

about it, like how refreshing would that be if you just had leaders like

Jerremy:

instead of tweeting every day, like Gavin Newsom's Scum, and then Gavin

Jerremy:

Newsom tweeting, Trump is an idiot.

Jerremy:

How great would it be if like our leaders were just like uplifting people?

Jerremy:

Yep.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Oh and just like promoting

Jerremy:

that kind of positivity.

Jerremy:

You mentioned JFK Man, and I recently read a pretty good book called

Jerremy:

Profiles Encouraged by JFK and yeah, man he's the last one I looked to.

Jerremy:

He admitted he was wrong with Bay of Pigs.

Jerremy:

And he was in my mind, and maybe I'm wrong here, but one of the last leaders

Jerremy:

to do a lot of those things you were saying, and, see what happened to him.

Jerremy:

Some people

Jerremy:

Yeah.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: that and where

Jerremy:

Yep.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: that was going.

Jerremy:

And pretty dark if you think of it from that lens.

Jerremy:

I thought the other day like.

Jerremy:

If a politician was to come and preach on personal responsibility

Jerremy:

now, they'd just be laughed out.

Jerremy:

Laughed.

Jerremy:

Like JFK was like, it's not what your country can do for you, it's what you can

Jerremy:

do for your, like that kind of message.

Jerremy:

And he was a Democrat.

Jerremy:

Imagine if a guy from the left came in saying that right now.

Jerremy:

What can you do for your country?

Jerremy:

Let's pick yourself up and let's work hard and let's, dude

Jerremy:

they wouldn't even get to the,

Jerremy:

Yep.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: way they'd even be considered.

Jerremy:

but it's yeah, I feel like we do need a shift in that kind of energy.

Jerremy:

We do, man.

Jerremy:

We definitely do.

Jerremy:

All right how about this?

Jerremy:

Let's just lightning round potentially.

Jerremy:

What's one rule the American government currently that just baffles you?

Jerremy:

Like how is this even.

Jerremy:

Old Eagle.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I mean that we don't investigate,

Jerremy:

representatives for coming into office 2.1 million and exiting

Jerremy:

worth 440,000,014 years later.

Jerremy:

And where does the money come from?

Jerremy:

You shouldn't be able to inside or trade and do it.

Jerremy:

I get arrested Jerremy if me and the CEO of a company and he tips

Jerremy:

us off that they're gonna go public in this certain time, or there's

Jerremy:

gonna be a stock splitter and we buy the stock and we make $10 million.

Jerremy:

We are gonna go to prison

Jerremy:

Yeah.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Martha Stewart Prison where you

Jerremy:

just play yoga, you're gonna go to prison and guys like us probably

Jerremy:

wouldn't farewell there, and

Jerremy:

Yep.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: there's a massive incentive for us.

Jerremy:

To not steal and cheat and insider trade and do those things.

Jerremy:

There's no incentive for these people to not do this.

Jerremy:

There's none.

Jerremy:

The one that baffled my mind that got passed a few years ago was they added

Jerremy:

a bunch of IRS agents and then Congress made it exempt for them to be audited.

Jerremy:

So they added like 70,000 IRS agents.

Jerremy:

And you can check this, but this was like, think four or five years

Jerremy:

ago, and then they made it exempt.

Jerremy:

So you could, they cannot be audited.

Jerremy:

House of Representatives are congressmen, and I'm like, you're basically just

Jerremy:

telling everybody we're super corrupt, we're stealing, we insider trade, we

Jerremy:

steep, we cheat, we steal, but also you can't look at us that just blows my mind.

Jerremy:

That's like a thing.

Jerremy:

And that we, the people are just like cool with it.

Jerremy:

I guess that's fine.

Jerremy:

Like that's pretty, that blows my mind, man.

Jerremy:

Yeah, that one's a big one.

Jerremy:

That one's a big one.

Jerremy:

That would be, it doesn't, it's not voting specifically related, but if I had a

Jerremy:

magic wand, that's certainly one aspect of senators, representatives, congresspeople.

Jerremy:

Like you can't buy individual stocks.

Jerremy:

That's obviously the most illegal thing.

Jerremy:

You are working directly with not only the laws that create more wealth or less

Jerremy:

wealth for individual companies, but you're talking to the CEOs and making

Jerremy:

what's either gonna make that company more viable or less viable, and they are

Jerremy:

getting shares and opportunities, right?

Jerremy:

Nancy's it's not me.

Jerremy:

I'm not making the trades.

Jerremy:

My husband is doing it.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah

Jerremy:

so n now that I'm not saying they can't invest, right?

Jerremy:

Absolutely.

Jerremy:

Investments a broader market.

Jerremy:

ETFs, you can do that all day, but your mind to the Fs and P

Jerremy:

500, we don't want anyone to go broke, but into individual names.

Jerremy:

Yeah, that one is just almost a, it's not almost, it's a head scratcher.

Jerremy:

Huge head scratcher.

Dave:

Or three words, conflict of inter.

Dave:

Do all of your shenanigans.

Dave:

Like fine.

Dave:

There's gonna be that, but you can't vote on it.

Dave:

You can't accept money on it.

Dave:

If you accept money from somebody, then you don't get to vote on those things.

Dave:

That seems really basic.

Dave:

When it gets down to it, it doesn't feel fair.

Dave:

And like you guys have kids, and I'm sure you've heard it, for years and years.

Dave:

That's not fair.

Dave:

But there is a basic fairness in the American spirit.

Dave:

That is if it doesn't matter for you, but it matters for me, then that's just wrong.

Dave:

Like you don't get to have your own special courts or your own special rules.

Dave:

It's the Epstein stuff, like you might get wrapped around the axle about it

Dave:

specifically, but that's not the point.

Dave:

The point is it feels like that there's this whole group of people where the

Dave:

rules don't matter, the laws don't matter, and it's if you're leading,

Dave:

we want you to be super citizens.

Dave:

Like you should have extra laws, not fewer laws.

Dave:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah.

Dave:

When it's rules for the, not rules for me, the not for me.

Dave:

Yeah.

Dave:

I think that's a big problem.

Dave:

And I think that was really highlighted during COVID too, right?

Dave:

Where you would see these people flying in their private jets to

Dave:

have parties with their elite people while telling you're a grandma

Dave:

killer and you can't see your family.

Dave:

And like that was just crazy.

Dave:

I do think that, the more they squeeze and the more people see that.

Dave:

Which we are, the more pushback there is.

Dave:

And I just wonder when that point will happen, when people

Dave:

are like, enough's enough.

Dave:

Like enough is enough.

Dave:

Like we've got to do something about this.

Dave:

'cause it is really wild, man, that when you see the money that some, and it's

Dave:

on both sides, like Nancy Pelosi's kind of poster child for it, but man, you

Dave:

can look at both sides of Republican Democrat and that's why I think one

Dave:

and the same almost in a lot of ways.

Dave:

us fighting over these social issues all the time, while all of

Dave:

them just continue to make tens of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Dave:

as long as we're all down here fighting over these social issues,

Dave:

they just get to keep doing it.

Dave:

And to me, that might be the point,

Jerremy:

yeah.

Jerremy:

Keep what?

Jerremy:

What's the the emperor circus?

Jerremy:

Just keep everyone looking away.

Jerremy:

Keep 'em distracted.

Jerremy:

Keep 'em uninformed.

Jerremy:

Unaware.

Jerremy:

Tyler, this has been so refreshing, man.

Jerremy:

Energetic, exciting, useful For our listeners, I just wanna say thanks,

Jerremy:

man, for waking up at 5:00 AM West Coast time getting prepped for this.

Jerremy:

Dave, thanks for spending.

Jerremy:

17 hours a day outta your 24 hours a day to make sure that

Jerremy:

this show runs super smoothly.

Jerremy:

Man, it's been an honor.

Jerremy:

I am 100% confident.

Jerremy:

Many of your listeners, your followers will have gained only some knowledge,

Jerremy:

but some insight on not only how you think, but how we can just tweak, how

Jerremy:

we can adjust, how we can think more clearly, how we can pray and ponder.

Jerremy:

How we can make better decisions, how we can decide.

Jerremy:

You said gain wisdom.

Jerremy:

Wisdom generally is gained from asking and from opening up and from receiving

Jerremy:

and from knowing that we don't have all the answers and that someone can give

Jerremy:

us enlightenment, someone can give us help, someone can give us assistance.

Jerremy:

It doesn't always have to be us.

Jerremy:

So thank you, Matt, for being here and for doing that for so many.

Jerremy:

Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man.

Jerremy:

Thank you.

Jerremy:

It's an honor.

Jerremy:

You guys are awesome, man.

Jerremy:

It's really cool to come on here and listen to you guys already.

Jerremy:

And I can't wait to share this one.

Jerremy:

And what you said too, man, is like the last point I'd make is that.

Jerremy:

If you don't agree with me on something or I don't agree with you,

Jerremy:

that doesn't make us enemies, right?

Jerremy:

Maybe we voted a different way, but maybe I've learned some things since then.

Jerremy:

Maybe you have, maybe we can discuss those ideas respectfully and kindly,

Jerremy:

and that's how we all grow and learn.

Jerremy:

We're in a hyper political climate now where I think some people might

Jerremy:

listen and just, oh, he thinks this.

Jerremy:

I hate him.

Jerremy:

He's my enemy.

Jerremy:

I'm not your enemy.

Jerremy:

I'm nobody's enemy in this stuff.

Jerremy:

We shouldn't be thinking like that.

Jerremy:

And so I love that you guys can bring ideas together where we can just

Jerremy:

talk about things in a respectful environment and share ideas and.

Jerremy:

Maybe if we did this again in five years, I'd have a completely different

Jerremy:

take on something I would've learned something that would've changed.

Jerremy:

But I think that's the point of life is we have

Jerremy:

Just try and learn and grow.

Jerremy:

So I appreciate you guys providing a space for that.

Jerremy:

It's awesome.

Jerremy:

got it my man.

Jerremy:

Thank you Tyler for being here.

Jerremy:

Appreciate you, bro.

Jerremy:

Doing content with Dave Conley.

Jerremy:

Top five favorite things of my life.

Jerremy:

what'd you learn in that episode with Tyler?

Dave:

I'm gonna tell you what I didn't learn first,

Jerremy:

Didn't learn.

Jerremy:

shoot.

Jerremy:

Okay.

Jerremy:

Flipping it.

Dave:

didn't learn anything new about the problem.

Dave:

Didn't learn anything new about the solutions.

Dave:

What I love about that is that what stood out for me, what I did learn, what

Dave:

really changed my day to day, because it's still early in the morning, is that.

Dave:

Unrelenting positivity is how we're going to change the most, and we

Dave:

see none of that in our leaders.

Dave:

We see none of it in our politicians.

Dave:

There is nobody out there that is just incredibly positive about stuff.

Dave:

there's actually one politician that I listen to that I get.

Dave:

Which is Massey on the Republican side.

Dave:

The congressman from, I think Kentucky.

Dave:

He's pretty positive dude, when I hear him and it's such a refreshing thing yeah,

Dave:

you might not be able to help everybody.

Dave:

In fact, that's probably not what people want to hear of.

Dave:

I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.

Dave:

be the example, be the person that's yeah, I want to make changes, and these

Dave:

are all the exciting things about it.

Dave:

it is positivity into what seems like darkness right now.

Dave:

How about you?

Jerremy:

I learned that people care.

Jerremy:

That's the thing, man.

Jerremy:

We keep getting people on the podcast and having discussions about the

Jerremy:

democratic process and dialing in and tuning in and caring and people do care.

Dave:

Yeah.

Jerremy:

We are making changes and we are making shifts and I

Jerremy:

love seeing, someone like Tyler who is what I would say is just.

Jerremy:

work and time energy in the betterment of or mankind or his community and the

Jerremy:

ways that he feels is best appropriate.

Jerremy:

Listeners, friends and family fans from around the globe, and all of those

Jerremy:

listeners in the United States of America, this is solving America's problems.

Jerremy:

Make sure that you follow us on the social media platforms We're there.

Jerremy:

Just track us down.

Jerremy:

This is a podcast that is easily rateable.

Jerremy:

you have to do is open it up on any place that has podcasts

Jerremy:

and you'll see five stars.

Jerremy:

Take your finger and click on the five stars.

Jerremy:

Give us that rating because we are putting in time, energy, effort,

Jerremy:

charisma, and information gonna help you understand better the politics

Jerremy:

and most specifically the politicians, and even more importantly, how you do

Jerremy:

truly matter in the entire process.

Jerremy:

Thanks for being a part of solving America's problems.

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Solving America's Problems
Solving America’s Problems isn’t just a podcast—it’s a journey. Co-host Jerremy Newsome, a successful entrepreneur and educator, is pursuing his lifelong dream of running for president. Along the way, he and co-host Dave Conley bring together experts, advocates, and everyday Americans to explore the real, actionable solutions our country needs.

With dynamic formats—one-on-one interviews, panel discussions, and more—we cut through the noise of divisive rhetoric to uncover practical ideas that unite instead of divide. If you’re ready to think differently, act boldly, and join a movement for meaningful change, subscribe now.