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Obama Voter Turns on System After Drone Lies (Full) · Solving America's Problems

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Alex: 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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Jerremy: Dave Conley.
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What we chatting about today, my brother.
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Dave: 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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Jerremy: 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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Jerremy: 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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Jerremy: 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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Jerremy: 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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Dave: In their
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Jerremy: 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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Jerremy: 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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Jerremy: 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.
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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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Dave: 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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Jerremy: 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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Dave: 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,
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Jerremy: lot.
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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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Jerremy: The two things I love and I think it's a very fun discussion.
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I think Dave would, it might have been you,
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Dave: Oh.
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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
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Dave: Yeah.
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Jerremy: it should be,
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Dave: Yeah.
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Yeah.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah.
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Jerremy: 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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Jerremy: 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.
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Tyler how do you approach gathering information before voting?
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Because it also does sound like number one, you care.
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Duh.
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Awesome.
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Thanks for being a great American citizen.
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Number two, my boy over here is paying income tax.
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You're paying fuels tax sales tax.
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When you buy groceries, you're paying all kinds of cool taxes.
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Awesome job.
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How are you getting your information?
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man it sucks nowadays, and I think this is
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Jerremy: Information?
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I,
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Jerremy: dude says it sucked and it
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Sucked.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: crazy though, man.
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You can watch the news and just so clearly see how much they lie to you.
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I think anybody watching like Fox News, C-N-N-M-S-N-B-C, like you should just
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know these are entertainment shows.
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These are not news shows.
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They don't just go out, gather information and report it so that
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you can think what you think.
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They are owned by a certain segment of people push narratives.
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They will only report on those narratives.
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and they'll find the news that they want a really I can give you
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a thousand examples of this, right?
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But we probably all see 'em if you're a thinking human being.
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So that becomes really hard.
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If I can't get my news from there, and I think it was different back in
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the day when Walter Cronkite came out, you hear some of these people relive,
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then he just presented what happened and you got to make your own choice.
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Of how you saw it.
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I don't think that's the way the news works anymore.
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So then you go to social media and you go to some of these other,
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people, but you have to understand that they have incentives as well.
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what's the incentive?
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In today's world, it's clicks, man.
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I've got a quarter million followers on x, I could have 250 million if
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I probably just tweeted nonsense.
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Like some of these other accounts breaking news.
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And you make things up, and then you'll see a couple hours later a community
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note, oh, that's actually not true.
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But by then the guy's gone viral and he's gotten all the money in the
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clicks and we've incentivized some kind of to be first instead of Right.
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And we've incentivized for this hyper political of like.
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All you really have to do to grow on social media now is just attack one side.
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If I really wanted to grow on social media, I could either say Trump is
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the greatest thing in the world.
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Trump is the most evil thing in the world.
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And just find narratives every day, which you could to just go
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a hundred miles an hour at that.
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And that's where we fall.
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And it's crazy because even if you look at my feed versus my wife's
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feed, our social media stuff, it's completely different news.
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A
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Dave: Yeah.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: hundred percent completely.
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They filter news to a female.
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hundred percent, man.
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They filter news to a female different than they're gonna filter it to a male.
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It's a really challenging thing, man.
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I have a couple people that I probably just trust and think that they
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really try and do the right thing by putting the right information out.
19:08
But a lot of this man, it is getting really hard to tell
19:12
what's real, what's not.
19:13
I tend to take a few days when any story comes out.
19:17
isn't really like super news, but did you guys see like the Phillies game where
19:20
that lady ran over and stole the ball?
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Jerremy: Yes, and I loved your take on it too.
19:24
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: but I didn't comment for three days.
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'cause I'm like, okay, number one, did this really happen?
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Is this right now?
19:29
I always give things a couple days to make sure that it's like real,
19:33
and I think, man, that's only gonna get worse as AI gets better.
19:37
Dave: Yeah.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: That's gonna be tough.
19:38
So I think you gotta find a couple trusted sources.
19:42
That are usually on Substack or X or something like
19:44
that's not traditional media.
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They're not owned by certain people.
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Jerremy: Yeah.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Go on both sides too, because it's,
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Jerremy: yeah.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: everything that Trump does is great.
19:52
I don't trust them.
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Somebody who says everything, Trump, if you can't name, I, that's my test.
19:57
I always ask people when
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Jerremy: Good call.
19:58
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: political.
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I'm like, if they hate Trump, I'm like can you tell me a couple things?
20:02
He is done well, and if they can't, I'm like I disregard everything you think.
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Everything.
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And for the people that are all in Trump, I'm like can you name a couple
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things that you think he doesn't do well?
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And if they can't I'm done with them.
20:14
They're completely like anything they say is gonna be skewed.
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And so I want people that fall in the middle that are looking for truth,
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that are just presenting facts.
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But that's getting harder to find, to be honest.
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Dave: How.
20:26
How much does your own moral compass play into this?
20:30
If things are getting harder to discern?
20:32
And I totally agree with that, right?
20:34
The people that I'm starting to listen to more and more are the ones that
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say, oh, I got this wrong, right?
20:40
They're willing to be like, uhoh, I got taken, or, this was not the right take.
20:45
Tell me about your moral compass and how that plays into
20:48
how you discern information.
20:50
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I think that's such a great point
20:52
and I respect people so much that can admit, when new information comes in,
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it's okay to say I had this one wrong.
20:58
Those are the people I think we should all follow.
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And I think that's a great point for my moral compass.
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The first thing I'll say is I think that too often.
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If people are like, oh man, you voted for Trump in 2024, so you agree with,
21:11
and then they list all the things that I probably don't like that he does,
21:14
or he said, or he, it's no, like I just picked the lesser of two evils.
21:18
So it's understanding that for me if someone voted for Kamala, maybe
21:22
they just thought she was gonna do a better job in a couple areas that
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they cared about more than I did.
21:27
I might have voted the other way 'cause I just thought a couple.
21:29
It doesn't mean you align with everything they've ever done, everything they've ever
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said and we're, we get in these camps now where it's oh, you have to either be over
21:37
here or over there when I believe most of us are like in this, 90% in the middle.
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We're not in these fringe 10 percents.
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So I
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Jerremy: Yeah.
21:45
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: an understanding of that now if
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I peel back the moral compass.
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The thing it's really hard.
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'cause again, I don't probably feel like.
21:54
candidates represent me.
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I'm a Christian Guy.
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Faith leads my life.
21:59
wouldn't leave my kids alone with the nine of the last 10 presidents or presidential
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candidates, if I'm really honest.
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I don't think I would, and so do morally, I think that, they're
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gonna align with everything.
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I think probably not.
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And I think you just have to have an acknowledgement of that.
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And again, pick the best of your choice, but.
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I'll even say this to, to probably get to those levels where you
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think, imagine how craz this is.
22:23
I just Jerremy, you're one of the smartest guys I've ever met.
22:26
I bet you're too smart to say, dude, I have all the answers
22:29
and I could run the world and I could do a perfect job and I'll
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Jerremy: I can't say that.
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Yeah, can't say that.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: really think about it, that's
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what the candidates are saying.
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Nobody's better to run the world.
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Make these decisions than me.
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You've gotta have a really crazy ego, even to think that I think you're probably
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not gonna align with most normal people.
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'cause if you ask me, do you want this job?
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I'm like, no, I don't want the stress.
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No, I don't think I could do it.
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No.
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I, like I would just need to pray constantly to try and ask for wisdom and
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discern I don't think I'd be qualified.
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And I think 99% of the normal people probably think that.
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Then when you get a Trump or a Kamala or a Clinton or a Bush or
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whoever these people are, they're like, yes, I have all the answers.
23:08
I can do it.
23:09
Like you probably need to have some acknowledgement that they're not gonna
23:12
be thinking like most rational, normal people to even get to those levels.
23:16
And I think you can see that in any industry, not just politics.
23:20
Jordan, greatest basketball player ever.
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Sorry, LeBron.
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But man, that dude, his roommate beat him in checkers in college.
23:27
He didn't talk to him for two weeks.
23:29
There's legendary stories, like to be the best, you gotta be a little bit crazy.
23:33
Steve Jobs look at him.
23:35
He thought he could beat cancer by mental toughness and eating fruit.
23:38
He just had.
23:39
This different kind of mindset and I think to get to the very 1
23:44
0 0 0 1%, you have to have that.
23:47
So I think we gotta peel that back and acknowledge that just 'cause you
23:49
vote a certain way doesn't mean you align with everything they think.
23:53
You just have to have a moral framework and say, what's
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the best option for me here?
23:57
Jerremy: Yep.
23:59
Agreed man.
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At some point really what you're describing, I would label as
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the majority of individuals.
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'Cause you're talking about like that massive center.
24:07
And it is interesting that we can't truly, or at least we haven't in
24:13
a very long time, to my current knowledge, had a president, to your
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point that was like, Hey I'm just trying to figure all this stuff out.
24:20
Don't really know the answers.
24:21
Not entirely sure.
24:23
So I'm just gonna have a really good cabinet.
24:26
I'm gonna have some great advisors.
24:27
I'm gonna have some great people on my team.
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I'm gonna have a lot of individuals help me and just discuss and allow everything
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to work out for my best benefit.
24:36
Let's do this together.
24:37
Let's figure this stuff out together.
24:39
It seems like we should.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Bro.
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How refreshing would that be,
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Jerremy: Yeah, it'd be nice.
24:43
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I'm, I've been waiting for a
24:44
candidate to literally come up and say exactly what you said.
24:47
I don't have the like to even ask some crazy question about some.
24:51
Complex issue and just be like, here's my initial take.
24:54
But I would really need to study this more and find people that are smarter than me.
24:57
And, I probably I've changed the way I think about things.
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All smart people do.
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So what's crazy to me is like they'll bring something up from 15 years ago
25:05
and say why did you vote this way?
25:06
And they entrench.
25:08
Even though all the data might show that it was wrong and it like the
25:11
Iraq war, like it's probably okay at this point to say, yeah, I voted
25:15
for it back then because I believed they had weapons of mass destruction.
25:18
But now if I could go back with the information I had, I was wrong.
25:22
Here's what I've learned from this.
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Here's what
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Jerremy: Yeah.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: about it.
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I would
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Jerremy: Yeah.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: person a hundred percent of the time.
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That's my biggest problem probably with politics today, is that nobody will,
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I don't see anybody doing that and
25:34
A pretty frustrating thing.
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Dave: Yeah, it was Kennedy in this last round and Sanders back in 2016.
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Those were the only two politicians I have ever heard.
25:42
Say, oh, I got that wrong and I've changed my mind.
25:45
That was it.
25:46
I'm down with what you're saying, which is like humility is a
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part that is missing for us.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: You respect that a lot.
25:53
And I probably don't agree with a lot of the Bernie Sanders policies, but I
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will say I've heard him in long form on Rogan a couple times and I do agree, I
26:00
think he's a pretty good human who might actually believe in some of the things
26:04
he is saying and has admitted he's wrong.
26:06
And I do respect that a lot, man.
26:08
I think a guy like that I would be more inclined to vote for than again,
26:12
just a. Fill in the blank from a lot of the last people we've had who've never
26:16
made a mistake in their entire life.
26:18
And if you try and tell them they have, they'll just attack
26:20
you to full nuclear till no end.
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Dave: Yeah.
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Jerremy: Yeah hey man, again, being a dad, a great dad by the way.
26:29
I'll throw it out there.
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I,
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: one man.
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Jerremy: yeah, bro you do extremely well.
26:33
Great dad, great husband, great mentor to so many other people out there.
26:37
Picture an ideal voting system for a moment for your kids,
26:42
grandkids, the whole squad, right?
26:45
would it look and feel different from today?
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: That's a great question.
26:51
I've thought about this a little bit, man.
26:52
So number one, I think we nailed it and they should listen to us and they should
26:56
change national policy and we should have november 8th should be just a holiday.
27:00
It's a Tuesday.
27:02
are open at 6:00 AM They don't close till 8:00 PM and it's a national holiday.
27:06
There's no school, families have cookouts and picnics, and it's just
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a, Hey, we're electing leaders today.
27:11
That's what we do.
27:12
So I think that's number one.
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Jerremy: Right on.
27:14
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I think every candidate should have a
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budget and it should be the same budget.
27:18
So you shouldn't just get to be a billionaire and be able to outspend it.
27:21
I read in non presidential races.
27:25
So we're talking about that one.
27:26
I think you can get away with spending less.
27:28
'cause you get so much media coverage, especially if you're like a Trump
27:31
and you can get free media coverage.
27:32
'cause you're, you just say things, you know how to do that.
27:34
But in the local races and not the presidential, it's who spends more money
27:39
wins something like 92% of the time.
27:42
So you're just looking at it's just money.
27:44
And so we've gotta even that playing field and just say, you shouldn't just
27:47
be able to buy a seat in congress.
27:50
And then go in and you see these people that go in that they're worth $6 million
27:54
and then they come out of Congress 10 years later, they've made 170,000 a year,
27:57
but they're somehow worth $237 million.
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Yeah.
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Really weird.
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And so we've
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Jerremy: They're great at poker.
28:04
They're very good at poker.
28:05
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: maybe they're just great man.
28:07
I don't know.
28:07
They never make a bad bet.
28:09
But I think you gotta get money out.
28:10
And so I think in today's day and age, this would be such an easy fix to
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say every candidate gets will cap it.
28:17
For a Senate race, you get $2 million to spend everyone, for a house.
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You get 2 million.
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For local, you get a hundred thousand.
28:24
What we could do is every candidate then could have their own website and
28:29
everybody could have access to this, and they could show their voting record.
28:33
just very clearly lay out what their plans are for the future.
28:36
They could do some long form podcasts where they get in depth about what they
28:39
want to do to fix it, and that's it.
28:42
every citizen can go on and say, okay, here's my choices in this.
28:46
It's not just whose name I've heard or who's on the most
28:49
billboards or who, I don't know how people pick, but I go to vote.
28:52
I didn't even vote for certain people.
28:53
I've never heard of them.
28:55
Even when I try and do some research, it's so confusing.
28:58
But it's I think this could be so well laid out that if you're a candidate,
29:01
you just have your own website.
29:02
Maybe they're all on a, on the same government website, so everybody
29:05
has access to it and everybody has a capped amount you can spend.
29:10
So you cannot just spend, what did the Kamala Harris campaign spend this year?
29:15
Wasn't it a billion?
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Dave: Hundred.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: It's like the craziest amount, and that's
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Dave: Yeah.
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Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Say that Trump probably didn't spend
29:20
a crazy amount too, but it's like, not fix the infrastructure and the veterans'
29:25
rights and the homelessness and that?
29:26
Like why not put some of that money towards actual things
29:30
that'll help the citizens, healthcare and these things, right?
29:33
Mental health instead of.
29:35
We're spending billions of dollars every year for people campaigning.
29:39
That just seems ludicrous to me in today's day and age where we, 99% of
29:44
us have access to the internet and they could just show, here's how I voted.
29:47
Here's what I plan to do.
29:49
Here's my marketing pitch to you.
29:50
Here's the other candidate you decide.
29:53
It seems like it could be that easy.
29:55
Jerremy: That's, yeah, makes sense.
29:58
You said really, you said let's get money out of the system.
30:02
That's what I heard you say in the sense of we've gotta do a better job of that.
30:05
The challenge is that people that are currently in the system and entrenched
30:09
aren't, that's how they're making all their money from insider trading.
30:13
And so they really don't want that to happen.
30:16
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, you're gonna have a hard
30:16
time convincing them that's not a
30:18
It's, if you really go back again it's that law that got passed, citizens
30:22
United, where it said any corporation can act as an individual and donate
30:26
unlimited amounts to politicians.
30:28
This is where everything changed.
30:29
Jerremy: Yeah.
30:30
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: if I'm just the CEO of the
30:32
largest bank in the US right?
30:35
I say to a politician, man, I'll get you elected.
30:39
So here's $50 million.
30:40
But when you get in, you have to vote this certain way in my interest.
30:45
And by the way, we'll give your son a board seat at my bank and
30:48
he'll make $6 million a year to show up to four meetings.
30:50
And by the way, when you retire from this spot, we got a board seat for you.
30:54
And by the way, we'll let you know when our stock's gonna, when
30:56
we're gonna do a stock split.
30:57
So you can, and then most of these people that might even go in with
31:00
good intentions wanting to help.
31:01
Now all of a sudden, man, maybe it's a very immoral thing they need to vote
31:05
for, that's really gonna oppress people.
31:07
Dude, it's $50 million in board seats and all, like most of those
31:11
people just make that choice.
31:12
And if you don't get that out, I think you're just gonna see this
31:15
cycle of maybe people go in with good intentions, maybe people do.
31:19
But man, when you're presented with that kind of stuff, the average
31:23
person is just gonna take the money and justify it in their head.
31:27
Jerremy: Yeah, so here's a good one, man.
31:30
Drawing from your coaching on mindset shifts, 'cause you would classify
31:37
yourself definitely as a mindset coach.
31:39
What are.
31:41
Habit changes that could help everyday people engage
31:45
more effectively with voting.
31:47
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: The biggest one I that I haven't brought
31:49
up yet, and this is how I think you just stay sane in our world today,
31:52
is I did it right before I hopped on.
31:55
I take three or four minutes every morning and I journal out
31:57
a few things I'm grateful for.
31:59
And look, we've talked about some negative stuff.
32:01
There's too much money in politics.
32:03
Some taxes are high, some of these things.
32:04
But if we're really honest and we peel it back, we live in an
32:08
amazing country, in an amazing time.
32:10
The average US citizen, even who lives at the mean lives better than
32:14
kings and queens did, for all of human history, basically, like we're so
32:19
fricking blessed to live where we are.
32:21
Can it be better and should we strive for better?
32:23
Of course.
32:24
But man, if all of us listening here, just take a couple minutes today and think.
32:28
How blessed am I?
32:29
Dude, I can go in a shower and I, it's climate controlled
32:32
and I just have ample food.
32:33
I don't have warring tribes that are coming to invade my home generally,
32:37
and it hasn't been as easy as it's been throughout all of human history
32:41
up until, the end of World War ii.
32:43
We've lived in relative peace if you're in America.
32:46
And so we've had a couple generations of just prosperity in good times
32:49
and that if you look back at human history, that's not the case usually.
32:52
So I think coming at it with a frame of gratitude.
32:56
say gratitude.
32:57
You cannot be grumpy and grateful at the same time, and
33:01
so it's easy to be grumpy, man.
33:02
If I spend 30 minutes reading about political scandals and corruption
33:06
and all that, I can be pretty grumpy.
33:07
My tax dollars are going for this, right?
33:09
I can get in that mindset.
33:11
And I think the antidote to that is just by practicing gratitude every day.
33:15
do this with, by myself.
33:16
I do this with my kids.
33:17
What are we grateful for today?
33:19
School sucked, dad.
33:20
Okay.
33:21
Tell me the best thing about it, right?
33:22
Let's shift that mind from what we might lack to what we're blessed by.
33:26
And so I think that's probably the ultimate hack I have.
33:29
I think today is like 2,358 day in a row or something like this,
33:33
that I've practiced gratitude every morning without fail.
33:37
writing a few things down I'm grateful for, and praying over and thinking about
33:40
those things just sets my mind on that.
33:44
So that, man, I'm not just stuck in traffic.
33:46
And this sucks.
33:47
I'm blessed, I have a car I can turn on a cool podcast and listen to you
33:50
guys, and like there's always blessings and always good things you can find.
33:54
So I think coming at it from that frame is very important.
33:57
Jerremy: Yeah, man, because that's a mindset shift for the listeners,
34:02
my knowledge, to my experience, or to my recollection, you have.
34:06
Something that you focus on and what you focus on is what's gonna bring
34:10
the most energy towards your life.
34:12
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yes.
34:12
Jerremy: So if you do focus more of your energy and bandwidth
34:16
on negative things, negative feelings, outcomes, I'm in traffic.
34:22
Traffic sucks.
34:23
I hate traffic, I hate this.
34:24
This is awful.
34:25
You're going to have more negativity in your life 'cause
34:27
you're focusing on negativity more.
34:29
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: That's right.
34:30
Jerremy: And those negative aspects can be anything.
34:33
It can be bank accounts, it can be.
34:35
Sicknesses.
34:36
It can be family disturbances, it can be there.
34:38
There's, it can trickle down into a wild amount daily meteorites mentally
34:49
that continue to pummel you because you're always focusing on negative.
34:53
But to your point, you start switching over to gratitude.
34:56
I can hear you say this, even if you voted for someone and they did not win.
35:02
You would be very in that camp of, Hey, I, I still have a great house.
35:07
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: yeah.
35:07
Jerremy: a great family.
35:08
I have a great body.
35:10
I love that person.
35:11
Even though I might not agree with all their beliefs, you could still
35:15
have gratitude towards a president
35:18
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Absolutely
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Jerremy: entirely different camp than you as well.
35:21
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: hundred percent.
35:22
Man, this is such a great point.
35:23
I'm glad you bring it up.
35:24
My daughter is in fifth grade this year, but when the election was going
35:28
on, they were doing mock elections, I think, to teach the kids, how
35:31
the voting system works and all.
35:33
And so my daughter came to me and said dad what's gonna happen if Trump wins
35:36
or what's gonna happen if Kamala wins?
35:38
I don't think she expected the answer.
35:40
My answer was, we're still gonna go to church every week.
35:42
We're still going to eat healthy and be healthy.
35:45
We're still gonna make money and be wealthy and prosperous.
35:47
We're still gonna have a loving home.
35:49
Your mom and I are gonna be madly in love.
35:51
We're gonna love you guys.
35:52
Like absolutely nothing is gonna change in your life.
35:55
You need to understand that, and I always say this, and I think you make the,
35:58
probably the best point of this whole podcast so far is that the president is
36:02
maybe gonna change your life a percentage or two if you're in the high end.
36:07
Who's the president for the average person.
36:09
Now, I'm not saying if maybe you're a fringe person out here and they made
36:12
a law that shuts down your business.
36:14
I'm not saying that never happens, right?
36:16
For 98% of us that are in the United States, of the 360 million people, your
36:22
daily actions and habits and your mindset and what you do every day is gonna affect
36:27
your life more than whoever sits in the Oval Office, whoever represents you,
36:32
Jerremy: Come on.
36:33
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, man if Kamala Harris is president right
36:35
now, you know what I'd be doing right now?
36:38
Jerremy: Thing you're doing.
36:38
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: the same thing with Brandon.
36:39
It, it really is man.
36:40
And maybe certain policies might shift this way.
36:42
Might be paying a little more taxes over here, or maybe I'd be
36:45
doing a little better over here.
36:46
I don't know.
36:47
Who knows the domino effect of all this stuff.
36:49
But I think it's important to say and to tell my daughter
36:53
and to even tell yourself.
36:55
It doesn't matter.
36:56
At the end of the day, you should go vote because you have that, right.
36:59
People have fought in blood for that, but at the end of the day, also
37:02
you should root for whoever wins.
37:05
I think this is like a sickness and a really weird thing, man.
37:08
And it happens on both sides.
37:09
Like I, I don't wanna, we don't need to get in the weeds, but I think everybody
37:13
saw Joe Biden wasn't really with it towards the end, and man, I mean there
37:17
was people just saying hope the guy dies.
37:19
I hope his son dies.
37:21
I hope, and then you see with Trump, like he almost gets shot in the face and people
37:25
are like, oh, I wish he just didn't miss.
37:26
And it's man, I feel like if you're coming from that spot in your heart,
37:31
where you're gonna operate from every day, I don't care who the president
37:33
is, you're not gonna be successful.
37:35
You're gonna, you're poisoned.
37:37
if you let politics capture you in that way where you're like wishing
37:40
harm to other human beings and you hate 'em so much that you'll again.
37:45
That's my test.
37:46
If you're smart, if you hate Trump, but you can't admit he did a couple
37:49
things Well, or you hate Biden, but you can't admit he did a couple things.
37:52
You're just not that smart.
37:53
And if he's driving the ship, I'm not rooting for the ship to sink
37:57
'cause we're all on the ship,
37:58
Jerremy: we're all on the ship.
38:00
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: But it seems like we have a, at least
38:02
a quarter, a third of the population.
38:04
It's like that now.
38:05
And I think if you're in that camp and you're listening to that, I would just
38:08
challenge you to peel that back and say maybe you don't like Trump as a person,
38:12
maybe I don't certainly agree with a lot of the things he says or does.
38:15
It's like he'll attack Rosie O'Donnell at 3:00 AM on Twitter.
38:18
I just, I don't know why, like you're the most powerful guy in the world.
38:21
Like I probably wouldn't choose to do that or some of the policies or things he says.
38:25
But at the same time, man, how does that really affect my life today?
38:28
I can still go to the gym, I can still work hard.
38:31
I can still love my kids.
38:32
I can still do all those things.
38:34
You have to acknowledge that your life is a sum of your decisions.
38:39
That's the number one thing.
38:40
Whoever's in office, they're gonna do what they're gonna do.
38:43
And I'm not saying to just completely ignore it, but I am saying to your
38:46
point too, Jerremy, if you just sit there and focus on everything Trump
38:49
does and how much you hate it, dude, you're not gonna live a good life.
38:53
to be honest, we've never had a time where 2025, almost 2026 now, where
38:57
there's endless resources to learn.
38:59
Gain knowledge and gain money and gain, like it's, if you would've told somebody
39:03
a couple hundred years ago, you could just have access to the smartest people in the
39:06
world for free, and you can learn from it.
39:10
But yet many people will spend a few hours a day complaining about politics
39:13
or whining about this or that when they could just a hundred x of their life by
39:18
just learning new skill sets and going and implementing those from smart people
39:22
and their health and fixing some of their relationships and things like that.
39:26
And so that's a harder thing to do.
39:28
It's much easier to just whine about if only this person was
39:31
president, my life would be better.
39:34
But where does that get you?
39:35
And I
39:35
Jerremy: Right.
39:36
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: comes back to that personal
39:37
responsibility and ownership of your life.
39:39
It doesn't matter who the president is for me, my family's gonna be successful.
39:43
I would guarantee both of you men are in the same boat.
39:45
Doesn't really matter, man, whoever gets, if it's JD Vance,
39:48
Gavin Newsom, name, a name.
39:51
We will all find a way to be healthy, wealthy, thriving, doing well, because
39:56
that's who we're, that's what, that's the decisions we're gonna make, right?
39:58
And I think if more people approach life like that would
40:01
actually be the best thing ever.
40:02
For families, for economies, for, like, how can I be the
40:05
best husband, the best dad?
40:07
How can I make more money?
40:08
How can I be healthier?
40:09
How can I impact my community?
40:11
How can I do these if I put a lot of, that's why I put 99%
40:15
of my energy into those things.
40:17
Then sure, I'll put a percent or two into who I'm gonna vote for with the
40:20
acknowledgement that it's probably not gonna change my life that much.
40:23
Dave: So given your large community, hundreds of thousands of people
40:28
have sought you out and have changed their lives, and they're
40:34
affecting millions of people.
40:37
How do we help people that are in those dark places of rooting for
40:43
somebody else to fail of rooting for the death of other people?
40:47
That's a really dark place.
40:48
How do we help them?
40:51
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: that's a great question.
40:51
I hate to say it, but some people I'm not sure you can.
40:55
I think you can ask questions and you can be kind you can be loving.
41:00
I'm a real big, like personal choice and personal ownership and.
41:04
person's gonna make their decisions.
41:05
I even tell my kids this, man I want my kids to be so successful
41:09
more than anything in the world.
41:10
I would root for my kids, but I tell 'em all the time, it's gonna be your choices.
41:14
Dad can't be there every minute of the day to make sure you're getting
41:19
up and thinking the right thing, putting the right things in your
41:20
mind and doing these things right?
41:22
And yeah, we can show a better way.
41:25
And it's like that old saying, you can lead a horse to water.
41:27
You can't make 'em drink.
41:29
had people who have literally come on my Twitter page and trolled me
41:33
for three or four years straight, literally you're an idiot.
41:37
You're a this or that.
41:38
And then after something clicked in 'em four years later where they're
41:41
like, man, I just wanted to say sorry.
41:43
And thanks.
41:44
I'm really starting to do this gratitude stuff and I see it
41:46
makes a, or this or that, right?
41:48
And so I go back to the guy that I follow, man who was killed
41:52
a couple thousand years ago.
41:53
Jesus.
41:54
one of my favorite stories of him is he finds this rich, young ruler and the guy
41:59
says to him, how do I have eternal life?
42:01
And Jesus says, it's real easy, man.
42:02
You're doing all the right things.
42:03
Just go sell your stuff and come follow me.
42:06
And it says, the guy was really sad because he had a lot of stuff, he
42:09
didn't wanna sell it, what I see from that is Jesus said, okay, he went
42:13
on his way, he went on his mission.
42:14
It was like the next one.
42:15
He was gonna preach the gospel to the next.
42:17
What he didn't do is tell the guy all the reasons he was wrong.
42:20
Follow him for months and yell at him and tell him he was
42:22
stupid and try and convince him.
42:25
He just presented, he showed a better way and he kept on his mission.
42:29
And what I look at when I, see even knowing a guy like Jerremy.
42:32
Your mission is so evident, man.
42:35
You impact so many people, you make their lives better.
42:39
man there's gonna be people that see you and probably, oh, that guy's a scammer.
42:43
That guy's a, I'm sure you get it.
42:45
I get it.
42:45
I got called a grifter 'cause I tried to get people to walk.
42:48
I'm like, how am I making money off telling you to hit a certain
42:50
amount of steps every day?
42:51
But there's some people that are just stuck in this mindset.
42:55
And I think, again, you lend a hand.
42:57
You offer to show them a better way.
42:59
You relentlessly be kind and positive, but it's an acknowledgement that
43:03
every single person has to take agency and ownership of their life until
43:07
some people are ready to do that.
43:09
I hate to say it, but you cannot help them.
43:11
Jerremy: And what's interesting, man, is I think, again, my ultimate belief,
43:15
one of my ultimate perspectives.
43:17
This message, the one that you are sharing, you just shared,
43:21
we are kinda sharing today.
43:23
is the one that we need from the top down.
43:26
That's the message that we need to hear in the media Often and as much
43:31
as Tony Robbins has tried and Marm Williamson has tried, and Alan Watts
43:36
and Earl Nightingale, Les Brown, Rene Brown, Leslie Nichols, as much of these
43:43
individuals have tried, we haven't had anyone in that very prominent seat
43:48
and the prominent power in government.
43:51
To really say those words, and that's probably one of my biggest dreams
43:56
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man
43:57
Jerremy: to be that mouthpiece or to be in a position where we can get
44:01
individuals together and we can just pour light into them and pour awareness
44:05
and these tiny little mental shifts where we can collaborate together and
44:13
simply say, this is where we're going.
44:15
This seems like the best idea overall.
44:18
We did go to the moon in the late sixties 'cause Kennedy was like, Hey, guess what
44:22
we're doing guys, the whole country?
44:25
Guess what we're doing?
44:26
Stop playing baseball.
44:28
what we're doing.
44:29
Almost right.
44:30
Just really a massive singular focus if we got this country singularly focused from
44:35
the top down on health, on vitality, on positive mindset, on an abundance mindset,
44:43
on a helping and collaboration mindset.
44:47
We would not only change the entire legacy of the country, but we would
44:51
start shifting the entire approach of the world because obviously I think
44:55
America is that beacon for so many other individuals, other countries, other
44:58
places, that's how we can create an absolute spark of hope and joy and peace.
45:06
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man that, that fires me up even thinking
45:08
about it, like how refreshing would that be if you just had leaders like
45:11
instead of tweeting every day, like Gavin Newsom's Scum, and then Gavin
45:15
Newsom tweeting, Trump is an idiot.
45:17
How great would it be if like our leaders were just like uplifting people?
45:22
Jerremy: Yep.
45:22
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Oh and just like promoting
45:24
that kind of positivity.
45:25
You mentioned JFK Man, and I recently read a pretty good book called
45:28
Profiles Encouraged by JFK and yeah, man he's the last one I looked to.
45:31
He admitted he was wrong with Bay of Pigs.
45:35
And he was in my mind, and maybe I'm wrong here, but one of the last leaders
45:39
to do a lot of those things you were saying, and, see what happened to him.
45:43
Some people
45:45
Jerremy: Yeah.
45:45
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: that and where
45:46
Jerremy: Yep.
45:47
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: that was going.
45:47
And pretty dark if you think of it from that lens.
45:51
I thought the other day like.
45:53
If a politician was to come and preach on personal responsibility
45:56
now, they'd just be laughed out.
45:58
Laughed.
45:59
Like JFK was like, it's not what your country can do for you, it's what you can
46:02
do for your, like that kind of message.
46:03
And he was a Democrat.
46:05
Imagine if a guy from the left came in saying that right now.
46:08
What can you do for your country?
46:09
Let's pick yourself up and let's work hard and let's, dude
46:12
they wouldn't even get to the,
46:13
Jerremy: Yep.
46:13
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: way they'd even be considered.
46:16
but it's yeah, I feel like we do need a shift in that kind of energy.
46:19
Jerremy: We do, man.
46:20
We definitely do.
46:22
All right how about this?
46:23
Let's just lightning round potentially.
46:27
What's one rule the American government currently that just baffles you?
46:35
Like how is this even.
46:37
Old Eagle.
46:39
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I mean that we don't investigate,
46:42
representatives for coming into office 2.1 million and exiting
46:49
worth 440,000,014 years later.
46:52
And where does the money come from?
46:54
You shouldn't be able to inside or trade and do it.
46:56
I get arrested Jerremy if me and the CEO of a company and he tips
47:00
us off that they're gonna go public in this certain time, or there's
47:02
gonna be a stock splitter and we buy the stock and we make $10 million.
47:06
We are gonna go to prison
47:08
Jerremy: Yeah.
47:08
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Martha Stewart Prison where you
47:09
just play yoga, you're gonna go to prison and guys like us probably
47:12
wouldn't farewell there, and
47:14
Jerremy: Yep.
47:14
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: there's a massive incentive for us.
47:17
To not steal and cheat and insider trade and do those things.
47:20
There's no incentive for these people to not do this.
47:22
There's none.
47:23
The one that baffled my mind that got passed a few years ago was they added
47:27
a bunch of IRS agents and then Congress made it exempt for them to be audited.
47:33
So they added like 70,000 IRS agents.
47:36
And you can check this, but this was like, think four or five years
47:38
ago, and then they made it exempt.
47:40
So you could, they cannot be audited.
47:43
House of Representatives are congressmen, and I'm like, you're basically just
47:47
telling everybody we're super corrupt, we're stealing, we insider trade, we
47:50
steep, we cheat, we steal, but also you can't look at us that just blows my mind.
47:55
That's like a thing.
47:55
And that we, the people are just like cool with it.
47:57
I guess that's fine.
47:58
Like that's pretty, that blows my mind, man.
48:01
Jerremy: Yeah, that one's a big one.
48:03
That one's a big one.
48:04
That would be, it doesn't, it's not voting specifically related, but if I had a
48:08
magic wand, that's certainly one aspect of senators, representatives, congresspeople.
48:14
Like you can't buy individual stocks.
48:16
That's obviously the most illegal thing.
48:18
You are working directly with not only the laws that create more wealth or less
48:23
wealth for individual companies, but you're talking to the CEOs and making
48:28
what's either gonna make that company more viable or less viable, and they are
48:31
getting shares and opportunities, right?
48:34
Nancy's it's not me.
48:35
I'm not making the trades.
48:36
My husband is doing it.
48:39
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah
48:40
Jerremy: so n now that I'm not saying they can't invest, right?
48:43
Absolutely.
48:43
Investments a broader market.
48:44
ETFs, you can do that all day, but your mind to the Fs and P
48:47
500, we don't want anyone to go broke, but into individual names.
48:52
Yeah, that one is just almost a, it's not almost, it's a head scratcher.
48:57
Huge head scratcher.
48:58
Dave: Or three words, conflict of inter.
49:01
Do all of your shenanigans.
49:03
Like fine.
49:03
There's gonna be that, but you can't vote on it.
49:05
You can't accept money on it.
49:07
If you accept money from somebody, then you don't get to vote on those things.
49:10
That seems really basic.
49:12
When it gets down to it, it doesn't feel fair.
49:16
And like you guys have kids, and I'm sure you've heard it, for years and years.
49:20
That's not fair.
49:22
But there is a basic fairness in the American spirit.
49:27
That is if it doesn't matter for you, but it matters for me, then that's just wrong.
49:33
Like you don't get to have your own special courts or your own special rules.
49:39
It's the Epstein stuff, like you might get wrapped around the axle about it
49:43
specifically, but that's not the point.
49:45
The point is it feels like that there's this whole group of people where the
49:49
rules don't matter, the laws don't matter, and it's if you're leading,
49:54
we want you to be super citizens.
49:56
Like you should have extra laws, not fewer laws.
50:00
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah.
50:01
When it's rules for the, not rules for me, the not for me.
50:04
Yeah.
50:04
I think that's a big problem.
50:05
And I think that was really highlighted during COVID too, right?
50:07
Where you would see these people flying in their private jets to
50:12
have parties with their elite people while telling you're a grandma
50:16
killer and you can't see your family.
50:17
And like that was just crazy.
50:19
I do think that, the more they squeeze and the more people see that.
50:23
Which we are, the more pushback there is.
50:25
And I just wonder when that point will happen, when people
50:27
are like, enough's enough.
50:29
Like enough is enough.
50:30
Like we've got to do something about this.
50:31
'cause it is really wild, man, that when you see the money that some, and it's
50:35
on both sides, like Nancy Pelosi's kind of poster child for it, but man, you
50:39
can look at both sides of Republican Democrat and that's why I think one
50:42
and the same almost in a lot of ways.
50:45
us fighting over these social issues all the time, while all of
50:47
them just continue to make tens of hundreds of millions of dollars.
50:52
as long as we're all down here fighting over these social issues,
50:54
they just get to keep doing it.
50:56
And to me, that might be the point,
50:58
Jerremy: yeah.
50:58
Keep what?
50:59
What's the the emperor circus?
51:00
Just keep everyone looking away.
51:03
Keep 'em distracted.
51:04
Keep 'em uninformed.
51:06
Unaware.
51:07
Tyler, this has been so refreshing, man.
51:09
Energetic, exciting, useful For our listeners, I just wanna say thanks,
51:14
man, for waking up at 5:00 AM West Coast time getting prepped for this.
51:18
Dave, thanks for spending.
51:20
17 hours a day outta your 24 hours a day to make sure that
51:23
this show runs super smoothly.
51:25
Man, it's been an honor.
51:26
I am 100% confident.
51:28
Many of your listeners, your followers will have gained only some knowledge,
51:31
but some insight on not only how you think, but how we can just tweak, how
51:36
we can adjust, how we can think more clearly, how we can pray and ponder.
51:41
How we can make better decisions, how we can decide.
51:44
You said gain wisdom.
51:46
Wisdom generally is gained from asking and from opening up and from receiving
51:50
and from knowing that we don't have all the answers and that someone can give
51:53
us enlightenment, someone can give us help, someone can give us assistance.
51:56
It doesn't always have to be us.
51:57
So thank you, Matt, for being here and for doing that for so many.
51:59
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Man.
52:00
Thank you.
52:00
It's an honor.
52:01
You guys are awesome, man.
52:02
It's really cool to come on here and listen to you guys already.
52:04
And I can't wait to share this one.
52:06
And what you said too, man, is like the last point I'd make is that.
52:09
If you don't agree with me on something or I don't agree with you,
52:12
that doesn't make us enemies, right?
52:13
Maybe we voted a different way, but maybe I've learned some things since then.
52:17
Maybe you have, maybe we can discuss those ideas respectfully and kindly,
52:20
and that's how we all grow and learn.
52:22
We're in a hyper political climate now where I think some people might
52:25
listen and just, oh, he thinks this.
52:27
I hate him.
52:28
He's my enemy.
52:29
I'm not your enemy.
52:30
I'm nobody's enemy in this stuff.
52:32
We shouldn't be thinking like that.
52:34
And so I love that you guys can bring ideas together where we can just
52:37
talk about things in a respectful environment and share ideas and.
52:41
Maybe if we did this again in five years, I'd have a completely different
52:43
take on something I would've learned something that would've changed.
52:45
But I think that's the point of life is we have
52:47
Just try and learn and grow.
52:48
So I appreciate you guys providing a space for that.
52:50
It's awesome.
52:52
Jerremy: got it my man.
52:52
Thank you Tyler for being here.
52:53
Appreciate you, bro.
52:55
Doing content with Dave Conley.
52:58
Top five favorite things of my life.
53:01
what'd you learn in that episode with Tyler?
53:03
Dave: I'm gonna tell you what I didn't learn first,
53:05
Jerremy: Didn't learn.
53:06
shoot.
53:07
Okay.
53:08
Flipping it.
53:09
Dave: didn't learn anything new about the problem.
53:12
Didn't learn anything new about the solutions.
53:14
What I love about that is that what stood out for me, what I did learn, what
53:19
really changed my day to day, because it's still early in the morning, is that.
53:26
Unrelenting positivity is how we're going to change the most, and we
53:31
see none of that in our leaders.
53:34
We see none of it in our politicians.
53:38
There is nobody out there that is just incredibly positive about stuff.
53:45
there's actually one politician that I listen to that I get.
53:49
Which is Massey on the Republican side.
53:52
The congressman from, I think Kentucky.
53:55
He's pretty positive dude, when I hear him and it's such a refreshing thing yeah,
54:00
you might not be able to help everybody.
54:02
In fact, that's probably not what people want to hear of.
54:06
I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.
54:07
be the example, be the person that's yeah, I want to make changes, and these
54:11
are all the exciting things about it.
54:13
it is positivity into what seems like darkness right now.
54:17
How about you?
54:18
Jerremy: I learned that people care.
54:19
That's the thing, man.
54:20
We keep getting people on the podcast and having discussions about the
54:24
democratic process and dialing in and tuning in and caring and people do care.
54:29
Dave: Yeah.
54:30
Jerremy: We are making changes and we are making shifts and I
54:32
love seeing, someone like Tyler who is what I would say is just.
54:39
work and time energy in the betterment of or mankind or his community and the
54:43
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54:46
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