879: How Politics is Changing for Young People | Week in Review

Brian Nichols  0:00  
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Remso Martinez  2:01  
I'm trying to get like the what was it the the eyebrow of justice that The Rock had because I want my like, if somebody was like, were you like picking your nose? You're scratching your face or something. Last time I was on the show. And it's like, I get nervous. Like, right the moment I go on camera, so I tried, like holding this for like the past like 20 minutes. And it was fine until like, I just saw myself and it's like this.

Brian Nichols  2:28  
What are the kids call that nowadays like bleak or amusing word? That like you're supposed to be more in and Gen alpha, man, they got more outstanding. It's all

Remso Martinez  2:38  
ruined now. So I'm doing good.

Brian Nichols  2:41  
Otherwise, good. While Renzo since you were on the show by a while is last week. Yeah. So what's been new since you last were on the show? Ah, well, I

Remso Martinez  2:52  
mean, what's new for me, it's new for everybody. This is this is an election that is straight out of like South Park. And, you know, it's it's one of those things where I live in the world of commentary. And for the first time ever, I'm basically seeing a lot of people who have really nothing to say, and it's not because they don't have valid opinions, but because by the time they go ahead and formulate something, it's like, Okay, gotta throw it out the window, okay, we need to go ahead and gather around Trump. It's like Trump gets shot out. It's like, we need to vote for him harder, then it's like, okay, we need to focus entirely on Biden, no swapping the black lady. It's like, okay, Obama's gonna stay out of this one because he isn't like anybody, oh, he just endorsed Kamala, it's like, you know, next next month, we're going to be dealing with like, you know, an Independence Day Will Smith scenario where we're being invaded by aliens and stuff. It's hard to it's hard. It's hard enough to go ahead and stay on top of everything. It's even harder to stay on top of things. Really think about what you think about them, and then have everything changed out in just under a couple of hours. It's wild. I was I was literally in TJ Maxx with my wife on Tuesday. I'm sorry, on Sunday, when Biden dropped out. And I was just walking around in like the cheap clone section. And next, you know, people start blowing up my phone, put it up. And it's like, oh, Biden's out. And I'm like, shit. I wasn't saying that. Because I wanted Joe to stay in or because I was, like, deeply impacted by Joe dropping out of the race. I was like, shoot, I have to change up all my plans this week. Got to change the emails over here got to change the pieces over there got to figure out all my talking points to go ahead and focus on cackling Comala and it's just like as soon as you think you can get a weekend off, everything changes. So maybe this time we can go ahead and help people out and tell them what they missed this week.

Brian Nichols  4:56  
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Remso Martinez  5:14  
shirt off.

Brian Nichols  5:15  
You're gonna take your shirt off for 10 retweets. 10 retweets, salted eggs. Yeah, cheap. All right. I love it.

Unknown Speaker  5:23  
Fun time.

Brian Nichols  5:24  
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Remso Martinez  5:40  
Those often you can always you can always count on advice to come up with like the most wild random stuff. It's like, you know, it's like ad libs. It's like insert a persecuted minority group. Insert sexual preference, insert drugs insert random country plus fights against and it's always either like fascism or white supremacy.

Brian Nichols  6:00  
Yeah, F in the news article F in the chats for the dolphins. All right, let's go ahead and we're gonna check out an article written by our mutual buddy Austin Peterson over on amp America. Here we go. This is Austin's article Trump Democrats and the battle for America's soul. Right now rim. So I mean, we are at a point where America soul really is it's kind of like I think split right down the middle, you have one side of the aisle who they are entirely okay with the way things have been going. As a matter of fact, they think it needs to continue. It needs to, you know, pedal to the metal, so to speak. But also on the other side of the aisle. There's the folks I would say more on our side of the aisle in that case, who look at what's going on say this is insane. This is batshit insane. And the soul for our country has been so divided in terms of these two different ideological splits. So talk to us Renzo. I mean, we're facing this battle for America soul right now. Where are you seeing these battle? These battlegrounds really coming down to

Remso Martinez  7:07  
it in Austin's piece, to just kind of reflect on that for a second, he really distills things down to something that I've been arguing for, which is that people are not divided. Based off race, people are not divided, based on the things that they think they are, according to the media, were divided on an idea of what's better for us. And I think the things that unite us is something that we've seen across a lot of the amp America pieces, including my recent piece a couple of weeks ago, which is I think that Americans are divided by class. And I know that they're, you know, probably listeners who are like, Oh, he's talking about class structure. He's a Marxist. You know, like things like postmodern capitalism, for example, I would tell you that I believe in postmodern capitalism, which is this idea that the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poor, and the middle class is shrinking, but not the way we

Brian Nichols  7:58  
acknowledged was happening back during the COVID pandemic, with the trillions of dollars just printed out of thin air, and we called it then we said, this is the biggest wealth transfer in human history, which

Remso Martinez  8:11  
is why you know, and people are like, Oh, that's a Marxist point, I'm like, but it's not even that. It's because as you just mentioned, the government got involved. It's artificial, they're picking winners and losers. They're bailing out their buddies, they are in they're incentivizing bad behavior in the market. And because of that, you're getting these pseudo monopolies that are all government sanctioned, the government says they don't like monopolies, they only don't like monopolies they don't control. So in that regard, that's something to focus on. But, you know, I think a lot of people are starting to realize it's like when you look at the basics, and I know a lot of people who are very wealthy who are now starting to say, like, let's say, like groceries are getting ridiculous gas is getting ridiculous. The concept of I can take money, and put it in a high interest savings account, or I can put money over here and save it for vacation. Those are the things that unite people. So it's this idea that we need to be united more off of our common struggle is just everyday regular people. And we need to stop being divided by the things that are being put towards us. I think the big thing about the Spear of our nation is that we no longer see each other as people that have our mutual interests aligned. I used to get so much shit from people I used to say that George Bush was the worst president of my lifetime, and then they'll say Obama, Obama, and I'm just like, man, like Obama didn't do anything that Bush did not do, or Bush set into motion. Obama was really just a continuation of the third term of George Bush when you just look at everything he did, from foreign policy, to, you know, to socialized health care and everything else. I mean, Obama didn't create Get multiple agencies to spy on people overnight. He just took this and he was like, this looks pretty good. Well, let's go ahead and stick with it my grand soup. Yeah. So it was it was one of those things where it's like after 911 We all see each other as Americans. I mean, it's why George Bush had like a 70% approval rating on September 12 2001. And why it took I think it was 90%

Brian Nichols  10:21  
it was insane. It was historic. It

Remso Martinez  10:25  
was like Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor. But then what you have is three years of just lying and gaslighting the American people. I mean, Brian, I grew up outside of a place called Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and my hometown, my hometown was a place called Sierra Vista. So you know, big military community, I remember going to the local Cinemark. And for like a year, right before the movie played, they would go ahead and play like a montage for the Pledge of Allegiance. And people would like stand up for it. And then they played like the Star Spangled Banner and stuff like that. And it was just like everyone is American. What they used was they used our commonalities, they used our common interests to weaponize ourselves to go ahead and believe the most deranged shit. That's why I get upset with libertarians who are almost like, anti American to a degree, I understand where they're coming from, in the sense that the last time you know, nationalism and patriotism were used to unite people, it was used for malicious purposes. But that has gotten to the point where it's like this idea of a common culture a common national identity. It's so you know, it's it's been bastardized so much that they

Brian Nichols  11:39  
baked it into the cake. Yeah. And unnecessarily so yeah,

Remso Martinez  11:44  
I mean, this is a it's it's, it's become a sad point in America, we're putting the American flag out, has become a political statement. And you can almost tell who somebody is, I think the soul of the country is this we have tried to, you know, micro individualize each other to the point where the idea of community is also like the idea of setting yourself up to be like, knocked on by your neighbors during the next lockdown. I think it's going to take a moment of national revival, I think it's going to have to start from the ground up. And it's got to be people holding themselves and their government accountable. And those are, you know, those are basic talking points. But that's where we're at, like, we're not being United States of America. We're the United borders, have a bunch of people who collectively don't like each other. But we have to figure it out. And with Trump, I think we know when he wins, if he wins, knock on wood, it's got to be at this point where, you know, he's got to remind people, it's like, you might not like me, you might not have voted for me, but I am your president, and I'm going to do what's best for you.

Brian Nichols  12:45  
Yeah. And by the way rooms, this kind of goes to the split, you're talking about two, we're also seeing a realignment, right? And one of those realignments we're seeing is it's something that's been happening for a while, but really, it's hard to just distinctly showcase itself and that is the fact that men are jumping into the Trump camp. They're jumping into the JD Vance camp and a lot of it, I dare say is it's got to do to the feminization as Austin points out here in his article, the feminization of society is pushing men, including black and Latino men towards the Republican camp. That Democratic Party became the party of unmarried women or women and it shows I mean, yeah, man. Well, that's that's kind of what I'm feeling too. And I'm seeing this on social media is that since Kamala Harris has taken over as the torchbearer for the Democratic Party, the the, the lines between the battle of the sexes, man on one side, women on the other, it really seems to have reared its ugly head. And I'm seeing there's the one virtue signaling post going across the social medias right now, when you say ignorant things about women in power, they don't see it, but your wife does. Your grandmother does. Your sister does your daughter does and it's their way of saying, I'm gonna make it so I'm virtue signaling. So you can't say mean things about Kamala Harris. So there and it's like, okay, so that's the the political conversation we're going to have. Meanwhile, men are just saying, Yep, I'm done. I'm not playing this stupid game, and they're jumping to Trump in droves. Now, the question remains, though, is, is that enough? Is that enough to not only change the political winds back towards the Donald Trump presidency, but also it isn't going to be enough to save the country. And I'm not saying it's men versus women to save the country. But there has been a growing disconnect between the sexes in terms of priorities like men have been looking at more of where we are, from a government standpoint, a country standpoint, saying yeah, this isn't working. Whereas it seems the the women's side of the aisle and I wish we had a woman on the show to talk about this, but it seems that that's much more focused on well, you know, its feelings, its emotions. It's Can we all get along? And can I feel empowered? Can I feel represented? versus, you know, Representative by what? And what's it accomplishing anything? That's the discrepancy. I'm seeing what say you?

Remso Martinez  15:10  
I completely agree with you. And largely elections are not about who shows up? And who says they're going to show up. But who actually does. There's a reason why almost every election is dictated by the boomers. It's about who goes to the villages, it's about who's talking about Social Security and Medicaid, and that type of thing, because young people just historically don't show up. And that's not a generational thing. That's just the historic thing, because we don't see ourselves as part of the process, you know, with, with the Republicans being the party of you know, like, men and families and the Democrats being the party of like, you know, the single, unmarried, childless cat ladies as JD Vance called them and people are going after that. It's like, argue that it's not true. And what I will say is that I think that the realignments are making the Republican Party, a family focused party, a working class party, you know, people got mad because like you had, like the teamsters union president, they're like, Listen, man, like I live in Wisconsin, like I have problems of the unions, but I will just, you know, I'll call a spade a spade, the unions have many problems, but they've kept, you know, bands of illegal immigrants off the streets of Milwaukee, and they've kept jobs in Wisconsin. So you know, they might be anti libertarian solutions to achieve, you know, safety and security and jobs, security and that type of thing. But, you know, when you look at the situation, it's like, what would I rather deal with the unions keeping that around, or Chicago, where there's really not much going on, but the police stations are flooded with bands of migrants, and crime is out of the wazoo, and jobs are leaving Illinois, like, you just gotta look at this and be like, you've got to like, pick and choose the shitshow you want to deal with, and make your make your choice from there. I can definitely say, and I see this with a lot of commentators, female commentators, who are two things, either they make more money than their man. And they might not say this matters, but it does. They either make more money than their man, or they're single, and they're in their mid to late 30s, I can absolutely tell you that when I got married, my life completely changed. And I think for a lot of men, I think when men get married, and when women become mothers, their whole focus in life goes from I, me, me, me, so we, and it changes. And I don't think and I see this with my friends who are even some in some cases younger than I am, who have kids. They're in a different plane of life than me. They're on a different level of maturity and life focus on me because it changes once you take that other step, you probably felt that when you became a father, you can't become a married family man. And still think that in this case, the Democratic Party has any interest of yours. If anything, they're antithetical to the family. Well,

Brian Nichols  18:00  
and by the way, rooms Oh, that goes to our next article. I love that you set me up for a segue. It's like you did that on purpose. Where are the millennials right now? Right? We look at the millennials, and there really has been nobody to represent them. In Washington when we're looking at you know, the executive branch and JD Vance. love them or hate them. This is not a JD Vance love or hate podcast or rather, an acknowledgment, he is basically the only person we've had. That's a millennial. That's actually playing the role of speaking for millennials and Millennial issues like, and by the way, again, this is not if you agree or disagree, but at least he's having a voice at the table versus trying to defer millennial, you know, pain points and issues of concern to the likes of Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnell or Chuck Schumer, because they definitely know the struggles that millennials face. I'm definitely not but this is an article from Jimmy Pope, and she's talking about how Vance JD Vance has proved that millennials and younger voters can have a seat at the adult table for one's rim. So talk to us about that. How important is it for millennials to now that we're Yes, in our 30s and in some cases, 40s. Now actually having a seat at the table and having a role in deciding our public policy.

Remso Martinez  19:19  
I think it's really good that Jamie was the one who wrote this because Jamie Pope ran for state office in the state of Louisiana. She's a political activist and Louisiana policy. And, you know, she talks about it later on, like she was dismissed because of her age. And she's often seen other millennials and younger folks to write it because they get involved in the political process. And I think it's so funny because I had to actually think about the other day when I was editing this piece, the the arguments against JD Vance based off his age and his, quote, lack of political experience, as the Palumbo is out there in the world. We'll say it's like he's not qualified to be vice president. It's like I'm sorry, he didn't go Oh, so like, you know, a fee luncheon or something like calm down. But it's, you know, it's all the same arguments. I've actually tried to use it against Barack Obama in 2008. If you think about it, he's a junior senator, he's young. How was he supposed to go ahead and talk to the boomers who are voting on Social Security and Medicaid, they try going after that, which is why the current thing is like, you know, they're trying to attack him because of, you know, the party of unwed, single cat lady women's. Now they're also going after him because of his age. So Kamala is young enough. Joe is not too old. But JD Vance is too young and too inexperienced. It's like they're trying to have their cake and eat it too. And I think what Jamie really levels in this piece is like, we've come to the point where they can't deny us this. Yeah. Because it's not like they got some like, you know, if they if they had to, I'm talking like completely hyperbolic here, that you somebody like a Jake Paul, or a Logan, Paul, that's ridiculous. But to pick somebody like JD Vance, who has been a business owner who has led an extremely successful life and, you know, has has served enough of his first term where it's like, okay, like, it's not like he got elected yesterday, like Josh Hawley, from Missouri. And I mean, this is this is so funny. It's like, Josh Hawley had to like just been elected Attorney General from Missouri. And then he went immediately ran a Senate campaign, at least, that was our whole thing. So

Brian Nichols  21:26  
when Austin ran, that was one of those holes, there was the climbing ladders.

Remso Martinez  21:31  
Ladder thing. And, you know, this isn't really I wouldn't put it in the same case. And I mean, I wouldn't have even said that was the same case. For Obama, maybe less because Obama actually went and ran for president. Like, that was a thing like Vance is not running for president. But it's one of these situations where now the millennials, we're going to be within the next two major election cycles, the predominant voting class. Yep. And now we're having families and now we're paying taxes. And we're growing up in a housing crisis, and a very strict, you know, and horrible inflationary environment. You know, millennials have gotten to the point where it's like, you know, we look for the adults in the room. We're the adults guys. And Jamie points that out very well. It's like we're the adults and in cases like her, she's like, and we're ready to lead. We've seen enough we've done enough we've earned our scars, we are ready to lead. And you know what, she concludes the piece so if you if you could pull it up? I want to actually quote her on this. Let's scroll to the bottom. Okay, right there. There have been comments about not enough experience and politics for me that's a huge plus huge how, how can we have all these conversations about term limits than frown when some frown upon someone for not being a career politician? Here's the hoping for a young face with fresh ideas and unmatchable determination.

Brian Nichols  22:56  
I mean, right there Renzo that speaks to where there is a desire, I daresay a demand for some fresh, some fresh blood at the table, right, like who was the GOP just surprise star over the past 12 months. Vivek Remo Swanee. He came out of nowhere like Vegas been on the national scene for a couple of years. But in terms of actually like, becoming a persona, the the Republican primary he went out guns blazing. I mean, he listening to the podcast that the vape did to was very entertaining, because you got to hear his approach. He's very transparent. He's like, Ron's a nice guy. But I'm not going to spend my time and energy on Ron because frankly, I don't think he really knows what he's supposed to be saying. He's just waiting to be told what to say. I think he's a nice dude. I'll let him do his thing. Who did Vivek spend his time, energy and efforts going after Nikki? Haley? Why? Because Nikki Haley is the embodiment of the GOP from yesteryear. She was on the board of Boeing she is bought and paid for by the big entities like Raytheon, like Halliburton, and I daresay if we dig in enough, we're gonna find all the tried and true names like brought to you by Pfizer, stuff like that. And Nikki Haley, she absolutely needed to be shut down during the GOP primaries because not only I think the GOP voter across the board is tired of the GOP from yesteryear, but it goes back to millennials are so tired of being lectured to by the older generations about how we just don't know what we don't know. We don't have the life experience. We will figure it out when we're older. Okay, that might be true. When we're like 16. Guys, we're in our 30s now in our 40s. Now we've we've got careers, we've got families we've been hired and fired and we've had tragedies. We've had great instances in our lives. We've been through a lot of shit, and it's so demeaning for those all For generations to sit there and say like, oh, well, you just You're not old enough, yet. You're not mature enough. Yet. It's like no, no, no, the millennials were the ones who are actually making things happen. We're the ones who are in those those jobs right now that you used to hold 2030 years ago. We're the ones making the infrastructure, making the things that you built, yes, older generations you built, but we're the ones keeping them working and trying to bring them forward to the next level. And it just there is such a disrespect, when it comes from these older generations towards the younger generations. And man, I'm hoping, praying that come 2028 2032 Like, we are not just getting some fresh blood in the nomination process. But I'm hoping that we can see across the board, right, like I would love to see millennials leading both the Republican, Democratic libertarian independent, I don't care which party, I want to see more millennials at the table, because we're the ones who need to have our voices heard, because we're the ones making shit happen.

Remso Martinez  26:02  
Yeah, I say that, you know, the one thing that AOC, for example, and Vivek Ramaswamy have is they both represent like the Van Wilder generation. They're like those elder millennials, that grew up to remember enough of George Bush, and they probably voted for Obama in their first election. And over time, as they start to just kind of see the churn and burn of the political nature. The one thing that you can expect from Vivek on the right and AOC on the left, is that they're gonna tell you exactly how it is, millennials lost the filter. Because what we crave is we crave authenticity, whether we agree or not, we crave authenticity,

Brian Nichols  26:42  
by the way, are doing so well. Because you don't have the three minute sector news segment to hide your own authenticity, you have to be willing to speak for an hour to three hours, completely unfiltered, as you are

Remso Martinez  26:53  
sorry. No, no, exactly. And, you know, it's one of those things where it's that elder millennial generation, which I think represents like the last great generation in America for all the problems that millennials are brought on. Like, we know what matters. And it's one of those situations where it's like, they keep wanting us to focus on the things that you know, only matter to them. And by them, I'm not even talking to the establishment. I'm talking to boomers kept talking about inflation in the 2022. midterms, I'm like, inflation is not the thing that you're gonna win on.

Brian Nichols  27:26  
That fucking COVID they were going through, like, you need to get your shots. Why to save us, it's like, but that will get you take the shot and it protects you. You need to take the shot. Because if you don't, you could spread it. It's like, you took it? Aren't you safe? Isn't that the argument? Oh, no, no, no, it's our science, not your science, our science.

Remso Martinez  27:49  
And when you look at the top eight, the the top lobbying groups like AARP and others, they represent a generation where it's like the national conversation is being dictated by a portion of the population that is setting policies in place that they will not have to face the repercussions for 20 years from now, nor do they understand frankly, yeah, like they don't talk about saving Social Security for the next generation. It's always safe Social Security until we die. Yeah, like that's what it comes down to. So I mean, even when, you know, when AOC does something stupid when she talks about housing, I'm on there with her. You know, she identifies the problem, bad solutions. She identifies the problem of student loan debt, inflation. You know, all that stuff like that is the stuff where it's like, yeah, millennials are listening to her because at least she's talking about those problems. And JD Vance can talk about those exact same things, yo, because he's living in it with us. Well, and that

Brian Nichols  28:45  
goes to where I think, and tell me if I'm wrong here. Remco I think we're seeing a big flip right now in the American electorate. And this is all anecdotal, right? But I've been seeing it myself, like social media folks that I know for a fact like, back when we were in college, they were, you know, College Democrats, they were, you know, they were Bernie Bros. They were AOC fans. And you fast forward to today, and I'm seeing them post like the one I forget the guy's name, but he does those videos where it's just him deadpan talking to the camera. And he's like that, like they say that the jab was supposed to stop, blah, blah, blah. And yet, they've got their fourth jab. Hmm, like that guy. I don't know the guy's name. I've shared some of this shit before but like, I'm seeing folks from the Bernie bro camp sharing that stuff now. And I'm like, Is it is it my sales mentality of once they see it? They can't unsee it like Have they just seen too much now that they can't unsee all the bullshit like they can't. Like once you see it, you can't then cover up the bullshit with the narrative, the fake stuff, because you know the truth and it just makes you feel icky. And I'm seeing more and more and more of that. Do you think think that there is something happening with the American electorate. And again, party's be damned, but just that the switch going from that, you know, the boomer generation now going back or not saying going back now should going towards the millennials. Like is that is that happening?

Remso Martinez  30:14  
Yeah, I don't think that millennials are necessarily going to matter as much this election. I think, you know, and I mean, it's even a little bit more different. Because, you know, we were, we were all thinking, and I have to, like, change my mindset towards this. We're all thinking, Oh, it's just Trump Biden, part two, yet, but now, it's Trump, Harris. But Harris has done so little to make yourself seem remotely impressive to people that, you know, it still feels like, Oh, she's just carrying Joe, at this point. She's just carrying Obama 3.0 and make it Obama 4.0. And when people are seeing is that that doesn't work. You know, I remember during the 2012 election, they were like, oh, America's problems are irreversible. And these are permanent. And what did Trump do in one term, he took a lot of those permanent things that were never supposed to die, and he killed a lot of them. I think the election that's gonna matter, ultimately, is 2028. Because sadly, we're gonna have to go through this, again, with brand new people. And it's the talking points are going to be different, the world is going to be completely different. I think that in and here's my prediction for 2028. I think that both parties will elect. I'm sorry, I think that both parties will nominate millennials to be their nominees, I think it's going to be people probably in like that, you know, Gen X or era. So maybe I'll just go as far as like, say, like 38 to 50, it will be a candidates between 38 to 50. And that's a that's where I think we're going because things have changed to the point now where, you know, maybe like 50 years from now, we'll be the boomers Brian. But ultimately, you know, the focus on you know, polite politics, you know, the party of Social Security. I see us getting to the point where it's like Social Security doesn't even matter as a topic for people. i It's not that it won't be around. I'm not saying that eliminated.

Brian Nichols  32:06  
Generations. Generations pretty much come to grips with the fact that that money's gone, like, I I'm not pretending that I'm going to get a Social Security check. And I don't hear a lot of other Millennials pretending as much either. Yeah,

Remso Martinez  32:19  
and I mean, for a lot of folks like the lockdowns matter more than than COVID itself and inflation. And you know, with that with ads, mocking Yeah, like the GOP fumbled the ball, because they should have been saying we want Nuremberg trials for the people that like shut down businesses and arrested people who tried to make a living. They pretended like it didn't even exist, millennials still talk about that millennial soul. Remember that? Well, the millennials

Brian Nichols  32:42  
are the ones who got crushed from that because at that time, during COVID, millennials were predominantly filling some of those I'll say lower income lower skilled jobs. Now granted, this was also Gen Z, we're starting to get in the marketplace more, but Millennials were still filling a lot of those millennials

Remso Martinez  32:55  
themselves not only lost like a good chunk of their net worth, they also started accumulating not only in excess of $2,000 in credit card debt, which is already the national average, but they have it more than let's say their parents generation, even Gen Z. And so not only were they carrying more consumer debt, but they were also carrying the burden of student loans. And they're also carrying something called phantom debt, which is undetectable it's with those you know, Klarna apps and everything where you can pay things off with a lower interest rate across like 12 months like Millennials might not pan out or pizzas it's it's ridiculous like we are we're just piled on with so much debt. It's so I think the average net worth for somebody between 25 and 30 right now is somewhere between like negative $5,000 and like two grand like that is sad well

Brian Nichols  33:48  
let's take it a step further. Not only do we have all those those debts and stuff but we also are the ones facing all the expenses right? If you're a millennial you're probably trying to start a family Okay, so what do you need to start a family probably need a place to live important so let's look for that oh housing prices fucking skyrocket over the past four years five years why government policy Thank you mister missus government for printing trillions of dollars arbitrarily overnight and didn't have any negative consequences. So here's number one. Okay, so how you can get a house? Okay, great. What else we need food, eating food. start a family. Oh, that's right, inflation. Grocery store prices are through the roof as well. I forget the guy who shared that one video. But it was a Walmart order from 2019. Yeah,

Remso Martinez  34:32  
his pickup order. He was like this was my pickup order from

Brian Nichols  34:35  
120 bucks in 2019 $400.20 24. Okay, so there's two. What's the third thing? Oh, maybe child care, child care, child care where I'm in in little old Indiana $300 a week a week to have your kids seen. That's that's a that's a mortgage payment for some folks just in childcare. So, not only are the millennials now facing all these debts and all these negatives, now you're going towards Well, we're trying to build up and build something new. Oh, we can't, we can't get a house. We can't pay for our bills. We can't pay for our kids being able to go to the daycare, like, what do I do? And that is where I think a lot of millennials are and frankly Remco this goes to why I think we're seeing such an intensive focus right now on on Millennials on younger voters starting saying, You know what, fuck this. I'm gonna get out. I'm gonna vote. I'm gonna get involved in Scott presser out in Pennsylvania specifically. I mean, he's doing the Lord's work, man. He's going around. He's getting folks to register and vote early. I know our buddy clip. He's doing stuff out there for the PHAs. But I mean, right here, big things are happening in PA we're seeing younger voters and voters across the board switching party affiliation, either just dropping the Democratic Party in mass, or they're actually switching to the Republican Party. That's happening. It can't be ignored. What's your perspective? Renzo? Do you think this is actually going to stick? Do you think these younger voters are going to stick to their new realignment? Or is this one of those things where it's a one election thing? 2026 they're right back to where they were, you know, just drinking the the Bernie Kool Aid and Obama Kool Aid. I

Remso Martinez  36:17  
think it's really sad how quickly or you know, to forget things, because, you know, we go ahead and we memory whole stuff like crazy. I largely think and, you know, I'm happy that I watched the RNC, because I actually got to see the changes. And I actually got to see the faces there. You know, when you and I spoke last week, I said that the old Republican Party is dead good. writtens because it did nothing for us. I welcome this new GOP.

Brian Nichols  36:45  
Old Republic and it made me think of Star Wars. I had a sales meeting the other day with a guy who literally work he was like there it and customer experience guy for Bioware. When

Remso Martinez  36:54  
the Old Republic three, did you ask him that? Where's Knights of the Old Republic? Three?

Brian Nichols  37:00  
Yes, actually, yeah. He had some feedback. But I am not at the ability to disclose this on a nationally syndicated podcast. I'll

Remso Martinez  37:08  
tease that and then not say anything. Yeah, there was nothing else matters. Now. I think that, you know, my big worry was, is it the party of Trump? And when I say that, does that mean that when Trump believes that the party goes to that the party goes with it, and I think largely that the party has changed so much, it will matter when he's no longer in because he wins in November. We got him for four years, then it's over. My My worry is that they drift back to the old things that don't matter. And one of the things that actually gave me a bit of hope was when Trump during his speech actually called out George Bush for the wars in Iraq,

Brian Nichols  37:48  
South Carolina. And that was one of the best moments on TV I've ever seen. And actually, you know, candidly, Rambo, that was one of the moments for me, as a voter back in the day, I said, Hmm, there might be something more here to this Trump fellow than I realize,

Remso Martinez  38:03  
yeah, the fact that that Donald Trump is back, the man who didn't even compete in the primary debates is back. And that he called out George Bush to a RNC collective, and George Bush's

Brian Nichols  38:16  
brother standing right next to him on stage.

Remso Martinez  38:19  
Yeah, like that is that is a big thing. And I think that, you know, they've got a, we can't act. We can't, even right now, even with everything going on of this cycle. We can't act like we need to rest on our laurels. We can't act like this is permanent. We can't act like this is just a forever thing. You know, this stuff is gonna take dedication. And you know, the worst thing that can happen is after you know, he wins in November, and Republicans have a majority across the state for state legislatures and they have a demo they have a Republican House and Senate is that they do what they did in 2017. And then they just like fumble amongst each other arguing about Ryan care, and stupid shit like that. Yeah. Because like, that was a big thing. And we just memory hold that thing. It's like, I hope that people remember how much effort went into this because everything Scott Pressler does could be undone. In one election cycle. All everything that cliff Maloney has done can be undone in one election cycle because people need to take the batons and figure this out. And we need you know, we don't just need like a PHAs for example, we need a Wisconsin Chase and everything else I know that Scott Pressler is early vote action and turning point action Tyler Boyer all these guys are trying to make it so that way this isn't just a one and done thing. People get involved. They look at the issues that matter to them. And then make the aligned don't look for the Republican answer the Democrat answer. You know, I've been a split ticket voter my entire life. Trump was the first Republican I ever voted for. And this is one of those situations where we can you know, We can be selfish about our vote, and have these people stop taking people for granted.

Brian Nichols  40:05  
And I've said this a million and a half times on this Gosh forsaken podcast for him. So it is to meet people where they're at, on the issues they care about, it's not to lead with your solution, not to lead with your features and benefits. It's to just show that you fucking care, right? Like, at the end of the day, that's what people want to know that you actually care about their ideas. This goes back to what we were talking about with millennials, right? Like, that's why they are they're starting to pay more attention, because they're just looking for folks who actually are hearing that I have an issue, and you get it, you understand my issue. Now, that doesn't mean that just because you understand it, you can solve it. But at least I feel that you're hearing me out that you're not just like completely Pooh poohing my, my lived experience is what I'm literally seeing, touching and feeling every single day. Millennials are so tired of that. And, and like I think we're where Millennials are specifically like this isn't to exclude Gen Z. Gen Z, though feels kind of nihilist man, like they've grown up in this only Internet era. And there's no real like, before the internet community that had been built. And I think that, you know, millennials have a very unique ability to live both in our current world, but also we do have, despite the memory holding, we do have an understanding of what things were like and how different things were. And we grew up during the the advent of all this new technology. And we kind of experienced it from where we were to where we are today. So we've seen things that the older generations didn't get to see in detail like we did. And on the flip side, we've seen things that the younger generations can't appreciate because they remember 911 Yeah, I remember 911 I remember the just insanity the chaos was happening during that. I remember the Iraq War. I remember the war in Afghanistan. I remember the housing crisis. I remember the great recession i All these things that happened. And Gen Z, you know, they were just apples in their their mom and dad's eyes. I

Remso Martinez  42:09  
had a friend come over to watch Jorge mas vol box, Nate Diaz, and he brought his son who's about to start his freshman year of college. And I was just bullshitting with him. I was like, Hey, man, like what was it like telling her about 911 and a textbook? And he was just like, I mean, that was really bad. Like, yeah, it was really mad. To say, he's like, Man, I don't know what to tell you. I wasn't even born. Well,

Brian Nichols  42:35  
and that's the thing. Like, dude, I like there's just something to be said. And I'm not sure if you have this experience. But like, when 911 happened, even though we were kids, I remember where I was. I remember what I was doing. I was like, what, nine, somewhere in that way. You and I were probably like, nine, eight, somewhere in there. Yeah, that like most of our first

Remso Martinez  42:55  
grade. I was in this Aikens first grade class at First Baptist Elementary. And I remember my mom because my dad was active duty Army at the time. My mom pulled me out of school in the middle of the day. That's what I remember. Yeah,

Brian Nichols  43:14  
I was in line I was in the hallway. I remember the art teacher. She was in the hallway talking another teacher. And then like some student who was a senior, and I was like, in third grade, comes running through the hallway. Oh my god, they just ran planes into the World Trade Center. And like, as a kid, I'm like, like a, like a, like a, I don't know what they're called, like a Cessna. Like in my head. I'm like, like a little tiny plane. And like, one of my buddies and I were like, like being silly. You don't have no idea when you're nine years old, right? And then you go to the classroom and all sudden, like, the teacher has the TVs and in front of the room. You're like, Oh, we're gonna watch the magic school bus or Bill Nye the Science Guy. And then it's like, oh, no, America is under attack. And children go. Well, and this right here, right? Like, we got to experience that. And there was a feeling there's something you just can't put into, into a textbook to paint that picture. But Remco I know we're kind of we're going into the weeds here at 911. But let's talk. As we go to our last story of the day, it talks about how it makes you feel, um, what would you say if you found out that C cocaine was almost taking out an entire species of porpoises? What would you say to that?

Remso Martinez  44:25  
I've been waiting tire life that would you say?

Brian Nichols  44:30  
Oh, that's not right. There we go. How Seco Cain brought the world's smallest porpoise to the brink of extinction. Renzo, what's this article over on vice and did they do this on purpose?

Remso Martinez  44:42  
So some during the pandemic, I was trying to find anything I could to try and make money. This is not going where you think it's going. I was I had some pretty crazy ideas. Okay. And when this art nickel came out. The other day a friend of mine messaged me and was like, What have you been doing? So for the record, I do not ship cocaine via dolphins from anymore and I never did I never did. However, what the cartels have been doing is they have been training dogs dolphins to carry cocaine to the United States. Now, what happens is those dolphins sometimes the packages get undone or they get exposed to the cocaine. So what it does is it messes and fries with the dolphins brain. And then when like, you know, these animal rights groups and these humanitarian groups try and put them in like a refuge. They're hyper violent so they can't be around like other dolphins are also just like kill them and stuff. So I thought wouldn't it be great to go to a country with lacks animal rights laws and adopt these dolphins and have an opportunity for people to fight them? And I was going to call it cocaine dolphin Thunderdome. And I found like three countries that would allow basically this inhumane, horrible practice. And I say it's inhumane, but I was also willing to make money off of it because here's the thing, these dolphins are going to die because they're there, their hearts and everything. Like they can't handle it. Like they're just like slowly dying and they're ultra violent. They kill everything that they get around with. So I was like, listen, get some millionaires to go to like, you know, some Central American country no one cares about and pay that have them pay to fight these dolphins in like a pool. That's like, you know, like chest high and you get some weapons so that way, people get to do this weird shit that like Japanese businessmen get to do in that movie hostel. But these dolphins get to go out warriors. With that said, What also happens is that when they're pushing them through these submarines and everything else and the cocaine explodes because of pressure something else it gets in the water. You know, I got really into sushi this past year. Like I really love sushi now. And now I'm having read all these things about like arsenic and toxins and metals and stuff and sushi and I'm like, I chose the time to start eating raw fish for fun now, but now it's like you're telling me that cocaine in the ocean is not only killing these like you know, endangered porpoises I'm thinking shit, I might be having like a yaki tuna roll or something or some yellow fin, and I might be getting a buzz, like some people would pay a lot of money for that me I'm not looking for some secondhand snow dust. You know what I'm saying? Man, some some like Bolivian cocaine, I'm sorry, some Bolivian Bamm Bamm, or whatever it's called. So you know what, what started off as a joke for me four years ago, is now turning into a possible nightmare. And leave it to Fox News to find this. I'm sorry, leave it to Vice News to find a story about dolphins and cocaine only they could. So

Brian Nichols  47:46  
Renzo if we have any investors who are listening today, Rem Zoes dolphin hunger,

Remso Martinez  47:52  
Thunderdome or dolphin very specific cocaine dolphin Thunderdome.

Brian Nichols  47:57  
I hear an opportunity you can monetize this a bunch of different ways you could do dolphin Thunderdome you can do dolphin Hunger Games. You could do dolphin WWE, like there's a lot the WWE dolphin. Dana White.

Remso Martinez  48:13  
Yeah, like what was like a famous dolphin like from SeaWorld or something. We're waiting for the bad flipper. Yeah, was flipper a dolphin. No, Free Willy was a

Brian Nichols  48:23  
Free Willy was a killer whale.

Remso Martinez  48:24  
I think it was a killer whale, which it's only a matter of time until we start hearing about like cocaine whales. Like, I heard a story the other day that even sharks, like they're finding that they're finding cocaine and like the blood bloodstream of sharks.

Brian Nichols  48:38  
This is the equivalent of US Millennials with all the micro plastic in our testicles. Now and sharks have cocaine in their bloodstream.

Remso Martinez  48:47  
Now I understand why people and like Miami Beach are so happy. They go in there, they get a little bit of water in their mouth, and they're just like, ah, feeling a little under your logo. Yeah. Mix

Brian Nichols  48:57  
the cocaine and the microplastics you got a winning combo there.

Remso Martinez  49:00  
It sounds like yeah, beats nicotine and like Teflon, nicotine and

Brian Nichols  49:05  
Teflon. All right on that happy note rooms. I know we're getting, we're getting close to wrapping things up because you have a hard stop. And likewise, I have to get to some meetings for today. So that means we are going to go towards our final thoughts. Ramza my final thoughts are quite simply this Millennials you cannot. You can't complain. No, no, you cannot complain. If you do not get involved. I'm just so pardon my language. I am so fucking sick and tired of this excuse. I'm sorry. Like if you are upset at the way things are going. You gotta get involved, but I don't care about politics. Well, politics cares about you. Whether you like it or not politics is going to impact you in some way, shape or form, whether implicitly or directly. You have to stay vigilant you have to get involved and like I'm just so frustrated when I hear folks who are very nihilist like oh well. What does it murder what more can know what to do, you can do a lot. You can get involved, you can show that you actually care and you're paying attention because once you show you care and you pay attention, that means the people who are seeking to get your vote, they realize you're aware, they realize that you care, and that you're paying attention and they have to start speaking to you and your concerns and why you're paying attention. So please, might want to ask to millennials, get involved. Don't just sit there and say, Oh, the world sucks and then do nothing about it. Yeah, it's on us to actually be the change we wish to see. That's my final thoughts. Renzo, what do you have on your end?

Remso Martinez  50:30  
Cocaine dolphin Thunderdome coming to Shark Tank Kevin O'Leary, I'm looking at you call

Brian Nichols  50:36  
it dolphin tank. I like that idea.

Remso Martinez  50:38  
Yeah, take coke off and Thunderdome the Shark Tank all of them will want a bed. Yeah, well

Brian Nichols  50:43  
go ahead How about this ram so you and I will wrap up here we'll reach out to Mark Cuban see if we can get some initial interest gauge and then Kevin O'Leary. Mr. Wonderful see what he says I think he might be more willing he seems like he's more of a free market guy let some stuff get tested in the market you know get some some cocaine dolphins cocaine sharks heck let's throw out cocaine bear in there. I'm I'm all about that. Let's have some fun Ramza when are we gonna run? Amen. where can folks go ahead continue the conversation with you on the social medias? Should they be so interested? Really

Remso Martinez  51:15  
trying to get people over to my Instagram? That's go rams Oh, geo REM so and you can argue with me about you know, the ethics of animal rights and everything on accident. Hey, Renzo, he Why are MSO Hey,

Brian Nichols  51:27  
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