909: Do Political Debates Really Impact Elections? | Week in Review

Brian Nichols  0:00  
Music. Instead of focusing on winning arguments, we're teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and how we can use them to win in the world of politics, teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about. Welcome to the Brian Nichols show you

Remso Martinez  1:15  
Brian, you're muted.

Brian Nichols  1:22  
Let's start that again. Shall we? That was fantastic. So last, last time this happened, I was with Kenny Cody, and we started recording, and Kenny didn't say anything. He just is like, I think I know what Brian said there, so I'm just going to respond. So let's start this off in a different way. Hey everybody, welcome to our AMP America. Week in review, I figured out how to unmute my microphone, and with that, Brian Nichols, joined by remzo Martinez, three topics we're going to discuss today. First, we're going to talk all about Tim walls and the JD Vance debate. It was surprisingly cordial. Lots of lots of independents saying this was refreshing. And then we're going to talk about Yeah, price controls and the inevitable outcomes of price controls. And then we're going to talk about yes, this longshoreman strike. And all sudden we find out that the longshoreman maybe had some mob ties via an audit that we were digging into. And then all sudden that audit stops. So yeah, lots of questions we got asked. There buddies. So with that, remzo Martinez, editor in chief of AMP America. Welcome to our Week in Review now that I actually got my intro down right, and yes, we are live here on Facebook as well as over on Twitter, x.com so thank you, folks for sticking with us despite the 30 seconds of dead air with my mic being off. Remzo, how you doing, buddy?

Remso Martinez  2:37  
I was I was messaging you. I was texting you. I'm in the little window at the bottom off stream like

Brian Nichols  2:42  
I see it all now. Yeah, I see a private chat right there. Yep, Brian, you're muted. Yeah, Brian, you're an idiot. That's all you had to say. How you doing, buddy? What's new? Why? What's How's remzo? Debbie Martinez been

Remso Martinez  2:54  
it's good in the hood. What else can I say? Yeah, I'm surprised I'm not wearing I'm surprised I'm not wearing sunglasses every single second, because, you know, the sun's always shining when you're cool. Brother. When you're cool brother,

Brian Nichols  3:04  
you know, remember, I miss you. I

Remso Martinez  3:07  
went to a meeting this week, and like, you know, I'm, I'm an introvert by nature. People think I, people think I'm not, and they're surprised when I say that. I just disassociate really well. And have you ever gone because you're in sales, Brian, have you ever dealt with people who are who work for, like, I'll call out the companies, but like, you know, like primerica, mutual, Omaha, like the insurance companies and stuff like that, they're just like the most like, they're, they're the Scientology of the sales world. Because I went to a chamber of commerce meeting this week, and, you know, they these guys who came in, not, you know, brand new, fresh faced, wearing full on, like, three piece suits and stuff. One of them looked like a club promoter on the strip in Vegas, and they're just like the peppiest most, like intense sales people that I encountered and at these meetings, you know, you go through your 32nd pitches, and you go through your thank you for referrals and connections and stuff like that. And during that part, you know when people are thanking each other for like, you know, coffee meetings and referrals and stuff like that. You know each company only if they have multiple representatives there. They only have one of them who can actually stand up and talk to not take up too much time. Well, they didn't really get the memo. So this guy who's coming in with like these, like teenagers, essentially, they stand up each time and they don't really know what to say. So they're looking at their manager. They're like, I'd like to thank my manager. We'll call him Jake, Jake, you know, for always just being such an inspiration. Thank you Jake. And I'm just like, in the back of my mind, I'm surprised they're not going Thank you mentor. It's just like they were one second away from doing like The Wolf of Wall Street. Yep.

Brian Nichols  4:57  
Well, and by the way, I love, I love our good buddy, Jeremy Todd. God, he's formerly of the Cutco life, which is the naive company, oh, yeah, and that you want to talk about, like a sales culture that is Cutco. By the way, they're successful for a reason, because their culture is 1,000% focused on how to do good sales. And when your children, it makes everything even more intense. And then when your children come home with, like, an entire set of like, high end quality knives, you know that as a family and you are now set for life,

Remso Martinez  5:31  
every $2 commission you make from the $70 knives is going towards a better future.

Brian Nichols  5:39  
Brian Nichols and remso Martinez here live, by the way, good morning everybody. Live here on x.com as well as over on our Facebook page. Actually, it is not well, it is our Facebook page, formerly the we are libertarians Facebook page. I own that bitch. I bought that bitch. And candidly, because our personal Facebook page, with 47 ish 1000 followers, started getting nuked over the the election season here on Facebook. And then we talked about last week libertarian libertarian Mark Zuckerberg is like, Oh yeah, we're we're trying to earn the trust back of all these libertarians and conservatives. And I'm like, Hey, here's an idea. Fucking stop nuking my page and censoring it and saying that I'm harm harmful content or misleading content by fucking sharing articles that are just normal news stories. Sorry, getting started off in a fiery starting off point. But yeah, we are on the we are libertarians Facebook page right now, which is the Brian Nichols show Facebook page. So for the folks who are watching, they're like, this isn't Chris spangle. Hey, what's up? You're right, and it'll never be Chris Bengal again, except when he comes on as a guest in the show, which I am working on behind the scenes. Behind the scenes, because I have some questions for Chris. That's a different conversation for a different day, remzo, let's talk about something that just happened here this past week, and that was a vice presidential debate. Now, remzo, in my experience, right? I have been torn on the impact of VP debates. And you look historically, I mean, really, the only VP debate I can really think of, of any true significance was like, oh, eight when it was Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, and she was, you know, I'm Sarah Palin. I can see Russia from my house, which she never said, By the way, that was entirely an SNL skit that became what she was known for, for better or for worse, but that seems to be like the last time I remember a VP debate actually mattering, actually influencing things. And then fast forward to this past week. We had JD Vance and Tim walls go head to head, and I think it caught a lot of people off guard, because a lot of independence, by the way, because the the perception was this is gonna be a bloodbath, and yet, the actual outcome, it was strangely polite, and we found a lot of cordiality during the debate shit. There were times when Tim walls would turn and you go, Well, you know what? JD, I actually think I agree with you on that, and I'm just like, oh, what's happening is, is Tim Walz gonna vote for JD Vance and Donald Trump? So remzo, this was a very refreshing debate. Was it impactful?

Remso Martinez  8:14  
I think it I think it is, because while you've got plenty of people who are gonna vote for Trump, no matter what the selection of JD vans was, you know, I don't believe it's controversial, but I understand that for many people it was controversial. They were primarily getting their information on him based off what left wing media sites and outlets were saying. So of course, when you're for Trump, but you don't really know much about the sky and it, you know, call a spade a spade, his, his media profile outside of just being the hillbilly LG guy, a lot of people didn't even know that was him. They just knew him as random Ohio senator

Brian Nichols  8:55  
or or the personification, right? That you said earlier, of what the media, media made him look to be. He was weird, right? That was the that was the narrative from the onset, man, these Republicans are weird. This JD Vance guy is weird. And yet, I don't know, I've heard the exact opposite from outcomes from the debate, from left, right and center, all across the

Remso Martinez  9:14  
board, people that I know were literally shit talking him for no reason really, especially since a lot of them were Republicans. Ironically, they're all like, wow, he was the best choice ever. He's the future. He's the president after Trump. And I'm just like, Oh, now you're, now you're on board. I was, I was JD, day one, in fact. So on,

Brian Nichols  9:38  
on our show here, you were like JD, Vance is like he has propelled me into a yes, yes, yes, Trump vote

Remso Martinez  9:45  
yes, absolutely, yes. And, you know, so, you know, I think what it did was it really helped solidify that, if anything, it's not like you necessarily have to be even pro Vance, it could really just be. You also know that walls is. Us even worse of a choice than ever. And what's even funnier is the previous Thursday, I believe CNN. And I don't know who CNN is playing, like, you know, pickup game for but CNN put out this piece saying that when Kamala Harris picked walls, she was suffering from insomnia and she didn't remember picking him, and it's just like, holy shit. Wait, I missed this, this entirely. Gosh, yeah, she was saying that things have been so wild since Biden dropped out and she had to pick things up that she was suffering from insomnia and that she does not remember picking Tim walls as her VP. That sounds problematic, that sounds problematic. So

Brian Nichols  10:45  
she can't remember who she picked for her VP because she was suffering from insomnia. But you can totally, totally, totally trust her. When the phone call comes in at the middle of the night from that red phone in the Oval Office, like shit hitting the fan, that Kamala will be able to answer it. And, you know, make a,

Remso Martinez  11:01  
I guess, a smart decision, or at least a Cognizant decision. I

Brian Nichols  11:05  
mean, I think everyone is Michael malice clip, by the way, over on. Joe Rogan, I'm going to pull that up for a second. Keep going, sir,

Remso Martinez  11:12  
immediately. I think a lot of Democrats were just like, she should have picked Shapiro. She should have picked Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania. And it's one of those moments where I'm just praying. I'm like, Thank God she did not pick Josh Shapiro, because Josh, you

Brian Nichols  11:24  
imagine pa would be, would be so, so worse

Remso Martinez  11:28  
of a situation. But, yeah, it's what, what JD Vance did was he just completely wrecked over walls. And you know what was walls? His response to most things. It's like, me No. Understand words good. And it's like, how do you want this person, if anything, like, I understand completely why JD Vance didn't go after walls. He didn't bring up the riots. He didn't bring up the tampons. He didn't bring up women's sports. He didn't bring up the covid mandates, he didn't bring up a lot of the things that would really tie him to the CCP, like the company that he owns, and all that stuff. Like he could have gone after him instead. He was like, instead of me just raining down facts on him, I'm just gonna, like, lure him in and make him look stupid

Brian Nichols  12:21  
and make him feel comfortable too, by the way. Like, did you notice there were little things that JD would do? He's like, actually, Senator Eric governor, I think we agree on this, and I think you'll agree with me that. And he would say a truism, right, that kids should never be in a situation where they find themselves at in danger for, you know, being shot at school, which is why we should, I think we all agree. And then he would talk about different solutions. And you just see the the Tim Wall is like, I do agree, but I can't say that, because Kamala won't get mad at me, which, by the way, before we move forward, I just want to quickly share this was a this was Michael malice, over on Joe Rogan and who it was fun,

Unknown Speaker  13:02  
either racist or sexist or ableist, we're still able. She's literally, I mean, Ukraine. She's literally retarded. Russia is another country and a powerful country, and Russia invaded Ukraine, and that's that's really

Brian Nichols  13:23  
and then it continues to literal. So Michael malice is just a king at that where he can, he can rip out a paraphrase of an actual quote. But this, this montage, I'll include this in the show notes. This montage literally has the actual clips of Kamala that he's referencing. And it's so bad. It's so bad, like this one, you know, just for for shits and gigs here. Just just listen to the rest of this country

Unknown Speaker  13:51  
in Europe, to another country called Russia. Russia is a country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, that's

Brian Nichols  14:01  
wrong. What? What like, come on, that's she could be President of the United States, a wine drunk first grader who's trying to explain the political foreign conflict between Russia and Ukraine. We have a big country named Russia, and it went after a smaller country named Ukraine. And that, that is, that is in, in all essence, in our hopes, our ambitions, that's wrong, remzo, she's a fucking fruit. But this, by the way, this right here. This is why I have become more and more I mean, yes, I'm wearing a Michael Scott 2024 shirt, which you can buy over at Brian Nichols show.com forward slash shop. Use code TBN s for 15% off. But this is why I have drifted more and more towards the Trump camp over the past few months. Because. Says, Can't we just, we can't we can't have that be the face of our country. What? No. So yeah,

Remso Martinez  15:09  
that's, that's where we're at, x of joy,

Brian Nichols  15:12  
and the fact Okay, and going back to where we just were talking about with, uh, with Tim walls, like he used that exact like, phraseology in his closing statement, Kamala Harris represents a different campaign. We're bringing together a group of folks like Dick Cheney and Taylor Swift, and she's bringing joy to the campaign. I'm like, joy is not a winning campaign strategy. Joy is what you feel when you see your firstborn kid. Joy is what you feel when you win a million dollars. Joy is not Kamala Harris's campaign. This is gaslighting

Remso Martinez  15:41  
anything like, look, who's talking about aspirational ideals and actually like a positive future, and getting back to actually feeling like we have a stake in our own lives. It was vans. Vance is the only one talking about how to Vance was talking directly to millennials, yes, in so many ways,

Brian Nichols  15:58  
which, which, by the way, the number one thing that was a takeaway for specifically to millennials, was the gym look right from the office, where he just did the side eye and, oh my gosh, people across the board, right? Republicans, Democrats, independents. I mean, I'm a huge I mean, obviously I'm a huge fan of the office, and I'm in all these Office groups on Facebook, and I'm seeing folks who like they're obviously not left or Republicans, they're not. They're not even like conservative at all. And they're like, that was good. They're like, I relate to that.

Remso Martinez  16:27  
My wife makes me dangerous. My wife, who I forced her watch like, every presidential and every possible debate with me ever since we've been together, was like, this is the only time I actually, like, enjoyed watching a debate. And she called it out. She's like, JD Vance perfectly channeled dark millennial humor. And it's, it's so it's so true, but it's massive

Brian Nichols  16:49  
aggressiveness too, like that one well, it does cause more problems with our housing prices. Tim, like, there was that one part. I'm like, Ooh, I can feel that millennial energy coming through of just like, Fuck off, dude. We know you're

Remso Martinez  17:04  
there, as you know, to answer your other question, though, to round off what I said and to answer your other question, it's like, yeah, I think what this is, this solidifies people's intention to go out, not necessarily whether or not they're going to change their vote, but whether they show up to vote. I think that what this did was this really reinvigored excitement for the Trump campaign. And what it did was it demoralized Democrats even further. But going back to what you said, you know that, oh, eight VP debate between Sarah Palin and Biden that really crushed McCain's polling numbers afterwards. And I know a lot of people when they would have conversations with my parents, you know, you always have, like, the moderate Republicans or the independents. A lot of people are like, Yeah, you know, McCain has more experience, but McCain is old, and I remember one neighbor telling my mom, we just can't have that woman near the White House. And it's just like they made her look stupid. And, you know, going four years after that the debate between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden, Paul Ryan was supposed to be like this heir apparent. They called him the young gun leader for years. And Paul Ryan was supposed to be like the antithesis of everything Matt the Obama campaign was saying, Matt Romney was because they were like, well, you know, Romney doesn't come from a battleground state. He comes from rich family. He's not relatable to people. He has low favorability rates. Ryan was the exact opposite of that. He was young. He had high favorability rates. He was a battleground state of Wisconsin, and he was supposed to be the numbers guy. He's like, How could Joe Biden debate the young, you know, fiscal conservative Hawk, and then what Joe Biden did was he didn't make Paul Ryan look unlikable. What he did was he made Paul Ryan look affable, and he made him look inconsistent, and he made him look like a child, because Joe Biden knew that he could not fight him on the facts, because Paul Ryan went into that debate thinking he was going into a debate Joe Biden came in to win. He's like, I don't need to be factually correct. I don't need to have my numbers and my pitches better than Paul Ryan. I need to make Paul Ryan look like he's off his game. And I listened to the radio version of that debate in 2012 because I was actually doing a college visit with my father in Alabama, and as we were listening to it, you know, it's always it's always interesting when you watch a debate versus when you listen to a debate, because you pick up a whole different side of it. And just listening to the debate, it was so uncomfortable. And I remember my father who for Brian Nichols show listeners, I've called my dad the Oracle of elections. That was one of the nights where my father just said that Romney lost the election. It was that debate with Joe Biden. But it even goes back further to, I would say, probably the one debate that the one VP debate that mattered more than any other VP. Eight in recent history was definitely 1992 between Dan Quayle Al Gore and Admiral Stockdale. And what ended up happening was, for Stockdale, he committed probably the biggest sin in in our society, which is not looking good on TV. At that point, you had a lot of Republicans who were jumping from HW Bush to Ross Perot. Ross Perot was looking at actually taking electoral votes in the south. And at that point, Stockdale had is, who am I? Why am I here? I'm sorry my hearing aid is off. I love Stockdale. I think that Stockdale is one of the best stoic thinkers of recent history. I think He's a war hero. I think that he would have made a good vice president. I think that John Stockdale gets a lot of shit for not looking good on TV, because he was trying to speak philosophically to an audience that, even then, was not on his wavelength. He was basically asking, Who am I? Why am I here? Because a lot of people hadn't know, hadn't had no idea who he was, and why am I here? He was trying to set himself up to introduce himself, but that was what was clipped. So not only did that kill Ross Perot's electoral college opportunity, but Dan Quayle going up against Al Gore. Al Gore was a little bit older. Al Gore was a better debater. Dan Quayle was never a good debater in a previous debate Dan Quayle had done when he was running with HW Bush, I think in like 88 or something, he called himself the Republican Jack Kennedy. And I forgot who the Democrat he was debating was, but he was just like Mr. Quail. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine, and you sure are no Jack Kennedy, while Quayle would still end up winning, like quail was a weak link for Bush. So between that 1992 debate, what we saw was that Stockdale took himself out. Quail was taken out by Gore, and that completely flipped everything 1992 because the truth is, when you look at the overlap of probability, if Ross Perot had not won, the facts are that HW Bush would have been president another couple of years, so at least one more term. So that was just that. That's probably the one VP debate that mattered the most. And

Brian Nichols  22:40  
by the way, for for historical context, that is the moment that the commission of presidential debates shut that shit down. They were like, no more third party candidates getting an equal seat at the table. Because, like, they actually are starting to throw some wrenches into the machine here. Did

Remso Martinez  22:53  
you know that if you go on YouTube, it is almost impossible to find the town hall debate between HW Bush Clinton and perot really,

Brian Nichols  23:05  
I did not know that most they've taken it down, huh? It's almost like they don't want people to see that. There's a different way of thinking. Yeah, they

Remso Martinez  23:11  
don't want people know about that giant sucking sound from down south.

Brian Nichols  23:17  
Oh, man and I, there's lots of different directions we could go. There is Kamala Harris running for president. With that being said, Brian Harris, if you notice me, I'm sipping from from this nice, delicious Yeti, some some coffee. What kind of coffee? Remzo? Do you think I'm drinking? Do you think I'm drinking Folgers, drinking Starbucks?

Unknown Speaker  23:36  
No, you're drinking Duncan.

Brian Nichols  23:38  
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Remso Martinez  25:47  
we have to go back at least 1617, years to Hurricane Katrina, when you're looking at the amount of people that are selling bottled water, gas, emergency supplies for outrageous amounts, and that caused a huge issue, especially when Bush had declared martial law, he was saying that you got to go ahead and stop these people. The problem is, and we're definitely seeing this of hurricane Helene is the access to resources and not to stump for Trump. But why did Trump specifically bring a tanker full of gasoline and Starlink to the areas that were affected by the hurricane. It's because access to resources and being able to properly distribute those resources is really difficult right now. So what you're also seeing, and I actually had to mail a package to a friend of mine in Asheville, North Carolina. His post office was destroyed. So they have, you know, the only branch of the government that seems to be, like, somewhat coherent is the post office. I know the post office gets a lot of shit. I don't mind privatizing it, but like, you know, the post office was like, Oh yeah, we'll fix it. We'll have it in a week. It's like, I actually believe the post office will do that. However, you know, when we look at the disbursement of resources and stuff, understand it's not about trying to take advantage of a bad situation as much as it is trying to also understand that when you have to pay for somebody to not only gather the resources and the products you need to ship out to a disaster stone zone, All that becomes more expensive because the intensity and the need, the actual demand skyrockets. So while, you know, there are definitely cases, and there were some cases in Katrina, of some bad actors, the truth is, is that transportation, supply and demand is going to increase. So it's less we are doing this because we want to. It's more of a we're doing this because we have to. And what we're seeing right now is that, you know, I would flip it in kind of like a JD Vance way. It's like, let's not talk about that as much as we can talk about what the government has also shown us. The government has shown us that they're not going to go ahead and disperse resources effectively that flood victims who've lost their homes, and we're dealing with more than 300 known deaths right now. That will only increase as the flood waters subside. But flood victims are only getting like, what, 750 bucks? Well, we're gonna go ahead and pay for Zelinski, his wife, to go ahead and get a new rolls. Royce Renzo,

Brian Nichols  28:17  
those are from different bank accounts, right?

Remso Martinez  28:21  
Don't you want them to be joyful, but you know now, FEMA yesterday has come out and said that they actually don't have money to handle the rest of any potential disaster for the fiscal year, which I call bullshit on. I think what Congress is going to do. This is my this is one last October surprise is a prediction. I think Congress is going to call an emergency session, probably, like, within the next week, week and a half. So let's, let's timestamp this. I predict that within the next two weeks, they'll call for an emergency session for hurricane funding, and like, maybe a few million dollars of that will actually go to FEMA and go towards state agencies that are doing flood response and emergency response, but we're gonna see like, maybe, like 90% of that budget go towards shit that has nothing to do with the hurricane.

Brian Nichols  29:15  
Hi, we're gonna do a hurricane FEMA relief bill. We're gonna pass a bill of $200 billion it's all gonna be this hurricane FEMA relief. Bill, oh, what's that? Is that little asterisk I see right there? What's that asterisk? Say, oh, 140 billion going to Ukraine. 20 billion going to Israel. Oh, okay, that that's what's gonna happen. Remzo, we all know it. We saw it happen back when they were trying to pass the whatever. Make Believe. You know, feel good. Bill, they're like, you

Remso Martinez  29:43  
know the covid omnibus bill, covid,

Brian Nichols  29:46  
I can't remember, it was like, not not kicking puppies bill. And they're like, oh, by the way, the not kicking puppies bill sends billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel. It's like, oh, well, okay, I guess, I guess we can just call any bill by any name. It doesn't matter. The I

Remso Martinez  30:02  
once had colleague in Europe, and we were discussing the government possibly, you know, nationalizing or banning Tiktok. And at one point I was like, Dude, don't even think of this as being something we need to worry about. Okay? Because if the government passed a bill protecting all cats, it would really just kill all puppies. Yeah, still send money to Ukraine.

Brian Nichols  30:24  
It would. And that's the sad part, is that we have, I mean, Tim Walz used the the example on the debate stage, the frog in the pot of boiling water, and it slowly increases the temperature. But it just feels like we can joke about this. We all acknowledge the elephant in the room, and yet they still do it right? Like the inflation Reduction Act, the green New Deal, right? Like These all sound so great, and then you go into the Weiss, you're like, Oh, these bills do literally the exact opposite of what they're promising to do. Have

Remso Martinez  30:56  
you noticed that Republicans have dropped all talk of term limits, have they? I haven't No Tell me more. Have you noticed that that wasn't ever brought it was it's been brought up for years. It's always been a loud minority.

Brian Nichols  31:09  
You know, you're right. And it was suspiciously absent, really, since what like before? It was like 2020. Yeah, it's like last time this actually became a conversation.

Remso Martinez  31:19  
Because here's the truth, Americans don't care by and large. They don't care by and large. So the Republican Party, majority wise, has just kind of given up on that, because they know what is worth fighting. And the truth is, is that when it comes to this, not enough people are held accountable, the only, the only Republican. I mean, people just completely memory. Hold this. We need to go fund me a bronze fucking statue of this man. But Thomas Massie was the only one who showed up during covid and forced an actual roll call vote for all for what was the biggest bill in all of history. And he's like, if you guys are going to push this through by proxy. You might as well sign your name to it. And he forced everyone to go back and actually put their name on that vote. And they're they're just not accountable. So any hurricane spending that will come out, and Kamala will call it a victory, Kamala will call it a victory. But I think that only damns things for her. I think if they go through with this, and then, you know, you get some like, you know, conservative news company or something. Maybe amp America will actually read the bill. I'll put it the chat GPT or grok, and I'll have grok tell me in like, fourth grade reading level terms, and grock will probably say This is shit, man. And it's gonna just be, no, I see this potentially being and I make a lot of predictions. Brian, I make a lot of predictions, but I'm making this prediction two weeks one bill, massive spending that doesn't go towards hurricane victims. Kamala calls a victory. I think this damns her, especially in Georgia, North Carolina, those southern battleground states, I think this damn sir like it, damned McCain with tarp. Because even though Obama and McCain showed up together, they took breaks from their campaign in 2008 to both vote on TARP. Who did they say? Bailed out the banks. They said McCain did it. Obama, who voted for it, took no responsibility. He swiftly kicked the narrative over to McCain. Just bailed out the banks. I'm gonna bail out you. I think that this is gonna be just a kick in the butt, and this is just going to be one of those extra things that just sinks her in the places that she didn't want to sink. Yeah, there's

Brian Nichols  33:47  
gonna be a lot of a lot of outcomes from Helene that I think are going to play very strongly,

Remso Martinez  33:55  
by the way, this another I forget, remember Hurricane Sandy with the Christine Obama that killed Romney Sure did. That killed his chances. And I'm trying not to sneeze, I think, with Trump being there day one, and Trump using campaign and personal resources for hurricane victims, and her taking those staged photo ops, and then saying that everyone gets $750 and then suddenly we don't have any more money for anything. I think that this is the this is this cycles, Hurricane Sandy,

Brian Nichols  34:28  
yep. So as we're listening to this conversation, it all is around hurricane Helene and folks, I think the the number one thing we can take away from this is that nobody's coming to save you, right? So you got to get your own ducks in order. And by the way, right now, a lot of these folks are looking at insurance companies saying, like, Hey, are you going to help? So let's, let's talk about insurance, because insurance is never something that folks like to talk about until it's too late. And that's why, guys, I'm so excited to have a brand new sponsor here on the show. I'm. Policy engineer, they are doing some incredible stuff in the insurance space. Let's go ahead and take a quick list. Hey, everyone, let's talk about the elephant in everybody's room insurance. Does all that insurance jargon make your head spin? If so, you're not alone. It's tough to make smart decisions about your family's protection when it all sounds like gobbledygook. Well, I recently discovered a company that's changing the insurance game, and that company is called policy engineer. These folks are on a mission to make insurance understandable for everyone. They offer free, educational webinars, personalized consultations and easy to digest resources to help you become an insurance Pro. Here's their approach. They explain you decide. They'll walk you through your options, answer all of your questions and empower you to make confident choices about your family's future, because when you understand your coverage, you can rest easy knowing you made the right decision all along. Ready to take control of your insurance. Head over to policyengineer.com and start your journey to becoming an informed, empowered policyholder. And of course, don't forget to tell them. The Brian Nichols show sent you policy engineer redefining insurance one member at a time. And now let's get back to the show. All right, remzo, let's, in fact, get back to the show, and let's talk about, I don't know what's coming down the pike here for the holidays. Are we going to see an increase in prices? Specifically, when you're looking to go to the, you know, go to the the Walmart, go to the target, start buying those, those, you know, gifts for the kids, gifts for the family. Are we going to see an increase of price specifically due to this longshoreman Strike that? I mean, it looks like it may have gotten averted a little bit here through at least January, but when you look behind the scenes, there's a lot more to this strike than meets the eye. And apparently there was an audit that was done, and they found that 18% remzo of longshoreman union hires had mob ties. And then what happened? The Union had that auditor shut down remzo. What's going on here in the the world of unions, in the world of longshoremen, and apparently in the world of mob bosses. Talk to us. Well, Brian,

Remso Martinez  37:23  
we also have some more breaking news. Waters wet.

Brian Nichols  37:28  
Jimmy Hoffa and coffee is hot. Coffee is hot. Coffee

Remso Martinez  37:30  
is hot. Sky is blue. You know, the longshoreman. I always feel like I'm going to get in trouble when I say something like this. Sometimes like, who is surprised at the Longshoremen who control the docs, who have hereditary lines of succession for who can acquire jobs? You know, people actually don't know that. You know, if you're a longshoreman doc manager or doc supervisor or something, you know that's actually a job that you can pass down to members of your family and stuff like that. Just crazy. You choose your successor. If there's anything that represents like a game of thrones feudal system left in America, like the stone guilds of old, it's not the Freemasons and stuff like that. It's, you know, it's not Phi Theta Kappa. It's the freaking longshoreman and yeah. I mean it remember, I remember when everyone was calling Mitch McConnell cocaine. Mitch, yeah, forgot

Brian Nichols  38:30  
about that. Good Times everyone it's all the cocaine that made his brain go broken.

Remso Martinez  38:34  
You know, when you look at all the ships and all the cargo that's coming into the United States. You don't think that they have, they don't have the capability to know what's coming in. I mean, I would almost say that they need to do even more investigations. I want to know how many of the Longshoremen aren't just going connected to the mob. I want to know how many are connected to the Sinaloa drug cartel that are attached to the Yakuza in Japan. I want to know who's tied to, you know, possibly terrorist organizations, Boko Haram in Africa, the Taliban, who is suddenly back in control of their giant heroin operation. And everything else you

Brian Nichols  39:15  
made me think, by the way, you mentioned the Yakuza. I mean, we're there's a recurring theme of the office here, and he day, the guy from the office in Japan, hot surgeon number one, behind surgeon Yakuza, boss day. So yeah, he day from the office. He's 100% in in this, in this world. So just we're all on the same page.

Remso Martinez  39:38  
Yeah. So, I mean, I'm not surprised, uh, but, I mean, the question is always like, you know, at the same time people are, I'm seeing like, and I'm not saying that the Longshoremen are perfect. I'm not saying that is the best way to do it, but like, there's the argument that people have made. It's like, why should we go ahead and give more to these people who make. Twice as much as a doctor

Brian Nichols  40:02  
like and but just so we can see this right? I had this on screen here earlier. Check this number out. This is insane. The Union offers, often steers what they call special packages to mobsters, giving them pay of up to $500,000 for largely no show work these, quote, special packages have only grown in recent years. According to Commission reports, in 20 2018, remzo, 18 port workers made salaries more than $450,000.41 made salaries between 404 $150,000 and $50,000.82 of them made between 350,400 $1,000 I mean, Rem so what?

Remso Martinez  40:55  
Yeah, but I'm only playing devil's advocate for just for conversational purposes. But, like, that's less than 200 out of 1000s, oh yeah, for 1000s of people on the east and west coast. And it's one of the largest industries in the world, one we shouldn't be surprised that some people are skimming off the top two the no show work. I just finished the sopranos this year, and it's like, you're like, Oh, this is real life. We work in waste management. It's like, just go ahead, pull him on payroll, say that he shows up a few hours a day. Okay? Like, we work in waste management. They don't care. But it's, it's one of those situations where it's like, go go back to last week when the Union President was talking to Fox News, and they were like, during covid, we didn't stop. When everyone else went to work at home, we didn't stop, and we made sure that everything was everything was stocked, that everything was delivered, that the economy was able to keep running. And I think this also goes to the thing where it's like, you know, people are saying that the GOP and, you know, the Republican Party is like the new, like Workers Party. Understand this, and this is what I still call, like intellectual conservative elitism. Do I think that? Do I think that, you know, people don't ever go after truckers. And truckers used to be a big thing of automation, looking at the like 150,000 full time trucking people out there, they make up to six figures. They make up to six figures. That's more than some doctors. I know it's this whole thing where it's also like, well, they shouldn't make more than a doctor. That's like saying that an NBA player shouldn't make more than a soldier. If you don't think about it and you simply go, based off your emotions, should an NBA basketball player make more than a soldier who's willing to die. Instinctively, we're like, no. But then we open our eyes and we think about it, and we're like, it's not whether they should, it's whether they can. By

Brian Nichols  42:51  
the way, this is a literal meme I saw where it was like the exact argument. It said, No baseball pitcher should be making 10 million a year when Mrs. Johnson can't make $40,000 as a third grade teacher. And then the comment following up was, well, is Miss Johnson ripping 100 mile per hour fastballs over home plate, strike striking them out. I mean, it's

Remso Martinez  43:11  
one of those things where it's like, when you look at it like that and you really think about it's like, it makes no sense. It's like, of course, a basketball player is going to make more money than a soldier. I say this is somebody that made less than a few grand a year as a National Guard officer. It was to your little soul. You know, it's one of those situations where it's like, do you want yourself to keep getting delivered? You know, when you look it's not about what how much college you had to have. It's not about how much knowledge you have to know. Sometimes it's just about are you reliable enough to do the job, and are you willing to take the jobs that suck? People forget the purpose of Mike Rose Dirty Jobs wasn't always to show you jobs that just suck, but it was also to show you the jobs where you can make a really good, reliable living, learning a skill, doing the stuff that no one wants to do

Brian Nichols  44:04  
and the stuff that needs to get done. That's the important qualifier. Not just shit, literal shit that like that nobody wants to do, but it's shit that nobody wants to do that still has to happen. There still has to be that guy who goes out and picks up all the garbage on the side of the road. There still has to be a guy who goes into the sewer to fix the shit when the shit gets stuck, there's still a guy who has to climb 50 floors up to replace, you know, the light at the top of the building, right? Like those roles will exist because they need to exist. And are they fun? No, but that doesn't mean that they don't happen. It means that the price point of which you are getting paid to do that job is going to reflect the fact that there's a lot of people out there who see the need but aren't going to do it. And this

Remso Martinez  44:49  
is and this is the most anti libertarian stance I have, and I've been saying this since Andrew Yang was running in 2020 Andrew Yang him and the yang gang. I still, I still think about him sometimes, but like he was the, here's the thing I've been typically learned at night, when you're getting ready to go to sleep, right? I wonder what, I wonder what he's doing. He follows me on. X still, does he? Oh yeah, he follows me on. He's been following me on. I was one of the first reporters to actually talk about his campaign. No shit. Can

Brian Nichols  45:15  
we you should hook up with him to see if we can get him on the show.

Remso Martinez  45:19  
I've tried for years now, he's bigger, but he's still like, every like, once a year, he'll just like one of my random posts, and I'm just like, I'm surprised he just didn't unfollow me when he got big, especially since I'm way more like, you know, right, right wing than him. But like you are apparently, well, you know, I'm not. Everyone's a libertarian. Brian, libertarian Stalin's a libertarian. You know, I'm a little they just don't realize it yet. But, you know, here's my most anti libertarian stance. And people are like, you know, if they, if they make, if they make my kids Christmas hard, I'm going to wish for all the automation possible. How many hundreds of 1000s of jobs will be displaced immediately? And I believe that Andrew Yang was 100% correct when he said, If you bring in the automated semi trucks tomorrow, and you don't understand the consequences of immediately laying off a large chunk of the American economy. You will have semi truck drivers obstructing highways with guns.

Brian Nichols  46:29  
This was also the Tucker Carlson argument, too. So just the horseshoe theory of politics economically speaking, you can see right now where Andrew Yang and Tucker Carlson very much on the same wavelength here.

Remso Martinez  46:40  
Yeah. And I mean, it's not a matter of, well, an economic principle this is going to happen. Look at the Lamplighters, unions. It's like economies should serve people. People should not serve corporations. And people think that I'm juxtaposing myself when I say this, but we live in a pluralist society. We we have to understand that we have to live together in a way, and that while we know that our ideas are objectively and factually correct, there's no such thing as a perfect deal. There's there's always going to be compromise in some way. And I'm not saying never automate the jobs that the Longshoremen have. I'm not saying pass laws to prevent certain things from happening, but what I am saying is that I think conservatives who are in libertarians who are ignoring the why, and they're only focusing on the well, let's just look at these things to dismiss the arguments. We're looking at something that is only going to become a bigger problem, not just nationally, but this will become a big, a bigger problem internationally. Because what we do here are, do we think for a moment that we're going to do this here, and that, like Canada and Mexico, our biggest trade partners, are going to do the same thing. I don't think so. I don't believe that, because when the more we automate, the more jobs we're creating for developing nations. And there's a positive trend to that. However, what that does is that completely alienates and causes massive problems for working class Americans, which make up a majority of the of the of the country. When you look at how many Americans make less, make less, even right now than $60,000 combined household incomes a year. I'm not talking individually. I'm talking household incomes a year. What that's gonna do so I don't have a solution. I'm not taking a side on this. I think there's a lot of shit going on both ways. But what I'm saying is, is that if people ignore this, and they try and dismiss it as just something that shouldn't even be discussed because longshoremen bad. I had to pay 20 more dollars for tickle me. Elmo, it's not going to work out for us long term.

Brian Nichols  49:12  
I almost did my Elmo voice by held back there is something because Christmas price go up. No, no, you gotta go. Hey. Tickle Me. Elmo, Take on me. Elmo, for Christmas. Your daughter I do, and she fucking loves it. So, okay, fun fact, back when I was in college, my like, thing I used to love to do is I had a radio show, and I do, like, guest appearances, and Elmo would show up every now and then and and there was a group of like, like healthcare people who were doing a tour of the campus, and they heard me do my Elmo voice, because we had a big speaker outside the radio station. So you would walk by, you'd have this big glass window, you could see who was in there. And they like, they peeked in. They're like, ginormous dude doing an Elmo voice. So then they ended up, like, they talked to me afterwards, after my show was done, and they're like, you just do an Elmo voice? And I was like, Yeah, I love it. And then they're like, what? You be ever open to doing something like that to, like, call kids who are in the hospital during like, Yeah, I did that for a while. Elmo calls. I'd be like, Hi Jimmy, this is Elmo, how you feeling today. And

Remso Martinez  50:11  
the kids would be like, Oh, Elmo,

Brian Nichols  50:13  
it was a lot of fun. Um, yeah, so that's my Elmo story, but, um, really quick. So I just want to go back to the automation story you're telling and by the way, I think you're spot on. Remzo, there cannot be this black, bless you, black or white solution to this very gray problem. And going into my day job. So for folks who aren't maybe familiar with my day job, I am a leader in the contact center technology space. So we are working a lot right now with your small and medium sized contact centers, the number one complaint remzo from 2023 when it comes to customer experience across the board, was not being able to get in touch with a live person on the phone and being force fed into some automated AI robot, AI, IVR, AI VA, where they're just talking to a computer and not having a chance to talk to a real person, and that is leading to horrible CSAT customer satisfaction scores. So what we're realizing at my company, and we are actually one of the leaders in this, is that AI is not replacing people. What's happening is it's the people, the agents, who are answering the phone, who are leveraging AI in conjunction with their their human skills, right? So let's take this mentality and carry it over to the Longshoremen. It's not the automation that's going to replace longshoremen, though it could, but it's going to be the Longshoremen who are leveraging automation to help empower themselves to do their jobs more effectively, more efficiently. That. And by the way, in a free market perspective, you're not going to have this one size fits all solution that's being pushed down by unions. But rather, the marketplace is going to battle to say, hey, this company's bringing this approach to how they're going to help, you know, bring automation to the the unloading of boats versus this company, and now we can have a very real like A B test to see this worked and this side didn't. And then you can better as a company make a decision going forward, like, Okay, our competition's doing this and it's working for them. Why and should we incorporate something like this? Or can we do something different? Can we innovate a different way that makes us more efficient, that makes us more effective? And I'm planting my flag in this remzo. You're making some predictions. I'll make a prediction right now. The AI automation revolution is not going to be this dystopian world that people have created the perception it to be, but rather the AI automation world we're going to see over the next 1020, 3040, 50 years, is going to be your average person incorporating those different tools, those different resources, to help them make themselves more efficient relative to the competition, versus just replacing those people. Because and we're seeing again right now in the contact center space, as soon as you're saying, Okay, I don't need an agent anymore. I don't need to pay, you know, $60,000 a year for salary Bennies, and then, you know, all the other stuff that goes into hiring somebody. I can just replace them with an AI robot. Guess, what's happening? People are getting pissed off. I literally had a real life customer I was working with, and they had tried to put in this AI solution. They were a home a home plumbing company. I think it was they put it in. Day one, they ended up having 45 calls that they had to do for a callback, for people that they thought were going to be potential customers, that got into the AI robot call tree and couldn't get out. And those people got pissed, and within a weekend, they lost that much business. They got rid of the entire AI thing, they canceled their contract, and we're like, we're getting fucked here. We can't We can't do this. And what do they do? They instead change their solution so they have a live answer on the phone, but they give the option of self service. They give the caller the option to say hey, to talk to a person right now. Press one to deal with your solution on your own press two. And if you go into that press two, and you start going through the AI automation tool, there's always an out. You can always press zero to go talk to a real person. So again, it's not black, it's not white. It is somewhere this shade of gray, grossness. But,

Remso Martinez  54:21  
and I think people will ultimately, and I mean, I see it in the marketing sector as well. I was the person that was originally afraid of chatgpt, and then I was like, chatgpt won't just make us more money. It'll actually protect our jobs. We figure it out. And people wanted to burn me like a witch when I, when I, I was like, We gotta implement this in our company if we want to stay in business for an old company. Old company I was at. But, you know, like, there are just some things that you want people for and some things that you don't like. I don't need to talk to somebody to activate a new credit card, but if I want to dispute a charge, I want to talk to an agent, which,

Brian Nichols  54:53  
by the way, that's a literal customer of ours. Like, you know, when you go to get to get those gift cards at Christmas, you scroll. Match off the back, and you had to put the code in the company that, like, when you put the code in and it activates your card, they're one of our customers, and that's exactly remzo, exactly their use case. They're like, we don't need a live person to activate that. But if somebody's having issues activating that card, and they need to talk to a real person, we need to make that as easy as possible. And here's here's dude. This is a real story I can tell. Here's why.

Remso Martinez  55:21  
I literally just thought it off the cuff. This is cool, $1.2

Brian Nichols  55:25  
million in ROI simply by turning on, turning on the AI self service tool, not again, not to replace people, but to supplement those agents and that company. They're like, this is a no brainer, because now our agents aren't fucking sitting there dealing with these stupid like, okay, it's fucking Beverly calling again. I have to go through and activate a new card. Now Beverly can do it on the phone very quickly, because she can talk through the phone and it will do it for her. But if Beverly has issues, now they can just instantly go to that person, and now that person is helping a more high level problem versus just a routine like low skill and again, that's just, that's the reality. It's a low skill type of job. Now you're actually starting to use some critical thinking skills. You have to think outside of the box. You can actually do customer service, customer experience, instead of just feeling like I'm a cog in a machine. Okay, let me go to my CRM, quickly find some information like automate that, and let the agents do the agent thing. They want to help, but they're not being allowed to, right? So let's empower them to help. And the same thing is true here. I don't know of any longshoreman who's like, you know, I really like going out to the boats and picking up the containers and putting them on the trucks to leave. It's my favorite thing to do during the day? No, that's, that's the boring shit. I bet they probably enjoy, like trying to problem solve and be creative in the ways that they can help unload the boat faster, or maybe not. Maybe the union drums, though, are built to stop that. Yeah. I

Remso Martinez  56:55  
mean, how much do they have to pay in insurance every year per each employee? And then you gotta deal with the with the shipping component for the other companies. How many long you know, longshoremen, injuries and deaths, yeah, are a big deal, and how many of them could have been avoided? I think that's the so if I were, if I was doing marketing and PR for the longshoreman, I would say, right now, we're doing this because the automation is not answering whether or not we can, we can preserve our employees and potentially save lives. I think if they went towards that component, they would have a lot more people across the political spectrum saying, you know, this actually makes a lot of sense, because when you look at electricians, when you look at people in construction, one of the biggest overhead costs outside of salary, yep, is the insurance, and that's payouts or disputes and stuff like that, and claims like the amount of money that goes into that, that could be bonuses, yep, that could be project expansion, that could be redevelopment, that could be a lot of things. There's a way to look at it, but they're not doing that, and that's why they're also losing people. Yup, yeah. It's not about just taking for granted the people you have. It's about getting the people who don't have an opinion of you

Brian Nichols  58:07  
expand on them. You know.

Remso Martinez  58:09  
So going into the debate, you know, there are people you know that if you're a Democrat, you're at least getting like 49 50% of the vote. Those are your ride or die people. I don't care if Tim walls is retarded, I'm gonna vote for Tim walls whether I believe that he is the best. He won the debate or not. And that's the funny thing too, because Democrats put out graphically, they're like, Tim walls, obvious debate winner, but even seeing that as like, nope. So you've got your ride or die people, but then you have the people who are like my father, Republican, always more likely, but vote Republican, but will objectively say whether, whether Paul Ryan lost the debate or not, or whether Sarah Palin lost the debate or not.

Brian Nichols  58:58  
He's not a fan. He's on the game strikes. Yeah. So it's like, if you were to be a football fan me, and you're watching your Dallas Cowboys lose, and then you're like, oh, but they're still the best team, even though they've only won two games. Like, no, I can be objective and say they're my team, but they played two shitty back to back games. Like, you have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same

Remso Martinez  59:21  
time? Yeah. So, I mean, what you're looking for is the people who may have an opinion of you but are willing to listen to you, and if you're pushing those people off, you're going to instinctively be less likely to support you. Yes. So you're not really that that number of people who it's like if you can sway them, they the people who are objectively honest of themselves, could potentially sway others,

Brian Nichols  59:45  
and that is what exactly happened this past week with JD Vance. JD Vance, like going full circle to our episode today. He was able to diffuse the the fan, right? He was able to now give that fan the opportunity to be objective. Of because when you look at Trump versus Harris, it is the emotional battle, right there is almost zero room for for like, common sense objectivity, whereas with JD Vance and Tim walls, the emotional side of things really got put behind the scenes, the the rabid fan side of things, and it allowed Americans, I would say, outside of that traditional team dynamic, the casual watcher of the game, right? You know, I keep on going back to the football analogy. Like, you know, it's not the person who's a die hard Dallas Cowboys fan or a die hard Pittsburgh Steelers fan, because that's what they're playing this week, but it's the person who's like, Yeah, I like football season. I like just to throw the game on and see what's going on. And then when there's a really good game, they're like, Oh, this is a really good game. I hope both teams have fun. But like when folks are watching this VP debate, I got the feeling remzo that that was the mentality that folks had, that this was politics, how it should be, how it used to be. There was a vibe of nostalgia, right? Like, oh man, the good old days when we could just have two candidates on stage who didn't outwardly hate each other and can just talk about the stuff it

Remso Martinez  1:01:11  
was, if people, if, if we take off our emotional caps, it's Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney. Yes, we both love America. We both want the exact same outcome, we just have different ways of getting there. Yep, yeah.

Brian Nichols  1:01:26  
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Remso Martinez  1:04:53  
got a sneak preview for that. Would you tell me more? Tell me more. There's going to be a VIP panel. So this is for P. People who know about the free tickets, if you upgrade to their prestige level, and one of the other levels where you get additional like, very like, high private segments, there's a panel regarding World War Three and the likelihood, and this is it, led by Tim pool. No, this is, this is like, if you want, like the most, like, we're just calling balls and strikes on the odds of world war three. I got to take a sneak peek of that. And I am making very deliberate I'm taking very deliberate actions in my personal and professional life now, because of some of the stuff that was brought up in that segment, I know that they're gonna be talking about as well afterwards, but I would say, like, this is you're not gonna see this on TV. You're not gonna get this elsewhere. This is one of their paywalled segments, because this is one of the stuff where it's like a lot of time went into this, because they're not just going to fear monger you. Their world war three panel is going to be the biggest portion of this summit. So if you just want to understand when you hear people talking about World War Three, understand that you want to listen to these people. That's all I'm going to say. I want to spoil anything. Remzo,

Brian Nichols  1:06:25  
I always love our conversations here on Saturday mornings. I know a lot of other folks do as well. I've been seeing lots of folks jumping in out of here the live stream. So thank you for joining us on our Saturday mornings. And with that, we are going to go ahead and go towards the end of the episode today, and I'll just do my final thoughts, and I'll let you bring us home. So yes, we are live here, by the way, on Twitter and on Facebook. We'll see. We're gonna try to expand some different platforms to go live on as well. So if there's other platforms you want to hear us on, on Saturday mornings live, go ahead. Let us know down below in the comments. But let's just bring this home. I look at the JD, I'm gonna go back to that JD Vance and Tim Walz debate really quick, because it did give me some hope. Going back to what I was talking about again, this nostalgia to political, political years from from days past, and it just feels like there was kind of like a breath of fresh air that came from that that that debate. So here's my my my hope, my wish for the future is that this election 2024 will be, will be the end of the polarization. And hear me out. I know it sounds really high, pie in the sky, right there. There was a very obvious desire for civility, cordiality, and that was shown in the response from this debate. That's not to say that there are folks who they love, the the slings in the arrows. Actually, there was an article I was reading, I think, from the Atlantic, talking about, like, where, where was Tim walls, on the attack. We need the we need the aggression. So that, to me, tells me that, okay, the left starting to get worried, because they're realizing that the aggressive approach they've been taking, it's not working as well as it used to. Trump's a known commodity. They can't just boogeyman him to death because he's already been president before. So like, all the worst things he could have done, he didn't. And I think your average person is viewing that as like, oh, okay, you guys made it seem like he was going to be the next, you know, the next, what? Mao like next. Hitler, he's not. And that argument is no longer holding as much weight. It's almost like Boy Who Cried Wolf, like you cried wolf so many times he's not a wolf. Guy is like, yeah, there are things about him that I don't like, but he's not the worst thing in the world. And going into 2026 and 2028 and beyond, I'm hoping that we're going to see folks like JD Vance, like Vivek Ramaswamy, they're going to be the leaders of the GOP, and not making arguments from the the emotional perspective of I need to get you afraid, but rather, let's show a better path forward. And dude, I would love to see the debates between JD Vance and Vivek. I mean, talk about some of probably the most substantive debates we could experience from political candidates anywhere. I mean, that's what we need as a country, and that's what the debate showed me people want so I'm hoping we looked at 2026 we looked at 2028 specifically in a presidential perspective, I'm praying that the Democrats will bring somebody to the table who's not crazy, right, like bring bring us a JD diamond, bring us a Mark Cuban, despite the things that I disagree with, Mark Cuban On Mark Cuban as a head of a ticket versus Kamala Harris. Guys like it's night and day difference, not to say that Mark Cuban can't be a bonehead sometimes, because he absolutely can. But it's a different perspective. It's a different approach to politics that we need. Again, I would love to see a debate between Vivek and JD, or Vivek or JD versus. Mark Cuban or Jamie Dimon, right? Give me that debate, not the just, you know, the, oh, you're the worst thing ever. You're going to destroy America. No, you're the worst thing ever. We need to restore the soul of America. None of that bullshit anymore. People are tired of it. They want something different. And I hope that that VP debate gave us a picture of what elections could be and what debates could be that's my final thoughts today. Remzo, what do you have for us as we bring things home? Vote Trump. And with that Brian Nichols and remzo Martinez, gonna go ahead and put a pin in today's Week in Review. Remzo, love having you on the show, buddy. And by the way, getting tons of feedback from our episodes, and people just loving the loving the back and forth between you and I, it must be like the 10 years or so of friendship we have that helps make these conversations more fun. So if you got some value, I'm going to ask you to do two things. Number one, head down below the comments, let us know your thoughts from today's episode. Number two, if you're listening to us on the podcast version of the show, head to your favorite podcast app and give us a five star rating and review. That's five. Five Star because that helps us reach more folks. That's how the the different podcast algos work. They get more five stars. They put the show in more and more people's feeds. How about that? So please head over give us a five star rating and review. Tell us that you love listening to the Week in Review amp America with remartines and Brian Nichols. With that being said, we're gonna go ahead and wrap things up for today. Remzo love have you on the show, buddy, Be good. Be safe. And with that, it's Brian Nichols signing off. We'll see you next week. You.

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