931: President Musk? - Why Washington DC Is TERRIFIED of Elon | Week in Review

Brian Nichols  0:05  
This week, Elon Musk is shaking up Washington, challenging the very fabric of political norms as he's flexing his influence alongside President elect Trump. What does this mean for the future of governance and as Congress teetered on the brink of shutdown. Musk's vocal opposition to the bipartisan spending bill raises question about accountability and power in American politics. Are we witnessing the rise of a new political order? You don't want to miss it. Welcome to The Brian Nichols Show. 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. Well, happy Saturday. There folks. I knocked over my microphone. We are live as we are airing here, yes, live on X for our AMP America. Week in Review. Do not adjust your your screen. This is not Santa Claus. This is Brian from The Brian Nichols Show. I know very confusing. We got a little bit different of a layout here for the show going forward. So hope you guys enjoy that, and a lot to unpack today. A lot to unpack today. All things around the idea of President musk. President musk, yeah, this past week, with all the insanity over on on Capitol Hill, we gotta discuss all that and more. So joining me to help me do just that, our good buddy. Remzo. Martinez, remso, welcome back to the show. How you doing, buddy? Ho ho ho.

Remso Martinez  1:33  
We're missing our machine guns. That sounds weird when I try and say it like I tried to say it like. Bruce Willis, it's like, ho ho ho. I've got a machine gun, but now I've just messed it up. We should, it's okay.

Brian Nichols  1:44  
It's okay. REMSA, I'll forgive you, because tis the season. It's no REM so it's okay. This is the season of perpetual hope, of perpetual forgiveness. So right now, if there's ever a time to flub up, this is the time to do so, because we will forgive you no matter what.

Remso Martinez  1:59  
You know, I didn't realize it was this close to Christmas until, like, last Saturday, shopping yet. I so this, this was really weird. This is the first Christmas that my wife and I are not traveling back to the east coast to spend time with family. And because we've been like, super busy, what we were doing a lot of was, and, I mean, it's, it's different. Maybe if we had kids, it would be a little bit different. But we were like, hey, what were like, hey, what do you want for Christmas? She'd tell me, I'd be I'd order it and arrive like, the next day. So we really didn't, you know, prep a lot, because anything either of us wanted, which wasn't much, we just go ahead and order it for each other so we could have it now. And my wife and I have this agreement that, you know, it's like, we don't have to worry about getting anything ready for Christmas Day. It's like, we're adults, we can make it work. We're busy. But last week, we were just looking at our calendar, and we were talking to clients and other people, and we were like, you know, everyone's taking the week of Christmas off. How many weeks away is that? And then we were like, oh, it's next week. So, you know, we're a bit we're a bit drowsy because we've been burning the midnight oil. Like, let's get ahead. Let's try and do as much stuff as possible. So we can try and take the entire week off, which I have not taken more than, like, two days off, yeah, including weekends in a very long time. So

Brian Nichols  3:16  
dude, you've been going hard, hard in the paint, like you were, you were doing all the PA Chase, all the amp America stuff. Like, I don't know how you've been finding time to breed, on top of your marketing stuff.

Remso Martinez  3:26  
It's, you know, it's fun, and it's, you know, I worked for a company that actually had a lot of very generous vacation days provided, not including PTO. And I was talking to my wife last night. I'm like, You know what? Like, I really missed that place. They're no longer around. But I was like, I missed that place. They would give me so much time off I want. It was one of those few tech companies where if you wanted to take, like, a full month off with your PTO, you could theoretically do that. They were great. But and not many companies do that. I was, I was very thankful as a digital publishing company. And, you know, it's just like, you know, we can, we can make these decisions now. So even though we work hard, we, you know, try and play hard when we can of stuff. So, you know, it's, it's one of those nice things as an entrepreneur and as somebody that can, you know, have the flexibility. And sometimes I call it the inflexibility, but I can, I can make that choice. So it's like, yeah, it's like, I'm I'm tired, but I can, you know, if I don't want to work on the week of Christmas, I don't have to. I just have to make it work. So, you know, it's, I'm very blessed. I'm trying to be, I'm trying to be thankful for what I do have this Christmas. I posted on LinkedIn, and there's a total diversion that I like Thanksgiving more than Christmas. And when I say Christmas, I mean, like Coca Cola, Santa. Christmas, not like baby Jesus, the real reason behind Christmas, Christmas, the actual reason for Christmas. But I like Thanksgiving because you get to chill out, eat food, and you're supposed to just be thankful for what you have. And my problem is like, you know, unlike Bill O'Reilly, who is always like the war on Christmas. Is, I always felt like the real war was the war on Thanksgiving, and now the the Christmas prep season almost starts, like, on the day after Halloween. Yeah, it's like, we don't even like to acknowledge Thanksgiving except on Thanksgiving Day, because it's still a federal holiday. So I challenge people. It's like, you know, if you're not religious, or if you don't really think about it, at least go into Christmas. If that Thanksgiving spirit of like, be thankful for what you have and be joyous for what you've been able to accomplish another year. Like, let's Amen, let's let's be merry

Brian Nichols  5:31  
well. And speaking of remzo, this is what we call a Segway in the industry. By the way, we are live here on x. So if you are joining us here on X today, thank you for joining us. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with remzo and I for our AMP America Week in Review. Head down below to the comments, let us know your thoughts on today's topics of conversation, which speaking back here, we go full circle what to be thankful for, and I think it's important to understand what we are thankful for remzo by sometimes acknowledging what could have been right? The other parallel universe. You know, Google just announced that they have that brand new AI chip that can, like, go dip into parallel universes, more or less, whatever the hell it was. It was a whole thing. So check that out. But here's a parallel universe. What if? What if, right? Joe Biden, not Joe Biden, that's right. I forgot that. Ding Dong, his brains dead. Kamala Harris. What if she had, in fact, won back in November? And here's a quick clip that was shared over on x with, with from, from Elon Musk. It was Mark Andreessen talking about a chat that he and a bunch of business and tech leaders had it with the White House back before the election, talking about AI and remzo again. Let's paint this parallel universe. This is what could have been, and why we are so thankful that Kamala Harris did not win back in November. Let's take a listen. We had meetings in DC in May where we talked to them about this, and the meetings were absolutely horrifying, and we came out basically decided we had to endorse Trump. What did you hear in those meetings? AI is a technology basically, that the government is going to completely control. This is not going to be a startup thing. They actually said flat out to us, don't start. Don't do AI startups. Like don't don't fund AI startups. It's not something that we're going to allow to happen. They're not going to be allowed to exist. There's no point. They basically said, AI is going to be a game of two or three big companies working closely with the government, and we're going to be, by the way, right there. Does that sound familiar to folks, two or three big tech companies working with the government, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, before, you know, we found all the Twitter files and all the bullshit from behind the scenes. But, I mean, this is the playbook, right? So just, let's pay attention to how the government was going to try to leverage this for AI, basically wrap them in a, you know, they, I'm paraphrasing, but we're going to basically wrap them in a government cocoon. We're going to protect them from competition, we're going to control them, and we're going to dictate what they do. And then I said, Well, I said, I don't understand how you're going to lock this down so much because, like, the math for, you know, AI is, like, out there, and it's being taught everywhere. And, you know, they literally said, Well, you know, during the Cold War, we classified entire areas of physics and took them out of the research community, and, like, entire branches of fitness basically went dark and didn't proceed, and that if we, if we decide we need to, we're going to do the same thing to Matt, to the math underneath. Ai, wow. And I said, I've just learned two very important things because I wasn't aware of the former, and I wasn't aware that you were, you know, even conceiving of doing it to the latter. So I talk fast. I had to double check and make sure that we weren't on like, 1.5 speed there with Mark Andreessen, because he talks a lot faster than me, very fast. I was literally, I looked, I was like, Did I put this on 1.5 or, like, 1.75 speed or something? No, that's just how Mark talks. But remzo This, again, sounds spookily, creepily similar to what we saw happen back during COVID, right? And this was all, I mean, this was the manifestation of everything back during COVID, but how we got to where we were, where government basically was saying, all right, Facebook, all right, Twitter, we're going to dictate what you are allowing on your platforms, and we're not going to say it overtly. We're just gonna, you know, give guidelines, give recommendations, give suggestions, and with those suggestions, you can do what you want, right? Um, but we're gonna definitely nudge you which way we think you should go, which I mean, that sounds a little problematic. Are we allowed to use that word problematic anymore? Um, but remzo, like this sounds very similar, right to what we saw happen during COVID, but with AI. And I just gotta say it remzo. I think the ramifications of government getting its dirty, rotten fingers into the AI world might even be worse than what we saw back with the with social media and the government interventions there. What say

Remso Martinez  9:40  
you do you? There's a tool that I started using which is completely replaced Google. For me, it's called perplexity. Love me some perplexity. Perplexity, for those of you that don't know, perplexity is like the premier AI search engine, which is available at its pro level for like 20 bucks a month. And. I want to emphasize, like a lot of these AI tools, people get confused because they don't do their research, but they're very inexpensive. They're meant to be for the consumer level, and one of the reasons why is because they know that if you lower the barrier to entry and you have a wider pool of customers, what you've basically done is you've widened your research you've widened your research pool. So you're teaching it, you're instructing it, you're helping these companies collect data. That's why these tools are so cheap. And perplexity is a tool that I did not learn about until, like early November. It was my wife who discovered it, watching YouTube, and I went on it for five minutes, and immediately it was like, We need this. So I went ahead and bought the pro version. And two years ago, I, you know, at that at that company, that digital publishing company I was at, we were going through some very significant budget cuts. You know, we had to slash a lot of our writers. It was a company that managed a bunch of different publications, and it got to the point where I was basically told, you need to keep up output of content across all of these different sites that we have, and you need to not spend any more money, which was funny, because they basically took away all the money I could have spent on it. So what I started using was I started using at the time it was chat three, oh, and I was using that to help draft content really fast. And I was basically able to put out the output of like five or six writers on a couple specific sites. And I was actually able to help us use these tools to create custom gpts to create draft writers for other websites that were inactive because we didn't have people for it, because we didn't have money to pay them, and we went on our monthly meeting, and a lot of the editors were panicking, and they did not like the I brought any of this in, but the reason why I did was because I was trying to teach them like guys, it's here. I'm figuring this out. I know our competitors are figuring this out. We either figure it out together now and we keep our jobs and we secure our company, or we go out of business. But one of the most important things that came out of that was the ability to create real time news coverage stories. So I'm going to go ahead and give people some some free some free advice. Do it if you want to go ahead and put together a very, very concrete, very good grounding for thesis or for a news story or for a long form piece, what you do is you go to perplexity. You start searching within perplexity, the questions you want answered. You follow the AI recommended, recommended prompts that follow that initial search sequence. You then copy and paste all of that into chat, four Oh, and then you give it your tone, your desired outcome, the purpose and the audience and the word count. And then what you do is you take all that, you put it onto a Google Doc, and maybe people have have less steps than I do. I'm always, I'm always trying to minimize steps. But then what you do is you go back to perplexity, and you go for all the hyperlink sources from the most reputable and those highly trafficked websites where it's pulling these from. And then you go and you double check everything, and right there you have a working draft and blueprint for whatever piece you want to go ahead and work on that all in all, takes less than five minutes to do, and it's more up to date than the amount of time that you would typically need to go ahead and research. Now, I started doing this with grok recently. Grok, I think people are really sleeping on, because grok can actually pull, not just from sources within X, but it can pull from other platforms, and which,

Brian Nichols  13:53  
by the way, the x piece might be even, I would say more important, because x is the breaking news of breaking news, like, as things happen, it's on x. So

Remso Martinez  14:02  
here's where I close of this. I told my boss at the time, and this is before GP. It is before chat allowed you to integrate with Bing and everything else, to pull and search from the web and stuff like that. I said I thought, I think this was in 2022 I said that it would take at least 10 years before we had a sophisticated, accessible, reliable, real time AI search tool that can move faster and more accurately than a person. And it happened within about a year and a half, yeah, oh, it's gonna get out of the bag. The stuff is out of the bag. And I would not be surprised if you know, like, the past decade we had, like, the breakup Google and the breakup Facebook and the antitrust stuff. I could definitely see that being the case with the Democrats, and it has nothing to do with wanting to make you. Know the the playing field Fair has nothing to do with fair play and all that stuff. It's going to do with access to control. It's all about power. When

Brian Nichols  15:09  
you look at first of all, let's just kind of address the elephant in the room. I went so nerdy

Remso Martinez  15:14  
for a minute. People just got like $120 an hour consultation from me. So there you go.

Brian Nichols  15:20  
You're Merry Christmas. From, from, from Brian Claus here and and his good little elf, remzo, so many college students cheat on their shit right now. Forgot your hat. Forgot your hat, by the way, I did. Sorry. I'm a bad owl. I had that on. It looked really, really stupid for folks who were wondering, before we hit record, I was like, remzo, the Santa hat or the elf. And I said, Does the health hat look stupid? And he goes, isn't that the point, buddy? So, really quick. Remso, like, first of all, elephant in the room. Small L, libertarians are right again, because you see this a lot, where people are like, we need to regulate. The market will will decide right? The market will create solutions. Like, you look at Google and Facebook and Twitter and everybody's like, Oh my God, these are monopolies. And then you fast forward, like, five years, and Google is losing its share in the search market, which, if you were to say five years ago, Google will no longer be the leading search engine, you'd probably laugh in somebody's face, because Google had been the leading search engine for well over, what, 1520, years at this point, and all of a sudden, here comes these AI tools. And people are trying to figure out ways to leverage these AI tools. And these folks over at perplexity, which I, by the way, I'm a big fan of Perplex. I've been using it for quite a while, and I use it a lot for research, right? And I it's basically replaced my search engine. I use it for answering the questions I have. So like, instead of going to Google, like, what was that one song that was blah, blah, blah. You just go to perplexity, give the context of the song, and boom, there it is. And it's usually more in accordance what you're actually looking for

Remso Martinez  16:50  
in the marketing space. This is I'm panicking a little bit, but a lot of people in my industry are panicking, because the big thing upon the horizon is SEO will be dead by like 2028 and it will be all AIO. And whereas search engines are primarily going off of keyword search, you know, artificial intelligence, optimization, everything else for tools like perplexity, it's all going based off, you know, problem analysis, yep. And what it's doing is it's predicting based off the prompt of the question, What other challenges and what other topics of interest you would like, based off what initially prompted the person. It's a lot more intuitive, which is awesome and kind of scary at the same time well,

Brian Nichols  17:35  
and it's scary because it's unknown, right? We know how SEO works. We know what to do in order to get more clicks there. It's a it's a science. At this point, it's not even a science. It's more like a math equation. If I put this word into, you know, for SEO, I know, you know, based on keywords and all kind of stuff, that I'm going to get X percent in return. I mean, that's usually the mindset. Whereas you look at the AIO or whatever the hell is the AEO. Um, that's going to be more I mean, honestly, it's a crap shoot, but it's going to require you to put out higher quality content, right? Because now, as as a an AI tool, that's where it's leveraging the information from. So it's not just going to the SEO pieces. It's starting to incorporate more contextual stuff, and that's huge. And I know for a lot of folks, it's probably scary, right? And you mentioned, like the industries, like marketing, for example, definitely a red red light, maybe yellow light, right? Like, let's pump the brakes a little bit. But when you look at where this is heading, it's definitely disrupting things from a tech standpoint, but this is, this is indicative, I think, of a larger movement we're seeing, a larger transition we're seeing in the country right now, and as a populist REM so because as AI, is changing thing as technology has allowed us to become more and more ingrained with each other's lives, and we can communicate faster than ever before you start to see things in government also changing quickly as well. It's almost like governments now having to keep up with the news, and in this case, the news is non stop. So you fast forward to here we are. We're recording on the 21st of December for folks playing along the home game who are listening. What was that? Oh, Christmas. Yes, Christmas. Yeah. Thank you for joining us live

Remso Martinez  19:24  
where the guy's just like, it's Christmas, George, and the guy's just like, Chris, what show is that I'll fucking remember?

Brian Nichols  19:31  
Okay, thanks for derailing this rim zone. I'm just kidding. Let's go towards where this all kind of manifested here this past week, and this has been the battle over the CR, the continuing resolution that was being voted on in Congress. So you have the Republican bill that was promoted. It wasn't really a full Republican bill. Was a bipartisan bill, bipartisan bill and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy heads of Doge, they looked at it and they said, Oh, hold on, 1500 page bill. So with a lot of garbage in it, do we want to support this now? This obviously got a lot of the old folks, not necessarily old folks more the this is how things have always been done. This way folks mad. For example, I'm going to share a video here, remzo, and some folks might recognize this person's appearance, not trying to, you know, stereotype, but this person definitely gives you some warning signs. This is representative Rosa Del Oro. Now, if you're listening to this in the audio only version, you might not recognize who this person is. If you're watching this on the YouTubes or on the ex dot coms, you're gonna see representative doloro. And she's very, very

Remso Martinez  20:43  
distinguishable show Batman. That's a way

Brian Nichols  20:47  
to put it, remzo. She's the the old lady who wears the the owl glasses with the weird purple hair, like Justin Bieber haircut from 2011 and she's, what's the word remzo? She's different. She's unique. I don't know. Let's just listen to what she had to say, though, because she thinks that this is the beginning, not of President Trump, but of President musk. Let's listen, read

Speaker 1  21:13  
on a bill. And you know what? They got scared because President Musk told them. President Musk said, Don't do it. Don't do it. Shut the government down. Imagine. What does he know about what? What

Brian Nichols  21:40  
does he know? Remzo, what does the multi? Multi, multi billionaire over who has started and launched, well, half dozen successful, large entities that are changing the way that we as humans, you know, interact with each other. Look at the future. What does he know?

Remso Martinez  21:57  
Man, all I wanted was a government shutdown for Christmas. I'm

Brian Nichols  22:01  
sorry. Ramzo, there's still time. Let's, let's hope. Let's let represented. Do Laura finish? Then we, can? We? Can? We can give our Christmas list to Santa Claus.

Speaker 1  22:09  
People go through is when the government shuts down, are his employees furloughed? Hell no. Is he furloughed? No. And when you shut the government down, people don't get paid. And maybe if none of us got paid, if the government shut down on the other side of the aisle would feel differently, wrong going in this effort, we had an agreement. But you know, this is not this is not different from what we've experienced over the last year and a half or so. Think about it. Biden McCarthy deal, come together, next day, walk away. Johnson Schumer deal, next day walk away. And now this deal, walk away from it. Who do we trust in this body? And above all, can the American people trust us? Trust us with their lives? When we had a moment when we came to agreement as Democrats and Republicans, and then we were able to say, let's move forward this country. You know one of my colleagues, I think it was Congressman Neil. So

Brian Nichols  23:21  
I just like when she was shaking her fist, you could hear, you could hear the jingle of like the 17 rings that she's wearing on her right hand. Also, point of personal privilege and point of information Connecticut, y'all okay, because y'all been sending this lady back to Congress for quite a bit. And I'm just gonna say I don't think the elevator goes all the way to the top floor remzo, but this is why I'm

Remso Martinez  23:44  
sorry. It's like, I just, I always get offended by this lie. Because I was in, I was in Virginia in 2018 2019 when the government shut down last time

Brian Nichols  23:58  
and you lost everything, right? Everybody was running around. Flame was everywhere. Everybody's saying, We can't make ends meet. It was terrible,

Remso Martinez  24:05  
right? What was hilarious was that the media kept focusing on like, two types of people. One, they were focusing on low level government employees who were encountering their first furlough, who also really didn't understand what you're dealing with. Then they were also focusing on, like, you know, migrant janitors for certain federal buildings, one if you're a government contractor, and I think that some contractors think they work for the government and like, they don't. But when you're when you're on a government contract, even through government shutdowns, your contracts are approved by the fiscal year, meaning that the funding is secure, the cash is there. So worst case scenario, three months go by of a shutdown, which I don't think we've ever had, three months of a shutdown. I might be wrong, but like, usually, that's the longest. Was 38 days. Yeah. Like you're going to still get paid every payroll, your payroll is secure, and then for a furlough, people say that word they don't think they understand. It used to be that government employees would get furloughed, but they'd still get payrolled, which basically meant that they couldn't negotiate raises and they couldn't do any spending. What it meant for the military for the longest time, and this always panicked my parents when this would come out, was Democrats were always pushing this idea that if you had a government furlough, that military personnel would not be paid. They would be paid to a degree of some compensation later. But they actually pushed the idea Democrats did this. Pelosi was the one that did this. She also pushed her death panels for for soldiers in 29 in 2008 which no one seems to remember. But, you know, they push the idea of US service members not getting any money back. But they always tried to make it secure for themselves, so that way federal employees get their money. These people will always get their freaking money. This isn't about us. This isn't about us. This is about them. Whenever anyone, whenever anyone sees a politician beg for anything, the first question they need to ask is, how does this benefit them? And that's what this does. It pushes through more pork, more foreign spending, more stupid stuff that I'm trying to curse less around the holidays, more stupid stuff that nobody wanted. And all Musk did with his bill was point out the BS

Brian Nichols  26:32  
well, and by the way, like, let's, let's add to the BS right back when the government shut down in 2018 it wasn't, I mean, like, they, they put barriers at, like, monuments and stuff like, like you were shutting down the government, therefore you can't walk to the Washington Monument.

Remso Martinez  26:51  
That was, uh, that was, that was 2013 too. That was under, Oh, that's right, I'm thinking of 2013 it was Obama. Obama did that. 2013 2014 Yeah, he did that intentionally around the time of the year when you had World War Two veterans coming, yep, to DC for the Honor Flight. Yep. And he did that intentionally because he wanted to say, look what Republicans did. Republicans shut down our government. Shut down our government. That's right,

Brian Nichols  27:17  
that was 2013 100% that was 11 years ago. Gross. We're getting old shit all right. Also, by the way, another clip. I want to just carry forward this whole theme of President musk, our best friends, Rem so our best friends, joy and Whoopi over on the view they have. So we get, I say we, I'm using we as the right side of the political aisle. We get labeled as conspiracy theorists. Get ready for this conspiracy theorist theory. Rem so because this one, this one might, this one might take the cake. And by the way, folks, we are joining you live here in X today. So thank you for hopping in. If you have some thoughts on President musk and these conspiracies, let us know down below in the comments. But let's take a listen to our good friends, Whoopi and joy, from everybody's favorite, favorite TV show with the most intellectual diversity you could possibly get the view. Let's listen

Speaker 2  28:12  
who is in charge. Because I've been saying it for a while. I've been saying that I think girl, he's president. I

Speaker 3  28:25  
called I called him vice president. I called him president. Because I don't know what JD is doing. I hardly ever say I don't, I don't remember last time we even talked about JD,

Speaker 4  28:33  
right. He's planning the presidency when he get rid of Trump. So

Speaker 2  28:38  
you think it's must, it must Vance, possible. You know who stay away from the stairways. Yo.

Speaker 3  28:50  
People put the leg out to trip people down the stairs. Watch out. REM

Brian Nichols  28:55  
though they're so stupid, they're so stupid. Like, okay, man, like we talked about this before

Remso Martinez  29:03  
the did you pull that clip from news busters? It was from Twitter. But yes, I've got a funny fun I got triggered for so for a second, okay, I I had, I was an intern at MRC news busters, and I was in the news busters division, which was like, three people. I didn't get the I wanted MRC business. I want MRC tech. I want MRC culture. They put me in this and I was like, Why does nobody ever want this one? And it was because you had to either watch Morning Joe all day or you had to watch the view, and then you had to watch MSNBC, guess? How is that not a

Brian Nichols  29:43  
violation of cruel and unusual punishment?

Remso Martinez  29:46  
There's a reason why I quit that internship after that's like,

Brian Nichols  29:51  
those guys at Facebook and Twitter who have to like, sort through all the horrible things and like and like, you know the stuff that like, once you see it, you can't unsee it at. Sometimes you forever, like the bad stuffs.

Remso Martinez  30:02  
It was, it was basically like that, people won't believe me, Google, remzo Martinez, news busters, and you'll see my, my author block there. And it was a lot of stuff about the view. So I was the one who, I was the one who had to make those clips. And it was just like, who is keeping who is keeping these women employed the

Brian Nichols  30:21  
doctors offices that put them on in their their waiting rooms. Brian,

Remso Martinez  30:26  
do you feel like this is projection, like they're talking about them trying to get rid of a president or place of somebody else? They just did that, and they refused to acknowledge it well.

Brian Nichols  30:35  
And also, like, what my point was? We go back a few years or a few a few months ago, when we were talking about that, that just awesome ad for Kamala Harris, the masculine ad. Remember that? What was the energy? Promoted? Endorsed,

Remso Martinez  30:47  
full, full throttle endorsement. There was

Brian Nichols  30:51  
a certain word we used as an F word, bundle of sticks energy. And that theater kid bundle of sticks mentality is carrying forward here. This sounds like a script from House of Cards, right? That whoopee is trying to manifest here. And the reason I say that remzo Because they have their idea of what politics is entirely derived from what they see on TV, like Whoopi and joy and sunny, all those just intelligent, beautiful women from the view, this is their perspective of politics. It is the Hollywood of a cot Hollywood OF A KIND Hollywood of Hollywood, nation Hollywood. I was trying to mix hollywoodification and Hollywood, if I together and I got Hollywood cut up, hide whatever that thing, plus this theater kid, bundle of sticks, energy remzo, and it creates two different Americas, where you have one group of folks who are living in la la land, no pun intended, and other folks living in the real world. This is like a hard left pass La La Land. We're like, in bat shit, crazy Ville remzo. Is it true, though? Is Elon Musk and JD Vance getting ready to trip Trump down the stairs? Like, is this happening?

Remso Martinez  32:12  
Do they forget they he's South African.

Brian Nichols  32:15  
Okay, thank you. I was okay. I was gonna cover that as we got towards the end of this. Oh, by the way, he can't even ever be president, because, you know our Constitution, but like the lack of civics and understanding of our political process, it just and the fact, remzo, to your point, there are people who do watch the view, right, not just the doctors offices, but there are people who unironically Watch the view, and that's where they get their politics from, buddy, yeah. How'd that make you feel,

Remso Martinez  32:47  
dude, I wish that when I was forced to watch it, kind of like, you know, that guy from, you know, clockwork or Clockwork Orange, you had, like, his his eyes, like this, you know, box, yeah? Like, I don't even think Megan McCain was on the show, because at least there was something good to look at when she was on, I was just having to stare at joy, be hard, talk about how Trump is a threat to our democracy. It was, it was in 2016 no less, it was in 2016 when I had to do that. But it's, you know, it's, it's it, I, you know, it used to be liberals boasted about getting their news from, like Stephen Colbert and John Stuart Stewart the Oliver, used to actually boast that that's where they got their news from. Yep, and it's like you're they always say that, you know, Republicans are addicted to Fox News. And it's like, yeah, that might be true for the boomers. I won't argue that, but it's like, your, your average Republican is probably getting better sourced information, news and commentary than your average

Brian Nichols  33:56  
Democrat well, and by the way, the studies have shown this, if you if you were to ask your average Democrat to objective like, sit them down and say, Okay, this is Bob. You know nothing about Bob other than Bob is a Republican conservative. Tell me what Bob believes, and that person has no idea. They think he's a racist, that he's a sexist, that he's a homophobe. He wants a dictator to take over America, like they will go through and they will create this characterization of the worst case version of Bob, the conservative right. And then you do the opposite. You take representative, whatever her name is, purple haired freak lady. You put her on the screen and you say, look at this lady. This lady's name is, what was it, Laura? I don't know. Connecticut, Get your together. This

Remso Martinez  34:49  
woman is your friend. She fights for you. She definitely

Brian Nichols  34:52  
looks like she fights just not for you, probably for like the last witch's potion at the supermarket, but

Remso Martinez  34:58  
sexy, protecting. This the Dark Crystal. She's evil,

Brian Nichols  35:02  
Marianne Williamson. But when you look at her, and you say, forces very dark, and you ask the Republican or the conservative guy to say, what does this person believe? Right? They will obviously touch on some of those more like, sensational things. But they'll probably give the like, hey, they probably believe in, you know, the idea of kids should be able to choose their gender, or at the very least, it's a conversation that the government shouldn't be controlling. They believe in, you know, trying. What communism? That's the answer

Remso Martinez  35:35  
to the end. Now I don't fuck around anymore. I'm like, This person believes in communism.

Brian Nichols  35:39  
But, like the studies have shown, Rem so that your conservatives can, like within 70 to 80% accuracy, identify what the left believes, and then you ask the left to do the same thing, and they have no idea. They cannot articulate a single thing in any sincerity or seriousness that actually represents what libertarians, moderates, conservatives, Republicans that they believe, and I just listen to debate. And I do, here's my view, my view punishment, I guess, is I listen to reasons round table on ironically every week, just because I want to hear what the greater ethos of mainstream very loosely saying that

Remso Martinez  36:23  
idiots these days, what? How are the useful idiots these days? They're

Brian Nichols  36:28  
okay, you know, they're doing their thing. I think, um, specifically, Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie are going to start to wake up a little bit more, um, based on what they're seeing from the pushback that they've been getting for just not jumping on board with Kamala slash, not instinctually having some knee jerk reaction to hate Trump. There was a debate with it was Nicholas be and Matt Welsh from Reason versus Sarah Longwell and gentleman's name? Who's escaping me from the bulwark? So you knew it was gonna be good, right? And the idea was, who is it okay to not pick sides in politics, right? And to hear like, Nick and Matt trying to be, I don't say fence sitters, but more or less fence sitters, right? And Nick was like, saying, like, yeah, I was happy when, when Trump won. I was hoping, though, beforehand, that was gonna be Kamala to win. And then I win, and then our Republican Congress was able to hold her an account whatever unironically they listen to the reason roundtable, because I want to get an understanding of where folks are coming from. Because at the end of the day, I'm not just selling liberty or trying to help people sell liberty. You're also selling relative to who else is selling. Like, there's this, um, this really backwards notion that we can just feature and benefit people to death, right? Like, we can just say, Oh, look at how great liberty is, or how great x, y and z is, and you give them the the facts and figures list, and then say, well, that wins, right? They're gonna buy. And that's not the case, because you have other people who are also selling, but they're selling more in emotion. And when I hear these arguments, especially the folks from the more Democratic Left, they are all rooted in emotion. Right, rooted in fear, but also rooted in control. Remzo, and when they start to lose control, this is where I start to see some of the cracks in the narratives, some of the cracks in the armor, if you will, and we're seeing this no more visibly than the corporate media I mentioned reason. I'm not gonna really put reason in a corporate media bucket. I'll put

Remso Martinez  38:30  
a former employer of mine in that bucket. I worked for a nonprofit in Wisconsin. It was a conservative profit, and they were very much of the mindset of, because they had a, they had a c4 advocacy component, and they had, you know, they had a lobbyist for everything. So, like, while they weren't just researching, they were also trying to, you know, move things aside. And I always wondered why they they oppose the Overton Window theory. But, you know, it was never about winning. It was never about actually advancing things that could create actual measurable impact. What how they did it? And they'd probably disagree with me, but, you know, they're also stupid. So I could, I could go out with that, but it's like we don't actually push fights. We know we will have to fight on. What we do is we push fights where there is no opponent, and we create our own obstacles. And then what we do is we go for the most low hanging fruit votes, and we try and get those people in there. And we emphasize, if you do this, you could paint it as a 100% you victory. And it was almost always on, like, leftist causes, too. And by leftist causes, I'm not just talking about, you know, like the castration of children. They wouldn't jump into that yet. But, you know, it was, it was for like, Well, I would call, like, the low hanging things, which was criminal justice reform, which. Licensure reform, all things that I do say matter, yep, but they only mattered to certain Republicans because they needed victories. And while I'm glad that certain things did happen on all those fronts, because a push for liberty, even by an inch, is still a victory, I would say it was always why do we only focus on that. And why do we never take up the fights worth fighting? And it's, it's this mentality of like, if, if I, if I demand nothing, and they give me something, I can change the length of the goal post, and I can kind of make up history in that vacuum of what actually happened. Yes, and that is where I see a lot of these people sitting. They don't actually fight for the things where there is opposition. They don't take hard fights. And it's not because the odds are against them, it's because they they would rather just be seen as the useful, irate minority that gets the stuff that there wasn't much of a fight on to begin with, than to ever put efforts into it, much like the Libertarian Party. Yeah,

Brian Nichols  41:09  
well, and right there, right? This goes to something I've been I've been bitching and moaning about for five years now at this point, and that is like, know your lane, if you're a salesperson, be the sales person. If you're the solutions engineer, you're the tech inspects person. Be the tech inspects person. Like, if you get off on reading your favorite economics book, more power to you. But like, that's not sales. That just you, that's that's not sales. Sales is leading with value, leading with a solution to a problem. Like, there's god, okay, do I do? Yeah, there's an idiot in the one of these Facebook groups. And I talk, I I exist in I guess I'm there. And they're like, what's the point of sales anymore? I can just go online and find anything I want to find without having to talk to a stupid snake oil sales person. And I'm like, so you're just letting your buying behavior based entirely on marketing, which is fine, like, if you want to base it all on marketing, that's fine, but then that means that all your decisions are going to be based on which marketing appeal triggered your your emotional reactions the most. Okay, if that's the if that's your argument, how you're going to make a sale, go for it. But what I've seen, and again, going back to the real life, when sales is, you know, important, because it is everything. Sales yourself, an idea, a product, a service, politics, whatever it may be, if you don't know how to convey the value of your solution, and relative that to the competition, right, you are a sitting duck waiting to be plucked out of the sky by your competition and remzo, this is no more visible than what's happening right now with the corporate media. They are scared folks like Dave Smith and and Robbie the fire Bernstein over on part of the problem. Call this gentleman their favorite of favorite little piggies. This is Brian Stelter and former White House staffer Jim Acosta lamenting at the changing media landscape. Here. Let's take a listen

Speaker 5  43:09  
to Dan Crenshaw point Elon Musk is spreading fake news on this he is fake news,

Speaker 6  43:17  
and he relies on people to reply to him and tell him what's up. He says, You are the media now, that's his message on x. And yet that really leaves a lot to be desired. Yeah, to do it leaves

Brian Nichols  43:29  
a lot to be desired, says Brian Stelter, who I think likes hearing himself talk even more than Jim Acosta does. Um remzo, the the media ecosystem has changed. It has changed for the better. Is it because of President musk?

Remso Martinez  43:47  
I can certainly say that had Elon Musk not bought Twitter and turned it into X, that we would be having a very different political outcome. And it is primarily because Democrats cannot win on what they do. Democrats can only win on what they inhibit their competition to do because they're so accustomed to shaping the landscape. They control the narratives. They control the access they have, the appeal to the authority which they all own, the authority so when you shape the environment, you don't have to fight as much by allowing us to actually compete in a fair playing ground of ideas. What it did was it forced them to actually fight fire with fire. There were 2x accounts. One was, I think, called Kamala lies, and the other one was team Kamala. Team Kamala was going after, you know, all of, uh, Trump's, Trump's misinformation. They were going after all the gas. It was basically, this is the account, which was entirely negative, and they spent millions of dollars on that account, and they had a team of over 30 people that were full time employees that were running that account, and they were covering fire for Kamala. And drawing fire to Trump, then what you had for the Kamala lies X account was it was put together by four social media strategists, four Republican social media strategists who did it themselves. Nobody told them to they were all powered by patriotism and large amounts of Zen, and they went ahead and they grew account that was faster and more effective than what the paid Democrats had built themselves. And what it showed is that when you're having to compete off ideas, if you're having to compete off convincing people, if you're having to compete in a fair way Democrats lose because their policies are not good for general people. They're not good for the country at large. They are really the party that is explicitly owned by corporate interests. Yup, and I'll even dare say that their agenda is anti human it's an anti human agenda. And when people see that, and they have to choose, they choose one, because the outcome chose that. They chose Trump. But I want to point out, and I'm really interested to see what the studies will show in the coming months, how many first time Trump voters when they actually got to see everything laid out for them across the board, when they actually just got to look with their eyes and assess what their brains told them versus what the media mechanisms and even useful. It's like, like the view would say, how many of them were like, Yeah, screw it. I'm going for Trump. I think that will say more than anything else

Brian Nichols  46:38  
well. And buddy, elephant in the room again, right? Like the narrative that has been promoted for decades at this point by the corporate interests it, it's almost always based on a lie. And you know, sunlight is always the best disinfectant, and there's one, there's one gentleman over on CNN, remzo, who has been the biggest, brightest flashlight to shine, said sunlight on all the grossness and the lies of the corporate media. And that is our buddy who we were talking about last week, who is getting all the good looks there from the leftist panelist females on his left and right. That's right, yeah, our good buddy, Scott Jennings. He was just over here and actually getting, of all people, Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to agree with him. Let's go ahead and take a listen where, not only does he talk about and again, these narratives of like, Trump's gonna be the worst thing ever, he's gonna sue all of his political opponents. Let's listen. And also, let's listen to how Scott addresses these, these narratives. Let's take a peek whether it's worried

Speaker 7  47:41  
at all about this Scott just where it could go, not just the Donald Trump of it all, but I mean, if he's creating precedent, it's forever. Well, when

Speaker 4  47:49  
you introduced Michael, use the word narratives, you know. And I think the reasons Republicans are cheering on this muscular attitude from Trump and pushing back against some of this is because Republicans feel like constantly media organizations, especially in the throes of campaigns, work over time, to create false narratives that may shape the contours of the election. Look what happened when this poll came out in Iowa, the entire English speaking world was talking about the gold standard pollster and Harris has this momentum, and ultimately what we were told was complete garbage. And if you talk to pollsters at the time, they would have told you, this is not real. This methodology is not good anymore. But that's not what people chose to run with, because it fit what most people in the press wanted the narrative to be. So he's pushing back on that. I don't, frankly, have a problem with it, and if they capitulate. It's because they don't want to go through the discovery and what that might show. But

Speaker 8  48:44  
Scott is actually right about this one. I hate to say it, because Scott and I very rarely agree on anything. He's right about this in the fact that sloppy journalism, sloppy polling, and what they did, if you get a bad

Speaker 4  48:59  
poll, are you supposed to sue the pollster? Now it's not about the polls. It's not about the poll, but look what happened. It came out in a from a person who has a lot of credibility. Virtually every single panel I was on for the last week of the campaign led with, well, look at this poll. So it wasn't the poll, it's the second, third and fourth. Listen, narrative. Listen, listen. It's just so tired of Scott the number one cable news network, Fox News, the number one paper by circulation, the Wall Street Journal, number three paper by circulation, the New York Post. Number one person on the radio, Sean Hannity, the number one person on the podcast, Joe Rogan, all of these people are Trump supporters. What? What? What media are you talking about? That's anti Trump. You're not familiar with the anti Trump media. You're not familiar with the fact that you guys control everything.

Unknown Speaker  49:47  
Oh, the

Remso Martinez  49:48  
right wing controls the media now,

Brian Nichols  49:50  
and this is where it's going, right? It's gas lighting. We've talked about this a lot in the show before, gaslighting. That's what she's doing. I don't know who this sounds. Um, this lady is, but she's gaslighting to pretend as though, dude, I, I think I got rid of all back in C pack in, like, 2011 2012 I grabbed a bunch of bumper stickers, and one of them was, I don't believe the liberal media, right? I still had that. I think it's actually at home. I put it on a little like old computer that's like, dead, dead and gone from yester year, and my daughter just likes to play with it to send emails to grandpa to come visit. And I think I put the sticker on that so just, you know, lol, because, like, brainwash subtle. It's subtle brainwashing for the daughter. I'm joking, folks. I'm not brainwashing my daughter, or am I, but like, the fact that they can sit there and this chick with a smile and a condescending smirk and laugh, be like, Scott, I don't know what you're talking about. You think that you're not Republican, or your Republicans aren't the media. You control everything. Well maybe, sweetheart, it's because you guys have done such a horrible job that people are finally starting to say no. And she hit this right the very end. Remzo, you guys control everything from bit to bit to podcasts. And the podcast right? She put that third, I think, on purpose, because if she led with podcasts, she would have to be addressing the biggest of elephants in the smallest of rooms. And that is the only reason, the only reason that podcasts had become a go to source for news and information, especially since 2019 and everybody knows the reason why, because that was the one area, the one medium that you could sit down in front of a microphone and as a journalist, as a commentator, speak the truth about the COVID insanity. You could point out the government lies. You could point out the government half truths. You could point out the government insanity, the destruction of the lockdowns. You could question the science, because science is able to be questioned, folks, and that's where people started to go. That's why Joe Rogan became the number one podcast. That's why folks started to go in droves, away from the corporate media to these podcast entities to start getting their information. And they hate it. They hate the fact that they no longer control the microphone. They no longer control the where the information is being disseminated. And it makes people like her terrified. It makes people like Abby Phillips terrified, because they now have to stop pretending and leading with the gas lighting and leading with the narrative and actually talk about what's happening. And if they don't, people are are voting with their their views and going elsewhere.

Remso Martinez  52:39  
Yeah, yeah. No, it's a, I mean, what did they try and do? The media has tried to destroy Joe Rogan, CNN of all night. Gray, they tried to do that. They spread the lie that he was taking horse de wormer. They, I mean, just look at what they did. They went ahead and said that parlor, which is suddenly having a new resurgence under new ownership. They said that that was a domestic terrorism Haven online. It was why I was concerned with dodging a federal subpoena for close to a year, because they tried saying that they were going to drag all current and former employees before a House Oversight and Reform Committee, and that one of the ranking members on that committee at the time said that we were in the pockets of Russian oligarchs, I mean, and I mean, Brian Stelter was the one that said that was tantamount to domestic terrorism. I mean, they just, they do this all the time. And I mean, let's name it, CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, the BBC, any newsy NPR, which is state funded liberal media. I mean sky, vice, you you name vice, slay, Al Jazeera, you name them, and it's like, Who do we have? We have podcasters. They're mad because they lost, yes, they didn't just lose the narrative, but they lost viewership and they lost money. I think Joy Behar is actually going to have to take a pay cut because they blamed her for decreasing ratings.

Brian Nichols  54:09  
What's her name? Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, she was getting paid 25 fucking million dollars a year to sit there as the female iteration of Mark Cuban and like, rant and rave about how dangerous Republicans are only for I mean, she turned into, like, the super clip of super clips over the past, like, four years because of how wrong she was. She should

Remso Martinez  54:31  
have been sued, yes, sued out of existence for pushing the fake Russia hoax steel dossier, which she herself said she had physical copies of, yep, and I think it was her network that said, you know that that those documents are, have you have, are not substantiated. They're not real. Yep, cannot say that, because then you also put us in the position of, how did you acquire those? Well, and this is like what happened with

Brian Nichols  54:59  
George. A step what is it? GEORGE monopoly Stephanopoulos, I, I intentionally, I swear to God, I didn't call him George slopp. I guess to be a dick. I just his name escaped me, and I apparently thought he was the big brown elephant from Sesame Street. He just got sued $50 million well, him and ABC, because they were going on air saying that Trump was found guilty of rape. You can't do that. Why? Because he wasn't. And this, this is the thing right here, like I hear this whole conversation of this video we just watched here with with Scott and AB, or on CNN, it was based around this whole idea of like, how scary Trump suing Anne Seltzer, the pollster, you are allowed to as a civil, human, civil, yeah, just a civilian. There we go. That's the word you're allowed to sue people. And yes, there's defamation. There defamation per se. Obviously, there's a lot gray area there, but when you are making overt lies, yes, you are. You are putting yourself in in a position to be found, or at the very least be to be sued or be found guilty of of libel, of defamation. And this is exactly why the left is losing their ever loving minds Renzo, because if you're not able to control the narrative, you can't control the media, you can no longer control the the social media. You can no longer control the the bureaucracies. You can no longer again. All these pieces of control slipping away. It leads to people floundering. They're like, what do I do next? Where? Where can we find control again. And the problem is they keep on going back to the old, tried and true playbook of just we'll continue to gas light and lie. And the problem is, people are done with that. So before we go to our final thoughts today, I just want to do a quick shout out to our phenomenal studio sponsor, cardio miracle. I'm not playing an ad for them today, because I just had Lori Martin Gregory on the show last week, and then here, airing right after Christmas, is gonna be my conversation with Josh Hewlett, son of John Hewlett, the CEO and founder of cardio miracle. The first episode, we talked more about the nitty gritty of cardio miracle and just why it's so awesome. The second was actually talking with Josh and his story of personal weight loss. I didn't realize that he and I basically have the same story, just a little tweaks. He also lost 180 pounds. His was after he was a power lifter, and it was like 470 I was just a fat kid, and I was 380 so like to see that we had very similar stories and talking about the importance of focusing on your your health and all that jazz. So I'm just saying all that. I'm not doing a special, you know, promotion for cardio miracle today, rather than just saying, go watch those episodes. Great conversation with Lori. She's an all star. And then Josh is just a salt of the earth, good human being. And also, as you can see right there, we've got cardio miracle over my shoulder, skin, that little QR code, and you'll get 15% off your order. Remso, we are going to go ahead and put a pin into today's conversation. Before we do, I'd like to ask you to do us a favor, and that is, bring us home. What

Remso Martinez  58:01  
are your final thoughts today? Man, did you see the new Superman trailer? I

Brian Nichols  58:05  
did. I love me some. Henry, Cavill. Cavill, whatever his last name is pronounced. Well,

Remso Martinez  58:09  
now we've got David Corn sweat as as I think that's how you pronounce his name. I I'm not saying that to be me. I literally just don't know how to pronounce his name either. We've got new Superman in that movie. That was him. That wasn't Henry. That was not that was not Henry. What felt like a lack of muscle definition on this guy. I don't know here you here

Brian Nichols  58:26  
you have. I don't pay attention to dudes jacked arms like you do. Remzo man. It's

Remso Martinez  58:31  
Cal calville for life. But you know, like you've got, you've got Superman and his bright costume, truth, justice in the American way, Superman is still a straight, white male American. He's, you know, he's kissing Lois Lane, who's the the pretty love interest, and it's simple, and it's not woke. And America's back, okay? Trump is back. Superman is back. We haven't had a Superman movie since forever. You know, we're like, things are good, like, this is gonna be a great Christmas, Merry Christmas from Merry Christmas, Brian.

Brian Nichols  59:11  
I'll end with two things. One, Scott Jennings is just like in my head, I've always viewed him as the Kentucky version of our good buddy, Kenny Cody from Tennessee. Like Kenny's, Kenny's got this southern bra a little bit, and he's, like, very laid back, but you get Kenny going, and Kenny will let the fire rain down, and Scott just he gives me Kenny Cody vibes. So Kenny, if you're if you're listening today, keep it up. I could easily see you being on one of those panels one day and making all the leftists cry. Number two, in my personal life, I had a lot of fun. Went to go see Jeff R curry last night here in Indy. Oh my god. If you have not heard Jeff's stand up work yet, just go on to like Facebook or tick tock or wherever it is. You get your short videos, and just look up some of his his stand up. He is so funny. His crowd work is incredible. Had a great time. And you know what was great? Remzo is seeing some of the. Political jokes starting to come out, you know, like the against the Democrats. I won't go into the details of some of the jokes, but, you know, making fun of Joe Biden and his Roomba brain and Kamala Harris noises that should make you start to see that coming from the comedians in, you know, Indy is a blue city in a red state, you know, and people laughing in the crowd, despite, I mean, there's one very obvious gay couple that was in front of me in the in the row, and there was an LGBT joke, and they were roaring laughing. And I just, I kind of sat there, and I was like, damn things have been changing, and for the better. For the better. I think, you know, my wish, I did a whole episode on my Christmas wish list to Liberty Santa. If there's one wish, it's for world peace. No. I mean, obviously, but like I wish and I pray that we are going to continue to go back towards a society that we are allowed to, we are allowed to enjoy each other's companies, even when we don't agree. We can laugh and we can poke, fun at where we have silliness, and at the very least remzo, we can start to rebuild some sense of national identity and hopefully around some common interests. So I am leaving this this Christmas season. I'm leaving this year with a lot of optimism, candidly, and you know, I know we didn't get the chance yet to do our Year in Review. I think we're gonna put that in for 2025 but we'll go back and look at 2024 with a very large microscope, and just kind of look at some of the more important topics of the year. But you know, going going into where I think we are in 2024 going in 2025 I feel cautiously optimistic. So if you agree, if you feel that we are on the way, on the way up. Let us know down below in the comments, if you're watching us here on YouTube, thank you for joining us, by the way, what the hell has been happening on YouTube? But we are crushing it right now. We've gained about 2500 subscribers in the past two or three days, so we are, as we're recording today REM, so we might already hit 10,000 subscribers over there. So yeah, right, if you haven't had the chance yet. Yeah, head, head to the youtubes. Hit that subscribe button. We're on rumble, we're on Twitter, we're on Facebook, wherever it is you consume your podcast or your video content. I appreciate your love and support. And as always, you can find yours truly at B Nichols liberty, Twitter, Facebook, wherever it is you. You go to your social medias, and you can find our good buddy, remzo Martinez, over on Twitter, Facebook, Hey, remzo. Instagram, go. Remzo. Remzo, anything you want to say before we go ahead, say goodbye,

Remso Martinez  1:02:25  
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Brian Nichols  1:02:29  
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. To my my friend, I will be sending your hat in the mail. Please make sure you wear it next time. And other than that, remzo, I love you, buddy. Thanks for being just one of my favorite human beings and easily one of my very bestest of best friends. You're just a great dude, and to you my amazing friends here who have been joining us for, oh my goodness, we're going on eight years. That's just fucking wild, eight years of The Brian Nichols Show. Thank you. We love you. We appreciate all your love and support. I appreciate you supporting our sponsors, because that's how we keep the lights on. And with that, please go home. Enjoy your Christmas. Enjoy your new year. And with that being said, we'll talk to you next year. It's Brian to go signing off for remso Martinez, see ya.

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