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March 19, 2025 22 mins

George Pavlantis' strong reaction to Dan's "buyer's remorse" comment on last week's episode

• George defends Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as a projection of American strength and pride
• Discussion of federal employee layoffs with George arguing most were "phantom jobs" created to inflate employment numbers
• Debate over whether politicians, including Trump and Elon Musk, are truly serving the country or serving themselves
• George explains his objection to Dan's "buyer's remorse" comment as playing into Democratic narratives
• Both friends maintain respect for each other despite their political disagreements


• Dan emphasizes his podcast's mission to feature everyday Americans sharing their perspectives


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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Daily American boo boo.
I got on the line, mr GeorgePavlanis.
George, welcome to the show,brother.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you, dan.
Thank you for having me.
I'm glad that you got areasonable voice on to kind of
set you straight on your littlewaver ways.
Buyer's remorse I hear you talkabout.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah.
So here's the thing.
So pretty much all right.
So I don't like the Gulf ofMexico.
The only two things I don'tlike the Gulf of Mexico.
And then, as you well know,george, I had lost my job after
eight years of employment andwas fired.
I was struggling big time.
A lot of these federalemployees some of them got

(00:41):
families.
Unemployment isn't going to cutit dude for a lot of them.
Imagine you're a federal workerand you voted for Trump and
you're a conservative Republican.
You got a family of four andnow you got to go to the
unemployment line.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Okay, let's address.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
And there's no remorse, and there's no remorse
behind it.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Let's address the Gulf of America.
The Gulf of America is Americanpride.
The Gulf of America needed tobe done because Trump needs to
signal to the rest of the worldthat the Trump administration is
in charge.
We are here.
America is strong.
America's will will be heard.

(01:24):
America is strong, america'swill will be heard.
So the Trump, the Gulf ofAmerica, is one of those
statements that is just loud andproud and say we did it because
we can.
The same thing with why hecalls Canada the 51st state.
The same reason why we wantGreenland.
It's all.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
basically, let me finish this sentence.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
It's all about projection of strength.
We are not the weak countrythat we were under the past
administration.
We are a new, stronger, betterUnited States.
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well said.
Now, with that statement alone,one would say well, george, our
entire nation came from othercountries.
Every single you speak Greek.
Your father born in Greece.
You were born in Greece.
I'm sorry, but you were born inGreece and you're an immigrant

(02:23):
to this nation.
You know, it's like Iunderstand the strongest nation
on earth this, that and thethird, but like, why has it got
to—it's like changing the 82ndAirborne to whatever they did.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Or Fort Hood, it's the same exact way that the
Democrats and the other sideoperate.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
No, no, no, it is, it is, but the complete opposite.
They're changing names.
I mean, that's, it's an egothing.
It's an ego thing for America,right?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
After the past four years, don't we deserve an ego
thing?
In other words, if you'redepressed and you're run down,
don't you need something to giveyou pride?
Don't you need something to saywe've been oppressed under the
Biden regime for four years andreally it's not even about.

(03:18):
I mean, let's really if youwere to take it all back.
I mean, this country has beenbasically being taken advantage
of since World War II, so let'snot even talk about the past
four years.
Since World War II, every othercountry has had their hands in
our taxpayer money, and it'sabout time Trump puts his foot

(03:39):
down and says no more, no more.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, all right.
I mean, I can see your point ofview with that 100%.
I can see your point of viewand respect that.
I can respect that.
That one could say that theRepublican Party and the
conservatives and the backboneof this nation, the American
workers, the American workforce,kind of have been I wouldn't

(04:04):
use the word oppressed.
I wouldn't use the wordoppressed but I would, you know,
not heard, maybe not heard withthe, with the past
administration.
And let me be very clear when Istate this I voted for Trump
16,.
I'm sorry.
I voted for Trump, yeah, in2016.
And I voted for Trump this pastterm.
Buyer's remorse I said that inmy last podcast.

(04:25):
I don't know about Buyer, Ijust feel like I don't see any.
I know he's a strongbusinessman.
I don't see any care about theactual Wait, you don't see care
the you and I's of the world.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
When he speaks.
When he speaks Wait, heliterally brought Elon Musk
front and center to the WhiteHouse and basically bought a
vehicle from him and basicallyshowed him to the rest of the
world.
Stop messing with him.
That's caring.
That's what friends do tofriends.
That's the same thing we have.
If someone was Go ahead, ifsomeone was picking on me, would

(05:06):
you come up and stand in mydefense, and doesn't that show
caring?

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, but who was picking on Elon?
Tell me about the Elon thing.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Because they've been burning down his dealerships,
they've been shooting up hisstores, they've been vandalizing
the Tesla Chargers.
It's been an ongoing thing nowfor a couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wait, really See.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
I'm so unplugged.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's why, that's why I try to.
I don't try, but I, I try tostray away from politics because
I don't know my history and I'm, I'm uneducated.
Remember, I'm not, I'm justyour daily American.
I just I'm your regular folkwho you know operates under this
nation, and, and, and you know,operates under this nation.
And you know I don't knoweverything about everything.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
So what do they do in Elon?
They're just dragging himthrough the rear.
They're basically.
You know, Elon Musk was, youknow, the pride and joy of the
left-hand party and now they'rejust putting him through a wood
chipper.
They're destroying his name,they're destroying or trying to
destroy his cars, destroy hisdealerships.
You know they're.
They're basically, they'retrying to basically do, they're

(06:07):
trying to cancel.
They're trying to cancel him.
And that's what happened.
And President Trump basicallybrought him to the front of the
White House and said he's apatriot no-transcript.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Okay, and what about his?
What about that?
The whole shebang about hisHail Hitler thing Was that.
I don't know anything aboutthat, I just know I heard it
somewhere.
What was the deal with it?
I didn't watch the video myself, or else I'd have, or.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
I would just tell you what it was.
Nothing, man, that was justgeneral emotion.
I mean, he basically he put hishand to his heart and he said
my heart goes out to you guys.
Seriously, come on, man, youknow you watch too much msnbc
man see, here you go.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Now you're coming at me.
I just told you the truth thatI didn't watch the video.
I heard it through thegrapevine, just like I hear
everything through the grapevine.
I'm just I.
I gotta bring other awarenessto the other sides of things in
order to get people tounderstand different
perspectives.
For instance, that was fakenews that was fake news.
That was fake news media.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's always been, it's been, it's been.
10 years of fake news.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Well, that's what the Daily American's about George
bringing the everyday folk tothe limelight to allow them to
express their opinions.
You know what I mean.
This isn't a, this isn't a oneway street, and for saying
things that I say, they alwayscome from the heart.
You know what I mean.
They come from the heart, it is.

(07:36):
It is what it is, but obviously, you know, I I use one
statement buyer's remorse, andin my last podcast, and it's and
it stirred you up a bit, but Idon't like any, if there's any.
I don't like politicians, tobegin with, because they're
corrupt.
Everybody's stuff in theirpockets.
If you're a politician, how canI get my pocket stuffed the
most?
Now, with Trump, it's a littlebit different, right?
Because he wasn't a traditionalpolitician.

(07:58):
So I don't want you to sit hereand think I'm turning into a
libtard, because that'scertainly not the case, but I
need to bring awareness todifferent perspectives.
So that was completely fakenews, that Hitler thing.
He didn't, he didn't, he didn't.
So that was completely fakenews, that Hitler thing.

(08:19):
He didn't do the whole Hitlersign and he's not a Nazi
sympathist or a racist Correct.
Okay, yes, how many baby mamasdoes he have?
I guess 13.
13 baby mamas.
Are any of them good looking?

Speaker 2 (08:31):
I heard they're all mediocre, average.
You know, honestly, I have noidea.
You know, I don't, I haven't, Ihaven't.
Honestly, I don't even knowanything about his personal life
.
But can we touch upon thiswhole?
Federal employees that are laidoff now and all of a sudden,
now they have yeah, go ahead.
Now listen, let's reallyscrutinize what actually
happened.
Trump took those deadbeatemployees that were hired by the

(08:58):
Biden to just make it look likethe economy is going strong.
That's where most of theseemployees are.

(09:21):
Think about it 80,000 IRSagents for what?
For 100 billionaires that arein the country?
I mean, come on, you know whatI mean.
All of these jobs, people thatwere hired was done deliberately
to make it look like theeconomy was going good.
And look, oh, I'm Biden, I'mcreating all these jobs.
They weren't real jobs, sothese people that are losing

(09:44):
their jobs were pretty muchcollecting a paycheck and
weren't even coming to work, sothey already had other forms of
income.
This was just extra income thatthey were getting, you know,
because of.
The Democratic Party wasbasically saying oh, you voted
for us.
Here here's extra money, justlike the $2 billion that Stacey

(10:04):
Abrams got.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, that's who is Stacey Abrams, by the way.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
She ran for governor in Georgia.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Is she the one that came back after Trump's
congressional address and shewas.
She basically stood the standfor the Democrats after his
address and gave her a littlespeech, or no?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Some younger girl.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
She was well spoken Democrat.
No, no, no, yeah, no, no, Iforget her name Alright.
So here's the thing someyounger girl she was well-spoken
democrat.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
You know how they always do that.
Okay, yeah, yeah, no, no, thatwas uh.
I forget her name, all right sohere's the thing.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Here's the thing about those.
Okay, if they're phantom jobs,and you know, just like, this is
why the biden administrationwanted open borders and no ids
during voting, because what itdoes is it boosts their votes.
So you're pretty much sayingthat it boosted our economy and
made it seem like job creation.
Right, but realistically, theywere DEI, which is what?

(10:55):
Diversity, equity and inclusionA bunch of undeserving, pretty
much undeserving individuals inthe United States getting these
positions in the federalgovernment, possibly of power.
We don't know the exactpositions, but the bottom line
is they didn't deserve the jobs.
A lot of the times they werephantom, meaning they didn't

(11:16):
even have a need.
They were just hired strictlyto boost numbers and make the
economy look like it was better,correct?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
And you're saying that was the majority of them,
and that's my opinion, yes, Okay, all right, so.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
So that's okay.
See, that's fair and you havethe right to share your opinion.
I would say that some of themwere, but I don't know about all
of them I'm talking about theone or two individuals, not one
or two.
But you know the regular humansthat got the family of fours or
fives and they're you know theyfind themselves trying to live

(11:48):
off of 500, 600 bucks a week,which is damn near impossible in
today's economy.
You know, I feel for peoplelike that.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
But these, these government employees, they
weren't just, you know, making afew hundred dollars a week.
These, they were makingmultimillion dollars.
You know, living in you know,five, ten million dollar homes
all around Washington DC.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
You know it's, it's, you know, right, so that all
around washington dc.
You know it's, it's, you knowright.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
So that's what, that's what it is.
I mean, you know, you knowyou're not thinking about some
guy that you know lived in thesuburb of pennsylvania that we,
you know, got a job and wasmaking 500 bucks a week and now
he can feed his family.
It wasn't like that at all.
Okay, these most of these, mostof these jobs were in the dc
area area.
You know, and just you know,were already these people that

(12:34):
got these jobs already had moneyand this was just extra money.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Okay, and this is why this is again.
I just want to restate I doappreciate all the listeners.
George, you're definitely oneof my you know friends and you
know I consider you almostfamily and you know you're
definitely one of my friends andI consider you almost family
and you're definitely a listener.
And this is what this is about.
Dude, just to reiterate that Tohave people from all walks of

(13:01):
life it doesn't matter theirskin color, their race, anything
like that because the media outthere, the ones controlling
with the big bucks, they got itall corrupted.
Everything we see, it's allcorrupted.
Sometimes I wonder if the otherside's corrupted too, if the
Republican, conservative side'scorrupted.
But I think what it boils downto is that anybody, once you hit

(13:24):
a level man, it's pretty easyto corrupt somebody with a ton
of money Money it can be usedfor good.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
But I think at the end of the day that a lot of
times it's not used for good manand people will do whatever it
takes to continue stuffing theirpockets.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
But I know you're not like that and that's why you're
always welcomed on the Daily.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
American correct and Elon Musk same thing.
They're doing this work in thegovernment to help the people of
America.
They're not doing it like everyother politician, to pad their
pockets.
Trump and Musk werebillionaires and they're losing
money to help this country.

(14:25):
They weren't just normal peoplethat said, oh, we're going,
gonna come into this governmentand we're gonna try to, you know
, steal as much as possible.
You know that's.
That's not what they're doing,but that's what you know.
If you really look at thehistory of the politicians,
that's what pretty much everyother politician has done.
They go in poor, they come outrich.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, it's, it's unbelievable.
That's not necessarily whatit's supposed to be, or that
isn't what it's supposed to beabout at all.
And also, with politics, don'tpeople switch like not not
switch their, their values ortheir viewpoints?
But didn't the Democrats inAmerica like, didn't they used
to stand for what theRepublicans stand for, or no?

Speaker 2 (15:15):
uh, I mean way back when.
Yeah, I mean way, way back when.
You know the the democrats wereabout, you know, peace, love
and happiness.
You know and, and that's theproblem is, people still think
that that's what the democratsare about.
But they, they've long thatthat, that that has long been um
switched over.
You know it's, you know they're.
They're the party of war,they're the party of big
corporations.
I mean they're the, they're theparty of um.

(15:35):
Globalism is what they are.
Yeah, you know, we haven't evenwe haven't even touched upon
about the, the global agenda,the global agenda.
Yet I mean that's, you knowthat's a whole, nother
conversation yeah, yeah, yeah,it certainly is.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
But I just meant, like, when it comes back to
politics, like when it comesback to like, say, our founding
fathers right, you know, you gotGeorge Washington and William
Penn and I don't know if he wasa founding father but John Locke
, these individuals that cametogether to go against the Brits
from the tyranny, the taxation,this, that and the third, and
for them to have freedom.
Wouldn't they be consideredDemocrats or no?

Speaker 2 (16:11):
to have freedom wouldn't they be considered
Democrats or no?
No, they were totally differentparties.
And as far as William Penn,William Penn was like 150 years
before the founding fathers.
It made even more than 150years.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I shouldn't be.
I shouldn't be even talkingpolitics.
That's why I stray away frompolitics, because I'm not
educated enough on it.
Even talk in politics.
That's why I stray away frompolitics, because I'm not
educated enough on it.
But I get one comment.
I say one comment about buyer'sremorse just because, like you
know, I have buyer's remorsewhen it comes to any sort of
thing that I get.
I could go buy a piece of gumand be like, oh, I have buyer's
remorse, but I would not changeanything in my life that I've

(16:47):
done up until this day Notanything bad, not anything good.
I'm okay with every decisionthat I've made and I, god
willingly, will hope willcontinue to be okay with the
decisions that I make.
There's always repercussionsfor them and there's
ramifications, but I don'tregret anything.
I don't regret saying that justbecause now he's got four years

(17:08):
left, right, we'll see whathappens.
He's got four years left right,we'll see what happens.
He's got four years left.
His ego's big as is mine no,nope, nope nope okay okay,
that's true.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
God saving his life has humbled him, true, true,
true his rhetoric and andeverything, his demeanor and
everything has been extremelyhumble and you're a man of god
and you can you should be ableto sense the difference between
trump now and trump of uh eightyears ago yeah, would you say
that he's a?

Speaker 1 (17:37):
he's more humbled now , without a doubt.
Okay, I haven't been payingattention to politics, just like
sports.
I haven't been paying attentionto tv, period since my son's
been bored, um.
But you know, here I am havingconversations and somehow people
like yourself are stilllistening and I don't really
understand why, but it is whatit is, my brother.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Well, I, I, I listened, I listened to try to,
like you know, set you straighton certain things.
Because here was the mainreason why I guess your buyer's
remorse comment really, reallybothered me, because that is the
new narrative of the DemocratParty.
They're basically saying lookat all these Republicans coming

(18:19):
out publicly and saying they allhave buyer's remorse.
So by you making that comment,you're just playing right into
their narrative.
Like I mean, you say youhaven't followed the news, but
that's literally what they'vebeen saying.
They've been saying there'shundreds of town halls all
across America with theseRepublicans that are coming out
there and saying they havebuyer's remorse but in actuality

(18:42):
they're paid protesters.
So by you saying that, you'rejust kind of like feeding into
that narrative.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
That's why.
That's why it affected me somuch.
I I feed into narrative,sometimes unintentionally, and
guess what?
Tomorrow I go to the doctors,and guess what, what?

Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm beginning to work on my vocal cords becoming a
little bit like this baby nice,you know what you should, you,
you should, you shoulddefinitely say, you should
definitely.
You should definitely say thisthat buyer's, that buyer's
remorse comment was definitelypremature, all right fine, all

(19:25):
right, I agree, the buyer'sremorse comment was 100%
premature.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Sometimes I speak again.
Remember the daily Americanpocket.
Sometimes I speak again,remember the Daily American
Pocket, unedited, unbiased andunfiltered.
I try to just haveconversations with your everyday
, not just Americans youreveryday human beings on their
perspectives, on their lifeobstacles and on their
philosophies.
That's pretty much it.

(19:51):
Yes, the comment was premature.
We'll find out here shortly,right in the next, you know few
years.
No, I do not regret saying it,but the comment was premature.
Good to go.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
No, I think you should regret saying it.
Oh, I do not, I do not, I donshould regret saying it, but I
do not.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
I do not.
I don't regret saying it,george, because you know what?
If I regret saying that, then Ibetter start fucking regretting
everything.
I've said everything up untilthis day, because I don't.
I don't know exactly what'sgoing on with everything.
I don't think I do.
I have an open mindset when itcomes to people that I know,
people that I trust, people thatI don't trust, people that I
don't know and people that Idon't trust.

(20:33):
I have to have an open mindsetand in order to learn if I'm,
you know, you're a little bitolder, so you've been doing this
a little bit longer.
I respect your opinions, but Idefinitely do not regret saying
anything.
I don't regret doing anything.
I don't regret getting blackedout and doing dumb shit, you
know what, because everything isof it.
It's how we learn.

(20:54):
Right now.
Am I going to go on there to?
Am I saying right now, no, Idon't regret it, baba, and
trying to put up an argument, anull argument, when I really
don't understand all the, allthe things about politics?
No, but I'm certainly not goingto say I regret it.
I agreed with you that it was apremature comment, that that's
the most I can do All right.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I'll take that win, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
All right, that's a win.
That's a W in your column andan L in my column.
If it's an ego thing, for sure,but at the same time, I've
learned from it, right?
So now, when this podcastreleases, then maybe the next
one.
I'm not going to go in thereand speak prematurely Now I'm
always going to talk abouttopics I got no fucking idea
about, because that's what I do.
I'm not going to be educated oneverything.

(21:37):
I'm not educated on anything.
Actually, I know absolutelynothing.
Thank God I'm able to get byand earn a nice living, and you
know, and I'm thankful that I'mable to raise my son today,
because I should be dead or injail, but thanks to God I'm not
and we're able to have thisconversation.
At the same time, I respectyour beliefs, george, and you do

(21:58):
know what you're talking about,with some religion, not
religion with some history andyour political philosophies, and
you listen to this stuff everysingle day.
I can't be consumed with thatstuff.
What I'm consumed with ishaving conversations with
regular people from all walks oflife.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
All right, my man, I will catch you later and, as
always, you're welcome back on adaily American podcast.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
See you later.
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