September 29, 2025 • 16 mins
Voters are fed up with broken promises that vanish post-election. Jerremy Alexander Newsome, Dave Conley, and Tyler Todt expose donor influence and voter ID debates, asking: if the system fails, what’s your move? A raw look at disillusionment—and why personal responsibility beats political hype.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) Why “change” keeps disappointing
- (00:21) Meet Tyler Todt—from optimism to skepticism
- (02:14) Inside the booth: real voting stories
- (03:51) Broken promises, broken trust
- (07:48) Voter-ID fights: fairness vs. friction
Connect: Tyler Todt
- X: https://x.com/tyromper
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tylertodt
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Jerremy (00:00):
Dave Conley.
What we chatting about today, my brother.
Dave (00:04):
In this week's episode of Solving America's Problems, we dive into how
political promises often shatter intodisillusionment, leaving voters picking
the lesser of two evils, while moneyfrom big donors owns the candidates.
It's a system where hope turns tohype and personal responsibility
becomes the real path forward.
Joining us is Tyler Tote, adedicated husband and father who's
(00:25):
transformed lives as a health coachfor leaders and high achievers.
Building a dedicated onlinecommunity through uplifting
guidance on mindset and vitality.
His own journey from earlypolitical excitement to seeing
through the corruption mirrorswhat so many face today.
And that's this week on solvingAmerica's problems from Obama.
Hope to voter dissolution, breaking thecycle of broken promises with Tyler tote.
Jerremy (00:50):
Voting in America right that's become a frustrating maze
of gerrymandered districts felonydisenfranchisement, hitting millions,
and technology vulnerabilitieslike deep fakes eroding trust.
With turnout, lagging, and institutionsfacing record low confidence, we're
(01:12):
left asking how did the ballotbox turn into a battleground?
And what bold fixes canturn apathy into action.
My name is Jerremy Alexander Newsom.
My co-host Conley, and this.
Is solving America's problems.
Joining us is my dog, Tyler Tote, adedicated husband and father who's
(01:35):
transformed lives as a health coachto leaders and high achievers,
building a dedicated following of morethan a quarter million on X 66,000
YouTube subscribers through uplift.
infused guidance on mindset and vitality.
His personal arc from Obamaera hope to discontent.
broken promises and media spin mirrors,millions of voters showing why personal
(01:59):
responsibility out shines political hype.
unpack and elevate.
Tyler, welcome to the show.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Ah, thanks so much Jerremy and Dave. (02:05):
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It's an honor to be here, man.
Can't wait to chop it up with youguys and it should be a lot of fun.
So honored to be on man.
Jerremy (02:12):
Yeah, absolutely.
Tyler, what's your earliest memory ofvoting or maybe watching someone that
you love walk into a voting booth?
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, so I can pretty vividly (02:23):
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remember a couple things.
One, I was in fifth grade, Ibelieve, and my grandfather gave
me a couple of Bill Clinton tags.
And so I took him to school and I soldthem for a couple bucks and said, if
you want to be in the Clinton Club withme, I was always an entrepreneur, right?
I didn't even know who Bill Clintonwas or who he was running against, but
that was probably my earliest memory.
(02:43):
But then if you reallyfast forward to college.
I never followed politics oranything, and then I bought into the
whole Obama hope and change thing.
And I'd been disillusioned uptill that point by seeing that.
I don't know, a lot of people might comein and say they're gonna do these things.
Lot doesn't seem to happen.
Then there was this new guy that came inwho looked a little different, who spoke
(03:03):
a little different and who said, yeah,it's not gonna be business as usual.
There's not gonna maybebe as much corruption.
There's not gonna maybe be as muchas some of these other things.
And so I was actuallypretty on board for that.
That was the first time I voted.
And I really cared.
And at that time for betteror worse, I was a professional
poker player in college.
And I had heard Obama loves poker.
He's all for freedom, all this stuff too.
(03:23):
So there was a lot of reasonspushing me towards that.
But that was the first timeI was pretty amped about it.
Jerremy (03:29):
Yeah.
Whoa.
It makes sense.
It's also an age thing too, right?
As we get older, we start to.
Tuning in and checkingin and getting in there.
go back to the mostrecent vote that you had.
So we had a huge longestpresidential vote not that long ago.
And when you were stepping intothat polling place, what emotions
came up for you personally andhave they shifted over time?
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, so you know, again, if I were (03:51):
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to go back to that 20 years ago or 15years or whatever, when Obama was in.
become pretty disillusioned.
Then after I saw some of the, the guywins the Nobel Peace Prize and, but
he's drone struck and killed more peoplethan every other president combined.
So I started seeing some of this.
Oh, Obama loves poker.
Poker became illegal during his tender.
(04:12):
Like you could go playpoker legally in Iraq.
You could not in theUnited States of America.
And that was because of a very corruptcalled the Port Security Bill, where they
tack on a gambling thing because one ofhis biggest donors, Sheldon Anderson,
and I could really get into that.
But then I just became very disillusioned.
So to be honest, I didn't votefor a main candidate after that.
This year, I voted for third party people.
(04:33):
I was really into man, the twoparties are one and the same.
I believe since Citizens United, thatwas the biggest turning point where
just money can now, individual peopleor corporations can donate a hundred
million, 200 million, 400 to onecandidate and they just own the candidate.
So the candidate really hasto do whatever they say.
I don't know.
It seemed you're picking, you'realways picking the lesser of two evils.
(04:54):
Like when is the last time that you wentto the ballot box and you're fired up?
And you're like, man,this guy's gonna do it.
Maybe some people feelthat way about Trump.
I think most people overreact to Trump.
They either think he's likeHitler and Satan, or they think
he's the second coming of Jesus.
I tend to think he justfalls somewhere in between.
He does some good things.
He does some really dumb thingsthat, that's most people without
(05:16):
offending too many people.
I have testosterone in my body,so I couldn't vote for the left.
This time I felt like there's been anattack on men and masculinity and a
lot of those things from that side.
and so I, in good conscience,just couldn't vote for that.
But again I felt like I waspicking the lesser two evils when
I walked in, and made my decision.
Jerremy (05:38):
Yeah.
I've heard that so many timeswhen it comes to voting for the
president of the US very frequently.
I get, or I'll hearsomething to the extent of.
There's not many choices.
These are the only best two we can get.
This is it.
Dave (05:54):
In their
Jerremy (05:55):
all the people out there, these are the two.
I hear that often.
Yeah, it your story rings true, I thinkwith, I'm sure with so many other people.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I think Jerremy, you and I went (06:03):
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on a hike with a really cool otherguy, so there was three of us.
And
Jerremy (06:08):
Yep.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I would guess that any one of (06:08):
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us three you could probably putin, we'd be more morally sound.
I just think you could, I don't knowhow we get stuck with these candidates,
man, but maybe that's the point.
I don't know, because we saw likea very rigged primary, right?
Where Trump would've never won,to be honest, in 2016, Bernie
Sanders was probably gonnabeat him for better or worse.
And then all of a sudden you just saw theHillary Clinton, that machine come in,
(06:30):
Bernie sells out, gets his third mansion.
And you just see allthis corruption, right?
And so I don't know, maybe the wholething is corrupt and that disillusions me.
I think that disillusions a lot of people.
That's why, big part of mymessage is yes, I do vote.
I think it's important you wannahonor the people who fought for in the
past, and that you have the freedom.
it can feel almost like a, an illusionof freedom, like no matter who you pick.
(06:54):
Putin had a pretty famous saying.
He said, I've been presidentthrough five of your presidents.
And trust me when I say the menin suits tell them what to do, no
matter who they are, the men insuits come and tell them what to do.
They campaign on all these promises.
They don't really get a choice, though.
the older I get, the more I tendto think he, there might be a lot
of truth in that, to be honest.
Jerremy (07:16):
That's fascinating, ma'am.
Yeah, I think what yousaid a moment ago about.
Hey, people fought and died for this.
This ability this privilege.
And even though we might notnecessarily be making a choice
that we know is gonna have a trueimpact, the fact that we should vote.
(07:37):
probably should just tryit, a situation, right?
So it's like an apathy, almost moreof an excitement where this is an
opportunity for me to really do something.
What's your general take,man on a day-to-day reality?
So voter ID requirements you big thing.
Like we should show voter id,should we be mailing in ballots?
Is there something better out there?
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242 (07:57):
Yeah, this seems like really easy to me, man.
It seems really funny that I don't know.
I go back to have you ever seen thatYouTube clip of like, where that one dude
goes down in the hood and he asks a bunchof black people like, do you have an id?
Because there's this really weirdnarrative that it's racist to show an
ID to vote and all of 150 black peopleand are like, yeah, of course I'll
have an ID man, like I'm a citizen.
(08:19):
I don't know, like you, you tofly on an airplane, you need an
ID to get a driver's license.
You need an ID to go buy a firearm.
You need an id.
It would just make sense thatyou would need an ID to vote.
I've never really understoodany I've never heard one
good reason why that's not.
A thing I've I know many black people andI've yet to meet one that says, man, it's
just, I go to the DMV and every time theytell me I'm black, I can't get an id.
(08:42):
Like I've never heard that in America.
Until I do, I just thinkit's a pretty simple thing.
We should have fair elections.
People should have confidence around it.
I don't think a lot ofpeople did after 2020.
and I just, don't understandwhy that wouldn't be a thing.
I think we should have a nationalholiday, it should be that Tuesday.
Everybody should be off the same way wehave Veterans Day, Memorial Day, whatever.
(09:04):
It should be, a nationalholiday, no school.
Because I do think thereprobably are some very nefarious
things where in certain areas.
Um, If people work and then they closethe polls at six, maybe you're gonna get
a certain demographic that might vote adifferent way that can't get down there.
So we should
Holiday.
Everybody should have a chance to go vote.
But yeah, man you needto show an ID like that.
That just seems very commonsense and very logical.
Dave (09:27):
We've brought this up now three times, like when
we first started this and I.
It does seem like really basic, have anid and yet the data keeps on coming back.
Like millions of people don'thave an ID and I'm like, who are
these people we've come around to?
So I get the whole disenfranchise thing.
(09:48):
And I get how some peoplemight not have an id.
Maybe they were born someplace where theydon't have some source documentation.
They don't have, social security cards.
Maybe they don't, maybethey're homeless, right?
And they don't have these regular things.
And to everybody's point, it's to functionin today's society, you do need an id.
(10:08):
We've landed on this.
It's not a voting problem,it's an ID problem.
We need to really push, like making sureeverybody has an id, everybody can, get
a driver's license or something thatsays, Hey, like I'm in this this place.
Because even if things require an, IDsay getting social security benefits
(10:30):
or getting any kind of help, youneed an id and if you can show that
you have a utility bill, then okaythat's a step in the right direction.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, I'd be all for any kind of program (10:37):
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that if there are millions of people thatcannot get an id, again, I don't know
how you function in life without one.
Yeah I'm cool for making that.
I hate the word free'cause nothing's free.
It's gonna be our tax dollars.
Funding it.
But I'm okay with our tax dollars funding,helping and ensuring that every US citizen
has an ID or some form of documentation.
(10:58):
That seems, again basic and easy to do.
I'm just, I've met.
Tens of thousands of peoplein my life and I'm yet to meet
one who just can't get an id.
So I don't know where that comes from.
I'd really, I'd love to interviewthose people and learn and understand
why they can't, and then maybe if weunderstood why we could brainstorm
some solutions on how to, not
Jerremy (11:18):
Yeah.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242 (11:18):
that.
But again, I'm yet to meet anyone
Dave (11:20):
It's a lot of young people too.
So in the data, it's like a bunchof 18 year olds, a bunch of 19
year olds, they don't have IDs.
And I'm like, oh man, Icouldn't wait to start driving.
So it doesn't jive with me.
But I hear you.
It seems pretty basic to me.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: and maybe that, I don't know. (11:34):
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I'd bring up a point on that and sayif you're 19 just too lazy to go get
one, but you have all the means to getit, maybe you don't get to vote then.
Because if you're too lazy to drivedown to the BMV to get an id, then I
don't really feel like you probablyare contributing a lot to society.
There's a couple argumentsto be made where.
(11:54):
If you're not paying taxes, if you'renot a landowner or a homeowner or
whatever, which I think that goestoo far, but I could almost say if
you're not paying any taxes and youdon't have any skin in the game,
should you really get to cast a vote?
And I don't know.
When I think about it from thatterm, I'm like we're voting because
look the government takes about50% of my income every year.
If you added up income, property, fuel,inheritance, capital gains, all the taxes,
Jerremy (12:18):
lot.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Oh, it's a lot. (12:19):
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It's a ton, right?
And I don't think they use all thosenecessarily very wisely, as we've seen
with Doge and some of these things, right?
But I do think if you're paying nothingand you have no skin in the game
at all, then becomes a big problemwhere you're just gonna vote for
whoever promises you the most stuff.
I'm gonna give you a free cell phoneand free housing and free this, and
(12:41):
free that, which really isn't free.
It's coming from thepeople that are paying.
then I think you get into a bigproblem where, one side kind of
promising all this free stuff,free college, free this, free that.
then you just have a whole segmentof people who don't really pay into
the system but are getting a lot out.
And now they're just basically, they'realways gonna vote this same way 'cause
(13:01):
they're promised a bunch of free stuff.
And I think that becomesa pretty big problem too.
Jerremy (13:06):
The two things I love and I think it's a very fun discussion.
I think Dave would, itmight have been you,
Dave (13:12):
Oh.
Jerremy (13:13):
it was okay, but I'm pretty sure it was you where you're like,
Hey, national Holiday, love that take
Dave (13:17):
Yeah.
Jerremy (13:18):
it should be,
Dave (13:19):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jerremy (13:19):
That's really fun.
That's a great idea.
Seems really easy.
Yes.
To that one for sure.
And I believe.
The paying taxes let's dive intothat for just a quick hot second.
'cause that's fun.
What type of taxes, just off the topof your head, would you say could
qualify someone for the ability to vote?
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Off the top of my head, (13:43):
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any kind of income tax.
But I suppose if you're functioning insociety, you're already paying sales tax.
You're already paying fuel tax,you're already paying a lot of
these taxes, so that probably,qualifies like 90% of people.
I guess the problem, and I don'tknow maybe this isn't that big of
a problem, but the problem I seeright now is you do have maybe
(14:04):
not even that large of a segment,but a segment that's just promised
you get to go to college for free.
You get a cell phone for free, we'llgive you free housing, we'll give you
free food, don't ever work or anything.
And like I've personally known.
A couple like single moms who are stuck,but they're trying so hard to fight and
work and get their way out of this, andthen all of a sudden they learn that if
they do take that second job and worka little harder, now they don't get the
(14:28):
food benefits and the housing benefits.
So they're dis-incentivized to actuallywork harder to improve their situation,
but then they feel like I gottavote this certain way, or I do lose
all these quote unquote free thingsand I feel like you're just stuck.
I wish we had a better system thatjust rewarded people for working hard.
And again I don't, that's probablyway too complex for me to figure out
(14:49):
here, or any of us to figure out ina 30 minute, segment or whatever.
But it just seems to me like alot of people are stuck in that.
Like you almost can't earn above a littlelevel or you lose all that free stuff,
but then you have to keep voting thatway 'cause you get that free stuff.
Yeah.
Jerremy (15:04):
yeah, there.
There's something inherentlywrong with handouts.
One of my mentors always said weshould be giving hand ups not handouts.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: That's (15:13):
undefined
Jerremy (15:14):
to, to your point, like some type of level metric, right?
Where it's like, Hey, do this,accomplish this, have this.
But yeah, you, when you start makingtoo much money and then you get
punched in the face essentiallywhere now it's like a negative, like
a net negative to make more, youhave everything taken away from you.
That's the problem for in the beginning.
(15:34):
And so Dave, for us, I think at somepoint, one thing we haven't really
gone down yet is like that Medicare,medicaid, government benefits
essentially discussion on the podcast.
I think that'd be really fun tojust chit chat about that one.
Alex (15:49):
Next on Solving America's Problems, Tyler slams the ID debate as manufactured
outrage while Dave pushes for universalaccess—their clash exposes raw truth about
millions potentially blocked from voting.
But Tyler's take on how BIG money ownsevery candidate cuts even deeper...
Dave Conley.
What we chatting about today, my brother.
Dave (00:04):
In this week's episode of Solving America's Problems, we dive into how
political promises often shatter intodisillusionment, leaving voters picking
the lesser of two evils, while moneyfrom big donors owns the candidates.
It's a system where hope turns tohype and personal responsibility
becomes the real path forward.
Joining us is Tyler Tote, adedicated husband and father who's
(00:25):
transformed lives as a health coachfor leaders and high achievers.
Building a dedicated onlinecommunity through uplifting
guidance on mindset and vitality.
His own journey from earlypolitical excitement to seeing
through the corruption mirrorswhat so many face today.
And that's this week on solvingAmerica's problems from Obama.
Hope to voter dissolution, breaking thecycle of broken promises with Tyler tote.
Jerremy (00:50):
Voting in America right that's become a frustrating maze
of gerrymandered districts felonydisenfranchisement, hitting millions,
and technology vulnerabilitieslike deep fakes eroding trust.
With turnout, lagging, and institutionsfacing record low confidence, we're
(01:12):
left asking how did the ballotbox turn into a battleground?
And what bold fixes canturn apathy into action.
My name is Jerremy Alexander Newsom.
My co-host Conley, and this.
Is solving America's problems.
Joining us is my dog, Tyler Tote, adedicated husband and father who's
(01:35):
transformed lives as a health coachto leaders and high achievers,
building a dedicated following of morethan a quarter million on X 66,000
YouTube subscribers through uplift.
infused guidance on mindset and vitality.
His personal arc from Obamaera hope to discontent.
broken promises and media spin mirrors,millions of voters showing why personal
(01:59):
responsibility out shines political hype.
unpack and elevate.
Tyler, welcome to the show.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Ah, thanks so much Jerremy and Dave. (02:05):
undefined
It's an honor to be here, man.
Can't wait to chop it up with youguys and it should be a lot of fun.
So honored to be on man.
Jerremy (02:12):
Yeah, absolutely.
Tyler, what's your earliest memory ofvoting or maybe watching someone that
you love walk into a voting booth?
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, so I can pretty vividly (02:23):
undefined
remember a couple things.
One, I was in fifth grade, Ibelieve, and my grandfather gave
me a couple of Bill Clinton tags.
And so I took him to school and I soldthem for a couple bucks and said, if
you want to be in the Clinton Club withme, I was always an entrepreneur, right?
I didn't even know who Bill Clintonwas or who he was running against, but
that was probably my earliest memory.
(02:43):
But then if you reallyfast forward to college.
I never followed politics oranything, and then I bought into the
whole Obama hope and change thing.
And I'd been disillusioned uptill that point by seeing that.
I don't know, a lot of people might comein and say they're gonna do these things.
Lot doesn't seem to happen.
Then there was this new guy that came inwho looked a little different, who spoke
(03:03):
a little different and who said, yeah,it's not gonna be business as usual.
There's not gonna maybebe as much corruption.
There's not gonna maybe be as muchas some of these other things.
And so I was actuallypretty on board for that.
That was the first time I voted.
And I really cared.
And at that time for betteror worse, I was a professional
poker player in college.
And I had heard Obama loves poker.
He's all for freedom, all this stuff too.
(03:23):
So there was a lot of reasonspushing me towards that.
But that was the first timeI was pretty amped about it.
Jerremy (03:29):
Yeah.
Whoa.
It makes sense.
It's also an age thing too, right?
As we get older, we start to.
Tuning in and checkingin and getting in there.
go back to the mostrecent vote that you had.
So we had a huge longestpresidential vote not that long ago.
And when you were stepping intothat polling place, what emotions
came up for you personally andhave they shifted over time?
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, so you know, again, if I were (03:51):
undefined
to go back to that 20 years ago or 15years or whatever, when Obama was in.
become pretty disillusioned.
Then after I saw some of the, the guywins the Nobel Peace Prize and, but
he's drone struck and killed more peoplethan every other president combined.
So I started seeing some of this.
Oh, Obama loves poker.
Poker became illegal during his tender.
(04:12):
Like you could go playpoker legally in Iraq.
You could not in theUnited States of America.
And that was because of a very corruptcalled the Port Security Bill, where they
tack on a gambling thing because one ofhis biggest donors, Sheldon Anderson,
and I could really get into that.
But then I just became very disillusioned.
So to be honest, I didn't votefor a main candidate after that.
This year, I voted for third party people.
(04:33):
I was really into man, the twoparties are one and the same.
I believe since Citizens United, thatwas the biggest turning point where
just money can now, individual peopleor corporations can donate a hundred
million, 200 million, 400 to onecandidate and they just own the candidate.
So the candidate really hasto do whatever they say.
I don't know.
It seemed you're picking, you'realways picking the lesser of two evils.
(04:54):
Like when is the last time that you wentto the ballot box and you're fired up?
And you're like, man,this guy's gonna do it.
Maybe some people feelthat way about Trump.
I think most people overreact to Trump.
They either think he's likeHitler and Satan, or they think
he's the second coming of Jesus.
I tend to think he justfalls somewhere in between.
He does some good things.
He does some really dumb thingsthat, that's most people without
(05:16):
offending too many people.
I have testosterone in my body,so I couldn't vote for the left.
This time I felt like there's been anattack on men and masculinity and a
lot of those things from that side.
and so I, in good conscience,just couldn't vote for that.
But again I felt like I waspicking the lesser two evils when
I walked in, and made my decision.
Jerremy (05:38):
Yeah.
I've heard that so many timeswhen it comes to voting for the
president of the US very frequently.
I get, or I'll hearsomething to the extent of.
There's not many choices.
These are the only best two we can get.
This is it.
Dave (05:54):
In their
Jerremy (05:55):
all the people out there, these are the two.
I hear that often.
Yeah, it your story rings true, I thinkwith, I'm sure with so many other people.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I think Jerremy, you and I went (06:03):
undefined
on a hike with a really cool otherguy, so there was three of us.
And
Jerremy (06:08):
Yep.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: I would guess that any one of (06:08):
undefined
us three you could probably putin, we'd be more morally sound.
I just think you could, I don't knowhow we get stuck with these candidates,
man, but maybe that's the point.
I don't know, because we saw likea very rigged primary, right?
Where Trump would've never won,to be honest, in 2016, Bernie
Sanders was probably gonnabeat him for better or worse.
And then all of a sudden you just saw theHillary Clinton, that machine come in,
(06:30):
Bernie sells out, gets his third mansion.
And you just see allthis corruption, right?
And so I don't know, maybe the wholething is corrupt and that disillusions me.
I think that disillusions a lot of people.
That's why, big part of mymessage is yes, I do vote.
I think it's important you wannahonor the people who fought for in the
past, and that you have the freedom.
it can feel almost like a, an illusionof freedom, like no matter who you pick.
(06:54):
Putin had a pretty famous saying.
He said, I've been presidentthrough five of your presidents.
And trust me when I say the menin suits tell them what to do, no
matter who they are, the men insuits come and tell them what to do.
They campaign on all these promises.
They don't really get a choice, though.
the older I get, the more I tendto think he, there might be a lot
of truth in that, to be honest.
Jerremy (07:16):
That's fascinating, ma'am.
Yeah, I think what yousaid a moment ago about.
Hey, people fought and died for this.
This ability this privilege.
And even though we might notnecessarily be making a choice
that we know is gonna have a trueimpact, the fact that we should vote.
(07:37):
probably should just tryit, a situation, right?
So it's like an apathy, almost moreof an excitement where this is an
opportunity for me to really do something.
What's your general take,man on a day-to-day reality?
So voter ID requirements you big thing.
Like we should show voter id,should we be mailing in ballots?
Is there something better out there?
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242 (07:57):
Yeah, this seems like really easy to me, man.
It seems really funny that I don't know.
I go back to have you ever seen thatYouTube clip of like, where that one dude
goes down in the hood and he asks a bunchof black people like, do you have an id?
Because there's this really weirdnarrative that it's racist to show an
ID to vote and all of 150 black peopleand are like, yeah, of course I'll
have an ID man, like I'm a citizen.
(08:19):
I don't know, like you, you tofly on an airplane, you need an
ID to get a driver's license.
You need an ID to go buy a firearm.
You need an id.
It would just make sense thatyou would need an ID to vote.
I've never really understoodany I've never heard one
good reason why that's not.
A thing I've I know many black people andI've yet to meet one that says, man, it's
just, I go to the DMV and every time theytell me I'm black, I can't get an id.
(08:42):
Like I've never heard that in America.
Until I do, I just thinkit's a pretty simple thing.
We should have fair elections.
People should have confidence around it.
I don't think a lot ofpeople did after 2020.
and I just, don't understandwhy that wouldn't be a thing.
I think we should have a nationalholiday, it should be that Tuesday.
Everybody should be off the same way wehave Veterans Day, Memorial Day, whatever.
(09:04):
It should be, a nationalholiday, no school.
Because I do think thereprobably are some very nefarious
things where in certain areas.
Um, If people work and then they closethe polls at six, maybe you're gonna get
a certain demographic that might vote adifferent way that can't get down there.
So we should
Holiday.
Everybody should have a chance to go vote.
But yeah, man you needto show an ID like that.
That just seems very commonsense and very logical.
Dave (09:27):
We've brought this up now three times, like when
we first started this and I.
It does seem like really basic, have anid and yet the data keeps on coming back.
Like millions of people don'thave an ID and I'm like, who are
these people we've come around to?
So I get the whole disenfranchise thing.
(09:48):
And I get how some peoplemight not have an id.
Maybe they were born someplace where theydon't have some source documentation.
They don't have, social security cards.
Maybe they don't, maybethey're homeless, right?
And they don't have these regular things.
And to everybody's point, it's to functionin today's society, you do need an id.
(10:08):
We've landed on this.
It's not a voting problem,it's an ID problem.
We need to really push, like making sureeverybody has an id, everybody can, get
a driver's license or something thatsays, Hey, like I'm in this this place.
Because even if things require an, IDsay getting social security benefits
(10:30):
or getting any kind of help, youneed an id and if you can show that
you have a utility bill, then okaythat's a step in the right direction.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Yeah, I'd be all for any kind of program (10:37):
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that if there are millions of people thatcannot get an id, again, I don't know
how you function in life without one.
Yeah I'm cool for making that.
I hate the word free'cause nothing's free.
It's gonna be our tax dollars.
Funding it.
But I'm okay with our tax dollars funding,helping and ensuring that every US citizen
has an ID or some form of documentation.
(10:58):
That seems, again basic and easy to do.
I'm just, I've met.
Tens of thousands of peoplein my life and I'm yet to meet
one who just can't get an id.
So I don't know where that comes from.
I'd really, I'd love to interviewthose people and learn and understand
why they can't, and then maybe if weunderstood why we could brainstorm
some solutions on how to, not
Jerremy (11:18):
Yeah.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242 (11:18):
that.
But again, I'm yet to meet anyone
Dave (11:20):
It's a lot of young people too.
So in the data, it's like a bunchof 18 year olds, a bunch of 19
year olds, they don't have IDs.
And I'm like, oh man, Icouldn't wait to start driving.
So it doesn't jive with me.
But I hear you.
It seems pretty basic to me.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: and maybe that, I don't know. (11:34):
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I'd bring up a point on that and sayif you're 19 just too lazy to go get
one, but you have all the means to getit, maybe you don't get to vote then.
Because if you're too lazy to drivedown to the BMV to get an id, then I
don't really feel like you probablyare contributing a lot to society.
There's a couple argumentsto be made where.
(11:54):
If you're not paying taxes, if you'renot a landowner or a homeowner or
whatever, which I think that goestoo far, but I could almost say if
you're not paying any taxes and youdon't have any skin in the game,
should you really get to cast a vote?
And I don't know.
When I think about it from thatterm, I'm like we're voting because
look the government takes about50% of my income every year.
If you added up income, property, fuel,inheritance, capital gains, all the taxes,
Jerremy (12:18):
lot.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Oh, it's a lot. (12:19):
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It's a ton, right?
And I don't think they use all thosenecessarily very wisely, as we've seen
with Doge and some of these things, right?
But I do think if you're paying nothingand you have no skin in the game
at all, then becomes a big problemwhere you're just gonna vote for
whoever promises you the most stuff.
I'm gonna give you a free cell phoneand free housing and free this, and
(12:41):
free that, which really isn't free.
It's coming from thepeople that are paying.
then I think you get into a bigproblem where, one side kind of
promising all this free stuff,free college, free this, free that.
then you just have a whole segmentof people who don't really pay into
the system but are getting a lot out.
And now they're just basically, they'realways gonna vote this same way 'cause
(13:01):
they're promised a bunch of free stuff.
And I think that becomesa pretty big problem too.
Jerremy (13:06):
The two things I love and I think it's a very fun discussion.
I think Dave would, itmight have been you,
Dave (13:12):
Oh.
Jerremy (13:13):
it was okay, but I'm pretty sure it was you where you're like,
Hey, national Holiday, love that take
Dave (13:17):
Yeah.
Jerremy (13:18):
it should be,
Dave (13:19):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jerremy (13:19):
That's really fun.
That's a great idea.
Seems really easy.
Yes.
To that one for sure.
And I believe.
The paying taxes let's dive intothat for just a quick hot second.
'cause that's fun.
What type of taxes, just off the topof your head, would you say could
qualify someone for the ability to vote?
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: Off the top of my head, (13:43):
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any kind of income tax.
But I suppose if you're functioning insociety, you're already paying sales tax.
You're already paying fuel tax,you're already paying a lot of
these taxes, so that probably,qualifies like 90% of people.
I guess the problem, and I don'tknow maybe this isn't that big of
a problem, but the problem I seeright now is you do have maybe
(14:04):
not even that large of a segment,but a segment that's just promised
you get to go to college for free.
You get a cell phone for free, we'llgive you free housing, we'll give you
free food, don't ever work or anything.
And like I've personally known.
A couple like single moms who are stuck,but they're trying so hard to fight and
work and get their way out of this, andthen all of a sudden they learn that if
they do take that second job and worka little harder, now they don't get the
(14:28):
food benefits and the housing benefits.
So they're dis-incentivized to actuallywork harder to improve their situation,
but then they feel like I gottavote this certain way, or I do lose
all these quote unquote free thingsand I feel like you're just stuck.
I wish we had a better system thatjust rewarded people for working hard.
And again I don't, that's probablyway too complex for me to figure out
(14:49):
here, or any of us to figure out ina 30 minute, segment or whatever.
But it just seems to me like alot of people are stuck in that.
Like you almost can't earn above a littlelevel or you lose all that free stuff,
but then you have to keep voting thatway 'cause you get that free stuff.
Yeah.
Jerremy (15:04):
yeah, there.
There's something inherentlywrong with handouts.
One of my mentors always said weshould be giving hand ups not handouts.
Tylertyler-todt_1_09-08-2025_060242: That's (15:13):
undefined
Jerremy (15:14):
to, to your point, like some type of level metric, right?
Where it's like, Hey, do this,accomplish this, have this.
But yeah, you, when you start makingtoo much money and then you get
punched in the face essentiallywhere now it's like a negative, like
a net negative to make more, youhave everything taken away from you.
That's the problem for in the beginning.
(15:34):
And so Dave, for us, I think at somepoint, one thing we haven't really
gone down yet is like that Medicare,medicaid, government benefits
essentially discussion on the podcast.
I think that'd be really fun tojust chit chat about that one.
Alex (15:49):
Next on Solving America's Problems, Tyler slams the ID debate as manufactured
outrage while Dave pushes for universalaccess—their clash exposes raw truth about
millions potentially blocked from voting.
But Tyler's take on how BIG money ownsevery candidate cuts even deeper...
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