Solving America's Problems

Alaska's $1,700 annual dividend proves exactly nothing — Ron Lynch says the real number is $30K, and that's precisely where complacency sets in. Ron moved $6 billion in consumer sales, called Spielberg from a grocery store basement at 23, and made four films — and his read is that UBI doesn't hand out income, it hands out outcome . Outcome without effort kills purpose. His charity TeleHelp gave ri...

A third of American workers are one missed paycheck from crisis , and AI is repricing the assumption that human labor has permanent value faster than any safety net can respond. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley open their UBI series by naming what dissolved the American Dream contract — and pointing to three real experiments that prove giving people a floor doesn't produce laziness: the A...

If guaranteed income demonstrably cut violent crime, lowered healthcare costs, and boosted entrepreneurship — and the only documented trade-off was recipients working one hour less per week — Jerremy Alexander Newsome says the answer is obviously yes. Dave Conley argues no institution can be trusted to administer it, so it needs to be constitutionally locked in as Amendment 28 — or it becomes a co...

Crime drops exponentially when money enters poverty — Jerremy Alexander Newsome calls the data nearly unarguable. Dave Conley and Jerremy work through the laziness question and land in the same place: most people aren't lazy, they're searching for purpose, and what looks like disengagement is distraction from a deeper problem. The conversation sharpens into a direct comparison between Alaska's oil...

A third of American workers are one missed paycheck from crisis , and AI is repricing the assumption that human labor has permanent value faster than any safety net can respond. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley open their UBI series by naming what dissolved the American Dream contract — work hard, buy a house, build something — and argue it was always built on the premise that time and ef...

One guest puts the odds of a US recession by end of 2026 at 95% . Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley close out one of their longest series by walking through every guest and claim: Spencer Conley on college debt as a geographic trap and AI already cutting headcount , James Klein on that recession call, Cruise Gamboa on identity tied to achievement, Catherine on ghost jobs and work not being...

A home that cost $213,000 in 1988 costs $5 million today — and Jerremy argues the math doesn't work anymore. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley make the case that at a 6% loan rate, a house has to triple in value over 30 years before any real appreciation shows up. The new American dream, Jerremy says, is owning equity — not a mortgage. They walk through renting as emotionally unstable but...

Markets haven't priced in reality yet — and when they do, most people won't have options. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley argue that individual action only matters when it builds optionality , and that the harder problem is systemic: institutions, governments, and businesses operating with zero consequences for the damage they cause. A viral campaign they attribute to Spencer Pratt — liv...

One guest puts the odds of a US recession by end of 2026 at 95%. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley spend this episode running through six guests and their core claims: college debt trapping people geographically, ghost jobs flooding hiring platforms, identity tied to achievement as a psychological trap, and AI already cutting headcount in real companies. Pam Jordan argued the income gap is...

A fast great displacement is already underway — AI, robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles repricing jobs while many new grads work roles that don't require their degrees. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley sit down with Justin Meyers and Jason Sipple to map what's actually happening. Justin argues businesses will replace humans for ROI, predicts most work becomes supervising AI , and warn...

"No one's gonna come save us" — that's the working assumption the whole segment runs on. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley press Justin Meyers and Jason Sipple on whether too much weight for surviving 2030 gets dumped on individuals while government, academia, corporations, family, and community get a pass. Jason doesn't trust government or big corporations to act in people's interests, re...

Purposelessness leads to violence — and the panel thinks America is at the front edge of that curve. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley dig into widening wealth inequality , a shrinking middle class, two-tier justice, inflation, and AI displacement with Justin Meyers and Jason Sipple. They borrow Joe Rogan's " Bob the lawyer " thought experiment to explain what happens to identity when AI o...

Businesses will replace humans for better ROI — and the timeline is shorter than most people think. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley sit down with Justin Meyers and Jason Sipple on what AI, robots, and automation actually do to work. Justin predicts that by 2030 most people will spend their day talking to a personal AI model and reviewing what it produced. Jason left a corporate leadershi...

The S&P 500 is up roughly 17% since April 1 and mega-caps are sitting at all-time highs — while South Florida gas clears $5 and diesel runs above $6. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley argue the gap between reported numbers and lived costs isn't noise; it's the whole story. Wednesday's CPI print carries a 3.7% year-over-year consensus, but both hosts question whether that figure has any...

Most job postings aren't real hiring signals — they're unprioritized requisitions in a labor-arbitrage economy, and the school-degree-job pipeline behind them is already broken. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley spend the full episode with Ryan Kohler, who built applicant tracking software and watched hiring fracture through multiple recessions, and Sarah Montana, a wellness CEO who descri...

Companies already view payroll as a tax, and private equity is quietly consolidating the trades — that's stated plainly before any optimism enters. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley and guests Ryan Kohler and Sarah Montana open on nervous-system basics — quiet time, morning light, breathwork, hydration — as the floor for staying functional during prolonged workplace volatility. The old Ame...

The Industrial Revolution comparison only holds if workers own a slice of what replaces them — and right now, most don't. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley press Ryan Kohler on whether AI is a net jobs creator, and his answer splits cleanly on ownership: the investor and tech class will deploy agents to cut headcount, but individuals who build first keep the value. Sarah Montana argues any...

Most job postings aren't real hiring signals — they're unprioritized requisitions in a system built for labor arbitrage, not placement. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley dig into that with Ryan Kohler, who spent two decades building applicant tracking software, and Sarah Montana, a wellness CEO raising kids while the lines between work and home dissolved. Ryan argues job boards have no cre...

99 employees lost their jobs when a general contracting firm's Chapter 11 converted to Chapter 7 in open court — a company with strong sales and no cash. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley bring in Pam Jordan, who was there and built Pivot Business Group on that lesson: it's not what you make, it's what you keep. She walks through her fractional-CFO process — books, financials, tax returns...

A California marketing agency cut staff from seven to two, kept top-line revenue flat, and raised profit 300% — the result of narrowing to the highest-margin offer and layering in tax strategy. Pam Jordan says AI fear is a distraction; the move is to use it to automate, monetize, and buy back time. She walks through how her firm uses AI to transcribe client calls, review tax returns for strategy g...

The U.S. school day and the standard nine-to-five were never designed for working families — and the system isn't broken by accident. Pam Jordan argues 2020 forced remote-work acceptance but education stayed stuck, with better options still gated by income. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley push on who's responsible for fixing it; Pam says government should step aside while individuals use...

A general contracting firm's Chapter 11 filing converted to Chapter 7 in open court — 99 employees out, and the books had looked fine. Pam Jordan was there as legal counsel, and it's the moment that shaped everything she does now. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley get into her core argument: it's not what you make, it's what you keep — companies can hit eight figures and still be broke wit...

Amazon just hit the highest price in human history. Dave Conley calls this the largest oil shock in history and notes that nobody is saying "this time it's different" — yet markets keep climbing. Jerremy Alexander Newsome walks through specific chart levels and earnings setups for Apple , Amazon , Google , and Microsoft with actual buy zones, not sentiment. The underlying tension: markets have dec...

On Solving America’s Problems, Jerremy Alexander Newsom and Dave Conley interview former GE executive Cruz Gamboa. He describes closing an $800M Latin America deal after six months of 8:30 a.m.–9 p.m. work with a 50-person team, leading to cognitive burnout and family damage. Even promoted, he felt nothing. Fear, scarcity, and identity tied to achievement trap people. Cruz contrasts the “old contr...

On Solving America’s Problems, Jerremy Alexander Newsom and Dave Conley talk with Cruz Gamboa about shifting from scarcity to abundance mindsets in faith and business. Jerremy uses Jonah as metaphor for how suffering yields growth signals. His upcoming book “Be Rich Like Jesus” highlights initial wealth for Jesus, parallels with other figures. Riches come in varied forms. Gratitude and inner work...