The NXR Podcast - THE SPECIAL - The America We Grew Up In Is Already Gone

00:00:00.000 we can't get rid of slavery

00:00:00.960 because it'll destroy the Southern economy.

00:00:02.620 Can't afford to.

00:00:03.080 Can't afford to.

00:00:04.600 Rational doesn't mean it was the moral argument.

00:00:06.780 It was actually the really bad argument,

00:00:08.580 but it made dollar and cents sense,

00:00:11.740 but it still didn't excuse the moral depravity

00:00:14.620 of child slavery.

00:00:16.680 Now, the same thing is true today that,

00:00:19.660 well, who's going to put these roofs up?

00:00:21.640 Who's going to pick these strawberries in Plant City?

00:00:23.540 Who's going to pick sugar in Clewiston

00:00:26.900 and harvest sugar in Bohoky or Belle Glade

00:00:29.300 or citrus in Sebring or Frostproof. Guess what? This slanderous lie that Americans won't do this

00:00:36.200 work? No. Finish the sentence. Americans won't do the work at the sub-market slave wages that

00:00:42.060 corporate America is willing to pay. The 30-year-old CEO of an investment firm,

00:00:46.820 Fishback says he would build on DeSantis' legacy.

00:00:51.940 I'm off the phone and I say I will never disavow patriotic Americans.

00:00:56.420 it is absolutely vital that james fishback wins

00:01:00.380 you know your your governor here in texas gets a lot of flack i got to give him credit on one

00:01:10.820 thing though the best that he's done i'll give it back to you but the best that he's done

00:01:14.260 is following desantis six months after the fact which makes me as a texan i actually have a vested

00:01:20.420 interest believe it or not in you being the next governor of florida because i know that my governor

00:01:24.600 The best that I can expect from him is to copy you.

00:01:28.140 Yeah, but go ahead to your point.

00:01:29.500 So Greg Abbott, I think will be written about in the history books in a hundred years for one reason and one reason only.

00:01:36.500 The busing of migrants to New York or Chicago was brilliant.

00:01:39.360 That was.

00:01:40.120 Was brilliant.

00:01:40.460 And we didn't even do that in Florida.

00:01:41.980 The little Martha Vineyard stunt.

00:01:43.160 I was going to say the Martha Vineyard thing.

00:01:44.100 That was a stunt.

00:01:44.960 That was like 15 people.

00:01:45.720 The consistent busing of migrants, hundreds a day, every single day, twice on Sunday for two years was brilliant because it took the frustration of border towns in Texas and put it on the doorstep of New York City.

00:02:06.260 Yes.

00:02:06.600 where people in my own life, I don't want to name names who were ardent progressives.

00:02:12.060 They did a 180 on the migration issue because all of a sudden they had to deal with what Eagle

00:02:16.400 Pass had to deal with. And they were seeing it where I knew public school teachers in New York

00:02:22.460 and in Chicago who now had six kids in their class out of 15 and those six didn't speak a

00:02:28.580 word of English. And what were they doing there? What were they doing there? And that's really

00:02:32.620 frustrating. You know, the pro-America thing to do is not to surrender our classrooms to migrants

00:02:38.860 who have no legal claim to our country. And as a result, hurt the education of young white boys

00:02:44.460 and young black girls and young American Indian. Yeah, because always what happens is no child

00:02:49.500 left behind, despite all good intentions, the practical result of this kind of mindset,

00:02:54.920 it's a race to the bottom. It's the lowest common denominator. In a nutshell, we could say there are

00:03:01.660 many things, but one of the major failures of American politics and really just the American

00:03:08.020 mentality, even outside of politicians, your average American, we've all been duped in this

00:03:12.900 regard. We've made the exception, the norm. We've made the footnote, the headline. And I think that's

00:03:20.560 the best that I could say to kind of steel man, the American mentality behind that sentiment.

00:03:28.060 it's because i think americans are uniquely compassionate people they are uniquely sympathetic

00:03:34.220 people and and so because of that um in that bent towards compassion that bent towards because

00:03:42.920 america let's be honest it's it's not just something in the blood it's something in the

00:03:47.340 religion water is stronger than blood baptism which saves you according to saint peter uh

00:03:54.800 Americans are Christian. Not all of them, but that is our heritage, and many of them still

00:04:01.320 are. And there's something about that Christian background that makes them sympathetic,

00:04:06.860 that makes them compassionate. They think of the sojourner. They think of the oppressed.

00:04:11.460 They think of the poor. They think of the disenfranchised. But the problem is when that

00:04:16.020 becomes public policy for the whole, instead of generosity towards the fringe, generosity towards

00:04:22.480 the minority. It becomes the streamlined policy for the whole. What you end up with is ninth

00:04:31.060 graders who can't read, right? Because everything is a race to the bottom. I think of adoption. I

00:04:36.300 was adopted, and I praise God, adopted twice, one by my heavenly father in conversion, but also by

00:04:42.420 my earthly parents, my adopted parents. And if I hadn't been, my life would have been a wreck.

00:04:47.900 My life has already been somewhat of a wreck,

00:04:50.560 but it would have been a real wreck.

00:04:52.940 But I think of adoption,

00:04:54.840 and I think adoption is a picture of the gospel.

00:04:56.880 It's a beautiful and wonderful thing.

00:04:58.460 That said, what we're doing in America

00:05:01.120 when it comes to immigration

00:05:02.140 is it would be the equivalent of a singular household,

00:05:06.000 a family, having three biological children

00:05:08.460 and then not adopting one or two, but adopting 30.

00:05:13.860 It's not viable.

00:05:15.620 It's not sustainable.

00:05:16.900 And what you're actually doing is it may start as compassion to the stranger, but what it ends up

00:05:23.960 being is utter neglect and in a sense, real hostility and hatred of your own. We cannot

00:05:31.960 love the stranger at the expense of our neighbors and liberals will be the first to levy the words

00:05:37.740 of Christ, love your neighbor, love your neighbor. And my response is I'm trying. I'm trying to love

00:05:43.660 my native american citizens i'm trying to love my fellow brothers and sisters in christ meanwhile

00:05:51.060 you have the words of christ weaponized by a color revolution and communist marxists who hate christ

00:05:59.160 if we really could give them some truth serum and get them to to tell you know the church in 15 years

00:06:05.080 right and and yet they're they're loving the words of christ weaponizing them not for true love of

00:06:11.100 neighbor. But to the extent of the cost of their neighbors for a foreigner, and here's the deal,

00:06:19.260 my position, people probably don't think this about me. They probably think I hate foreigners,

00:06:22.860 which I don't. It's actually not their fault. If I lived in a difficult, challenging, corrupt,

00:06:32.320 impoverished country, I would be doing everything I could to get my family here. I don't blame them

00:06:39.440 for that i blame our civil leaders who have orchestrated this migration and the replacement

00:06:46.400 of our native people they're the ones who are at fault and so back to you but the point is just

00:06:53.380 this making the the exception the norm the footnote the headline where everything is a race

00:07:00.480 to the bottom um that we're we're thinking about an individual at the cost of the whole

00:07:07.200 that's exactly right and part of it too is

00:07:13.400 i'm glad you said what i think we all deep down know is why are we blaming migrants when republicans

00:07:22.180 and democrats for years have created this system this open border system democrats because they

00:07:27.340 want more votes republicans because they want cheap foreign labor to pad their profit margins

00:07:31.180 and roll up to the next private equity entity.

00:07:33.720 Let's just get real about that.

00:07:35.760 Now, the migrants who come here and live off the state,

00:07:40.100 it's easy to blame them.

00:07:41.440 And you should, they bear responsibility

00:07:42.800 for dispossessing us of taxpayer benefits.

00:07:45.260 But why are we letting the state

00:07:47.380 give them those resources in the first place, right?

00:07:50.780 There's this idea that illegal immigration,

00:07:53.480 illegal immigration, yes, illegal immigration is wrong.

00:07:56.000 We know that.

00:07:57.200 But what about mass migration through legal means?

00:07:59.680 What about programs like H-1B or H-2A or TPS? Hundreds of thousands of Haitians in our country.

00:08:07.900 I'm sure they're great people, but at the end of the day, they need to stay and make their country

00:08:11.360 great. Why are they entitled to taxpayer benefits? Remember, illegals absolutely get taxpayer

00:08:17.780 benefits. But you know who absolutely, absolutely gets taxpayer benefits? Anybody on asylum status,

00:08:22.320 anybody on refugee, anybody on TPS, anybody on an immigration visa is able to get those

00:08:28.680 taxpayer benefits. They are treated just as you, just as me would be if we were to walk in there

00:08:34.360 and say we need help. I have a crazy belief, which is that, yeah, if a mom and dad have three kids

00:08:40.680 and the dad loses his job, we should take care of them. Not forever, but we should be that safety

00:08:47.320 net. Now the safety net should not become the safety couch, the safety jacuzzi, the safety

00:08:51.500 Tempur-Pedic. It should be more like a safety trampoline. You fall on it, you bounce back up.

00:08:55.720 We should not stigmatize people who need social services to get back on their feet.

00:08:59.940 There should absolutely be an active work requirement to receive those benefits, seeking

00:09:03.960 work.

00:09:04.660 And then once you get it, we ease you off of it.

00:09:06.860 But the truth is, we only have our leaders to blame for enabling this great transfer

00:09:13.140 payment away from American citizens, away from the productive, away from our retirees

00:09:18.520 to a foreign class of slaves who are living off of our hard work and labor.

00:09:24.260 it's always been the question for america who's going to pick the cotton

00:09:27.500 right whether it was the slaves and you know whether it was the immigrants

00:09:31.860 and maybe one day elon musk will solve the problem forever it'll be robots you

00:09:36.900 know so that's that's a real possibility and if so uh hasten the day lord jesus

00:09:40.840 but um but just to the to the cotton picking

00:09:43.760 argument for a second which is i mean that in more ways than one right the

00:09:46.460 cotton picking argument but um wait one cotton picking minute

00:09:51.700 wait a cotton picking minute

00:09:54.260 it was a very rational argument during the time of slavery, which was we can't get rid of slavery

00:10:01.460 because it'll destroy the Southern economy. Can't afford to. Can't afford to. Rational doesn't mean

00:10:06.100 it was the moral argument. It was actually the really bad argument, but it made dollar and cents

00:10:11.280 sense, but it still didn't excuse the moral depravity of chattel slavery. Now, the same

00:10:18.060 thing is true today that, well, who's going to put these roofs up? Who's going to pick these

00:10:22.940 strawberries in Plant City. Who's going to pick sugar in Clewiston and harvest sugar in Bahoki

00:10:29.060 or Bell Glade or citrus in Sebring or Frostproof? Guess what? This slanderous lie that Americans

00:10:35.980 won't do this work? No. Finish the sentence. Americans won't do the work at the sub-market

00:10:41.540 slave wages that corporate America is willing to pay. Corporate America has gotten away for decades

00:10:46.160 now with importing cheap foreigners, dispossessing Americans, our brothers and sisters, of a good

00:10:51.880 job and a good livelihood because they wanted to pad their profit margins. And guess what?

00:10:57.200 Guess what? We can deliver great paying jobs. We can pick strawberries. We can do landscaping

00:11:03.140 because my dad did it. My dad was a landscaper. He was a tree trimmer for 20 years. And guess what?

00:11:09.100 People still hired him. His prices were not exorbitant, but we have to decide what kind

00:11:14.440 of country do we want. If you want the cheapest labor possible, and by the way, we don't directly

00:11:20.680 pay labor costs. We pay it through the company that's offering up that good or service. If you

00:11:26.080 want the cheapest slave labor possible, then guess what? Bring back slavery. Abolish 13th,

00:11:31.300 14th, and 15th amendments. Bring back slavery in this country. If your whole goal is, well,

00:11:36.540 how are we going to pay for it? We need cheap labor. Who's going to do this job? Well, then

00:11:40.640 let's just enslave a bunch of Africans again. Of course not. We're not saying that. Well,

00:11:44.640 then why is it okay to enslave Central South Americans? Let's have some respect, by the way,

00:11:51.340 for the migrants. The 14-year-old boy in the Midwest at the New York Times, of all people,

00:11:55.380 covered in 2022, whose arm was sucked into a meat processing machine, who lost his arm,

00:12:01.340 a 14-year-old. The New York Times wrote about it, perhaps the only honest piece of journalism

00:12:05.140 they'd done in years, called the kids who work the midnight shift. And it was all about kids

00:12:09.940 from Central and South America who had been trafficked into our country as economic migrants

00:12:15.580 to work late night shifts at multi-billionaire meat processors in the Midwest. That is modern

00:12:22.600 day slavery. And one, that resonates with Republicans, but we can also find favor with

00:12:28.440 our friends on the left and say, we should be against all forms of slavery. And that is no

00:12:33.640 different. I'm not mincing words. That is no different than the conditions of a lot of slaves

00:12:40.680 in the 1850s. And the sooner that we're honest about that, we can make this conversation about

00:12:45.660 working class people, about standing up for the wage theft of American citizens and the

00:12:53.360 exploitation of Americans, yes, but also the exploitation of third world migrants like that

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00:15:27.840 He did not come here.

00:15:28.880 He did not come here to steal.

00:15:31.520 he came here because he was trafficked by billion dollar corporations because they wanted cheap

00:15:37.600 labor and they weren't willing to pay people who look like you and me to do that work you're right

00:15:41.580 i'll go one step further um you said there's no difference between that and the slavery that

00:15:47.740 we've had in the past here in america and i would actually argue that there are a couple differences

00:15:52.720 um in the case of corporate billion dollar you know behemoth companies uh they're able to pay

00:16:02.440 five dollars an hour three dollars an hour to a 14 year old boy and that's their only obligation

00:16:09.020 um slaveholders in the past had to provide housing meals clothing all these different things now some

00:16:17.160 of them were abusive some of them were benevolent right you can read old diaries of slaves

00:16:22.000 were like, yeah, my master was a Christian man.

00:16:24.120 He taught me how to read.

00:16:25.480 And I'm not justifying it.

00:16:26.740 I'm not saying that, hey, we should bring that back.

00:16:28.520 But I'm just saying, if we want to be brutally honest

00:16:30.400 for a moment, the corporation slave master,

00:16:33.980 that plantation that we currently have

00:16:35.580 with foreigners in our nation, they don't care at all.

00:16:39.400 They have zero obligations.

00:16:40.700 See, in their case, they can pay the cheapest of wages.

00:16:44.360 They don't actually have to make sure

00:16:45.520 that the person is housed or anything like that.

00:16:47.140 They actually, it's the equivalent of having a slave master.

00:16:50.400 um but everyone else you get to own the slave and get the the production from the slave but

00:16:57.700 everyone else through their taxes has to pay for the housing of the slave has to pay for the

00:17:02.400 provisions of the slave the food stamps back in the day the guy who got the work also had to pay

00:17:08.180 the bills he had to pay for the slaves quarters his housing his food his clothing he's those kinds

00:17:13.420 of things today these companies that we have in america that are you know importing right the

00:17:19.400 equivalent of wage slaves. All they have to do is pay the peanuts' wages, and then it's actually

00:17:25.300 the taxpayers in America that have to cover through subsidizing everything else. So in some

00:17:31.260 ways, the argument could be made that it's actually even more immoral, that it's actually worse. It's

00:17:37.560 not only a form of slavery, but it's also theft from your actual native citizens, your actual

00:17:43.220 neighbors at the same time. Correct. And there's this idea that was actually popular on the left,

00:17:48.840 Bernie Sanders left for years, and it's right, is what Walmart is doing is when they pay somebody

00:17:56.840 $8, $9 an hour, they're asking you and me and everybody watching to cover the other half of

00:18:03.540 the bill because that person can't live on $8, $9 an hour. And so we've got to pay for their food

00:18:09.680 stamps. We got to pay for their housing. We got to pay for their Medicaid. And so paying a market

00:18:16.260 wage, a dignified wage to American workers. It's the right thing to do for the workers. It's also

00:18:22.140 the right thing to do for the rest of us. Because when you get paid a dignified market wage by

00:18:26.820 Walmart or by that meat processor, that means we don't have to shoulder the burden as taxpayers

00:18:31.680 to pay for your healthcare, for your food stamps, for your housing, and et cetera.

00:18:36.500 And it means that the goods and services now cost more. But it also means that as the tide rises,

00:18:42.600 so do all the ships um if if the baseline entry-level jobs in our nation begin to pay

00:18:49.680 livable wages what does that do to everybody else's vocation correct um and so it's like

00:18:53.980 well the prices go up in terms of the market and you know walmart's products um now i have to you

00:18:59.940 know instead of paying through taxes through the state actually you know they get the full wage

00:19:04.560 now the walmart employee but now i have to pay the full prices at walmart correct but because

00:19:10.020 these guys now have a livable wage and are stimulating the economy, your job is paying

00:19:15.120 you more to where you can afford those prices. So right now, your job and your wage is actually

00:19:20.200 suffering because of the lowest common denominator, and you're paying still the full prices

00:19:25.260 of Walmart goods, half of it at Walmart, and the other half on your taxes. So no matter how you

00:19:30.960 slice it, these are the kinds of issues that every American, if they were just educated

00:19:36.400 a little bit, regardless of political allegiance. I think that these are the kinds of issues that

00:19:43.840 everybody could come around to, where you could actually have a bipartisan agreement on both

00:19:49.200 sides of the aisle. In fact, the common denominator of who would disagree wouldn't be left versus

00:19:55.860 right. It wouldn't be black versus white. In this case, it wouldn't even be Christian versus Muslim

00:20:01.620 or something, it would literally just be elites versus plebs, all of us, everybody else. The only

00:20:09.480 people who would fight against this, it wouldn't be from a religious standpoint or a racial

00:20:14.660 standpoint. It would be an economic class. It would be the billionaires. It would be the people

00:20:22.480 who profit, the people who profit the most in being able to pay the cheapest wages, bring down

00:20:29.040 the bottom line as far as possible, squeeze out the largest profit margins and push the bill on

00:20:34.680 the state, which means ultimately push the bill on us, the taxpayer. The state is the intermediary

00:20:39.820 for screwing us and raising that tax issue. They're the only ones who would object.

00:20:43.740 Correct. It would be billionaires who are Republicans. It would be billionaires who

00:20:47.120 are Democrats, but it would be the billionaires. I mean, the Koch brothers have been open borders

00:20:50.680 for years. They fund the Cato Institute, which is unapologetically an open border institution.

00:20:55.220 these think tanks have all been shills even the conservative ones for the open border

00:20:59.900 what they've told you for years is illegal immigration illegal immigration right but

00:21:04.000 they said nothing about h2a h2b i was at disney a couple weeks ago and i'm sitting there and i'm

00:21:14.620 getting popcorn and the person serving me popcorn is an 18 year old from the philippines and then

00:21:21.240 I go on the ride space mountain and the person checking my ticket, my fast pass is a 20 year

00:21:27.660 old from Thailand. And then I go and get that delicious Dole Whip, that pineapple Dole Whip

00:21:31.800 they have at Magic Kingdom. And it's a 22 year old from Brazil. What on earth is Disney doing?

00:21:37.780 There are 18, 19 and 22 year olds in my state who could take those jobs. Who'd be proud to take

00:21:41.720 those jobs. And so here's my rule as governor, Disney and any company like you, you're going to

00:21:47.060 hire from the local community. You're not going to have an option or you're not going to have a

00:21:50.920 business in my state full stop because guess what? That 18 or 19-year-old, they were going to use

00:21:56.540 that job not just for the income to get a start at life, but what does that job do for a young man

00:22:01.760 or a young woman? It gives them that discipline. It gives them that self-sufficiency of showing up

00:22:07.160 to work early, of staying late, of accountability, of skin in the game, of consequences for your

00:22:13.420 action. And guess what? When you do a really good job, feeling good because your boss and your

00:22:18.860 patrons praised you. That is being robbed from our country right now. Disney is just one example.

00:22:24.580 Hotels all over Orlando, Tampa, Miami are relying on cheap foreign labor from the Philippines.

00:22:29.980 All of it is legal. All of it is legal. So all of the finger wagging about illegal immigration

00:22:36.380 is going to fall on deaf ears on this particular instance because this is all blessed by the

00:22:41.900 elites in Washington, D.C., by Republican donors and Democrat donors. We can't hire kids from

00:22:47.020 Miami Gardens. They wouldn't do a job like this. How on earth would you know? When's the last time

00:22:51.860 you went to Carroll City? When's the last time you went to my high school at Boyd H. Anderson?

00:22:56.320 I was one of two white kids in the entire senior class. When's the last time you went to my school

00:23:00.180 and held a job fair for Disney, for Marriott, for Universal Studios? You're a business owner in

00:23:06.440 Florida. You run a theme park, a hotel chain, or a restaurant, get used to hiring local laborers,

00:23:12.540 we're going to tax you into oblivion. I am not going to play this game where it's, we're all

00:23:18.880 neutral. We're neutral on the question of importing cheap foreign slave labor and dispossessing young

00:23:25.420 black boys and black girls and white boys and white girls from my communities from having a

00:23:30.460 job, from having a lively look. If you don't have a job, you don't have an income. If you don't have

00:23:33.580 an income, you can't buy a home. If you can't buy a home, you can't get married. If you can't get

00:23:37.000 married, you can't have kids. If you can't have kids, what's the point? Play the full arc of this

00:23:40.640 out and it is disastrous, it is existential to the future of our country. And I'm not going to

00:23:47.680 tolerate it. And by the way, if I walked into the Democrat meeting that's going to happen in Broward

00:23:54.440 County next week, and I said, raise of hands, who supports what I just said as a policy? 90% of the

00:24:00.120 hands would go up. 90% of the hands would go up. And I think as conservatives, we have to get real

00:24:06.260 for a second, there ain't a lot to conserve right now. We should be calling ourselves

00:24:10.800 restoratives. I want to restore the America that I had in the 90s, that you had growing up in the

00:24:17.280 1820s. Yeah, you can't conserve what you've already lost. You have to get it back first,

00:24:21.260 and then you have to fight to keep it. I mean, that's the original cultural mandate that's

00:24:25.580 given by God to Adam in the garden, is to work and to keep. Work, to grow, to nurture, to expand,

00:24:31.700 to increase, to keep, that is to guard, to defend. Right now, we need to work, right? The keeping

00:24:39.280 is the luxury of winning, right? You can have that luxury of defending and guarding

00:24:45.880 when you have something worth defending and guarding. That assumes that you haven't already

00:24:50.460 lost it. But the verdict has come back in. It's official. We have lost the America that we once

00:24:56.260 snip. It's gone. And that's why MAGA and those kinds of things initially resonated with people,

00:25:02.280 make America great again. It implies at least two things, that America once actually was great,

00:25:07.860 that we don't hate our heritage and we don't hate our history. There was greatness in the past.

00:25:12.120 And it also implies we need to make America great again, meaning that it was great in the past.

00:25:17.280 And presently, it's not. Presently, we actually have keeping to do, no, working to do. Work first,

00:25:25.320 keep second. And conservatives have to learn that it's, gentlemen, this is a football, right? Back

00:25:32.340 to basics, back to the fundamentals. You work first, you keep second, right? We've lost. We

00:25:38.740 didn't keep, we've lost. So therefore, every single GOP candidate should be running on a restoring

00:25:46.360 ticket, not a conserving ticket. That is so simple and so clear. And going back to the Democrats for

00:25:54.540 just a moment. You're absolutely right. Most Democrats, at least the people, not the politicians

00:25:59.720 necessarily, but the people, they would agree with that sentiment. The Democrat party used to be

00:26:04.540 among many things, but one that stands out, they used to be the party of labor, right? They were

00:26:09.780 the labor party that would defend the working class man. It was Barbara Jordan from right here

00:26:15.400 in Texas who actually defended white men and black men from being able to get a job and not be

00:26:21.140 fired and replaced by illegal immigrants. Right. So that was, I mean, that was a whole

00:26:25.520 Democrat campaign. The problem is that a lot of the Democrat people have ultimately been

00:26:30.400 supplanted by the Democrat elites, by the politicians themselves. And the politicians

00:26:35.140 stopped caring about their constituents because they realized they actually didn't have to care,

00:26:39.480 right? Because typically a politician is thinking, I need to make my people happy because if I don't,

00:26:43.840 then I'm going to be, you know, thrown out on the street, right? I need to keep the people happy so

00:26:48.120 that I'll be reelected. But the Democrats found out another way. They found out that instead of

00:26:53.620 working to keep their voters happy, they could actually import voters. And the moment that the

00:26:58.680 Democrats figured that out and began using that as one of their premier, you know, political

00:27:02.960 strategies, then all of a sudden it's palpable. You could see in like overnight, so quickly and

00:27:10.180 very stark, real terms, all the rhetoric of defending the laborer, defending the blue-collar

00:27:17.680 american worker his dignity his wages his job those kinds of things that was that just became

00:27:23.600 utterly absent from the democrat party um instead it all and it shifted and this is not people need

00:27:30.140 to realize this it's not a coincidence so democrats who were once the the defenders of

00:27:35.040 the average american worker became um the arbiters right the of uh fighting against racism

00:27:42.160 Why?

00:27:43.060 Because they had new constituents to defend, right?

00:27:46.680 Well, they started caring about heritage American blacks.

00:27:49.300 No, that's not so much.

00:27:51.540 They would be the guise of that.

00:27:53.320 But what are they really after?

00:27:54.420 They were carving out the rhetoric and the party's platform to defend all these other

00:28:01.500 people who are not of European descent, who are currently in their districts.

00:28:07.360 No, the ones that they planned to import that would be in their districts.

00:28:11.780 So it was weakening the American resolve through Marxist terms and all these different things

00:28:20.880 playing on the heartstrings of well-intended Americans who want to be compassionate, who

00:28:25.700 want to care.

00:28:26.860 Meanwhile, it wasn't actually about lifting up minority ethnicities that are actually

00:28:32.380 here in America and can trace their history multiple generations in our country.

00:28:36.620 but to pave the road to import a new voting class.

00:28:41.420 And you're right, the Republicans,

00:28:43.100 their incentive, a cheap labor class.

00:28:46.440 The Democrats, their incentive, a free voting class

00:28:50.280 that will vote for them no matter what,

00:28:52.020 and they don't actually have to offer anything in return.

00:28:54.880 They don't have to do anything.

00:28:56.160 They just have to say, we're the party

00:28:57.540 that will let you stay and also let your aunt

00:29:00.100 and your uncle and your grandma and your grandpa,

00:29:02.300 then they all get to come too.

00:29:04.040 And we all know this.

00:29:05.600 we all know this and it's kind of shocking to me it's really shocking that a platform like yours

00:29:12.440 and some of the political arguments and rhetoric that that guys like you are using um it's it's

00:29:18.320 almost surprising that it's taken this long for someone to see right it's like there's a crown in

00:29:25.100 the gutter and it's been there for a few decades now and it's not like some you know it's not that

00:29:31.340 it's all like hidden like it's it's very visible it's blatant it's like a glorious uh shimmering

00:29:37.720 crown right laden with gold and diamond and it's right there and everyone has been able to see it

00:29:44.520 and everyone keeps walking by it like it's it's actually shocking even from even from like not

00:29:51.140 even noble in incentives but um thinking you know like most politicians um even from just a

00:29:59.280 standpoint of total human depravity, right? You would think that just for the purposes and motives

00:30:05.340 of self-gain, that somebody would have figured this out, right? It's so obvious. It just feels

00:30:11.120 like the elephant in the room. And I'm surprised that politicians, that it took people this long

00:30:17.300 to realize, wait a second, oh my goodness, these are resonating political talking points. This is

00:30:25.960 something that not only will i be able to win you know the base on this side of the political aisle

00:30:32.160 but this crosses the aisle this is like a large sector of the american populace all resonate with

00:30:39.460 these kinds of talking points and it's kind of shocking that it took you know until the year

00:30:43.880 of our lord 2026 for for someone to pick up on it well you said a lot there and i agree with

00:30:50.780 the fact that the Republican Party is full of feckless losers who are not good at rhetoric,

00:30:57.920 not good at messaging, just good at regurgitating the same slop handed down to them by consultants.

00:31:05.100 We have a choice in front of us. What vision, and perhaps it's no better time than this choice

00:31:09.820 to be before us at the 250th anniversary of our brave founding fathers declaring independence.

00:31:16.840 Let's reassert those ideals from 1776, because our founding fathers would not be happy to know

00:31:25.180 that we are talking about these issues now 250 years ago, 250 years later.

00:31:34.480 There's, I think, this frustration with Republican politicians who say all the right things,

00:31:43.020 but don't ever have a plan to do anything.

00:31:45.520 right and so the next time a republican tells you we're going to do this we're going to do

00:31:49.320 we need to stand up against ask them how how i'm not a politician i have i have zero political

00:31:57.260 experience i don't want to catfish anybody i was on tinder last week but i don't want to catfish

00:32:00.720 anybody i have zero political experience my experience comes from the private sector real

00:32:04.960 quick why were you on tinder you got to explain that one because otherwise my listeners and

00:32:10.920 myself are like gross. So I joined Tinder as a political candidate to quote, meet female voters

00:32:18.920 where they are. And I did it because I believe that if you're running for an office as important

00:32:26.400 as Florida governor, you have to break out of the political mainstream. You have to break into the

00:32:30.360 mainstream mainstream. And this announcement that I was joining Tinder, not in a let's pull chicks

00:32:37.400 way, but in a, let's meet women where they are, where they least expect us. Let's share our

00:32:42.320 policies for how we're going to make it easier for them to get married, to have kids, to raise a

00:32:47.060 family on a single income. That's what I want to get to. It got over 7 million views in 72 hours

00:32:55.000 and 4,000 matches. And of course, Tinder banned me. They didn't want a conservative campaigning

00:33:01.920 on their platform. But it was, I think, another example of our campaign doing things that are

00:33:09.300 edgy, that are actually just also common sense. Another thing is we're visiting every county's

00:33:14.620 Waffle House in Florida before the election. And why? Because you deserve a governor that you can

00:33:23.140 see, talk to, and in Waffle House's case, even yell at. I want people to see me where they are.

00:33:30.460 I don't use DoorDash. I don't have groceries delivered to my house. Even to this day that

00:33:37.340 I'm campaigning, I still drive myself. I enjoy being out there just who I am. I remember growing

00:33:44.800 up and walking to the grocery store with my sister and going with my grandmother and just

00:33:49.280 being kind of an independent kid. And that's the kind of person that I am to this day. And I credit

00:33:55.160 my parents for for raising me that way my sister that way i it's just natural for me like it's it's

00:34:03.700 not natural with all due respect to congressman donald's to go to waffle house perhaps it is

00:34:09.480 natural for him to cheat uh his uh at his wife you know behind his back behind her back joining

00:34:14.580 tinder but it's natural for me to show up at these places so i'll show up there and we most

00:34:19.660 recently when we were at saint pete and we had 70 people packed to a crowded waffle house on a

00:34:24.600 Tuesday night. And I was just taking questions. People would come for four or five minutes. They

00:34:28.120 would sit down. I was munching on different things and they would ask me questions and I

00:34:31.760 would just give them straight answers. We were live streaming it. We had about 10,000 people

00:34:34.880 tuning in on X and on Instagram. And it's just, it's a campaign that if I can sum up in one word,

00:34:41.160 it is motion, but it's also serendipity. It's fun. It is spontaneous. Our schedule is set,

00:34:52.320 but there's so much of our campaign that is free will that is just of the moment. Let's take,

00:34:57.480 let's do this. Let's just go. Let's just, let's be spontaneous. That's, I think how you, you need

00:35:02.520 to be as a, as a leader as well is okay, cool. We said we were going to do it this way, but really

00:35:08.100 what we committed to doing was getting it done. There are multiple ways to achieve that outcome.

00:35:13.500 Why are we obsessing merely over the legislative path to achieve that outcome? Have we also

00:35:19.300 entertained the executive action path? Have we also entertained the judicial path? Let's exhaust

00:35:25.200 every single option, but our commitment was to get the job done. How we get it done, you hired me to

00:35:29.900 do that, but you hired me to get it done. Let me and my team get it done for you, however we think

00:35:35.460 is best fit. Right. Well said. All right. Well, thank you. This has been a helpful episode. I

00:35:41.400 think we're getting more of a picture of who you are, your policies, what you stand for, what you're

00:35:48.220 campaigning on. And like with most politicians, the best that you can hope is that they govern

00:35:55.220 at least somewhat similar to how they campaign. And if that's the case with you, then I think

00:36:01.840 that Florida is in for a treat. I think that your campaign gives hope to American people where

00:36:08.740 they're at. It gives hope especially to American Christians wanting some semblance of righteousness

00:36:16.660 and integrity in politics and american politics once again and i'm hopeful i'm prayerful and i

00:36:24.960 hope that our listeners have benefited from this episode and i appreciate your time

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The NXR Podcast - April 08, 2026

THE SPECIAL - The America We Grew Up In Is Already Gone

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