John Regalado sits down with Zander Moricz, to revisit the most heated moments of his surrounded debate. They discuss Trans Youth, misinformation, and the future of LGBTQ+ politics. Follow our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jubilee Follow Zander Moricz & SEE Alliance: https://www.instagram.com/zandermoricz https://seeourpower.org https://x.com/zandermoricz Follow John Regalado: https://x.com/odalager_j https://www.youtube.com/@j_regalado Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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If I had come in swinging or if I had come in like, all right, conservatives, let's put you in pocket, you redneck hillbilly morons, then it would have been a disaster. It would have been a disaster.
From Jubilee Media, this is the Surrounded Podcast. I'm John Regalado, and this is our first follow-up episode. I will be interviewing Xander. He was at the center of last week's episode of Surrounded. He debated 25 conservatives focused on LGBTQ plus issues. And I will be asking Xander what the experience was like from his perspective.
And we'll be digging into some of the most heated and interesting moments of debate throughout the episode. So let's get into it. Xander, thank you for being here. John, thank you for having me. So this is the first official follow-up, which is... Come on, debut. Yeah, debut. So yeah, the intention of this pod is trying to get to a human level and finding a comfortable way to hold disagreements.
And yeah, you... You definitely gave that your all in the episode of Surrounded you were in, which I've watched. You haven't seen the footage yet. You don't know what the comments are going to be. It's going to be pretty heated and intense, but I'm curious how you feel about the experience and just how it's sitting with you right now.
Yeah, it was a really interesting experience. And it was obviously intense, but it was also really enlightening. These conversations are conversations I have every single day at Sea Alliance. And so I was very prepared to deal with that type of opposition and that type of emotion.
And I think what I wasn't expecting was people being so vulnerable and being so willing to talk after the conversation and have aha moments and make concessions or just... move on some of the issues. There's some people who are going to appear on the show that people already know, you know, such as Ben Shapiro. You were admittedly like a new face, a new name to me. How did you get into this work?
Yeah, I'm Florida grown. I grew up in Sarasota. I have been organizing since I was 15. I founded C Alliance or Social Equity through Education Alliance as a club at my high school. It was really focused on how do young people, how do students get a better grip into and control over local politics. We were kicked off of campus very quickly, which...
checks out and we decided, okay, we're either going to disband or we're going to pivot and we're going to become something new. And we decided to become a community organization. And what we found is that school boards are the best place to build power. They're winnable. They center young people and they result in electoral gains in all other levels of government too.
And so by starting in a school board, creating momentum in a school board, winning in a school board, you're setting the path to do so up the ballot. And we started having a lot of success and we started winning and we started making really powerful relationships. And so things just really spiraled up and the momentum has kept going.
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