#389 Xaviaer DuRousseau - Progressives Won't Like This
Real Talk with Zuby
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🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Zuby sits down with political commentator and activist Xaviaer DuRousseau. Xavier shares his transformative journey from liberal activism to becoming a prominent conservative voice online. He discusses the pivotal moments that reshaped his worldview, including going viral, confronting public backlash, and reflecting on personal struggles. The conversation also touches on family dynamics and the disillusionment with movements like BLM. Xaviaer also explores systemic disempowerment in minority communities and Xaviaer's vision for the future.
Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:47) Xaviaer's Early Life and Upbringing
(02:01) Activism and the Turning Point
(03:22) Going Viral and Building a Platform
(04:34) Family Dynamics and Political Shifts
(13:38) Public Backlash and Personal Struggles
(22:08) Reflecting on Rock Bottom
(22:45) Starting the Content Journey
(23:28) Facing Online Hate
(24:41) Motivation Behind Content Creation
(26:00) Entering the Conservative Space
(27:18) Disillusionment with BLM
(32:37) The Need for a Genuine Movement
(38:29) Systemic Disempowerment
(43:51) Future Aspirations
(45:32) Outro
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls around the world. I'd like to welcome you back to The Real Talk with Zubi podcast. On today's episode, we have got on a Prager You personality. He is a social, cultural, and political commentator. And this is Xavier D'Rousseau. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Xavier, for my listeners who may not be familiar with your work and your story, please introduce |
| 0:23.0 | yourself to my audience. |
| 0:24.3 | Of course. |
| 0:25.3 | So I'm Xavier de Rousseau. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm a media personality at Prager You. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm a host of a YouTube show called Respectfully Xavier. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm frequently on Fox News, Newsmax, Pierce Morgan, and in liberal heads rent-free. |
| 0:37.5 | Awesome. |
| 0:37.8 | So let's go way back. |
| 0:39.8 | I want to learn about your life story. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm curious to know how you got into the position that you're in right now. |
| 0:44.7 | So tell me about where you grew up and what that was like for you. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, so I was born in Southside, Chicago, Englewood. |
| 0:51.1 | My neighbor was Chief Keith, literally. |
| 0:53.0 | Really? |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.3 | Let's just start off the root there. Because I was a couple minutes from O'Block and like his, I don't know if it was or who it was, but we were childhood friends. I always say that. People think I'm joking. I'm like, no, like, that was the block. And I always say my parents fled Chicago like refugees. |
| 1:13.7 | We were like the fresh prince of Blair, but backwards. |
| 1:16.7 | We left south side Chicago because the crime was out of control. |
| 1:17.7 | Everything was chaotic. |
| 1:20.4 | And we moved to the middle of nowhere cornfields of central Illinois. |
| 1:26.3 | So growing up, it was like this culture shock where I would spend my summers and every other weekend in the hood of Chicago. |
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