#417 Nick Freitas - The War on Marriage

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🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Zuby is joined by family man, military veteran, former Green Beret, and author Nick Freitas. Nick shares stories from 27 years of marriage. The conversation digs into why marriage has been under cultural and political attack for nearly 200 years, the difference between freedom and responsibility, why victim mentality has become the currency of the modern West, the male revolt against feminism, the global birth rate crisis, and the most underrated piece of advice for raising kids

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0:00.0	What's up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls around the world. Welcome back to Real Talk with Zubi.
0:04.9	On today's episode, we have got a guest on who I've been following for many years, although I haven't had him on the podcast yet.
0:11.9	I've been looking forward to this one. He is a family man. He's an entrepreneur, a military veteran, an author, a public speaker.
0:20.0	This man does a lot of things.
0:41.2	And this is the one known only, Nick Freitas. Welcome to the show, man. No, thanks for having me on, Zubi. It's an honor. Awesome. Well, Nick, I know that a lot of my audience are going to already be familiar with you and your work. But for those who aren't, just give you a little intro. Sure. Well, you know, I've been married to my high school sweetheart for 27 years this past Friday.
0:45.5	We have three grown children now, two daughters and a boy.
0:50.9	Join the military rat at a high school, served with the 82nd Airborne Division, the 25th Infantry,
0:57.7	and then served with Army Special Forces, kind of colloquially known as Green Berets in Iraq, did a couple tours over in Iraq,
1:02.7	got out of the military and ended up running for public office like a moron and served 10 years in the state legislature in the Virginia House of Delegates,
1:08.9	which was a tremendous honor.
1:11.5	I actually got to represent James Madison's district, who's the father of our constitution. And when I was in
1:17.6	politics, I started to get involved more in social media, in part because I realized that the press was
1:21.9	never going to give me a fair shake or even quote me correctly. And I realized very quickly that if I actually wanted people to
1:29.5	understand what I was doing, what bills I was carrying, why I was voting the way I was, I was,
1:33.5	or just kind of what was going on behind the scenes in politics, I needed to go directly to the
1:38.0	people because I felt like the press had a real agenda. And so I started to learn very quickly
1:44.0	that there was definitely a hunger for that. And so I started to learn very quickly that there was definitely
1:45.5	a hunger for that. And so I've been doing social media ever since. And now it's something of a
1:51.4	full-time job for me, along with being a husband and a dad and other things. Yeah. Is social
1:57.6	media something you ever thought that you'd find yourself in?
2:01.4	No. No. I do remember I was in the I was in first Special Forces group in the early 2000s.
2:11.2	And I remember when I got my first Myspace account. And I thought, oh, this is this is kind of interesting, you know, and then Facebook.
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