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CJP #28: Mark Davis (FL-16) · Coconut Justice

• speaker-0: Hey, what's good? Mark Davis is a United States Air Force veteran, a small business owner, a wonderful family man, and is a man hellbent on fixing that little twitch that happens in your body every time a story begins with, and in other news, a Florida man. Mark Davis is running for the US House of Representatives for Florida's 16th district. C4 Explosives joins me in this conversation with Mark Davis. Before we get into it, remember to go to Coconutjustice.com to get you some clothes that I think would look good on you. Let's go. Hey everybody, welcome back. ⁓ this conversation is gonna happen with a young man. And ⁓ we're gonna we're gonna figure out if he gets nervous when when the news reports say a man from Florida does fill in the blank. You guys, welcome to the channel, Mark Davis. speaker-1: Hey y'all. How's it going guys? Appreciate you having me. speaker-0: Welcome to the channel. You know him. You know, you know him. You love him. There he is. C4 explosives, y'all. speaker-2: What's cracking y'all? You're too kind, Carlos. You're too speaker-0: I have to be patient with you guys from Florida because I think I don't know. I don't know what it is about Florida. Y'all be tripping. So my first question is exactly that. Mark, do you get nervous when people start a story with Florida man blank? speaker-1: Not anymore, man. You know what? I'm what I'm trying to do is trying to reinvent the Florida man. All right. And we're trying to bring ⁓ a little bit of common sense, a little bit of decency ⁓ back to the Florida man. So I actually embrace it. Yeah, I'll I'll take I'll take it. You call me Florida man, all right? I'm the new Florida man. speaker-0: Between between ⁓ were you born in Florida? You originally speaker-2: There we go. There we go. speaker-1: Beat. No. I w I was the ⁓ I was originally born in Indiana. That's where I was born. speaker-0: That's why you're cool. All right. All right. Yeah. You guys might hey India Indiana might be taking our bears. speaker-1: Yeah. Yeah. I know, man. speaker-2: ⁓ no. speaker-0: That'll be the worst decision the McCaskies have ever made. speaker-1: Well did you see the ⁓ DC IU football team college? They're undefeated right now, ranked number one. Whoa. Okay. speaker-0: Yeah, Indiana's a machine when it comes to making athletes. speaker-1: Yeah, yeah, football and and ⁓ basketball. Yeah. So I I grew up there. I lived there for about ⁓ twenty twenty-seven years, I think. ⁓ and from there I was in the military and while I was in the military, I was in the airport. What were you in? speaker-0: Well yeah. ⁓ boy. Boy. I was army. I I actually did real real army stuff. speaker-1: Yeah. Yeah. I was talking to I was just I just did a a ⁓ a coffee meeting with a three time Trump supporter. Okay. And ⁓ he reached out to me and he said, Hey and I don't know if you if you know my videos, ⁓ but I'm not very sensitive to MAGA at all. I'm kind of right going right through the chest of MAGA. ⁓ but anyway, he reached out to me and he said, you know, I wanna I wanna I'm tired of Trump. And he was a three time Trump supporter. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-1: And we sat down and he's voting for me. ⁓ you know, for for Congress. So that was that was pretty special. But ⁓ but it but anyway, and and and but ⁓ he he was in the air force, so we started talking about the air force and how ⁓ how great that branch is, and we we did come to an agreement that the air force is the best military branch. So I don't know. It's not speaker-0: C4, hey, C4, you see what he did, right? He said I sat down with someone from the Air Force and we concluded that Air Force is the best. speaker-1: Yeah. ⁓ speaker-2: Get the fly, man. Come on, man. They fly. They had a topka. speaker-0: Hey, what what is hey, what is Indiana public school system like? They make you not see the light. speaker-1: Idiot. We're not we're not we're not with this part in Indiana. We're we're just ⁓ homegrown farm boys, you know. We don't really we don't really know much, but ⁓ yeah but yeah man, but but ⁓ let me tell you a quick story about the army and the air force and then we'll get back on it. But I was I was at a location, it was like a training. I think I think we were in Bulk Field, if I remember right, which is in Wisconsin. But anyway, ⁓ it was rainy, okay, and we were with the army and there was the air force there, okay? And there was mud it right and on the air force side we decided to lay down pallets so that we didn't have to walk through the mud right and then on the army side they just walked through the fucking mud you know so that's kind of that's kind of the difference speaker-0: join the army. Why else did you join the army? Play in mud and shoot things. What are you kidding me? Did you break a nail when you went over those pallets? speaker-1: Yeah. Okay. ⁓ I probably did. I probably did, yeah. Air Force. No. ⁓ learned I learned a lot. speaker-0: IT's thank you for your service. IT speaker-1: I appreciate it. I appreciate it. ⁓ but while but while I was in the military, ⁓ I was kind of built a career. ⁓ I was going to school. ⁓ I worked for a company called Menards. You're probably not familiar with Menards. ⁓ it's kind of a midway speaker-0: Money Whitman Nar. We're both from Chicago, man. speaker-2: We're we're both from Chicago. speaker-1: Yeah, yeah. So Menard's is all over Chicago. speaker-0: Then we had to deal with Indiana people all the time too. speaker-1: Yeah. ⁓ so I worked for corporate menard, so I ran like ⁓ one of the departments for the entire company and was in charge of about like one point three billion dollars worth of business and sat across from the CEO. I knew John Menard, ⁓ flew on private jets, all that good stuff, and I lived there for about 10 years and then we moved to Florida about three and a half, four years ago. So that's that's where we're at now. speaker-0: So you had a lot of really good things going for you and then you moved to Florida. speaker-1: Yeah, yeah. Well it's interesting because ⁓ so my parents my parents live in in Florida, in Parish, Florida where I live. And ⁓ we moved down here so my my kids could be closer to their grandparents and I did well at Menards and I was ready just to kind of, you know, move down to where I thought was paradise, you know. And this was this was ⁓ after Biden had won. ⁓ and I would never had imagined that Trump was gonna win again. I mean, we're talking about a man that, you know, tried to steal the election, that is a cr a 34 time criminal, is a proven rapist. There's a really good suspicion that he raped children. I mean, and then this man won again, right? And ⁓ and that's what ⁓ just kind of set me off. And ⁓ I just kind of snapped one day and just started firing off on the internet and was able to to grow my following base pretty large. So we're ⁓ we're kind of using that platform and kind of ⁓ taking it to hopefully win or will win the congressional seats in District sixteen. So speaker-2: So what was that transition like to go into politics that like 'cause I mean you're you're already pissed off and you're already building a platform where you're like, My might as well stand on my platform and handle business? I mean like speaker-1: Yeah, and it it was it became something that I couldn't even like if if I wasn't doing this right now, I'd be going crazy. It's all I think about. And people say, you know, you have TDS. Yeah, sure, whatever. I got Trump derangement syndrome. Who cares? Because if you don't have Trump Derangement syndrome, you're not you're not right. Yeah, exactly. You're not paying attention. So ⁓ so if I wasn't doing this, in all honesty, I wouldn't I'd I'd I would be going crazy. So speaker-0: You're not paying attention. speaker-1: I ⁓ decided that either I'm just gonna go crazy or I'm going to invest all my time and and build a movement. Right. And and that's what I decided to do. And and and I don't are you guys familiar with the platform threads? Threads, like ⁓ yeah, it's like the ⁓ Twitter version of ⁓ Facebook. speaker-2: Jiller says you're the king of threads, man. speaker-1: Yeah, man. I'm like, I'm not but I was tearing it up. So I just started to to just blast off on threads, right? And then about six months later I had like 50,000 followers. And then on Facebook now I I'm I'm approaching 50,000 followers. On Instagram, I got 40,000. On TikTok, I got 12,000. So we're approaching over 200,000 followers right now. And we're getting ⁓ like 30 million views a month. speaker-0: ⁓ how many constituents would you be serving once you take office? speaker-1: So we would we would be covering all of Manatee. Okay, all of Manatee County and then just a little bit of ⁓ Hillsboro. So just a little sliver of Hillsboro. But that's of now. And then it sounds like DeSantis is talking about redoing the congressional maps in April again, I guess. speaker-0: Yeah, I heard something about that. He's not even apparently he's trying to combat what ⁓ I'm in California and Newsom put that up on the ballot and it and it passed overwhelmingly. Right. And apparently Ron DeSantis wants to put his cute little white boots into the mix. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So he's talking about doing that. Because if you're because if your platform what I've learned is if you're a politician and your platform is very robust and is going to make a lot of change, what you want to do is move things around because everything you say makes sense and everything you say is gonna work. So then you have to play tricks, right? speaker-1: Yeah, I Yeah, that's I mean, I think that's what Donald Trump has been doing this entire time. He's been trying to put his people into high election rolls, you know. He's if you pay attention to what he's doing to the midterms alone, he is doing some devastating devastating things already to the midterms. ⁓ but yeah, what what what what what what Florida is doing and what Rhonda Santis is is talking about doing ⁓ going against California, you know, California went against Texas. So I mean that that's that's a wash theirs. In my opinion, all they're trying to do is force a win when they know they have a very hard road ahead of them. And I don't and I don't care if they're in the the reddest of states right now, they are shitting bricks because they have no agenda. They are all rubber stamping one man's ⁓ policies. So and and if they're not popular, they're not popular. So they're gonna try to cheat to win. And I and I what I say is bring it on. I don't care. You could chop up the state however you want to do it. I'm gonna win because I am talking to the people. Yes. And I'm talking exactly about what the people want. speaker-0: And that's why we've and that's why we've been developing this format is because we wanna hear directly from you. We don't wanna hear bullet points, we don't wanna hear what Fox News told you or what Heritage Foundation told you to say. We don't want that. speaker-1: No, and people are tired of that. And people and I think that's that's one of the reasons that my social media has done so well is that I'm I'm authentic, right? And I'm just saying what I feel like saying. And a lot of it is I'm saying what a lot of people don't ⁓ feel like they can say. So I'm speaking up for people that don't have a voice, you know. ⁓ people are tired of the polished politician, people are tired of the perfectly trimmed and the ⁓ scholastic, all the the the graduates and all this stuff. You know, people just want real honest family people in there and workers and people that give a damn about the country. When did it ever come that you had to be a freaking lawyer or a doctor or something, you know, like this why why do you need this speaker-0: But that's just it. But that's just it, right? It's it's more it's more than it's more than your profession. It's the fact that you're part of this kids' club, this cool kids club, right? All of these folks are going to the same schools. And so I've I've noticed or I'm I'm convinced that it doesn't matter if you're a plumber, if you're if you're a lawyer, any of that stuff, as long as you went to that school and you made those bonds with those. Kids over there, they're pulling each other up. And so that's why we continue to see the same politicians. We if it's not them, it's their kids or their best friends and their best friends' kids. So it's not necessarily what they do for a living more than the parties that they go to. speaker-1: Yes, exactly. And and I think ⁓ what what you guys are doing, you know, ⁓ is trying to spread the grassroot movement and and get people out in front of the camera and what what social media has is being able to do, I think we're kind of breaking that down a little bit, right? And people are I don't know if if ⁓ you guys probably see the same thing when you when you do social media, the more authentic and truthful that you are on that video or whatever you said, people will resonate with it, you know, and a lot of times people post something and then say, ⁓ Facebook is is ⁓ you know, trying to push back my views or something didn't work and that's Facebook's fault or it's Fred's fault or whatever. No, you d whatever you said didn't resonate with the person that wanted to like and share, you know? So the more honest that you can be, the more truthful and vulnerable that you can be to people, the more that they'll appreciate and trust what you say. speaker-2: That's a lot of the lot of people that we've had on the show. ⁓ Russell Russell Cleveland out of Montana, ⁓ Kaya Creekmore out of North Carolina, ⁓ Karen Ortiz out of New York, ⁓ like and and yourself, Bernard Taylor, all all of speaker-0: Matt Gromlik, who's running for ⁓ Mike Johnson's Mike Johnson's seat. Shout out to him too. speaker-2: They're they're people peop they're people pe pleasers. Like they're the people. They're of the people. They understand what's going on down in the sh down here in the community. They're not they're not these these ⁓ these these politicians that are sitting there for decades and they're being fed money from APAC and all these other places. And they they worry about the people in the community because those are the people that they wanna actually represent and make change for. ⁓ the the people that are disingenuous, ⁓ I'm sure your opposition is the same, they're gonna go out and say they're gonna run some mad campaigns and they'll say vote for me and then the and then they're gonna trash you and then they're they know they know jack shit about you. ⁓ but if the people that you're reaching out to on these platforms, your platform and wherever you're connecting to, you're you're spreading the seeds and those seeds are gonna grow. And no matter where they gerrymander the line, they're though those people are gonna say, Hey. it's gonna spread and and the people you're connecting with are connecting with the people that they know. So it's an actual genuine organic growth. And once once all these grassroots candidates are actually in place, then change is gonna be made and and these people are terrified of what's going on right now. speaker-1: Yeah, they're but they're very scared. ⁓ you know, and and I'm running against Vern Buchanan in my district. And I think he's been the Congress person for sixteen years straight now. And you know, and ⁓ obviously a Republican. But he he's he's worth somewhere like nine hundred million dollars and he lives on Longboat P that and he lives on like a like an island, ⁓ almost a private island, you know, that where all the rich people live. And He's so out of touch, you know. speaker-0: Let me get yeah, let me let me cut in real quick. Hey, everybody in Florida's 16th Dick District. How many of you have a boat, a yacht, all those things? How many times have you been invited to the parties that this dude is throwing? How many times have you seen him at the grocery store? speaker-1: Never. Discovery. speaker-0: Yeah. He's disconnected. speaker-1: Well, I mean we're we're begging him to do a town hall and he won't leave his office, you know. But but he posted he posted on Facebook the other day that this is how out of touch these these guys are. He posted on Facebook the other day that the big beautiful bill that they passed is gonna save you up to twenty-nine thousand dollars on your taxes. Okay. And I was like, wait a minute, it might save you burn twenty-nine thousand on dollars on their taxes. speaker-0: But a of people. I'm not even making $29,000 a year. ⁓ speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-1: Like what are you talking about? Save twenty-nine thousand dollars. speaker-2: Are you are you still in for your dose check? speaker-1: Yeah, exactly. How touch these people are, right? And I just pop in and I say, This doesn't make any sense, Bern, and I you know, and then like all of a sudden my comment gets fifty likes and his comment barly has any likes, you know. So ⁓ I don't know, man. I I feel it. I feel I feel the pulse out there that people are ⁓ starting to realize the truth, starting to realize that this Trump administration is crooked as get out, that they're corrupt. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-1: that they're not about America first. ⁓ so you know, I mean you could sit here and be shitty all day and be upset about what's going on in the world, which I am obviously, but it just gives you so much such a good feeling when you're actually out there doing something about it and and you start to see some positivity, you know. speaker-2: That's a big thing that I've seen in a lot of these candidates, man. Purpose, passion, joy. there's like ⁓ a reinvigoration of like there's a spark of hope. You know what I'm saying? Like and it's it it's great to see 'cause every all all these all these guys on in MAGA and the career politicians are all doom and gloom and everything's like ⁓ they're everybody's ⁓ we're all they're all just saying they're all just shitting on the whole side of that we're trying like our grass. Hey, you know what Well you know what happens when you sit in the grass? Like you're fertilizing it. So like go ahead, keep keep it coming. We're it man. You're in you're in ⁓ Bradington too, right? Your area? speaker-1: Yes. Yeah, right in your brain then. speaker-2: I got a lot of people in Bradington, so we're gonna I'm gonna start circuling this out. Bradington, Brandon, ⁓ that whole little area. So cool. Go ahead. speaker-1: And it's No, I just gonna say it it's been an interesting ride because ⁓ my posts that I do on Facebook and Instagram and all that are very ⁓ they're short, direct, and right through the chest of MAGA, like I was saying. ⁓ but really, I mean realistically, I'm just a pretty even field guy, you know. So it's interesting that that such aggressive behavior online. The largest group of followers that are at that I have right now are women over the age of 65. speaker-0: I saw that post this morning. speaker-1: Yeah. Yeah. And these women are are coming out swinging. You know, like if you just see it and I've I've had I've had ⁓ parties at my house ⁓ invited ⁓ you know like minded people over to talk about the campaign and stuff like that. And I would say the majority of the people that that attend those are women, you know, and then when you go to Democrat functions, when you go to different type of political functions, it seems like they're always led by women and and it just seems like women, you know, have seen it over the years. They've seen their rights then get rights and rights be taken away. And and right now they're on that that downslide of seeing that, whoa, some of my rights are getting taken away and they're not happy. speaker-0: Yeah. ⁓ so you said that your opponent has been in office for you said sixteen years. Yeah. Give MAGA a shot to the chest. What's your what's your stance on term limits? speaker-1: I think it's sixteen, yeah. ⁓ I'm 100% on term limits. So and I say this because like I feel such a such a passion right now to make change. Okay. And I did not feel that passion last year. Yeah, I think it started last year. I didn't feel that passion two years ago. I didn't feel it four years ago or 10 years ago. Okay. I'm not sure if I'm gonna feel that passion 10 years from now. Right. I might be the country might be in better shape and maybe my passion goes away that I I need to fight so hard, right? What I'm saying is I am passionate right now, right? That I want to see change, I want to make change. That's who you need in Congress, are new passionate people, right? And a necessity because if you do anything for X amount of years, it no longer becomes a passion, it becomes a job. And when you treat it like a job, then you're gonna be influenced from outside sources that speaker-0: Please. speaker-1: your passion would would fight right through, right? So if you put passionate people into office, put new people into office and get rid of those old people. speaker-2: I know. speaker-0: And then going to talking about the responsibilities of a member of the House of Representatives, if you have a representative that lives in that area and that wants to make change for the people in that area, it's clear. But if you're going into it as a business person and you have business interests, speaker-1: Mm. speaker-0: What do you think y they're gonna represent? speaker-1: Right. speaker-0: Are they gonna help you? This is this is directly to the people in your area. Do you think a business person who is focused on being a successful business person is going to represent you the right way? Or do you want someone from your neighborhood who goes to your grocery stores? I'm assuming, Mark, that you don't have a huge boat. speaker-1: I don't have any boat. speaker-0: Okay. That being said, do you think Mark is going to take time to like maybe improve schools and then like take a look at all of the things that you guys are struggling with in that area? Or do you think a business person is going to say, buy more things and pull yourself up by the bootstraps? speaker-2: Being said. ⁓ speaker-1: Right. Yeah, it's ⁓ I mean, and Vern Buchanan specifically on this point is such he's almost a billionaire and he's so out of touch. And I don't know if you guys know about the school problems in Florida, but we have this huge problem with with our schooling in Florida. And ⁓ Michael, I don't know how old your kids are. You said ⁓ how old's your kid? speaker-2: Thirteen and seventeen. speaker-1: Thirteen, seventeen. So yeah, you're right there. ⁓ but our public schools are awful, right? And they're funding, they're underfunded. speaker-0: Branding books. Are you crazy? speaker-1: Right. Yeah. And the the teachers are are sick of it. And you it would be how many teachers are supporters of mine right now, especially in in Parish Morda. ⁓ is unbelievable. Those teachers hate MAGA. But anyway, ⁓ the the public schools to put your kid ⁓ through baseball or like I'm doing with my daughter with cheerleading, it just costs an arm and a leg, right? Like Thousands and thousands of dollars. Everything does. When I was a kid and I wanted to do schools or sports at schools, my parents could hand me 20 bucks and I'm good for like a year, right? Here, like it's thousands and thousands of dollars. Everything you do, it's because everything is so spread out and there's no funding for anything, right? Yeah. ⁓ so now they got this thing called the schools of hope that they're passed. They they already passed kind of like in the middle of the night in Florida, and it's a way for private schools to infiltrate. public schools for free. Okay. And these private schools that are privately funded, that ⁓ you know, the profits go to a private company, are allowed to go inside of public schools, set up shop without paying the public schools anything, and teach those private students in the same schools as our public students. So they have a different curriculum, they have a different mindset. They speaker-0: They're in the same building. speaker-1: They're walking the same halls and and they're and they're they're using the public school's facilities and they're not paying for it. speaker-0: Have you have you had the opportunity to talk to any of the teachers that work on the private side of this argument? speaker-1: I have not. I would love to to see what ⁓ what they think that how they think that's a good idea. speaker-0: 'cause that's stealing. Just to be clear, that's stealing. You're going in, you're basically what's it called when when people ⁓ when people stay in a house that's sh not shacking. Whatever. speaker-2: Yeah, that's wild. speaker-1: Yeah. Were they overstay their welcome? speaker-0: And they just stay there and then like all of a sudden they get to keep the house squatting. This is like s scholastic squatting. speaker-1: Yeah. Yeah, no joke. It's it's weird, right? And then, you know, it's just and the the a lot of these private schools have ⁓ agendas that may or are just be different from normal public schools, right? It just is what it is. So now these kids, how do they interact correctly? They're not even in the same school, you know, one of them might be more religious or you know, it's just it's just bizarre, it's weird, it doesn't make sense. And there's so many policies like that that are coming down from MAGA. that are coming down from Republicans, that are coming down from Florida, that just do not make any sense whatsoever. They're not thought through. There's no thought put into policy at all. We just need to get away from this whole my MAGA mindset and just get back to reality. speaker-0: Truly, because breaking a school system, breaking all of these ⁓ social safety nets, that's not America first. That's business people first. That's private schools first. That's not that's not gonna make America great. You know what I'm saying? speaker-2: That shit is infuriating. ⁓ my God. I got you know it like they it's bad enough they want to divide everything, but when you're going to school with somebody that like like I'm going to class and the next thing you know they're going off into a little little area and they come you know what I'm saying? And you know I you know speaker-0: They have their own little lunch area. They don't want to hang out with the poor's speaker-2: Yeah, it's like maybe. And it mean you know, it's it's bad, like as a parent as a parent, you know, they there's functions, you know, you go they got a Christmas concerts and shit like that, and then next next thing you know, the parents are talking. I can only imagine if if someone says slips up and says the wrong thing, how mu how much how much like, you know, my my wife will will will go down to the office and raise hell and go to the board and like it doesn't stop. You know, just like Mark with this with his campaign. She will flip every table in in the building until she gets an answer. And I I can only I can only imagine. I could only imagine like man, this is fucked up. speaker-1: ⁓ that's insane. And then, you know, I mean and then like you were saying, the the different class like ⁓ wealth, right? And what the problem is when you s when you take ⁓ wealthy children, I hate to say wealthy children, but you know, wealthy families away from public schools, there goes that money, right? That that they would donate. There goes but but also there goes opportunity for less fortunate children, right? Because the less fortunate children get The benefits of more fortunate children in public schools. And that's just how it works. Yeah. Right. And that's how we lift up our our our environment. Our speaker-0: how you make a that's how you that's how you develop a child to not be that much of a douchebag you expose them you expose them to to the the the folks that can't go to private school and then hopefully if that child that that's going to the private school half of the school hey hey dum dum your parents are stealing from the public speaker-1: Right. Yeah. speaker-0: Anyway, moving back to you have to expose people to different cultures and different things. So you see that it's not that scary. speaker-2: In plain sight. speaker-1: Right. Yeah. Yeah. speaker-0: Was it like half hour ago, 45 minutes ago? Mark, you didn't know me from a a box of Ritz crackers. You didn't know me from anything. But if someone told you there's this dude that's from Chicago that might have a little bit of an attitude, you get a little nervous. But now that you know me, you're like, this dude is cool. Well, hopefully you'd be like, This coolest dude. This dude is cool as hell. speaker-1: Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I mean you're just gonna have a bunch of Steven Millers running around, you know. ⁓ speaker-0: It's just that simple. I can't wait. I can't wait to get him in a celebrity boxing match. speaker-1: my god. speaker-0: He is the w my mouth salivates, no diddy for that dude, no diddy. speaker-1: Every time I look at him it's just like a like a gooey, messy ⁓ speaker-0: I say hey, I say he l he looks like a ⁓ a plastic bag full of mashed potatoes. speaker-2: A little mini me face on it. speaker-1: I shared a ⁓ I shared a video the other day of him when he was like seventeen or eighteen and he was talking about how in the future we need to get to torturing other countries and torture is good as long as just some crazy Nazi psychotic shit, you know. It's a crazy piece of shit. speaker-0: And he's Jewish. speaker-1: Yeah. Unreal. Unreal. Yeah, that guy is speaker-0: How wild is it that we live on a timeline where you have a Jewish dude talking exactly like the people that killed his people? speaker-1: Mm, yeah. Yeah, did you hear his speech ⁓ when he when he gave up after Charlie Kirk's ⁓ death? speaker-0: You don't build anything. You don't make anything. I bet I can I can I bet I can make my foot go up your ass. speaker-1: Yeah. ⁓ man. Yeah, there's one person like to have in a room. speaker-2: His wife just as nasty too, man. His na his wife is just as nasty. And she tried to go on all these talk shows. ⁓ speaker-0: Upset because she stuck with his ass. speaker-2: S she's like, ⁓ you don't like me, so you don't like any Jews. And it's like, wait a minute. Like, hold on. Pump the brakes. Pump the brakes. What do you the little trigger there I see? I can't I could only imagine what a a kid like if they're having dinner together, what that conversation is like. It's just rid ⁓ It makes me sick. Makes me feel like Ace Venturio when he found out Einhorn was a man. speaker-0: Yeah. ⁓ speaker-2: This is dirty. speaker-0: And if that's your thing, that's cool. Just don't surprise don't surprise people with it. speaker-1: Let me ask you a question, Carlos. You being you being in ⁓ California. Okay. What what part of California are you in? Okay. speaker-0: Up north. Northern California. Yeah. speaker-1: So you kinda got a little bit more of a liberal viewpoint than we do here in Florida. When you look at Florida, like what what what do you think? Do you think Purdue's gonna fall off the map or like what what are you guys thinking of? speaker-0: ⁓ I'm gonna tell you the truth. I couldn't wait to use this line. You're you might be the first person that actually asked me a really good question like this. California is looking at the entire rest of the country. Understand this the fourth largest ⁓ economy in the world, and I believe we're creeping up on three now. California, they want to help because they can help. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. speaker-0: But if you red states continue to fuck around and this whole thing falls apart, we're gonna be straight. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. speaker-0: We're gonna be straight. The fourth largest economy in the world don't give two shits if this thing falls apart. Now, when we look at Florida, Florida to us, well, depending on who you talk to, ⁓ obviously there's this sibling rivalry between California and Texas. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. speaker-0: But like Florida is like the little brother that doesn't shut the fuck up. You understand when we're done with the big brother, you understand we're coming for you. speaker-1: Yeah. ⁓ that's fucking. Yeah, yeah, we don't know how to shut the fuck up. speaker-0: And that's just it. And that's just it. Like we Coming from the ⁓ and and I don't even consider myself like there's there's liberalism is is a spectrum. because there's folks out here that they want to feed the planet and then the other ones that are like that financially dumb. But then we look at Florida and we're like, it's just it's just a bunch of kids playing in mud. And with speaker-1: And the sad the sad thing the sad thing about Florida is that it's such a beautiful place. And speaker-0: ⁓ It is so fun there. speaker-1: It's so much fun. You can go anywhere at any time. Yep. You know, if I wanted to jump in the pool right now, I could. speaker-0: The food is delicious. speaker-1: Food is so good, like the environment, Miami, you know. anyway, it's it's just it's a beautiful place to be. And and and a lot of the people speaker-0: Beautiful boats, you know, all those rich people that continue to run for office for sixteen years that have those big ass boats, they live out there. That's pretty cool. speaker-1: they do. ⁓ but I couldn't say enough, you know, just about being here just makes you feel younger and more vibrant, you know. ⁓ but like we just gotta get rid of this MAGA problem and w we're gonna get rid of them. I think they're just going to like I said, the other ⁓ the other earlier I had a ⁓ I had a lunch with a three time Trump supporter and he he reached out to me and we went over some issues and went back and forth on email and he said he wanted to talk to me. So we went to Starbucks and we had a coffee and he voted for Trump three times in a row and he is done with Trump, you know. So ⁓ I I I don't know man. I I feel I feel positive. There's a lot of there's a lot of people in comments that that say stupid shit, but you talk to people and you break them down. People are pretty much at right in the center, most people, right? Yeah. And they wanna get rid of the far right nonsense and they even the far left nonsense, right? They just wanna get back to some sort of normalcy. And I think I honestly think that we're gonna get there. So speaker-0: Let me ask you the reverse of that. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Let me ask you the reverse of that. Coming from Florida, when you look at California, what do you guys see? speaker-1: that's a good man, I should have thought about that before I asked you my question. speaker-0: ⁓ Take your time. I'm here all day. speaker-1: No, no, that honestly, I mean when I when I look at ⁓ California, like when when I s when I started this fight like eleven months ago or whatever it was, and I had zero followers eleven months, I saw people, ⁓ you guys maybe not know him, like attorney Ryan. He's out in California and he was posting some stuff and ⁓ you know obviously Mark Ruffalo and I a lot of the posts that I saw. that got my my ⁓ me fired up to get going, you know, came out from the West, you know. So I kind of looked to California and then you had Gavin Newsom that was the first one to hold up the mirror against Donald Trump, you know, and do that. So I kind of look to California as kind of like our last hope. And like, hey, you guys, the it's California, right? And They've had issues obviously with homelessness and blah, blah, blah. But they're the fourth largest economy. People love it, love it out there in California. speaker-0: Do you guys have problems with homelessness? speaker-1: Yeah. Yeah. speaker-0: Crazy, right? But no crazy, right? speaker-1: But not would you don't and I don't know, and and and Michael maybe I don't see it that often. I don't see it that often, do you? speaker-2: So what I see is there there is a homeless problem, but ⁓ what happened is that a lot of the people that move down here to retire can't afford to live here anymore. Right. So what they well so what they decided to do was leave. I've seen I've seen a lot of that. Or they're or they're trying to get into like renting rooms and stuff like that. They're they're they're actively trying to they're not helping any and at any any point whatsoever these people's lives that are homeless or capping rent or anything like that. And a lot of a lot of them have decided to leave. I've noticed. And that's why there's the seasons aren't here anymore like they used to, at least on the East Coast. There's a lot of snowbirds that would fly down, come down for six months, and that's not really here. ⁓ so that's what I've noticed. speaker-1: And then and then and then Carlos ⁓ on the opposite side, you know, we do see that. We do see the homelessness and we do see the constant ⁓ drug problems or whatever ⁓ that we're just blasted with on who knows if it's real, but we're blasted with it in the news and on social media. You know, so so that is a little bit of a barrier for for Floridians to look at California and say help us too, you know, because right because they don't get that. So there's you gotta be purple, you go too far. speaker-0: Let me the so the homelessness in LA is crazy. Like they have a whole that that skid road thing. That's that's real. Yeah. But you have to look at the ⁓ and to and ⁓ and I live close to San Francisco, and in San Francisco, yes, we do have homeless people, we do have people struggling with drugs and all that stuff. But what they don't tell you in Florida is here in San Francisco. We have robots that will drive you instead of an Uber, whatever. We'll we have a robot that will take you from here to there, right? We also have robots that go around two, three, four o'clock in the morning sweeping the streets. So yeah. ⁓ from what I understand, almost all homeless people poop in the streets, but at least San Francisco has robots that clean that stuff. speaker-1: Mm. That's good. That's fantastic. Yeah. speaker-0: In LA, you have to look at a lot of the external things that are happening. People have rushed to LA to be a movie star and a singer and all that stuff. But then what might happen is, you know, you're on a shoestring budget and and people are working, doing doing ⁓ their waiting tables and doing all that stuff, waiting for a gig to kick in, right? But what we're finding out is All of those jobs that you could be doing for the film industry, all of those jobs have gone overseas. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. speaker-0: There's a lot of lot of jobs that we Americans could be doing, but you have to pay us a living wage. So what they do is they go overseas. So now everyone is looking for a job. They're all overseas. Now you can't pay your rent. Now you have to get out. Now what do you do? speaker-1: Yeah, yeah. speaker-0: If I didn't have enough money to to pay my rent, I don't know if I have enough money for a U Haul to take my ass back to wherever I have where I don't have a job there either. speaker-1: You can speaker-0: Can't just point at homeless people and say, ⁓ look, that homeless person is dirty and does drugs and all this stuff. You have to look at the external influences that made that person get there. speaker-1: Yep. And we're we're gonna have to do something about AI because that's gonna exasperate the problem, you know. And we haven't really Yeah. I mean we we haven't really addressed that as a as a government, you know, about what are we going to do when everybody loses their job? Because there's gonna be a lot of people out there. speaker-0: I was in Florida at the end of twenty twenty-five. And I was having these conversations with people that live in Florida. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. speaker-0: And I said ⁓ they the the the the person said something about robots aren't even close to to taking our jobs. I said, ⁓ back when in 2020 six, seven, eight, I was still in Chicago working at a huge advertising agency. and then somehow I got to work on some McDonald's stuff. And then I got to go to the McDonald's restaurant where you just walk in with a credit card. You you yourself tap the buttons and then machines make the food and then you go grab your bag and you go sit your ass down. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. speaker-0: So you tell me how AI and robots haven't affected your your jobs. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. speaker-0: It's ridiculous. speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-0: So yeah, AI AI is AI is coming in and and they they all gas no brakes. speaker-1: ⁓ and it's I do you guys use it at all? Do you guys use AI? speaker-0: I use AI to replace C level managers. I build business plans. I build all that stuff, you know, because what's funny is those C level managers and the CEOs and CFOs and all those, all those guys will tell you the creatives and the people that are actually doing the work are lazy, they're stupid, they're dumb, they're not worth it, and all this stuff. Your president said that. speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-0: MAGA, your president said that you're dumb and you're stupid. speaker-1: Yeah, so speaker-0: yeah, be ready to be replaced with AI. speaker-1: Yeah, it just seems like so much is being consolidated there. Like ⁓ I don't you I don't really use Chrome as much like Google as much as I did. Just so easy, just so fast, you know, they tell you everything. No. It's it's cool, but I worry about it. Yeah. Would you find it? speaker-0: Right. And it's nice. Like if you ⁓ you talk to to Chat GPT and it's like, ⁓ that's a great idea. I'm like, never have I ever heard those words from people that I talk to. speaker-1: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's unreal. ⁓ speaker-2: Why I got a question. Well I noticed on your ⁓ on your profile that you're running as an independent or a non affiliate party affiliate. Well what what's the reason b what's what's ⁓ the reason behind that? speaker-1: So ⁓ to be honest, the real reason is because you have to in Florida, you have to be a registered Democrat three hundred and sixty five days before qualifications, to be able to run as a Democrat. And I was an NPA when I came to Florida, ⁓ because I was in business and I didn't want people to know I was a Democrat. And so I I I went to NPA because it's so easy for you to look up if people are a Democrat in Florida. Or what their party affiliation is. But anyway, I was late to switch it over. I didn't do it until like April or something. And I had to be like in March. ⁓ so I had to run as a NPA, but it's kind of ⁓ beneficial because I've been able to talk to a lot of Republicans that are not gonna vote for a Democrat, you know, and for whatever reason, ⁓ you know, even though I'm a Democrat, but it's you know, I'm running as NPA, they're willing to Talk to me at least, you know. So it's been I'm getting a a lot of different support from a lot of different areas because I I I'm not displaying that Democrat logo anywhere. speaker-2: Do you do you wear your do you wear that hat that you wore, the white hat when you're out out there talking to people? speaker-1: ⁓ yeah, like I got I got these hats all the time, man. Like Trump Trump is all over the Epstein files or yeah. Immigrants immigrants make American ⁓ dude, I think the front the front of my car is an eight six four seven license plate. Yeah, I'm on my Camaro. So and and I don't know if you guys are ⁓ familiar with this, but ⁓ I'm the guy that yelled at Ron DeSantis in July. So speaker-0: That bad boy locked and loaded. speaker-1: I and and he keeps Ron DeSantis was in Bradenton, okay. And he he had a press briefing and there was CBS there, NBC, all the cameras. And somehow I got into the the room where Ron DeSantis was talking and he was started talking about Hulk Hogan because Hulk Hogan had just passed away. And ⁓ so I just interrupted him and you could like it's viral, it's all around. I just interrupted him like I was like, I was like, Ron. I was like, I was like, is Alligator Alcatraz your legacy or is that your fucking is Alligator Alcatraz your fucking legacy? And then I was like, you bow down to a pedophile. Are you a pedophile? And then I called a room a bunch of Nazis and walked out. ⁓ speaker-2: Yeah. Let's go. speaker-0: Congratulations on the escape. speaker-1: You gotta look up the clip and you gotta play it or or you know, but whatever you post this or speaker-2: Hundred percent. Well what's it man, so you're taking that fire with you all over the trail, man. Like what what is it like what is it like sitting in these rooms with with these people that you know, like the that are just siphoning every every ounce of soul from people and and and you're you you have to have some sort of restraint, right? Like when you're when you're ⁓ when you're when you're conducting with I guess when you're conducting in these these ⁓ these situations, but How do you know how do you how do you know when to turn that turn that shit on like that, man? Like speaker-1: Well, I mean, that was that was in July last year. And I the real realistically I did that because I was tired of nobody doing anything and I was trying to create a spark and trying to get people excited about ⁓ talking back to power and to show people that these are just people and you can talk back to them, you can talk down to them, you know, and I walk home. I didn't get arrested, I walk home, you know. So ⁓ but but anyway that speaker-0: Cliff Cash and all those guys say that same thing. Cliff Cash and all those guys say the same thing too. They're just normal and you can tell them that they're, you know, all those things. speaker-1: Yeah, exactly. No, you're I mean that that gives you confidence, you know. And I mean I feel like I can walk into any I could I could do a ⁓ stadium sold out tomorrow and you know speak. I don't know what I'm gonna say, but I'm gonna say something, but I'm not gonna be afraid. That's how much like freaking energy and passion I have right now, right? ⁓ but anyway, that that kind of that's what initially sparked the campaign because that that got spread. That actually went on MSNBC. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-1: And it was it like went all over Twitter and all over the place and that my following was like doubled right away after that. And ⁓ then I decided to run for Congress after that, you know. So I was trying to make sure that that moment didn't define me because I didn't want to be thought of like this crazy guy that yelled at Ron DeSantis and then I kind of worked it into my campaign and ⁓ and people resonated with it. So speaker-2: Nice. That pool just re re re diverted thirty five million dollars. speaker-1: Yeah. speaker-2: How does that shit happen? speaker-1: Yeah. I mean what but he he did it to advertise ⁓ anti marijuana speaker-2: Yeah. Four and two. Yeah, anti marijuana and an abortion. speaker-1: An abortion, yeah, you know, just just crooks, man. That's all these guys are. And and they have they have all this access to all this money and all this power, and that's what they do for a living. You know what I mean? Like like that's let me their job. speaker-0: Let me point this out. ⁓ Mark, you said that the the guy that you're running against ⁓ has been in again, I'm gonna bring this up. Again, he's been in office for 16 years, and for 16 years he's telling you how corrupt the government is. But you've been here for 16 years. Isn't it it ain't us? What are you doing? What are you doing? You're the crook. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. Right. Just get out. You know, like like and he he's he's I don't know if you've seen the guy, but he's like seventy-five years old. ⁓ he has no facial expressions because he pumps his forehead full of Botox. You know, I I guarantee you, and I guarantee you the government is spending money on his freaking Botox. You know, that's probably the we he probably gets free health care and it's all going into his freaking forehead. But speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: I mean he's and and somebody but he and he has like this blank stare in his eyes like he's he's not quite there, like you have to kind of wave him down, you know. Yeah. It's like it's like why are you there? speaker-2: It seems like him, Rick Scott, like DeSantis, Brian Mass, all these people that are coming all with Gate ⁓ Matt Gates, like all these all these ⁓ that's another one that doesn't have a chance. speaker-0: Remember, remember Rick Scott got busted for the biggest ⁓ what was it? The the biggest Medicare scam ever in history? And they say, hey, the government is corrupt. Yeah, no shit. What do you speaker-2: Need him in need ⁓ the office. speaker-1: Freedom. speaker-0: What do we do? speaker-1: I guess my my point is like, why do why do we need career politicians? I don't understand it. Right. Like I just want to get back to the day where, you know, I kind of think of the old days. You know, like like the farmer just got pissed off and he put down his hole for a season and then he went to the office and he made some rules and then he went back to go farming. Right. That that's kind of how I envision America being. Not not the farmer traded in his his ⁓ overalls for a fucking suit. Right, and a and a proper get that's not that's not representing America. Put people in Austin passionate. speaker-0: Yeah. It works. Why does why does the NFL work? Well and you and everyone watches it. It's it's the same approach. The NFL is built in a way where you do your job, you're a receiver, and then when you're done, you retire and the young guy comes up and takes your job, does that, and then the young guy comes up and takes that, and then the young guy comes up and takes that. The only reason this government doesn't make sense to people is because that's not how it's supposed to be run. If you want a really good shortcut as to see how a government can work and eventually take over without any bombs or anything. Look at the NFL. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. speaker-0: It's perfect. It's a perfect example. I throw the NFL in people's faces all the time when they talk about corruption and all this stuff. How is this supposed to work? The NFL. The president of the country is the same as like the commissioner. Commissioner shouldn't be going into each and every team to say that wide receiver did something, so we need to take his money. That's not how it works. That's not how it works. You're not gonna see a wide receiver catching footballs for 35 years. It's not how it works. speaker-1: Mm-hmm. speaker-2: That'd be a shitty, shitty, shitty one. speaker-1: Mm it might it might work that way with ⁓ LeBron James and the NF NBA though, man. He's going forever. speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-0: He needs he's he's he's one of those guys that ⁓ yeah and he can still do it. He's still putting up numbers, he's still doing it. speaker-1: Yeah. He's looking. speaker-0: I think I think he's trash, but you know, that's speaker-2: Just a Michael Jordan. speaker-0: It's MJ, then Kobe, and then you know, like look I wouldn't kick LeBron off my team. speaker-1: Exactly. speaker-2: No if he's around. speaker-0: But he the I mean, you know what I mean. speaker-1: I'm I want to go. speaker-0: I'm picking LeBron before I pick the Chauncey. speaker-2: No. Mike, I know you gotta buy I know you gotta bounce on a bit, man. ⁓ what's your what's your message to anybody in your shot, like to your constituents on how you're gonna make some change in your in your district? speaker-1: Yeah, ⁓ you know, and my policies. ⁓ I'm I'm a different I'm a different candidate. I I ⁓ look ⁓ at a brick wall and I think that I just have to run through it if I need to get on the other side, right? ⁓ I'm a mad dog. ⁓ but ⁓ but at the end of the day it's my policies that stand out. And that's ⁓ I want single payer healthcare, I want free college tuition, I want equal rights for all, I want ⁓ common sense gun laws. You know, ⁓ I want ice gone, ⁓ fucking gone. but but you know, it's not all just yelling in a camera that ⁓ I've I've built businesses, I've been in meeting rooms where I've seen crooked power go wrong and I know how to push back against it. I know how to build a movement. and I can really make some fucking change, I think, in in Congress if you just ⁓ let me through the doors and help me get get ⁓ to Washington DC. So ⁓ if you just go to Mark Davis for Congress dot com, ⁓ you can ⁓ donate. We like I always tell people we have the numbers. Like I said, we have about 200,000 followers right now. ⁓ if we could just get two dollars from all of our followers, you know, we would win. And and people are stepping up big time and literally this is grassroots. If you have two bucks, if you think you can afford two bucks on my campaign, Just give it to me, man. And that that stuff adds up and we're using that ⁓ for fuel to go against Vern Buchanan and make some change. And if you I I kind of built my candidac candidacy to be the candidate that I would vote for. ⁓ that's kind of who I kind of built myself ⁓ around. and so that's that's who you're getting is somebody that is super freaking passionate right now to make some change and ⁓ passion is I think what we need in Congress right now. So speaker-0: Mark Davis, Florida District 16. Thank you, sir, for coming on and explaining to us a little bit what's happening in Florida. Florida, we're gonna get you right. We're gonna we're gonna get Mark in here. speaker-1: Yeah. We're we're go we're we're gonna get Florida right, you know. I I I already I already posted something earlier today that said Florida Florida is no longer MAGA stomping ground. So things are changing. It's no longer their playground. So let's go. speaker-2: Let's go. speaker-0: Thanks again, sir. Thanks again, sir, for coming on and ⁓ and talking. I saw that little French E over there. Give that Frenchie give that Frenchie a belly rub for me. Thanks again, both of you. And with that, we're out. speaker-1: Will do. Appreciate it. speaker-2: Yeah. Yeah. Coconut trusses.