Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to the real Florida man. Florida Governor

Ron DeSantis, everybody. All right, so I said to the Gov at dinner, said, Gov, what are the chances

that I can get you to have some tequila on stage in front of a thousand friends? He said, do you have whiskey?

Will McCallon 12 do? Will that do? Will that be

all right for you? All right. You know, I'm not somebody that's out drinking very. I've got

like family. I got all this stuff. Occasionally, you know, my choice would be the scotch, which is fine. And I've learned all that. I've also learned a lot about cigars because we have so many good, all the great companies are headquartered here. I'm actually on the cover of cigar aficionado for this episode. So if you want to go buy that. We did a good interview. It's good. But so I got, so this would be it. Well, which is fine. And everyone's like, oh, yeah, you know, I was doing an event in Lexington, Kentucky one time. Great spot, great people. And we're doing the stuff. And I'm doing my schick I'm answering the questions everything's

got and then we're like all right break oh governor you want to drink and I'm like yeah just just

give me a scotch on the rocks and everyone was quiet and they all looked at me and one's like

governor we drink Kentucky bourbon and Lexington point taken big mistake big mistake. Okay, here we go. All right. Well, cheers, Florida, man.

So that right there, that really is why I wanted to do this show, because I wanted you guys to

maybe get a little window into knowing the governor the way I've gotten to know him a little bit.

And what he just told you about cigar aficionado, we're sitting at dinner. Every, you know, we had a bunch of people there. Everyone's asking him policy, policy, policy. And he's like, guys, guys, I was on cigar aficionado, please. So, Gov, all right, you got a little time left. Everyone in this room knows it's been a success.

What else do you want it? Yeah.

What else? What else, my friend?

You know, it's interesting how I travel the state, you know, I show up at Wawa and all these places,

people talk. And it's good because you get to learn unfiltered from people. But it's just as kind of

2026 came in, I started to get people, oh, we don't want to lose you. Oh, so good. It's like almost like,

I'm like, guys, I'm still here. I here i still got you know i got a runway i'm

going to run through the and i kind of feel like churchill there was a there was a churchill vignette

he was past prime minister he was being honored by the women's temperance society of london

and the president the club said you you know, Mr. Prime Minister,

we admire your statesmanship, but we disapprove of your drinking habits. And she's like,

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