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Well, join me now, Governor Ron DeSantis, the author of brand new book, The Courage to be free.

Florida's blueprint for America's revival. Governor, welcome.

Hey, thanks for having me.

So ironically, Governor, you're out with your second book.

But without your first one, I would say there's no congressman DeSantis.

And there's no governor DeSantis. Am I correct?

You know, in a roundabout way, maybe.

I mean, I had gotten out of the military.

I was dabbling in different things.

And this was a time where, you know, you kind of the Tea Party movement, a lot of energy.

And I thought maybe I could just provide commentary kind of in my spare time, maybe write a little bit.

And so I ended up doing that.

And what it did is it took me in different parts around Florida where I would speak

to like 100 people. I'd sell 20, 30 books.

And we'd go around Florida doing that.

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