July 9, 2026 • 32 mins
Ron DeSantis begins Hour 2 by discussing his work with President Trump on college sports reform, including NIL rules, transfer portal limits, eligibility, and protecting non-revenue sports. Urban Meyer joins to discuss the current state of college athletics, the need for guardrails around NIL, and how the transfer portal is affecting players and programs. Meyer also talks about Florida football, the SEC, toughness, and the importance of line-of-scrimmage play. Later, DeSantis reflects on Rush Limbaugh’s influence and explains how Florida has pushed back against left-wing institutions and policies. The hour includes discussion of Florida’s budget reductions, DEI, CRT, ESG, school choice, higher education reform, Disney, COVID policy, law and order, and Florida’s shift from a swing state to a strongly Republican state.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Readings. Everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's good to be in the captain's chair here filling
in for Sean. I had mentioned the last hour. We've
done a republication of a book I did fifteen years
ago in honor of America two fifty DeSantis seventeen seventy
six dot com.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
You can find it.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's limited to seventeen seventy six copies, signed and individually
numbered by me. Talks about the founding fathers and how
the left has kind of perverted that legacy. It was
timely then, but I think it's even more timely now.
So check that out if you're interested. You know, I
was with the president, President Trump, probably after Christmas, and
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we were down in Florida playing golf and we're having
dinner lunch afterwards, and I just kind of just popped
into my head about the mess that college sports has become.
And I was like, mister President, you gonna you're gonna
do anything to fix this nil and the transfer stuff.
And he's like, yeah, i'd like to. He's like, well,
you help, and I'm like, sure, i'll help. And so
he made me and Randy Levine the head of this
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college sports committee that he created, and he asked us
to get some good peace put together. Randy Levine's a
president of New York Yankees. He's done a great job
on all this, and so I reached out and got
a lot of people. Coach Nick Saban, we got Conda,
Lisa Rice, a bunch of good people. One of the
first guys I called was coach Urban Meyer, who of
course was a two time national championship coach at the
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University of Florida, and then he did something which is
very rare, went to another university of Ohio State and
also won a national championship there. And he's a Florida
resident and is a friend of mine, and so he's here.
I want to welcome Urban. We've had a lot of
issues with college sports. I think you look at people
transferring left and right, you look at eligibility where you
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have twenty eight year olds playing, and then the whole
nil thing kind of started off of Okay, if Reebok
wants to sponsor you, you should be free.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's a free society. Get a deal. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
But then that's kind of gone now with pay to
play and all these collectives, and it's distorting college athletics overall.
So Urban has been working with the President on it.
We actually have momentum now with the bill that's likely
to pass the US Senate this month, and I think
the US House is probably going to be pressured to
pass it because I know the President supports it.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So I want to bring an Urban to talk about that.
How you doing, my man.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
My favorite governor. Good to talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How's your game?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I played with John Daly yesterday in Firestone at the
pro am and I've known John Day for many, many
years and he's been trying I met him via phone
probably fifteen years ago, and he's trying to get me
to come to Arkansas. So that's not going to happen.
But we stayed friends, and boy, what a talented player
is and he's a good friend.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So fire Well, that's good.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, Unfortunately, Governor, Firestone will be the last PG event
here and it's been seventy straight years. They used to
have a PGA and then a senior PGA event, and
it's going to go away. It's kind of heartbreaking because
that's where I'm from.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Up here.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, well, in Ohio is a great state for golf.
I mean, he produced golf legends like Jack Nicholas. You
have got great golf courses Urban and I could talk
golf probably this whole time, but we're going to talk
about college sports. So can you just kind of let
people know from your perspective as someone that's been around
the game, obviously won championships. You're on Fox as an
analyst and you do their shows, where are we and
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what needs to be done? And do you think that
this Senate bill is going to get us where you
and I and Nick and everyone think we need to go.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah. I think there's two sides of the story. Number
one is the game's never been stronger. The interest across
the country is second only to the NFL. It's phenomenal.
You know, as an analyst on Fox Big Noon, I
get to you know, that's my job, and I'm telling
you the governor that the quality of product on the field,
I'm not sure it's ever been better. It was very
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rare for the coach. Saban and I talked about this.
We really never coached seniors. It was very rare because
they would all play not red shirt, play right away
as a freshman, play sophomore, play of the junior, and
go the NFL when they're twenty years old, twenty one
years old, and there's a big difference between coach and
a nineteen year old and a twenty three year old,
and now with nil. The positive is is that these
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players don't feel forced to lead. They're actually making more
money in college than they are unless your first round er,
you make more money a lot of times in college.
You graduate.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You you know.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You saw the wolf range, you saw a house state,
and you saw last year Indiana win with very mature teams.
So that's the positive. The negative is it's a runaway train.
There's no rules right now that you know. I think
it's thirty seven different statutes across the country with states
regarding nil and payment of players, and you know, it's
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driven by who has the best owners. You know, the
Texas Tech is a very has a very rich support
group and as a result, they spend a lot of money.
And I just not cut when money is the first
thing that comes out of your mouth your mind in
college sports. I struggle with that, and I hope this
passes so we get some guardrails.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Well, I think one of the things that the President's
concerned about, and I am as well, and I know
you are, is with the cost of these football teams
going up so much because of the money going to
the players that that football usually subsidizes most of the
other sports, and so these non revenue sports are in jeopardy.
Track and field, things that produce Olympic athletes, tennis, golf,
these things, and having opportunities for our young people in
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those sports or something I think is important.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now in the.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Transfer portal, I think the proposal and the bill is
you get one transfer and then after that you got
to sit out.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Do you think that's a good policy.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I do. I think it's fairly unanimous. In the three hotspots.
You know, one have all already been solved that they
can enforce it, and that's the eligibility, which we can
talk about in a minute. But the three hotspots are
the nilps which you mentioned. The number two one is
eligibility with you know, not having twenty eight year olds
coming back and playing that that's just nonsense. And then
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the third one is the transfer portal where you get
one free one and then if you graduate, you get
a second free one. Other than that, if you transfer,
you at the city year. And I'm a big fan
of that. I believe that we'll reduce some of the
issues you see from players bouncing back and forth to schools.
But then the biggest thing is, and it's the media
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has not really done a good job reporting, is that
thirty percent of every player that enters a transfer portal
either ends up without a scholarship or out of the
game because he's been ill advised. You know, you just
you pump five thousand agents into any profession and a
lot of them aren't even agents, and they're they're just
misleading these players. And you don't hear about that enough.
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You know, you talk about the great successes from transferring,
but for some reason that there's a lot of bad
stories out there about ill or advisement that these players
are leaving and they think the grass is greater, so
they enter a transfer portal and there's no home for him.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, and I think also just fans, you know, use
like we knew when you were coaching University of Florida.
You guys won the national championship. You knew, Okay, tbo
is going to be your quarterback. You got these guys
coming back, and then the next year, oh they're going
to contend. Now it's like you could have a good
year you don't know what the heck's going to happen
to your team because you can just go and leave,
and it's almost perpetual free agency. Now on the NIL piece,
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the original idea of NIL is that if you're somebody
that's a linebacker at Ohio State and a local car
dealer wants you to endorse their product and I'm going
to pay you five hundred thousand dollars, it's a free market,
you should be able to do it. And that's now
involved into these collectives where it really is more of
a pay to play, which is, I think outside of
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what NIL was intended. And so I know the bill
addresses that, and I know you've spoken on that. Can
you just tell everyone how you think we need to
bring NIL back to its original intent?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, and as Peers Forum NIL as America, it's called capitalism.
It's you know, if you every every human being should
have right to profit from their name. That's what this
country is built on. If you're a great gymnast, a
great volleyball player, obviously a great football, baseball player, and
you can make money off Instagram, you can make money
on marketing deals, you can make money. You know if
Verizon or Nike wants to sign you that. Absolutely you
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should be able to do that, but that has to
be legitimate, you know, a service for getting paid. That's
not what happened. What happened is these things called collectives,
which to this day, I can't believe that's still going on.
You know, collectives need to go away, and I don't
know a human being that believes that they should stay.
And I'll be honest with your Governor, I don't understand
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why that's not that difficult to just say it's over.
There is no more collective. The university cannot get involved
in the third party paint of players. Let let let
the market, Let the free market take care of it.
If it's a legitimate deal. Player has a right to
earn money off his name. I would find it hard
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to belye that anybody disagrees with that. I've never met
a person that says, you know, this collective stuff's a
great idea. I've never met a person.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
When I think the bill that's in the Senate and
it's actually as bipartisan support, does address that, and we'll
kind of bring it in line with what you've recommended
and others have recommended. So I think if people look.
I mean when I talk about this, I've got a
lot of people that follow, They're like, well, there's all
these other issues, of course, and we're doing all those
other issues. We're doing immigration, we're doing property text. I'll
talk about that later in the show. There's a whole
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bunch of things, and not that this is the most important,
but it's important for a lot of people. People love
college sports, particularly in the Southeast and the Midwest, and
this is These are pretty easy fixes that I think
will create long term viability, not just for football, but
for all the other sports. Before I let you go,
I think a lot of people in Florida are wondering
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how the Gators are going to look. They got a
new coach, John Summrall.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I know you know him.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I think you think highly of a So what do
you think the trajectory is for your former team down
in Gainesville.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, I did not know coach Summrrell before I was
asked to kind of get involved and do some betting
for the University of Florida, And so I watched film
I watched I al would like to watch interviews because
places like Florida, you're going to be in front of
the camera. You're going to be in front of the team.
And I was really impressed, and I did more homework
on him. Then finally I called him and I had
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a long talk with him and we hit it off.
And he was the first coach that he never really
complained about the nil about transfer, and all he talked
about is preparing his team, about toughness, about the number
one to me, the number one characteristic of any great team.
It's got to be tough. Football is a tough violence sport.
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Toughness is always going to be a premium. And he
talked about the toughness. He talked about practice in the
off season program of developing strength and size and speed
on your team, and I was like, wow, this is
so refreshing that, you know, I talked to the athletic
director of Florida and obviously they have to make that decision,
but I love the guy. I have great respect for him.
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I went and spoke to the team, and then then
that one watching the practice and it's that I hope
they're having an excellent offseason because they still have a
little bit of work to do in the trenches. You know,
the people think of the speed and the athleticism in
the SEC, it's really a line of scrimmage league. I mean,
you better protect that quarterback and block in the offensive line,
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and you better be able to be stout and fast
and physical in the d line. Those are the two
areas they get if they improve that this because you
can't improve that in the summer just by training and
maximizing your players. If they do that, I think they
have a heck of a chance.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
This year, well, when you won the national championships at Florida,
they also won basketball national champions back to back. They
were very good in all these other sports. That was
the best performance of an athletic department I think that
any school has had probably in the history of college sport.
Florida is still good in all those other sports. It's
football that needs to get back to kind of the
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urban era, and so hopefully they they're able to make
that progress. I know a lot of people in Gainesville
will be excited, but coach, I just want to tell
you you've made a difference on this issue with college sports.
Coach Saban, You've done a great job. A lot of
people have worked very hard. It's good to see these
people actually working across party lines, and I'm optimistic we're
going to get something done, and so we'll make sure
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that we're there when President Trump signs the bill.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Okay, great, great to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Go othernor Okay, buddy, take care. All right, we'll be.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Back broadcasting coast to coast, order to mortar and all
over America.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
This is the Sean Hennedy Show.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Well, welcome back everyone. This is Governor Ron Desanta is
sitting in for Sean hanned The anytime I'm behind a
microphone like this, I think about kind of the master
of this craft, a friend of mine who we all miss,
Rush Limbaugh, and he died about five and a half
years ago, now twenty twenty one, and I was fortunate
I was running for governor eighteen.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
He was a big supporter.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I became friends with him a lot of over golf
and cigars and conservative politics. And it was interesting because
before he got sick, his golf game was in really
good shape. He had been profiled on the Golf Channel,
like the ten years before that.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
He told me.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Nothing ever ruined my game more than getting that instruction
on the Golf channel. But they profiled kind of him
his evolution. But then he was hitting the ball really
good and really enjoying it. And he was a lot
of fun to be around.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
He just was.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
He was very good at the craft, great conservative, and
a great guy. But he walked into a room. He
had no air about him. He would not try to, like,
you know, take up all the oxygen. He was a
very humble guy, and he had a lot of great gifts.
And I think that he could have been a great
radio guy in music or in other things apart from politics,
because he was just that good at it. But I
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thought about Rush again. So I was on the May
June cover of Cigar Aficionado, and Florida has a lot
of the top companies headquartered in Florida, So I've gotten
to know those guys in the industry and we did it.
But I the first time when I got the issue
and I saw it, and I was like, man, I
wish Rush could see this, because Rush really had an
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impact on a lot of people. And I would tell him,
I said, Rush, And I think I even said this
on the air one time with him. I said, Rush,
you have the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. You
know you say you don't mint degrees but I'm telling you,
if you give me an honorary degree from the Limbaugh Institute,
I will put it in my office in Tallahassee, your
governor's office, it will be there, and I will put
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it over my degrees from Harvard Law School and Yale.
You know, one of the first guys to go through
Harvard and Yale and come out more conservative than when
I went in. And I'm very proud that I was
able to do that. I was like, Rush, I will
put that above that, and he basically said, you know,
as time went on, he's like, well, he's like the
one honorary degree if I do choose to do it,
the honorary degree that I would do would go to
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the governor of Florida, my Governor Ron DeSantis. And so
I always thought that that was something that was really
cool to be able to do that. But you know,
we miss him, you know, we miss his voice. He
was somebody that was very sharp on conservatism, but just
funny and excellent at the craft. I did the flag
at half staff when he was when he passed away,
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and I was proud to do that, and I was
proud to honor Rush. And so we'll be back we'll
start talking about how you beat the left. On the
other side of this break.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
You can't always get what you want, but you can
get Sean Hannity online at Hannity dot com.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Welcome back. This is Governor Ron DeSantis. I am filling
in for Sean. I mentioned in the last hour. I
have republished my first book, Desanta's seventy seventies dot Com
Dreams from our founding Fathers in Honor of America to fifty.
I didn't want a mass market if people had asked
me to put out a revised copy for many years,
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only seventeen hundred and seventy six copies. Everyone is signed
and numbered by me. I know a lot of people
have done it, and I want to thank you for
doing that. Now, how do you beat the left? How
do you approach the left as a conservative in this
day and age?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know William F.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Buckley Man, this was probably after World War Two in
the nineteen fifties. He said the purpose of conservatism was
to stand to thwart history and yell stop stop the
further advances of the left. And you know, underlying assumption
in that is that the institutions and arrangements in society
were healthy. So if they're healthy, and you, as a conservative,
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are defending healthy institutions against leftist encroachment, and that makes
a lot of sense. I think the problem that we
have now is the left has corrupted so many of
our institutions. So as a conservative, if your view is
we just want to stop future advantages of the left,
well you may win that battle, but you are ultimately
losing that war. I don't believe that we can just
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simply concede the gains that the left has made. I
think we need to roll back leftism and recapture these institutions.
The mantra I use is we're going to win and
they're going to lose. And if you think about it,
Florida is a great example to show this can be done.
When I got elected in twenty eighteen, we were a
fifty to fifty state. These statewide races would go one percent.
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There were three hundred thousand more Democrats registered voters than Republicans.
When I got in, people said, tread carefully, don't rock
the boat, trim your conservative sales. It's a very delicate
political balance. And while I understood that advice, I rejected
that advice.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I said Listen, I got elected to be bold.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I'm going to do what I believe in, and I
think bold colors will lead to good results and the
politics I think will follow. But that's not even the point.
You got to do the right thing for the right reason.
So how have we done on all the things over
these last seven and a half years. Well, I just
signed a budget in the law. That is the fourth
straight year where Florida has reduced its budget, not adjusted
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for inflation, not population, obviously it is for those Our
budget four years ago went down, three years ago, three
years ago, went down, two years ago, and two years
ago went down this year. Where else are they reducing
spending year after year? If you compare our budget in
Florida to the budget of New York, and New York
has four million fewer people than we do now. New
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York's budget is two hundred and sixty eight billion. Our
budgets one hundred and seventeen billion dollars, and yet we're
producing the services that people need. Where is all that
money going since I've been governor? If you take all
the taxpayers supported debt that Florida's accumulated in its history
as a state, we've retired over fifty percent of it.
The State of Florida's government, in terms of the number
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of bureaucrats, is the smallest government per capita in the
entire United States of America. In fact, there are fewer
people working in state government today than the day I
took office in January of twenty nineteen. Don't tell me
you can't reduce government. And compare that to this decade
with the federal government. At the beginning of the decade,
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the federal government was spending four point four trillion dollars annually.
Now that's going up to seven point four trillion dollars.
The debt was twenty two trillion. Now it's up to
thirty nine trillion dollars. Florida shows it can be done.
And oh, by the way, we're reducing budgets like that,
while we have inflation that we have to deal with,
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and while we have population growth. You look at what
we've done in Florida. I was governor kind of during
the early stages of the unleashing of the woke mind
virus by the left, and it had a lot of momentum,
particularly in all these elite institutions. We're the first state
to ban DEI at our public universities. We banned our
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K twelve universities. We nuked ESG. While these big firms
we're trying to impose a leftist agenda through the economy.
No one was willing to stand up against that at
the time. We did, and we won those fights. Our
K through twelve schools teacher unions in Florida, I've signed
legislation allows for them to be decertified if they're partisan actors.
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They have no business doing business in Florida, and people
have the ability to fight back. We've also done universal
school choice. Every parent decides where that money is going
to go, and they can go to the school their choice.
Higher education. You can sit here and say we got
to do this. We got to do that. But a
lot of the faculty have been a big problem, and
so we now have in Florida all tenured professors have
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to undergo review every five years and can be terminated
for poor performance. So our universities have filtered out a
lot of these problematic faculties. And we've also set up
a classical education at our University Civic Institute. And importantly,
we allow the boards and the presidents of these universities
to hire faculty directly in there without them being blackballed
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by the existing factory. So we've brought in conservative scholars
from all over the country, even all over the world
in places like University of Florida. Had we not made
those changes, it would have taken us seventy five years
to be able to do that. Corporate activism that we saw.
We had a big fight against Disney that we won
about K twelve education, particularly the elementary schools and the
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role of gender ideology, which shouldn't be involved in education,
but Disney wanted it to be there. They were the
eight hundred pound guerrilla in Florida. We stood up. We
got that victory and so many other things. Number One,
fighting illegal immigration. As Tom Homan said last hour, we
represent forty percent of all state level immigration enforcement arrests
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in the entire country, and we're a state that's seven
percent of the overall population. You look at law and order,
didn't do George Floyd Summer love in Florida. No riots,
no looting, and we stand on the side of law
abiding citizens and our crime rates out of fifty year low.
So that's just how you're not seeding this stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
To the left.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
We're taking control of that, we the people, and we're
going to make sure these institutions operate in the way
that our voters are intending and that conservatives want to see.
So what did the results have been. Well, twenty eighteen
we were fifty to fifty state. Fast forward to twenty
twenty two. I'm running for reelection. We had made gains
on voter registration. We were three hundred thousand in the
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whole as Republicans. Then we were three hundred thousand above
the Democrats in November of twenty twenty two, and I
was able to win the biggest victory that any Republicans
won in the history of the state, twenty points one
point five million votes spread. Nobody thought that was possible,
winning huge margins of independence, women, Latino, all this stuff,
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and we were able to do that. Now today the
state of Florida has one zero point five million more
registered Republicans than registered Democrats. We have never in the
modern history of the Republican Party seen such a decisive
shift in the conservative direction. And mind you, that is
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happening against the advice of the political class that said,
if you're bold, you're going to lose support, it's just
the opposite. We drew a very sharp contrast with the left.
We took on a lot of their sacred cows, including
the gender ideology, fought the teacher union, all these different
things and delivered big results. And then we've created more Republicans. Yeah,
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Republicans are moving to Florida two and that's been part
of it, but people have now shifted. I was able
to win Palm Beach County for the first time any
Republican in I think forty years was able to win
that in a governor's race that was like ground zero
for the Democrats. In Bush versus Gore, they would win
huge more margins there, and we flipped it red. Miami
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Dade flipped red by over ten percent. So what it
shows you is exactly what Reagan said. People are going
to respond to bold colors. They're going to be energized
by bold colors. They are not going to flock to
somebody flying a banner of pale pastels. If you're squishy,
you're not willing to lead, you're not willing to stand
up for them, then it's not going to be something
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that people are going to want to stand up for you.
And yes, look, COVID was a huge part standing up
against Fauci, standing up against all the nonsense that was
going on. You know, I was pilloried for that for many,
many months, and then six months into it, half the
country's vacationing in Florida are coming down. And then it
just became the evidence was what it was. People were
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voting with their feet, but we were willing to lead
on that against the grain. We've also been willing to
stand up to special interests. And this is just something
that you know, politics, people have interests. I get it,
there's a lot of money. But if you look at
some of the things we've done, you know, we stood
up to big Sugar in Florida to do Everglades restoration.
We stood up against big Pharma to do Canadian drug imports.
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You know, I vetoed the top priority of our big
investor own utility. We stood up against the medical industrial
complex with COVID, all these different things down the line.
When you stand up, yeah, you may get some heat
for it. There may be some vested interests that don't
like it, but the people will respond. So Florida is
an example not only that we can govern ourselves consistent
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with the founder's vision, but that conservatism works. And when
Republicans are bold, when they're standing strong, doing big things,
the voters respond in kind. And don't let anyone tell
you that you need to be a squish to be
able to get elected. No one accused me when I
was running for reelection of being a squish. They knew
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that I was going full bore, and so we were
rewarded with that. And so now what do you have
in Florida? You have the left was a sndant in
Florida a decade ago. They thought the state was going
to end up being a blue state. The left has
not been so thoroughly defeated in any jurisdiction over this
country in our lifetimes as they have been in the
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free state of Florida. That's not just winning one election,
that's not just enacting a tax cut here or there.
That's at an institutional level, really neutering them so they're
not able to wield power against us. And my job
as governor as many things, but one of the things
I have to do is protect the people that I
represent from the pathologies of leftism, and these leftist politicians
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when they get control, when they impose their ideology. Things decay,
cities collapse, states go into disrepair. We are not letting
that happen in the Free State of Florida. So have hope.
When you see all this crazy stuff going out there,
when you see some of these states doing so many
stupid things.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
There's no question that it can be done.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
We've shown it can be done, and it can be
done in other states and all across this country. Okay,
we'll be back on the back end. We'll talk a
little bit more about some of these great issues that
we have on our plate.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
While a mainstream media is asleep at the wheel, Hannity
watches on the job bringing you the news no one
else can.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Sean Kennedy, I.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Thought, bet you williamswingday hid going deep deep? Oh come
all right. I remember mom on going in Clee run and.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Turn whip book to me and actual they whip into
I don't know I can League seven up, I win.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Well, welcome back. This is Governor Ron DeSantis. That was
Ted Williams hitting a home run in nineteen forty one
All Star Game eighty five years ago.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Uh this month.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I think a lot of people that know me know
I played baseball all through college we my little league
team went to Williams Sport in the Little League World Series.
I was the baseball captain at Yale. Just something that
I've always liked and enjoyed. And we're coming up on
the All Star Game on Tuesday, home run Derbys on Monday.
But thinking back in history, two fifties very important. This
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isn't quite as important, but eighty five years ago you
had one of the best baseball summers in the history
of the game because Joe DiMaggio was the Yankee Star
center fielder set a record by hitting in fifty six
consecutive games. And for those of you who've played baseball,
I mean I was happy if I had a four
or five game hitting streak. I mean, fifty six games.
The closest anyone's come is forty four. Pete Rose and
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we Willie Keeler. It's almost unfathomable you can do that.
So it's like a major deal that that had happened.
And this is you know, Babe Ruth was retired, lou
garig was sick, so DiMaggio and Williams were kind of
the big icons, and so DiMaggio's hitting streak goes. He
gets fifty six games, and then Ted Williams is hitting
four twenty four, fifteen, four to ten and he gets
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towards the end of the season with a chance to
hit four hundred, which for those of you who know baseball,
that's very difficult to do and no one had done
it for like a ten years previous. And his manager
even said, sit out the last season because you're at
four hundred. Don't ruin the record, and Ted Williams said,
no way am I sitting out. It is not going
to be a record if I don't do the whole thing.
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So he get into the last double header and he
was just under four hundred. I think it would have
rounded up to four hundred, but people would have said
it wasn't and if he didn't do well, he was
not going to get that record, and he ended up
going six for eight in the doubleheader, finished with four
h six and to this day, nobody has hit four hundred.
No one's come that close. Tony Gwynn was the closest
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in ninety four. Maybe he would add a shot if
they didn't have the strike, but those were two big
American heroes, and especially Ted Williams because he can potentially
be viewed as the best hitter that ever lived. He's
one of the best fighter pilots that ever lived, serving
World War Two in Korea, and he was down in
Florida showing people he was one of the best fishermen
of all time as well. So remarkable achievements, a remarkable summer.
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If you guys are interested in baseball, I would suggest
going back and looking at that season if you haven't
done it. And I'll be watching the home run derby
in the All Star Game. I got an eight year
old who's big into baseball and it should be a
good time. So we'll be back on the other side
of the break. We are going to talk about artificial
intelligence and the role that that's going to have in
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our society, maybe for good but also maybe for ill
Readings. Everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's good to be in the captain's chair here filling
in for Sean. I had mentioned the last hour. We've
done a republication of a book I did fifteen years
ago in honor of America two fifty DeSantis seventeen seventy
six dot com.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
You can find it.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's limited to seventeen seventy six copies, signed and individually
numbered by me. Talks about the founding fathers and how
the left has kind of perverted that legacy. It was
timely then, but I think it's even more timely now.
So check that out if you're interested. You know, I
was with the president, President Trump, probably after Christmas, and
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we were down in Florida playing golf and we're having
dinner lunch afterwards, and I just kind of just popped
into my head about the mess that college sports has become.
And I was like, mister President, you gonna you're gonna
do anything to fix this nil and the transfer stuff.
And he's like, yeah, i'd like to. He's like, well,
you help, and I'm like, sure, i'll help. And so
he made me and Randy Levine the head of this
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college sports committee that he created, and he asked us
to get some good peace put together. Randy Levine's a
president of New York Yankees. He's done a great job
on all this, and so I reached out and got
a lot of people. Coach Nick Saban, we got Conda,
Lisa Rice, a bunch of good people. One of the
first guys I called was coach Urban Meyer, who of
course was a two time national championship coach at the
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University of Florida, and then he did something which is
very rare, went to another university of Ohio State and
also won a national championship there. And he's a Florida
resident and is a friend of mine, and so he's here.
I want to welcome Urban. We've had a lot of
issues with college sports. I think you look at people
transferring left and right, you look at eligibility where you
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have twenty eight year olds playing, and then the whole
nil thing kind of started off of Okay, if Reebok
wants to sponsor you, you should be free.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's a free society. Get a deal. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
But then that's kind of gone now with pay to
play and all these collectives, and it's distorting college athletics overall.
So Urban has been working with the President on it.
We actually have momentum now with the bill that's likely
to pass the US Senate this month, and I think
the US House is probably going to be pressured to
pass it because I know the President supports it.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So I want to bring an Urban to talk about that.
How you doing, my man.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
My favorite governor. Good to talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
How's your game?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I played with John Daly yesterday in Firestone at the
pro am and I've known John Day for many, many
years and he's been trying I met him via phone
probably fifteen years ago, and he's trying to get me
to come to Arkansas. So that's not going to happen.
But we stayed friends, and boy, what a talented player
is and he's a good friend.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So fire Well, that's good.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, Unfortunately, Governor, Firestone will be the last PG event
here and it's been seventy straight years. They used to
have a PGA and then a senior PGA event, and
it's going to go away. It's kind of heartbreaking because
that's where I'm from.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Up here.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, well, in Ohio is a great state for golf.
I mean, he produced golf legends like Jack Nicholas. You
have got great golf courses Urban and I could talk
golf probably this whole time, but we're going to talk
about college sports. So can you just kind of let
people know from your perspective as someone that's been around
the game, obviously won championships. You're on Fox as an
analyst and you do their shows, where are we and
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what needs to be done? And do you think that
this Senate bill is going to get us where you
and I and Nick and everyone think we need to go.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah. I think there's two sides of the story. Number
one is the game's never been stronger. The interest across
the country is second only to the NFL. It's phenomenal.
You know, as an analyst on Fox Big Noon, I
get to you know, that's my job, and I'm telling
you the governor that the quality of product on the field,
I'm not sure it's ever been better. It was very
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rare for the coach. Saban and I talked about this.
We really never coached seniors. It was very rare because
they would all play not red shirt, play right away
as a freshman, play sophomore, play of the junior, and
go the NFL when they're twenty years old, twenty one
years old, and there's a big difference between coach and
a nineteen year old and a twenty three year old,
and now with nil. The positive is is that these
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players don't feel forced to lead. They're actually making more
money in college than they are unless your first round er,
you make more money a lot of times in college.
You graduate.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You you know.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You saw the wolf range, you saw a house state,
and you saw last year Indiana win with very mature teams.
So that's the positive. The negative is it's a runaway train.
There's no rules right now that you know. I think
it's thirty seven different statutes across the country with states
regarding nil and payment of players, and you know, it's
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driven by who has the best owners. You know, the
Texas Tech is a very has a very rich support
group and as a result, they spend a lot of money.
And I just not cut when money is the first
thing that comes out of your mouth your mind in
college sports. I struggle with that, and I hope this
passes so we get some guardrails.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Well, I think one of the things that the President's
concerned about, and I am as well, and I know
you are, is with the cost of these football teams
going up so much because of the money going to
the players that that football usually subsidizes most of the
other sports, and so these non revenue sports are in jeopardy.
Track and field, things that produce Olympic athletes, tennis, golf,
these things, and having opportunities for our young people in
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those sports or something I think is important.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now in the.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Transfer portal, I think the proposal and the bill is
you get one transfer and then after that you got
to sit out.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Do you think that's a good policy.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I do. I think it's fairly unanimous. In the three hotspots.
You know, one have all already been solved that they
can enforce it, and that's the eligibility, which we can
talk about in a minute. But the three hotspots are
the nilps which you mentioned. The number two one is
eligibility with you know, not having twenty eight year olds
coming back and playing that that's just nonsense. And then
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the third one is the transfer portal where you get
one free one and then if you graduate, you get
a second free one. Other than that, if you transfer,
you at the city year. And I'm a big fan
of that. I believe that we'll reduce some of the
issues you see from players bouncing back and forth to schools.
But then the biggest thing is, and it's the media
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has not really done a good job reporting, is that
thirty percent of every player that enters a transfer portal
either ends up without a scholarship or out of the
game because he's been ill advised. You know, you just
you pump five thousand agents into any profession and a
lot of them aren't even agents, and they're they're just
misleading these players. And you don't hear about that enough.
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You know, you talk about the great successes from transferring,
but for some reason that there's a lot of bad
stories out there about ill or advisement that these players
are leaving and they think the grass is greater, so
they enter a transfer portal and there's no home for him.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, and I think also just fans, you know, use
like we knew when you were coaching University of Florida.
You guys won the national championship. You knew, Okay, tbo
is going to be your quarterback. You got these guys
coming back, and then the next year, oh they're going
to contend. Now it's like you could have a good
year you don't know what the heck's going to happen
to your team because you can just go and leave,
and it's almost perpetual free agency. Now on the NIL piece,
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the original idea of NIL is that if you're somebody
that's a linebacker at Ohio State and a local car
dealer wants you to endorse their product and I'm going
to pay you five hundred thousand dollars, it's a free market,
you should be able to do it. And that's now
involved into these collectives where it really is more of
a pay to play, which is, I think outside of
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what NIL was intended. And so I know the bill
addresses that, and I know you've spoken on that. Can
you just tell everyone how you think we need to
bring NIL back to its original intent?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, and as Peers Forum NIL as America, it's called capitalism.
It's you know, if you every every human being should
have right to profit from their name. That's what this
country is built on. If you're a great gymnast, a
great volleyball player, obviously a great football, baseball player, and
you can make money off Instagram, you can make money
on marketing deals, you can make money. You know if
Verizon or Nike wants to sign you that. Absolutely you
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should be able to do that, but that has to
be legitimate, you know, a service for getting paid. That's
not what happened. What happened is these things called collectives,
which to this day, I can't believe that's still going on.
You know, collectives need to go away, and I don't
know a human being that believes that they should stay.
And I'll be honest with your Governor, I don't understand
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why that's not that difficult to just say it's over.
There is no more collective. The university cannot get involved
in the third party paint of players. Let let let
the market, Let the free market take care of it.
If it's a legitimate deal. Player has a right to
earn money off his name. I would find it hard
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to belye that anybody disagrees with that. I've never met
a person that says, you know, this collective stuff's a
great idea. I've never met a person.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
When I think the bill that's in the Senate and
it's actually as bipartisan support, does address that, and we'll
kind of bring it in line with what you've recommended
and others have recommended. So I think if people look.
I mean when I talk about this, I've got a
lot of people that follow, They're like, well, there's all
these other issues, of course, and we're doing all those
other issues. We're doing immigration, we're doing property text. I'll
talk about that later in the show. There's a whole
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bunch of things, and not that this is the most important,
but it's important for a lot of people. People love
college sports, particularly in the Southeast and the Midwest, and
this is These are pretty easy fixes that I think
will create long term viability, not just for football, but
for all the other sports. Before I let you go,
I think a lot of people in Florida are wondering
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how the Gators are going to look. They got a
new coach, John Summrall.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I know you know him.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I think you think highly of a So what do
you think the trajectory is for your former team down
in Gainesville.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, I did not know coach Summrrell before I was
asked to kind of get involved and do some betting
for the University of Florida, And so I watched film
I watched I al would like to watch interviews because
places like Florida, you're going to be in front of
the camera. You're going to be in front of the team.
And I was really impressed, and I did more homework
on him. Then finally I called him and I had
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a long talk with him and we hit it off.
And he was the first coach that he never really
complained about the nil about transfer, and all he talked
about is preparing his team, about toughness, about the number
one to me, the number one characteristic of any great team.
It's got to be tough. Football is a tough violence sport.
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Toughness is always going to be a premium. And he
talked about the toughness. He talked about practice in the
off season program of developing strength and size and speed
on your team, and I was like, wow, this is
so refreshing that, you know, I talked to the athletic
director of Florida and obviously they have to make that decision,
but I love the guy. I have great respect for him.
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I went and spoke to the team, and then then
that one watching the practice and it's that I hope
they're having an excellent offseason because they still have a
little bit of work to do in the trenches. You know,
the people think of the speed and the athleticism in
the SEC, it's really a line of scrimmage league. I mean,
you better protect that quarterback and block in the offensive line,
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and you better be able to be stout and fast
and physical in the d line. Those are the two
areas they get if they improve that this because you
can't improve that in the summer just by training and
maximizing your players. If they do that, I think they
have a heck of a chance.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
This year, well, when you won the national championships at Florida,
they also won basketball national champions back to back. They
were very good in all these other sports. That was
the best performance of an athletic department I think that
any school has had probably in the history of college sport.
Florida is still good in all those other sports. It's
football that needs to get back to kind of the
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urban era, and so hopefully they they're able to make
that progress. I know a lot of people in Gainesville
will be excited, but coach, I just want to tell
you you've made a difference on this issue with college sports.
Coach Saban, You've done a great job. A lot of
people have worked very hard. It's good to see these
people actually working across party lines, and I'm optimistic we're
going to get something done, and so we'll make sure
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that we're there when President Trump signs the bill.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Okay, great, great to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Go othernor Okay, buddy, take care. All right, we'll be.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Back broadcasting coast to coast, order to mortar and all
over America.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
This is the Sean Hennedy Show.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Well, welcome back everyone. This is Governor Ron Desanta is
sitting in for Sean hanned The anytime I'm behind a
microphone like this, I think about kind of the master
of this craft, a friend of mine who we all miss,
Rush Limbaugh, and he died about five and a half
years ago, now twenty twenty one, and I was fortunate
I was running for governor eighteen.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
He was a big supporter.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I became friends with him a lot of over golf
and cigars and conservative politics. And it was interesting because
before he got sick, his golf game was in really
good shape. He had been profiled on the Golf Channel,
like the ten years before that.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
He told me.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Nothing ever ruined my game more than getting that instruction
on the Golf channel. But they profiled kind of him
his evolution. But then he was hitting the ball really
good and really enjoying it. And he was a lot
of fun to be around.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
He just was.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
He was very good at the craft, great conservative, and
a great guy. But he walked into a room. He
had no air about him. He would not try to, like,
you know, take up all the oxygen. He was a
very humble guy, and he had a lot of great gifts.
And I think that he could have been a great
radio guy in music or in other things apart from politics,
because he was just that good at it. But I
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thought about Rush again. So I was on the May
June cover of Cigar Aficionado, and Florida has a lot
of the top companies headquartered in Florida, So I've gotten
to know those guys in the industry and we did it.
But I the first time when I got the issue
and I saw it, and I was like, man, I
wish Rush could see this, because Rush really had an
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impact on a lot of people. And I would tell him,
I said, Rush, And I think I even said this
on the air one time with him. I said, Rush,
you have the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. You
know you say you don't mint degrees but I'm telling you,
if you give me an honorary degree from the Limbaugh Institute,
I will put it in my office in Tallahassee, your
governor's office, it will be there, and I will put
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it over my degrees from Harvard Law School and Yale.
You know, one of the first guys to go through
Harvard and Yale and come out more conservative than when
I went in. And I'm very proud that I was
able to do that. I was like, Rush, I will
put that above that, and he basically said, you know,
as time went on, he's like, well, he's like the
one honorary degree if I do choose to do it,
the honorary degree that I would do would go to
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the governor of Florida, my Governor Ron DeSantis. And so
I always thought that that was something that was really
cool to be able to do that. But you know,
we miss him, you know, we miss his voice. He
was somebody that was very sharp on conservatism, but just
funny and excellent at the craft. I did the flag
at half staff when he was when he passed away,
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and I was proud to do that, and I was
proud to honor Rush. And so we'll be back we'll
start talking about how you beat the left. On the
other side of this break.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
You can't always get what you want, but you can
get Sean Hannity online at Hannity dot com.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Welcome back. This is Governor Ron DeSantis. I am filling
in for Sean. I mentioned in the last hour. I
have republished my first book, Desanta's seventy seventies dot Com
Dreams from our founding Fathers in Honor of America to fifty.
I didn't want a mass market if people had asked
me to put out a revised copy for many years,
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only seventeen hundred and seventy six copies. Everyone is signed
and numbered by me. I know a lot of people
have done it, and I want to thank you for
doing that. Now, how do you beat the left? How
do you approach the left as a conservative in this
day and age?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You know William F.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Buckley Man, this was probably after World War Two in
the nineteen fifties. He said the purpose of conservatism was
to stand to thwart history and yell stop stop the
further advances of the left. And you know, underlying assumption
in that is that the institutions and arrangements in society
were healthy. So if they're healthy, and you, as a conservative,
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are defending healthy institutions against leftist encroachment, and that makes
a lot of sense. I think the problem that we
have now is the left has corrupted so many of
our institutions. So as a conservative, if your view is
we just want to stop future advantages of the left,
well you may win that battle, but you are ultimately
losing that war. I don't believe that we can just
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simply concede the gains that the left has made. I
think we need to roll back leftism and recapture these institutions.
The mantra I use is we're going to win and
they're going to lose. And if you think about it,
Florida is a great example to show this can be done.
When I got elected in twenty eighteen, we were a
fifty to fifty state. These statewide races would go one percent.
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There were three hundred thousand more Democrats registered voters than Republicans.
When I got in, people said, tread carefully, don't rock
the boat, trim your conservative sales. It's a very delicate
political balance. And while I understood that advice, I rejected
that advice.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I said Listen, I got elected to be bold.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I'm going to do what I believe in, and I
think bold colors will lead to good results and the
politics I think will follow. But that's not even the point.
You got to do the right thing for the right reason.
So how have we done on all the things over
these last seven and a half years. Well, I just
signed a budget in the law. That is the fourth
straight year where Florida has reduced its budget, not adjusted
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for inflation, not population, obviously it is for those Our
budget four years ago went down, three years ago, three
years ago, went down, two years ago, and two years
ago went down this year. Where else are they reducing
spending year after year? If you compare our budget in
Florida to the budget of New York, and New York
has four million fewer people than we do now. New
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York's budget is two hundred and sixty eight billion. Our
budgets one hundred and seventeen billion dollars, and yet we're
producing the services that people need. Where is all that
money going since I've been governor? If you take all
the taxpayers supported debt that Florida's accumulated in its history
as a state, we've retired over fifty percent of it.
The State of Florida's government, in terms of the number
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of bureaucrats, is the smallest government per capita in the
entire United States of America. In fact, there are fewer
people working in state government today than the day I
took office in January of twenty nineteen. Don't tell me
you can't reduce government. And compare that to this decade
with the federal government. At the beginning of the decade,
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the federal government was spending four point four trillion dollars annually.
Now that's going up to seven point four trillion dollars.
The debt was twenty two trillion. Now it's up to
thirty nine trillion dollars. Florida shows it can be done.
And oh, by the way, we're reducing budgets like that,
while we have inflation that we have to deal with,
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and while we have population growth. You look at what
we've done in Florida. I was governor kind of during
the early stages of the unleashing of the woke mind
virus by the left, and it had a lot of momentum,
particularly in all these elite institutions. We're the first state
to ban DEI at our public universities. We banned our
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K twelve universities. We nuked ESG. While these big firms
we're trying to impose a leftist agenda through the economy.
No one was willing to stand up against that at
the time. We did, and we won those fights. Our
K through twelve schools teacher unions in Florida, I've signed
legislation allows for them to be decertified if they're partisan actors.
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They have no business doing business in Florida, and people
have the ability to fight back. We've also done universal
school choice. Every parent decides where that money is going
to go, and they can go to the school their choice.
Higher education. You can sit here and say we got
to do this. We got to do that. But a
lot of the faculty have been a big problem, and
so we now have in Florida all tenured professors have
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to undergo review every five years and can be terminated
for poor performance. So our universities have filtered out a
lot of these problematic faculties. And we've also set up
a classical education at our University Civic Institute. And importantly,
we allow the boards and the presidents of these universities
to hire faculty directly in there without them being blackballed
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by the existing factory. So we've brought in conservative scholars
from all over the country, even all over the world
in places like University of Florida. Had we not made
those changes, it would have taken us seventy five years
to be able to do that. Corporate activism that we saw.
We had a big fight against Disney that we won
about K twelve education, particularly the elementary schools and the
(22:30):
role of gender ideology, which shouldn't be involved in education,
but Disney wanted it to be there. They were the
eight hundred pound guerrilla in Florida. We stood up. We
got that victory and so many other things. Number One,
fighting illegal immigration. As Tom Homan said last hour, we
represent forty percent of all state level immigration enforcement arrests
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in the entire country, and we're a state that's seven
percent of the overall population. You look at law and order,
didn't do George Floyd Summer love in Florida. No riots,
no looting, and we stand on the side of law
abiding citizens and our crime rates out of fifty year low.
So that's just how you're not seeding this stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
To the left.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
We're taking control of that, we the people, and we're
going to make sure these institutions operate in the way
that our voters are intending and that conservatives want to see.
So what did the results have been. Well, twenty eighteen
we were fifty to fifty state. Fast forward to twenty
twenty two. I'm running for reelection. We had made gains
on voter registration. We were three hundred thousand in the
(23:33):
whole as Republicans. Then we were three hundred thousand above
the Democrats in November of twenty twenty two, and I
was able to win the biggest victory that any Republicans
won in the history of the state, twenty points one
point five million votes spread. Nobody thought that was possible,
winning huge margins of independence, women, Latino, all this stuff,
(23:53):
and we were able to do that. Now today the
state of Florida has one zero point five million more
registered Republicans than registered Democrats. We have never in the
modern history of the Republican Party seen such a decisive
shift in the conservative direction. And mind you, that is
(24:16):
happening against the advice of the political class that said,
if you're bold, you're going to lose support, it's just
the opposite. We drew a very sharp contrast with the left.
We took on a lot of their sacred cows, including
the gender ideology, fought the teacher union, all these different
things and delivered big results. And then we've created more Republicans. Yeah,
(24:41):
Republicans are moving to Florida two and that's been part
of it, but people have now shifted. I was able
to win Palm Beach County for the first time any
Republican in I think forty years was able to win
that in a governor's race that was like ground zero
for the Democrats. In Bush versus Gore, they would win
huge more margins there, and we flipped it red. Miami
(25:02):
Dade flipped red by over ten percent. So what it
shows you is exactly what Reagan said. People are going
to respond to bold colors. They're going to be energized
by bold colors. They are not going to flock to
somebody flying a banner of pale pastels. If you're squishy,
you're not willing to lead, you're not willing to stand
up for them, then it's not going to be something
(25:25):
that people are going to want to stand up for you.
And yes, look, COVID was a huge part standing up
against Fauci, standing up against all the nonsense that was
going on. You know, I was pilloried for that for many,
many months, and then six months into it, half the
country's vacationing in Florida are coming down. And then it
just became the evidence was what it was. People were
(25:46):
voting with their feet, but we were willing to lead
on that against the grain. We've also been willing to
stand up to special interests. And this is just something
that you know, politics, people have interests. I get it,
there's a lot of money. But if you look at
some of the things we've done, you know, we stood
up to big Sugar in Florida to do Everglades restoration.
We stood up against big Pharma to do Canadian drug imports.
(26:11):
You know, I vetoed the top priority of our big
investor own utility. We stood up against the medical industrial
complex with COVID, all these different things down the line.
When you stand up, yeah, you may get some heat
for it. There may be some vested interests that don't
like it, but the people will respond. So Florida is
an example not only that we can govern ourselves consistent
(26:32):
with the founder's vision, but that conservatism works. And when
Republicans are bold, when they're standing strong, doing big things,
the voters respond in kind. And don't let anyone tell
you that you need to be a squish to be
able to get elected. No one accused me when I
was running for reelection of being a squish. They knew
(26:54):
that I was going full bore, and so we were
rewarded with that. And so now what do you have
in Florida? You have the left was a sndant in
Florida a decade ago. They thought the state was going
to end up being a blue state. The left has
not been so thoroughly defeated in any jurisdiction over this
country in our lifetimes as they have been in the
(27:16):
free state of Florida. That's not just winning one election,
that's not just enacting a tax cut here or there.
That's at an institutional level, really neutering them so they're
not able to wield power against us. And my job
as governor as many things, but one of the things
I have to do is protect the people that I
represent from the pathologies of leftism, and these leftist politicians
(27:40):
when they get control, when they impose their ideology. Things decay,
cities collapse, states go into disrepair. We are not letting
that happen in the Free State of Florida. So have hope.
When you see all this crazy stuff going out there,
when you see some of these states doing so many
stupid things.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
There's no question that it can be done.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
We've shown it can be done, and it can be
done in other states and all across this country. Okay,
we'll be back on the back end. We'll talk a
little bit more about some of these great issues that
we have on our plate.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
While a mainstream media is asleep at the wheel, Hannity
watches on the job bringing you the news no one
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Speaker 5 (28:35):
Sean Kennedy, I.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Thought, bet you williamswingday hid going deep deep? Oh come
all right. I remember mom on going in Clee run and.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Turn whip book to me and actual they whip into
I don't know I can League seven up, I win.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Well, welcome back. This is Governor Ron DeSantis. That was
Ted Williams hitting a home run in nineteen forty one
All Star Game eighty five years ago.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Uh this month.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I think a lot of people that know me know
I played baseball all through college we my little league
team went to Williams Sport in the Little League World Series.
I was the baseball captain at Yale. Just something that
I've always liked and enjoyed. And we're coming up on
the All Star Game on Tuesday, home run Derbys on Monday.
But thinking back in history, two fifties very important. This
(29:53):
isn't quite as important, but eighty five years ago you
had one of the best baseball summers in the history
of the game because Joe DiMaggio was the Yankee Star
center fielder set a record by hitting in fifty six
consecutive games. And for those of you who've played baseball,
I mean I was happy if I had a four
or five game hitting streak. I mean, fifty six games.
The closest anyone's come is forty four. Pete Rose and
(30:16):
we Willie Keeler. It's almost unfathomable you can do that.
So it's like a major deal that that had happened.
And this is you know, Babe Ruth was retired, lou
garig was sick, so DiMaggio and Williams were kind of
the big icons, and so DiMaggio's hitting streak goes. He
gets fifty six games, and then Ted Williams is hitting
four twenty four, fifteen, four to ten and he gets
(30:38):
towards the end of the season with a chance to
hit four hundred, which for those of you who know baseball,
that's very difficult to do and no one had done
it for like a ten years previous. And his manager
even said, sit out the last season because you're at
four hundred. Don't ruin the record, and Ted Williams said,
no way am I sitting out. It is not going
to be a record if I don't do the whole thing.
(30:58):
So he get into the last double header and he
was just under four hundred. I think it would have
rounded up to four hundred, but people would have said
it wasn't and if he didn't do well, he was
not going to get that record, and he ended up
going six for eight in the doubleheader, finished with four
h six and to this day, nobody has hit four hundred.
No one's come that close. Tony Gwynn was the closest
(31:20):
in ninety four. Maybe he would add a shot if
they didn't have the strike, but those were two big
American heroes, and especially Ted Williams because he can potentially
be viewed as the best hitter that ever lived. He's
one of the best fighter pilots that ever lived, serving
World War Two in Korea, and he was down in
Florida showing people he was one of the best fishermen
of all time as well. So remarkable achievements, a remarkable summer.
(31:44):
If you guys are interested in baseball, I would suggest
going back and looking at that season if you haven't
done it. And I'll be watching the home run derby
in the All Star Game. I got an eight year
old who's big into baseball and it should be a
good time. So we'll be back on the other side
of the break. We are going to talk about artificial
intelligence and the role that that's going to have in
(32:05):
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