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Hi friends, Gene Valentino. Quick call out to all of you on our network and our subscriber base. Welcome Eric Bolling. Bolling is with Real America’s Voice—news broadcaster, anchorman, and commentator from days gone by with other networks. He’s with Real America’s Voice right now.
0:16
And the exciting news, which is what I’m pushing out for him, is his visit right here in the panhandle of Florida—the Flora-Bama on the Alabama border, literally on the Alabama-Florida line. Eric Bolling, welcome aboard. Tell the story.
0:34
Thank you, Gene. Really, really good to be with you again, my friend.
0:37
Yeah, so we’re doing a show at Flora-Bama, a live show. You know, I left Fox in 2017/2018, and I immediately started doing some independent stuff. My first stop after Fox was Flora-Bama. John McInnis—a great conservative, really great bar owner, host, just an all-around good guy—invited me to do an independent show from Flora-Bama. It was fantastic. And this is my first trip back there, and it happens to be with Real America’s Voice.
1:09
So we’ve been doing this once a month—the last Friday of every month—in a different city. We did Orlando, we did The Villages, we did Nashville, Tennessee, and we were in Las Vegas last month. And this stop will be back at the Flora-Bama on the Florida-Alabama line.
1:23
If you don’t know the bar, there are something like 40 bars in this one complex on the beach, and right down the middle of it is the Florida-Alabama state line. And the way it works is at one point in the evening—and Gene, I’ve got to be honest with you, I’m not sure which state closes first—but one of them closes at 2:00 a.m. and one of them closes at 3:00 a.m. for selling liquor. And everyone goes from what I guess would be the Florida side at 2:00 in the morning over to the Alabama side at 3:00 in the morning.
1:48
That is correct.
1:49
It’s great. It’s just such a great time. Great conservative people there. But I will tell you, get this: Ron DeSantis is going to come, and he’s going to spend the whole hour with me on stage.
2:00
Wonderful.
2:02
I’ll give you a little inside baseball right here from the last 180 seconds. Late last night they called back and said, “The Governor is going to have a problem with Friday and might have to reschedule.” I said, “Wait a minute. We’ve been promoting this. Everyone’s waiting for the Governor to come. We’ve sold hundreds of tickets already.” They’re basically free—just a couple of bucks to make sure people who are signing up are coming.
2:24
And I said, “Really? What can he do? Can he fix the other side of the schedule?” They said last night, “We’ll tell you tomorrow morning.” I’ve been on edge all morning—no pun intended—and about three or four minutes ago, they called and said, “He’s in. He’s good for Friday.”
2:36
So the Governor will spend the hour with us. We’ll take you through everything. We’ll talk about the Democratic Socialists of America taking over the world—certainly the United States, if they want to. Some of the things that are important to Floridians like property taxes, affordability, those things, immigration… and then there’s a big race for Senate right here in Florida.
2:59
It’s Ashley Moody, who was Ron DeSantis’ Attorney General. DeSantis put her in the Senate seat when Marco Rubio went to the administration, so she has to run for that seat. She’s very much the favorite, but she’s up against this new Democratic Socialist by the name of Angela Nixon. This woman had almost no money, and she took down a well-entrenched, established Democrat with a ton of money. She took him down with virtually no money.
3:31
So DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, have nefarious things planned for this country, and they’re winning. It’s very, very scary. So we’re going to try and get Ashley Moody to come out as well. It’s going to be a lot of fun, though. And you know, we always have music, Gene, as you know, and just have a good old time. So hopefully the folks come out.
3:48
Folks, Eric is touring America, and what he’s doing here at the Flora-Bama in Perdido Bay near Pensacola is what he’s doing nationwide. Eric, you couldn’t have picked a better spot for the panhandle of Florida—conservative by nature. John McInnis and his team have done a yeoman’s job at maintaining the legacy of the Flora-Bama, the heritage and the inspiration. It’s turned into an edifice of Americana there.
4:17
You’ll have a great show. *The Edge* is always worth listening to, folks. Knowing Ron DeSantis will be on with you is really great. What about the SAVE Act? Do you think you’re going to get any help with that conversation?
4:36
Boy, oh boy. So, I’m a hardcore, original gangster MAGA, America First Trump supporter. I’m trying to figure out how John Thune wants to stay in politics being an establishment RINO and bucking the President on something that I would say somewhere between 80% and 90% of the country is in favor of across all political platforms.
5:00
Even the left is generally in favor of the SAVE Act—or at least getting voter ID to vote in our elections. Maybe they don’t like some of the deportation parts of it, but they would vote for it. For some reason, Republicans have the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is the time to do it, and I cannot understand it for the life of me.
5:16
I believe it’s political suicide for John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader. I hope it gets pushed through, and then Trump retains the House and the Senate—the Republicans do—and he can get rid of John Thune and get someone else in that very important Senate Majority Leader seat.
5:36
Yeah, we had Rick Scott on last week here on Grassroots Truthcast, and I put a call into him to let him know that you were going to be at the Flora-Bama. I haven’t heard back yet, so you may have more company than you want. But now there’s a guy who talks about the SAVE Act without compromise or equivocation. He needs that, he wants that in place, and so does the panhandle of Florida, my friend. You’ll be in great company over here.
6:06
Oh yeah, we’re going to have a lot of fun. Gene, we hope to see you, my brother. Hope you come on.
6:10
I’ll be there. I look forward to being with you.
6:12
Good, good stuff. Well, looking forward to it. You know, I spent 12 years at Fox News, and these relationships I developed there—Ron DeSantis, President Trump, Rick Scott when he was Governor, my friend Marco Rubio—are so solid, Gene, that these people are coming on. Real America’s Voice is a small network, but we’re growing fast. We’re in the digital space primarily, plus some satellite, cable, and radio, and growing really strongly. Bringing these high-level decision-makers on makes me proud of the work I did at Fox, and it’s coming home to roost this coming Friday.
6:55
So are many of your supporters. We remember you from days gone by and like where you are now. And frankly, Eric, I’ve got to tell you, you’re in real good MAGA country here. You mentioned the DSA a moment ago—around here, when you say DSA, flags start getting waved, along with a few other things. There’s an antithesis of DSA around here, and they’re not going to stand for any George Soros-type of compromise to the constitutional republic we’re so proud of.
7:33
You’re representing that and promoting that, and you couldn’t have picked a better place than the Flora-Bama right here in the panhandle. Glad to have you. Any other words in your tight schedule that you want to throw out to the group to make sure they attend?
7:48
Just come on out. It’s going to be a blast. We’ve got several hundred tickets sold, and as you know, it’s a fairly small venue, so make sure you come. Just show up if we need more room. John McInnis has been great. I don’t think we’ll need the Kenny Chesney stage with 20,000 or 30,000 folks out on the water, but we’ll fill up a nice room and have a lot of fun with the Governor, maybe a Senator or two. That would be phenomenal. And maybe a high-level personality like yourself, Gene! Love to see you.
8:21
Well, we’ll try to get the sheriff there to at least help us with the parking, I’ll tell you that much.
8:25
I’d love to talk to the sheriff. That’s the other thing real quick—Carmine Marceno, the Lee County Sheriff, and the guy from Brevard County, the guy who loves the dogs (his name escapes me at this moment)—great sheriffs. Florida has the best set of sheriffs, and there’s one reason and one reason only: because the Governor’s office backs the sheriffs’ departments.
8:42
If you go anywhere else in the country, there is no support by a governor for his sheriffs like Ron DeSantis has shown to the sheriffs of the state of Florida. That’s why our immigration numbers are great, that’s why our crime numbers are great, and that’s why the state is growing faster than any state in the Union. They’ve done a great job.
9:05
I hope Byron Donalds—and I think it’s going to be him, pretty clearly it’s going to be him—can take that torch and run with it. Some people aren’t loving Byron Donalds as a candidate, but I think he’s going to be the standard torchbearer, and we’ll see if he comes through with some real good, strong, solid DeSantis-style work.
9:22
Remember, DeSantis only won by a few thousand votes. Imagine having that Gillum guy! He’s in prison now—he’s a felon behind bars for like the third time in eight years. Unbelievable. But it could have been him; instead, we got Ron DeSantis by a couple thousand votes. Thank God we did.
9:43
Yeah. And prior to that, Rick Scott when he was Governor. That’s when I was county commissioner representing the area that you’re going to be in. What a great handoff from Scott to DeSantis, and now hopefully Byron Donalds. This movement is underway. The more they talk about this deep state and the Democratic Socialist Party, the more conservative Republicans come out of the woodwork.
10:11
Folks, this coming Friday, 3:00 p.m. at the Flora-Bama right here in Perdido Key—3:00 p.m. Central time—with Eric Bolling for Real America’s Voice. Eric, any closing comments?
10:27
No, just for clarity, it’s for Real America’s Voice. I have *The Edge*, which is my podcast about male health, performance, and motivation—how it’s okay to be a dude again in a world where woke culture was holding us down for the last 10 years or so. But this event will be part of the Real America’s Voice summer series as we travel the country, just for clarity.
10:50
Thanks for the clarification, and thank you everybody for joining us for a special edition of Gene Valentino’s Grassroots Truthcast. Get the word out: Friday the 28th, 3:00 p.m. Central time at the Flora-Bama with Eric Bolling and RAV.
11:03
See you soon, Gene. Thank you. Bye-bye. Take care.
