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Episode 1.
The first conversation. Who Adam is, where he came from, and what this show is actually going to be about — starting at the lot and ending up, somehow, in Tallahassee.
Vol. I · № 01
Est. 2026
Season One · Now Streaming
The Adam Botana Podcast
Carny to Congress
From the carnival circuit to the committee room — a weekly conversation with the representative from Florida's 80th district.
Presented by Bay Water Boat Club
Volume I · Prologue
A show about the long road from the carnival circuit to the committee room — with the people who actually built the boats, washed the decks, ran the rides, and wrote the bills.
The Adam Botana Podcast · A Weekly Broadcast
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Meet your host.
Adam Botana spent his childhood on the road with his parents and brother running carnival concessions across the country. Today he chairs the Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee in Tallahassee — and still washes boats when the schedule allows.
Born in Naples, raised in Bonita Springs. A GED, a grease-stained apron, and a long stretch of state fairgrounds that shaped a worldview most politicians can't fake. Adam's family eventually put down anchor at Bay Water Boat Club — and a kid who hauled funnel-cake oil learned to run a marina, a dock crew, and a fleet of 50-plus boats.
In 2020 he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives for District 80 on a water-policy platform written by someone who actually works on the water. He's been reelected ever since. In this podcast, Adam brings the room: guests from the legislature, the marina, the midway, and the marina-adjacent everywhere else — and asks the questions he's spent forty years wanting answered.
BornApr 27 '84
District80 Florida
Elected2020
Committee ChairNat. Resources
1984
Born Naples, FL. Raised Bonita Springs.
1990s
On the road with family running carnival concessions.
2000s
Helps build Bay Water Boat Club — washing, then running.
2020
Elected to the Florida House, District 80.
2022
Named Majority Chief Floor Whip.
2024
Chairs the Natural Resources & Disasters Subcommittee.
The pilot.
The first conversation. An introduction to the show, the host, and where this is going. Subscribe below to hear the next one.
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