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Wait Five Minutes: The Floridian Podcast is about the curious stories and cultural changes sweeping through the Sunshine State. Join us every Monday for an informative and charming look into an issue on America’s infamous peninsula.
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Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
CORRECTION: The Florida Wildflower Foundation does NOT give land grants. The Foundation grant programs provide funding for native plantings on public lands.
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First Lady Lady Bird Johnson believed in beautifying America. What came from the project she helped create now allows the wildflowers of Florida to flourish - especially along our roadways.
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Thank you to Stacey Matrazzo for her help on this episode! Learn more about the Florida Wildflower Foundation here!
Listen to this previous episode, about gardening in Florida!
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Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
In the spring of 1927, Thomas Edison visited the Philadelphia Athletics at their spring training facility. What followed created a story that has been repeated and changed over the following century.
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Listen to the previous episode about baseball, about the Havana Sugar Kings!
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Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
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Before the railroads came to the Atlantic Coast of Florida, the only way to get mail down to Miami was on foot. It was a dangerous walk made weekly by a select few: the Barefoot Mailmen.
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Thank you to Rose Guerrero for her help! Check out more from the Historical Society of Palm Beach County here!
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Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
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Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
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The Florida State Legislature has just passed a bill that has been widely dubbed by critics as homophobic and baseless. It is the next chapter in a repeated story of anti-gay movements in Florida's history.
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Thank you to Brian Fehler for his permission to reuse our interview. Read his article about the Purple Pamphlet here.
Sources for the episode:
The Trevor Project Condemns Florida “Don’t Say Gay” Bill Targeting LGBTQ Students
Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill passed, headed to DeSantis amid student protests - Tampa Bay Times
‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill passes in Florida, goes to governor - AP News
Florida Just Passed The "Don't Say Gay" Bill. Here’s What It Means for Kids - Time
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Barbara Howar Confronts Anita Bryant In 1977 Interview!
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
This week, Lilly Anderson-Messec, the Director of North Florida Programs for the Florida Native Plant Society, takes us on a hike through the North Florida woods. We're looking for the Florida Torreya, a functionally extinct tree in need of our help.
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Read more about the TorreyaKeepers here!
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Listen to our first episode about the Florida Torreya here!
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Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
In 1992, a man named Chuck Faulkner discovered almost two hundred paintings by a relatively unknown Florida painter named Harry Sonntag. That was just the beginning of an adventure still unfolding today.
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Thank you to Chuck Faulkner for all of his assistance in retelling this story for the episode! Read more of Chuck's story here!
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Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
In her book, Mules and Men, Zora Neale Hurston catalogues the folk stories, songs, ritual and practices of Black Americans in the 1920s. How she wrote the book - her travels, her partners, and her failings - layer in the story to detail a fascinating chapter in the author's life.
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Read more from Zora Neale Hurston here!
Read Wrapped in Rainbows by Valerie Boyd here!
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The recording of Zora Neale Hurston is from the Library of Congress and does not belong to Nicholas D'Alessandro or Wait Five Minutes. The credit of the song goes to the following:
Herbert Halpert 1939 Southern States Recording Expedition (AFC 1939/005) American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
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Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
On the morning of Valentine's Day, 1929, seven mobsters were murdered in the streets of Chicago. Al Capone, the man who coordinated the massacre was in the town he had called his vacation home: Miami, Florida.
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Thank you so much to Geoff Schumacher from the Mob Museum for all of your assistance! Check out more from the Mob Museum here!
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Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
127 years ago to the day, the sun set in Florida and so did the temperature. A freeze swept over the state, devastating the citrus industry for the second time in six weeks. Florida would never be the same.
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Thank you so much to Brigitte Stephenson and the Sanford Museum for all of their help! Check out the Museum and plan a visit here!
Thank you to Melissa Procko from the Orange County Regional History Center for all of your help. Plan your visit to the History Center here!
All of the music was originally composed.