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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.
Episodes
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Within a year, the new program to bring Americans to the moon will have begun. This week, we discuss the future of the Artemis Program with Brendan Byrne from Are We There Yet?
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Watch Brendan's 5 Year Anniversary show here!
Listen to the other Brendan episodes here!
Songs
You Get The Blues
Speedy Delta
Arround the Village
Things You Never Known
Traveling Horse
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
A birder who quits his job. A band that caused a riot. An explorer bent on finding the mouth of the Mississippi River. It's spring, which means it's time to explore some stories left on the cutting room floor from our season so far!
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Read about the Strawberry Girls right here!
The audio from the Led Zeppelin concert can be found here!
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Brownie the Dog and Other Tales
Songs
Madness is Everywhere
Desert Ghost Town
Smuggler
Flower Meadow Marriage
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
The show was just featured in the New York Times!
When it comes to Florida strawberries, there is no town more responsible for their presence than Plant City in Hillsborough County. And every year, for nearly a century, the city of Plant City has nominated a Strawberry Queen.
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Read more about Plant City's agricultural troubles here.
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Songs
Blackbird
Arround the Lake
Springtime
Love After Midnight
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
The show was just featured in the New York Times!
In the city of Jacksonville, two entrepreneurs brought the original Burger King to life. In a much smaller town, nearly a thousand miles away, another family opened the original Burger King. Both shops were the first.
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Read more about this story, and other fast-food chain histories, here!
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Songs
Brain - Instrumental Retro
Traveling Horse
Smuggler
Traveling to Lousiana
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Looking for some new bookstores? Want to share some of your favorite local spots? This episode is just for you, about the amazing local bookstores in Florida that mean so much to us.
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Songs
Frozen Creek
Traveling Horse
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Many Florida books have been lost to time. In a tiny shop on the Atlantic Coast, one family has spent the last several decades saving these books from the brink of extinction.
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Thank you to Julie Alexander for her time and assistance! Find out more about her shop right here!
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Songs
Peaceful Morning
Smuggler
Blackbird
Love After Midnight
Good Thoughts
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Outside of Alaska, the state of Florida is home to one of the densest populations of nesting bald eagles in the United States. There was once a time, however, when we almost lost our eagles. Today, everyday Floridians keep them safe.
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Thank you to Shawnlei Breeding for all of her help! Learn more about EagleWatch right here.
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Songs
Brain - Instrumental Retro
Flower Meadow Marriage
Traveling Horse
Peaceful Morning
Hear more music from Lobo Loco here!
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
On one night in 1991, the whole world had their eyes focused on the Tampa Stadium. What followed was fear, excitement, patriotism, and one of the most famous Super Bowl endings in all of football history.
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Watch Whitney Houston's National Anthem performance here!
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The Early Years of (Orlando) Magic
Songs
Speedy Delta
Madness is Everywhere
Hey Go
Work Wonders
Love After Midnight
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
In this bonus episode, we take a walk through the Sanford Museum with their curator, Brigitte Stephenson, as we discuss all of the figures who passed through this town, from the founder's family to Zora Neale Hurston, from TV magicians to world-famous boxing coaches.
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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!
Songs
Blackbird
Traveling to Lousiana
Arround the Village
Indian Summer
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Content Warning: This episode briefly discusses racial violence.
For the 100th episode of Wait Five Minutes, we explore the vibrant and complicated history of Sanford, one of the most important cities in Central Florida, where Florida's history can be painted with broad strokes through the story of just one town.
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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!
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FLAGLER - Chapter 2: The Iron Frontier
Songs
Good Thoughts
Arround the Lake
Flower Meadow Marriage
Traveling Horse
Piano Parapentes