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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 Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Florida is flat. Florida has hills. Both are true, and every story we tell ourselves about our state changes each time we tell them. In Season 4 of Wait Five Minutes, we'll talk about stories and lies, falsehoods and half-truths.
Season 4 premieres on Monday, June 22nd!
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Read more about the elevation of our state (and others) in this report!
Songs
Springtime
Good Thoughts
Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
Olivia Matthews puts a little bit of herself into every story her tells. Her voice is essential to the plays she creates and, when someone sees her work, she hopes the empathy leaves an impact.
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You don't need to go back to the beginning! Check out these episodes:
Billy the Swan, Kristen Arnett, and Taxidermy in Florida
The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!
Songs
Good Times
Brain - Instrumental Retro
Smuggler
Things You Never Known
Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
Read Cat Tale and Craig's other books right here!
Check out Craig's work at the Florida Phoenix right here!
Craig Pittman writes about Florida with a signature snark and an underlying optimism. In Cat Tale, he chronicles the story of the Florida panther and those who sought to keep it alive. How he wrote the story itself is an adventure all its own.
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You don't need to go back to the beginning! Check out these episodes:
After Hurricane Andrew (feat. Craig Pittman)
Skunk Ape (feat. the Florida Panther)
The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!
Songs
Brain - Instrumental Retro
Traveling Horse
Hey Go
Speedy Delta
Bad Old Daemons
Echoes Boogie Dancehall
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
Check out more about the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey right here!
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When you work for the Audubon, your career is dedicated to the birds and their preservation. For Laura VonMutius, working with them and sharing them with others are one in the same.
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The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!
Songs
Traveling Horse
Around the Lake
Brain - Instrumental Retro
Smuggler
Good Thoughts
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
A few final thoughts and a recap of the theme in Season Three of Wait Five Minutes: HOPE.
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Watch the full performance of Frank Sinatra and Eddie Hodges from A Hole In The Head!
Listen to the Kennedy campaign version of High Hopes right here!
The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!
Songs
Indian Summer
Springtime
Speedy Delta
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Read Gabrielle Calise's companion piece to this episode right here!
Off the interstate in the middle of the state lies a museum with shuttered doors. Inside those hangars is the largest private collection of airplanes in the world. It was once a popular tourist attraction, with a plane on the side of the highway, but if its owner and curator has his way, it will be a brand new city all its own.
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Songs
Echoes Boogie Dancehall
Traveling to Louisiana
Evening Campfire
Brain - Instrumental Retro
Good Thoughts
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
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It is believed that Florida has more ghost towns than any other state east of the Mississippi. In a time where many of our hometowns have found themselves vacant, how these towns fell away can be a reminder and a warning.
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If you enjoyed this episode, check out these:
Indian River Fruit Company, Part One
The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!
Songs
Traveling to Louisiana
Hey Go
Smuggler
You Get The Blues
Things You Never Known
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
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In the darkened swamp of the Everglades, as civilization ripped away at the edges of the wilderness, a scoutmaster wandered into the darkness. In a clearing of the woods, he cast he eyes to the sky and what he saw can never be explained.
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Thank you to Denise Stoner of the Florida Chapter of MUFON! You can pick up your copy of her book right here!
If you enjoyed this episode, check out these:
You can read more about the Everglades Incident here!
You can read Captain Ruppelt's book here!
The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!
Songs
Streetlight Silent Film
Desert Ghost Town
Smuggler
Piano Parapentes
Speedy Delta
Traveling Horse
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
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Throughout the 1960s, cinema made its way to Florida’s shores through jungle adventure movies. One producer brought his troupe of animal actors with him and changed Homosassa forever.
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Thank you to Jack Evans from the Tampa Bay Times. You can read Jack's profile of Lu here and you can donate to the Tampa Bay Times here!
Thank you to Kathy Turner from Citrus County. Check out the Courthouse Museum here!
If you want to read more about Ivan Tors, check out this Biscayne Times article about his life!
If you enjoyed this episode, check out these:
The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!
Songs
Evening Campfire
Smuggler
Echoes Boogie Dancehall
Traveling Horse
Good Thoughts
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Rumor has it that President Grover Cleveland once slept at the old Rendezvous Inn on the Homosassa River. A pair of married historians in Citrus County hope to uncover the truth.
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Thank you to Kathy Turner from Citrus County. Check out the Courthouse Museum here!
The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!
Songs
Springtime
Hey Go
Love After Midnight