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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 Oct 28, 2019
Monday Oct 28, 2019
The Annie Russell Theatre is almost ninety years old now, but the lore wrapped up in the building will stretch much, much longer. Every person who encounters it has something new to share, fracturing its ghost story more and more every time.
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains frequent discussion of death, and a brief mention of suicide.
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Grab your tickets for Private Lies at the Annie Russell Theatre right here!
Thank you again to the Winter Park Public Library! You can see what they are up to right here.
Songs
Sometimes It Rains by Lobo Loco
Streetlight Silent Film by Lobo Loco
Autumn Morning by Lobo Loco
Arround The Village by Lobo Loco
Things You Never Known by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
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Monday Oct 21, 2019
Monday Oct 21, 2019
The Florida Bonneted Bat exists nowhere else in the world. They are some of the most fascinating animals in the country and, thanks to a group of brilliant scientists, we have gotten to no them more and more before it's too late.
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Check out more of Dr. Frank Ridgley's work on the Florida Bonneted Bat right here!
Songs
Autumn Morning by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Arround the Village by Lobo Loco
Piano Parapentes by Lobo Loco
Morning at the Creek by Lobo Loco
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Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Every story we tell has some falsehoods. We complicate or muddle without meaning to and the story always changes. What happens, then, to the stories about grander concepts, mysteries beyond our understanding? When those urban legends start manifesting, what new shapes do our stories take?
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Songs
Streetlight Silent Film by Lobo Loco
Arround the Village by Lobo Loco
Autumn Morning by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Traveling to Lousiana by Lobo Loco
Hear more music from Lobo Loco here!
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Florida's egrets were on the brink of demise. Enter Guy Bradley, an outdoorsman who, for three short years, fought adamantly to keep the birds safe. Then, on one sweltering July day, his mission was violently cut short.
Content warning: This episode makes frequent reference to death, and a brief reference to gun violence.
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Check out the primary source material for this episode, Death in the Everglades by Stuart B. McIver.
Songs
Streetlife Silent Film by Lobo Loco
Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco
Hey Go by Lobo Loco
Visions of 2018 by Lobo Loco
Things You Never Known by Lobo Loco
Monday Sep 30, 2019
Monday Sep 30, 2019
Growing your own plants is harder. Growing your own plants in Florida is even harder. We take inspiration from the professionals, but getting it right can be nearly impossible.
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Find out more about Orlando's botanical garden, Leu Gardens!
Read Robert Bowden's book, Florida Fruit & Vegetable Gardening!
Songs
Springtime by Lobo Loco
Nice to Be Near You by Lobo Loco
Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco
Visions of 2018 by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
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Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Authors leave a trail of legacy and memories behind them. They cannot control how their words will age or change, but, in the case of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, she created a new vocabulary to speak about Florida that we still use to this day.
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The voice of Marjorie was Bailey DeVoe. You can see Bailey DeVoe in Andrew Lippa's Wild Party the Musical at the Aeon Life Theater in Tampa!
Read more of Dr. Jill Jones' work here.
You can read Lauren Groff's article about Marjorie here.
You can check out more of Willie Green's life and legacy here.
Songs
Things You Never Known by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Piano Parapentes by Lobo Loco
Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco
Hey Go by Lobo Loco
Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco
Brain Instrumental Retro by Lobo Loco
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Monday Sep 16, 2019
Monday Sep 16, 2019
Nine months before Walt Disney World took Central Florida by storm, one unusual little theme park tried to leave an impact of their own. Why did so many parks try to take on the Mouse? And what do we get in return when we relish in nostalgia?
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Songs
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco
Traveling to Lousiana by Lobo Loco
Piano Parapentes by Lobo Loco
Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco
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Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
From our early Spanish years, to our secession from the United States, our flag has been a playground of ideologies. Why has our state struggled to find its own identity? And how can Floridians fight to control their own symbols and narratives?
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Songs
You Get The Blues by Lobo Loco
Brain - Instrumental Retro by Lobo Loco
Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco
Easy Night by Lobo Loco
Piano Parapentes by Lobo Loco
Hear more music from Lobo Loco here!
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
The secret pathways of the Everglades have puzzled explorers for decades. However, for the criminals of Prohibition-era Miami, the maze of the swamp was the perfect way to escape justice.
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Songs
Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco
Hey Go by Lobo Loco
Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Most of John Huston's 1948 classic Key Largo was actually filmed in California. This doesn't matter for the people of the real Key Largo, who have built a city around the movie's popularity. How much of it is truly inspired by the island?
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Songs
Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco
Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Additional Audio
Hurricanes in the Movies: Hurricane scene from film "Key Largo"