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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 Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
For over sixty years, the citizens of Ocala have seen strange lights over their forest. Could the Navy base deep in the woods be the explanation? Or is there something beyond our world paying visits to the little town?
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Songs
Morning at the Creek by Lobo Loco
Autumn Morning by Lobo Loco
Arround the Village by Lobo Loco
Additional Audio
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Monday Aug 05, 2019
Yellow fever and malaria tore about the south for over a century. Fifty years before anyone had a treatment for either of these diseases, one Florida man invented a machine that could've saved millions... if only anyone had listened.
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Songs
Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco
Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Friday Jul 26, 2019
Friday Jul 26, 2019
It is the one-year anniversary of the creation of this show. Today, let's celebrate how far we've come, and interrogate all of the places we have yet to go.
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Songs
Things You Never Known by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco
Autumn Morning by Lobo Loco
Good Thoughts by Lobo Loco
Hey Go by Lobo Loco
Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco
Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco
Sources
https://www.orlando.gov/Parks-the-Environment/Directory/Wetlands-Park
https://patch.com/connecticut/windsor/it-takes-mark-twain-to-describe-new-england-weather-daca7672
https://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/arts/twain1.htm
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/02/16/mandela-effect-false-memories/#.XTZS2JNKikY
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article226863744.html
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Around Florida's coasts, a small population of birds with an unusual hunting habit. As their numbers dwindle in the state, a group of volunteers fight to keep the birds safe.
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Songs
Arround the Lake by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco
Speedy Delta by Lobo Loco
Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco
Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco
Sources
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/birds/shorebirdsseabirds/black-skimmer/
https://birdsna.org/Species-Account/bna/species/blkski/introduction
https://fl.audubon.org/sites/default/files/audubon_beach_birds_identification_terns_gulls.pdf
https://www.audubon.org/about/history-audubon-and-waterbird-conservation
https://fl.audubon.org/get-involved/coastal-bird-stewardship
https://fl.audubon.org/coastal-conservation/floridas-rooftop-nesting-birds
Friday Jul 12, 2019
Friday Jul 12, 2019
John Young flew six different missions for NASA, each one unique and important in its own way. In his forty-two years of service, he set firsts unlike anyone else in the program. What makes him so special? And how did he get a secret sandwich into space?
We sit down with Brendan Byrne of WMFE 90.7 News to discuss Young, Apollo 10, and the future of space travel in the state of Florida. Check out his podcast, Are We There Yet? from WMFE!
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Songs
Arround the Village by Lobo Loco
Hey Go by Lobo Loco
Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco
Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco
Arround the Lake by Lobo Loco
Sources
https://www.britannica.com/science/Gemini-spacecraft-and-space-program
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/satchel-gemini-3-molly-brown
https://www.space.com/39807-nasa-gemini-3-crewed-mission-photos.html
https://www.space.com/39341-john-young-smuggled-corned-beef-space.html
https://www.space.com/37527-gemini-10-photos.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-and-peanuts-celebrate-apollo-10-s-50th-anniversary
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/blog/snoopy-charlie-brown-and-apollo-10
Friday Jun 28, 2019
Friday Jun 28, 2019
Flagler's story didn't end when he died in 1913. The next century would just continue to shape and change and influence his legacy. A man would fly to Cuba, his widow would face her own troubles, and his final project would be left in ruins.
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Art for the series by Lauren Nix. Follow her on Instagram here!
Songs
Hey Go by Lobo Loco
Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco
Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco
Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco
Out Of Paradise by Lobo Loco
Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Sources
https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article1951587.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-07-02-8902190293-story.html
http://www.casamarinaresort.com/about-en.html
https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/travel/history-on-the-beach/njthP/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pan-am-s-first-office
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/irma-most-intense-hurricane-florida-keys-1935-history/
Friday Jun 21, 2019
Friday Jun 21, 2019
The last fifteen years of Flagler's life somehow managed to be more influential than the previous seventy. Flagler had done the impossible already, but now, as the 20th century began, he set out to build a railroad across an ocean all the way to Key West.
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Art for the series by Lauren Nix. Follow her on Instagram here!
Songs
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco
Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco
Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco
Things You Never Known by Lobo Loco
Sometimes It Rains by Lobo Loco
Road to Lafayette by Loco Loco
Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco
Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco
Sources
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/panama-canal
https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/244350
https://www.floridarambler.com/historic-florida-getaways/florida-keys-pigeon-key-seven-mile-bridge/
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/ingraham/expedition/Drainage.htm
https://www.floridastateparks.org/learn/history-fort-zachary
Friday Jun 14, 2019
Friday Jun 14, 2019
Flagler and Plant were racing each other to build a railroad to Miami. Who got there first doesn't matter in retrospect. What matters is the things they built on the way, the heartaches they faced, and the legacies that still carry on to this day.
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Art for the series by Lauren Nix. Follow her on Instagram here!
Songs
Indian Summer by Lobo Loco
Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco
Out of Paradise by Lobo Loco
Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco
Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco
Visions of 2018 by Lobo Loco
Autumn Morning by Lobo Loco
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Morning at the Creek by Lobo Loco
Sources
https://www.plantmuseum.com/about/history
http://hbp.sunstyledesign.com/?page_id=169
https://www.plantmuseum.com/discover/learn/chronology
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1992-05-10-9205090446-story.html
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/ingraham/expedition/IngrahamJE.htm
https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00095319/00001/1x
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/ingraham/expedition/TuttleJ.htm
https://www.sanfordfl.gov/about-sanford/history-and-historic-preservation
https://ormondhistory.org/the-hotel-ormond/
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Panic_of_1893
https://www.aar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/AAR-Short-History-American-Freight-Railroads.pdf
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
Henry Flagler blazed the trail for the modern Florida. How did he arrive at the Sunshine State in the first place? What was his life before he ever stepped foot here? What pushed him into this dizzying, final chapter in his life?
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Art for the series by Lauren Nix. Follow her on Instagram here!
Songs
Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco
Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco
Desert Ghost Town by Lobo Loco
Traveling to Louisiana by Lobo Loco
Bad Old Daemons by Lobo Loco
Autumn Morning by Lobo Loco
Morning at the Creek by Lobo Loco
Sources
Henry Morrison Flagler Biography - Flagler Museum
Standard Oil - Encyclopedia Britannica
John D. Rockefeller - Cleveland Historical
HOTEL TO COLLEGE - Flagler College
Presidential Days in the Nation’s Oldest City - The St. Augustine Record
United States presidential election of 1888 - Encyclopedia Britannica
Florida's Role in the Civil War: "Supplier of the Confederacy" - Exploring Florida
Friday May 24, 2019
Friday May 24, 2019
When the Orange Bird was originally conceived, his reach and connections could not have been comprehended. He was made to sell an idea. What came next changed American history forever.
Songs
Things You Never Known by Lobo Loco
Indian Summer by Lobo Loco
Hey Go by Lobo Loco
Speedy Delta by Lobo Loco
Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco
Springtime by Lobo Loco
Additional Audio
Walt Disney Studios Presents The Story and Songs of The Orange Bird Disneyland Record
Donald Duck Orange Juice w Ivor Barry and Voice of Donald Duck by Clarence Nash commercial 1980
Anita Bryant Florida orange juice ad
Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com
Pat Rocco: Harvey Milk speech (1978)
Sources
The Orange Juice Boycott That Changed America - Extra Crispy
Airships and Oranges: The Commercial Art of the Second Gold Rush - Smithsonian Magazine
Cooperative Economy in the Great Depression - Jonathan Rowe
The Unusual Story of Walt Disney World's Most Mysterious Mascot - Theme Park Tourist
Florida Gay Rights Activists Boycott Orange Juice, 1977-1980 - Global Nonviolent Action Database
Fighting with Fruit: Anita Bryant’s long-lasting legacy - South Florida Gay News
Perspective: The Johns Committee and its infamy - Tampa Bay Times