Welcome to Florida
Best selling author, award winning reporter and Florida native Craig Pittman is joined by radio personality and Florida transplant Chadd Scott to discuss the state's history, people, politics, environment, animals, current events and weirdness. You'll hear great storytelling and have great fun in each weekly episode.
Episodes
227 episodes
Episode 222: The Dry Tortugas
A secret meeting about water policy convened by a Florida congressman allowed polluting industrie...
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Episode 222
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Episode 221: OMGitsWicks
Craig recently turned a story in to "Flamingo" magazine about Miami's Criteria Recording Studios, one of the 20th century's most influential hit makers.Our guest this episode is soci...
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Episode 220: Polly Parker
Don't believe Ron DeSantis' lies when he says he had no advance knowledge of plans to bring golf courses and hotels into Florida's st...
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Episode 220
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Episode 219: Scalloping
Craig's column on the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's plan to build golf courses and hotels in the state p...
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Episode 218: The Kissimmee River
Florida's estuaries are warming faster than the Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic Ocean.Doug Alderson kayaked down the Kissimmee River twice, once in 2007 and...
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Episode 217: A.E. "Bean" Backus
When is protected land not really protected? When it's in Florida.
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Episode 216: Bok Tower Gardens
Encouraging news for the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow, the most endangered bird species on mainland Ameri...
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Episode 215: Chokoloskee Island's Smallwood Store
The right wing's gameplan for a second Trump administration is laid out in a 900-plus page document called "Project 2025." One of its aims is to privatize weather reports. Craig expla...
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Episode 214: The Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail
This episode begins by discussing Craig's most recent "Flamingo" magazine article about the Florida State Park system.Our guest is Lauren Ali,
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Episode 214
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Episode 213: Worm Grunting
The New College of Florida has been purged of its academic integrity and set up as an incubator of right wing ideology by Ron DeSantis, now, the school's president has
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Episode 213
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Episode 212: Miami Beach Art Deco Architecture
What Donald Trump didn't say about climate change during the presidential debate spoke volumes. During the debate, Trump sai...
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Episode 212
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Episode 211: The Amazing Life of Harry Crews
Solar energy is heating up in Florida no thanks to state government.
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Episode 211
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Episode 210: Miami's Ventanitas
Eco-criminal Ron DeSantis continues working against Florida's environment.They exist only in Miami: v...
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Episode 209: John James Audubon in Florida
One of the worst bills to pass out of the Florida legislature in the most recent session was supported completely on lies.
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Episode 209
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Episode 208: Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
Florida congressman Matt Gaetz wants to bomb endangered whales in the Gulf of Mexico.One of Florida's great hidd...
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Episode 207: Bob Graham
Beach renourishment: ecological necessity or government handout to the wealthiest of Florida's property o...
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Episode 206: Mar-a-Lago
Ron DeSantis: junkie.Our subject this episode is the fabulous Mar-a-Lago estate on Palm Beach. ...
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Episode 206
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Episode 205: Betty Mae Tiger Jumper
The state's Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson wants to sell off public lands to farmers and ranchers.<...
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Episode 205
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Episode 204: Tampa Bay
Could golf courses hold a solution for conservation in Florida? Tampa Bay is surprising young, and shallow, and NOT the name of ...
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Episode 204
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Episode 203: Sacred Steel
Our episode begins with a $400 million mystery in the state budget.Folklorist and musician Robert Stone joins...
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Episode 202: Lauren Groff
Former Florida governor Bob Graham wasn't born an environmentalist, he became one.Our guest this episode is ...
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Episode 201: The Rise and Fall of Jai-Alai in Florida
We begin this week's episode remembering former Florida governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham who passed away recently.Our guest is
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Episode 200: Indigenous mounds and middens
Did you know there's oil drilling in Florida? Now you do.Our guest for this episode is arc...
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