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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
254 episodes
Episode 249: 'Welcome to Florida' - the book!
A peanut farmer wants to swindle choice gopher tortoise land out of state conservation protection under the guise of a land swap, ...
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Season 6
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Episode 249
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41:21
Episode 248: Word of South
Craig highlights the WORST bill working its way through the legislature this session. It's a "Christmas wish list" for develope...
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Season 6
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Episode 248
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39:40
Episode 247: Florida's Oldest Bar
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials are again pursuing a black bear hunt for the state. Citizens don't want it, and the last one was a disaster.
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Season 6
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Episode 247
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29:24
Episode 246: Longleaf Pine
Craig wants America's most hated man, unelected shadow president Elon Musk, to keep his hands off our National Parks. (<...
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Season 6
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Episode 246
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39:47
Episode 245: The Montbrook Fossil Site
Alcoholic, womanizing, Islamophobe U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is also a climate denier. He has instructed the armed forces to ignore climate impacts and has demanded the Pentagon cut funding on military installations aimed at combating...
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Season 6
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Episode 245
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39:57
Episode 244: Mullet
A combination of increasing and increasingly devastating hurricanes along with skyrocketing property insurance prices have resulted in
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Season 6
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Episode 244
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40:51
Episode 243: Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Donald Trump's threatened tariffs would be another nail in the coffin for Florida's citrus industry.You can support t...
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Season 6
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Episode 243
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57:42
Episode 242: Operation Pedro Pan (Peter Pan)
Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to open the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling, potentially endangering Flor...
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Season 6
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Episode 242
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33:53
Episode 241: Marineland
The federal government in the closing days of the Biden Administration failed to secure a protection for criticall...
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Season 6
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Episode 241
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41:07
Episode 240: Apalachicola River
Ron DeSantis wants the state to assume responsibility of Everglades restoration from the federal government. Terrible idea fo...
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Season 6
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Episode 240
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42:10
Episode 239: Tampa Civil Rights Sit-ins
The Cape Sable seaside sparrow is one of the most endangered birds in the continental United States, numbering only 2,000 or so individuals, all living in the Everglades. Conflicting water management aims in South Florida pitting Big Sugar agai...
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Season 6
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Episode 239
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49:59
Episode 238: Criteria Recording Studios in Miami
Buyer beware when it comes to a new organization promoting itself as a gopher tortoise conservation solution.
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Season 6
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Episode 238
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48:48
Episode 237: Mister Rogers at Rollins College
Craig takes a look back at the most amusing and unusual Florida news stories from 2024.Fred Rogers studied in the Musi...
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Season 6
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Episode 237
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33:18
Episode 236: David Kirby and Florida Poets
Craig Pittman has a wish list of gifts he hopes Santa brings Florida's environment.Our guest this episode is poet, ess...
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Season 5
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Episode 236
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41:00
Episode 235: The St. Johns River
In Port St. Joe, a 62-year-old woman was handcuffed, arrested, and spent a night in jail as part of a politically motivated attack o...
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Season 5
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Episode 235
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44:35
Episode 234: The Orange Blossom Trail
What should Florida and its residents be doing to prepare for the next hurricane season?
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Season 5
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Episode 234
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35:53
Episode 233: Jack Kerouac in Florida
Add little Milton in the Panhandle as another Florida town that threw out its pro-development, pro-industry city council
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Season 5
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Episode 233
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33:17
Episode 232: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 'Surrounded Islands'
Based on his first-term record as the most anti-nature president in American history, Craig sees
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Season 5
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Episode 232
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39:10
Episode 231: Airboating with Miccosukee Indian John Tigertail
Timber company Rayonier wants to develop a toxic bioethanol producing plant near downtown Fernandina Beach. Explosions at these pla...
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Season 5
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Episode 231
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38:54
Episode 230: Ivan Tors Studios and the Florida Film Industry
Craig and I open this episode discussing a return to the White House of the worst environmental president in history.Our guest is David Morton, author of
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Season 5
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Episode 230
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56:40
Episode 229: Florida's Historic Hotels
Florida's politicians are bought and paid for by polluting industries: Big Sugar, Big Ag (agriculture), cattle r...
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Season 5
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Episode 229
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35:31
Episode 228: Robert the Doll
Ron DeSantis thinks the Florida economy would suffer from fighting climate change; Craig Pittman knows the
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Season 5
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Episode 228
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36:56
Episode 227: Stephen Crane's Shipwreck
Back-to-back hurricanes this October have Craig thinking about 2004 when four major hurricanes battered the state in a six week period. What was learned from those catastrophes 20 years ago?
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Season 5
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Episode 227
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35:35