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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
237 episodes
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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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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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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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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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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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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Episode 226: Big Cypress National Preserve
VOTE "NO" ON AMENDMENT 2, the so-called "Right to Hunt and Fish."Big Cypress National Preserve in south Florida celebrates its 50th anniversary as the nation's first National Preserve on October 11, 2024...
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Episode 225: Legendary Florida author Theodore Pratt
We start by explaining how climate change and increased development have made hurricanes in Florida stronger and more des...
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Episode 224: "The Yearling" (The Movie)
Florida's so-called "law and order" governor isn't concerned about law or order when it comes to the state's freshwater springs...
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Episode 223: Truman's Little White House in Key West
Another secretive, shady deal attempted between a private developer and the state government on supposedly protected public land
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Episode 222: The Dry Tortugas
A secret meeting about water policy convened by a Florida congressman allowed polluting industrie...
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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 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 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 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 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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