Podcast Episodes

Episode 280: Florida During World War II

Season 6 Episode 280

The local Audubon Society chapter and residents in Sarasota took on the country's largest homebuilder - and WON!

Florida was an essential training and support location for military operations during W…

Published on 10 hours ago

Episode 279: Bone Valley (Injustice and Redemption)

Season 6 Episode 279

Former unelected shadow president and super-villain Elon Musk wants to close public beaches and pollute an estuary near Cape Kennedy on the Space Coast so he can play astronaut.

Pulitzer Prize winning…

Published on 1 week ago

Episode 278: Florida's Best (Worst) B-Movies

Season 6 Episode 280

It's Halloween and "Welcome to Florida's" favorite spooky co-host, Cathy Salustri, is back, filling in for Chadd Scott. Cathy is a Halloween FANATIC and author of "It Came from Florida: The Best of F…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Episode 277: Fort Mose

Season 6 Episode 277

Fort Mose roughly 1 mile north of St. Augustine has the distinction of being the first free Black settlement in what is now America. Despite that august history, the site remains little known inside …

Published on 3 weeks ago

Episode 276: Jonathan Dickinson

Season 6 Episode 276

Lake Okeechobee is the most polluted lake in the United States as a result of the governor's inaction on cleaning up the state's water.

Jonathan Dickinson only spent about a year in Florida, stranded …

Published on 4 weeks ago

Episode 275: Robert Rauschenberg in Captiva Island

Season 6 Episode 275

A scam of epic proportions has been perpetrated by the governor upon the people of Florida. Land conservation used an excuse to pay off political bribes.

Robert Rauschenberg is arguably the most influ…

Published on 1 month ago

Episode 274: Arcadia

Season 6 Episode 274

In little Arcadia in southwest Florida in the 1980s, two tragedies became national news: the exoneration of a Black father wrongfully convicted in 1968 for the death of his seven children, and three …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Episode 273: Gram Parsons

Season 6 Episode 273

This episode centers on music icon and Winter Haven native Gram Parsons. Parsons career took off in California, but his life began in Florida.

Bob Kealing, author of "Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Episode 272: Harry and Harriette Moore, America's first Civil Rights martyrs

Season 6 Episode 272

More incontrovertible evidence of climate change: Florida stone crabs are living in the Chesapeake Bay. 

On Christmas Eve, 1951, central Florida civil rights activists Harry and Harriette Moore were a…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Episode 271: The Moseley Homestead

Season 6 Episode 271

Ron DeSantis is using his personal version of a Department of Government Efficiency to harass areas that didn't vote for him; he should turn the magnifying glass on the state's Everglades immigrant c…

Published on 2 months ago