Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBONUS EPISODE: Welcome to Sarasota! (Summer Preview)
Summer may be the off season for tourists in Sarasota, but that doesn't mean there isn't a great deal to see and do. The Summer season in Sarasota be…
3 years, 10 months ago
Episode 100: Weeki Wachee Springs mermaids
Season 3 Episode 100
For our 100th episode of "Welcome to Florida" we finally discuss perhaps the most Florida thing of all, the Weeki Wachee Springs mermaids. Now a stat…
3 years, 10 months ago
Episode 99: Florida's lost communities
Season 3 Episode 99
As much as Florida is recognized nationally and internationally for our tourist attractions and cities - Disney, Universal, Miami, Orlando - an equal…
3 years, 10 months ago
Episode 98: Musician Del Suggs and the Florida Folk Festival
Season 3 Episode 98
This week's episode begins with the love/hate relationship present day Florida inspires.
The 70th annual Florida Folk Festival takes place this Memori…
3 years, 10 months ago
Episode 97: Tampa Bay Skyway Bridge disaster
Season 3 Episode 97
The 2022 season of "Welcome to Florida" has been about uncovering forgotten stories. We continue today as the anniversary of the Tampa Bay Skyway Bri…
3 years, 10 months ago
Episode 96: Early Cuban Exiles
Season 3 Episode 96
Craig got into with the governor and his press secretary on Twitter over Ron DeSantis' refusal to appoint African American candidates to the state's …
3 years, 11 months ago
Episode 95: The Ashley Gang (Florida's Bonnie & Clyde)
Season 3 Episode 95
Another week, another proposal for a new toll road tearing through a protected natural area to service a new housing development.
This week's guest is…
3 years, 11 months ago
Episode 94: Florida's Houses of Refuge
Season 3 Episode 94
We start this week's episode exposing a developer with close ties to Ron DeSantis - uncomfortably close - wanting to use his political connections to…
3 years, 11 months ago
Episode 93: Timucua, Mocama and rediscovering Sarabay
Season 3 Episode 93
When developers in northeast Florida couldn't buy their candidate onto a conservation board, they conspired to do away with the boards all together, …
3 years, 11 months ago
Episode 92: Growing up gay in Florida
Season 3 Episode 92
This week's episode begins with Craig discussing a failure on behalf of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to do its job and protect …
4 years ago