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Wait Five Minutes

Wait Five Minutes: The Floridian Podcast is about the curious stories and cultural changes sweeping through the Sunshine State. Join us every Monday for an informative and charming look into an issue on America’s infamous peninsula.

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Jackie Robinson's First Game Mar 23, 2020

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In the city of Daytona Beach, right after World War II, a legendary player would break major league baseball's color barrier for the very first time. One year later, he would do it again. How did he get there? How did the amazing work of those who came before him make it possible? What world did Jackie Robinson leave behind?

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Thank you to Rick Swaine for his assistance on this episode. You can check out some of Rick's baseball history books right here!

Thank you to Fayn LeVille for sitting down with me a few weeks ago. Visit her at the Halifax Historical Museum in Daytona!

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The Unbeatable Dolphins

The Grapefruit League

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The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!

Songs

Traveling to Louisiana

Frozen Creek

Desert Ghost Town

Brain - Instrumental Retro

Love After Midnight

Good Thoughts

Hear more music from Lobo Loco here!

Brownie the Dog and Other Tales Mar 16, 2020

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A mysterious cartoon in a tiny museum. A friendly face who watches every rocket launch in person. A stray dog who unites a burgeoning community. The world is a crazy place these days and, to give you a break, here are some of the small, fascinating stories that couldn't make up a full episode.

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Thank you to Brendan Byrne from WMFE for all of his help with this episode. Check out Brendan's show, Are We There Yet, right here!

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The Shape of Florida

From Florida to the Moon

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The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!

Songs

Love After Midnight

Hey Go

Smuggler

Traveling Horse

Echoes Boogie Dancehall

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The Ghosts of Henry Flagler Mar 09, 2020

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When Henry Flagler died in 1913, his memory was preserved not just in legacy, but in the spirits that find themselves roaming the hallways of the places he held most dear. Why does Flagler continue to roam Florida? And what stories do we become when we're gone?

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Thank you so much to Bailey DeVoe! You can get tickets to her next show, Assassins, right here!

You can read more St. Augustine Lighthouse ghost stories right here!

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Orlando's Haunted Theater

Spook Hill and Other Tales

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Songs

Piano Parapentes

Bad Old Daemons

You Get The Blues

Streetlight Silent Film

Traveling Horse

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Greens and Cranes Mar 02, 2020

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Florida has more golf courses than any other state in the country. What happens when those courses fall apart? When the sandhill cranes reign, what place do humans have in that changing environment?

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Thank you so much to Dr. Paul Gray from Audubon Florida for his assistance!

Thank you to Richard Durr from Seminole County for telling his story about Rolling Hills!

You can read more about the Florida State Golf Association here!

You can read more about Florida sandhill cranes here!

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The Murder of Guy Bradley

The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!

Songs

Brain - Instrumental Retro

Smuggler

Desert Ghost Town

Love After Midnight

Traveling Horse

Hear more music from Lobo Loco here!

BONUS: Florida Fair Food (w/ Gabrielle Calise) Feb 28, 2020

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In a special bonus episode, I chat with Gabrielle Calise of the Tampa Bay Times about our favorite fried food, the food we couldn't handle, and the food we would dream of seeing at the fair!

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Songs

Good Thoughts by Lobo Loco

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

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Cracker Country and the Fair Feb 24, 2020

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Tucked in a corner, at the back of the Florida Fairgrounds, there is a living museum. It is vibrant with artists, docents, historians and more, all who have gathered to tell the story of a very specific era in our Florida story.

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Thank you so much to Cindy Horton from Cracker Country. You can check out more of the work going on at the museum right here!

Thank you to my friend Gabrielle Calise form the Tampa Bay Times. You can read her article about the Florida State Fair right here!

You can read more about Doyle E. Carlton here!

You can read more about the State Fair here!

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Marco Polo Park

The Election of 1966

The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!

Songs

Traveling Horse

Arround the Lake

Smuggler

Traveling to Louisiana

Good Thoughts

Love After Midnight

Hear more music from Lobo Loco here!

After Hurricane Andrew Feb 17, 2020

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In August of 1992, a massive hurricane hit South Florida. The storm passed, and the damage was laid bare. It was clear things needed to change. When pythons ran loose in the Everglades, and our walls fells in on themselves, where did we go from there?

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Thank you so much to Craig Pittman for his assistance and conversation in this episode! You can purchase your copy of his BRAND NEW BOOK, Cat Tale, here!

You can read more about Hurricane Andrew right here!

You can read more about python hunters in the Everglades here!

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Indian River Fruit Company

The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!

Songs

Frozen Creek

Piano Parapentes

Desert Ghost Town

Bad Old Daemons

Things You Never Known

Traveling Horse

Hear more music from Lobo Loco here!

Florida's Poet Laureates Feb 10, 2020

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Since 1927, four individuals have been chosen as the Poet Laureate for the state of Florida. Each one has brought something new to the position. The current laureate, Peter Meinke, has much to say on Florida, life and death, and the peculiar joys of the places we call home.

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Thank you so much to Peter and Jeanne Meinke for welcoming me into their home and chatting with me! You can purchase Peter's poetry right here.

You can read more about Vivian Laramore Rader here!

You can read more about the history of poet laureates right her!

Watch the inauguration of our current U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo!

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Zora Neale Hurston

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!

Songs

Desert Ghost Town

Traveling Horse

Love After Midnight

Piano Parapentes

Arround the Lake

Things You Never Known

Good Thoughts

Hear more music from Lobo Loco here!

Orlando's Main Street Feb 03, 2020

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For the last thirty years, one community has been at the center of a neighborhood that today is a main street in Orlando. From its origins to the present day, Mills Avenue's community survived on optimism.

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Thank you to Joanne Grant from Mills 50 for speaking with me on the podcast. Check out Mills 50's future projects right here!

Check out Ricky Ly's blog, Tasty Chomps!

Check out the Orange County Regional History Center!

You can read more about Orlando's Main Street program right here!

You can read more about about the Main Street America program right here!

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Division Avenue

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Songs

Easy Night by Lobo Loco

Smuggler by Lobo Loco

Road to Lafayette by Lobo Loco

Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

Love After Midnight by Lobo Loco

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From Florida to the Moon Jan 27, 2020

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Thousands of rockets were launched from Florida's coast in the last seventy years. How did the space program come to Florida? And when will Americans return to space from our shores?

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Thank you to Brendan Byrne from WMFE for all of his help with this episode. Check out Brendan's show, Are We There Yet, right here!

You can read more about SpaceX's future launches right here!

You can read more about the history of Cape Canaveral right here!

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John Young and Apollo 10

Okahumpka (with Gilbert King)

The photography used in the marketing of this show is by Lauren Nix. Check out more of her art right here!

Songs

Echoes Boogie Dancehall by Lobo Loco

Springtime by Lobo Loco

Hey Go by Lobo Loco

Speedy Delta by Lobo Loco

Meet You Last Summer by Lobo Loco

Traveling Horse by Lobo Loco

Good Thoughts by Lobo Loco

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