All Episodes
Welcome to Florida — 324 episodes
Episode 318: Florida's Notorious Jailhouse Snitch
Episode 317: Bob Ross
Episode 316: Florida's Independent Bookstores
Episode 315: Gulf Sturgeon
Episode 314: Tom Gaskins Cypress Knee Museum
Episode 313: Charles Broley and Bald Eagles
Episode 312: Ma Barker Shootout
Episode 311: The Revolutionary War in Florida
Episode 310: Keys Wreckers
Episode 309: Devil Crab
Episode 308: Gatorade
Episode 307: The Chitlin' Circuit
Episode 306: Mobile Homes
Episode 305: 'Welcome to Florida' x 'Seeking Rents'
Episode 304: The Black Seminole Chief and America's Forgotten War
Episode 303: Guy Bradley (The Everglades' First Game Warden)
Episode 302: The world's deadliest tree
Episode 301: Burrowing Owls
Episode 300: Miami Circle
Episode 299: Guava
Episode 298: Tampa Mobster Charlie Wall
Episode 297: Turnbull Plantation and Menorcans
Episode 296: Everglades Snail Kites
Episode 295: Wakulla Springs
Episode 294: Lakeland's Swanfather
Episode 293: Spring Training
Episode 292: Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge
Episode 291: The Swamp Doctor
Episode 290: Latino Orlando
Episode 289: "Hit Man"
Episode 288: Gideon v. Wainwright
Episode 287: Manta Rays
Episode 286: James Weldon Johnson
Episode 285: Rice's Whales
Episode 284: Marijuana Smuggling in the Everglades
Episode 283: Florida in the 1930s
Episode 282: Smalltooth Sawfish
Episode 281: Florida's Trilingual Newspaper
Episode 280: Florida During World War II
Episode 279: Bone Valley (Injustice and Redemption)
Episode 278: Florida's Best (Worst) B-Movies
Episode 277: Fort Mose
Episode 276: Jonathan Dickinson
Episode 275: Robert Rauschenberg in Captiva Island
Episode 274: Arcadia
Episode 273: Gram Parsons
Episode 272: Harry and Harriette Moore, America's first Civil Rights martyrs
Episode 271: The Moseley Homestead
Episode 270: Shorebirds
Episode 269: Paynes Prairie
Episode 268: Florida's Living Beaches
Episode 267: How to do (and how to save) Florida
Episode 266: Wicked St. Augustine
Episode 265: Stonewall National Museum, Archives and Library
Episode 264: Florida fruits, vegetables, and vegetarian recipes
Episode 263: Reconstruction and Freedmen in Florida
Episode 263: Cedar Key
Episode 262: Could a 'Super Tree' Replace Florida Citrus?
Episode 261: White Trash Cooking
Episode 260: Abandoned Florida
Episode 259: Biscayne Bay
Episode 258: Julian Dimock's Early 20th c. Photographs of Southwest Florida
Episode 257: Florida Crocodiles
Episode 256: Lake Wales Ridge
Episode 255: Swallow-tailed kites
Episode 254: Artist Christopher Still
Episode 253: Ormond Beach and the Origins of Auto Racing
Episode 252: Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center
Episode 251: Florida's Black Bears
Episode 250: The Suwannee River
Episode 249: 'Welcome to Florida' - the book!
Episode 248: Word of South
Episode 247: Florida's Oldest Bar
Episode 246: Longleaf Pine
Episode 245: The Montbrook Fossil Site
Episode 244: Mullet
Episode 243: Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Episode 242: Operation Pedro Pan (Peter Pan)
Episode 241: Marineland
Episode 240: Apalachicola River
Episode 239: Tampa Civil Rights Sit-ins
Episode 238: Criteria Recording Studios in Miami
Episode 237: Mister Rogers at Rollins College
Episode 236: David Kirby and Florida Poets
Episode 235: The St. Johns River
Episode 234: The Orange Blossom Trail
Episode 233: Jack Kerouac in Florida
Episode 232: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 'Surrounded Islands'
Episode 231: Airboating with Miccosukee Indian John Tigertail
Episode 230: Ivan Tors Studios and the Florida Film Industry
Episode 229: Florida's Historic Hotels
Episode 228: Robert the Doll
Episode 227: Stephen Crane's Shipwreck
Episode 226: Big Cypress National Preserve
Episode 225: Legendary Florida author Theodore Pratt
Episode 224: "The Yearling" (The Movie)
Episode 223: Truman's Little White House in Key West
Episode 222: The Dry Tortugas
Episode 221: OMGitsWicks
Episode 220: Polly Parker
Episode 219: Scalloping
Episode 218: The Kissimmee River
Episode 217: A.E. "Bean" Backus
Episode 216: Bok Tower Gardens
Episode 215: Chokoloskee Island's Smallwood Store
Episode 214: The Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail
Episode 213: Worm Grunting
Episode 212: Miami Beach Art Deco Architecture
Episode 211: The Amazing Life of Harry Crews
Episode 210: Miami's Ventanitas
Episode 209: John James Audubon in Florida
Episode 208: Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
Episode 207: Bob Graham
Episode 206: Mar-a-Lago
Episode 205: Betty Mae Tiger Jumper
Episode 204: Tampa Bay
Episode 203: Sacred Steel
Episode 202: Lauren Groff
Episode 201: The Rise and Fall of Jai-Alai in Florida
Episode 200: Indigenous mounds and middens
Episode 199: A. Philip Randolph
Episode 198: Hamilton Disston (who?)
Episode 197: Orlando
Episode 196: Dave Barry
Episode 195: Florida in the Civil War
Episode 194: Book Bans
Episode 193: Janet Reno
Episode 192: Sinkholes
Episode 191: The Dozier School (A Century of Evil)
Episode 190: Tom Petty
Episode 189: The Johns Committee
Episode 188: The Florida Man Games
Episode 187: Carnivorous Plants
Episode 186: Randy Wayne White
Episode 185: Dick Pope & Cypress Gardens
Episode 184: Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Episode 183: Spanish Florida
Episode 182: The Most Important (Florida) Man You've Never Heard Of
Episode 181: 'Scarface' (1983)
Episode 180: Atlantic Goliath Grouper (Lord of the Rocks)
Episode 179: Florida leads the way in ending greyhound racing
Episode 178: Kingsley Plantation & Anna Madgigine Jai
Episode 177: Gator Poaching
Episode 176: The Case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee
Episode 175: Jimmy Buffett's Key West
Episode 174: Univision & Telemundo's Florida roots
Episode 173: The Ghost Orchid
Episode 172: Florida Museum of Natural History
Episode 171: Mr. Miami Beach, Carl Fisher
Episode 170: Sarasota's Black History
Episode 169: Conch, Conchs and the Conch Republic
Episode 168: Castillo de San Marcos
Episode 167: Fireflies
Episode 166: Florida Humanities
Episode 165: Lighthouses
Episode 164: Mennonite and Amish community of Pinecraft
Episode 163: Rumrunners and Moonshiners
Episode 162: Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory
Episode 161: Florida Horse Country
Episode 160: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Episode: 159: AARP & Florida retirees
Episode 158: Planned Parenthood & Abortion in Florida
Episode 157: Weird Florida + 25
Episode 156: Anita Bryant's Anti-Gay Crusade
Episode 155: Hurricane Andrew
Episode 154: Saving the Grasshopper Sparrow
Episode 153: Florida Master Naturalist
Episode 152: Hotel Scarface
Episode 151: Ybor City
Episode 150: Tallahassee
Episode 149: Oysters!
Episode 148: Solar Power in Florida
Episode 147: Phosphate, Phosphorus and Toxic Blue-Green Algae
Episode 146: Eatonville (America's first all-Black town)
Episode 145: North Atlantic Right Whales
Episode 144: The Daytona Beach Mastodon
Episode 143: Martin Luther King Jr. in St. Augustine
Episode 142: The Beatles in Florida (1964)
Episode 141: Nikki Fried
Episode 140: Pensacola
Episode 139: The Seminole Wars
Episode 138: Documentary filmmakers Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman
Episode 137: Harriet Beecher Stowe and early Florida tourism
Episode 136: Florida from 2000-2010
Episode 135: '72 Miami Dolphins (NFL's only unbeaten team)
Episode 134: Claude Pepper
Episode 133: Kayaking around Florida
Episode 132: 100th anniversary of Rosewood Massacre
Episode 131: Villainous Ed Ball & the St. Joe Company
Episode 130: Jacksonville history and today
Episode 129: Surfing
Episode 128: Croquetas
Episode 127: Trapper Nelson, the Wildman of the Loxahatchee
Episode 126: Florida Land Preservation
Episode 125: Everglades National Park at 75
Episode 124: Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova
Episode 123: The Allman Brothers
Episode 122: The Barefoot Mailmen
Episode 121: Mangroves
Episode 120: A Land Remembered
Episode 119: Key Lime Pie!
Episode 118: Miami's 1920s real estate boom & bust
Episode 117: Lynching in Florida
Episode 116: Cassadaga Spiritualists
Episode 115: The KKK in Florida
Episode 114: Flamingos!
Episode 113: The Columbia, Florida's oldest restaurant
Episode 112: Florida's monkey colonies
Episode 111: Ringling and Sarasota's Circus History
Episode 110: Florida memorabilia
Episode 109: Mary Brickell and Miami's founding mothers
Episode 108: St. Pete Pier
Episode 107: Florida's historic mineral springs
Episode 106: Elvis in Florida
Episode 105: John Muir in Florida
Episode 104: Florida's literary history
Episode 103: Watergate's surprising connections to Florida
Episode 102: Tarpon Springs Greek culture
Episode 101: The 1928 Hurricane
BONUS EPISODE: Welcome to Sarasota! (Summer Preview)
Episode 100: Weeki Wachee Springs mermaids
Episode 99: Florida's lost communities
Episode 98: Musician Del Suggs and the Florida Folk Festival
Episode 97: Tampa Bay Skyway Bridge disaster
Episode 96: Early Cuban Exiles
Episode 95: The Ashley Gang (Florida's Bonnie & Clyde)
Episode 94: Florida's Houses of Refuge
Episode 93: Timucua, Mocama and rediscovering Sarabay
Episode 92: Growing up gay in Florida
Episode 91: Florida Supreme Court (Scandal to Bush v. Gore)
Episode 90: May Mann Jennings (How Royal Palm State Park became Everglades Nat'l Park)
Episode 89: Cozy Florida Mysteries
Episode 88: Bald eagles
Episode 87: William Bartram and the St. Johns River
Episode 86: The Amazing Life of Stetson Kennedy
Episode 85: Horseshoe Crabs
Episode 84: Pirates!
Episode 83: Wildflowers
Episode 82: Florida's state parks
Episode 81: Florida Soul music
Episode 80: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Lakeland
Episode 79: Dolphins
Episode 78: Oranges!
Episode 77: Florida's Sunshine Law
Episode 76: Voting Rights with Desmond Meade
BONUS EPISODE: Welcome to Sarasota! (Winter Preview)
Episode 75: Pensacola Punkhouse
Episode 74: Butterflies
Episode 73: Florida novelist Tim Dorsey
Episode 72: Florida legal thrillers with James Grippando
Episode 71: Perversion of Justice - the Jeffrey Epstein story
Episode 70: Disney World
Episode 69: Celebration, Disney and Florida's Housing Crisis
Episode 68: Free the Ocklawaha!
BONUS EPISODE: Welcome to Sarasota! (Fall Preview)
Episode 67: Iguana Invasion!
Episode 66: Craig Pittman 'The State You're In'
Episode 65: Sinkholes!
Episode 64: Gopher tortoise
Episode 63: Sea Turtles
Episode 62: Thomas Edison and Henry Ford winter estates in Ft. Myers
Episode 61: The Florida Manatee
Episode 60: The Cuban Sandwich controversy
Episode 59: Florida's freshwater springs
Episode 58: Orlando boy band scam artist Lou Pearlman
Episode 57: Brownie Wise and Tupperware's move to Florida
Episode 56: The Florida Wildlife Corridor with Carlton Ward Jr.
Episode 55: Seashells!
Episode 54: The Swamp Peddlers (Florida's land giant communities)
Episode 53: Betty Osceola and the Miccosukee Tribe
Episode 52: Red Tide
BONUS EPISODE: Indian River County!
Episode 51: John D. MacDonald (America's first environmental novelist)
Episode 50: The Cabbage Palm (Florida's state tree)
Episode 49: Florida ranching and cattlemen
Episode 48: Florida in the Movies
Episode 47: Florida's ancient inhabitants + Angola
Episode 46: Florida's worst idea (the Everglades Jetport)
Episode 45: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Episode 44: Key West
Episode 43: Florida's state climatologist
Episode 42: Florida Scrub-Jay
Episode 41: Rewilding your yard with Jeff and Ann VanderMeer
Episode 40: Dr. Beach
Episode 39: The Everglades and BIG SUGAR
Episode 38: Mary McLeod Bethune
Episode 37: The Gulf of Mexico
Episode 36: Zora Neale Hurston
Episode 35: SHARKS!
Episode 34: Kelvin Hair and the Florida Highwaymen
Episode 33: Panther biologist Deborah Jansen
Episode 32: Daytona Beach, Bill France and the origins of NASCAR
Episode 31: Cockroaches!
Episode 30: Con Men (Lt. Commander Bobby Thompson)
Episode 29: America's most evil sheriff: Lake County's Willis McCall
Episode 28: Triumph and Tragedy on Henry Flager's Over-Seas Railroad
Episode 27: Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock
Episode 26: Miami 1980: Riots, Refugees and Cocaine
Episode 25: Landscape photographer Clyde Butcher
Episode 24: Tarpon fishing ('Lords of the Fly')
Episode 23: Immigration (Cubans, Minorcans, Greeks, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Sicilians)
Episode 22: Florida TV shows
Episode 21: Election analysis and the Miami Book Fair
Episode 20: Presidents at work and at play in Florida
Episode 19: Discovering forgotten cemeteries
Episode 18: Presidential politics
Episode 17: Hiking
Episode 16: Lisa Nowak the NASA love triangle
Episode 15: Religion - Billy Graham, Jim Bakker and the Cult of Cyrus Teed
Episode 14: Cigar City Mafia
Episode 13: The Florida House, Florida's embassy in Washington, D.C.
Episode 12: The Floridan Aquifer
Episode 11: Author Carl Hiaasen
Episode 10: Florida's State Symbols
Episode 9: Tampa Bay Noir - a sunny place full of shady people
Episode 8: NUDISTS!
Episode 7: Wildlife rehab - The Bird Man, the Tiger King and the Bank Robber
Episode 6: Walking across Florida with Lawton Chiles and Kent Russell
Episode 5: Classic roadside attractions (Weeki Wachee and Skunk Ape Research Center)
Episode 4: The Villages
Episode 3: Pythons!
Episode 2: Florida's Civil Rights history and American Beach
Episode 1: ALLIGATORS!
Welcome to Florida: Preview