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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.

Episode Date
Florida's Miniature Fort in Chicago
Apr 22, 2024
The Battle of Wahoo Swamp
Apr 15, 2024
Florida's Forgotten Nuclear Bunker
Apr 08, 2024
The Black Bear Bill
Apr 01, 2024
Rep. Anna V. Eskamani Returns!
Mar 25, 2024
A Day Inside the Florida Legislature
Mar 18, 2024
Buster's Florida Disaster
Mar 11, 2024
Satchel Paige and the Original Miami Marlins
Feb 26, 2024
Zora's Last Dance
Feb 19, 2024
The Real McCoy
Feb 12, 2024
Buffalo Bill Brings the West to Florida
Feb 05, 2024
The 2023 Holiday Special
Dec 18, 2023
When The Circus Came to Florida
Dec 11, 2023
Photographers, Newsmen & Beauty Queens
Dec 04, 2023
The Town That Would Be Orlando
Nov 27, 2023
An Ode to the Floridian Turkey
Nov 23, 2023
The Year Without Citrus
Nov 20, 2023
The Secret History of Florida Postcards
Nov 06, 2023
The Spirits Who Haunt Florida’s Tombstones
Oct 30, 2023
Finding the Lost Ships of the Bermuda Triangle
Oct 23, 2023
The Monster Movies of Florida’s History
Oct 16, 2023
The Ghost Lights of Florida
Oct 10, 2023
Florida, 1962: When Horror Became Reality
Oct 02, 2023
The Waters of Tampa Bay
Aug 28, 2023
Book Bans in Florida
Aug 21, 2023
A Day at the Library
Aug 14, 2023
Disney vs. DeSantis
Aug 07, 2023
The Governor Turned President
Jul 31, 2023
The Origins of ’Wait Five Minutes’
Jul 24, 2023
A Shower of Rats in Miami
Jul 10, 2023
Let’s Talk Politics! with Florida Rep. Anna V. Eskamani
Jul 03, 2023
Orlando’s Most Famous Motel
Jun 26, 2023
Florida and the Lost Cause
Jun 20, 2023
Did the Birds Return to Sanibel?
Jun 13, 2023
In The Hurricane’s Wake on Sanibel Island
Jun 05, 2023
Florida’s Cursed Train
May 01, 2023
St. Pete Homers, Panhandle Mansions, and More Short Stories
Apr 24, 2023
The Gainesville Eight
Apr 17, 2023
The Anti-War Movement in Florida
Apr 10, 2023
Florida’s First Flight
Apr 03, 2023
Saving the Indian River Lagoon
Mar 27, 2023
The Souls Lost to Turpentine
Mar 20, 2023
The Scars of the Panhandle
Mar 13, 2023
The Devil of Gainesville
Mar 06, 2023
Babe Ruth’s Longest Home Run Was in Florida (Maybe!)
Feb 21, 2023
The Attempted Assassination of FDR
Feb 13, 2023
Zora’s Opera
Feb 06, 2023
The 2022 Holiday Special
Dec 19, 2022
Searching for the Augusta Bricks
Dec 13, 2022
World War II in Florida
Dec 05, 2022
Renaming Cape Canaveral
Nov 28, 2022
The Thunderdome
Nov 21, 2022
Gerrymandering & Florida
Nov 14, 2022
Florida’s First Election
Nov 07, 2022
WAIT FRIGHT MINUTES: How Zombies Came to Florida
Oct 31, 2022
WAIT FRIGHT MINUTES: How Gators Hunt Their Prey (w/ Brandon Fisher of GATORLAND!)
Oct 24, 2022
WAIT FRIGHT MINUTES: How Florida Changed Scary Movies
Oct 18, 2022
Welcome to Wait FRIGHT Minutes!
Oct 15, 2022
2022 Florida Ballot Amendments
Oct 13, 2022
Hurricane Ian
Oct 11, 2022
Summer Epilogue: Heat Lightning
Sep 03, 2022
I HELPED WRITE A BOOK!
Aug 31, 2022
The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
Aug 29, 2022
Hank Aaron in Jacksonville
Aug 22, 2022
The Cypress Knee Museum
Aug 15, 2022
The Next Generation of Coral
Aug 08, 2022
Saving Florida’s Coral
Aug 01, 2022
Florida’s Patriot War
Jul 25, 2022
Orlando’s Weirdest Parade
Jul 18, 2022
BONUS: Walk on a Sanibel Beach
Jul 16, 2022
Camping in the Kissimmee Prairie
Jul 11, 2022
BONUS: Black Mangrove Honey
Jul 09, 2022
Can Mangroves Save The World?
Jul 05, 2022
BONUS: A Ghost Story and A Correction
Jul 02, 2022
What is a Mangrove?
Jun 27, 2022
Florida’s First Swimming Pool
Jun 20, 2022
Welcome to Summer 2022!
Jun 13, 2022
The First Frenchman of Florida
May 02, 2022
I Adopted A Manatee (and Other Tales!)
Apr 25, 2022
The Astronauts of Apollo 16
Apr 18, 2022
Our Florida Wildflowers
Apr 11, 2022
Edison and the Athletics
Apr 04, 2022
The Barefoot Mailman
Mar 28, 2022
Wait Five Minutes is on Spring Break!
Mar 21, 2022
Florida’s ’Don’t Say Gay’ Bill
Mar 14, 2022
The Search for a Florida Tree
Mar 07, 2022
The Hermit Artist of the Keys
Feb 28, 2022
Zora’s Folktales
Feb 21, 2022
Al Capone and the Valentine’s Day Massacre
Feb 14, 2022
The Great Freeze, 127 Years Later
Feb 07, 2022
The 2021 Holiday Special
Dec 20, 2021
A Walk in Paynes Prairie
Dec 13, 2021
Saving A Florida Tree
Dec 06, 2021
Our Florida Seashells
Nov 29, 2021
BONUS: A Conversation with Mary Roach
Nov 26, 2021
The Trouble with Pests (w/ Mary Roach)
Nov 22, 2021
What‘s Happening to Florida‘s Manatees?
Nov 15, 2021
Florida‘s First Road
Nov 08, 2021
The Civilian Conservation Corps
Nov 01, 2021
The Bride of Bellamy Bridge
Oct 25, 2021
The Carolina Parakeet (w/ Michelle Nijhuis)
Oct 18, 2021
A Conversation with a Florida Refuge Ranger
Oct 12, 2021
Welcome to the Conservation Season
Oct 08, 2021
The Original EPCOT
Sep 06, 2021
Picture City, Florida
Aug 30, 2021
The Havana Sugar Kings
Aug 23, 2021
The Museums of Summer
Aug 16, 2021
The 1998 Firestorm
Aug 09, 2021
The Other Skunk Apes
Aug 02, 2021
Our Beaches (with Dr. Beach)
Jul 26, 2021
Daytona's First Racers
Jul 19, 2021
Jaws: The Sequels
Jul 05, 2021
Saving The Lighthouses
Jun 28, 2021
The Rum Runners
Jun 21, 2021
Our Florida Sunsets
Jun 14, 2021
Season 7 Prologue: The Blizzard of '85
Jun 07, 2021
Season 6 Epilogue: WHITEHALL
Apr 30, 2021
AMBASSADOR OF THE KEYS, Part Two: The Republic
Apr 26, 2021
AMBASSADOR OF THE KEYS, Part One: The Conchs
Apr 19, 2021
The Chickee
Apr 12, 2021
The Artemis Program
Apr 05, 2021
Springtime Footnotes
Mar 29, 2021
The Strawberry Queen
Mar 15, 2021
A Tale of Two Burger Kings
Mar 08, 2021
BONUS: My Favorite Local Bookstores
Mar 05, 2021
The Shop of Lost Books
Mar 01, 2021
Our Bald Eagles
Feb 22, 2021
The Big Sombrero
Feb 15, 2021
BONUS: A Walk in the Sanford Museum
Feb 12, 2021
The 100th Episode: The Story of Sanford
Feb 08, 2021
The Fourteenth Colony
Feb 01, 2021
Season 6 Prologue: The Lonely Statue
Jan 25, 2021
The 2020 Holiday Special
Dec 18, 2020
Pork Chop Gang, Part Two: THE SCARES
Dec 14, 2020
Pork Chop Gang, Part One: POWER BLOC
Dec 07, 2020
The Florida Trail
Nov 23, 2020
The Confederate Spy of Florida
Nov 16, 2020
The Longleaf Pine
Nov 09, 2020
Reubin the Good
Nov 02, 2020
The Devil Went Down to Florida
Oct 26, 2020
Our Florida Spiders
Oct 19, 2020
Florida's Historic Tolomato Cemetery
Oct 13, 2020
SWING STATE, Part Three: 1992
Sep 28, 2020
SWING STATE, Part Two: 1960
Sep 21, 2020
SWING STATE, Part One: 1924
Sep 14, 2020
Season 4 Epilogue: MEMORY
Sep 04, 2020
Cross Florida Canal, Part Two: GREENWAY
Aug 31, 2020
Cross Florida Canal, Part One: SANTOS
Aug 24, 2020
Short Summer Tales
Aug 17, 2020
The Vero Man
Aug 10, 2020
The Railway War
Aug 03, 2020
Vacation on Sanibel Island
Jul 27, 2020
Beer in Ybor
Jul 13, 2020
The Early Years of (Orlando) Magic
Jul 06, 2020
The Humble Gopher Tortoise
Jun 29, 2020
Florida's State Song
Jun 22, 2020
Season 4 Prologue: Mountains
Jun 15, 2020
FLORIDIANS - Olivia Matthews, Playwright
May 25, 2020
FLORIDIANS - Craig Pittman, Reporter and Author
May 18, 2020
FLORIDIANS - Laura VonMutius, Education Manager at Audubon Center for Birds of Prey
May 11, 2020
Season 3 Epilogue: HOPE
May 04, 2020
Kermit Weeks and Orlampa
Apr 30, 2020
Our Empty Towns
Apr 20, 2020
The Everglades UFO
Apr 13, 2020
HOMOSASSA, Part Two: Native Animals
Apr 06, 2020
BONUS: Grover Cleveland Slept Here
Apr 03, 2020
HOMOSASSA, Part One: Nature's Own Attraction
Mar 30, 2020
Jackie Robinson's First Game
Mar 23, 2020
Brownie the Dog and Other Tales
Mar 16, 2020
The Ghosts of Henry Flagler
Mar 09, 2020
Greens and Cranes
Mar 02, 2020
BONUS: Florida Fair Food (w/ Gabrielle Calise)
Feb 28, 2020
Cracker Country and the Fair
Feb 24, 2020
After Hurricane Andrew
Feb 17, 2020
Florida's Poet Laureates
Feb 10, 2020
Orlando's Main Street
Feb 03, 2020
From Florida to the Moon
Jan 27, 2020
The End of Greyhound Racing
Jan 20, 2020
The Shape of Florida
Jan 13, 2020
FLORIDIANS - Gabrielle Calise, Reporter with the Tampa Bay Times
Dec 16, 2019
FLORIDIANS - Rachel Simmons, Archivist of the Winter Park Public Library
Dec 09, 2019
Season 2 Epilogue
Dec 02, 2019
Billy the Swan, Kristen Arnett and Taxidermy in Florida
Nov 25, 2019
The Unbeatable Dolphins
Nov 18, 2019
Florida's State Play
Nov 11, 2019
The Election of 1966
Nov 04, 2019
Orlando's Haunted Theater
Oct 28, 2019
Florida Bonneted Bats
Oct 21, 2019
Spook Hill and Other Tales
Oct 14, 2019
The Murder of Guy Bradley
Oct 07, 2019
Gardening in Florida
Sep 30, 2019
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Sep 23, 2019
Marco Polo Park
Sep 16, 2019
Florida's Flag
Sep 09, 2019
Moonshine in the Everglades
Aug 26, 2019
Key Largo & Key Largo
Aug 19, 2019
Lights Over Ocala
Aug 12, 2019
The Short Life of John Gorrie
Aug 05, 2019
One Year Later
Jul 26, 2019
Black Skimmers
Jul 19, 2019
John Young and Apollo 10 (w/ Brendan Byrne)
Jul 12, 2019
FLAGLER - Chapter 4: Palaces of Ambition
Jun 28, 2019
FLAGLER - Chapter 3: Drained
Jun 21, 2019
FLAGLER - Chapter 2: The Iron Frontier
Jun 14, 2019
FLAGLER - Chapter 1: Tyrants and the Tyrannized
Jun 07, 2019
Orange Bird
May 24, 2019
TALLAHASSEE TUESDAY - May 21st, 2019
May 21, 2019
The Villages
May 17, 2019
TALLAHASSEE TUESDAY - May 14th, 2019
May 14, 2019
Okahumpka
May 10, 2019
TALLAHASSEE TUESDAY - May 7th, 2019
May 07, 2019
Gulf Breeze Sightings
Apr 26, 2019
Lovebugs
Apr 19, 2019
TALLAHASSEE TUESDAY - April 16th, 2019
Apr 16, 2019
Division Avenue
Apr 12, 2019
Disney's Contemporary Resort
Apr 05, 2019
TALLAHASSEE TUESDAY - April 2nd, 2019
Apr 02, 2019
Oil and the Everglades, Part Two: THE POCKET
Mar 29, 2019
TALLAHASSEE TUESDAY - March 26th, 2019
Mar 26, 2019
Sea Turtles
Mar 22, 2019
Interstate 4
Mar 15, 2019
State Rep. Anna Eskamani
Mar 08, 2019
TALLAHASSEE TUESDAY - March 5th, 2019
Mar 05, 2019
Oil and the Everglades, Part One: EXPLORATORY
Mar 01, 2019
The Grapefruit League
Feb 22, 2019
TALLAHASSEE TUESDAY - February 19th, 2019
Feb 19, 2019
Zora Neale Hurston
Feb 15, 2019
TALLAHASSEE TUESDAY - February 5th, 2019
Feb 05, 2019
Manatees
Feb 01, 2019
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Jan 25, 2019
Snow Days
Jan 18, 2019
TALLAHASSEE TUESDAY - January 15th, 2019
Jan 16, 2019
Medical Marijuana
Jan 11, 2019
Ron DeSantis
Jan 04, 2019
2018 in Review
Dec 30, 2018
Indian River Fruit Company, Part Two: RUINS
Dec 14, 2018
Indian River Fruit Company, Part One: WATERSHED
Dec 07, 2018
Hunting
Nov 24, 2018
Thankful
Nov 20, 2018
Ghosts Towns of Canaveral
Nov 09, 2018
2018 Election Results
Nov 07, 2018
Millennials in 2018 Politics
Nov 02, 2018
2018 Pre-Midterm Rundown
Oct 26, 2018
Hurricane Michael
Oct 19, 2018
Skunk Ape
Oct 05, 2018
2018 Amendments
Sep 28, 2018
Living Wage
Sep 21, 2018
Ocala National Forest
Sep 07, 2018
Aging Populations
Aug 31, 2018
Education Funding in 2018
Aug 24, 2018
2018 Florida Primaries
Aug 17, 2018
Algal Blooms
Aug 10, 2018
The Trust Act
Aug 03, 2018
Brightline Trains
Jul 27, 2018