Welcome to Florida
Best selling author, award winning reporter and Florida native Craig Pittman is joined by radio personality and Florida transplant Chadd Scott to discuss the state's history, people, politics, environment, animals, current events and weirdness. You'll hear great storytelling and have great fun in each weekly episode.
Episodes
Florida wants to take almost $200 million from the federal government earmarked for electric vehicle charging stations and instead waste the money pursuing flying cars. Seriously.
Pamela Colloff spent a decade investigating the life and crimes of Paul Skalnik. Skalnik, among other things, was a longtime jailhouse snitch whose phony testimony was relied upon by Pinellas County prosecutors for decades. Colloff shares what she discover...
The Florida Department of Environmental "Protection" refuses to investigate a Key West utility company that has been injecting waste water underground only to have it surface elsewhere.
Everyone knows 1980s PBS TV painter Bob Ross, but most people don't associate him with Florida. Ross was born, raised, lived and died in Central Florida. The Bob Ross Art Workshop & Gallery in New Smyrna Beach is open to the public and carries on...
The state kept an "enemies list" of outspoken environmental advocates with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission using government and law enforcement databases to illegally track and investigate the citizens. This shocking abuse of power demonstrates how developers and industry run this state and the degree to which the ruling party in Tallahassee will go to maintain that power imbalance.
Ron DeSantis first ran for governor promising to solve Florida's water quality problems. Every day in office since then, up nearly to his last, he has broken that promise.
Kenneth Sulak joins us on this episode to talk about gulf sturgeon. Sulak spent decades researching this ancient and endangered fish in the Suwanee River and Gulf of Mexico.
Craig takes us to the little fishing village of Cortez on the Gulf side for his latest "Florida Phoenix" column.
Tom Gaskins Cypress Knee Museum was a popular roadside attraction in Palmdale during the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The business hung on until 1998, but Disney and the interstates have mostly disappeared these quirky, small, once-cherished tourist stops. Writer Amy Bennett-Williams from the Fort Meyers News-Pressvisited many time...
Craig Pittman surveyed a variety of Florida water experts with advice for the dictator about his algae problem.
In the 1940s, 50's, and 60's, bald eagle populations nationally were collapsing. The poison DDT, widely used in crop dusting, was eventually determined to be the culprit. A retired man in Florida, Charles Broley, banded bald eagles throughout mid-century; his research was essential in establishing that the birds were in tr...
Invasive Burmese pythons continue swallowing the Everglades while the state wastes money on concentration camps.
Ma Barker and one of her sons engaged federal agents in an hours-long gunfight near Ocala in the 1930s. Wayne Hughes is a tour guide at the Ma Barker House and tells us the story.
"Welcome to Florida" patrons receive exclusive access to your Florida Conservation Newsletter,...
A species of moth thought to be extinct was rediscovered by researches in Florida.
Florida's role in the American Revolution is little known or discussed. That is our topic for this episode with historian David Head.
"Welcome to Florida" patrons receive our weekly "Florida Conservation Newsletter" for only $5 per month.
Our friend Jason Garcia from "Seeking Rents" takes a first look at everything wrong with the legislature and governor's proposed property tax break.
Florida Keys historian Brad Bertelli joins us on this episode to talk about the old wrecking industry that made Key West one of the wealthiest cities in America at the turn of the 19th century.
"Welcome to Florida" patrons receive exclusive access to our weekly Florida Conservation Newsl...
The state is about to miss a critical deadline by which it was supposed to have cleaned up water flowing out of the Big Sugar plantations into the Everglades.
Join Craig, Chadd and Jason Garcia from the "Seeking Rents" podcast for their next live, in-person event June 12th at Happy Medium Books Cafe in the Riverside neighborhood of Jacksonville. The event is free and begins at 6:30. RSVP if you can.
Seafood dealers, commercial fisherman, and conservationists came together to stop the governor's reckless plan to extend the recreational red snapper fishing season.
Independent local journalism is a pillar of democracy. American democracy has evaporated in conjunction with a rapid decline of local media sources in the past 25 years. One of those local media sources in Florida, The Gabber newspaper in south Pinellas County, needs yo...
Florida didn't always used to be this way. Unregulated development. Runaway sprawl. Developers controlling the state. What happened?
Chadd Charland is running for State House in District 15 (all of Nassau and parts of Duval counties).
"Welcome to Florida's" next live event comes Friday, June 12th, from 6:30 to 7:30 PM at Happy Medium Bookstore Cafe in Jacksonville! It's a free event. Come out and say "hello."
What should be done with the site when the Everglades concentration camp closes?
Chadd Charland is running for State House in District 15 (Nassau and parts of Duval counties).
Diego Waisman spent years visiting and photographing South Florida's mobile home parks. He produced a book from the experience titled "Sunset Colonies: A Visual Elegy to South Florida's Mobile Home Communities." He shares with us what he found.
Jason Garcia hosts the "Seeking Rents" podcast and writes the "Seeking Rents" Substack newsletter. Both investigate government corruption in Florida. Both are essential for Floridians interested in state government and politics.
This episode was recorded at Tombolo Books in St. Pete in advance of our first co-hosted live event.
Martin County wants to prevent a slaughterhouse from being built there. The state says it doesn't have a say in the matter. Another example of state overreach crushing home rule.
Chadd Charland is running for State House in District 15 (Nassau and parts of Duval County) on a platform of equity, the environment, and public education.
See "Welcome to Florida" and Jason Garcia from the "Seeking Rents" Substack and podcast in person!
Join "Welcome to Florida" along with Jason Garcia from "Seeking Rents" for our first in-person event. May 7 we'll be at Tombolo Books in St. Pete and May 9, we'll be at Austin's Coffee in Winter Park. Full details and RSVP here!
Chadd Charland is running for Florida State House in District 15 (Nassau and parts of Duval counties). Follow his campaign.
The Suwanee River has been named one of America's "10 Most Endangered Rivers."
Join Craig, Chadd, and Jason Garcia from "Seeking Rents" Thursday, May 7, from 7:00-8:30 PM at Tombolo Books in St. Pete and on Saturday, May 9, from 3:00-5:00 PM at Austin's Coffee in Winter Park for our FIRST EVER LIVE PODCAST meet-and-greets!
Chadd Charland is running for State House in District 15. Learn more.
Our guests this episode are archaeologists and anthropologists Uzi Baram and Kat Napora. Uzi has joined the show previous...
BIG NEWS!
"Welcome to Florida" is hosting our first ever in-person events along with Jason Garcia from "Seeking Rents!"
Thursday, May 7, from 7:00-8:30 PM at Tombolo Books in St. Pete.
Saturday, May 9, from 3:00-5:00 PM at Austin's Coffee in Winter Park.
PLEASE come out and say "hi" if you're in the area.
MORE BIG NEWS!
Chadd Scott is running for State House in District 15. Chadd Scott is a name he's used on radio for 30-plus years...
Not satisfied with simply being a dictator, Donald Trump allowed for the convening of the Endangered Species Committee "God Squad" at the behest of Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth. Hegseth has declared a phony-baloney "national security emergency" that he says should preempt off-shore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from Endangered Species Act regulations. The regime's "God Squad," a cabal of villains with oil and gas backg...
Craig found a villainous Floridian who thinks his interest in building a home is more important than the survival of Florida scrub jays.
Our topic this episode is guavas. Joining us in guava farmer and historian Jorge J. Zaldivar.
"Welcome to Florida" patrons receive exclusive access to our weekly Florida Conservation Newsletter for only $5 per month.
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