The Florida History Podcast

Dec 09 2024 297 ep. 19 mins 78
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A weekly look at a different fascintating topic in Florida History Cover art photo by Derek Reese. @DR928

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Episode 285: Reubin Askew is elected Governor

Dec 09 2024 22 mins  
The emerging Florida Republican majority took a thud in 1970 as Reubin Askew won back the Governorship for the Democrats and ushered in a decade of Dem dominance in the state up-and-down the ballot.

Episode 284: Claude Kirk and the 1968 Miami RNC Protests

Dec 02 2024 11 mins  
Claude Kirk was oh so close to being on Richard Nixon's 1968 GOP ticket and with the RNC convention in Miami, it seemed written in the stars. But then protests happened and got out of control and Kirk's national ambitions were thwarted.

Episode 283: The colorful Claude Kirk Governorship

Nov 25 2024 19 mins  
We discuss Florida's first post-Reconstruction GOP Governor, Claude Kirk who was a colorful populist.

Episode 282: Leroy Collins greater legacy

Nov 18 2024 16 mins  
We discuss Leroy Collins massive legacy both in Florida and nationally.

Episode 281: Leroy Collins Governorship

Nov 11 2024 22 mins  
We've discussed Leroy Collins many times on this podcast but never taken quite the deep dive into his Governorship that we do on this episode.

Episode 280: Dan McCarty

Oct 28 2024 21 mins  
The first Governor from South Florida died tragically in office- but changed the trajectory of Florida politics forever.

Episode 279: Fuller Warren

Oct 21 2024 17 mins  
We discuss Florida's populist Governor Fuller Warren who was impeached multiple times by the legislature. NOTE: Portions of this podcast were recorded in 2019.

Episode 278: The 2004 Election and that year's Florida Hurricanes

Oct 14 2024 19 mins  
The 2004 Hurricane Season was one of the worst ever experienced by the state of Florida...and coincided with a Presidential campaign centered largely on Florida and an open US Senate seat. How did it impact the election?

Milton aftermath emergency pod

Oct 10 2024 47 mins  
A record breaking tropical system, one of the strongest in the history of the Atlantic basin has just ravaged Florida. Kartik Krishnaiyer, Ryan Ray and Johnathan Starling give their take on the impacts, the devastation in the Tampa Bay and Sarasota areas, the Tornado outbreak in south Florida as well as some comments on the NHC forecasting and TV meteorologists in the state and cli

Major Hurricane Milton: Potential Florida History event

Oct 07 2024 24 mins  
Major Hurricane Milton is barreling toward the Sunshine State. A Cat 5 Hurricane with one of the lowest ever central pressures at the time of recording, we dive into some hurricane history in Florida and talk about the threats to the Tampa Bay and Orlando areas as well as the rest of the peninsula with longtime hurricane watcher Johnathan Starling.