In Manatee County, teachers have their marching orders. Educators and administrators are clearing books from not just school libraries but class libraries. We talked with Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) from Popular Information about his reporting on the pressure

Our humble podcast achieves the rare Eskamani Trifecta as we welcome back Ida Eskamani to help us preview what promises to be Florida's most unhinged legislative session in living memory, with GOP supermajorities in both houses and a governor focused

Were back for a new season and year, and the Gods have smiled on us with a series of increasingly ridiculous Florida-adjacent stories. We touched on former-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaros Florida winter that landed him in a hospital while his suppor

The United States is the largest art market in the world, and with its unique combination of rich people and light oversight, Florida is a natural nexus for art-related fraud. This week, Tess Davis, Executive Director of the Antiquities Coalition, guides

Billy Corben, director of hit documentaries like Cocaine Cowboys, The U, and most recently HULUs God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down A Dynasty, joins us to talk about Miamis undisputed status as the capital of crypto scams and million-dollar a

A bit of a palette cleanser from politics and midterm elections this week. Its Thanksgiving week, and weve pulled a story from the annals of Floridas violent recent past that centers on one familys tragic holiday, a salacious story that may have retre

(Ok, you'll probably notice that we recorded this shortly after the midterm elections, as various races that are now settled were still up in the air. But we turned out to be right so stick a sock in it.)With the midterm elections a week in the rearview a

Following yet another crushing defeat for Florida Democrats, we caught up with Danny Rivero (@TooMuchMe), a Miami journalist at NPR affiliate WLRN to figure out exactly why our politics are like this.One issue that Democrats ceded ground on was immigratio

We talked with Ida V. Eskamani (@ida_v_e) about Florida's place in the war on LGBTQ+ rights, and the moving target that is straight-cisgendered hate for nonbinary people. Schools and scholastic sports are the new battlegrounds, and it all comes to a head

There’s machine politics, and there’s micro-machine politics. In Florida’s state capital, you can find both right across the street from each other.  Ryan Ray, Aide to Tallahassee city commissioner Je