Hello and welcome to a very special all Florida Webathon Week reason

podcasts I'm Peter Suderman Florida resident throughout the 1990s and today I am joined by two Florida men

Zach Weissmuller and CJ Ceremella as well as one Florida woman

Stephanie Slade everyone say hi hey everybody hello Great to be with you all today. So since this is web

a-a-thon week I just want to start by saying that if you like reason if you like

our podcasts our magazine our website our videos you can support us by going to reason.com

slash donate that's reason dot com slash donate your donations make our work

possible so this is an all Florida podcast and you might be wondering why Florida.

Well for one thing the latest and greatest issue of Reason magazine is a Florida special issue

jam-packed with stories and

commentary and cocktail recipes direct from the sunshine state. For another thing

Florida is for whatever reason at the center of so many of America's political and

cultural debates. It's where Donald Trump goes to hide secret documents in the

bathroom. It's where Trump rival Ron DeSantis just goes to the bathroom?

It's the home state to crypto conferences in Disney World and special private communities

with weird tax statuses that no one understands,

dysfunctional property insurance schemes, Medicare fraud,

Matt Gates, big sugar, and a whole lot of really, really big,

really unpleasant snakes called Burmese pythons. Florida is the epicenter of American

weirdness. If it matters to America, it probably matters in somewhere or another to the state

of Florida.

And there's another reason too,

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