Carl Hiaasen

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Carl Hiaasen: gin & tonic (Barr Hill gin, tonic, lime wedge) Carl discusses the talented Vince Vaughn and how he will forever more inhabit the character Yancy, tells how his surroundings in Florida have changed so much since the time of his youth and why that has inspired him to make Florida a recurring ‘character’ in his novels, reveals a time that he was nearly eaten by an alligator while floating on an inner tube, shares incredible personal stories with Jimmy Buffett and Warren Zevon, names the book that expanded for him what can be possible to do in a novel, and offers an important piece of advice especially if you live in Florida.

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0:00.0	Dedicated is expanding. We are now filming our segments. We are doing some slick new video inside
0:06.0	the Sirius XM studios. So if you want to see me fixing the cocktails and having conversations
0:10.7	with our awesome guests, go to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or the Sirius XM app, and you can
0:16.5	see us in studio. Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:22.1	You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind-the-scenes revelations.
0:41.6	Welcome to Dedicated. Today we're with Carl Hyacen. Carl is an award-winning journalist and novelist.
0:48.0	He got a typewriter for Christmas when he was six years old and it's been full throttle ever since.
0:52.8	His books are available in 34 languages and as he
0:55.6	says in characteristic humor. That's 33 more than he can read or write. Some of his better known
1:00.9	titles are Strip T's and Bad Monkey. Both have been adapted for either the big or small screen.
1:07.2	His latest book is called Fever Beach. Also set in Florida, something he is known to do.
1:12.3	Carl, welcome.
1:13.2	Thanks for having me.
1:14.4	This is a pleasure.
1:15.9	I'm glad we're able to catch you when you're up north on book tour.
1:18.6	And when I'm awake on book tour, yeah.
1:20.5	Yeah, no, no, this is, the timing worked out great.
1:23.4	It did.
1:25.5	And, you know, I'm sort of just at the beginning of the tour, so I'm almost coherent.
1:31.5	Yeah, yeah.
1:32.0	Well, and so the audience knows it's a little early in the day.
1:35.4	We are going to get it after it with some genitonics here.
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