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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Out of all the states in the Union, it seems like Florida is home to the craziest shenanigans. Every few days another story about a weird, madcap crime in the Sunshine state makes the circuit in mass media, and it’s created a nationwide stereotype about the state and its residents. But how did we get here? Is there any truth to the bizarre stereotype?
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0:00.0 | Fellow conspiracy realist thanks for tuning in you can perhaps hear a bit of a laugh a bit of levity in in |
0:08.3 | faithful correspondence voice here because back in 2018 |
0:20.1 | We finally here because back in 2018 we finally asked ourselves why is Florida man such a thing. You remember this? Yeah. It was a huge, it's still a huge deal in the US. Yeah, why is this the best |
0:26.8 | subreddit that has ever been created? It was honestly, back then it was before I had, you know, an addiction to an |
0:36.2 | Instagram feed that I loathe by the way still, but you know, that every once in a |
0:40.3 | while has some Florida man in it. there was Florida man on the news constantly. |
0:44.9 | Mm-hmm. Yeah, and we're not talking Jeb Bush. We're talking about the headlines that do continue today where it would seem like every third or fourth day |
0:58.7 | there was a headline that had a new crazy report about Florida man. It was just Florida man, blank, blank, blank, blank, |
1:07.3 | blank, blank, blanks. Florida man proclaims himself the second cousin of Jesus Christ |
1:13.6 | while abducting alligator from a Taco Bell. |
1:16.2 | You know what I mean? |
1:17.0 | I would pay money to see that documentary. |
1:21.3 | I would give it 10 minutes and see how it, you know, see if it begs at the top but out of all the |
1:26.4 | states of the Union we were asking ourselves why does it seem like one of them |
1:30.8 | Florida is home to so many crazy shenanigans can we explain how that |
1:36.2 | came about is there indeed a conspiracy of foot and we don't get to say this every time |
1:41.4 | but I'm confident we found a pretty good answer. Yeah we did. Let's remember together. |
1:47.0 | I'm Celaya Mozant and I've covered economic policy for years and reported on how it impacts people across |
1:54.4 | the United States. In 2016 I saw how voters were leaning towards Trump and how so |
1:59.8 | many Americans felt misunderstood by Washington. |
2:02.6 | So I started the Big Take D.C. |
2:04.6 | We dig into how money, politics, and power shaped government |
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