Episode 230 - Footprints and Tail Fins with Craig Pittman
Florida Men on Florida Man
Wayne McCarty
4.9 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Josh Mills, Wayne McCarty, and special guest Craig Pittman discuss embarassing Florida mascots, mermaids and mysterious beach creatures.
Craig is a New York Times bestselling author, distinguished journalist, and an all around legendary Florida Man!
Episode named by Patreon investors Nathan and Ashley!
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| 0:00.0 | Starting, Floramon on Florida Man. |
| 0:05.8 | Way down upon the Swanee River, far, far away. |
| 0:13.7 | That's where my heart is yearning ever, |
| 0:17.7 | home where the old folks stay. |
| 0:25.3 | Welcome to Florida Mint on Florida Man with Josh Mills and Wayne McCarty. The podcast where Floridians discuss the legends, lore, and crazy stories that always seem to |
| 0:31.9 | take place in Florida. |
| 0:36.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, we are joined by a very special guest today. New York Times |
| 0:41.9 | bestselling author. He's been a journalist in Florida. He's somebody who we have based our career |
| 0:47.9 | on, and we owe him a lot. Mr. Craig Pittman, how are you, sir? I'm fine, and I'm here to collect, so you know, trying to pay up. |
| 0:56.1 | Those pockets are full. |
| 0:57.3 | He is here. |
| 0:58.5 | And they're not full with cash. |
| 1:00.4 | We're giving them everything, actually. |
| 1:02.9 | But so, Craig, we learned pretty early on how to do our show, how to find interesting |
| 1:10.1 | topics through your work, And we didn't realize |
| 1:14.7 | that I think until recently how much inspiration we were drawn from you. Yeah, inspiration is a good |
| 1:20.3 | word for plagiarism. Yeah, because that's kind of what we were doing. I'm going to copy that. |
| 1:25.9 | Not directly. Yeah. Our publisher asked us to say inspiration. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.3 | But no, so can you tell us briefly? |
| 1:34.5 | And we're going to cover more in the icebreaker portion, but just for a quick intro, |
| 1:39.0 | how did you get into journalism? |
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