Episode 352 - Italian Men on Italian Man

Florida Men on Florida Man

Wayne McCarty

Fmofm, Comedy, Floridaman, Truecrime, Florida, Floridamen, History, Mystery

5 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Josh Mills and Wayne McCarty cover your favorite Florida Man headlines, play a round of "Uncle Barrel or Florida Man," and take a deep dive into the small Italian town that uses 600 tons of oranges, on the same day each year, to reenact the night they fought for their freedom.

Showrunner Luke West reviews Now You See Me 3 and Running Man.

Headlines include: Florida Man steals a forklift in order to steal an ATM, and Florida Man shoots up a bar over an argument about chickens.

Each week, the Florida Men on Florida Man podcast blends comedy with the fascinating legends, lore, and history of the wildest state in the union: Florida.

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0:00.0	Starting Florida Men on Florida Man.
0:05.6	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.
0:25.5	Welcome to Florida Mint on Florida Man with Josh Mills and Wayne McCarty.
0:35.4	The podcast where Floridians discuss the legends and lore and crazy stories that always seem to take place in Florida. Florida.
0:38.7	Welcome.
0:40.2	So sorry about that.
0:43.2	I had a internal gastro issue.
0:43.7	Yeah.
0:45.6	And tell our listeners about that.
0:47.0	Why is that during the intro,
0:49.0	you got to get that last big gulp,
0:50.8	that last big sip of... Because I know what's coming.
0:52.4	Yeah.
0:52.9	And it's fun.
0:53.9	Yeah. And like my step-uncle used to say, I can only have fun if I've had a couple drinks. That's right. And, and, and like my step-uncle used to say, um, everything great is tied behind alcohol is what he would say to me as a child. Same uncle? Mm-hmm. He set himself on fire. Yep, yep. Why alcohol, which is sad. Accidental, yeah. He didn't mean to. What do you got for this episode? Anything good? Or should I tune out? No, don't tune out. We got headlines coming up and then a five-minute movie review from Luke and we're going hold him to do that five minutes. Even though I have no idea what movies are out or usually what he's talking about. I don't even know after the segment's done. When he's done talking about it, I still don't know. Yeah, yeah, what movie was that? But our listeners feel better about it, I think, and that's... I hope so. And then... Icebreaker, right? Icebreaker, yeah. Luke asked for the reins here. Yeah. And he goes, I got a good friend that I bumped into at Scratch and Dent. Okay. And it's Wayne's Uncle Barrel. Shut up, dude. He's hanging out at Broken Poor with Uncle Darrell on barrel? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why. A wagon wheel. That's insane. So I don't know what Luke has prepared, but I'm excited. Well, and after that, we're going to finish up with a story, and it's dedicated to our 76 listeners in Italy. That's right. We have a handful of listeners out there
2:18.6	and it's dedicated to you all.
2:19.9	That's more than a handful, dude.
2:21.5	That's a couple handfuls.
2:22.5	And honestly, we're going to try
2:23.7	by the end of the episode to speak a little
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