Episode 362 - Merriam Webster's Most Shocking Florida Man

Florida Men on Florida Man

Wayne McCarty

Comedy, History

4.9 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times over the course of his career as a national park ranger. These strikes were all witnessed by multiple people and corroborated by medical professionals. FMOFM separates the fact from fiction and, as it turns out, Roy's story is 100% wild and totally true!

On this episode, in partnership with Merriam-Webster, Josh Mills and Wayne McCarty are joined by Michael Delgado to discuss your favorite Florida man headlines, introduce ten brand new words + definitions presented by Merriam-Webster, and unpack the story of "The man the sky couldn't kill".

Headlines include:

Florida woman charged with battery after a pork chop attack, Florida cop saves homeowner from a massive frog invasion.

On Mic: Michael Delgado, Josh Mills, Wayne McCarty, Luke West

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0:00.0	Recorded in front of a live studio audience.
0:05.9	Way down upon the Swanee River far, far away.
0:13.8	That's where my heart is yearning never, 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 and lore and crazy stories that always seem to take place in Florida.
0:37.9	Our very own Michael Delgado was here.
0:40.2	What's up?
0:40.7	About time, dude.
0:42.0	Writing out the whole sewed with us, man.
0:44.4	On the couch for a solid hour.
0:46.0	We are, yeah.
0:46.7	Okay.
0:47.9	Did you put the little electrocution cords under the couch like we talked about. Oh, yeah. Sorry, Michael.
0:56.1	Headphones off. Yeah, headphones off. Yeah. So, so, gang, you're going to love this bit we do
1:01.3	to Michael tonight. Electrocussion. Uh, no. We're going to murder him. We're excited for him to be here
1:09.1	because here's the thing. When we write really funny bits, there's only a handful of folks that come to mind.
1:16.1	Michael's always at the top of the list because he just is funny.
1:20.5	And gullible.
1:21.8	Well, that too.
1:23.1	And also, and innocent.
1:24.0	He's going to say whatever you put in front of him.
1:26.6	I read the paper, yeah. I read the paper. He reads it verbatim, and that's what we want to really hone in on. Well, because this episode's sponsor. We got that special. Should we say it now? M.W. Yeah, should we say that now? Miriam Webster. Miriam Webster is sponsoring this episode, and's where we get our words from. It's where you get your words from. If you're American born by Gentile, that's where you get your definitions from, Miriam Webster. And so. Sleeved or unsleeved, you're still Gentile. The words are all the same. And that's something that we want to hone in on for Merriam Webster, Webster, they're called. Well, now you just, yeah.
2:02.1	Well, we're going to do some headlines first.
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