Episode 363 - Stolen Hearts, PubSubs, and Ships
Florida Men on Florida Man
Wayne McCarty
4.9 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Robert Smalls was born into slavery and went on to become not only the first African American Union Navy captain, but also a United States congressman. One act of bravery changed the course of the American Civil War forever.
On this episode, in partnership with Love's Travel Shops, Josh Mills and Wayne McCarty discuss your favorite Florida Man headlines, play a very special Valentine's Day quiz, and share the story of Robert Smalls, sailor, freedom fighter, hero.
Headlines include:
Florida couple steal Publix subs which leads to a nationwide manhunt, Florida couple's fight causes Florida Man to commit burglary to escape his wife.
On Mic: Jesse Nieman, 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. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to Florida Mint on Florida Man with Josh Mills and Wayne McCarty. |
| 0:40.4 | The podcast where Floridians discuss the legends and lore and crazy stories that always seem to take place in Florida. Josh, man, how you doing? Josh, man, how you doing? |
| 0:45.3 | Well, let me see if I got the right button here. |
| 0:50.0 | I don't, okay. |
| 0:51.5 | Wow. Ish is tough up here. |
| 0:52.7 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:53.3 | It is. |
| 0:53.7 | It is tough up here. Oh yeah. Ish is tough up here. |
| 0:55.0 | And not just like how you live, but also like, freezes. |
| 1:04.0 | Found it, found the right button. |
| 1:06.0 | So what freezes in its pipe? |
| 1:09.0 | Like you can do a number two. And then like up here, it can just say, I'm a solid. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm going to reject that. |
| 1:17.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.4 | I'm going to reject that. |
| 1:18.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.0 | Now, so the cold weather and the, uh, the plumbing system, sorry, there's a demon in my mouth. |
| 1:25.8 | Well, plumbing system work together. And they go, hey, man, I'm tired of taking your |
| 1:31.2 | yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Oh yeah. So I'm going to freeze up on you. Right. So yesterday, we were |
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