Episode 378 - Backrooms, Willy Dee, and Their Presidential Shooting Spree

Florida Men on Florida Man

Wayne McCarty

Comedy, History

4.9 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

An American ship, the Willie Dee, shot a torpedo at the USS Iowa while it was carrying the President of the United States during one of the most pivotal moments of World War II.

On this episode, Josh Mills, Wayne McCarty, and Emily Grabill discuss your favorite Florida Man headlines before being joined by showrunner Luke West for reviews of Obsession and The Backrooms. They then unleash the "FMOFM Files," a series of secret audio recordings that back our hosts into a complicated corner. Story time features the tale of the USS William D. Porter, the most dysfunctional ship in the United States Navy. Musical guests APPLESEED join us all the way from Las Vegas, Nevada!

Stick around at the end for one of the final readings of the hit '90s classic film Point Break.

Headlines: Florida woman accused of holding a phone in her right hand (she doesn't have one), and Florida man discovers millions of dollars at a local beach.

On mic: Josh Mills, Wayne McCarty, Emily Grabill, Luke West

Musical guests: APPLESEED!

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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	Recorded in front of a live studio audience.
0:05.9	Way down upon this one knee river far, far away.
0:13.8	That's where my heart is yearning never, home where the old folks stay.
0:25.5	Welcome to Florida men on Florida Man with Josh Mills and Wayne McCarty.
0:37.3	The podcast where Floridians discuss the legends and lore and crazy stories that always seem to take place in Florida.
0:42.2	Now we have a silent partner on that intro.
0:43.1	Her name's Emily.
0:44.0	In Florida.
0:45.0	There she is.
0:46.6	She's always fashionably late. That would have raised it like an octave, right?
0:48.9	Yeah, she would have.
0:50.3	I just don't have a pretty singing voice like you boys.
0:52.8	No, come on.
0:53.4	Well, that's because you don't have the confidence. Well, I also haven't been doing it for 378 episodes. Wow. We haven't improved, though. Yeah, and also. Because there was that movie about that lady that couldn't sing and everybody made fun of her. Oh, Star is born. Julie on Julia or something? I never saw that one. I don't know. I did watch a star born recently and I forgot how sad that movie is, dude. It really hit me. It didn't make me cry. Which part made you say? Well, I don't know. A spoiler alert. The end. The garage. Yeah, the garage scene if you haven't seen that. But that makes me happy. I'm like, dude, freedom, you know? I guess for him. I will say, obviously he's carrying something. Mr. Cooper was such an amazing actor that I did when it went off. I was like, we should check on him. We got to call Brad and make sure he's doing it. Oh, no. When I see someone that good looking, do that, I'm like, dude, I can't believe it. Like, you're hot, dude. You can't be going through, you can't be going through anything when you're hot,
1:46.1	is what you're saying.
1:46.9	No, just go to Starbucks and get hit on, dude.
1:49.6	Emily, let me ask you something.
1:51.9	Speaking of pretty privilege, you're purchasing Gracie Abrams tickets
1:56.0	tomorrow morning.
1:57.5	What genre music is that Gracie Abrams?
2:00.0	Pop.
2:00.5	Good old pop music. Good old pop.
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