Florida Man

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Some individuals have tried very hard to stand out on the pages of history, and many have succeeded in very unique ways.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm
0:08.7	and Mild.
0:13.0	Our world is full of the unexplainable.
0:16.3	And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,
0:22.2	just waiting for us to explore.
0:25.4	Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.
0:36.8	If you pay attention to the news, you've most likely heard a sentence that started with
0:40.7	the words Florida Man.
0:43.2	Florida Man in no seriously I have drugs t-shirts arrested for possession of drugs.
0:49.4	Florida Man charged with assault with a deadly weapon after throwing alligator through
0:53.6	Wendy's drive through window and Florida Man gets tired of waiting at hospital, steals
0:59.1	ambulance, drives home.
1:01.5	And those, if you're wondering, are all real headlines from the Sunshine State.
1:05.9	So what is it about Florida that attracts these kinds of people?
1:09.8	Well the short answer is because there are so many of them.
1:13.5	Florida you see is the third most populous states in America, with upwards of 20 million
1:18.3	residents and another 150 million tourists visiting each year.
1:22.7	So really it's just a matter of statistics, but these hijinks didn't start recently.
1:28.0	Florida has always been a part of the news cycle, going as far back as the 1800s.
1:34.0	About 130 miles north of Tampa Bay is a city known as Cedar Key.
1:38.7	It's part of a cluster of islands, most of which are uninhabited today and make up a wildlife
1:43.5	refuge protected by the government.
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