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Hi, and welcome back to the Marl-Marcoitz show on IHeart Radio.

My guest today is Dave Barry.

Dave is a humor writer who has written many books, including the novel Swamp Story,

which I read while giggling my face off on trains and airplanes.

His substack is called Dave Barry's substack.

You should definitely check it out.

So nice to have you on, Dave.

Thanks, Carol.

Thanks for having me.

I'm a really big fan of yours, and I've read a lot of your books and just a lot of your work over the years.

I think you are hilarious. And I have to say that the one book I haven't read is best date ever. A Florida man

defends his homeland. I'm a relatively new Floridian. It'll be four years in January. Why do you

love Florida? What is it about this great state? Well, first of all, I'm a humor writer. And I moved here, like 40, almost 40 years ago. I moved, my joke is I moved to Miami from the United States in 1986. And originally, I was terrified about it. When I first came to Miami, I worked for the

Miami Herald for many years. Where did you move from? From Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, a little

bucolic suburb of Philadelphia. And it just couldn't have been more rural and, you know, low-key. And I got offered this job

at the Miami Herald and they flew me down. And like, this was at the height of the cocaine cowboy era.

Awesome.

Literally bails of cocaine falling out of the sky. Did you grab any?

No, I was never in the right place at the right time.

Actually, that was one of the first columns I wrote when I got here, which was that literally did happen.

There was a, and it was a Citizens' Crime Watch meeting in a place called Homestead, Florida.

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