We’re very excited to release the first episode of our long-form podcast series on the history of Florida, where we will providing an in-depth analysis of the book Finding Florida by T. D. Allman. In the first of hopefully several long-form history series, The Broken Wind Podcast will be teaching the methodology of historical materialism, an invaluable tool for making history “come to life”, and they will be correcting many of the founding myths about Florida and the United States which are often taken for granted as truth, such as the story of Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth.

By telling the true story of Florida, much can be understood about the true story of the US, and this is the reason why we are planning to release these long-form series. Our hosts believe that when you understand how a smaller story fits within the context of a larger story, such as how the story of Florida fits within the context of the story of America, history suddenly becomes much more than just a series of disconnected and seemingly unrelated dates. Our goal with this series is to tell the history of Florida in a way that is both refreshing and exciting, and we think you will be surprised to find that under the 2nd Trump administration, this story is only becoming ever more relevant with the passage of time.

This is our most ambitious project yet, and although it will be modeled after other popular history podcast series such as Hell of Presidents, Hell on Earth and Blowback, and although we will be using the book Finding Florida as our spiritual guide, we also believe that we will have plenty of our own unique thoughts and insights to contribute along the way.

We will do our best to promote this series and that’s why we plan to make this first episode available for free, but then we will likely only release episodes to our Patreon subscribers on the MAXED OUT DEAL, which costs $5 per month. If you want to get the earliest possible access to the Florida series, as well as all of the rest of our content, make sure you are subscribed and you will be notified immediately whenever new episodes are released. (click the following link to visit our Patreon): https://patreon.com/BrokenWind?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink

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Corrections and sources listed below:

(37:35) Butler said “15th century”, but he meant “16th century”.

(49:33) Juan de la Cosa map (c. 1500) wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_of_Juan_de_la_Cosa

(49:40) Waldseemüler map, redrawn (c. 1507) wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseem%C3%BCller_map

(1:03:50) Ponce de Leon in Florida by Thomas Moran (1878) https://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2012-oct-the-cummers-ponce-de-leon-in-florida-by-thomas-moran