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Why Are We Like This?

Why Are We Like This?

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A true crime podcast microdosing Florida.Copyright 2025 Why Are We Like This? Political Science Politics & Government True Crime
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  • It's been a long time, we never shoulda left you... Without some dumb news we did no prep to...
    Oct 13 2025

    After an extended work/family/pneumonia-driven hiatus the WAWLT Boys are back and we're getting right into it. Among the topics discussed in our comeback episode:

    • Open-carrying in Publix
    • Charlie Kirk memorial campus streets
    • Fort Myers' Madison Cawthorne infestation
    • Miami mayoral race
    • Eric Adams update
    • Dominion Voting out, Liberty Voting in
    • Argentina-Puerto Rico soccer match out in Chicago, in in South Florida

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    1 hr
  • In This House, We Call It "Alligator Auschwitz"
    Jul 9 2025

    We intended to talk about the so-called Alligator Auschwitz or Alligator Alcatraz Detention Center that opened last week a mere 45 miles from our WAWLT offices at the Dade-Collier Training & Transition Airport in the Big Cypress Preserve.

    The $450 million affront to common decency and humanity was hastily slapped together by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and our old friend Attorney General James Uthmeier.

    Already, the reports from the facility are grim. One detainee has shared that there is no no water to bathe, the food is riddled with worms, there is no access to essential medication or religious observation materials.

    We're joined by political director for Florida Student Power Network, Laura Muñoz, who helps us peer into the possessed souls of our state and federal leaders. This one goes out to Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

    Follow Laura Muñoz by following Florida Student Power Network, or on Twitter @LauraEMunoz.

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    40 mins
  • The Gabela Boatlift, Floridians in Israel, and More
    Jun 19 2025

    Joe Carollo's "Not Involved in Weaponizing City Government" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

    On May 30, Thomas and David attended a special City of Miami commission hearing with commissioners Joe Carollo, Miguel Gabela and Damian Pardo aimed at exploring how Carollo has government resources against his political and perceived enemies, including Gabela. During the meeting, Carollo used government resources against Gabela by showing aerial photos of Gabela's fleet of private watercraft stacked behind his home.

    Miraculously, Carollo and Gabela would come together just three weeks later to agree on permitting Miami Police to partake in so-called 287(g) agreements, which will allow cops in South Florida's biggest city to coordinate with ICE and DHS.

    We also got into the latest news from the Middle East, the specter of war on the horizon, and South Florida's deep roots with the state of Israel.

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    47 mins
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