A podcast about Florida culture hosted by Will and Jon and recorded at Cork Arts District in Jacksonville FL.
Season 2 features interviews with local artists and culture-makers in North Florida.
Season 1 focused on Florida politics in 2025.
Started as an excuse to get drunk on a weeknight and record the evidence, Floridation has since become the single most important podcast in American history. Theme music by the late Brian Jerin.
Erin Kendrick - Spectators, Spectres and Spectacles
Send us Fan Mail Erin Kendrick – Spectators, Spectres and Spectacles Meet Erin Kendrick, painter and educator. Origin Story: From Jacksonville's Northside to MFA Ed Love, renowned Howard sculptor and professor, influenced Erin's sense of experience as a medium, making the space part of her exhibition work. He also inspired her to teach.The responsibility of the Black artistGrad school at GSUDiscovering sound, video, and installationMFA project: a retail store featuring cultural statements as ...
1 Sept 2026
Overstreet Ducasse - Visual Storytelling from the School of Wu-Tang
Send us Fan Mail Visual artist Overstreet Ducasse is not like other artists. His paintings are of perfectly crafted representational characters that are symbols loaded with so much symbolism and metaphor, they make Dali seem shallow. Chapter 1 - School of Wu-Tang Overstreet's work is inspired by music. A graduate of the "School of Wu-Tang", his influences range from the 5th Dimension to Steely Dan, REM to Wu-Tang. His origins, finding his voice as he comes of age in Miami, sharpe...
10 Aug 2026
How to start a revolution with Chip Southworth
Send us Fan Mail Cold open: Clinton & Art teaser Skateboard House and early years in Beauclerc and Mandarin 4:45 - KHG and public art bill Cultural council - public art is illegal Keith haring’s ghost (#KHG), Art Basel, local street art campaign, police state shit, is street art art or propaganda or trashy? Ted talk, drafting a new bill and getting it through city government. Tony allegretti, Christie holechek 17:00 - the arrest. Laws changed, new opportunities for the city, Job opportuni...
21 Jun 2026
Steve Williams and the Matrix of Chaos
Send us Fan Mail Introducing Steve Williams, artist, designer, influencer, gallerist, real estate developer and “artreprenuer”. Meet Steve Williams, artist, designer, influencer, gallerist, real estate developer and “artreprenuer” Murray Hill in the 90s; Preston Haskell’s Fire Ants performance piece, Steve’s spills tea about when Pedestrian rocked the house, starting a cult called Brooklyn Art Center, and where the galleries went. His origin story, mentoring, and exploring dumb business...
4 Jun 2026
Autrelle Holland - All Art, No Snacks
Send us Fan Mail The DA kid that got a D, $20 and premiered at Cummer Art levels - Master Cho vs Timmy 🥋 Belt-divisions among artists. Origin story - Cleveland to Riverside, found art to steer clear of bullies at John Gorrie Middle. Continued at DA. Martial Arts - Pak’s Karate to Aikido to Wing Chun (an infamous dojo in Riverside led by Sifu Arnett). Done with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle work, time to think about the Splinter work. “It’s all art to me.” DJing, martial ...
20 May 2026
Pop Art, Design & Line Quality with Mark George
Send us Fan Mail Interview with artist Mark George. We talk about the subject matters that compel him, his struggle with the trend of impermanence, an early obsession with line quality, how humans are emotional and plastic and isn't. The relationship between real people and advertising, human imperfection against the demands of design, and the evolution of his artistic process over time as well as his contribution to pop art in general. We discuss everything from his early assemblage work to ...
18 Apr 2026
Jim Draper (part 2) - Shantyboat Stories & Taxodium
Send us Fan Mail We discuss shantyboat writer’s workshops with Lynn Harlin and Jim’s book of short fiction. Dystopian walks and the dirty Suwannee River. Taxodium, more than just his big Cummer exhibition, a multi- disciplinary exploration of the local sentinels that know more than entire civilizations. No kneed to apologize. Season 2 of Floridation discusses art and culture in Northeast Florida with a different artist or culture maker each episode. Thanks for putting a little a Florida...
11 Apr 2026
Jim Draper (part 1) - Origin Story & Radical Naturalism
Send us Fan Mail Part 1 of 2. This episode discusses Baroque Jacksonville, Jim and the Jags/Cowford connection, his Mississippi roots, the Jax art scene of Murray Hill in the 90s and the Feast of Flowers project and Cummer exhibition as the prototype for his upcoming Taxodium project. Also, how Radical Naturalism is you! Follow Jim on his Substack: https://substack.com/@jimdraper (artwork by AI, which is very radically natural) Season 2 of Floridation discusses art and culture in Northe...
6 Mar 2026
Crystal Floyd-Environmental Storyteller & the Wizard of CoRK
Send us Fan Mail Meet Jacksonville artist, community organizer, and Director of CoRK Arts District, Crystal Floyd. She's been central to the thriving Jacksonville artist community for at least 20 years, makes terrariums and dimensional, sculptural naturalist environments. Join us as we learn about the history of CoRK, the intricacies of her medium, how she sources materials, where she recommends to go into the wild, and on a studio tour to learn about her influences, her space, and the worksh...
17 Nov 2025
Donnaville
Send us Fan Mail Jacksonville’s progressive mayor, Donna Deegan, is an outlier in Florida politics. Obvi, MAGA is gunning for her, but their ideas of waste, fraud and abuse are all a deflection. Donna is Florida’s post-MAGA future. Thanks for putting a little a Florida in you. Y'all come back now, hear?
17 Nov 2025
The Mean Streets of Jacksonville
Send us Fan Mail The racist roadways of Jacksonville and the characters that inhabit them. Will is looking for a dog with a badonkadonk. Bad Playlist Street. Segway suicide. Where did “sharrow” come from? The gang war between cyclists and pedestrians. Thanks for putting a little a Florida in you. Y'all come back now, hear?
17 Nov 2025
Desantisation
Send us Fan Mail A rare recording of the first time Will and Jon tried talking into microphones. They discussed the Florida Governor’s secret $30k golf simulator and how much better corruption is than “waste and abuse.” Thanks for putting a little a Florida in you. Y'all come back now, hear?
17 Nov 2025
MAGA Merica Follows FL
Send us Fan Mail Will and Jon on “the free state of Florida” and Tiny Trump MAGA-ing it up. The boyz ask the hard questions like “Who owns this wild pack of dogs?” and “Do the 100 new laws make us free-er?” Thanks for putting a little a Florida in you. Y'all come back now, hear?
17 Nov 2025
Bad Improvers
Send us Fan Mail Meet the Real Dawg, the amateur wrestler from Lorida, FL, a mermanatee dancer, Temu Batman, and other unbelievable characters in this improv episode. Thanks for putting a little a Florida in you. Y'all come back now, hear?
17 Nov 2025
Florida Cops
Send us Fan Mail Will and Jon snitch on Florida cops. These violent, racist rednecks are hammers while the rest of us are nails. Especially criticizing Jacksonville’s sheriff about the roadside beating of William McNeil Jr. Thanks for putting a little a Florida in you. Y'all come back now, hear?
17 Nov 2025
The Journalist and the Misanthrope
Send us Fan Mail Will and Jon talk about their cute meet, sportsball (go jags), the lost Spice Girl, fighting Joe Rogan, but not the audio issues, God is still working on them. Thanks for putting a little a Florida in you. Y'all come back now, hear?
17 Nov 2025
Trolling Gov. Ladyboots
Send us Fan Mail Will and Jon work on their DeSantis impressions. Governor DeSantis fields a press conference to pitch new laws to Floridaman for EVEN MORE freedom. Thanks for putting a little a Florida in you. Y'all come back now, hear?
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