Australia: Shark Attacks

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird David is on the ground in Australia, looking at topics that are distinctly… Australian. Australia has, relatively speaking, a lot of shark attacks. So many there’s a whole Wikipedia page called “Shark attacks in Australia”. Of the 69 “unprovoked shark bites” around the world in 2023, 22% of them happened in Australia. David meets with two men who survived shark attacks - who share their motivational stories of recovery, and talk about an elite members club called “The Bite Club”. Rob and David also discuss the LA fires. Links: -Flightless Bird is looking for first hand stories from Californians affected by the fires. First responders, or those who’ve had their lives changed by these fires. Please send your voice memos to: [email protected] -MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KMk34XY5dsvVJjAoD2mQUVHYU_Ib6COz6jcGH5uJWDY/htmlview?gid=439359427#gid=439359427 / Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pK5omSsD4KGhjEHCVgcVw-rd4FZP9haoijEx1mSAm5c/htmlview -Brett Connellan - shark attack survivor and motivational speaker : https://www.saxton.com.au/speakers/brett-connellan -Reach the Bite Club’s Dave Pearson (shark attack victims only!): [email protected] -Flightless Bird on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flightlessbirdpodcast

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:05.7	Hi, Hayden. How are you?
0:07.5	It's good. I'm good.
0:09.1	How's New Zealand doing?
0:10.6	I don't know if you know this, but when you say hi, Hayden, how are you?
0:13.9	You sound kind of sarcastic or like you're being a bit patronising?
0:19.4	No, I think that is just the way it comes out i'm i'm being
0:22.5	genuine i i find this sometimes right yeah so do am i not the only person that's told you that
0:29.0	no i've been accused of being sarcastic when i'm not being right so you're genuinely interested in
0:35.5	that it does seem like you're having a little go sometimes.
0:38.9	And that's maybe why I react so badly.
0:42.4	I think that's maybe an issue that you have.
0:45.6	You know, there's probably blame on both sides like and everything.
0:50.3	How is your day going?
0:53.3	I understand you and the family are out on sort of a New Zealand summer road trip.
0:58.0	Yes.
0:59.0	What's been the highlight of the trip so far?
1:02.0	Oh, seeing the Morinsville mega cow. It's a huge cow in Morin'sville. And to me, it's a model cow, not just one, it's not a real cow, but it's our national
1:16.0	mega cow.
1:16.6	And if I feel like if you could distill New Zealand's just pure it into one object, it has
1:22.6	to be the Moran'sville mega cow.
1:26.0	It's like the soul of the nation. And it was kind of amazing to
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