Beavers

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David becomes fixated on the beaver, the rodent that’s become synonymous with Buc-ees, the giant American gas station. But David quickly learns there is so much to the beaver, the biggest rodent in the United States. With over 15 million of them spread over North America, they were once hunted almost to extinction for their pelts. David talks to Leila Philip, author of Beaverland, an incredible book about how the beaver transformed America. David learns that the beaver was responsible for creating America’s first multi-millionaire and how that money was turned into a real estate empire that we can still see today. David also finds out how important America's beavers were to building America and how we might need them to survive on a planet where wildfires are becoming increasingly prevalent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm David Ferrier in New Zealand
0:02.3	are accidentally marooned in America
0:04.4	and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
0:07.2	Now since going to Florida, I haven't been able to stop thinking about buckies.
0:11.7	Oh, buckies is crazy and the thing of it is you walk into them and they're always packed.
0:18.0	More specifically, I've been thinking about the Buckies logo, that Sm beaver with its buck teeth and red cap, staring off hopefully
0:26.0	into the distance.
0:27.6	The Bucky's logo was iconic in the South, branded all over t-shirts and caps and key rings making the gas station a load of money
0:34.6	but where did that Bucky's Beaver come from? Well...
0:38.1	I Pana present.
0:40.1	Bucky Beaver Space Guard.
0:45.0	Brush, brush, brush, brush, here's the new Ipana with a brand new play
0:50.0	it's standing for your teeth.
0:52.0	Back in the 1950s, Bucky Beaver was the mascot for I Pana toothpaste.
0:58.0	A brand that saw America fall in love with the Beaver, with his cries for kids to brush a brush a brush their teeth.
1:05.4	Bucky beaver was such a hit.
1:07.2	He ended up in the 1978 film Greece, the line sung by Jamie Donnelly who played Jam.
1:14.0	Hey look it's Jam.
1:15.0	Baja, get the new I pana with a brand new flavor.
1:20.0	It's that for your teeth.
1:22.0	The more I thought about Beavers, the more I realized how they're baked into America's DNA.
1:27.8	With around 15 million of them all across North America, Beavers are the largest rodent in the United States, growing up to three feet long,
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