Callery Pear Trees

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier tries to understand why his entire street smells like semen. He finds himself in the world of the Callery Pear Tree - also known as the Linden Tree or the Bradford - AKA “the cum tree”. David talks with Theresa Culley, a professor at the University of Cincinnati - who knows a lot about this particular foul-smelling tree. The plant biologist teaches David why the trees smell like that, before diving into an analysis of how American these trees really are. David is shocked to find out one of these trees survived 9/11, and is now found at the 9/11 memorial site. He also discovers the tree - once the darling of US landscapers and gardeners - is now considered an invasive species. With this in mind, David visits LA’s Natural History Museum to meet herpetologist Greg Pauly, who educates David about some of America’s other invasive species, including one particularly loud and annoying frog.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, flightless birds, back, hey Monica.
0:03.4	Hi, we took a little breaky break.
0:06.4	That's how they say it in New Zealand.
0:08.0	That's how they say it in New Zealand.
0:09.0	We always say breaky break.
0:10.1	Yeah, I went back to New Zealand,
0:12.3	I had a little holiday. Sometimes you've Zealand, had a little holiday.
0:13.0	Sometimes you've got to have a little holiday.
0:15.0	You've got a recoup, you've got to relax, and I know you haven't had any flightless spiritual
0:19.6	listen to, but that's the news today.
0:21.6	We're back again with a very American episode.
0:24.5	The most American. Probably the nastiest one so far.
0:29.3	Yeah it is, it's nasty. It is nasty.
0:31.2	But it's a great way to start 2024.
0:35.0	We want this year to be nasty.
0:37.0	Yeah, and we want it to have like a certain scent.
0:40.0	We want to have a certain smell.
0:41.0	So get ready. Get ready for this episode. And yeah,
0:45.6	welcome back. Flight this bird's back every week, every Tuesday. Enjoy.
0:50.6	I'm David Farrier in New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
0:57.0	Since I've been in America, I've tried to experience America in as many ways as possible.
1:02.0	And not to state the obvious, but... America in as many ways as possible.
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