DMV - Pt II

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to discover why America is yet to fully embrace the electric kettle. Why does America insist on the stovetop kettle when it could be boiling its water so much faster? To find out, David talks to Bruce Richardson, a tea master who founded Elmwood Inn Fine Teas in Kentucky, and wrote a book called “The New Tea Companion”. Bruce is a man obsessed with the correct boiling point of water, whose worst enemy is the microwave. Richardson teaches David about the shady events of 1773, in which a bunch of costumed protestors threw British tea into the ocean in a case of tea treason. Could these events still be felt today in America’s rejection of the British invention of the electric kettle? Or is it a voltage issue? Tony Gebely, author of “The Philosophy of Tea: A User's Guide” has some of his own theories - theories which lead the creator of America’s premiere electric kettle brand, Fellow. Jake Miller prefers his boiling water on coffee, not tea - and he argues (somewhat in jest) that the electric kettle could have a massive impact on America’s GDP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm David Ferrier, in New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
0:07.0	Now when my constant struggle to become more American, I've been attempting to get my American driver's license while making flightless
0:13.3	bird. Dax a moniker have been helping me.
0:16.0	Dax did you pass your driving test on the first try?
0:20.0	Yeah.
0:22.0	You know what I got warnings for was I was a little cocky.
0:27.0	I was driving with one hand and they were like 10 and 2 and I said, I know, but for real. But while Dex passes driving tests the first time, I did not.
0:37.0	Rather, I passed my New Zealand driving test the first time, I did it decades ago,
0:42.0	but when it came to doing it all over again here in the
0:44.8	US I failed. So in this week's episode I get back on the saddle or into the
0:50.9	driver's seat at least and with Monica Monica by my side, I attempt to get my license.
0:56.0	Again.
0:56.9	Along the way, I meet Steve Gordon, the former Silicon Valley Hot Shot,
1:00.7	who's now in charge of making the Californian DMV faster, smarter, and less annoying.
1:06.4	So steal your friend's car and get ready to bribe your nearest driving examiner because this is the DMV part 2 episode.
1:15.0	Flightless.
1:17.0	Flightless.
1:19.0	Bird touchdown in America.
1:24.0	I'm a fly this bird touchdown in America.
1:32.0	We're back. We're back. It's taken a long time to get back a really long time. I feel like after the failure. Which was... Can we call it an af-
1:44.0	hey yeah oh my god I mean it was someone's sort of I
1:50.0	wasn't said the f word it was someone's fault, wasn't it? That's also an F word.
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