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Flightless Bird

Election Night

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look back at the last week since the election, trying to make sense of what happened. Farrier attends a Trump Watch party in Long Beach, California - taking in Trump’s voter base. Hundreds of listeners submitted voice memos documenting their election night thoughts last week, and today a selection get played out. Links: Flightless Bird t-shirts: https://www.webworm.store/ Hayden’s column: It’s OK To Feel Shitty: https://www.webworm.co/p/its-ok-to-feel-shitty Sydney: Tickled at the Orpheum: 7pm, November 27: https://www.orpheum.com.au/movie/tickled-qa-event-with-david-farrier-live-on-stage If you ever want to get in touch with show feedback or ideas, we are flightlessbirdchat@gmail.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello?

0:06.8

Hi, Hayden.

0:07.4

How are you?

0:08.4

It's your friend, your good friend, David, Andrew Farrier.

0:10.9

Is that your middle name?

0:12.8

Yeah, what's your middle name?

0:15.0

It's Robert after my popper.

0:17.6

Popper, Popper, Bob, Popper. Let's cut to the chase, Dave. You're not calling because you were my friend. You've already done this once. You've already fooled me once. I kind of feel like if you're not documenting or recording something, it's almost not worth doing. Do you know what I mean? I actually agree with that, not on the probably vain level that you mean it on,

0:40.2

but just because our memory is so bad and so faulty,

0:43.4

and you're probably going to get dementia in pretty much four years time or something.

0:48.6

Anyway, so you may as well record something so you can,

0:52.3

I can't remember most of my children's lives but I look at

0:55.2

the photos and I'm like oh that happened and I can't honestly I reckon the photos and my memories

1:01.6

are blurred together I think that I'm remembering something but actually all I'm really remembering

1:06.4

is a photo that I've seen afterwards and I think there's probably some psychological research that

1:10.4

backs that up all right I'm I'm going's probably some psychological research that backs that up.

1:11.7

All right, I'm going to cut to the chase. Donald Trump probably doesn't remember being president

1:15.8

the first time. I have... He's so surprised. I called this off. I see you've done it before.

1:23.9

As a New Zealander, when you look back at election night, what is the first thing that comes to mind?

1:33.8

Oh, just grim resignation, I guess.

1:36.7

It's just seeing those first maps come up with like the slight red hue and just being, here we go.

1:43.9

And just seeing that needle built on the New York Times site

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