Flightless Bird: Circumcision

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David sets out to discover why America loves circumcision so much, to the point where 115 million American men now find themselves without a foreskin. Joined by Monica, he tries to figure out why this medical procedure became so popular here, leading to some medical diagrams not bothering to include a foreskin anymore. David talks to a man in his 30s who’s furious he got circumcised when he was a baby, and another who’s annoyed he wasn’t circumcised, as he considers getting an adult circumcision. David talks to a doctor who’s carried out hundreds of circumcisions to find out what all the fuss is about, and spends time with Georganne Chapin, Executive Director of Intact America - who wants circumcision to be thrown out the window.

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0:00.0	I'm David Ferrier, a New Zealander who ended up accidentally marooned in America, and
0:05.2	I want to grasp what makes this country tick.
0:07.8	Now, I'm not sure how many penises you've seen.
0:10.4	They're usually hidden away, a strange piece of equipment that can be hard to take seriously.
0:15.2	We don't even like saying the word penis, substituting it with dick, prick, cock, and
0:19.7	wang.
0:20.7	Hey man, did I feel you face-plant into my pubic moon?
0:24.6	No, no, no, no, there's no contact.
0:26.0	Are you sure because I could have swore I felt either your nose or your lips?
0:30.3	No, nothing touched, bro, nothing touched.
0:32.1	The cold-hard fact is that half the world's population has a penis.
0:36.0	They're pretty common, but the American penis is different.
0:40.0	Because if you live in America, the default thing to do if you have a baby that has a penis
0:44.4	attached is you get that penis and chop some of it off.
0:48.0	At least 70% of American penises are circumcised.
0:52.3	Some surveys have that number higher, at 92%.
0:56.0	Now here's the thing, if you live in America and are listening to this, you're probably
0:59.8	going, that's totally normal.
1:02.0	It's what you do to a brand new penis.
1:04.2	But being from New Zealand, it's not that normal.
1:07.5	We like to keep our four skins, proudly waving them around in the wind like a flag or a
1:12.0	sock for all to see.
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